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[edit]- John Fenwick (bishop) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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All sources are currently primary, and much of the content is currently unsupported by sources. WP:PRIMARY applies here: "Do not base an entire article on primary sources, and be cautious about basing large passages on them." All sources I can locate appear to be about specific negative incidents involving the subject and are not particularly helpful for creating a BLP. AusLondonder (talk) 19:29, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Christianity, and England. Shellwood (talk) 19:36, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- Keep 1) No evidence of WP:BEFORE search, and it's pretty obvious one was not done because 1, 2, 3 and other search engine results show plenty of mentions, over time, in precisely the ways you'd expect a bishop presiding over an area to be mentioned. 2) Per the relevant SNG, WP:BISHOPS, Anglican community bishops are presumptively notable, and nothing in the nomination statement even attempts to rebut it (and such attempts would fail anyways per 1). Jclemens (talk) 20:36, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- Did you not bother reading my rationale where I made clear I had searched for sources? WP:BISHOPS is complete rubbish, it has no community consensus behind it but nonetheless it claims to apply "major Christian denominations" such as the Anglican Communion of which the Free Church of England with about 10 churches is obviously not. By the way, the sources you have provided are very poor. They do not contribute to notability per WP:BASIC: "People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject." The third source for example is an article about the appointment of another person which features a brief quote from Fenwick. How could an experienced editor such as yourself think that establishes notability? AusLondonder (talk) 01:50, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
- Fairfax Community Church (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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A run-of-the-mill large church. No secondary coverage in the article, and none found. Just called "Fairfax Church" now, which makes searching difficult. Walsh90210 (talk) 22:39, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:28, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Delete - Absolutely no proper notable coverage found in my search online. User:R.schneider101 01:52, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
- KCHD-CA (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Subject does not meet the WP:GNG due to a lack of WP:SIGCOV. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 05:10, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television, Christianity, and Wyoming. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 05:10, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Delete: Unable to find the needed WP:SIGCOV to meet the WP:GNG. Let'srun (talk) 14:59, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Delete: Another remnant of the much looser inclusion standards of 2006. A station that seems to have only operated for ~8 years at most with only national religious services is not going to get significant, if any, coverage. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 16:38, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
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Subject does not meet the WP:GNG due to a lack of WP:SIGCOV. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 05:07, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television, Christianity, and Wyoming. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 05:07, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Delete: Subject does not have the needed WP:SIGCOV to meet the WP:GNG. Let'srun (talk) 14:52, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Delete: Another remnant of the far looser inclusion standards of 2005, when being FCC-licensed was considered enough to be "notable" with largely little regard as to significant coverage or the potential of same. The parade of national services that are this station's only known programming—albeit without sourcing, anyway—does not exactly point to SIGCOV. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 16:42, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Time dilation creationism (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NFRINGE. I find no notice of this by WP:FRIND sources. Only creationists seem interested enough to comment. Wikipedia really is WP:NOT for discussing every flight-of-fancy that a creationist has about how to reconcile their religious beliefs with scientific facts. jps (talk) 20:42, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Delete No evidence of meeting notability guidelines, which would be provided by significant coverage in non-crackpot sources. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:06, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Speedy Keep per WP:FRINGE
creationism and creation science should be described primarily as religious and political movements and the fact that claims from those perspectives are disputed by mainstream theologians and scientists should be directly addressed.
Nom admits this is a religious, not scientific topic, and yet proposes to apply scientific article criteria to it, making this nomination completely erroneous and hence eligible for speedy keep per SK#3. The religious sources are sufficient and appropriate (independent, etc.) for GNG to be satisfied. Jclemens (talk) 00:47, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- What an absurd argument. Creationists routinely present their arguments as 'scientific', and are clearly doing so in this particular instance. Just read the sources cited. Pseudoscience does not cease to be pseudoscience when promoted to support religious faith. AndyTheGrump (talk) 01:05, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Of course they do. And when they're doing so on a religious basis, religious rules apply, not FRINGE. Sorry if you don't like the guideline, but I didn't write it. Jclemens (talk) 05:20, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- The relevant section in WP:FRINGE makes absolutely clear that it is referring to
Notable perspectives
and statesthe fact that claims from [e.g. creationist] perspectives are disputed by mainstream theologians and scientists should be directly addressed.
