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The result was delete. Ping me to restore the history if anyone recreates this as a redirect, after adding a mention at a relevant target. Owen× ☎ 18:41, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
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Renominating per WikiOriginal-9 (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Independent Gay Forum (2nd nomination)). Fails WP:NCORP; still missing WP:SIGCOV. This article has been here for over twenty years. A Wondrous Raven (talk) 19:04, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
- Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Conservatism, LGBTQ+ studies, Organizations, and Websites. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 19:14, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
- Comment: this has been tagged as a potential NORG (which is the same as NCORP, but this is more of an organization than a corporation) failure since 2013–which is more than half of the 21–22 years the article has existed. This survived the first nomination in 2007 at a time of lower standards–but even that was as a "no consensus" defaulting to (but obviously not a consensus to) keep. (Its survival of the second nomination from 2023 was entirely procedural as the then-nominator started a high quantity of nominations within a day and was convinced to withdraw those, including that one, that did not gain any participation within the first ~12 hours or so.) No opinion. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:24, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
- Note: this discussion has been included in the list of Libertarianism-related AfD discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:25, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
- There's significant discussion by Lisa Duggan (2012), and a PhD Thesis (also 2012) with a chapter analyzing their work, not to mention quite a few paragraph or so mentions in other scholarly publications. I sort of come away feeling like there might be something here, but with just those two mentions it's really not enough to establish NORG. And the article is junky as of now. Maybe we redirect and add a brief mention to LGBTQ conservatism in the United States. But I'm not sure that's really merited. So right now I end up at Delete. But if anyone finds anything else, please do ping me. Eddie891 Talk Work 00:21, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
- Comment Did anyone comment of the WP:COATTRACK aspect? Dudzcar (talk) 00:56, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
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