Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sylvan Learning


 * 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 speedy keep. Blame it on days of dealing with vanity prods. Orderinchaos 06:27, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Sylvan Learning

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Appears to fail WP:CORP, notability not asserted (the Unabomber and Youtube references seem an excuse rather than a reason for having this article) Orderinchaos 03:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is one of those where it ju-u-ust crosses the line on self-touted notability, if not merely straddles it, for simple reason of sheer exposure.  You look around, you'll find them.  The Unabomber mentioning them may be more trivia than anything.  This looks like something that can be kept and cleaned up though.  -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 03:53, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:CORP. This is a well-known company and there is no doubt in my mind that enough sources could be found to make this a good article. 12,500 Google News Archive hits ; over 1 million Google Web hits . --Metropolitan90 03:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and close per WP:CORP. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 03:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong keep, major corporate training provider, the only route to the dreaded MCSE, etc. --Dhartung | Talk 03:59, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep uh, listed on NASDAQ is an assertion of notability. --W.marsh 04:09, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment a debate about whether publically traded companies are automatically notable or not is in progress at Wikipedia talk:Notability (organizations_and_companies). (Though this probably doesn't have much bearing on this AfD, since notability aside from being listed on NASDAQ has also been established). Cheers, cab 06:17, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep, speedy close. The fact that it has many commercials on major TV channels, and high google hit, AND numerous center make it notable. George Leung 04:24, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep NASDAQ listing is enough for me. Maxamegalon2000 05:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep This is an after-school tutor that grosses $350M/yr. They are a major player.  It's hard to place them in the industry as their two biggest competitors are privately held (Kaplan and Kulmon) and have no financials available, but from what I can find they are the larges public company in this industry.  Someone please snowball this one.  --Selket Talk 05:59, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
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