Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samuel F. Herd


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The result was   keep. Xymmax So let it be written   So let it be done  03:04, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Samuel F. Herd

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Person notable for being on a board of directors of 9 to 18 people for a 10,000 person congregation, not an organization head or otherwise notable.  MBisanz  talk 08:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

*Delete Unnotable per sources.Bildstit (talk) 08:41, 29 March 2009 (UTC) Striking out !vote of a sockpuppet of a banned editor. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:23, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak delete Google comes up with a few relevand 3-rd party sources; however, there don't seem to be enough of them to ascertain that this individual is sufficiently notable for inclusion.  ♪Tempo  di Valse ♪  17:03, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions.  -- — LinguistAtLarge • Talk  00:30, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions.  -- — LinguistAtLarge • Talk  00:31, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - there seems to be an Indonesian wikipedia article here, and another in Polish here. Both seem to cite enough references to at least potentially establish notability. John Carter (talk) 00:40, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep As I read the article on the Governing Body, this is the effectual central leadership council for the entire body of 7 million. That's enough for notability. DGG (talk) 02:00, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The article Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses references 10,000 several times, I do not see 7 million mentioned at all.  MBisanz  talk 02:13, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See Demographics of Jehovah's Witnesses--the 10k are just the fraction of the 7M adherents who are heaven-bound, according to their doctrine. Herd is therefore at least equivalent to a Roman Catholic bishop, and hence notable as a religious leader. Jclemens (talk) 03:50, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep Google news gives one seemingly valid source, and there's plenty of other web ghits. For a non-mainstream religious governing body, that's pretty reasonable.  Failing that a merge/redirect to Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses may be appropriate, because I'm not finding much else on the web that's RS'ed about him. Jclemens (talk) 03:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


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