Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/21st Century Education


 * 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. No prejudice to recreation. The topic is probably notable, but I don't see anything in the current article worth saving. Shimeru (talk) 18:48, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

21st Century Education

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Unreferenced essay that appears to be one part explanation of a possible neologism, one part promotion of an organization of an Australian millionaire whose article is also under AfD, and no parts demonstration of meeting WP:CORP. Note that the originating editor is User:21stCenturyEducation. B.Wind (talk) 14:24, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. "Unreferenced essay" pretty much sums it up. — Rankiri (talk) 14:56, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete lacking encyclopaedic value or external refs. AllyD (talk) 15:29, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:09, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep &  expand, changing title to 21st Century education.  Not a good article at present, but a suitably encyclopedic topic. Check the hundreds of extremely relevant hits in GNews, books, and scholar. There is even a reference books with the exact title from a fairly respectable publisher. 21st century education : a reference handbook by 	Thomas L Good,  SAGE Publications, 2008.  That this  started out s a promotional article for a company is irrelevant. Indeed, we can best prevent the promotional use of it by having a real article here.  DGG ( talk ) 19:37, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * If we go in this direction (and I can't see why not), wouldn't it be better to start from scratch and delete the history? B.Wind (talk) 19:41, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep A google search bears out the article's claim that this term is widely used in the media and that it's the subject of plenty of books  as well.  Weak keep, because it's not sourced and it is in essay form, but if someone wants to fix that (I don't) I'd say keep.  And if it isn't fixed, deletion without prejudice to recreating would be fine as well.  The topic is notable, the execution is poor. Mandsford (talk) 00:26, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Notability isn't everything. If we remove all WP:NOT content, the article will qualify for WP:A3. — Rankiri (talk) 00:36, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  00:44, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Around here, notability isn't everything, it's the only thing. However, you're right, the only source is a website for a non-notable organization that calls itself "P21" and purports to be promoting "21st century skills", so I agree Delete.  It's like clicking on an article about breathing and getting an ad for Mentos.  Mandsford (talk) 01:14, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Repurpose, expand and move to Education in the 21st century. DGG is right in that it could be a notable topic if done properly, but the current title doesn't seem right to me. If we are going to repurpose and expand it then it should be under a more appropriate name with the current one as a redirect. Alzarian16 (talk) 14:26, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

I am new to using Wikipedia. I just did a search for 21st century schools, then 21st century education, and found this page. It doesn't have much on it. I believe that I could add to it. I have an article online (at my web site) entitled "What is 21st century education?". I would like your opinion as to whether something like that would be appropriate to post. The article was printed in an Australian teachers' journal, Ethos, in Australia last year. And it is also being printed in a German textbook in September of 2010. Please contact me at Director@21stCenturySchools.com The article is online at www.21stCenturySchools.com/What_is_21st_Century_Education.htm

Thank you.
 * 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.