Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spare the Air program

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The result of the debate was speedy keep - nomination withdrawn. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:56, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Non-notable organization, with only 542 unique Googles, and fails WP:ORG. Delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:50, 23 June 2006 (UTC) Withdraw nomination. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:56, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per above. Jammo (SM247) 00:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Hmm, "'Spare the Air' BAAQMD" (BAAQMD being the agency administering the program) gets 13,800 Google hits, 245 of them unique. "Spare the Air" alone gets 36 hits on Google News right now, meaning that the supposed "non-notability" will come as a complete surprise to Bay Area media -- and to anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area who listens to traffic reports on the radio or check traffic reporting sites like http://www.511.org -- hmmm, there's a "Spare the Air" web banner on that site right now. I'd say that's a keep, don't you? --Calton | Talk 00:53, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This program affects 10's of millions of people on a regular basis and is a model of enviromental policy that has been adopted by other states and even in other countries [1]. Ask any one of the 30 million people in california alone if they can explain what a "spare the air day" is and you will get a correct answer. Its almost a catch phrase. It's on the news constantly. They probably don't exactly know who issues the order but they know how it affects their lives. Earlier today I was considering the notablility of a cartoon character used by a local supermarket in the UK and agreed that the set of cartoon characters as a whole that were used in the advertising campaign was notable. I would say that "spare the air" is significantly more notable that even the local supermarket chain. California environmental inititives have a long history of affecting national and global policy. For example from Automobile emissions control "Since 1966, the first emission test cycle was enacted in the State of California measuring tailpipe emissions in PPM (parts per million)." --Nick Y. 01:02, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep it is significant to a large geographical entity (San Francisco). Just today the Bay Area announced that rapid transit would be free in order to combat air pollultion. Spare the Air was a major mover-and-shaker for this novel news item. --ScienceApologist 01:20, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I created the article because I kept hearing the phrase in the media but there was nothing about it in Wikipedia; the article should probably be generalized to cover other locations with similar programs. Pretzelpaws 04:15, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, notable program affecting SFBA; agree with above. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-06-24 11:13Z

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.