Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Religion and Public Intellectuals


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The result was   delete. \ Backslash Forwardslash / (talk) 06:31, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Religion and Public Intellectuals

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This is WP:Original research. There is no source that discusses the relationship of public intellectuals and religion, only certain individuals called public intellectuals by the editor and certain religious topics. This is really more like an essay than an encyclopedia article. The general topic would be better covered in articles on "Religion and culture", "Science and religion", "Religion and politics", "Public image of religion", and like (notable) topics. Borock (talk) 03:45, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, WP:Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought. Abductive  (reasoning) 04:27, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: article appears to be based almost solely on a two-article 'conversation' (article & response) on the topic of 'The Scholar of Religion as Public Intellectual', making this topic more than a little WP:SYNTH and of doubtful WP:NOTE. It also means that there's very little overlap between the article's (WP:OR) lead sentence and the body (which is based upon these two articles). HrafnTalkStalk(P) 06:16, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, essay. Hairhorn (talk) 12:56, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: Essay. Joe Chill (talk) 14:34, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Interesting original thought, but this is not the place. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 19:26, 19 August 2009 (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.