Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christian Colleges

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 keep. (non-admin closure) czar · · 01:40, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Christian Colleges[edit]

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Article seems to be, for all intents and purposes, original research, and thus is contrary to Wikipedia policy. The sources cited do not support either (1) the article's assertion that "Christian colleges" is a defined category of educational institution or (2) the descriptions of the specific characteristics attributed to this type of institution. Please note that the problem with this article is not a lack of notability (I recognize the existence of "Christian colleges" and I think the topic of Christian approaches to higher education is notable), but rather that the article content does not appear to be based on previously published content -- it looks like unpublished analysis by the contributors. Orlady (talk) 05:01, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Orlady (talk) 05:15, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. Orlady (talk) 05:15, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Sorry, but I see nothing in particular there to substantiate the deletion nomination rationale. The statements there are much more common knowledge--at least to those who know Christian colleges--than they are OR. Jclemens (talk) 05:38, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep See the very narrow subject search I did in Worldcat for the about 1000 English language books that could be used as sources. DGG ( talk ) 17:33, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there are myriad individual "Christian colleges" out there, and documented in your search results. I've edited and even created articles about many of them (not to mention my long-ago work on Bible college). What's not clear is whether the generic concept of a "Christian college" that is presented in this article is based on published sources. The URLs cited in the article probably no longer point to the desired destination pages. Digging around on the websites that are linked, I infer that the real operative definition of "Christian colleges" might be colleges that are members of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, since one of the refs is a dead url on that organization's website and another one is an uninformative page on the website of a college that promotes its ranking as one of the most affordable colleges in that organization. --Orlady (talk) 18:24, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 15:53, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

~~Weak~~ Keep This article definitely could use more work and it does contain statements that (while maybe common sense, they aren't self-evident to the point of something like the sky being blue) still need references. But this is a notable topic as shown by the Worldcat search done by DGG and it is salvageable. Transcendence (talk) 19:54, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Encyclopedic concept, a concrete thing. This would probably be better handled in the form of a list, such as List of Christian colleges, but that is an editing matter. Carrite (talk) 15:36, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Move to Christian college. At least in the United States, Christian colleges as described in this article are a distinctive subset among colleges and universities. This is a meaningful concept even if this article does not cover the topic adequately. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:34, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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