Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Podesta Group
Setting references aside for the moment it's clearly a significant lobbying firm and major player in Washington, with a long list of important clients.  If we're going to have encyclopedic coverage of the subject of lobbying, this is a firm people need to know about.  That is the definition of relevance.  Sources ''prove'' relevance but they are not the same thing as relevance.  Lobbying is a field where there are fewer articles written about notable subjects because lobbyists create the news and deliberately stay out of it, newspapers have considerable conflicts of interest and difficulty writing about lobbyists, and people are simply not that interested in reading news of the subject.  However, this article does have major sources, certainly manyfold more than would be necessary for any general application of .  Articles specifically about this group in New York Times, Wired, and Washington Post (X2), one of the fifty top lobbying firms in Washington?  It makes one wonder why this afd is even here
— User:Wikidemo, 00:35, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:CORP (Wikipedia:Notability)