Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/College of the Holy Spirit of Rosario


 * 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.  bibliomaniac 1  5  03:58, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

College of the Holy Spirit of Rosario

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This article is about a fake university, or at least an organization that does not seem to be an educational institution of tertiary or any other level.

This is not an officially recognised university in Uruguay, neither an officially recognized "universitary institute" (lower category of tertiary universitary institutions with lesser academic offer), and also is not a tertiary non-universitary recognized institution.

It does not seem to be a former University since I could not find any past reliable references about this. The claim of that this institution was founded in 1970 is not what the cited source said. Moreover, is worth to say that the private universitary institutions began to open in 1984 with Catholic University of Uruguay (that reopened since its closure as an organization with tertiary grades in late 19th century), and before this year of 1984 the only university in the country was the public University of the Republic (ORT Uruguay was established as an organization in 1940s, but recognized as University in 1990s).

An older version of the website https://web.archive.org/web/20150215070136/http://www.cdes.edu.uy/ states that it was at that time registered at the Civil Associations and Foundations Registry of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay, but this does not mean it was an university, furthermore it cannot be taken as a proof unless a non-affiliated source would be provided.

The older (archived) website stated it was based in "Avda Artigas 673, Juan Lacaze, Colonia, Uruguay", but the newer (archived) website "Zorrilla de San Martin 526, Rosario, Colonia, Uruguay". Both mentions religious activities led by "Daniel Esteban Odin". The current version of the website does not even say anything about activities in Uruguay at all, just links websites of its affiliated organizations in countries in Central America. The current version of the website seems to be usurped by another (unrelated) alleged organization (that could be linked to an US based organization), that in appearance is different of what it looked like and it is poorly designed with tons of plain links.

Searches in Google Maps street view did not reveal the location of the headquarters and its building, not in the claimed one in Juan Lacaze city neither the claimed one in Rosario city.

The article says "It was the only private university in the state of Colonia, Uruguay Country for 11 years until 2007.", and it is clear that who wrote the article does not know enough about Uruguay, because first level administrative division of the country are "departments", not "states". And is also worth to know that it claims to have around 10,000 students (in a city with a population of 10,085 inhabitants in 2011; the department of Colonia where the city is part of has 123,203 inhabitants), while properly established and well know private Uruguayan universities have 5,000~10,000 students and the main public university has 100,000 students.

I could research more, but I think this is enough to consider the deletion of this article. I would like to add that since Wikipedia started to spread this false information in internet a circular reference began to spread in https://academicinfluence.com/schools/28220974/College-of-the-Holy-Spirit-of-Rosario/.

Precedent: it seems to be related to Articles for deletion/International Handbook of Universities and the hoax spreaded by the author of the article,. There even mentions "Prof.+Daniel+Odin+(Ph.D.)" in a linked website. Onwa (talk) 20:14, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:22, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:22, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Uruguay-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:22, 8 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Its author was not notified due to being indefinitely blocked. --Onwa (talk) 21:10, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:V and WP:HOAX. I tried four different searches, from Google to scholar, and found nothing at all except a single Wiki mirror. Bearian (talk) 01:46, 15 April 2020 (UTC)


 * 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.