Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saidu Medical College swat

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Tim Song (talk) 07:37, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Saidu Medical College swat[edit]

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School with only 50 students. No third-party references given or found. Not all schools are notable. Magioladitis (talk) 00:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I'm not familiar with the schools notability thang. This is a small school which has only just been recognised by the national governing body. May have notability due to the lack of medical schools in that region. pablo_hablo. 01:24, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. -- pablo_hablo. 01:24, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. -- pablo_hablo. 01:25, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. -- pablo_hablo. 01:25, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It is not worth fighting over the notability of accredited tertiary educational institutions. ^Bongo_matic 01:44, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Contrary to the nom's stipulation, the The News International is a third party reference and generally all accredited post-secondary education institutions are considered notable.--Oakshade (talk) 01:48, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep first, the nom didnt read the article carefully; It's grown to 93. Nor, as Oakshade just pointed out, did he look at the references. It's in a major city, and has a 500-bed hospital. It's been around for 9 years now. Second, size doesn't matter-- Princeton was founded with 10 students; its first graduating class had only 6. Third, it has long been established here that all institutions of higher education, including medical schools, are considered notable. If one goes by the GNG, all of them do turn out to have sources, though, --especially in countries like India, they tend to be i print and difficult to find. The rule is potentially sourceable, and they all are; we have one already. We need to avoid [[WP:Cultural bias] And,as Bongomatic said, we have more important things to do than debate questions like this. I was sourcing some unsourced BLPs when this article was challenged. I'm going back to it.. DGG ( talk ) 01:51, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note that I added the reference an hour after the nomination so it is a tad unfair to castigate the nominator for not reading it. pablo_hablo. 12:50, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 02:09, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - accredited medical college - move along there! TerriersFan (talk) 03:22, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, no sign it is a diploma mill (the only reason I've ever seen tertiary institutions get close to being deleted); in fact it seems to be a Pakistani gov't approved med school. Abductive (reasoning) 04:30, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - does not appear to be a diploma mill, and seems to be accredited by a legitimate body. Thus, it seems like the subject does pass notability guidelines. Cocytus [»talk«] 21:26, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note page needs moving to Saidu Medical College, Swat (or something) post AfD. Saidu Medical College is currently a redirect to what appears to be a separate establishment. pablo_hablo. 22:43, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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