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Proposed deletion of Word of Truth


The article Word of Truth has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: Promotional page with COI creator (group was founded by Given O. Blakely, username Is Givenb). Makes no actual claims of encyclopedic significance, just describes the different functions of the group - very much the kind of page that gets created by naïve COI editors who think this is a website hosting service.

On to sourcing: basically, "word of truth" is a fairly generic Christian kind of name for a group. Searching that alone produces so much noise as to be useless. "Word of Truth Ministries" also turns out to be useless - there's quite a few of those, too. "Word of truth+blakely" produces the best results but most are trivial mentions in books. I also checked "Given O. Blakely" under the assumption that he as the founder would be mentioned in any content about his ministry. Overall I checked all the usual Google suspects, and also Newspapers.com and Highbeam.

The best source I located was this Truth Magazine article from 1988, a debate between Blakely and some other guy about church music. Other than that, no one has written substantially about this ministry or its founder. Nothing. It's time for this article to go.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 14:42, 13 September 2018 (UTC)