Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Volunteer Calgary

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The result was delete. If anyone wants to write an article about the concept of central volunteer bureaus, I'm happy to provide them a copy of this content. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:23, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Volunteer Calgary

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A worthy organisation working across a large city. I could find no evidence of the coverage or significance that would bring it to WP:ORG or WP:GNG. Boleyn (talk) 15:34, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 15:37, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 15:37, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Poor references, fails WP:GNG. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 15:49, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep/merge In the light of current proposals for rebranding, it is interesting to read that "Since its formation by the JLC as the Central Volunteer Bureau, Propellus has been branded as the Volunteer Bureau Department of the Calgary Council of Community Services (1960), as Volunteer Centre of Calgary (1975), and as Volunteer Calgary (1998) to better reflect its mission and vision." It seems that many North American cities have had a Central Volunteer Bureau and we ought to cover these institutions severally or together in some way. Per WP:IMPERFECT, we should welcome this contribution so that we can develop it into a more complete account. Andrew🐉(talk) 16:53, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~ Amkgp 💬 04:22, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Barkeep49 (talk) 02:36, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: I couldn't find anything either, and the link to the organization's website redirects to a generic, non-local "volunteering" page. Beyond that, the article's full of complete twaddle about the history of volunteer work, and various links discussing how many people in the city and the province volunteer, but devoid of one critical element: any discussion of, or any information pertaining to, the subject of the article. COI issues besides, as the article was created by User:Volunteer calgary and heavily worked on by User:VolCal1 and User:Volgeek, SPAs all who filled the article with promos and adspam that have since been removed. Ravenswing 07:36, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Or, y'know, rather than keep this horribly flawed article flooded with COI and just about devoid of any information about its subject, if you believe that there is a place for a well-written article about civic volunteering generally, why not write one? (That being said, you advocate merge without proffering a merge target. Would you care to do so?) Ravenswing 07:42, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: per nom --Devokewater @ 12:03, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.