Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Western Plains Animal Refuge

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:16, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Western Plains Animal Refuge[edit]

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Not notable. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NORG. Normal Op (talk) 03:18, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Animal-related deletion discussions. Normal Op (talk) 03:18, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Normal Op (talk) 03:18, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kansas-related deletion discussions. Normal Op (talk) 03:18, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: While other animal homes and refuges have pages on Wikipedia, all have some substantial content and notability. This one fails GNG. -- Whiteguru (talk) 09:07, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, fails WP:NCORP as written – there are no independent reliable sources in the page at all. It gets no hits on GBooks, and nine passing mentions on GNews, but no in-depth coverage of any kind that I can see. Incidentally, according to its own website, it is not an animal refuge at all, but a rented/shared office space open to the public for four hours a week. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:35, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, part of their history included a person who was involved in wildlife rescue, but that person is no longer associated with the group and licenses are required to continue the wildlife activities, so the activity was dropped... though the name remained the same. And they were small enough to be unable to secure and keep a brick-and-mortar property for ordinary animal shelter activities. Yes, a rented office in town plus limited foster-based animal care is all that is left. Was never really notable. Most of these "animal shelter" articles in Wikipedia are just "directory entries" of non-notable organizations. Normal Op (talk) 02:04, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails WP:NCORP per editor JLAN - "is notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject." William Harris (talk) 09:09, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per JLAN. Cavalryman (talk) 08:00, 2 September 2020 (UTC).[reply]

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