Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of master's degrees in financial economics

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The result was delete. Stifle (talk) 15:15, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

List of master's degrees in financial economics

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Completing nomination on behalf of IP editor 174.3.125.23, whose rationale was posted on the article's talk page and is copied verbatim below. On the merits, I have no real opinion - except that the title itself is generic enough that it might end up being a useful redirect to something. UltraExactZZ ^Said~ Did 15:45, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Violates WP:LINKFARM. The page is purely of external links, while the only internal links are of the institutions that offer the degrees. There is no discussion of the degrees offered, if it amounted to it.174.3.125.23 (talk) 10:57, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

delete I've not come across many linkfarms, but this sure is one. Mangoe (talk) 23:03, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:10, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Link farm. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:10, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:12, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

At its core, this is a list of notable universities that all grant the same notable degree. "Linkfarm" complaints seem squarely centered on the over prominence the list's current form gives to external links, but that seems fixable and thus not a valid deletion rationale. One way to solve that would be to remove the external links. Another way would be to keep the external links but balance it with further information such as the year the programs started, year discontinued (if applicable), or number of degrees granted to date (if known) so as to properly annotate the list. Would it clarify all of this better if it were renamed something like List of academic institutions that grant masters financial economics degrees? That would seem to satisfy both the navigational and informational functions of lists per WP:LISTPURP. postdlf (talk) 17:59, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are a number of degrees listed which are "Economics and Finance", "Applied Economics", "Applied Finance and Economics", "Applied Financial Economics", etc.. Do these actually fall under this WP:SAL or is this article rather WP:SYN?174.3.125.23 (talk) 12:41, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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