The article presents zero evidence that either mainstream theologians nor mainstream scientists have even heard of this 'perspective', never mind bothered trying to address it. The only non-creationist source currently cited in the article doesn't even bother to describe the 'perspective' in any detail, instead mentioning "time dilation" in passing in a single sentence in a section on "Examples of Pseudoscience". [1] AndyTheGrump (talk) 11:16, 14 August 2024 (UTC) - Did you read the article? In what way is this article describing the creation of the world on a purely religious basis? Are you claiming that Russell Humphreys believes that time dilation is some sort of theological allegory?! jps (talk) 14:55, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- The relevant section in WP:FRINGE makes absolutely clear that it is referring to
- Of course they do. And when they're doing so on a religious basis, religious rules apply, not FRINGE. Sorry if you don't like the guideline, but I didn't write it. Jclemens (talk) 05:20, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- To add to the above, the suggestion that the religious sources being cited are 'independent' is both questionable and irrelevant, since they clearly aren't reliable sources for anything but the beliefs of their own authors regarding an obscure theory. Nothing is cited that establishes that this particular pseudoscientific hypothesis is even significant within creationism. AndyTheGrump (talk) 02:26, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- What an absurd argument. Creationists routinely present their arguments as 'scientific', and are clearly doing so in this particular instance. Just read the sources cited. Pseudoscience does not cease to be pseudoscience when promoted to support religious faith. AndyTheGrump (talk) 01:05, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: I stripped out the science WP templates from the talk page as being non-relevant. The stub template was changed from cosmology to creationism. Beyond that I have no particular preference; it's pure pseudoscience so astronomy isn't all that relevant. Praemonitus (talk) 03:02, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Delete Lacks notability in RS. Hemiauchenia (talk) 04:41, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Keep It should be kept in mind that the primary focus of the article is not scientific, but religious. It is a theological doctrine more than serious science. Thus it should be viewed with the criteria of a religious article. I did not intend to promote this thing when creating the article and I did not intend to promote fringe theories, but I thought that the article should be there to represent different religious doctrines. And as someone else already noted, WP:FRINGE reads:
creationism and creation science should be described primarily as religious and political movements and the fact that claims from those perspectives are disputed by mainstream theologians and scientists should be directly addressed.
Thus the point of the original deletion request does not seem to be valid. As a religious doctrine, there seems to be just enough coverage for it. --ValtteriLahti12 (talk) 05:53, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- See my response to Jclemens above. No evidence has been provided that this perspective/doctrine has been "disputed by mainstream theologians and scientists". Or discussed in any detail by non-creationist sources at all. There is no religious exception to Wikipedia notability criteria. AndyTheGrump (talk) 11:20, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- The fact that you don't understand what is religious and what is not is not our responsibility. Science is testable under controlled, repeatable conditions; this is not. Jclemens (talk) 20:53, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Congratulations, you have just discovered pseudoscience. As for what is or isn't religious, I have a degree in anthropology, and accordingly could write an entire dissertation on why trying to divide things into the religious and the non-religious is a fools errand. Fortunately though, that is unnecessary, since Wikipedia doesn't take such questions into account when dismissing as non-notable obscure proposals regarding time dilation and the origins of the universe only discussed in unreliable sources. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:09, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- You realize you just ceded the point that this is a religious topic, right? That makes your critique of the sources as "crackpot" irrelevant and voids your !vote: the sources in the article may not be appropriate for a scientific discourse, but there's nothing obviously wrong with them as religious sources. Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis are reliable sources--torchbearers, really--for the literalist Genesis/YEC religious perspective, so notability is met unless this is entirely a non-religious topic, which you have just ceded you cannot definitively assess. Jclemens (talk) 04:05, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- You now seem to be claiming that the mere fact that Ken Ham or Answers in Genesis have written about something makes it inherently notable. That is utterly absurd. