Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Vitus Church


 * 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    No Consensus to delete. Eluchil404 (talk) 07:18, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

St. Vitus Church

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Roman Catholic parish in Cleveland, Ohio without demonstration of notability. There's substantial coverage is from the clearly reliable Encyclopedia of Cleveland History article, but not from anything else; the only other sources mentioned appear to be church-produced histories. Nyttend (talk) 13:46, 8 September 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:40, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak delete The article claims it is the largest "Slovenian church" in the U.S., which is at least a claim to fame within the denomination, but how is "large" measures? Seating capacity? Area of footprint? Mass of structure? Interior/exterior volume? Enrolled members? Attendance? Reliable sourcing for the claim is lacking. Othersise it sounds like a fine and well functioning congregation, but probably not deserving more than mention in the article about its community. I do not see reliable and independent sources with significant coverage More would be needed than the congregation's own publications, or newspaper articles about services or personnel changes. See Notability (local churches and other religious congregations) which was an effort to set a notability standard for religious congregations and their buildings, ultimately rejected. It still represents the views of several editors about things that might make a congregation notable enough for its own article. Wikipedia is not a directory of churches. Edison (talk) 18:31, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:30, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions.  -- Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:40, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:30, 22 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Weak Keep I put some references up that might achieve notability. Not entirely sure though. I think there's other references out there, but you have to slog through obituaries to find them. It's a pain. Silver seren C 16:42, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:HEY, although the formatting and tone need improvement. Bearian (talk) 00:39, 30 September 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.