Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taekwondo Association of Great Britain

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. -- Cirt (talk) 00:21, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Taekwondo Association of Great Britain

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A non notable martial art organisation without third person sources stating why its notable. Dwanyewest (talk) 03:36, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Article does not contain any reputable references stating notability. Johnclean184 (talk) 13:18, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Martial arts-related deletion discussions. — Janggeom (talk) 14:50, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The revision history of this article shows that the nomination for deletion was marked as a minor edit, with no edit summary attached. Please do not do this; it violates AfD procedure on two points that help other contributors notice the nomination. Thank you. Janggeom (talk) 16:27, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The article may not contain any sources, but there are sources to be found. According to a random sample of these sources, this is an association that has 10,000 members (another source says 20,000) and is the largest taekwondo association in the UK. It is endorsed by the world all style combat champion. It is the sole subject of a book, and publishes books in its own right. There are over 400 clubs associated with it.
Keep, and closer please to disregard those who can't be bothered to search for sources, except perhaps to administer a clue level adjustment per WP:BEFORE.—S Marshall T/C 23:56, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment These sources aren't as impressive as you imply. Several of the size estimates (members and clubs) come from web sites of unkown reliablity while one is from a member club saying they're part of the UK's largest organzation, the "endorsement" merely says she joined the organization, the book about it is one of many that publisher puts out based on Wikipedia articles, and the books it publishes seem to be basically student manuals/handbooks. The organization may be notable, I'm not sure, but none of the sources you mentioned seem to qualify as significant coverage from a reliable source. Papaursa (talk) 01:35, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete I don't find significant coverage in independent sources and I don't think that being the largest (even if it's true) TKD organization in Britain is sufficient for notability if that's the sole claim to fame. Astudent0 (talk) 17:34, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete I was not able to find significant independent coverage of this organization. Its notability claim seems to be that it's the largest martial arts organization in Europe, but no reliable source is given. Claims of organization sizes are prone to great variation and exaggeration. I don't see any reliably supported notability claims. Papaursa (talk) 19:35, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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