Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The National College of Legal Training

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The result was merge to University of the West of England. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 16:47, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The National College of Legal Training[edit]

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New training college started several months ago, no evidence of notability. Article reads like an ad. Speedy was declined. Dmol (talk) 21:35, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - too new to verify or show notability. Bearian'sBooties 14:50, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 17:21, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:22, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to University of the West of England or possibly Bristol Law School. I agree that the current article reads mainly as an advert, but it does include a few sources and they do appear to substantiate that this is a "associate college" of an existing, large university. Mention of this new venture could be appropriately added to the UWE article or to the subarticle about the law school (although the latter article is currently lacking references other than the law school's own website). --Arxiloxos (talk) 18:07, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or Merge. Very rare for an organisation to be notable only seven months after coming into being, and this looks like no exception. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 18:41, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - accredited post-graduate institution. Notability comes from the level of teaching not length of time it has existed. TerriersFan (talk) 01:53, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:25, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The problem with the argument of NCLT being an "accredited post-graduate institution" is that I can't find anything that states it is an accredited institution in its own right. Rather, it appears to be a location for a remote teaching course accredited by the University of the West of England. I don't think we should automatically assume any centre of this nature is automatically notable, because single-course centres pop up all the time and some die a few years later (that happened to my masters). So I fell back on the general notability guideline and found one hit on GNews. This may well achieve notability over time, but I don't think it's there yet. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 08:24, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge somehow, if possible. This difficulty is that this is apparently a joint venture. And, who has accredited it? Perhaps University of the West of England needs a section "accredited offshoots". Peterkingiron (talk) 14:56, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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