The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Merge and Delete. already merged at closing, see last vote. Cbrown1023 15:09, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Open Security Foundation

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Respectable organization, but not notable enough for Wikipedia. Less than 300 Google hits[1]. I could not find any reliable sources that can establish notability. Jyothisingh 09:08, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - fails WP:ORG. The only evidence of notability found seems to be a reprinted press release. MER-C 09:28, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unsure Yet I found http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=3070, which may or may not be credible or independent. Is Mer-c saying that the source he found is credible? If so maybe these two are enough? It is more than a hoax, but is it just another fledgling company seeking exposure? --Kevin Murray 09:51, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reprinted press releases don't count for corporations, bands and artists, biographies and webcontent, so there's no reason for it to count here. MER-C 13:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - OSVDB is a very notable project and Open Security Foundation is the founder of this project. Hence, it would be good if we keep this article too or at the worst case, merge this article with OSVDB.

Merge - This article can be merged with OSVDB. - Nareshhacker 11:57, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to OSVDB, where is has better context and sourcing.-- danntm ^T _C 22:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to OSVDB and Delete. Davidpdx 12:02, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Merge - LMAO!!! Who tagged this article for deletion? :-) I don't understand what has gone wrong with Wikipedia. Why are we tagging just anyone and everyone as "not-notable"? Come on guys! If you don't find them notable, it doesn't mean that it actually is not-notable. There are security folks in Wikipedia who need such articles to exist in Wikipedia because we believe that these guys and organizations have done really good work. -- Smith.norton 15:37, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - Per Danntm. And please refrain from tagging articles like these for deletion. There's a reason why ((mergeto)) tag exists in Wikipedia. -- Webhacker 05:40, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note to administrators: Please note that (User:Smith.norton, User:Webhacker, User:Nareshhacker and User:Root exploit have made very few edits, almost all of which are on related articles such as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Susam Pal, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Sullo etc. Jyothisingh 14:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am personally interested only in OSVDB. So what's wrong? How does that reduce my credibility? -- Root exploit 14:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merged - I have merged this article with OSVDB since that was the overall opinion of this debate. Now this article may be deleted as per Wikipedia procedures and policies. -- Root exploit 14:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.