Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kautilya Society for Intercultural Dialogue
The attempts at padding this article with "references" from their own websites, blogs, and YouTube videos; self-published material on Wikiversity, WikiBooks, WikiTravel, and WikiNews; multiple user-generated reviews in sites like TripAdvisor, etc.; primary source court documents; and extensive waffle about general environmental issues and Hindu philosophy cannot mask the fact that the subject comprehensively fails . The society brought a law-suit against some local hotels for illegal building works. Their targets brought counter-charges of them running a hotel for hookah-smoking tourists under the guise of an NGO. End of discussion. This organisation/hotel has received only passing mention in major news sources. There is absolutely no significant in-depth coverage in truly independent reliable sources of the society itself—its history, its impact, its activities (apart from running a hotel for hookah-smoking tourists and bringing a law suit). Even the interview with its founder has only one question about the society and brief answer at the very end of the interview (http://www.scribd.com/doc/19709861/Alla-ricerca-del-virile-del-femminile-e-del-dialogo-tra-culture-Intervista-a-Stefano-De-Santis, p. 20). This article is also so promotional and full of soapboxing for their cause, that one could additionally argue for deletion via . It would need a fundamental re-write from zero to bring it anywhere near the semblance of an encyclopedia article. Even then, there would be no independent publications to source any assertions about the society, apart from the fact they brought a lawsuit against some local hotels and had some non-notable charges brought against themselves.The COI here is blatantly obvious. The "Keep" !votes are all coming from the article's creator (who also wrote the WikiVersity, WikiBooks, and WikiNews pages and made the multiple videos which are linked from the article) and several other single-purpose accounts (at least one of which appears to have been created for the purpose of participating in this AfD, two of which have remarkably similar names, and another who has the same name as the Society's secretary quoted in the article and speaking in the videos). Note also their blatant advertising links on Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vrinda_Dar_-_Awareness,_documentation,_legislation,_implementation,_monitoring_are_the_processes_required_in_order_to_protect_the_cultural_heritage.webm.  Although COI in itself is not reason for deletion if an article is fixable (which this one clearly isn't), the commentary by these editors in the AfD discussion needs to be seen in that light
— User:Voceditenore, 08:38, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NGO||WP:BLOWITUP (Wikipedia:Notability)