Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OM Association, Inc.
or "why I created it".  Verifiable and Unoriginal see footnotes and/or query challenges in Google; Notable near 200,000 kids plus parents and organizers in just 1998-1999 alone; and for , that's why I created it.  The key to understanding the need for this entry is Odyssey of the Mind's entry's seventh word, "OM", and the unsubstantiated parenthetical remark that follows it, and the sentence here that reads, "Odyssey of the Mind and OM Association, Inc. agreed to both abandon the use of the initials "OM" in a legal settlement."  I do hope to find a more suitable reference to the particular agreement than the Fresno article.  There are two very similar kids team creative problem solving organizations.  Why?  Because of a second bitter power struggle in 1999 (the first in 1985? did not lead to divorce: one party was "bought off") over control of the organization by one of the founding members.  Because neither organization is particularly interested having any reference to the other in their own wiki entries, there is sniping (there's probably an official wiki word for folks that remove referenced factual content for ideological reasons) at any attempt to provide a hint of the relationship.  In the program year 1998-1999 mentioned in this OM Association, Inc. entry, there were tens of thousands of kids that worked on EnvirOMental challenge, and a like number of kids that worked on the other five challenges mentioned in this article (for program size analysis, see http://users.wcvt.com/perkins/DIProgram.htm, by the State Director of the Vermont Odyssey of the Mind organization).  Without this OM Association, Inc. entry, the collective "history" disappears from wikipedia for the school year 1999-2000
— User:Bokabu, 15:37, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NPOV (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)