Talk:Northwest Institute of Literary Arts

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	This article was accepted from this draft on 10 October 2016 by reviewer NewYorkActuary (talk · contribs).

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If this had not been an educational organization, it would simply have not met the notability guidelines. The only substantive on-line reference was written by one of the faculty members. The other on-line references are local to the Seattle area. And although I could not read the off-line references, the things they were being used to source suggest that they were not providing substantial coverage.

But ... the subject was an educational institution that was accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission. So, the question is whether this accreditation was sufficient to meet WP:NSCHOOL. I took a look at the DEAC's list of accredited schools -- most do not have Wikipedia articles, but some do. I also did a search through the Articles for Deletion pages to see if there were any discussions as to the usefulness of DEAC accreditation for establishing notability, but I could find no such discussions. So it seems that this is a question that has yet to be decided. For now, I'll place a "notability" banner on the article, and then accept it for publication.

For the benefit of the article creator, I note that there is a good deal of non-encyclopedic information in the article, starting with the lengthy list of non-notable faculty members that appears in the very first paragraph. Also, the timeline-like format for the History section will likely cause readers to move on to another article. Articles written like this sometimes attract the notice of the deletionists here at Wikipedia, so you might consider doing some trimming and re-writing. NewYorkActuary (talk) 22:06, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]