Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Certified Supply Chain Professional

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 merge to Supply_chain_management#Certification. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:06, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Certified Supply Chain Professional

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This doesn't appear to be a thing so much as a cluster of buzzwords that people have randomly strung together a few times. Only 255 unique Google hits, and the few hits on Google Books do not elucidate the term. The books sources already in the article are mostly repeats of each other, too. I honestly can't understand a word of this because it's so thickly layered in buzzwords and jargon. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 15:04, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. -IagoQnsi (talk) 22:45, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:25, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Management-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:25, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Searching for "Supply Chain Professional" certification gets 212 hits on Gscholar, 734 hits on GBooks and 699,000 results on Google web. Supply chain management is a big part of manufacturing and distribution in business. Beyond hit counts, there university programs leading to certification, such as at Rutgers business school and the URI college of business administration and some coverage of certification in books like Next Level Supply Management Excellence and Guide to Supply Chain Management by the Economist Staff. It looks like a notable topic to me. The article itself looks like a fork of Supply chain management#Certification. I can see where the article would be opaque to those learning this information for the first time. The article could be written in less jargon-laden and less promotional language. There is likely some synthesis and OR in the big table of certification programs and topics. But it seems sensible enough to me and improving the prose and table is a surmountable problem, per WP:SURMOUNTABLE. A notable topic and surmountable article problems suggests keeping the article. --Mark viking (talk) 00:51, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Mark viking: So are you gonna surmount it, or just pass the buck? Because that second option is so successful. It's why we have unsourced and crappy articles dating back to the Stone Age around here. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:11, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@TenPoundHammer: Done. I took a quick pass through it, adding some citations, removing promotional material, and simplifying the prose. I removed the table, but kept the list of topics as verifiable. More could be done; I encourage you to join in. --Mark viking (talk) 22:10, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@TenPoundHammer: Please note that WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP. Also, thank you for your suggestion. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the edit this page link at the top. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:48, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the rationale of User:Mark viking above, with a significant possibility of a merge to Supply chain management - Certification. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:44, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:24, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:23, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

merge and redirect to Supply_chain_management#Certification. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:51, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Supply_chain_management#Certification to avoid giving readers the impression that "Certified Supply Chain Professional" is a proper term. Abductive (reasoning) 16:56, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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.