Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Biscayne Southern College


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The result was keep. Nakon 02:03, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Biscayne Southern College

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Unreferenced, biased, and not well-written stub. Its maintenance tags have been removed at least once and its External Links section says it all. Fritzmann2002 13:11, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Ordinarily a 90-year-old degree-granting college would be a slam dunk for notability, assuming we can verify the claims in the article. So far, the usual online searches haven't turned up much for me. I've found one 1974 newspaper article reporting on this school buying out another business college to create a third branch location, along with a number of obituaries for people who attended this school.  So we can conclude, at least, that it was a real school.  It would certainly be nice to find more. One of the currently cited sources is an apparent copy of a 2005 Associated Press article, and if this could be confirmed as real, it would pretty much settle the notability question, but the cited website is questionable.  --Arxiloxos (talk) 18:58, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Arxiloxos, that alleged 2005 AP article does seem sketchy. The image "bsc.jpg" is actually from Antioch College, and no business college would have ever had a physical plant like that on its own.  Also I can't find any other AP articles under the byline "Mark Syczmanski".  I am going to remove the current article text about social activism in the 1960s.  The college definitely existed, but that "article" sounds like someone was having fun.--Milowent • hasspoken  19:50, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:50, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:50, 4 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep as a degree-granting institution per longstanding consensus and precedent. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:50, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep: It definitely needs work, but it is most likely notable. For most of its life it was probably only a business college, but those were usually notable in their day (as writing Lincoln Business College awhile back taught me).  Frankly, the amount of online newspaper archives available for this location (North Carolina) appear to be really poor, I really hope someone there can help with archive access.--Milowent • hasspoken  19:35, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep and I nearly closed it myself, this is enough to keep. SwisterTwister   talk  22:46, 9 May 2016 (UTC)


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