Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emilie united methodist church


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The result was   delete. Spartaz Humbug! 18:33, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Emilie united methodist church

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This Non-notable stub has been tagged as lacking notability since April 2008 without improvement. The only source is the church's own website. Evb-wiki (talk) 03:02, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Plainly nonnotable: if this were, say, a property on the National Register of Historic Places, it would be notable; but average churches are never notable. Nyttend (talk) 04:51, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - Plainly notable, at least in the usual jargon. Substantial press coverage, Google news is a good place to start and so forth. Wily D  14:36, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * To the contrary: nearly all the articles linked on that page are obituaries or tangential stuff, with the remainder being local feature stories. None of these are really significant coverage; if local news were enough, virtually any church would be notable.  Nyttend (talk) 15:53, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think arguing from consequences is very convincing. I'm saying read Notability, then apply the same, and this is clearly "notable" in our jargon.  Why should we treat this church with special consideration rather than the usual standards? Wily D  16:10, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * That is not substantial coverage. None of those "news" articles is about the church; it is just mentioned, either in passing or to identify where some event is occurring. --Evb-wiki (talk) 16:25, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment It's possible that it could qualify, depending on the size of the organization. I note that it operates a private school, and it's in a suburb of Philadelphia.  Anyone have figures on the attendance?  Mandsford (talk) 15:40, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * No attendence figures, but with only 3 Sunday services and 1 Wednesday, with only 6 staff members, it doesn't appear too big. --Evb-wiki (talk) 16:34, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. The usual claim of notability for local church congregations is owning an interesting or historic church building.  I did some looking around at the website, and apparently the original pre-Civil War church building is still being used as a chapel, but seems to be a small, white clapboard church building that may be picturesque, but probably is not distinctive enough to be notable.  - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 16:02, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - as the article currently stands there is no claim of notability --T-rex 16:04, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * keep I'm borderline though... Wikipedia is not a church directory. But if there's some historical information (and it sounds like there might be) then it's worth it.--Paul McDonald (talk) 19:01, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  14:47, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge to Levittown, Pennsylvania. The latter part of its "Demographics" section would be better entitled "Religion", but needs a thorough clean up.  Such merger is usually the best solution to articles on minor local facilities.  If kept, please capitalise all words, sicne they are all part of a proper name.  Peterkingiron (talk) 20:49, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete the church - it looks a great church to attend but is - in the wiki sense- not at all notable. Springnuts (talk) 18:54, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


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