Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Todd Ferrier


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The result was keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Stifle (talk) 15:03, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

John Todd Ferrier

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advert of a nonnotable "spiritual leader". No reliable independent sources. - Altenmann >talk 17:08, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Christianity,  and Scotland. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:14, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
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 *  Delete  about all I can find is this, could be the same person, they'd be about 30 yrs old. Sources in the article are primary. Nothing for GNG that I find. Oaktree b (talk) 17:24, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * @Oaktree b the "Notes" are primary, but if you scroll down, there seem to be quite a few secondary references in the "References" section? Jahaza (talk) 17:35, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Ahh ok. Since the rest are in off-line sources, I'm not going to !vote as I can't comment on the quality. I'll change it up above. Oaktree b (talk) 17:36, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I questioned both independence and relability For example "Professor Peter Atkins; Professor Derek J Oddy; Peter Lummel (28 November 2012). Food and the City in Europe since 1800: contains a short blurb sourced to Ferrier himself, i.e., hardly independent source. - Altenmann >talk 17:43, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * In Atkins, Oddy, and Lummel I see 2 mentions in the index- one refers to Ferrier's book "On behalf of the Creatures" and the other mentions the Order of the Cross founded by JTF. Yadsalohcin (talk) 11:43, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thankyou for this source- as stated, there seems to be little biographical information about this man who had a role in the history of Christian vegetarianism, so this should be a significant help (words along the line of 'an early publication of his works summarised 8 lectures he delivered...') Yadsalohcin (talk) 08:36, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. Some of the sources are kinda fluffy, but a number of the books are (at least partially) accessible on Google Books/Wayback, and at a quick glance, appear to discuss Ferrier's role in the history Christian vegetarianism. The lede could use some work; I think the weird capitalization is making it come across as boosterism. Kalethan (talk) 18:18, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this- I have started on some clarifications to the lead para... Yadsalohcin (talk) 08:30, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. Here is a person who founded an 'informal spiritual communion' which has survived over 100 years and who had a role in the history of Christian vegetarianism. Extra refs found and added above the pre-existing ones from Melton, Atkins, Grumett and Calvert(x2), which has allowed expansion of the (renamed) 'Biography' section. Yadsalohcin (talk) 08:43, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep in view of the additional relable sources references added to the article that now passes WP:GNG so that deletion is unnecessary in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 19:24, 16 July 2023 (UTC)


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