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Doug Weller talk 19:01, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Deleting an article

Let's start with what makes an article meet our criteria of notability. For an organisation, it is WP:NORG which says "An organization is generally considered notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources. Trivial or incidental coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not sufficient to establish notability. All content must be verifiable. If no independent, third-party, reliable sources can be found on a topic, then Wikipedia should not have an article on it." To delete an article, except in certain circumstances, eg a new article created by a blocked editor using a sockpuppet, you have to show that the organisation does not meet those criteria - the process is at WP:AfD. It seems pretty obvious that America's Frontline Doctors meets the criteria, so it wouldn't be deleted. Doug Weller talk 14:46, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

I think you would be happier on Conservapedia. We are a mainstream encyclopedia, and I would say we are centrist on a world-wide perspective. You probably wouldn't agree that, as an example, the Washington Post, the Guardian, CNN, etc are reliable sources. See WP:RSNP for some of the sources we say are reliable (and some that aren't, on both the left and the right, eg Breitbart on the right or the Daily Kos on the left. Doug Weller talk 17:26, 5 February 2022 (UTC)