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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. ansh666 09:03, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bachelor of Political Economy

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I am also nominating the related Master of Political Economy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

These articles are about a bachelor's & master's degree within a particular field. There is no evidence of the notability of the degree in particular - while the degree program definitely exists, I cannot, for instance, find any articles talking about the rise or fall of degree-seekers, their value in the job market, or influence on the university system. In most cases, articles for Bachelor's degrees for particular majors, where they exist at all, seem to be redirects to Bachelor's degree, with the exception of a) professional degrees (e.g. Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Engineering) which have a more specific role in establishing professional qualifications, or b) types of undergraduate degrees (e.g. Bachelor of Applied Science, Bachelor of Arts.

As written, the Bachelor's article currently has a lot of content that seems specific to a particular region's educational practice. I cannot see any way to rewrite the article that wouldn't just be a duplication of content from Bachelor's degree.

A few months ago a user attempted to redirect the Bachelor degree to Political Economy, but the article's creator reverted the change, so I am nominating here for a fuller community discussion.


MarginalCost (talk) 04:19, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. MarginalCost (talk) 04:27, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Economics-related deletion discussions. MarginalCost (talk) 04:27, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Did you consider a merger proposal? I'd merge and make it a subsection in Bachelor's degree#Types. Jack N. Stock (talk) 05:53, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • Delete Now that I realise the claimed of "Bachelor of Political Economy" degrees are all BAs with majors in political economy, I feel like IQ125 is just playing games with us, particularly as IQ keeps insisting on claims that are so obviously false. The article as written thus fails WP:V. There may be one university in the world offering an actual BPE (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), and that is not enough to provide notability WP:N. Jack N. Stock (talk) 22:39, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge - as per Jacknstock. Jonpatterns (talk) 09:32, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - the Bachelor of Political Economy and Masters of Political Economy are both notable and the same as many other degree articles on Wikipedia - see examples: Category:Bachelor's degrees and Category:Master's degrees. Here are a sample of notable universities that have these degrees, there are plenty more: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
  1. ^ Athabascau University: What is Political Economy?
  2. ^ Carleton University: The Institute of Political Economy
  3. ^ Concordia University: Political Economy
  4. ^ University of Birmingham: Political Economy
  5. ^ University of Berkeley: Political Economy
  6. ^ Harvard University: Political Economics
  7. ^ London School of Economics: MSc International Political Economy

IQ125 (talk) 11:49, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • None of those links support your argument as none of those universities offer a Bachelor of Political Economy or Masters of Political Economy. Most of them are offering a major in political economy within a BA program, and there are a few graduate courses but none leading to a specific Masters of Political Economy – they are MA or MSc. There's no doubt there are political economy subjects at universities (I studied political economy myself), but that's not the subject of the article. I found two: Sydney University (Australia) offers Bachelor of Advanced Studies in Political Economy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) offers Bachelor of Political Economy (taught in Norweigian), and maybe Waseda University (Japan). Jack N. Stock (talk) 16:13, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Your assertions are simply incorrect, they are all notable universities and the links provide detailed explanation about the various political economy degrees. Relax, it is a real degree and is notable. IQ125 (talk) 18:59, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Friend, you are wrong - as some of the links you offered above show. For example the Batchelor of Arts degree IN Political Economy at the University of Birmingham. The academic study of Political Economy is notable, the "batchelor of political economy" is not. JMWt (talk) 12:20, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete the references are to programs that offer a degree of "Bachelor of Arts" with a major or concentration in Political Economy. As the aforementioned editor who attempted to redirect this earlier, I feel this is a WP:DICTDEF of a term that may not be in use anywhere. The "3 years" and "4 years" details are obviously based on individual programs and are egregiously inappropriate content. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:12, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. CThomas3 (talk) 05:20, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - the subject is clearly notable, the qualification to be gained in it is not. Also the information on the page isn't correct anyway - English honours degrees are 3 years, as the links indicate. JMWt (talk) 18:46, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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