Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 March 1#Evolution News
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==Fake university==
:The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
:The result of the discussion was keep
- {{no redirect|1 = Fake university }} → :Diploma mill (talk · links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fake_university&action=history history] · [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews?start=2019-01-30&end=2019-02-28&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Fake_university stats])
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There are two types of universities being called fake universities on Wikipedia: actual diploma mills (fake universities that generate bogus degrees for profit), and shadow institutions set up by the US government to catch immigration law violators (e.g., University of Northern New Jersey and today's DYK University of Farmington). The sting-operation universities are fake universities, but they are not diploma mills; they do not grant any degrees at all. Perhaps this should be turned into a disambiguation page? Chubbles (talk) 23:04, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep we don't need an article on government manufactured fake universities. A short section at diploma mills is enough. Legacypac (talk) 19:22, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep as most likely desired target. UnitedStatesian (talk) 00:41, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
- But...the University of Farmington isn't a diploma mill at all, and yet that is how it is identified in the first sentence of the article, through this redirect. Same with UNNJ. Shouldn't we do something about that? Chubbles (talk) 13:22, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. The term is ambiguous but we rightly have no article about government-manufactured fake universities. The term "fake university" in Farmington and UNNJ should be unlinked rather than leading to an inappropriate article. Certes (talk) 13:39, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
::Okay, but we should probably also have a different term to describe them than "fake university", because that's likely to get linked again. Why is everyone !voting "Keep" here? I didn't nominate this for deletion; this is redirects for discussion, not redirects for deletion, and I never sought to make this a redlink. Chubbles (talk) 16:15, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
:::My "keep" was short for "keep pointing to the current target" but, since most search results for "fake university" are currently about Farmington, perhaps I was wrong and we need to do more, even if it's just a {{tl|redirect}} hatnote to Farmington and UNNJ. Certes (talk) 16:43, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
::::Search results are impacted by what is in the news. In a few days/weeks this will go back to the normal diploma mill topic. Legacypac (talk) 17:14, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep, and add a hatnote to Degree mill:
::{{redirect|Fake university|2010s institutions set up by the US government to detect fraud|University of Farmington|and|University of Northern New Jersey}} And delink the term "Fake university" in those two articles. Perhaps add a hidden comment to explain why, to reduce chance of relinking.
:If a third or more gets created then it's surely time for someone to create an article, or perhaps just a list: Fake universities created by United States Government departments or similar, so the hatnote could point to it instead. PamD 23:28, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
:The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page.