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281:("the source addresses the subject directly in detail, and no original research is needed to extract the content"). Incidentally, you need to go to the last page of the Google search to get the true number of Ghits - the number on the front page is always wildly out. In this case, the true number of Ghits isn't 34,500 but 256:
from the Jewish World Review. An organisation which has been running continuously for 110 years can't be judged on google hits alone but this one does get 34,500. I don't really understand the nomination rationale, it admits there are multiple independent sources for this association but says they
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which said "Hephzibah Children's Association, named after a biblical benefactor, operates a small facility funded by the mostly well-to-do citizens of Oak Park; it accommodates children ages 3 to 11 for however long it takes them to be adopted, thus sparing them the foster-care shuffle. Even more
144:, but I'm not quite sure how. Yes, there are sources, but all they seem to do is prove the place exists — I can't see how this warrants an article. Orphaned stub article, and seems to have been since its creation, with no sign of anyone expanding it for a year 257:
can be discounted because they merely prove it exists. It's an orphanage and foster care association which does a lot of work in the local community as all the sources attest, does it have to have its own space programme to get in wikipedia?
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unusual, it allows them to veto adoptive parents they don't like. "They stay here until they find a place they are comfortable with," says executive director Mary Anne Brown." There's also this story
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All the references - those you've given, those on the article and those I can find on Google - just mention the orphanage tangentially; thus — as I said in my original nom — this undoubtedly passes
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tag. I think it's possibly notable if the article could be extended. I'm somewhat reluctant to see a child charity deleted.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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in that there are plenty of sources to prove it exists, but I'm unable to find anything to satisfy
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about a man who was raised in the orphanage in the 1930s who talks about it at length and this
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
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It's an organisation which was founded in 1897 and was covered in Time Magazine
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, User:Ceyockey (
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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Non-notable. I don't see any hope of justifying this one.
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