Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Higher education accreditation

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The result was Withdrawn per WP:SNOW. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 03:42, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Higher education accreditation

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Deprodded as "an important topic that needs to be addressed, not deleted or ignored". Almost none of the sources in the article actually use the term "higher education accreditation", and a search on GBooks and GScholar turned up only false positives. Definite WP:OR, WP:SYNTH, possible WP:FRINGE. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 05:47, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep This is an indisputably notable topic. I fear that the nominator has made one or more mistakes in their search for sources because they are legion. When I search Google Scholar for "higher education accreditation," for example, I get over 15,000 hits and I'm not seeing any false positives in the first several pages of results. I even get results on just the very first page that discuss higher education accreditation in multiple countries e.g., the U.S., Philippines, Saudi Arabia. The article is in pretty poor shape and I have no objections to someone taking a hatchet to it to begin to force it into shape. But it's completely untrue that this is original research, synthesis, or fringe. ElKevbo (talk) 06:02, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Higher education accreditation is something dealt with in multiple articles including the 6 regional accrediation organizations in the US.Naraht (talk) 06:14, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, strongly. We have 30+ pages in Category:Higher education accreditation, most of which are notable in their own right. The general topic is certainly notable. I'd suggest the nominator consider withdrawing this. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:49, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 07:58, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Looking at the several links, including GBooks, the nomination statement is contrary to reality. -- Alanscottwalker (talk) 13:05, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: This is a notable (not to mention important) topic. Even when I badly misspell all of the words to see if that explains the nominator's lack of results, I get 103 million results on Google,772 thousand results in Google Scholar, and page after page of results in Google Books. Yes, the article is long and somewhat disjointed, but that is due to the fact that nearly every nation in the world has some sort of higher education accreditation, and because of differences in the processes, it is almost impossible to generalize about what it means and how it is done. We don't delete articles about notable topics because the topic is a complicated one that is difficult to write about. PS - It is difficult for me to accept the allegation of "fringe theory" as anything other than a joke. Orlady (talk) 15:43, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Many books have been written on this topic, as a quick search on Google books demonstrates – it's unarguably notable. Everything I'm seeing there is on this topic, not false positives. It might be clearer if the page had a different name: much discussion in expert literature of what is commonly called "accreditation" (under the influence of the US system) uses the term "quality assurance", which is a more technically correct umbrella term as applied to many higher education systems. But that's a different discussion. Robminchin (talk) 01:36, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.