Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Culture and Media Institute

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was speedy keep per WP:SK#1. The nomination is proposing for a merge to Media Research Center. I suggest adding merge templates to the articles denoted and starting a discussion on a talk page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:59, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Culture and Media Institute

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Fails WP:NCORP for a standalone article and should be merged into Media Research Center (MRC). This article is sourced with primary or non-RS sources: from its own website, from its 'parent company' MRC (which is a generally unreliable source per RSP), or from The Washington Times which is only marginally reliable on RSP.

Culture and Media Institute doesn't appear to be a separate organization from MRC. It's domain name cultureandmediainstitute.org now is redirecting to the NewsBusters' website, another project of MRC's. A search on that site for "Culture and Media Institute" doesn't bring up anything to indicate it's a separate organization from NewsBusters or MRC, and the earliest use of the term calls it "MRC's Culture and Media Institute". References to "Culture and Media Institute" on the website ended seven years ago. This indicates that MRC has 'retired' the CMI name/project and rolled it into NewsBusters.

Per WP:NPRODUCT, "If a company is notable, information on its products and services should generally be included in the article on the company itself, unless the company article is so large that this would make the article unwieldy." Neither article is so large that a merging of content would make the target article 'unwieldy'. Also, since MRC is considered generally unreliable within Wikipedia, it would be best to put this content and any necessary mrc.org citations into the Media Research Center article where "[t]he source may still be used for uncontroversial self-descriptions," per WP:GUNREL. Platonk (talk) 21:21, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Conservatism-related deletion discussions. Platonk (talk) 21:21, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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