Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boston leadership institute

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Mackensen (talk) 12:56, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Boston leadership institute

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This article may not meet Wikipedia's notability criteria. Ormr2014 (talk) 22:08, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 00:39, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Omr2014, please, more info. Not all of us are mind readers. Why do you feel that way? Postcard Cathy (talk) 13:19, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Lack of independent sources suggests that the subject fails Wikipedia's notability criteria. Hirolovesswords (talk) 21:19, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Deletion is a drastic step. The article now has 19 references including links to feature articles on, and mentions of, the organization contained in such reputable sources as Johns Hopkins University, New York Times subsidiary about.com, Northeastern University Marine Science Center, and three local newspapers from top-ranked Boston area school districts. Moreover, there appears to be a double standard at work. A program in a comparable arena, Internal drive (Idtech) summer program, contain only one reference and four external links. No one is suggesting that article should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.241.103.54 (talk) 22:10, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:09, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the comment immediately above this one. Be consistent. This article has room for improvement. Postcard Cathy (talk) 19:40, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Cathy. What improvements would you suggest? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.157.204 (talk) 19:39, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Right now it sounds like a promotional brochure. Postcard Cathy (talk) 15:49, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz ^talk 21:35, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Indeed, the article has 18 references, but they're soft as mush: a horde of blogposts, the subject's own website, local school sites, press releases, casual mentions and the like. What's missing is significant coverage from reliable media sources: while the wickedlocal.com is the home site of Gatehouse Media, which owns most of the small city dailies and weeklies in the region, the citation is to a two-article press release. The Citizen-Herald article is long, but that paper's a local tabloid weekly of the sort not generally held to meet WP:IRS, even if the article wasn't hosted on the subject's website.
Beyond that, it's written in a blatantly promotional style, and was created and has been edited by several SPAs, some of whom have commented here; I wonder if there's a COI issue at work. Ravenswing 06:16, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
More inclined to delete and draft - I had been considering whether to comment but after performing some searches, it seems the amount of good sources for this may be less than shown. Searches at News, Books and Scholar found nothing significant and in-depth. The article is neat and sourced but there doesn't appear to be more sources aside from the current ones. SwisterTwister talk 16:05, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

′′′′′In response to suggestions by Cathy and Ravenswing, sentences that appeared promotional were re-worded and additional information is highly factual. Ravenswing and sistertwister both wanted more references from national and major news sources. References have been added for ABCNews, CBS affiliate WBZ, Nature, Sailing World, American Chemical Society, Chemistry and Engineering News, a Wikipedia article, and Boston Globe. Note at least one link to the organizational website is to enable a Johns Hopkins Imagine Magazine article pdf file to be read. References to local schools are to not only Dana Hall Prep School, but also to MIT, Northeastern University, and Yale which, although local to those from the Boston area, are world-ranked higher education institutions.′′′ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.118.37.223 (talk) 18:35, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - the "sources" in the article are the subject's own website, directories, press releases, listings that do not mention this institution at all, and even other Wikipedia articles. Searches don't yield any coverage in RS. Kraxler (talk) 17:53, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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