The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was no consensus. Additional sources have been added since the last "delete" arguments but further discussion has been minimal. At this point I would suggest that article improvement should be attempted rather than deletion. ~ mazca ^talk 22:25, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

German-South African Lawyers Association[edit]

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Non-notable organization. I searched Google for the English and German versions of the name, but found nothing to satisfy WP:RS and WP:ORG Warrah (talk) 16:21, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete - I'm not too fluent in German, and know nothing of Afrikaans. But from what I can make of Ghits, it looks pretty non-notable, Lord Spongefrog, (I am the Czar of all Russias!) 17:06, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep (NB: comment by the article's primary author) I've added sources to meet WP:RS. I also think WP:ORG is established. The GSLA is a non-commercial organisation with a scope on international activities. It is referred to by the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa in Berlin, by professional bodies such as the German Bar or the biggest regional South African law society, The Law Society of the Northern Provinces. The GSLA is further listed on South African country pages by various academic institutions, such as the universities of Stanford, the German universities of Frankfurt and Leipzig, or on German country sites of the South African universities of Cape Town and Pretoria as well as Rhodes University. The association is mentioned and referred to in the encyclopedic country report South Africa by the non-profit organisation inwent (see section "Recht und Justiz" / law and justice); inwent to be found at the German Wikipedia. Finally, the GSLA is listed by various legal information sites, such as FindLaw, Legalbrief Today, Lawyersonline.in, Minority Professional Network or Centre for German Legal Information. Ghits include many GSLA's members personal sites. HWescher (talk) 12:24, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 04:40, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep An organization spanning two distinct rules of law and with an expanded mandate and with credentials recognized by two major countries seems sufficient, to me, for a keep--Jemesouviens32 (talk) 06:50, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.