Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bible/Featured biography


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was Delete the March bio page, Rename the parent page per Kusma. I also deleted Portal:Bible/Selected biography since it was essentially identical to the March biography page. &Euml;vilphoenix Burn! 00:04, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Bible/Featured biography and Portal:Bible/Featured biography/March, 2006
Inherently biased - it assumes historicity, which is something that groups often dispute. The March 2006 example is particularly biased. Clinkophonist 17:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete the March bio page, Rename the parent page per Kusma The March biography shows how atrocious this idea is. Inherently biased, indeed. "God (born: infinity ago)..."  This actually trivializes the Divinity; terribly inappropriate for any encyclopedia. Xoloz 21:00, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Rename to Portal:Bible/Selected person or something similar to remove the POV inherent in the bad title "biography". The trivialization of God is a content issue that does not require giving up the reasonable idea of focussing on a specific person every month. Kusma (討論) 19:57, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * You are correct that the problem with the March entry is peculiar to it; however, my comment was intended to suggest that any "selected person" choice on a biblical topic is likely to be controversial. God is an especially bad case, but I cannot think of a good, non-controversial case. Xoloz 21:12, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that David, Paul of Tarsus, and Joseph (Hebrew Bible) could be decent and not too controversial possible choices, if a Selected person is to be included on the Bible portal. However, this is a matter that should really be discussed at Portal talk:Bible. Kusma (討論) 21:53, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I thought about this a bit, and I think Kusma is correct. There probably are biblical people (I like your suggest of Joseph, Patriarch of Israel) who would be uncontroversial.  The selectors should be very careful, though.  I have amended my vote above to clarify. Xoloz 13:06, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep This is much ado about nothing. "Biography" does not imply anything about the subject -- not even that it is real. They don't even have to apply to persons! See, for example, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, America's Constitution: A Biography, God: A Biography, London: The Biography, Africa: The Biography of a Continent, Turkish Reflections: The Biography of a Place. --Hyphen5 14:03, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * BJAODN (then delete) Ashibaka tock 17:43, 26 March 2006 (UTC)


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