Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Catalina Island Marine Institute

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 00:46, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Catalina Island Marine Institute

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Nominated for deletion based on WP:N and WP:CORP. Two of the sources used are not linked, and the third isn't even used in the article. Searching for Catalina Island Marine Institute reveals nothing noteworthy, and the article reads as if it were lifted from an advertisement. 71.189.152.223 (talk) 07:49, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:27, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I can appreciate the nominator's concern about the tone of this short article, but this is in fact a well-known non-profit institution on Catalina Island, patronized by generations of school kids from metro Los Angeles and elsewhere. It's part of the Catalina Island Education Consortium in collaboration with the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and some other island institutions[1][2][3]. Per a 1995 Los Angeles Times article: "About 15,000 students a year visit the marine institute, established 15 years ago on a private beach near Avalon. It costs $131 per student for transportation and three days of instruction. Students travel from as far away as Minnesota to take part in the program."[4] More coverage of the camp is shown at Google News[5]. --Arxiloxos (talk) 20:44, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The Los Angeles Times alone has found it notable enough for it to be prominent in many articles, and mentioned in at least 25.[6] Thus it meets the main test at WP:ORG: "An organization is generally considered notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources." And as an educational institute it is arguably far more notable than many high schools, which are commonly accepted as a default keep. First Light (talk) 21:19, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Notable. - Ret.Prof (talk) 02:30, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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