I glanced at the article; the facts are there, the tone could be more
objective.

SCDC seems pretty clearly defined to me: Swarthmore Coalition for the
Digital Commons.  Might be good to put SCDC in parens after that reference,
for better clarity.

~ Jon

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]>wrote:

> Reasonable critique appeared on the Talk page for SFC today:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Students_for_Free_Culture
>
> "Complete rewrite necessary, AfD possible
>
> Currently article seems to fail WP:NOTABILITY, and is a huge
> WP:SOAPBOX. The only question which is not clear to me is if it is
> 100% WP:SOAP, or just 99% WP:SOAP. In addition, it is a complete mess
> (just one example: what is "SCDC" which is referred to all over the
> place? It is not defined in the article at all). If somebody can clean
> it up, removing all the inappropriate primary sources (primary source
> for statements like "has over 30 chapters" is certainly inappropriate)
> and speculations (example: "These protests may have served as
> inspiration"), and also to establish connection between 3rd-party
> articles and this organization (in particular, to provide proof that
> chapters indeed consider themselves as a part of "Students for Free
> Culture" - even primary source statement will be IMHO ok in this case
> but to qualify as WP:RS, it should come from chapter, not from
> "Students for Free Culture"!), it would be great. If not, I will try
> to perform such clean up myself, but as I don't know certain things
> (for example, how to prove relations between chapters and umbrella
> organization), it might result in removing too many references, which
> in turn might eventually result in AfD (if after cleaning up
> irrelevant/unprovable stuff there are no references to prove
> notability - it doesn't belong on Wikipedia). Ipsign (talk) 05:57, 29
> November 2010 (UTC)"
>
> Kevin
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