Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ted Istanbul College


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The result was delete. Tone 12:34, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Ted Istanbul College

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I'd like input on anyone who speaks Turkish but my attempts to find sources that establish much notability have come up pretty empty (which I'm willing to concede may be a lack of google-fu as most of the articles I've found have been TED talks relating to Turkey, or schools in Turkey that aren't this one), and the article has been unsourced for a very long time. From what I see, this subject fails WP:SIGCOV he who am  are is myself  05:04, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  he who am  are is myself  05:04, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Turkey-related deletion discussions.  he who am  are is myself  05:04, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 07:10, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep - Searching for "TED Istanbul Koleji" brings up many, many GNews hits. Reading in machine translation (which, admittedly, is somewhat spotty) it appears to be a prominent college with a well-know sports-team. See, e.g., 1 2 3 4 5 6. At least the last reference is in English and appears to confer definitely notability, as do the others. WP:GNG met. FOARP (talk) 16:56, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don’t agree with FOARP that the sources they’ve highlighted support notability. They are either hyper local news (DostBeykoz), passing mentions or in the final case, a directory. Apart from this all I can turn up with more directories, more local news and other passing mentions. I don’t see anything that suggests this passes either WP:GNG or WP:ORG. Mccapra (talk) 06:03, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Lord Roem ~ (talk) 15:12, 20 November 2019 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment - WP:AUD doesn't apply to schools as it is part of WP:CORP which explicitly excludes non-profit educational institutions (which TED Istanbul appears to be). Therefore, it doesn't matter if the sources are local news. Directories are not excluded from being used as sources (an encyclopedia is, ultimately, a "directory" of sorts) so long as they are independent of the subject (e.g., they aren't pay-for-play) and so long as they actually give significant coverage (which this one does). FOARP (talk) 15:29, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, - Nahal (T) 09:23, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is what we in the United States call a high school. It's not automatically notable, and there is currently no evidence it's notable. Please ping me if you find good sources. Bearian (talk) 16:29, 3 December 2019 (UTC)


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