Talk:United Coalition of Reason

Latest comment: 11 months ago by Zorblin in topic WP:NPOV

Notability edit

All of the "references" are about the advertisement they purchased. This is in vio of Wikipedia:Notability#SPIP, if there are reliable sources that document this groups notability otherwise please provide them. Tstrobaugh (talk) 21:10, 1 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

The organization is relatively new (founded in 2009) and there are not as many articles about them compared to American Atheists, but the NY Times reference (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/us/27atheist.htm?_r=2) and the one I just added (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/culture/37-history/3579-progressives-attempt-to-make-church-and-state-one-in-the-same) clearly mention the organization (absent of its advertising campaign). I don't know why you seem to be singling out this article from List of secularist organizations#United_States when there are others such as The Humanist Institute or The Atheist Agenda that have fewer and even no references. TimeClock871 (talk) 06:23, 2 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
The first one (NyT) has the same problem of being about the advertisement, the second source is not a reliable news source. I'll get to the others when I can, you could help. I'm not trying to delete these articles, leave the tag up until they are improved (by consensus). Tstrobaugh (talk) 19:16, 2 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
Oh I see. That's a good idea. I misunderstood your actions. Sorry. TimeClock871 (talk) 00:17, 3 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
What you seem to be failing to note about purchased advertising is that this advertising has generated significant media attention across the United States and overseas. I just added some media coverage references in the history section that allude to or demonstrate this. But there are many, many more that could be added. One of this organization's main activities is to use advertising to generate media attention and wide public interest. By this means the organization has become publicly significant because of the controversy and discussion it has created. A useful parallel here would be the Atheist Bus Campaign in Britain, which is also about advertising that has created buzz. 69.140.42.6 (talk) 22:33, 2 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
Since there have been no further comments on the notability question in three months, and no challenge to the last comment, I'm removing the notability banner. 69.140.42.6 (talk) 22:48, 8 December 2010 (UTC)Reply


Howdy. Local news media mentioning a couple recent local billboards (Nove/Dec 2011) http://www.cfpmidweek.com/weeks/IssuePDFs/vo9i24web.pdf

To access you MAY have to go to the Web site's archive page via the main Web site page and smack the Nov. 30 - Dec. 13, 2011 offering.

The Springfield, MO locale is within the Bible Belt and chock-full of well-indoctrinated simple-minded folk who obviously have shunned any non-religious education, at least as much as possible and I AM refraining from my general lack of religious indoctrination as possible. Suffice it to proclaim that non-fiction reading of ANY subject is looked askance at and I fear a large percentage of the locals never advance much past the "See Spot run" level of reading. Obbop (talk) 17:21, 1 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

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WP:NPOV edit

Hi, if anyone would like to edit this article, it seems to heavily and uncritically draw from information directly from the subject organization. Zorblin (talk) 22:29, 27 May 2023 (UTC)Reply