Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apostolic School of Theology

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. Possible merger or redirect option should be introduced in a discussion on the article talk page. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:53, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Apostolic School of Theology

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Defunct school with only Primary Source coverage. Fails WP:PROMO, WP:GNG Slywriter (talk) 11:09, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education, Schools, Christianity, and California. Shellwood (talk) 11:11, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep -- The article says it is affiliated to a university, not that it has merged with it. This looks to me like the theological seminary of a relatively small denomination. Such institutions are fairly small in terms of the number of students, but tend to be independent of other institutions, as the denomination does not want non-members determining policy (e.g. on curriculum) for it. The best of them have their degrees endorsed (or even awarded) by a larger institution. That is what I perceive here. If not kept, this should be merged to the denomination, as a section on theological education. Peterkingiron (talk) 13:55, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
~~Speedy~~ Delete. ~~WP:A7 No indication of importance~~. Seems to be a (likely very short lived) independent organization which was merged into Hope International University (HIU) and no longer has any form of independent existence. The 4 sources in the article include 2 broken domain names (expired or similar); HIU, which does not mention this organization on the linked page; and a press release saying that this organization was merged with HIU in 2009. The organization's page is available on the wayback machine, stating that its degrees are awarded by HUI. Policy is at WP:ORGCRIT - we need "significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject". We don't have that so this is a straightforward WP:GNG fail. Springnuts (talk) 17:20, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- You make a decent case for merging into HIU. Not remotely as good for speedy deletion. Do you not think "This is a college" is an indication of importance? Please. Jclemens (talk) 04:31, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
My bad and A7 excludes schools. Amended. Springnuts (talk) 06:30, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 01:43, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep The advertisement tag was placed in 2009 many years ago I don't think at that pre internet era people will use Wikipedia as an advertisement which is now very common like salting and WP:HOAX, it's very complicated that whether to delete or to keep this article. @@@XyX _talk 01:52, 7 April 2022 (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.