Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Knightsbridge University
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Knightsbridge University was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete
[edit] Knightsbridge University
Seems to be a diploma mill.[1][2] We have precedence from VfD that notorious diploma mills may be encyclopedic (see Kennedy-Western University and American World University), but I guess they should be described as such. Notability in these cases can be based, for instance, on the size of their business (based on the US Congress hearings and other online sources, some appear to be extremely profitable businesses) or on their indirect involvement in fake-degree scandals.
I don't feel like rewriting the article or doing the research needed, but I think it ought to be demonstrated that a diploma mill has this kind of notability for it to stay on WP. At present this is advertisement. Please note that the author behind this article is also the author of Adam Smith University and has contributed to no other articles. / Tupsharru
- Delete: Advertising, POV, and a diploma mill with no notability. Geogre 15:24, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Advertising. Not notable. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 15:35, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- It's trolling, POV, Wikispam and not notable. Delete. Wyllium 16:37, 2004 Nov 28 (UTC)
- What is POV is letting the Oregon Student Assistance Commission determine which schools to include in Wikipedia and which to delete. anthony 警告 13:21, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Delete: nonnotable, advert. Wile E. Heresiarch 17:15, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- I voted keep on Adam Smith University, but this one looks like it's just spam. Either despam it, or delete it. --Idont Havaname 18:27, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Diploma mill without notability (which I would count as in the news because of celebrity credentialism or being under indictment) --Calton 20:29, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. To me this seems like a non-notable diploma mill unilke the notable diploma mill belov (where I voted keep). Both articles were advertising and were created by the same person but the Adam Mill article is now pretty much NPOV now. Jeltz 22:30, 2004 Nov 28 (UTC)
- Comment: I can't be bothered doing any research but I don't like the article is not "reasoning" but a blind statement of prejudice. No vote. Dr Zen 00:48, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Troll. / Tupsharru 06:23, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Are you announcing yourself or just making a personal attack? If the former, I apologise to the other readers of this page for having bitten. If the latter, I welcome your comment, because as I've explained before it generally describes an inability on the part of my correspondent to begin to discuss the point I've raised, let alone show it to be wrong. Dr Zen 09:40, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- It was a comment on your behaviour. You are welcome to contribute to the issue at hand, which is whether this particular wikipedia-spamming fraud operation is more significant than a million others. So far, you haven't done so. Instead you accused me of basing the VfD-nomination on "prejudice". / Tupsharru 14:43, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- The latter then. You said yourself that you were not basing it on any research. What does that leave? Dr Zen 01:50, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- You paraphrase me incorrectly. Could you please explain exactly what you claim is based on prejudice? Do you find the evidence that "Knightsbridge University" is a diploma mill insufficient? / Tupsharru 13:57, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- The latter then. You said yourself that you were not basing it on any research. What does that leave? Dr Zen 01:50, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- It was a comment on your behaviour. You are welcome to contribute to the issue at hand, which is whether this particular wikipedia-spamming fraud operation is more significant than a million others. So far, you haven't done so. Instead you accused me of basing the VfD-nomination on "prejudice". / Tupsharru 14:43, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Are you announcing yourself or just making a personal attack? If the former, I apologise to the other readers of this page for having bitten. If the latter, I welcome your comment, because as I've explained before it generally describes an inability on the part of my correspondent to begin to discuss the point I've raised, let alone show it to be wrong. Dr Zen 09:40, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Troll. / Tupsharru 06:23, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Not notable. --Improv 07:00, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Marginal delete. --[[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 20:47, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. Diploma mill. anthony 警告 22:53, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Keep, but NPOV. Intrigue 23:32, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Gamaliel 18:36, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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