Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christians in the Arabian/Persian Gulf

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The result of the debate was KEEP. — JIP | Talk 16:31, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Christians in the Arabian/Persian Gulf

Sorry, but the lemma is plain silly. And I don't thing renaming would do, as we already have Assyrian Church of the East. --Pjacobi 18:26, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

So, is your problem with the Lemma? How else would you suggst we deal with a problematic geographical name? Insofar as I am in the process of writing the article, I assure you the scholarship behind it is solid. --RLMullen

I started to look because of the lemma. And I consider the "in the [..] gulf" inapprobiate. But the question of the lemma is tertiary.

Perhaps we can shortcut the process, if you just explain, why this shouldn't go into Assyrian Church of the East?

Pjacobi 19:25, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Because the Assyrian Orthodox Church is a denomination. Pilatus 20:58, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, but the article in question is about its early history, Armenian Apostolic Church

The article is about Christianity in a region, so I'd prefer not to bury it under "Assyrian Church of the East", which, as Pilatus says, is a denomination. Maybe rename it "Christianity in the Arabian/Persian Gulf Region" or "Christianity around the Arabian/Persian Gulf" RLMullen

• Keep, this information might be buried somewhere in Assyrian Church of the East but someone looking for it should be able to go straight to this page. Possibly rename to Christians in the Gulf region and we will guess which gulf. Kappa 20:42, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Note: We also already have Christians in Iran (and, but a miserable stub only, Early Christianity) --Pjacobi 21:19, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Burying this information into Assyrian Church of the East is absurd for a number of reasons. The Assyrian Church of the East is not the only jursidiction in the Arabian/Persian Gulf as previous indicated. Secondly, there are other non-traditional Christian groups (mostly Protestants) in some areas of the Persian Gulf which should eventually find their way into the article.--Nicodemus75 23:08, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Nicodemus75 KillerChihuahua 00:39, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep — Gareth Hughes 02:17, 13 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.