Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Society of Mercy


 * 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. ✗ plicit  14:26, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

The Society of Mercy

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Clear lack of secondary WP:RS. All Google Books and Google Scholar hits are about older Christian groups which shared a similar name. No secondary RS mentions this alleged Old Catholic group (and as a reminder, WP:SPSs cannot establish notability). Therefore, per WP:GNG and WP:NCHURCH, this article should be deleted. Veverve (talk) 13:51, 24 May 2022 (UTC) Probably delete -- The article seems to be a history of dissent and splits among Old Catholics, not about the priestly society of mercy. 50 congregations might make a small denomination (which should be kept), but with fragmentation, it is not clear that this is about a significant group. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:13, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. Veverve (talk) 13:51, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations and Kentucky.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:36, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, or possibly merge somewhere, if any RS can be found. Johnbod (talk) 15:04, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.  you seem to have some long-term familiarity with this page, noticed it's previous incarnation as an poorly referenced article detailing Independent Old Catholicism. ~ Pbritti (talk) 21:28, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
 * You are right. I had not noticed, but this article was previously called "Old Roman Catholic Church in America". In 2017, AMDG4 moved the article to "The Society of Mercy" with the reason Organization changed name and did not indicate this former name.
 * However, on the website of the Old Roman Catholic Church in America (which was given in the pre-move version of the article, and is currently given as the offifial website at Old Roman Catholic Church in North America), there is no mention of this name change, and the organisation seems to continue to exist to this day. This seems to contradict what is written in the Society of Mercy website: "The Old Roman Catholic Church in America dissolved simultaneously with the founding of the Society" with no mention whatsoever anywhere else of this "Old Roman Catholic Church in America", the closest thing is "One of these descendants was the Old Roman Catholic Church in North America, where our Superior General was ordained in 2007."
 * The situation is very confusing, as always with those micro-groups, and in this case no RS is there to explain things... Veverve (talk) 00:23, 29 May 2022 (UTC)


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