Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Universal Orthodox Church


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The result was   delete. —Tom Morris (talk) 10:41, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Universal Orthodox Church

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There are no non-primary sources used to determine notability. As far as I can tell this group isn't in communion with either the Eastern Orthodox or Oriental Orthodox communions, which means it isn't a true Orthodox church (see Orthodox Christianity). Looking at the group's website it appears to be a marijuana church that makes use of pseudo-Orthodox imagery. Perhaps a redirect to Marijuana religion might be in order? FiredanceThroughTheNight (talk) 05:30, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete -- I seriously wonder whether this denomination consists of much more than its founder, a self-appointed Bishop Davis, who has according to the website declared himslef to have no home. Am I being too cynical?  We regularly delete one-man evangelical ministries, and this looks to me like another, tough of a differnent theological bent.  Peterkingiron (talk) 18:15, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete – When checking on Google, be careful since there are a fair number of hits for Universal Orthodox Church. However, almost all refer to the world–wide grouping of all the Orthodox Patriarchates and not to this group for which no evidence of notability has been found. Jpacobb (talk) 17:14, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete After filtering out the other sources that are not related to this communion, I don't see anything that suggests this meets GNG. Mkdw talk 23:06, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
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