Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richmond emergent church movement

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The result of the debate was delete. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 01:54, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Richmond emergent church movement

Delete. I am sceptical there exists such a thing as the "Richmond Emerging Church Movement". No hits on Google. Visiting several of the supposed member websites I find no mention of any such movement, nor any indication they consider themselves emergent churches, nor even any awareness of each other. A random mishmash of unrelated church organizations in Virginia is what this looks like to me. Perhaps a gentle hoax? I'll leave a note for the originator & ask him to chime in with any evidence to the contrary. technopilgrim 00:03, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Looks awfully questionable. Interesting to see if the author can provide something. Fan1967 01:37, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete It might be a sort of gentle hoax, as Technopilgrim suggests, or it could just be a badly written article attaching a label to a phenomenon which isn't really a movement. I could be persuaded by some external evidence that such a movement had been identified, and was actually noteworthy, but so far there's no such evidence. BrownHairedGirl 02:00, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Looks like original research. Delete unless it can be shown that verifiable external sources have noted that the emergent church movement in and around Richmond has the claimed distinct features. Thatcher131 02:35, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete this isn't a movement. It's just some observations made by an editor about certain churches in Richmond. Borders on original research. --djrobgordon 02:37, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per all above. --Terence Ong 02:38, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, and I agree with the borderline original research sentiment. --Kinu ^t/_c 03:43, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as above. It doesn't actually say what the "movement" is. ProhibitOnions 10:26, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Probably a good faith effort at original research. I would suggest that the author assists in Christianity in Richmond, Virginia article or some such encyclopedic topic that covers more than just the author's favorite postmodern-style Richmond churches. MPS 18:16, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per all above. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 03:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Newyorktimescrossword 06:59, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 22:39, 14 March 2006 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.