Talk:Hawaii Theological Seminary

No such institution exists, as far as I can tell...

• No webpage at either of the following urls - http://www.hits.edu and http://www.icgs.edu
• No entry in the list of Member Institutions for Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools - http://www.tracs.org/member.htm#h
• The address in the Google search results is for a church - http://www.wellspringhawaii.org/
• Other Google searches come up with only wikipedia mirrors and other aggregators
• Searching the National Center for Education Statistics yields no results

I believe this is a hoax. Ἀλήθεια 19:39, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

• I don't know what kind of search you did, but google:Hawaii+Theological+Seminary returns numerous listings on apparently reputable college directory sites, so I doubt it is a total fabrication. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 21:50, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

The hits you are seeing on google do not appear to be "reputable college directory sites" as you suggest, but rather content aggregators which merely spew back information from some other feed. An example of a reputable college directory site would be Peterson's (http://commondataset.org), which yields no valid matches. There doesn't appear to be a single reliable source for anything about this institution, such as an administrator's name, a contact email address, an article in a journal, magazine, or newspaper, etc. Per Wikipedia:College and university article guidelines, this article (if not a hoax) fails any semblance of notability. Ἀλήθεια 13:08, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Google Books searches show that this is in fact listed in Peterson's and other reputable directories both under its current name, and its old name. Notability might be questionable, but this is certainly no hoax, and I think there's enough possibility of notability to mean that this shouldn't be deleted without discussion at WP:AFD. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:02, 30 October 2009 (UTC)