Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dutch Israelism


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The result was   no consensus. v/r - TP 21:33, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Dutch Israelism

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Non-notable philosophical movement. The article asserts that there is only one "key work on Dutch Israelism to date"; this work is by a non-notable author from a tiny niche publisher. The sources cited within the article are this aforementioned book and associated sites that don't seem to pass the WP:RS smell test. I can locate no scholarly sources to suggest that this topic has been even noticed by relevant historians let alone critiqued. &mdash; Scientizzle 14:04, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:02, 28 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep or re-create as... Interesting topic, though there is just one major source. So could be re-created as an article about that source, Helene Koppejan's Strange Parallel: Zubulun -The Netherlands A Tribe of Israel (1984). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carolmooredc (talk • contribs)
 * Do you have any indication that the book passes our notability criteria?  --Lambiam 07:28, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I did some looking around and I really doubt Strange Parallel: Zebulun - The Netherlands a Tribe of Israel or Helene Koppejan would pass any reasonable notability bar...at least not without offline sources that indicate any substantive coverage. There's no apparent scholarship on this topic, so it all appears well within the range of WP:FRINGE. &mdash; Scientizzle 13:04, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Sometimes it's good to have fringy stuff where there can be an NPOV description. I see on Amazon the book has been through a bunch of printings, so there probably is some audience. It's up to the original author to defend or rewrite it per suggestions. But whatever... CarolMooreDC (talk) 14:13, 29 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete as at the moment the only source doesn't seem notable itself. Note that the article creator is indefinitely blocked and Tribe of Zebulun doesn't mention this claim. Dougweller (talk) 10:47, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
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