Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Christian Science tenets, prayers, and statements


 * 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. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:09, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

List of Christian Science tenets, prayers, and statements

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Not covered in reliable sources. Original research from a primary source. not suitable for merger. It's just quotes from a primary source Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. It would be like having an article on bible quotes. Falls afoul of WP:INDISCRIMINATE. IRWolfie- (talk) 22:02, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. IRWolfie- (talk) 22:05, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:35, 10 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete: OR based solely on primary sources. There is no way to judge the significance of individual list items without reliable secondary sources, and I doubt that any exist on which a list like this can be constructed. Also, a not very useful content fork of the main article on Christian Science. Falls afoul of WP:INDISCRIMINATE, and amounts to little more than promotion. Nothing worth merging elsewhere. Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 17:42, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete: I agree with the preceding comments. There is nothing here which were it properly supported by reliable secondary sources would not be better placed in the main article. Jpacobb (talk) 21:22, 13 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep or Merge: I fail to see how WP:INDISCRIMINATE is applicable. The 3 main quotes in the article were copied from either Christian Science or Church of Christ, Scientist in order to reduce the size of those articles. Wikipedia has articles on Hebrew or Christian beliefs, creeds, prayers, etc. Although I grew up in the Christian Science church, I now belong to a main line Christian church and am not an apologist for Christian Science, nor am I an opponent of it. Most Wikipedians know absolutely nothing about Christian Science. What is the big deal about primary sources? There are many secondary sources on Christian Science such as Mark Twain's book of that title and many others, pro and con. If you want to quote a Bible text, you go to the Bible, not to a secondary source for a paraphrase. clariosophic (talk) 15:59, 14 October 2012 (UTC)


 * There are ~2 Billion main line Christians (articles like the Lord's Prayer are well sourced). There are ~100,000 Christian Scientists. The situations aren't exactly comparable. You need to show that the topic is notable, with significant coverage in independent, secondary sources. IRWolfie- (talk) 16:23, 14 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep or Merge I have to agree with Clariosophic on this one. At the very least, the article can be merged or redirected back to the original Christian Science articles. Or an ambitious scholar on the subject can probably expand on the subject further. I am not seeing a case of WP:INDISCRIMINATE here, but rather WP:IDONTLIKEIT. And Adoil Descended (talk) 00:03, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You are proposing someone do original research. This article is simply someone copying and pasting bits of the primary source S&H into an article, there is nothing worthy of being merged anywhere. WP:GNG is what needs to be met. IRWolfie- (talk) 09:22, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I proposed no such thing, as anyone who reads English will clearly see. And Adoil Descended (talk) 02:46, 17 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Strong Delete, what sort of weird article is this?!? Sorry but it is not acceptable a similar article here, this is an encyclopedia not a prayer book. Instead, this material could be successfully exported in WikiQuote. --Cavarrone (talk) 09:28, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete -- No need for a reirect as the title is an improbable search term. There may be room for a factual article on the beliefs of Christian Science, as promoted by its founder Mary Baker Eddy, apart from the history of the movement and crticism of those beliefs, but this is not it -- Delete and start again.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:45, 17 October 2012 (UTC)


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