Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ancient and bible


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was WP:SNOW speedy delete. BD2412 T 22:29, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Ancient and bible

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Prod deleted. Wikipedia is not a place to paraphrase or summarize religious texts. Postcard Cathy (talk) 14:16, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions. Postcard Cathy (talk) 14:16, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Further comment: Wikipedia is not a pulpit to giver sermons or a place to give religious education. No proselytizing. There is a difference between explaining the basics of a religion and giving what amounts to a lecture in Sunday school. This is the latter and doesn’t belong here. This is not the first article the original editor has tried to write on this and related topics.  If they keep writing articles that are not appropriate, I would like an administrator to discuss this with the editor.  Postcard Cathy (talk) 14:22, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:11, 1 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete - This is an essay, not an article. It is not clear what article it might even be meant to be. Goes without saying that it fails on notability grounds. Suggest this one could be a snow close as delete. -- Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 15:17, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as nonsense. This seems to be some alternative version of the Bible, in which "Abele and Kaine birthed a son called Noah". The cited sources don't support most of the content here; for example, Kim Ryholt's The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period is about ancient Egyptian kings, not the alternative Bible stories stated here, and the cited page of Timothy H. Lim's The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Very Short Introduction doesn't support anything in this article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 17:03, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete per nom. --BonkHindrance (talk) 17:24, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete per nom. As already requested on the article talk page, could the deleting admin please consider clearing Draft:Ancient bible and the mysteries, User:Sethabi ba sethabi/sandbox and any other copies, as every time this "article" is deleted, or moved to draft space, it is recreated as a "new" article, under a different title, without any significant improvements. - Arjayay (talk) 19:15, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Close to patent nonsense. Already covered, in a much more understandable way, in our many articles related to the Bible. I favor a snow close. CaptainEek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 19:22, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * What is a snow close? Postcard Cathy (talk) 21:15, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * A discussion which "doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell" can be WP:SNOW closed early if the outcome is overwhelming and obvious. CaptainEek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 00:35, 2 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per Metropolitan90. The name spellings (e.g., "Kaine") appear to be taken from a particular Sotho translation of the Bible; it is possible that these are the teachings of an African folk religion rather than the invention of the page author, but I could not find evidence of this. Cheers, gnu 57 19:24, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * question Can an administrator block this editor from disruptive edits to this article? Postcard Cathy (talk) 21:15, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Whatever this is trying to be, it clearly isn't an encyclopedic article. I suggest deleting Draft:Ancient bible and the mysteries which is going nowhere fast. Pichpich (talk) 22:02, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * nominated it for deletion Postcard Cathy (talk) 22:35, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete -- This is an essay seeking to retell the story of Genesis, using non-English spellings of some names. The author cites Genesis as his source, so that this is independent folklore.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:15, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete and Salt, but this is a content forum, and this is a conduct issue. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:07, 2 March 2020 (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 (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.