Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thetoybank

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The result was no consensus. (non-admin closure) Jdcomix (talk) 15:14, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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This one's complicated. First off, there's Toybank, which, despite being basically the same organization, with the same name, in the same places, doing the same thing, appears to actually be a completely distinct organization. The only way I can find to definitively separate them is to search by founder, Vijay Goel v. Shweta Chari.

See sources provided on the stub and on the talk by the author. Some of them are patently non-reliable (like this one and this one), some of them are about the wrong org like this one, some of them are okay, like this one, but are a bit fluffy human interest. These could be okay if they were a sampling, and an indication that there were plenty more sources available, but from what I can tell, they're pretty much it.

Goel is independently notable, but I'm not really sure this makes the cut. Their website lists two "members" which seems likely to mean "full time employees" and exactly eleven volunteers, and assures us that "Toy Bank is slowly but surely growing up", which looks an awful lot like a small non-profit run out of a few folks' homes, that hasn't... quite "grown up" yet. TimothyJosephWood 12:38, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 12:59, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge into Vijay Goel with a small mention on Toybank, or vice-versa. This looks big enough to mention somehow, but hardly as its own article yet, and the confusion possible with another article makes it necessary to address that. Anmccaff (talk) 17:40, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Sir

Please note that the Thetoybank in an non-profit organization working for past 20 years. I am currently a volunteer at the TheToyBank. I am currently running a collection centre at my house for the same. I am doing the same for social cause without any remuneration as I work with Yes_Bank. You may search (tarun khurana) the same from the reference link for list of collection centre^[1]. This organization has been setting up various new centre. The one in central Delhi was inaugurated by Maneka_Gandhi ^{[2] [3]}.

This NGO was founded by Vijay_Goel in 1987. You can find the link in the Vijay_Goel wiki page also.

Thetoybank works with a motive of "Recycling Toys Recycling Smiles". We at [Thetoybank] collect toys and then send the same to a central toybank from where the same are provided to kids with limited resources across India

As a volunteer of this organization, I want to promote the Thetoybank across India so that more toys are donated and provided to kids who are currently deprived of the same. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarunkkhurana (talk • contribs) 12:57, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would further elaborate that the organization Thetoybank is not a doing small work, it is reaching ~50,000 kids each year and has reached 500,000 kids so far since inception.^[4] The organization is frugal in resources as it rely on mass collections in schools and via its 29 centres in Delhi. ^[5] Further, it is currently working in various states like ^[6]

• Comment-TimothyjosephwoodI haven't taken a proper look at the notability issues but you seemed to have messed up your external linking by calling the Hindustan times an unrelaliable source .Please take a lookRADICAL SODA^(FORCE) 10:11, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. Stricken. Looks like I liked to it twice. Unfortunately I don't really have time right now to dig back through them. TimothyJosephWood 12:07, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:25, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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