Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Biblical Online Leadership Training

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. -- AllyUnion (talk) 12:11, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

International Biblical Online Leadership Training
Seems like a vanity article, the place doesn't even offer their own courses, they re-sell other college's courses. Spinboy 04:37, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It was created under inauspicious circumstances, at "Internatonal" Biblical Online Leadership Training (!), and I noticed it after the creator salted an entirely inappropriate wikilink at distance education. However, it checked out as legitimate and notable and I wrote out the adspeak and added what little I quickly picked up. They appear to offer not Vanguard courses, but their own courses for credit through Vanguard. The limited set, in Canada, of small quasi-universities that teach towards a larger uni's post-secondary degree are all absolutely notable. That it's new and, rarely for Canada, private, religious and distance learning makes it more notable. I'd like to dig again and take part in expanding this article over time. Keep. Samaritan 04:59, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Btw Spinboy, you added to the article that they are "for-profit". In the Canadian context, that would add even more notability, but I can't confirm it elsewhere. (.com means nothing, and "Inc." is a corporate title for non-profits too.) Samaritan 05:05, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * There's nothing to say it's not-for-profit either. Spinboy 05:53, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That's not enough to write "for-profit" in an encyclopedia; I reverted it, but it would be interesting to follow up on. If it had an article to go in. :) Samaritan 06:00, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. No evidence of notability, and it probably isn't.  How many Vanguard graduates have these courses on their transcripts?   For that matter, how notable is Vanguard?   The fact that it is "for-profit" in Canada makes it exceptional, not notable.  --BM 15:34, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * At the very least, the information should merge/redirect to Vanguard College, but at this moment that's one of the last post-secondary institutions in Canada that hasn't been created. Samaritan 17:39, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Then delete it, and re-direct it if that article is ever created. Spinboy 21:52, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article provides no evidence of encyclopedic content and given that, it's an ad for some sort of hybrid religious correspondence course. Unhelpful. Wyss 22:05, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article does not establish notability, advertisement. Megan1967 02:30, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Whether it is for-profit or not-for-profit makes no difference. It is blatantly an ad, and the company lacks any notability beyond the fact of it's existence.  If they sold rice-crackers, would we be debating this?  HowardB 09:06, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, spam. Edeans 05:25, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- AllyUnion (talk) 05:29, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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