Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theologian of Christianity


 * 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. clear consensus; nothing worth merging,.  DGG ( talk ) 08:20, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Theologian of Christianity

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Incoherent personal essay Rathfelder (talk) 21:20, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete. We already have Theology and Christian theology. This article is redundant. As a personal essay, it also fails WP:NOT. Brad  v  22:16, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
 * But we also have Philosophy and Philosopher. I agree the article is weak.  The proper name is Christian Theologian rather than the current mouthful. The problem I see is not lack of notability, but the lack of good secondary sources as a foundation for the article. --David Tornheim (talk) 09:18, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep/Merge : I after reading over the article wouldn't exactly call it a personal essay, it seems to be strangely worded and could be interrupted as 2nd person narrating or lecturing but I don't find that to be obvious. I also would not say that the existence of the articles Theology and Christian theology rule out the validity of this even existing, wouldn't that be equivalent to saying "because there's an article about Chemistry there cant be an article about Chemists"? I do however think that it would be appropriate to merge this with Christian Theology as the 2 topics seem more similar than say Chemistry and chemists as an example again.Grapefruit17 (talk) 00:00, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I will follow opinions of users after correcting it more. Thank you for everybody. --칼빈500 (talk) 01:46, 4 September 2018 (UTC) — Note to closing admin: 칼빈500 (talk • contribs) is the creator of the page that is the subject of this AfD.
 * Repurpose as a list List of Christian theologians and prune. The article has a merge tag to Christian theology.  I cannot support such a merge as that article is already very large and about concepts, not people.  The present article has a definition (possibly inadequate); short biographies of two of Protestant reformers (which should be pruned); and a list of other theologians (which needs links).
 * (revised vote) REdirect to List of Christian theologians. Perhaps since the title is not an obvious search term, just delete.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:17, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 07:19, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:OR, a badly written fork of Christian theology. Not seeing anything worth merging (primary sources used a lot...). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 07:24, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete An essay fork of Christian Theology. I can't even imagine what was intended by the phrase "John Calvin, the French theologian, the perfectionist of Protestant theology" signed, Rosguill talk 23:22, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per Piotrus. WP:OR and/or WP:CFORK.  power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 02:02, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Rename to "Christian Theologian" -and -Userfy and/or Send to AfC for improvement. Christian Theologians are definitely a "thing", based on our List of Christian theologians.  But this article has terrible WP:RS at present--that must be fixed as others have noted.  It must have verifiable quality secondary sources before it is put back on-line.   In the meantime, I'm okay with a Redirect to the various places suggested above, but ultimately, this article should be able to be fleshed out as full article.  It's really not entirely different than Philosopher or Professor that describes the expert teachers of the discipline.  --David Tornheim (talk) 09:22, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete, per Piotrus; this is not good enough to be a useful starting point for a list of Christian theologians. – Fayenatic  L ondon 20:41, 17 September 2018 (UTC)


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