Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greek Catholic Church, Şimleu Silvaniei


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 04:04, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Greek Catholic Church, Şimleu Silvaniei

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I see no evidence this church is architecturally, historically or organizationally significant. Being just eight years old, it's likely to fail on the first two counts, unless evidence is shown confirming that. As for the third, we do have a claim that it's the headquarters of an archpriest's district, which might sound impressive until you realize the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church has some 69 of these (or roughly one per 2200 adherents), including ten in the Oradea Diocese of which Şimleu is a part. Some of these may incidentally be notable as historic monuments, but that is not the case here. Barring any sources showing some significance, we may consider this just another parish church, and delete accordingly. - Biruitorul Talk 02:47, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment - What project guideline says about its maintenance? Per chance does every single Church as a safe-conduct, I remember about train stations, every single train station in the world is relevant enough to have its own article on wiki. Eduemoni↑talk↓  03:59, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * What I can tell you is that articles on churches have been deleted here, here, here, here and here, so it appears the normal WP:N requirements are in place, and we do not consider every church to be inherently notable. - Biruitorul Talk 14:10, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Correct. We generally only assume that very large, significant (e.g. cathedrals, papal basilicas) or historic churches have inherent notability. This appears to be none of those. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:43, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not appear to be notable.  LogicalCreator (talk) 07:01, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Romania-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:26, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:26, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:40, 23 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. Church was recently built and it's too soon for it to be either culturally or historically significant. There are no reliable secondary sources demonstrating its notability, and a search for news articles doesn't bring up anything. The subject does not meet the general notability guidelines.-- xanchester  (t)  20:11, 24 October 2012 (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.