Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American TESOL Institute

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. —Mets501 (talk) 04:17, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] American TESOL Institute

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Unable to find any evidence of notability despite searching. See Talk:American TESOL Institute for details A. B. (talk) 02:22, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete per nom. Most of the google hits are self-serving press releases and adverts. Fails WP:CORP. -- zzuuzz (talk) 02:42, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Appears to fail notability and certainly lacks reliable sources per WP:RS. EdJohnston 03:25, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete – besides the notability problems already listed, the pattern of edits by the primary contributors, Atesol (talk · contribs), 24.122.13.145 (talk · contribs) and 71.201.181.10 (talk · contribs) raise conflict of interest concerns. ✤ JonHarder talk 03:35, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:NOTE. While the TESOL certification is notable (and which is what this school trains students up for), this institute has not acheived notability yet. A Google search yields 908,000 results, but most of the results are for the TESOL certification itself. As a "non-deletionist", if anyone can point me to sources which prove notability, I will change my vote. Just write on my talk page. WatchingYouLikeAHawk 03:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. It is interesting that the person who's been updating American TESOL Institute never mentioned TESOL Inc., and it is not listed as a TESOL affiliate. --Alvestrand 05:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Non notable, rather new, agressively spamming, web-using, TESOL institute offering on-line courses to anyone with the money to qualify. Wikipedia should aggressively persuade them not to use Wikipedia for ads, until they become notable enough elsewhere for an article to be justified. KP Botany 02:33, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Notability not proven. WMMartin 15:13, 23 January 2007 (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.