Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Silicon Valley University
There seems to be something a bit suspicious about this university. Any genuine university in the Western Anglophone world would be expected to have hundreds of references in sources covered by Google Books and thousands in Google News, but this one only has a handful:http://books.google.com/books?pz=1&ned=uk&hl=en&num=100&q=%22Silicon%20Valley%20University%22&cf=all&sa=N&tab=sphttp://news.google.com/archivesearch?pz=1&ned=uk&hl=en&num=100&q=%22Silicon+Valley+University%22&cf=all. Most of those hits are coincidental juxtaposition of "Silicon Valley" with "university" rather than references to this institution. I'm not very familiar with US immigration rules, but I know that in the UK there are many unnotable language schools whose students qualify for student visas, so I would imagine that the situation is similar across the pond. Yes, the source in the article has a page and a half of coverage, but if you read through it it says that in 1999 (two years after its founding) it had fifteen students, and that at that time the book was written in 2006 the student body had more than tripled in size. I don't think that having more than 45 students is really a claim of notability, and all of the other Google Books hits that are actually about this institution are one line directory entries. I know that making comparisons to other articles is discouraged at AfD, but I'll ignore that and invite people to compare the notability of this institution with that of Unity University|Ethiopia's first private university, with over 7,000 students, which an editor considered to be such an uncontoversial deletion candidate as to put a  tag on it
— User:Phil, 19:13, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PROD (Wikipedia:Proposed deletion)