Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blessed Sacrament Church (Bridgeport, Connecticut)


 * 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 no consensus. Kurykh (talk) 00:42, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Blessed Sacrament Church (Bridgeport, Connecticut)

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I found no significant coverage for this church per WP:CORP. SL93 (talk) 02:46, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Procedural note: this article was part of the massive, multipage AfD entitled Articles for deletion/St. Mark Church (Stratford, Connecticut). That AfD was closed as keep on 31 January 2011, with the suggestion that each church should be evaluated on its own merits.  There's only a bit of discussion of this particular church in that AfD. --Arxiloxos (talk) 02:59, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I noticed that AfD after nominating this for deletion. What a gigantic mess that was. SL93 (talk) 03:01, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 05:05, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 05:05, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 05:05, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete -- Nothing in this stub shows it to be out of the ordinary: most local churches are NN. Peterkingiron (talk) 12:23, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - My feeling is that it is possible to add (local/regional) reliable sources to most (American?) churches which were built before 1950 (if not more recent). I've added sources to this article about the building and spot checking other articles in the previous AfD, the same can usually be done. In general, I think churches may be as notable as high schools, and am surprised that the belief is that local churches would usually be NN. Another recent example from the previous AfD is Articles for deletion/St. Philip Church (Norwalk, Connecticut). Peterkingiron and I made basically the same comments in the St. Philip Church AfD, with the differences in the articles right now are that the previous church's architecture won a local award while this one is an older congregation. Smmurphy(Talk) 21:37, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 10:42, 25 April 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep and improve. as User:Smmurphy says, any large, long-established American churches are notable.  I ran a news archive search on this one, significant coverage related to at least three events.  1.) extensive national news stories for several years, centered around 2002  when a priest formerly at the parish hanged himselfdue to scandal:  "abused them when they were boys in the late 1970s and early '80s and he was assigned to Blessed Sacrament Church in Bridgeport".  2.) coverage including  NYTimes 1998 "In Bridgeport, Beating Guns Into Church Bells to Curb Killings," about this parish running a program inviting community to leave guns at the altar (collected quite a few) . separate  coverage in WaPo and other papers.  3.) In 1965 the parish priest got national coverage supporting the John Birch Society, actually editing a John Birch newsletter .E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:39, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 08:33, 2 May 2017 (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.