Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Philip Church (Norwalk, Connecticut)


 * 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 keep. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 16:08, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

St. Philip Church (Norwalk, Connecticut)

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no indication of notability for this building. Winning a local award is not enough. Redirect to Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport may be a reasonable alternative to deletion. John from Idegon (talk) 12:21, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 12:44, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 12:44, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 12:44, 19 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment. There was a multiple-article AFD for this article and other church articles which led to "Keep" or "no consensus"(?) outcome previously:  Articles for deletion/St. Mark Church (Stratford, Connecticut).  I guess the closer failed to post notice of the AFD at the Talk page of the affected articles. -- do  ncr  am  19:48, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * a, Redirect  to parent parish Saint Mary Church (Norwalk, Connecticut). The architect may be notable enough to support an article.  On this parish, however, I am finding only routine news stories.E.M.Gregory (talk) 01:09, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose redirect to St. Mary, Norwalk the parish was taken from the territory of St. Mary, Norwalk, but there is no current link and a redirect would be misleading.--Jahaza (talk) 16:09, 21 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment I find a few articles on newspapers.com on the building, two from right after it opened and a third noting the award.,, and . I'm not convinced either way, however. Smmurphy(Talk) 18:50, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I continue to think that a redirect to Saint Mary Church (Norwalk, Connecticut) is a reasonable resolution. Note that St. Mary, Norwalk bills itself as "The Mother Church of Norwalk, Connecticut," an already mentions St. Philip on its talk page.  It is possible that this page could be sourced up to standard, in addition to the architecture, and coverage of chartitible efforts in local - but reliable, secondary - sources over the course of decades, there is a good deal of coverage related to  a parishoner who enjoyed a moment in the national spotlight when his 1040's era discharge form the U.S. military for being gay, was replaced with an honourable discharge.  He was in design and did some stuff for big retailers that might make him able to have a page of his own, but he took charge of the church's decorative elements (both creatively and as a conservator, apparantly)  So, as I say,someone could expand this page, but deleting seems to violate WP:PRESERVE and St. Mary's seems like the best merge destination.  Alternatively, we could leave as is and tag REIMPROVE with a tip on talk page to check this AFD for leads on sourices.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:46, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep, on second thought. This building  rocks, and was a significant statement in its day. Keep and pray for an editor.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:51, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. The architecture is Mid-century modern architecture according to that link (although not mentioned in the article yet), and yes the building is cool. I commented above and have been wondering which way to go, but I also think this topic has significance and I expect there are sources about its construction and about the architecture award mentioned in the article for the interested person to develop it. -- do  ncr  am  19:50, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment -- This would clearly be NN (like most local churches), unless its architectural merit (and the awards won) make it notable. I am unable to judge whether that exception is sufficient.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:13, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - There seems to be a consensus in favor of keeping, and I think that seems ok. If no one else gets to it first, I'll try to add the material I found from newspapers.com this evening or early next week. Smmurphy(Talk) 17:23, 26 March 2017 (UTC)


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