Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Evangelical Old Catholic Communion


 * 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. Consensus is that there is a total absence of reliable sources, causing fundamental verifiability problems let alone failing to meet relevant notability standards. Mkativerata (talk) 02:46, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

The Evangelical Old Catholic Communion

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Unable to Find a RS for this article with Longterm WP:GNG issues. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 01:39, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep All religious denominations in real existence should be considered notable,(and have been in the past), as long as there is WP:V. I consider their official site meets this. The reason for apply such a broad standard here is the frequency in which discussions over the notability of such articles become divisive, and the need to avoid discrimination on the basis of who shows up at an AfD.    DGG ( talk ) 04:34, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * In theory I agree, but Their offical site is a Dead link, "ArchbishopFrancis" created it, and no RS can be found to verify anything about it. The one book that mentions it is from a vanity press and could have easily be circular source. I Just check Melton's The Encyclopedia of American Religions and it does not list. (And if you do a little googling on him you'll realize he often criticized for being too inclusive with its entries). I can't find anything to verify this is any more then one man trying to start a church. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 12:54, 1 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. No evidence it is a denomination, but likely just a portion of the Old Catholic Church denomination. Delete and merge into that article. [tk]   XANDERLIPTAK  15:56, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Any small group of True Believers can split off from some other splinter group and give themselves an impressive name. That in no way satisfies WP:ORG. There has never been a guideline that every purported religious denomination is inherently notable. References are apparently lacking which are needed to satisfy verifiablity and notability. Their "official site" has no content and does not show up at Wayback Machine as ever having had any content. Nothing at Google Books to support notability except one line in a listing of Catholic offshoots in a book of unknown reliability. Edison (talk) 17:01, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete for lack of signigicant references in reliable third party media. Prsaucer1958 (talk) 20:11, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: Their website doesn't even have any content. Weird and topped with everything else that has been said, no way is this notable. No significant coverage at all. Joe Chill (talk) 21:42, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:59, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment -- Even if the article is right, this appears to be a denomination with 3 or 4 churches, established under the authority of an archbishop of the Reformed Catholic Church of America, which does not yet seem to have an article. Unless substantive WP:RS information can be provided before the end of the AFD period, I fear that this article must be deleted on the basis that the denomination is so small as to be NN.  I note that none of the clergy concerned have their own articles, again a NN indication.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:38, 3 October 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.