Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joining Hands Free Church


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was delete. Mailer Diablo 13:44, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Joining Hands Free Church
Delete — this article appears to be an advertisement for a particular congregation and a vanity article. It failed a 30 May 2006 prod which also cited its nature as an ad. The prod was removed and replaced with text copied from http://www.ourfellowship.org/statement.html which create a WP:COPYVIO problem. A Google search turns up no other "Joining Hands" group besides this one congregation, contrary to the claims of the main editor. The article basically has only one editor, whose user name, User:Revjsp is strikingly similar to the name of the congregation's pastor, Jack S. Porcello; thus the vanity concern. Finally, and this is off topic, one page on the external web site, http://www.ourfellowship.org/aboutof.html, has a paragraph basically lifted without attribution from Free church. Joining Hands Free Church Rochester NY is a redirect page associated with this article and should also be deleted. JonHarder 02:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails WP:COPYVIO, seems to be an ad for a non-notable congregation (only 8 unique Google hits). --Core des at talk. o.o;; 02:27, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete both this and redirect per nom unless notability established and copyvio resolved. --Alan Au 02:40, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete if I read the article right, it's a congregation that doesn't even have a church building. Does not assert notability. NawlinWiki 03:28, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Michael 07:41, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep The first section looks fine to me, just stubify it and then let it grow. The second part should be removed as it's nothing but an advertisement. --Lakerdonald 17:02, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: largest paragraph of the first section was copied from the Free church article. Aside from that, I see nothing new of note. JonHarder 17:42, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Don't see how I missed that, thanks. --Lakerdonald 18:16, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Delete The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. JChap (Talk) 01:42, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom --PresN 18:14, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete No assertion of notability. It is nice to see a church with its entire website released under a creative commons license, but I see nothing on that website to make me believe that this is a notable church.  It can't even claim originality for being this free, as the about us page says that is an outreach of another ministry.  GRBerry 00:53, 13 July 2006 (UTC)


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