Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Purist Satanism


 * 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. Cirt (talk) 04:50, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Purist Satanism

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In addition to copyright concerns, for which chunks have been blanked, this subject does not seem to be a notable concept in Satanism. I would propose a merge to Satanism, but as near as I have been able to determine, "Purist Satanism" is practiced by one denomination, the Darkside Collective Ministry International. I received 18 distinct google hits for this church, mostly self-referential. (See search results.) There is nothing for the church under google news, google books, or google scholar. The term "Purist Satanism" is likewise not widespread. I get 14 distinct hits, many mirrors of Wikipedia. I have nothing under news, books or scholar. I believe that lacking reliable sources specifically on the topic of Purist Satanism or the church that practices it, the article should be deleted for failing to verify notability. Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:22, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - the nominator has stated the reasons very well. This is not a notable concept. Magog the Ogre (talk) 15:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Regarding notability, the source material for the copyrighted text doesn't mention Purist Satanism. Rather, the term "Purist Satanism" was substituted throughout the article for each mention of the topic in the original source. It seems that the author is trying to borrow the (possible) notability of other groups. &#8212;Largo Plazo (talk) 16:03, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * strongest of deletes/speedy. I suspect I know this editor's work, no-one has tolerated his spam being in the Satanism article, so now he's created this article because people were removing his self-promotion from the others; I've seen it be removed, and links to his site have to be removed, dozens of times. Sticky Parkin 18:35, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * to clarify- it was being removed because it's not even notable enough to have a mention there, and was basically just promotion of the site/ideas. We have quite a problem with spam links etc on those articles and people claiming they/their individual group are important- this is a new technique for getting the info he wants in when his other attempts aren't getting anywhere. This bloke or a similar spammer's had his IP range blocked for spam I think, definitely similar sites were added to the spam blacklist. Sticky Parkin 18:46, 28 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete, it's nonsense all sourced to one website.  Corvus cornix  talk  23:15, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Please note that User:Natas909 has repeatedly removed the afd tag from the article. Corvus cornix talk  23:41, 29 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.