- Little Kids Rock (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)
Little Kids Rock (www.littlekidsrock.org) is a reputable national nonprofit organization that seems to have been taken down from wikipedia. Here is the article explaining its deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Little Kids Rock
The deleter, who is no longer editing for Wikipedia and thus has not been available to debate the deletion, claims not to have been able to find any recent news coverage of Little Kids Rock on Google News. I find lots! Please refer to their news index: http://www.littlekidsrock.org/news-events/news-index/
Please also refer to their 4 star rating on Charity Navigator: http://www.littlekidsrock.org/news-events/news-index/
Finally, see all of the artists who have worked with them to help transform more than 300,000 kids' lives by donating music educational resources to their schools: https://www.littlekidsrock.org/friends/our-big-fans/
The person who initially created the page back when Little Kids Rock was a much smaller organization was, in fact, an employee there. The organization has since grown, as has its independent network, and the content has been edited drastically since the time it was initially created.
How can I get this page reinstated to Wikipedia and the relevant hyperlinks on other pages (like their artist supporters' Wikipedia pages) also reinstated? 71.187.199.120 (talk) 17:50, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Re-list. In view of the comprehensive list of independent coverage and sources provided on the company's own web site, it seems clear that something was missed in the deletion discussion. Not faulting Mark Arsten for respecting the consensus, but in this case the "consensus" seemed to miss something, else that list would have been at least mentioned in the discussion. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:24, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment out of those news links can the nominator point out the 1 or 2 they think are the strongest. i.e. they cover the subject directly in detail and aren't press releases (Press releases aren't independent coverage). The couple I picked at random were press releases. Really it's a stronger argument if you point out a few strong sources whih are valid rather than a wave towards a big list of "stuff". --86.2.216.5 (talk) 07:17, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- There appear to be new reasonable sources since the AfD. That's a valid reason to relist. Hobit (talk) 10:49, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- temporarily restored for discussion at Deletion Review DGG ( talk ) 18:55, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment if it is restored, some drastic editing is called for to eliminate the advertising: half the lede paragraph is a list of celebrities who have endorsed it, which does not belong anywhere in the article, but on their own website. The article reads like an article from the organization telling us why they are a good cause, not an article informing the reader who might come here wondering what it is. DGG ( talk ) 19:02, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree. The deletion discussion (brief as it was) focused on notability and the discussion was presumably closed on that basis. In view of the list of sources provided that were apparently neither known nor discussed, re-listing for further discussion would be appropriate. If the outcome is to delete again due to being unsalvageable from the promotional content, then at least we have a more solid AFD case. ~Amatulić (talk) 19:40, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment There are a few reputable articles in the New York Times under the year 2011 and a more recent 2014 article on Examiner.com. Neither of these are press releases or focus on celebrities. The initial Wikipedia article about Little Kids Rock was written in a tone that was too promotional because the author did not understand the purpose of Wikipedia or the tone in which to write about the organization. As the person who will now be taking on that responsibility, I plan to edit the original content so that it is no longer written in the same tone that it was. If any of the new content DOES appear to be too promotional, rather than delete, I am 100% open to editing again until it meets the criteria. I am open to discussing this matter further if necessary. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.187.199.120 (talk • contribs) 19:51, 9 April 2014
- By the way, the Wikipedia community doesn't consider examiner.com to be a reliable source because of its reputation for having near-zero editorial oversight or fact-checking, and in fact it is blacklisted from being linked on Wikipedia. The Wall Street Journal reprint of an AP article is a good start although fairly brief. The New York Times blog has very good coverage, although, well, it's a blog, although we do use news publication blogs as sources. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:22, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Also, if you search for all of the "watch here" hyperlinks on the news index (http://www.littlekidsrock.org/news-events/news-index/), you'll find several news clips from regional news stations covering Little Kids Rock donations, deliveries of instruments, celebrity involvement, events, etc... from Dallas, to Los Angeles, to Tampa to, New York... from NBC, to FOX, to CBS, to Bloomberg.
