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Notability

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@AlphaBetaGamma There is WP:SIGCOV of this foundation but if sources that discuss both the foundation and the founder don't count towards notability (is that really true?) it does cut down on the WP:RS. Nonetheless there are still sources that should count towards WP:NOTAB:

  1. Thackray, Arnold; Myers, Jr., Minor (2000). "Philanthropy and the Foundation". Arnold O. Beckman: One Hundred Years of Excellence. Chemical Heritage Foundation. ISBN 978-0941901239., which is a book chapter about the foundation
  2. In the section Draft:Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation#National grant programs, there are a number of references covering persons or institutions that received grants from the foundation. There are also two Nobel prize winners and 33 scientists elected to the National Academy of Sciences who received Beckman Young Investigator awards. Do these count toward notability? Unfortunately there is not single article covering all of this.

Finally, I see some other sources that while they discuss founder also have significant coverage of the foundation:

  1. Kleeman, Elise (March 21, 2006). "Cancer center gets boost". Pasadena Star - News. ProQuest 378960583. This one is about how a donation from the foundation accelerated plans for the "City of Hope Cancer Center" to construct a building for studying cancer therapies which it named "Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology".
  2. Kilbane, Doris (December 1, 2009). "Arnold Beckman: Changing Scientific Research, Both Then And Tomorrow". Electronic Design. 57 (25): 37–38. ProQuest 221014285. This one is also about the founder but has the following about the foundation:

    3. As a result of the growth of his companies, Beckman was able to make sizeable philanthropic donations for scientific research through the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. ..."thousands of young scientists and tens of thousands of K-6 students have benefited from his philanthropy. The five academic institutes that carry his name receive millions of dollars each year from his foundation".

    The foundation has given 308 Beckman Young Investigator awards coming to $71 million, supported 863 Beckman Scholars at 82 academic institutions, and created the Beckman @ Science Program, which is a K-6 science education initiative serving more than 833,000 elementary school children in Orange County, Calif. It also has given multimillion awards to the University of Minnesota and the University of Texas, Austin, under the Beckman Research Technologies initiative.

  3. Kramer, Art (October 5, 2014). "Beckman Institute celebrates 25 years". Champaign, Illinois: News Gazette. p. C.4. ProQuest 1634464507. Note this article discusses Beckman Institute set up at the University of Illinois with funding from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. There are multiple articles like this one - do these count towards notability?

It can be challenging to discern when the threshold to achieve notability is met, but do you think given the points above the article has met or is close to meeting it? Nnev66 (talk) 00:30, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's very difficult to verify the 5 mentioned sources (for me) as I lack full access to most of these... Anyways, if they all mention the subject foundation on some depth I'd give it a green light as none of the links are in red(Deprecated/highly unreliable). ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 01:10, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your quick reply. Since you are extended confirmed you should have access as long as you make ten mainspace edits a month. Just login to the Wikipedia library and you should be able to access them. Nnev66 (talk) 01:19, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In case you still can't get to these sources I've added comments of how each speaks to notability. Nnev66 (talk) 13:42, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References for notability of article

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The following references which are in the draft article have coverage of the Beckman Foundation independent of the founders:

  1. Thackray, Arnold; Myers, Jr., Minor (2000). "Philanthropy and the Foundation". Arnold O. Beckman: One Hundred Years of Excellence. Chemical Heritage Foundation. ISBN 978-0941901239., a book chapter about the foundation
  2. These two articles discuss the results of a multi-year application-anonymization study, initiated and supported by the foundation, aimed at understanding whether bias influenced its grant awards.
  3. These are newspaper coverage of individual grants given by the foundation. Note most of these are from newspapers.com except for the "Greenville Journal" article. There are more out there but these are in the draft article.
  4. Kilbane, Doris (December 1, 2009). "Arnold Beckman: Changing Scientific Research, Both Then And Tomorrow". Electronic Design. 57 (25): 37–38. ProQuest 221014285. Although it discusses the founder, in the "Philanthropy" section gives an overview of foundation awards. There are a couple of other articles that also have a paragraph or two about foundation while also discussing the founders.

Given the existence of the book chapter which is significant coverage in a reliable source, it's not clear if an overarching article will be written about the foundation as a whole. Nonetheless, there are multiple articles that discuss different aspects of its work and it seems to me that could be enough to cross the threshold of notability for a Wikipedia entry. Nnev66 (talk) 18:02, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PS. I found another short book chapter (see below, added to draft article). Nnev66 (talk) 23:14, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Brown, Theodore L. (2009). "The Beckman Foundation: Arnold's Last Years". Bridging Divides: The Origins of the Beckman Institute at Illinois. Urbana: University of Illinois. pp. 72–76. ISBN 978-0-252-03484-8.
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