Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bryson University


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The result was   delete. Big Dom  09:10, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Bryson University

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Unreferenced article on a non-notable degree mill. Claims to be a "National Accredited University by NPSAA", but there's no NPSAA on the US govt list of recognized regional and national institutional accreditation agencies or specialist accrediting agencies. I'm guessing that "NPSAA" refers to National Private Schools Accreditation Alliance, whose confidence-inspiring motto is "We warmly welcome you as you are". There's zero coverage online of any "Bryson University" from WP:Reliable sources. The first draft claimed affiliation with Cornell and Wake Forest University: this claim has since been withdrawn. Gurt Posh (talk) 08:57, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Non notable degree mill.  All genuinely  accredited universities appear on  government  lists of recognised colleges, published online. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:50, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment. I'm not even sure the NPSAA referred to in the nom is the one which supposedly accredits this university. The National Private Schools Accreditation Alliance doesn't purport to accredit universities. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:55, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Bryson University  is not  approved for operation  in the state of Mississippi, and doubtless it  appears on  other state lists too. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:08, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
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 * Note: Article has been semi protected from  persistent  removal  of AfD notice and maintenance templates. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:01, 2 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete Appears to be a non-notable degree mill. --Pstanton (talk) 03:11, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per lack of third party sources. I didn't find any results in both a Google and Yahoo search. SwisterTwister   talk  05:47, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
 * delete I always feel a little bad about deleting articles about degree mills, because when we do, the top hits for Google are almost always then their own, highly deceptive websites. However, we're lacking sources and this clearly faills WP:N. So there's not much for us to do. JoshuaZ (talk) 22:21, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
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