Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bamboo Bike Project

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Questionable notability per WP:GNG. The current sources are all affiliated with the project or the university that sponsored it; thus they lack independence. My WP:BEFORE search yielded a few borderline sources. An [https://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/Bamboo-bikes-have-benefits-3278264.php article] from SFGATE and [https://www.good.is/articles/look-bamboo-bikes-for-africa another] from [https://Good.is Good.is] both have a decent level of detail, but the publications are not the most reliable. A [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/fashion/12Noticed.html feature on bamboo bicycles] from the NYT is good on reliability, but lacks in-depth coverage of this particular project. Further, all these articles are from 2007-2010, it looks like the project itself kind of petered out since then. An inactive project can still be notable per WP:NTEMP, but it seems unlikely this topic will become more notable in the future. Overall, I suspect Bamboo bicycles generally are notable, while this specific project is not. BenKuykendall (talk) 23:35, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

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• Keep, passes WP:GNG. In addition to the sources in the nomination,{{cite web |url=https://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/Bamboo-bikes-have-benefits-3278264.php |title=Bamboo bikes have benefits |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |work=Sfgate |author=Nancy Davis Kho |date=July 5, 2008 |access-date=March 25, 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.good.is/articles/look-bamboo-bikes-for-africa |title=LOOK: Bamboo Bikes for Africa |website=goodinc.com |author=Morgan Clendaniel |date=July 29, 2009 |access-date=March 25, 2021}} and the article in The Economist,{{cite web |url=http://www.economist.com/node/12684871?story_id=12684871 |title=On your bike |publisher=The Economist |date=November 29, 2008 |access-date=March 25, 2021}} there are several [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22bamboo+bike+project%22&source=lnms&tbm=bks&sa=X book sources].{{cite journal |title=Non-wood News |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization |issue=18 |page=24 |year=2009}}{{cite book |title=Pedal It!: How Bicycles are Changing the World |author=Michelle Mulder |publisher=Orca Book Publishers |year=2015 |asin=B00UUDND6A}}{{cite book |title=Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives |editor1=Paul Collinson |editor2=Iain Young |editor3=Lucy Antal |editor4=Helen Macbeth |publisher=Berghahn Books |asin=B07KH5ZHDR |page=170 |year=2019}} SailingInABathTub (talk) 10:11, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

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• Delete The correct guideline for organizations is WP:NCORP and not GNG. None of the references either in the article or mentioned by {{u|SailingInABathTub}} above meet the criteria as folows:
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100707110949/http://www.cogito.org/Interviews/InterviewsDetail.aspx?ContentID=17634 This cogito.org] reference is based entirely on an interview, fails WP:ORGIND
• [https://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/1957 This from The Earth Institute at Columbia University] copies directly from the proposal submitted by David Ho, no "Independent Content", fails ORGIND. [http://mci.ei.columbia.edu/?id=bamboo_bikes This from Columnia University] (and other articles posted on Columbia University website such as [http://mci.ei.columbia.edu/initiatives/private-sector-development/bamboo-bikes-project/ this]) all rely on information provided by people involved in the project. The references fail to provide "Independent Content". Fails ORGIND. Also failing ORGIND for the same reasons are [http://mci.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/01/kumasi-launches-website-to-promote-investment/ this] PR from the "Millenium Cities Initiative" who are "connected" with the project and [https://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/2768 this announcement], all of which fail WP:ORGIND.
• [https://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/Bamboo-bikes-have-benefits-3278264.php This from SFGate] is based entirely on an interview with a Calfee who is involved in the project, no Independent Content, fails ORGIND
• [https://www.good.is/articles/look-bamboo-bikes-for-africa This from Good.is] only mentions the Bamboo Bikes Project in passing and focussed on an offshoot called Bamboo Bike Studio, fails WP:CORPDEPTH and ORGIND
• [https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2008/11/27/on-your-bike?story_id=12684871 This from The Economist] talks about bikes made from bamboo and about the initial proof of concept project in Ghana (which is a different company named Bamboo Bikes Limited) but doesn't mention nor provide any information on the topic organization, fails WP:CORPDEPTH
• [https://books.google.ie/books?id=O_Vh2LKcm4EC Non-wood News (pgs 23 and 24)] has two references. [http://www.fao.org/3/i0987e/i0987e.pdf Issue 19] has a general article on Bamboo Bikes and mentions the topic organization in passing, fails CORPDEPTH. [http://www.fao.org/3/i2220e/i2220e.pdf Issue 22] provides another mention and a simple single-sentence description of the topic organization and also fails ORGIND.
• [https://books.google.ie/books?id=zZqIBwAAQBAJ Pedal it! How Bicycles are Changing the World] has a section on "Bicycles Made From Plants" where it discusses and describes bicycles made from bamboo. In a single sentence, it descibes how scientists Mutter and Ho founded the Bamboo Bike Project in Ghana to help factories produce low-cost, high-quality bamboo bikes. Fails CORPDEPTH.
• [https://books.google.ie/books?id=9LSXDwAAQBAJ Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives] mentions the topic company in a footnote and copies information from the bamboobike home page and provides a link. Fails CORPDEPTH and SIGCOV and ORGIND.

:In a nutshell, a lot has been written about bikes made from bamboo and there are a variety of organizations involved in the manufacture of these types of bikes, but this particular organization fails the criteria for establishing notability as per WP:NCORP. HighKing⁺⁺ 20:30, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

• Delete or Move to Drafts until the article meets Notability, which it currently does not (agree with comments above).--Greysonsarch (talk) 15:27, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
• Merge. Found a few more sources that I believe are not mentioned above:
• Denver Post: https://www.denverpost.com/2007/06/21/a-sweet-ride-from-bamboo/
• New Internationalist: https://newint.org/features/special/2008/11/01/bamboo-bikes
• Columbia Magazine: https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/pedals-chutes-leaves )

::But even though over all coverage appears to have been substantial, it doesn't look the project is active anymore (last blog post is from 2011), as the nominator says. For this reason an stand-alone article might not have a chance to develop much. I suggest merging content into the article of the leaders of the project, David Ho (oceanographer), which is currently undergoing its own AFC discussion but might have a chance of surviving, especially if the sources talking about him and the bamboo bikes are added there. Alan Islas (talk) 04:48, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

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