Talk:South Asia Faculty Network
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[edit] Organization vs. website
The South Asia Faculty Network describes itself as "an internet resource center for educating faculty, students, and the larger public about contemporary South Asian social, economic, and political issues. This site is hosted by concerned South Asia faculty residing in the United States." [1]
References to the South Asia Faculty Network also refer to it as a web resource archiving documents produced by South Asian / South Asian Studies faculty in the Californian Hindu textbook controversy. [2][3][4]
As such, I'm confused why the most recent edits from VikramSingh would refer to it as an "organization."
Even more puzzlingly, the edit also include a link added to the term Front organization in the "See also " section. Given that the South Asia Faculty Network website archives letters, documents, and reports from specifically named academics and academic institutions, I fail to understand how that makes it a front group; it's fair to presume that the website has an agenda, but what could that agenda be besides that of the South Asia faculty whose writings are archived on the site?
I'm afraid I'm terribly confused.
-- Anirvan 23:18, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Notability (web)
does this website meet any of the requirements for keeping its own article?
- the content itself has been the subject of multiple and non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself.
- The website or content has won a well-known and independent award from either a publication or organization.
- The content is distributed via a medium which is both well known and independent of the creators, either through an online newspaper or magazine, an online publisher, or an online broadcaster.
none of these is established in the article. dab (𒁳) 12:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
