Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Jenkins (Unification Church)


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The result was keep. John254 00:01, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Michael Jenkins (Unification Church)

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Non-notable. Only mentioned by primary sources. Northwestgnome (talk) 14:18, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup. Google News and Books searches show plenty of WP:RS coverage to establish notability, both positive and negative. He's a top leader of a significant religious group in the U.S. and he gets the attention the comes with it. Fix the article, don't delete it. • Gene93k (talk) 16:29, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Article could certainly stand expansion, but I'm finding 264 news articles that quote him. Plus, as president of a well-known religious organization, he's notable IMO. (The unification church was once known as the "Moonies")Hobit (talk) 17:01, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - is president of a large religious group. Looks like notability to me --T-rex 17:29, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: actually, it appears not be "a large religious group" -- highest credible estimate is "about 40,000 members in the U.S." (with credible estimates as low as 5,000). HrafnTalkStalk 18:17, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * #1 President of a church of 40,000 folks is notable IMO. #2 The USA isn't the world.  Not sure if he's the president of just the US branch, but that same site put membership in S. Korea at 1.5% of the country if I'm reading it right. Hobit (talk) 01:14, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * (i) 40k is the highest credible estimate -- lowest was only 5k (smaller than many individual megachurches). If you had actually read the article you would have seen that he is "the president of the Unification Church of America". Therefore UC membership in S. Korea (or anywhere else in the world) is completely irrelevant, as he's not the president of other branches. HrafnTalkStalk 16:04, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I had read it, but got it in my head it said pres of the whole thing. Still think he's notable given the number of times he's showing up in RS.  Hobit (talk) 16:21, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  20:18, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


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