Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Church abuse


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The result was   delete. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 21:03, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Church abuse

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A classic example of original research. The lead, defining the subject, appears to come straight out of the author's head, as does the next section (with a little help from Webster's). The background section then relies on the Bible and other ancient texts, in violation of WP:PSTS. We then have a speculative section that cites examples of the phenomenon as defined by the author, and close with another burst of original research, this time dealing with the author's thoughts on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We already have the rather dubious Spiritual abuse and Religious abuse, as well as a slew of articles in Category:Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. One more essay isn't to our benefit. Biruitorul Talk 18:20, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions.  -- — LinguistAtLarge • Talk  18:56, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge/Weak Delete. The three articles mentioned are all, frankly, dreadful - but that isn't grounds for deletion in itself.  I think it might be possible to put together _one_ reasonable article from the three (perhaps using Religious violence as a pattern?), and "Church abuse" is a reasonable search term.  I would therefore suggest that any salvageable content be merged into one article - Religious abuse is _probably_ the best title for a combined article, so that would be my suggested merge target.  Tevildo (talk) 20:09, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge and delete per Tevildo, although my personal preference for a title would be Abuse by clergy, which seems to me more easily understandable. John Carter (talk) 14:03, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Merger and deletion are mutually exclusive outcomes. Please pick one. Uncle G (talk) 10:09, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge (move) content to another article, then Delete this article. John Carter (talk) 13:29, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I repeat: That is not actionable. Those two are mutually exclusive.  Please pick one. Uncle G (talk) 14:11, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - synthetic essay. Lady  of  Shalott  22:36, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, hopelessly OR. carl bunderson (talk) (contributions) 00:00, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
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