Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Protestants in Nepal

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The result of the debate was KEEP. — JIP | Talk 09:26, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Protestants in Nepal

carbon copy of Nepalese House churches, which in turn is a carbon copy of Christ Groups, we don't need 3 seperate articles promoting a user's soapbox point of view. 129.2.237.44

• Keep, but delete the other two. You make the case that we don't need 3 copies of the same article. But do you argue that we don't need one copy? The topic is notable and interesting (Hindus imprisoning converts to Christianity). Make the other two redirects. -Lethe | Talk 02:24, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Call me skeptical but where are the sources verifying the numbers of adherents? Also where are the sources backing up the claim that a "right-wing" Hindu government is openly persecuting Protestants in Nepal? The creator has had a history of biased POV articles I'm still skeptical. Abstrakt 04:42, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as per Lethe, and delete the other two. DDerby(talk)
• Research suggests that any suppression of Christians in Nepal is coming from Maoist insurgents rather than the Hindu government. The US State Department agrees with this, as do [Christian sources. This article is valid and deserves a keep, but its neutrality is heavily suspect and should be flagged as such.Vizjim 09:14, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Comment to Vizjim the State Dept.'s link yielded this sentence: "There are unconfirmed reports that Maoists suppressed religious observance in areas under their control through intimidation and harassment." This information you have presented is unconfirmed, is there a more solid source of information that you have found to back up this article? 129.2.237.44

Please note that i'm not pretending expertise here. The link I should have posted was [1], showing the previous year's report, where numerous allegations of attacks by Maoist insurgents are logged. This Google search ([2]) turns up numerous reports on Christian websites of Maoist assaults. All I'm pointing out is that there seems to be some anti-Hindu POV in the slant of this article. I'd do a rewrite myself, but like I said I'm absolutely not an expert. Vizjim

• If kept the histories of the duplicates need to be merged where additional changes are made. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:11, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, and merge the other two into this, and tag with NPOV or cleanup. KillerChihuahua 14:27, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, Merge and cleanup as proposed. Groeck 16:21, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as per Lethe ··gracefool |☺ 21:47, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

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