Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Classic learning test

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 Delete per consensus. The editor most in favour of keeping the article appears to have a conflict of interest.--Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 13:02, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Classic learning test

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The Classic Learning Test appears not to meet the notability criteria. According to the article that was briefly at Classic Learning Initiative, the test has only been released in the last three days (Spring 2016). It's accepted at only eight colleges. For those reasons, it isn't necessarily to be expected that it would be notable. As for actual coverage, online, it has few mentions, none of which appear independent (the Initiative's website, job listings, registration information from schools giving the test) except a couple of blog entries that aren't reliable sources. —Largo Plazo (talk) 06:58, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is inaccurate. The CLT is accepted at ten colleges and many of these colleges are very notable, such as Thomas Aquinas College, which is rated 30th in the nation for best value. The CLT is referenced on University admission pages which are in no way connected to the CLT website.^[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by JeremyTate14 (talk • contribs) 14:05, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but there are no provisions in the general notability guidelines or any of the guidelines on notability for specific types of topic that state that a test is considered notable if it's accepted by at least a certain number of colleges or at least a certain number of notable colleges. There's a general provision that notability is not inherited.

The university admissions pages aren't independent of the universities, which are using those pages to talk about their own administration of the test. This isn't independent. This is similar to the case of a stage actor who has appeared in productions at 50 different theaters. All 50 of them may have profiles on the actor in their guides to the plays he performed in. These aren't independent, and we wouldn't use them to establish his notability.

Also, the sentence "Request that your SAT, ACT or CLT scores be sent to Northeast Catholic College." on the page you cited above isn't "significant coverage" of the CLT.

Significant coverage in an independent reliable source would be something like this article about the SAT.

This is not to say that the CLT won't meet the notability criteria eventually, but it doesn't seem to now. —Largo Plazo (talk) 14:16, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:39, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:39, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:39, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. Can be recreated once enough media sources mention it as being somethign notable. As the nom says, it's a recently invented and largely unknown test at the moment. HappyValleyEditor (talk) 23:33, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment @LargoPlazo: Here's a crazy coincidence: editor JeremyTate14 has the same name as one of the founders of the Classic Learning Test. (Widely available info via Google) HappyValleyEditor (talk) 23:41, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Here's one media source, CLT seems to meet notability requirements ^[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.244.6.86 (talk) 22:03, 1 April 2016‎

• Comment - seems like the creator has some affiliation to the CLT yet they have not declared the COI. A source cites Jeremy Tate as the founder of CLT as seen here. Kansiime (talk) 03:34, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as failing WP:GNG. SSTflyer 03:34, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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