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The result was no consensus defaulting to keep and w/o prejudice to a future renomination. Ad Orientem ( talk) 02:17, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
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What is the notability of this? I've never heard of it, there's no inherent reason why it should be considered notable--it's just a group of people selected by its own members, with some local newspaper and TV stations reporting on it. The only time it gets called something, as far as I know, is here, "prestigious"--but of course anything involving Nick Saban is going to be prestigious. Well, Roll Tide and all that, but this isn't notable. Drmies ( talk) 22:24, 29 January 2019 (UTC) Drmies ( talk) 22:24, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
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- Comment This has gotten some non-local RS news coverage, e.g. Chicago Tribune (paywall), the New York Times, NPR, and (this is the largest amount of in-depth coverage I could find) the New York Times again. However, most (but not all) of this coverage is just "Famous person X was inducted into the Academy today". IntoThinAir ( talk) 22:32, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep it has the backing of legislature and the refs above are enough for notability. ( Dushan Jugum ( talk) 05:26, 10 February 2019 (UTC)).
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- Comment - the sources definitely do not provide enough coverage on the academy itself to pass - especially given that it needs to satisfy WP:NORG. Additionally, "it has the backing of legislature" is a ridiculous reasoning - not everything that has a state's support automatically has notability. In fact, I'd go so far to say that it does very little to do it. That said, it's an impressive list, so I wouldn't be shocked if someone writing about them has covered the academy in some decent detail. Hopefully a more in-depth sweep by me tomorrow might find some more (or not) and let me finish casting a !vote. Nosebagbear ( talk) 00:44, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
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The result was no consensus defaulting to keep and w/o prejudice to a future renomination. Ad Orientem ( talk) 02:17, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
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What is the notability of this? I've never heard of it, there's no inherent reason why it should be considered notable--it's just a group of people selected by its own members, with some local newspaper and TV stations reporting on it. The only time it gets called something, as far as I know, is here, "prestigious"--but of course anything involving Nick Saban is going to be prestigious. Well, Roll Tide and all that, but this isn't notable. Drmies ( talk) 22:24, 29 January 2019 (UTC) Drmies ( talk) 22:24, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
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- Comment This has gotten some non-local RS news coverage, e.g. Chicago Tribune (paywall), the New York Times, NPR, and (this is the largest amount of in-depth coverage I could find) the New York Times again. However, most (but not all) of this coverage is just "Famous person X was inducted into the Academy today". IntoThinAir ( talk) 22:32, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ad Orientem ( talk) 00:27, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
- Keep it has the backing of legislature and the refs above are enough for notability. ( Dushan Jugum ( talk) 05:26, 10 February 2019 (UTC)).
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America 1000 02:34, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
- Comment - the sources definitely do not provide enough coverage on the academy itself to pass - especially given that it needs to satisfy WP:NORG. Additionally, "it has the backing of legislature" is a ridiculous reasoning - not everything that has a state's support automatically has notability. In fact, I'd go so far to say that it does very little to do it. That said, it's an impressive list, so I wouldn't be shocked if someone writing about them has covered the academy in some decent detail. Hopefully a more in-depth sweep by me tomorrow might find some more (or not) and let me finish casting a !vote. Nosebagbear ( talk) 00:44, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
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