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Inclusion criteria[edit]

Until we can come up with some other criteria for inclusion in this list, the criteria should be only think tanks that already have their own Wikipedia articles. --Ronz (talk) 17:14, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

[Above comment copied from non-UK list.]

That is such a good point - we should be limiting entries to those which satisfy the Wikipedia:Write the Article First guideline. I am sorely tempted to wp:Be Bold (unless some other editor beats me to it!), and delete all the wp:redlinks here - do others agree? If others object, please say so here. Thanks, Trafford09 (talk) 10:29, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And, after all, people can start the actual articles for think tanks that they really think are notable, once they haver found wp:reliable sources for the organisation concerned.

E.g., to find sources for YourThinkTank, one can use the template {{Find sources|YourThinkTank}} ,

which gives Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL.

Then, if sufficiently good sources are found, one can write the article, then - and only then! - one can add the organisation to this List.

That way, we'll just have reliable blue links, not unproven red links. Trafford09 (talk) 22:18, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]