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The result was keep. J04n(talk page) 11:39, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SPONGE (activist group) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · group) Stats)

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No reliable sources that this organization even exists, let alone that it is "prominent". I believe it to be a hoax, but my speedy deletion request was removed. The article was created by an indefinitely banned editor. RNealK (talk) 23:14, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - A Google search will reveal a number of sources such as this one [1], as implausible as it may seem that such a group exists. - MrX 23:51, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep As distasteful as this group and its name was, it did exist in New York City in the mid 1960s, and achieved notoriety, which is a form of notability. The online book source identified by MrX is in the article, though not linked to Google Books. A Google News Archive search using the full name with "Negroes" instead of the more objectionable "N" word yields widespread newspaper coverage from 35 to 40 years ago. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 04:07, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:52, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:52, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep - Clearly a notable organization as THIS COVERAGE from the Jewish Daily Forward of the 1966 SPONGE-organized fatal riot 45 years after the fact amply demonstrates. Carrite (talk) 17:25, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A MENTION in Jet magazine from 1967. Carrite (talk) 17:26, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

THIS BOOK REVIEW from The American Prospect of Fred Siegel's The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities (Free Press, 1997) intimates that SPONGE is covered extensively in that work. Carrite (talk) 17:30, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Why does the nominator say that no reliable sources exist when the article itself lists two recent books as sources? Muskie72 (talk) 00:50, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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