Talk:United States Association of Former Members of Congress

This article was nominated for deletion on 8 July 2014 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

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Entire content from subject organization's website

The entire content of this article is taken directly (quotes and close paraphrase) from the USAFMC's website. As the organization has been accused of being closely tied to lobbyists which employ former Congress members, (see Democracy, or an Exercise in Fraud? Ken Silverstein, Los Angeles Times. February 14, 2005 as one example) this is a problem. It is essentially a press release from the article's subject. 17:14, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Attempt to make page as impartial as possible

This page is meant to be exclusively informative. Unfortunately much of the information used must be cited from the subject's website because it is not published anywhere else. Supplementary sources are being used to improve the credibility of the information. Although the information does come from the website, it is used in a descriptive way and avoids any qualitative language. A note about the programming section: the organization is a programming body, so the program descriptions are necessary, and are not intended as advertisement; their descriptions will be trimmed as much as possible to be non-biased. FMCIntern (talk) 19:45, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If as you say, the information is not published anywhere else then it probably doesn't belong here at all, Wikipedia relies on what the reliable secondary sources says. Theroadislong (talk) 19:52, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]