Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Technology and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints


 * 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   delete. Shereth 16:19, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Technology and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Seems like an unpublished synthesis of published material. Essentially just a list of quotes for and against technology by LDS sources, no actual prior research on this topic is quoted. See prior discussions on Talk:Technology and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Talk:The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints. Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 06:45, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete It is an inappropriate article. This type of articles shouldn't exist on Wikipedia. Masterpiece2000   ( talk ) 08:15, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I participated in a similar discussion regarding technology and Islam not too long ago, and have reached the same conclusion here as I did there: delete because pointing out specific examples of technology relating to the LDS is potentially WP:POV. Happyme22 (talk) 08:27, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as WP:SYN per nom. Among the sources, none are dedicated to addressing this topic directly. Essentially a collection of quotes about the subject cherry picked from official and semi-official LDS Church sources. Good Ol’factory (talk) 08:50, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom Trödel  14:52, 15 June 2008 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trodel (talk • contribs)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions.   --  brew  crewer  (yada, yada) 15:57, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions.   --  brew  crewer  (yada, yada) 15:58, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Everything is referenced and the article looks as WP:NPOV as possible. -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 16:43, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Reply Please see WP:SYN, part of the long-standing policy against original research on Wikipedia. While the article may meet the criteria of NPOV, this is not enough to justify inclusion.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 17:13, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Reply I saw that, and the statement "Summarizing source material without changing its meaning is not synthesis; it is good editing" is what convinced me. -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 17:51, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Reply - You can't tell me this sentence is not blatant original research that sets up the whole article for synthesis: "The evolution of the relationship between technology and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) has evolved over the years, like many other organizations, to play a prominent role in how the organization further its message and work in TV, books, Internet, etc." (Which by the way is the only sentence in the whole article that gives it any context).--Descartes1979 (talk) 21:24, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - The article is (I think) mistitled and should be The Attitude of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Technology. A synthesis of this kind is potentially encyclopaedic, even without the synthesis appearing elsewhere, provided everything used is adequately cited.  However, the whole article is extremely mundane, and I am far from convinced of its merit.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:57, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete - This article should have been deleted long ago - the article is obscure, orphaned, and relies almost solely on information from the LDS church itself. The information in entire article could be summarized in about two sentences on the main LDS page.--Descartes1979 (talk) 17:19, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm going on move to what Peterkingiron said, but weakly so. It comes off as an essay.  If anything, a transwiki or transplant to Wikinacle might work better. -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 19:03, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Lack of source material with significant discussion of the topic is convincing to me. This is basically original research by cherry picking quotes, that can't achieve a neutral point of view unless others have researched and written on the topic as a whole.  GRBerry 15:36, 16 June 2008 (UTC)


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