Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Paul's Lutheran Church and School


 * 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 speedy delete as G12. TerriersFan (talk) 21:40, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

St. Paul&

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Local church and associated school lacking any suggestion of notability. Article is almost entirely copy-pasted from the church website: this page. (The only part that's not copy-pasted seems to be the lead sentence that I added to indicate what the article is about.) Article is unreferenced and an orphan. Additionally, the school has its own separate article at St. Paul's Lutheran School.--Orlady (talk) 17:54, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions.   —Orlady (talk) 18:40, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions.   —Orlady (talk) 18:40, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I've slapped a speedy tag on the article as it was a blatant copyright infringement copied directly from the church's website. - Lilac Soul (talk • contribs • count) 19:06, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I brought it here instead of speedying it for several reasons: (1) the church doesn't assert copyright on its website, (2) on the expectation that an inexperienced user will try to recreate the article, an AfD provides a much more thorough documentary record of the issues with the article so they are less likely to be repeated, (3) the content has been there for more than a year without anyone noticing it (in part because the article is orphaned and uncategorized), so a few more days shouldn't hurt. --Orlady (talk) 19:43, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Your first reason doesn't hold. The church doesn't have to assert copyright. Something is copyrighted unless otherwise stated. - Mgm|(talk) 20:02, 17 February 2009 (UTC)


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