Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Pantheists


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The result was No Consensus  Chris  lk02  Chris Kreider 15:59, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

List of Pantheists

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Another randomly assembled list, lacking references and weakend by questionable inclusions. Ecoleetage (talk) 23:17, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. In addition to lack of sourcing the subject is not well defined and the criteria for inclusion are vague. If a figure's pantheism is notable it can be included in an article on that subject. ~ Antiselfpromotion (talk) 23:47, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Convert into a category: the list is very random. Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 04:28, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Since the article on Pantheism is so large (almost needing a Summary Style), this list is a nice compliment to it. Ashame it wasn't named List of Notable Pantheists.  Assuming the individual articles for each name on the list support the notion that they were Pantheists, this list in my view, meets WP:Lists guidelines.--Mike Cline (talk) 12:12, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep per Mike Cline but organize and alphabetize it NewYork483 (talk) 16:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete many issues including verifiability, reliable sources, and possibly original research. Ben1283 (talk) 16:46, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Ben1283 & Antiselfpromotion plus taking into account Mike Cline's comments, the first bio of a live person I looked at didn't mention pantheism, thus we could run into WP:BIO problems. Doug Weller (talk) 18:33, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep Essentially the world's oldest religion that many prominent figures express beliefs in. The sheer number of edits to the list shows interest in the subject. MiracleMat (talk) 15:41, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep: I'm not convinced that this article shouldn't exist, since we have a list of atheists whose contents are just as open to debate as this one. However, that list avoids becoming Original Research by keeping an extensive set of references (i.e. one per item). If we were to go through and supplement this article with sources we could avoid the whole OR issue and weed out any people that don't belong. Enoktalk 00:16, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete Pantheism is not a religion in and of itself. There are a massive number of pantheistic belief systems, each of which merits its own 'notable members of this religion' list within its own article. This article might be rewritten into a 'list of pantheistic religions', but otherwise this article is going to be nothing more than an agglomeration of the contents of other lists. This would clearly violate WP:listcruft and WP:overlistification. HatlessAtless (talk) 14:32, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * As a follow on to my comment, if pantheism is considered a religion in and of itself, with a separate identity from the constituent pantheistic religion (hinduism, jainism, etc) then my entire argument is meaningless I would have reservations about this article still as an overly large and potentially unmaintainable umbrella list containing the contents of several other lists. HatlessAtless (talk) 14:48, 12 June 2008 (UTC)


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