Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Regent International University

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 06:53, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regent International University

I'm not sure if this online unaccredited university is ever going to be able to pass notability standards. There are also no sources to corroborate this information in the article, making it unverifiable. Slightly spammy as well. ColourBurst 03:01, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

• Commment The Guardian recently mentioned it in an article on questionable honorary degrees, stating it will provide one for a minimum honorarium of $299. Added to article. Not sure if this mention is enough to create notability. Otherwise appears to be non-notable. --Shirahadasha 04:39, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: we have a more or less long-standing practice of keeping articles on better-known diploma mills, or at least make them redirect to some other article, because they have a tendency to fly in under the radar anyway. It is very difficult to tell a stub on one of these mills apart from a stub on one of the thousands of obscure but legitimate colleges in the English-speaking world (and the U.S. in particular). Not spotting and editing it will risk legitimizing the school, as we often get Google hits for our Wikipedia articles on diploma mills on the first page, along with the "official" pages. For that same reason, it can be valuable consumer information if we have an article clearly stating that the school is unaccredited and linking to press coverage or official pages documenting this. As many of these individual online "universities" are just fronts for one and the same business, we should, whenever possible, try to consolidate these articles. User:Arbustoo did a lot of good work on doing that a few months back, see Saint Regis University for an article that treats several infamous diploma mills on one page, based on secondary sources showing a connection. up+l+and 08:08, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete company registered in the British Virgin Islands that advertises on eBay and seems to have no physical presence . Not even notable as a scam - 20 distinct Ghits. Dlyons493 Talk 08:18, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete fails to cite adequate third party sources - a passing mention in the Guardian article just doesn't cut it. WilyD 12:55, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as WP:VSCA --Dennette 04:34, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as above. Nickieee 00:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Arbusto 20:46, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.