Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonathan Bartley


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The result was Keep. ---J.S (T/C) 21:58, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Jonathan Bartley

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The subect does not seem all that notable and may be only of very narrow sectarian interest. Apart from his day job, he writes book reviews in the Guardian. The vast majority of hits for reviews of his book are from booksellers' sites (including several for www.ekklesia.co.uk, which he heads), I only found one independent review for the Subversive Manifesto, and one for Faith and Politics After Christendom, but am unsure about the quality of the sources. Neither book is ranked by Amazon.com. Ohconfucius 09:33, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep both are actually ranked by Amazon . Given the publishing houses, and given that the second amazon listing indicates a recommendation by David Alton, these are not vanity works. By 'Sectarian' I take it you mean Christian? --Sandy Scott 10:07, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Addendum, there is actually a BBC story about this guy . They seem to consider him notable enough to be a rent-a-quote     indeed try --Sandy Scott 10:13, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep the independent references make him notable as per WP:N. Ccscott 11:51, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, appearances on BBC mean that some people might want to know about him. JamesMLane t c 16:31, 20 December 2006 (UTC)


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