Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fundamental Payroll Certification

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 Merge to Certified Payroll Professional. This decision took into account the comments made at the other 4 deletion discussions, and not just the comments made below (three of the five were kept, two were merged). Such "bundled" nominations are usually fine, as long as they are on the same page and not on separate pages. The spread-out nature of the discussion did make closing difficult, almost to the point of relisting. This decision does not prejudice further merging if that is deemed necessary by further discussion. Carcharoth (talk) 17:14, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The five AfDs reviewed to reach this decision were:

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Payroll Association (keep)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Payroll Week (keep)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Certified Payroll Professional (keep)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fundamental Payroll Certification (merge)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Accounts Payable Association (merge)

Fundamental Payroll Certification

These five articles:

were all created in a short period of time by a single user who has contributed to no other article except for a mention to American Payroll Association in the Accounts payable article.

These articles do not cite any outside references (other than one advertisement / press release) or claim any notability of the topic, and appear serve no purpose other than to promote the umbrella organization and its activities, including its fee-based certification programs. Bongomatic (talk) 14:17, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- Note: This AFD is for the named article only. Each of the five articles above has its own separate AFD. Stifle (talk) 11:37, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per nomination. Wikipedia is not a repository for press releases, nor a place for free advertising. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:59, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per WP:SPAM. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 17:09, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
~~Keep~~Merge per Google News hits including Richmond Times-Dispatch, Sarasota Herald Tribune, and Lancaster Online. Seems to be a legit (if somewhat specific and obscure) professional certification. Jclemens (talk) 20:35, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Changing my !vote to merge, per DGG--merging to Certified Payroll Professional seems like a very reasonable outcome. Jclemens (talk) 16:14, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep the Certified Payroll Professional as professional (certified) titles are notable & has enough (admittedly low quality) Refs to pass WP:N. Cleanup is recommended. Neutral to all others. This shows why AFD Bundling is a bad idea. Exit2DOS2000^•T•C• 01:03, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into Certified payroll professional We do not normally have separate articles for all the ranks of a professional certification. This is merely an intermediate step,and not separately notable. DGG (talk) 01:10, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the article is part of a big spam circle at the moment and would require a large amount of work to fix (which although sounding a bit weird is in the case of spam and/or copyvio a valid reason to delete). Not every certification ever is actually important/significant in an encyclopedic way. Jasynnash2 (talk) 12:15, 8 October 2008 (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.