Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northeastern Theological Seminary

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The result was speedy delete. already deleted by User:NuclearWarfare JForget 15:53, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Northeastern Theological Seminary

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Likely hoax. I can find no source that even attests that this institution exists. The article states that it was closed in 2007 after a lawsuit by a former Pennsylvania state senator. If that were true, then it would have been national news. But, there's not a single reference anywhere about anything about this school. See also Christopher Hughes (politician), which is a related hoax by the author. Blargh29 (talk) 20:14, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:43, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - regardless of whether it is a hoax, there are insufficient sources to create a reliable article. As you say, were the details in the article correct, there should be significant coverage. Apparent online sources refer to an institute in Shenyang, and confusion with the Northwestern Theological Seminary or the Northeastern Seminary on the campus of Roberts Wesleyan College. This archive of EdRef listings of degree-awarding religious bodies in Pennsylvania, from 2006, covering even tiny institutions, does not mention this one. Just one article suggests it may not be a complete hoax - Google News Archive turns up a 2005 article in the Philadelphia Daily News, sadly behind a paywall, stating that Bishop Elwin Urquhart studied there. Warofdreams talk 01:58, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete Blatant hoax. Example: the school was supposedly founded by "Dr. Kenneth N. Taylor and other classmates from Dallas Theological Seminary", but Dr. Kenneth N. Taylor did not attend Dallas Theological Seminary according to the Taylor wikilink. And the supposed atheist senator who supposedly forced the school to shut down does not exist (see next AfD nomination). --MelanieN (talk) 04:29, 14 December 2009 (UTC)MelanieN[reply]

Not suitable for speedy deletion: "only in extreme cases of blatant and obvious hoaxes should articles be tagged for speedy deletion". If that was the case here, there would have been no need for research into it. Warofdreams talk 14:50, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per Warofdreams and WP:V. Even if not a hoax, I can not verify its (past?) existence from some Internet searches. False friends on Google. Nothing on Google scholar, images, maps, etc. Bearian (talk)

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