With wiki, best is press articles, second best is links in things like an 
independent compendium of science fiction clubs. Anything more personal than 
that (blog, epinions, newsgroup posts, etc) probably won't be considered a 
"primary source."

The exclusive use of links from the BASFA site itself and the relative lack of 
Google results probably does suggest obscure by wiki standards. They usually 
want independent primary sources. 

It's possible defending the entry in the Talk page would be effective. We may 
also want to consider, instead, an article on the SF community in the Bay Area 
(including BASFA) with links to general press on such. 

Geo
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On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Adrienne Foster <ajfos...@pacbell.net> wrote:

> If it helps, I have mentioned BASFA in some of my postings at Epinions. If 
> they're sufficient, someone can add the links to the listing:
>  
> http://www.epinions.com/content_5472297092
>  
> http://www.epinions.com/content_5495496836
>  
>  
> Adrienne
> 
>  
> 
> From: Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com>
> To: basfa@lists.basfa.org
> Sent: Sat, February 26, 2011 3:10:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [Basfa] BASFA Wikipedia Listing Threatened
> 
> Quoting Lisa Deutsch Harrigan (l...@harrigan.org):
> 
> > Not sure where to put this in our wikipedia article, but File 770
> > has a brief article on us http://file770.com/?p=1668 . If nothing
> > else, it shows that someone thought we were worthy of a News Report.
> 
> What is needed is items that can be credibly maintained to be mentions
> in paper media.
> 
> Here is an SFGate.com citation of BASFA in a June 26, 2005 article by
> reporters Delfin Vigil and Michael Berry about Bay Area bookstores.
> It's somewhere between possible and likely that the articles.sfgate.com
> item reflects a contemporaneous article in the _S.F. Chronicle_, though
> I can't prove that.
> 
> http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-06-26/entertainment/17377296_1_fiction-sci-fi-science
> 
> It's a pity that the BASFA Web site hasn't kept links to articles that
> mention us, as I'm sure there have been a few; they're just challenging
> to find.  Our current archive for the mailing list goes back only to
> 2007.  I've searched the cumulative mbox file
> (http://lists.basfa.org/private.cgi/basfa-basfa.org.mbox/basfa-basfa.org.mbox),
> and it has plenty of mentions of magazine articles on a variety of
> things, but none about BASFA itself.
> 
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