Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evangelical Church of the Deaf

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 was No consensus. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-12-27 09:31Z

[edit] Evangelical Church of the Deaf

Evangelical Church of the Deaf (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Delete non notable with no verifiable sources. Адам Райли ^Talk 20:12, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletions. --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 20:33, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. There are indeed verifiable sources, including the Toronto phone book if it comes down to that. However, the United Church includes this church on its website, as part of its deaf ministries information.[1] The unique nature of this congreation provides the subject with encyclopedic value. If not, change the title to deaf ministries (or something similar) and expand the article to include information on the deaf ministry movement. Agent 86 21:05, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - I understand what you're saying, 86. But it still appears to be a NN local church. Deaf congregations in my own denomination would be similarly unnotable. -- Bpmullins | Talk 21:38, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Delete unless independent sources can be turned up that assert notability. Charlie 22:33, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep Had one looked at the talk page of this site, they would have seen a discussion going about finding the resources. I suppose that the long wait until after Christmas was just intolerable. Here is a link to the info about the pastor of the church. Here is a link to a news story by Toronto Star about the congregation, filtered through the International Disability Rights News Service. Here is a website about the historic Toronto home that housed the church for almost 50 years. I realize that I should use this info to update the article - but somehow I just don't have time right now. Perhaps the mere presence of the info is enough to assert notability. Pastordavid 23:25, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per PastorDavid. A very specialized and innovative ministry. More worthy of an article than a character in a video game or about 50% of the other articles on Wikipedia. Edison 05:03, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per PastorDavid. - Lex 07:51, 27 December 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.