Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Institute in Basic Life Principles


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 01:10, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Institute in Basic Life Principles

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Fails WP:CORP as no independent reliable sources that are not supporting Bill Gothard have seriously covered the organization. It is not possible to find the independent, secondary sources necessary to write this article that aren't in religious cahootz with the founder. jps (talk) 13:08, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - it has been difficult finding reliable sources (and I have been diligently reverting edits based on unreliable sources), but in the last month there have been a number of neutral reliable sources reporting the circumstances surrounding Gothard's resignation. Now that he has resigned, of course, he and the organization are not so closely linked. StAnselm (talk) 20:26, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Plenty of independent secondary sources exist. See e.g. James K. Walker, The Concise Guide to Today's Religions and Spirituality (pp. 164-5) and a number of other books. There has been news coverage going back decades, e.g. Christianity Today, March 2003. -- 101.117.9.24 (talk) 15:02, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep -- If the statistics are anything close to true, this is clearly notable. This contrasts with many one-man-band ministries, which we regularly delete.  Peterkingiron (talk) 12:19, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
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