Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Times Square Church

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 of the debate was no consensus. Mailer Diablo 00:17, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Times Square Church

This page is clearly an advertisement for the Times Square Church. The use of a first-person perspective, an unstructured format, business hours, and mailing address are clear indications that this article serves no purpose other than to advertise. The introduction to the article is a direct copy-and-paste from this section on the Time Square Church’s website. The Statement of Faith section is a direct copy-and-paste from this section. I tagged the article requesting a complete rewrite. However, the page has been up for about 1½ years, and there have only been 20 edits, which were all direct copy-and-pastes from the church's main webpage. Since a rewrite request failed, and since nobody is jumping on this article to improve it, my vote is nothing less than Delete. (Notorious4life 05:15, 13 February 2006 (UTC))

• Delete: Blatant advertising Forbsey 06:58, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete If there was anything notable about the church, attendees or activities that occurred there, maybe rewrite, but that offer has apparently already been made, Thatcher131 22:31, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- Krash (Talk) 22:47, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as ads.Blnguyen 00:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Re-write or incorporate into a new article titled "Tent-Revivals in America" or something similar to it.,,,,,Ariele 01:41, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This church actually bought a Broadway theatre to hold its services in (the Mark Hellinger Theatre). 8,000 attendees a week, in a venue with an unusual history, in a prominent location, seems to add up to notability. While most individual churches are non-notable, this one looks like it is notable. --Metropolitan90 10:22, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Comment. If the church is as notable as you claim, how come there is no information present in the current article to illustrate its notability? (Notorious4life 04:16, 15 February 2006 (UTC))

• Keep I cut out the advertising/copyvio, its now a reasonable stub -- Astrokey44|talk 15:57, 14 February 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.