Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UNSW Business Information Technology


 * 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   delete. Cirt (talk) 08:05, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

UNSW Business Information Technology

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Articles on a single degree at a university are practically unheard of and would require clear notability. Despite being given a year to improve, this article is still referenced entirely to primary sources and has no indication of outside notability at all. At best, it seems like it could merit a sentence in an article on the wider program article at UNSW. (Consider that The Australian School of Business, UNSW's business branch, doesn't even have subarticles for each of its schools, let alone degrees within those programs!)

I've redirected the article twice now and been reverted by User:Jaguanna (in good faith, of course). Jaguanna notes on the talk page:


 * Because Business Information Technology is not a well known degree, yet the industry requires graduates in this field at growing rates, they have requested we provide this page for visibility. Thank you for your concern.

But this is exactly the opposite of how Wikipedia works. Wikipedia is for topics which have *already gained* visibility, which Wikipedia then reports on. It is not for every up-and-comer. As it stands, this article violates "Wikipedia is not a free webhost" is in the WP:What Wikipedia is not guidelines, as it's pretty much an extra homepage for the program. SnowFire (talk) 15:27, 19 June 2009 (UTC) would it be better if a general Business information Technology article is provided? I'm not trying to be a thorn in someones foot here.sometimes the world falls apart, then it&#39;s time for you to turn into glue. (talk) 10:45, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 18:39, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions.  —Orderinchaos 20:03, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete they have requested we provide this page for visibility we don't create articles because WP:ILIKEIT or WP:ITSUSEFUL, they must meet WP:N, this does not. LibStar (talk) 14:46, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Libstar. The article also makes some completely false claims - I hold such a degree (from a different institution) and it has such poor employment prospects due to nobody actually knowing or understanding what it is (it's neither a Business degree nor an IT degree and is big on generalities, low on skills) that I have had to restart my career in a different field. Orderinchaos 20:02, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'd normally go with re-direct to the schools article, but if they want to monkey with the redirect...I guess we could consider a protected re-direct. Niteshift36 (talk) 21:32, 20 June 2009 (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.