Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colleges of Distinction

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The result was Soft Delete. J04n(talk page) 00:42, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Colleges of Distinction

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I see no evidence that this college guide is notable. Ironically, the only reliable source I've found with significant coverage is a book by Zac Bissonnette basically calling it a pay-to-play scam.

It gets a lot of Google hits from press releases, but the Google Books results tell the real story: the aforementioned book, the site's own print edition, a couple passing mentions in Peterson's college guides, ads in city magazines, and a whole bunch of unrelated uses of the phrase.

The article was created by SnicholsCoD, whose username suggests they edited on behalf on Colleges of Distinction.—Neil P. Quinn (talk) 21:12, 11 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, j⚛e decker ^talk 02:55, 19 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:29, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: I tagged this for Notability over 2 years ago and that position remains unchanged. I can see various press releases by colleges publicising their inclusion in the guide (which needs to be read in conjunction with the book text linked by the nominator above), but nothing to confirm the guide is notable. Fails WP:NWEB, fails WP:CORPDEPTH. AllyD (talk) 06:48, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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