Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American University of Asia


 * 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. -- RoySmith (talk) 03:43, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

American University of Asia

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Reason: mysterious article - even location is not mentioned —Loginnigol (talk) 12:43, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.  Musa  Talk  13:00, 28 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. I've gone ahead and speedied it on that basis, too. It's a something somewhere that serves as a board of trustee member somewhere else, except that individuals sit on boards, not organizations. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 13:24, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Oddly, I've found at least one academic who claims to have worked at the American University in Asia in Sri Lanka. But I can't find anything else about it, so assume it was a short-lived effort (if it existed at all). JMWt (talk) 17:04, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:19, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Asia-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:19, 28 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment. The problems in the article noted by the nominator seem to have been introduced during some surprisingly incompetent cleanup by a long-standing editor who, however, is not currently editing Wikipedia. Participants are advised to look at this version, which precedes the botched but largely justifiable cleanup - but whose rather different problems could probably themselves have justified being brought here. (Note that the Institute of Technological Studies, mentioned in that version, has its own Wikipedia article which, however, does not mention the American University of Asia.) PWilkinson (talk) 21:43, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Good point. I've restored that version. If we're going to delete it, it may as well be judged by its most complete version. Very poor 'clean up' work indeed. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:51, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment I have found some old articles from Sri Lankan media which suggest there was a problem with acceptance of qualifications awarded by the American University of Asia in Sri Lanka (in the sense that they were not accepted abroad) - the campus in Shajah seems to now be the American_University_of_Sharjah and there is an American College of Sri Lanka - although those could just be a similarly named institutions. I've not been able to establish with any secondary sources that the American University of Asia currently exists. JMWt (talk) 09:11, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Unless someone can find better secondary sources, I'm going to say delete on that basis. The page certainly does not seem to serve any real purpose as it is and there is no prospect of improvement without access to secondary sources. JMWt (talk) 09:15, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete - First Stable Version HERE from 2006 indicates that this entity is not a University at all, but "serves as a board of trustees" for two other educational establishments in other countries. No location mentioned. Let's just call this a big GNG failure and move along. Carrite (talk) 15:47, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
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