Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Department of Financial Studies ( DFS ) - MFC

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 speedy delete. as G12; the entire article is a just a collection of passages from http://www.mfc.edu, http://mfcalumni.com/ and http://www.mfc.edu/dfsbrochure.pdf —SpacemanSpiff 19:03, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Prospectus-style article about a two-year Master's degree programme within a department of the University of Delhi. Written in such promotional terms - "high academic standards clubbed with excellence and originality," "excellent residential arrangements," "consistently displayed distinguished performance" etc. - that it could almost be speedy-deleted as an advertisement. That could be fixed by a complete rewrite, but there is no indication of notability. Although precedent is not binding, the result of previous deletion discussions, documented at WP:OUTCOMES#Education, has been that:

Departments or degree programs within a university, college, or school are generally not considered notable unless they have made significant contributions to their field (e.g., University of Chicago Department of Economics), or produced a number of notable graduates (USC School of Cinematic Arts, Oxford PPE).

No independent sources are cited, and I have not found other than listing-type references to this programme. Wikipedia is not a notice-board for course prospectuses. Contested PROD; from talk page comment it is clear the article is posted by someone from the department. JohnCD (talk) 17:07, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. —JohnCD (talk) 17:09, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. —JohnCD (talk) 17:11, 18 December 2010 (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.