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Fails WP:BRANCH of WP:NORG. Coverage is WP:ROUTINE of press releases and local activities expected of an advocacy organization. Longhornsg (talk) 22:44, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations, Judaism, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.. Longhornsg (talk) 22:44, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The organization has WP:SIGCOV in the annual American Jewish Yearbook series which has been published for decades by Springer Publishing. It gets covered in that every year. This book highlights the group as a significant branch because of its strategic location in Washington D.C. which gives it influence in pushing Israel's agenda in the United States. It has an outsized impact on American politics because of where it is located. Here is a smattering of other materials [1], [2], [3], The group is also listed as funding groups criticized by the pro-Palestinian movement ([4]); so it's has its critics. Its activities get covered repeatedly in The Washington Post so just looking at that paper's archives alone there is WP:ORGCRIT passing coverage.4meter4 (talk) 23:21, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We need significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject. These are all WP:PASSING mentions that fail to establish WP:ORGDEPTH. Let's take them individually:

1. The American Jewish Yearbook is a comprehensive listing of the hundreds of Jewish organizations in operation. Inclusion is not inherently significant. Fails SIRS.

2. The book is self-published polemic by an author at a non-notable advocacy shop (not even a think tank). Across 330 pages, the federation merits a mere two paragraphs, half of which is a direct quote from the federation's own annual report. Not an RS and not SIGCOV. Fails SIRS.

3. A self-published list of Zionist organizations by the the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, a fringe network of a few dozen people is not SIGCOV, nor is it an RS. Fails SIRS.

4. [This https://archive.org/details/BusinessOfBacklashWebFinal/page/n59/mode/2up?q=%22Jewish+Federation+of+Greater+Washington%22] is a self-published list of hundreds of perceived Zionist organizations. The federation is listed as one of many grantees of some of them. No SIGCOV and not an RS. Fails SIRS.

Any tangentially relevant content can be added as a section at Jewish federations. Per WP:BRANCH, a specific local chapter or sub-organization that is not considered notable enough for its own article may be significant enough to mention within the context of an article about the parent organization. Longhornsg (talk) 00:36, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment If deletion is decided upon, the link should be redirected to the main article on the Jewish Federations of North America. Every branch of the Federations should be listed on the main page. As of now, they are not listed. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 15:15, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Bohemian Baltimore do you have a vote? Longhornsg (talk) 01:10, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CycloneYoris ^talk! 01:02, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge - outright deletion will feed the nanobs. Please don't make me verklempt. Bearian (talk) 04:44, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 23:26, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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