Talk:The Fruit & Veggie Prescription Program

Proposed Deletion

This appears to me to be nothing more than advertising. This is supported by the fact that the originator's username links them to a marketing agency (http://pathinteractive.com/). None of the numerous citations actually link to independent sources that explicitely mention this product. --Korruski (talk) 15:02, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

This is not an article advertising anything. It is an informational page about a program run by a 501©3nonprofit located in the United States. All of the citations link to independent sources (ex The NYTimes, CNN, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, WNPR etc) except for a which link to the website of the nonprofit running this nutrition program. The Wikipedia page here was not meant to advertise anything, only to inform the public about a nutrition program that is all over the news right now because Veggie Rx a new “term” being introduced into the national conversation about underserved communities. As for the creator, the link does go to a full-service agency - who does (among other things like marketing and advertising) web design and development and happens to handle webmaster duties for this particular nonprofit and was asked to help them code this particular entry. We’ve made a few edits to the page and put in additional references which we hope will help address your original concerns. They are explained in the edit summary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by PathInteractive (talk • contribs) 20:32, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

I've moved your comment under mine, hope that's ok. I see you've removed my prod, which is fair enough. The next step is to list this for AfD, but I think I'll hold off on that while I do a bit more research. Personally, I still think this is not notable, and the few reliable third party sources that do mention the program only do so in passing, but I'm prepared to have a dig around and see if this can be improved. One change that might be good would be to rationalise the citations, as there appear to be a lot of duplicates. --Korruski (talk) 15:09, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Re Korruski, per your concerns we’ve added more citations. This makes a total of 10 independent sources including the New York Times, CNN, WPNR, The Washington Post and the Boston Globe that all found this topic noteworthy. FYI these sources do not just mention the topic in passing, all of these articles are specifically about the Fruit & Veggie Prescription Program.

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