Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Serenity (spirituality)

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 keep. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-12-26 13:41Z

[edit] Serenity (spirituality)

Serenity (spirituality) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Dictionary definition not likely to expand beyond a stub. Wiktionary already has an entry for serenity, so it's not a candidate for transwiki. – Anþony  talk  08:50, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - Wikipedia is not a dictionary. MER-C 11:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete. There isn't any reason that we couldn't have an article on this topic. Surely, there's been enough philosophical, religious, and spiritual writings on the topic to allow an encyclopedic article. That said, deleting this stubby dicdef (per WP:WINAD) won't make that article harder to write in any way. Serpent's Choice 13:15, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki to Wiktionary -- Selmo ^(talk) 17:03, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - I added there a link to the Niebuhr's prayer and an external link for it; but serenity is a theme not only in the Christian mystics. Amazon.com has e.g. "The Path to Serenity: The Book of Spiritual Growth and Personal Change Through Twelve-Step Recovery" (Minirth-Meier Clinic Series) by Robert Hemfelt, Frank Minirth, Richard Fowler, Paul Meier - so it is a generally important theme. - The sad fact that something is a short stub does not mean that it should be deleted.--Ioannes Pragensis 22:51, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

  The prayer already has its own article. Even if there is an article to be written about the concept of serenity, deleting this article won't make writing that article any harder. – Anþony  talk  00:49, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

• I'm sorry, but if we delete it now, it will be very hard to re-create it, because it will be speedy deleted as re-creation of deleted material. It is extremely hard to revert the AfD decisions here. Regarding the prayer's article, it should link just here, because the prayer is only one instance of the concept's presence in the history of spirituality.--Ioannes Pragensis 08:54, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, authors are going to link that word when they want that term, and disambiguating will be a nightmare without it. Josh Parris#: 23:19, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - There is a lot to be written about serenity: the extent to which it is emphasized or ignored in various religions/spiritualities, recommended paths to serenity by various spiritualities/religions, debate about the extent to which serenity is an attainable goal, etc. Agree w/ Ioannes: "The sad fact that something is a short stub does not mean that it should be deleted." Dave Runger^(t)⁄_(c) 12:42, 25 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.