Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Society for Biblical Studies in India


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The result was   delete. Concerns about WP:NOTE and significant third party coverage. Cirt (talk) 14:55, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Society for Biblical Studies in India

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This is a non-notable society. There is no significant third party coverage - the two quotes in the article about the society are, in fact, by past presidents. StAnselm (talk) 21:09, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
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 *  Weak Delete: In favour of keeping this article, the society is one of a number of small theological societies in India, having been formed in 1963, and seemingly having met almost every 2 years from 1964 to 1998 (the article is based on a 1998 source, and meetings in fact seem to have continued). Against keeping this article, it does not seem to have any of the usual indicators of an academic society: it has no web site, publishes no journal, and has membership limited "by approval of the Managing Committee," seemingly to a few dozen, if the photographs in this and related articles are a guide. I can find no traces on Google except for this conference (which seems to have been primarily sponsored by the institution hosting the page), some mentions of the society in material about people who happen to be members, and a 6-page report by the society in a book from the St. Peter's Pontifical Institute of Theology. -- Radagast3 (talk) 23:01, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. The society does publish a journal. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:56, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * If that is so, the article should certainly have said that, and that would be enough for me to change my vote to "keep." However, this site suggests the journal pre-dates the society, and has a different publisher. -- Radagast3 (talk) 23:29, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * And the editor listed, V. C. Samuel doesn't seem to have an relationship with the Society for Biblical Studies in India. On the other hand, papers read at the SBSI conferences certainly do get published in that journal. StAnselm (talk) 23:59, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * According to the article, some papers read at the SBSI conferences are published in that journal, and some elsewhere, which suggests that there is no formal connection. -- Radagast3 (talk) 01:37, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * On the other hand, the fact that papers read at the SBSI conferences are published may be enough to make the society notable. -- Radagast3 (talk) 01:41, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * If indeed they've continued to publish papers. -- Radagast3 (talk) 00:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment. Searching without the "in India" seems to turn up a few more potential sources: Google Books; Google Scholar. Phil Bridger (talk) 23:03, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * If that's the same society, the article lead should include a phrase like: (also known within India simply as the Society for Biblical Studies). -- Radagast3 (talk) 23:29, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Those references don't seem to say much, other than that the Society does hold meetings, and that ten papers from its 1983 meeting were published in the Indian Journal of Theology. It doesn't necessarily follow that they've stopped publishing in that journal, though: Google Scholar indexing of that journal seems to stop around 1984. -- Radagast3 (talk) 23:58, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * And this society should not be confused with the other Society for Biblical Studies. -- Radagast3 (talk) 03:35, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
 * An article on the society has now appeared on another online encyclopedia. It seems our article is out of date on where papers are published. It also seems that the society has exactly 15 members, which makes it, I fear, less than notable. -- Radagast3 (talk) 03:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, that article seems to be a mirror of an older version of this article, deleted from Wikipedia in 2007. -- Radagast3 (talk) 09:59, 4 March 2010 (UTC)


 * WARNING to those doing web searches on this topic: the www.seramporecollege.org website, which comes up repeatedly, seems to be malware-infected. -- Radagast3 (talk) 23:50, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: Can always be re-created later if it re-emerges. Codf1977 (talk) 11:40, 3 March 2010 (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.