Deletion of Connections-based learning

Comment: per Guy. The sources do not support notability. I'm also concerned that the article has been written and maintained by someone with a book to sell, in contravention of |COI
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI)

Comment: per Guy's analysis of the references in the article and per he and {{u|Girth Summit}}'s concerns about having created by a |COI-conflicted editor. I agree there could be notability to this book from {{u|Slatersteven}}, but would concur it's probably best to have someone neutral rewrite this article (assuming someone neutral ''cares'' to do so
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI)

Comment: Even putting aside the lack of notability, there is a clear |COI issue
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI)

Comment: Remember that the issue here is not whether CBL is "good", "beneficial", or "worthy" of being more widely known—I agree that it appears to be all of that. The issue here is Wikipedia's otability|Notability guideline, which is based on the existence of significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, not based on testimonials from a handful of people who are connected to the subject. The notability of the package called CBL is the issue, not the notability of the various elements of the package such as (to quote the article lead) "online and offline connections with students, experts, organizations, the community, and classrooms around the globe" (e.g., as in dialogic learning), "contacting and interacting with others inside and outside the class" (e.g., as in service-learning), and "giving students a 'real-world' experience" (e.g., as in experiential learning), all of which are also done apart from CBL. If there were a single non-self-published book devoted entirely to CBL, or even a single rigorously peer-reviewed article devoted entirely to CBL in a major journal, the subject would likely pass notability and I wouldn't have bothered to nominate it for deletion. A handful of self-published sources, non-peer-reviewed blog posts, and brief mentions doesn't cut it
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: Note that {{u|Matt Murrie}}, the previous commenter, is a new |single-purpose account who created an account today and made one edit to Connections-based learning and to this deletion discussion, and he may be connected to the subject (he included  markup in his comment, like Sean Robinson, which is curious—if there has been off-wiki communication between Matt and Sean, the creator of CBL, they would do well to disclose it). ''Connections-Based Learning'' is indeed a book as Matt said, but I noted above that it is a self-published book (see ), and the book is held by https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1084702694 a grand total of one library in WorldCat—not an impressive distribution for a book that was published a few years ago
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (WP:SPA||WP:RSSELF)