User talk:Randy Delp

January 2017
Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Christ For The Nations Association of Bible Schools, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. red dogsix (talk) 03:34, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Please stop continuing to remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Christ For The Nations Association of Bible Schools, without resolving the problem that the template refers to. This may be considered disruptive editing. Further edits of this type may result in your account being blocked from editing. red dogsix (talk) 03:42, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Being new to Wikipedia Editing, I have removed your corrections without understanding how to reference the name of the organization. I wanted to cite the name of the organization that oversees the Christ For The Nations Association of Bible Schools but apparently didn't do it correctly. (User:Randy Delp)Randy Delp (talk) 04:10, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Christ For The Nations Association of Bible Schools


The article Christ For The Nations Association of Bible Schools has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern:
 * Non-notable bible school lacking non-trivial support. Per the talk page, "The purpose of this Wikipedia Page is to inform the public about the Christ For The Nations Association of Bible Schools. Currently the organization has 64 Bible Schools around the world and by creating this page and listing the various schools, it will allow the schools to create their own Wikipedia pages by creating links to their own websites."  A google search on the name provides little support for the organization.  Appears to be more of an advertisement than an encyclopedic article.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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 article 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. red dogsix (talk) 18:01, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Christ For The Nations Association Bible Schools is not an organization in itself. It is a department of Christ For The Nations Institute, Dallas, TX (www.cfni.org) of which i am Director of International Ministries. My name and picture appears on http://cfni.org/explore-about-who-we-are/. User:Randy Delp 64.245.210.94 (talk) 19:39, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Christ For The Nations Association of Bible Schools for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Christ For The Nations Association of Bible Schools is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Christ For The Nations Association of Bible Schools until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. red dogsix (talk) 18:38, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

The reason I created this page was a result of discovering a wikipedia page located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unrecognized_higher_education_accreditation_organizations. Being new to the Wikipedia process, I thought I could edit source to include Christ For The Nations Association of Bible Schools under the C section which lists unrecognized higher education organizations. After listing the the name of the association, I established a Wikipedia page that would identify the History, and names of the schools in the association. After, creating the page, I googled Christ For The Nations Association of Bible Schools and noticed that several of the schools in the association were already linked through the name and one of the schools previously in the association was closed. Certainly the intent of the is page is not advertise but rather to explain to the public the history and purpose of the accrediting association listed on the unrecognized higher education accrediting organizations page. Hopefully, this clarifies the intent. If I need to do anything else to maintain the sight, please advise. I might say that I recently complete a PHD in Theology and was a bit reserved by the integrity of the Wikipedia information. This discussion has certainly put to rest any concern about the integrity and notability of citing Wikipedia articles. 64.245.210.94 (talk) 19:07, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Randy Delp. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Christ For The Nations Association of Bible Schools, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
 * instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 23:36, 9 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Joe Roe, I must be mistaken about the purpose of Wikipediia. I thought it was a Free Encyclopedia of information and contribution of new information was welcomed.. It has been very helpful for me to find information and resources for research on theological. I was recently searching Accrediting agencies and ran across a page located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unrecognized_higher_education_accreditation_organizations and when I looked to see if our accrediting agency was listed, I found that it was not; therefore, I edited the page to include Christ For The Nations Association Bible Schools of which i am the executive director. After the page was edited, I realized that no information was listed on the page so I wrote the history of the association, the types of schools that are approved and even listed the schools and the country they are located. If this was inappropriate, then I am mistaken. Should I have not edited the site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unrecognized_higher_education_accreditation_organizations to include CFNABS? User: Randy Delp 2602:306:3A00:2890:8000:B53E:B97F:E34B (talk) 04:29, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes. Wikipedia is the free encyclopaedia, not the free yellow pages – would you trust an encyclopaedia where its entries were written by the subjects themselves? As outlined in our conflict of interest policy, it is inappropriate for you to write about your own company for a whole host of reasons. You are welcome to contribute on other subjects but should give things you are personally connected to a wide berth. If CFNABS is a notable company (this is what the AfD will decide), an uninvolved volunteer editor will write a page about it eventually. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 09:44, 10 January 2017 (UTC)