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:11, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- Religious content can be crackpot. For example, this content. jps (talk) 15:28, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- You realize you just ceded the point that this is a religious topic, right? That makes your critique of the sources as "crackpot" irrelevant and voids your !vote: the sources in the article may not be appropriate for a scientific discourse, but there's nothing obviously wrong with them as religious sources. Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis are reliable sources--torchbearers, really--for the literalist Genesis/YEC religious perspective, so notability is met unless this is entirely a non-religious topic, which you have just ceded you cannot definitively assess. Jclemens (talk) 04:05, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- Congratulations, you have just discovered pseudoscience. As for what is or isn't religious, I have a degree in anthropology, and accordingly could write an entire dissertation on why trying to divide things into the religious and the non-religious is a fools errand. Fortunately though, that is unnecessary, since Wikipedia doesn't take such questions into account when dismissing as non-notable obscure proposals regarding time dilation and the origins of the universe only discussed in unreliable sources. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:09, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- The fact that you don't understand what is religious and what is not is not our responsibility. Science is testable under controlled, repeatable conditions; this is not. Jclemens (talk) 20:53, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- See my response to Jclemens above. No evidence has been provided that this perspective/doctrine has been "disputed by mainstream theologians and scientists". Or discussed in any detail by non-creationist sources at all. There is no religious exception to Wikipedia notability criteria. AndyTheGrump (talk) 11:20, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Delete. There's nothing to indicate that this is an independent 'theory' in its own right rather than just an epicycle or fudge factor to try to get creationism to fit the observed facts. Could be appropriately and adequately covered here. Brunton (talk) 07:05, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- I would be fine with moving the contents to another article if the topic is deemed not worthy of a separate article by a consensus. --ValtteriLahti12 (talk) 07:14, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Given the complete lack of coverage in non-creationist sources, and the lack of evidence that this is even significant to creationism, there is nothing to move. AndyTheGrump (talk) 11:16, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- That's nonsense. If there's verifiable content--and there is--an appropriate merger is a perfectly valid ATD. Jclemens (talk) 04:05, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- What "verifiable content" is there? The fantasies of Young Earth Creationists that no one else even bothers to notice? jps (talk) 15:28, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- That's nonsense. If there's verifiable content--and there is--an appropriate merger is a perfectly valid ATD. Jclemens (talk) 04:05, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- Given the complete lack of coverage in non-creationist sources, and the lack of evidence that this is even significant to creationism, there is nothing to move. AndyTheGrump (talk) 11:16, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Delete. There is literally a single WP:RS. That means no significant coverage, as in not notable, and that in fact it’s . We have long used WP:FRINGE to get rid of essays and pages that are little more than gee-whiz trivial nonsense, hey look at this kooky little idea. Bearian (talk) 03:19, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: I am sorry if I misjudged the worthiness of the topic to be on Wikipedia when I created it, I did not intend to promote fringe theories. If I was wrong, then it can just be deleted. I thought that since it is a religious topic and I was able to find multiple religious sources about it, then it could be worth its own article, but I may have been mistaken about their worthiness on such a topic. --ValtteriLahti12 (talk) 06:13, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- You don't need to apologize. WP:FRINGE is hard to get right especially as there are often sources that show up about fringe topics which superficially look reasonable (and might be in less, let's say, controversial areas). The general principle that I find works well is that we can have articles on fringe subjects when they are noticed by people who are not convinced that the fringe idea in question is necessarily correct, but where it gets confusing is when you have internecine disputes among fringe claimants so it looks like you have "independent analysis" in the sources when instead you are just looking at different flavors of fringe. Keeping topics out of Wikipedia for which sourcing cannot follow the WP:MAINSTREAM understanding is one of the better solutions we've arrived at to keep the integrity of the reference work high. The alternative is a free-for-all. jps (talk) 12:45, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Except that this isn't FRINGE. It's religious. It has "creationism" right there in the title. Jclemens (talk) 04:09, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- You