Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kirinyaga University


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The result was keep. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 06:47, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Kirinyaga University

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I understand schools get some sort of "free pass" for notability, but this just doesn't seem sufficient enough to have it's own page. I could not locate any third-party sources for verification of notability. Per WP:NCORP it should be deleted. Comatmebro User talk:Comatmebro 22:20, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep Well it is not just a school, it is a full blown university with several faculties including, health, IT, economics and others. It looks quite professional when I look at their homepage. According to WP:NSCHOOL and especially WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES notability is assumed when the existence for the institution can be assured by RS. A google search reveals that this university definitely exists as it is mentioned quite frequently in English speaking Kenyan media. Examples are here: 1, 2 or 3 all of them nationwide Kenyan newspapers. There are hundreds of articles which confirms that this university exists and operates in English media alone. There is a Researchgate page with them with some publications and people here. Google scholar gives 92 results with publications which seem to be associated with a person from this university. They apparently were renamed and had the name Kirinyaga University College before (and before that Kirinyaga Technical institute). Looking for that gives quite some more sources too. Schools and especially universities dont get a free pass, but we assume notability because further coverage exists very likely; in that case probably offline as well as in non-English sources. Since this is a fully functioning and sizeable university I think the article should be kept per the aforementioned SNGs. The fact that the current article is a stub doesnt matter in AFD. Dead Mary (talk) 23:23, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I tidied the article up and expanded it a bit with more infos and some sources. It is still a stub but has a little bit of actual content and some third party sources now. Dead Mary (talk) 16:17, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. North America1000 06:39, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Kenya-related deletion discussions. North America1000 06:39, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 04:12, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep as a university per longstanding precedent and consensus. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:57, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep its a university. It exists. It is notable. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:38, 17 November 2016 (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.