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Your submission at Articles for creation: Groupement Ampère (March 27)

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The reviewer, Ldm1954, left the following feedback:

This draft's references do not show that the subject meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion for organizations and companies. The draft requires multiple published secondary sources that:

• provide significant coverage: discuss the subject in detail, excluding routine coverage like product launches, staff appointments, or financial reports and listings in databases or listicles;
• are reliable: from reputable outlets with editorial oversight;
• are independent: not connected to the subject, such as press releases, the subject's own website, or sponsored content.

Please add references that meet all three of these criteria. If none exist, the subject is not yet suitable for Wikipedia.

The organization may be notable, but at the moment there are two major ptoblems:

1. There is no information on the number of members. This would need to be in the thousands for it to be considered a major society. I also cannot find this information in a quick search.

2. We need independent sources, WP:42, those of the society itself do not count. There should be at least 3 and they need to provide details, not just a sentence or two mention.

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Ldm1954 (talk) 13:41, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the review. I have revised the draft to address both points.

First, I added membership information in a neutral way without creating a separate "notability" or "defence" section. Groupement Ampère does not appear to publish a single official aggregate membership total. However, the added sources say about the membership model: the society has regular members and members from conference participation. The cited 2017 bulletin states that membership income was roughly half regular membership fees and half conference-attendance membership fees. It also reports that EUROMAR had about 600-700 participants. Since the regular membership component was of similar size, the available figures suggest several hundred regular members in addition to several hundred conference-associated members. However, as there are no official numbers, I kept the article phrasing conservative.

Second, I added more external sources. The most important addition is Roberto Lalli's article on the foundation of the European Physical Society, which discusses Groupement Ampère as a successful international association of magnetic-resonance specialists and notes that it a role model in debates over the structure of the European Physical Society. I also added the Annales de Physique article on Alfred Kastler and the development of Groupement Ampère, plus independent institutional sources from MIT and EPFL for the society's awards. EPRlabeler (talk) 16:56, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, EPRlabeler! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Ldm1954 (talk) 13:41, 27 March 2026 (UTC)