don't need to apologize. WP:FRINGE is hard to get right especially as there are often sources that show up about fringe topics which superficially look reasonable (and might be in less, let's say, controversial areas). The general principle that I find works well is that we can have articles on fringe subjects when they are noticed by people who are not convinced that the fringe idea in question is necessarily correct, but where it gets confusing is when you have internecine disputes among fringe claimants so it looks like you have "independent analysis" in the sources when instead you are just looking at different flavors of fringe. Keeping topics out of Wikipedia for which sourcing cannot follow the WP:MAINSTREAM understanding is one of the better solutions we've arrived at to keep the integrity of the reference work high. The alternative is a free-for-all. jps (talk) 12:45, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Its fringe, even for creationism. And it isn't notable. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:12, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
Notable perspectives which are primarily non-scientific in nature but which contain claims concerning scientific phenomena should not be treated exclusively as scientific theory and handled on that basis. For example, the Book of Genesis itself should be primarily covered as a work of ancient literature, as part of the Hebrew or Christian Bible, or for its theological significance, rather than as a cosmological theory. Perspectives which advocate non-scientific or pseudoscientific religious claims intended to directly confront scientific discoveries should be evaluated on both a scientific and a theological basis, with acknowledgment of how the most reliable sources consider the subjects. For example, creationism and creation science should be described primarily as religious and political movements and the fact that claims from those perspectives are disputed by mainstream theologians and scientists should be directly addressed. Fringe theories that oppose reliably sourced research—denialist histories, for example—should be described clearly within their own articles, but should not be given undue weight in more general discussions of the topic.
Emphasis mine. Jclemens (talk) 04:14, 18 August 2024 (UTC)- Yes, I've already read that. And quoted it above. Where I pointed out that "mainstream theologians and scientists" have said absolutely nothing on this topic. Which is why it is fringe, why it isn't notable, and why an appropriate encyclopaedic article cannot be written. Wikipedia is a tertiary source. It bases articles on secondary sources, removed from the subject itself. Not on a few primary sources arguing the toss about pseudoscientific hokum amongst themselves. There is no religious exception to Wikipedia notability requirements. Notability is demonstrated through coverage in sources independent of the subject. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:24, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- Let it go, man. Your ridiculous misunderstanding is clearly not the consensus understanding of our community. If you want to change our rules, start a conversation elsewhere. jps (talk) 15:26, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Its fringe, even for creationism. And it isn't notable. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:12, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- Redirect to Creation_science#Creationist_cosmologies or Delete, i don't know if you can redirect a maybe plausible search term to an article without mentioning in the target. Struggling to find even that much. fiveby(zero) 13:48, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- redirect to young Earth creationism, which this is a minor variant off. Slatersteven (talk) 13:59, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- Delete or redirect: While fringe hypotheses can be notable, there isn't enough coverage of this one in WP:RS to warrant a separate article. Any content from this article that's up to standard should be merged/transcluded into one of the other articles on creationism. 0xchase (talk) 18:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Redirect to Creation_science#Creationist_cosmologies and mention it by name there since the it is the "relativistic effects" mentioned. This comes up in teaching astronomy classes and there is a source:
- Bobrowsky, Matthew (2005). "Dealing with Disbelieving Students on Issues of Evolutionary Processes and Long Time Scales". Astronomy Education Review. 4 (1): 95–118. doi:10.3847/AER2005007.
- StarryGrandma (talk) 22:23, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Merge and Redirect to Creation_science#Creationist_cosmologies, see no reason it can’t or wouldn’t be mentioned there. Hyperbolick (talk) 01:00, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
- Ron Wyatt (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Ron Wyatt was, according to fellow Christian fundamentalists, a fraud. But we can't really source that because no reliable source has covered it. The lack of interest from reality-based sources extends to everything else about the man. While the article has superficial referenciness, the sources cited fail to meet the Wikipedia standards of reliability and independence.This is a squarely WP:FRINGE topic that needs robust sourcing to maintain a solidly reality-based perspective.
