Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Censorship by organized religion


 * 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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was keep. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:36, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Censorship by organized religion
As written, this article is just an anti-religous screed. There is certainly a neutral, scholarly article that could be written on this topic, but that is far beyond my expertise. As written, this article should be deleted.--TheJeffMiller 04:35, 7 October 2005 (UTC)


 * keep: This article on the thought-stopping techniques of religious sects should be kept.  At least two similar articles, moral compass (which garners 4x as many goofle hits as moral panic) and thought police (4x the hits of thought crime), have recently fallen prey to the VfD process, while thousands of articles with dubious notability are spared.  The propensity for such hasty deletions may, itself, stem from a pervasiveness of intolerance toward the questioning of authority fostered, in part, by certain religions.  Ombudsman 04:00, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - Wackymacs 13:14, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: while the article needs considerable rewriting and expansion, this is an important topic and shld not be deleted hastily. have edited out some pov material Doldrums 12:30, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now.  No opinion. &mdash;Cryptic (talk) 13:21, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: this can be made neutral and doesn't even look that bad in its present form. It needs wider coverage, though. -- Kjkolb 14:34, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: Can't see anything overly POV about it, it's a fairly neutral description of some examples of censorship by organized religion. Could be expanded, certainly, but that's no reason to delete. --Last Malthusian 15:38, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this material is better covered elsewhere, in Censorship and under the articles for the various religions. (And as of now there's not much content.) &mdash;Wahoofive (talk) 15:41, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I lean towards agreement with Wahoofive that this information could be better covered in articles about the respective religions and works mentioned. I fail to see any real reason to keep this article around under the current name.  That being said, it has been in clean up a very short time and I'm going to wait to vote to see if anyone adds content that makes me change my mind about the value of this article.--Isotope23 15:55, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I was undecided about this article but Wahoofive and Isotope23 have, I think, really put it in perspective; the only elements of the article which are about "censorship by organized religion" rather than "censorship by " are uncited personal-essay claims. Waiting to vote to see if someone adds something of substance, but what's there now isn't convincing me that the topic is sound.  -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:21, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. If it's a valid topic (and in my opinion it is), it shouldn't be deleted, even if it needs a lot of work. That's what cleanup is for. --Jacquelyn Marie 03:44, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - Cleanup and expand per Jacquelyn Marie above. -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  09:35, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Jacqui. Xoloz 15:39, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, valid stub at this point. MCB 22:06, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * just barely keep. valid topic and material which could help form some basis for this article, but not very good at all yet.  Mozzerati 21:32, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and rewrite I agree with the deleter pielover87
 * Keep as per Ombudsman.


 * 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.