Wagner45

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Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut

The foundation fell afoul of our standards for notability. It appears (in my biased Sewer Socialist view) to have very good goals; but it didn't seem to be notable enough to justify an article here. Even at the end, the article still included advocacy language, a lot of links to allied groups, references which turned out to be mostly tangential to the UHCFC itself, etc. (Several of the "sources" were blogs, YouTube vids, and other non-reliable sources.) As for other organizations that already have articles: that's called the WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS argument, and is not considered a valid argument for retention of any particular article. If you do spot other organizations that you feel are similarly non-notable, just tag them with a {{notability}} tag to indicate your concern that they aren't sufficiently notable to be here. (We've got 2.2 million articles here now; we know some of them should go.) --Orange Mike | Talk 19:22, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Please, read our standards as to what constitutes "notability" for an organization. The question is not whether the group is noteworthy (that's a value judgment); but rather whether it has already been taken notice of by reliable sources. Our goal is to contain articles about topics deem notable by impartial third-party sources. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Signing your comments

Hi there. While three tildes (~~~) will sign your name, four tildes (~~~~) will add a datestamp. This is extremely useful, as it places your comments in a chronological context to the user with whom you are communicating. Check it --> - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 20:53, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

A note on web newspaper articles

If you can publish the paper's name, date of the article's publication, and writer/author, that may suffice, if you can then determine where it appeared in print, or check on the nature of the paper's online archive service -- some are free, others may be willing to give you enough info to cite the print version. Hope this helps. - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 13:25, 14 March 2008 (UTC)