There's a source represented as "andrews.edu" but in fact a monograph published in the Adventist Review (Wyatt was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church). We have an article on "maintaining creationist integrity" - a horse that bolted so long ago that was long since rendered into glue - by Ken Ham and others, on the AiG website, an obviously unreliable source for anything even tangentially connected to reality. We have allthatsinteresting.com, which takes itself moderately seriously but largely draws on the same creationist argumentation as above.
I really don't think we can defend having an article on a pseudoarchaeologist when we can't even source the fact that he was a pseudoarchaeologist. Guy (help! - typo?) 20:42, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Merge with Durupınar site, which seems to be what he is (very vaguely) notable for. Slatersteven (talk) 20:50, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Delete this article should have never been created to begin with, due to the lack of reliable references. Catfurball (talk) 21:44, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Merge with other amateur archeologists here: Searches for Noah's Ark 20th Century where Wyatt is already mentioned. "Criticism" section on subject's page can be incorporated into this section or biography by name can be created as a stand-alone. Maineartists (talk) 22:37, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Delete I don't see either a case for notability or the presence of any content worth merging. XOR'easter (talk) 03:09, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- I think it would be useful for Wikipedia to have an article on the subject, see for instance recent articles from 'New York Times and Jerusalem Post, seeming popularity among some groups and the number of claims made aside from Sinai. I think we can "source" pseudoarchaeologist, but the major sources for the article would be Biblical Archaeology Review, Christianity Today, and Skeptic, at least so far. fiveby(zero) 16:22, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- If anyone can spin gold out of this straw, it is User:Fiveby. I'm a little nervous about sourcing still, but I've seen that user work wonder with similar seemingly moribund subjects. jps (talk) 18:28, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Cline, Eric H. (2007). From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible. National Geographic. two short paragraphs on Ark and capture by Kurdish separatists in a popular work on biblical archaeology.
- Seesengood, Robert Paul (2016). The Bible in Motion. De Gruyter. pp. 216–218. description of a 2006 documentary Testimony of the Ark, marginally useful
- Danforth, Loring M. (2016). "Finding Science in the Quran". Crossing the Kingdom: Portraits of Saudi Arabia. p. 131. ticks the pseudoarchaeologist box if needed, just a short mention but i'll quote for the "useful for Wikipedia to have an article":
[Dr. Lamya Shahin, a physician who serves as director of outreach for Islamic Education Foundation] ended her talk with a discussion of the Muslim perspective on homosexuality, which drew heavily on the work of Ron Wyatt, the Biblical pseudoarchaeologist, best known for his “discovery” of Noah’s ark on Mount Ararat. Shahin presented detailed geological evidence (including satellite mapping and geochemical analysis) demonstrating that balls of sulphur and fire from nearby volcanic eruptions had destroyed the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. This, she said, proved scientifically that homosexuality was against the will of God and that gays and lesbians were evil...
- Gierlowski-Kordesch, Elizabeth H. (1998). "Discovered Sodom and Gomorrah!". Biblical Archaeology Review. 24 (5): 60–62. on the above balls of sulphur and fire, general comments from the editors on Wyatt and a geologist invited to comment
- "See Ark City?". News Sentinel. Knoxville, TN. August 17, 1997. most in depth news i've found out of a bunch of brief mentions, kind of shows the problem here, quotes John D. Morris for "...not accepted by those who've done the scientific work"
- Levine, Haninah (September 8, 2003). "On the Trail of Jeremiah and the Smuggled Holy Ark". The Jerusalem Report. mostly on a 2003 dig by a Wyatt Archaeological Research foundation, but some comments on Wyatt's earlier work
- Burnett, Thom, ed. (2005). ""God's Archeologist" Ron Wyatt". Conspiracy Encyclopedia: the encyclopedia of conspiracy theories. Collins & Brown. from fr:Ron Wyatt. Conspiracy Encyclopedia
- Vitelli, Romeo (October 25, 2012). "The Indiana Jones Of Tennessee". James Randi Educational Foundation. blog, WP:PARITY
- Lawler, Andrew (2021). Under Jerusalem : the buried history of the world’s most contested city. Doubleday. 8-10 paragraphs on Garden Tomb
- Isaak, Mark (2007). The Counter-Creationism Handbook. University of California Press. couple entries for Durupınar and anchor stones, but lists for further reading sources i'd already rejected:
- Collins, L. G. (December 2016). "Noah's Ark near Dogubayazit, Turkey?" (PDF). Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith. 68 (4).