- Probably leave deleted - but I nominated it for deletion, so in all fairness, I'm probably biased in favour of agreeing with myself.
- I realise this isn't directly pertinent, but I don't find the prospect of someone else from the organisation "taking on the responsibility" of editing the page (exactly what the COI policy says not to do) appealing; what I think is pertinent is the edit history on the page, which is woefully sparse, consisting essentially of a yearly cycle where a shill for the company inserts a bunch of promotional material and someone else takes it out. In my view, a good hint that an organisation is notable is that uninvolved editors have some interest in editing the page in and of itself. By that metric, LKR is about as notable as my laundry list.
- I agree with the suggestion above that it would be better to identify one or two clearly good sources than to stack up this mass of recycled press releases; "independent" is a stretch when plainly something has arrived from the organisation or a celebrity's PR flacks and been used to fill up an awkward gap on page 92. On the other hand, there is an argument that we don't judge that kind of thing; if enough reliable sources reprint that fluff, it counts.
- If reinstated it should be radically cut back, and representatives of the organisation encouraged to keep their mitts well off the article. Pinkbeast (talk) 23:16, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Very good point about a member of the organization not being the one to edit the article. I wonder though, how other nonprofit organizations are created on Wikipedia like The Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium, Charity: Water, Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, etc. Did members of their organizations write the article and then was it edited by Wikipedia contributors? Or did they ask an independent source to write the article for them? Little Kids Rock has brought music education to 300,000 + kids in the past 12 years and though the initial article was promotional in tone, that does not mean that the organization is not notable or reputable enough to have a page on Wikipedia that explains what it does. Within 5-10 years, music education in U.S. public schools will have gone through a major system change (teaching rock/pop-based music education called "Modern Band" alongside Jazz Band, Marching Band, Orchestra and Choir) and Little Kids Rock is the organization leading that charge, having partnered with dozens of public school districts in the United States' largest and most under-served cities. I believe that this is something that people interested in public school education, music education, and nonprofit organizations ought to know. My question is, how can this be done while still fitting into the guide lines of Wikipedia? If the answer is to send a draft of an article to Wikipedia editors to review and approve before being published to verify the non-promotional tone of the article, that can be done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.187.199.120 (talk) 15:13, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- That argument is sufficiently common that we have a stock answer: WP:OTHERSTUFF. Guy (Help!) 19:05, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse deletion. The article as written, sucked royally. It also had not one single reliable independent source. Please show us a compliant draft by a non-conflicted author if you want to have an article about this subject. Guy (Help!) 19:07, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Sources that have shown up since the last AfD [1], [2], [3], and a fair number more listed at [4]. While most of the coverage is local, we've got coverage in the WSJ, the Boston Globe, and coverage by local sources (many entirely on the subject) in LA, TX, NY, and CA. While someone could argue that the sources aren't enough (the ones that aren't local are "too short" or something) it's plain this meets WP:N by a fair margin and that we have enough in reliable sources to write an article. This is pretty straightforward, but we seem to have gotten off track. WP:COI isn't a reason for deletion, and a declared COI really isn't. If it were, I've got 100s of articles I'd be nominating (yes me). In any case, there are new sources that at least look okay, so the right thing to do is either allow recreation or relist. Hobit (talk) 11:12, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Allow recreation - The topic clearly meets GNG: sfgate.com, mbird.org, nytimes.com, digitaleditions.sheridan.com, azcentral.com, etc. (Some potential early history 1998, 1999, 2001). The Wikipedia article was problematic and probably will be again if it is not created using independent, reliable sources. However, the AfD was based on WP:N rather than the article being too problematic. Since significant new information has come to light since the deletion that overcomes the AfD reason for deletion, I think it justifies recreating the deleted page. -- Jreferee (talk) 07:05, 12 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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