User talk:Thekohser/The Family & Workplace Connection

Assessment requested

As the author of this article, which was deleted without discussion as "corporate spam", I would like a community assessment here of its quality, appropriateness for Wikipedia, assets and drawbacks, etc. -- Thekohser 21:05, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

OK, I'll bite

Reviewing it by today's standards, which I recognize are higher than when you wrote it:

1. The lead is a little bit spammy, but not enough to warrant deletion. If I came across it in the new pages log, I'd slash it right down to "The Family & Workplace Connection (FWC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Delaware, which provides care and education for children and the elderly. It operates across the United States." or similar;
2. "20,000 families a year", "45 full-time staff" and "revenues of approximately $4.8 million" are unsourced;
3. The first short paragraph of "Just in Time care" has an inappropriate tone and isn't really necessary;
4. The last part of this section, with the stats, needs to be sourced and I'm not sure it needs to be there.

If I were to come across this now, I wouldn't delete it, but I might either tag it for cleanup or remove parts of it until sourced. (This isn't necessarily a criticism; you wrote this pre-Siegenthaler and sourcing standards are much higher now.) What it's really lacking is that Wikipedia stalwart, the Assertion of Notability; given that we won't (and shouldn't) cover every daycare provider in the world, something like this needs to make clear just what's so important about this one. Is it the biggest in Delaware? The first to do what they do? Had an article about it in the WSJ? You know the kind of thing I mean. – iridescent 21:18, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

I agree with just about all of this, Iridescent. Thanks for taking the time to review. This was one of my first articles written after establishing MyWikiBiz, so it betrays my junior-grade technique at the time. The subject organization has recently merged with another and has a new name, Children & Families First. Personally, I think their outreach to media has declined since this merger, with only four decent mentions in the news over the past 18 months. Any others to comment? -- Thekohser 22:29, 4 July 2009 (UTC)