- Merling, David. "Has Noah's Ark Been Found?". Tentmaker Ministries. this is part of a series "Ron Wyatt Archaeological Research Fraud Documentation"
- Mikkelson, David (December 16, 2013). "Was Noah's Ark Found by Explorers in Eastern Turkey?". Snopes. but relies on Andrew A. Snelling in part and Collins
- Thanks much for the generous compliment jps! I expect this will turn out like most others, can probably dredge up enough to meet notability but the real question is does anyone have the inclination, time, and ability to write the thing. fiveby(zero) 00:03, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Proquest? Slatersteven (talk) 10:28, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- ProQuest thru WP:Library, the links working for you? fiveby(zero) 12:14, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Proquest? Slatersteven (talk) 10:28, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Keep or Merge with Durupınar site. There are six US newspaper sources available in a Google search for site:newspapers.com "Ron Wyatt" Noah's Ark. 5Q5|✉ 12:04, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- WP:GHITS is not a good argument. Those articles would need to be examined to see if they're reliable, and more than a passing mention. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 19:33, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, I should have added that I was including the newspaper search results as potential new references for improving the article. It is interesting how the essay WP:GHITS conflicts with
the guidelineWP:GTEST, which says "Notability – Decide whether a page should be nominated for deletion." 5Q5|✉ 12:03, 18 August 2024 (UTC)- Correction, WP:GTEST aka WP:Search engine test is a Wikipedia How-to-guide not a Guideline. 5Q5|✉ 10:20, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, I should have added that I was including the newspaper search results as potential new references for improving the article. It is interesting how the essay WP:GHITS conflicts with
- Comment, i'd like to hear from JzG if his concerns have been addressed and Doug Weller, but if they don't respond draftify or redirect to Durupınar and allow recreation. fiveby(zero) 15:08, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- Keep I think we have enough and that it's notable. My chemotherapy is weakening me but I guess I can try to find the time. Doug Weller talk 15:29, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- Keep or Draftify to let Fiveby organize the writing. jps (talk) 21:46, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Mlaka Maliro (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NMUSICIAN or WP:GNG. Can't find sufficient sources to establish notability in any context. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 10:38, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Keep or
Redirect to: Music_of_Malawi#Lucius_Banda,_Evison_Matafale_and_Mlaka_Maliro I found lots of GNG. WP:NMUSICIAN states that:
Has had a single or album on any country's national music chart
: in this case, subject had the album titled Dzanja Lalemba that was the bestseller 14 years ago countrywide. Subject is also the pioneer of Malawi Contemporary Music and one of the country's notable musician [2]https://mwnation.com/mlaka-soldier-set-for-stage-reunion/.Has released two or more albums on a major record label
: subject has released 13 albums under the renowed and the first band in Malawi, the Zembani Band, owned by Lucius Banda [3]https://mwnation.com/mlaka-soldier-set-for-stage-reunion/, [4]https://mwnation.com/mlaka-rolls-back-hands-of-time/ . I found this that talks about subject. I also found records in printed books, see here, and this in Dutch , this too, etc. To me this provides GNG that can be used to sustain the article per WP:NEXIST.--Tumbuka Arch (talk) 11:47, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
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