Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Assistant teacher programme of the Educational Exchange Service (2nd nomination)


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The result was   keep. But rename to Foreign Language Assistant per PWilkinson. The program doesn't seem notable, but the concept of a foreign language assistant is. henrik • talk  11:00, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Assistant teacher programme of the Educational Exchange Service
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I don't think this programme passes the general notability guideline. I have searched for sources both in English and German, and come up with nothing of substance (although my German is admittedly very patchy). Also, as the title is very long, it doesn't seem like a plausible redirect. —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 13:51, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 19:50, 22 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - after seven years, I think we can safely delete this. There are no reliable sources that I could find.  I'll change my mind if someone finds something decent. Bearian (talk) 19:45, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Stifle (talk) 16:54, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,   A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 18:44, 6 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete, I find nothing but Wikipedia mirrors. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 19:46, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - I can't see this part of this program being notable; it strikes me as being in the vein of an article on "Teachers Aides in Brooklyn" or "Assistant conductors for CSX". Using it as an example in the "assistant teacher" article might be valid, but the article just doesn't seem to have a clear reason for existing in its own right.Tyrenon (talk) 19:47, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Unlike some of the imaginary couterexamples used, this is a national program, not one limited to Brooklyn, officially sponsored by the Pädagogischer Austauschdienstsponsored, a major German government agency, not a single railroad --that doesn't have conductors actually, since it just runs freight trains. Anything can be made to look silly by saying it's the same as fanciful silly parallels. saying this is just an example of "assistant teacher" shows a failure to read the article--it's being used in a special sense. It does need some more sourcing.  DGG ( talk ) 06:14, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree that the programme does not look as trivial as the Brooklyn or CSX examples. The problem was that, try as I might, I could not find any sources about it. Does anyone know when this programme was founded? There could be sources offline that I missed if it's reasonably old. If not, it might just be one of those cases of "bias in the real world". (I'm sure there was an essay about that somewhere.) —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 13:22, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep, but move to Foreign Language Assistant, which currently redirects to this article and does have easily findable sources - . The article as it stands at the moment is too much geared towards the agency responsible for the German side of such schemes (a corresponding role for Great Britain, for example, is taken by the British Council), but correcting that is simply an editing matter (and a smallish one at that). PWilkinson (talk) 20:06, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - I agree with User:Mr. Stradivarius, this article fails WP:GNG. The article itself has been around for ages, and less than 15% of its very few contributions came after 2008. SaveATreeEatAVegan 05:03, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
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