Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Indus University


 * 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 Keep. (non-admin closure) Anbu121  ( talk me ) 06:20, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Indus University

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unknown private university, lacks notabality criteria of WIKI Shrikanthv (talk) 08:27, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Delete: Dubious accreditation at best. Looks like a diploma mill to me. ''' Oh No! It's Faustus37! ''' it is what it is - speak at the tone 08:46, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Per Milowent's good work.  Oh No! It's Faustus37!  it is what it is - speak at the tone 03:27, 8 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep It is not unknown university as claimed by nominator. Shyamsunder (talk) 09:46, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Can you provide any evidence to support that statement? Simply asserting it without providing reliable sources does nothing to establish notability. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:09, 7 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - Schools fall under WP:ORG, which this one fails. - SudoGhost 11:21, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Striking delete and changing to keep per sources that were found. - SudoGhost 00:49, 12 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete The article provides no sources, so I tried searching. I checked every one of first seventy Google hits for "Indus University". Many of the hits related to another university of the same name in Karachi. Of the hits which did refer to the subject of this Wikipedia article, the substantial majority were pages on the subject's own web site, using several domain names (e.g. www.indusuniversity.in, iate.indusuniversity.in, iite.indusuniversity.in). All of the other hits were Facebook, Wikipedia, Linkedin, Twitter, and possibly YouTube (I didn't check which "Indus University" the YouTube videos are about). I have found absolutely no coverage of any sort whatever in any reliable independent source anywhere. This is not the sort of result that one would expect for a notable university. (I also found no evidence that the other "Indus University" is notable either. I mention this just in case anyone may think of rewriting the article to refer to that one, rather than deleting it or keeping it in its present form.) JamesBWatson (talk) 12:09, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep: I added two sources already to mainstream high-circulation Indian newspapers, it recently changed its name and got official university status under Indian law.  I immediately suspected there was a name change, because I could tell it has a substantial physical plant and student population, and that's how I started to find sources.  Its certainly at least as notable as a typical American high school.--Milowent • hasspoken  14:14, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep per the investigative work of Milowent. Carrite (talk) 18:07, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep: agree that original version merited deletion, but new refs show it easily passes the bar of notability. Hairhorn (talk) 21:49, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:03, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:03, 12 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep - verified degree-awarding institution. TerriersFan (talk) 02:26, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. If it has university status then it's certainly notable. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:53, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
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