Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deepdene methodist church

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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 Delete. --Shanel 06:37, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deepdene methodist church

Non notable church, Delete --Jaranda wat's sup 00:30, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Keep. To me Churches are by definition notable. (Oh and I am not aBible-basher or anything ike that) Batmanand 01:52, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Delete I'm sorry, but no. Churches are no more notable for being churches than post offices are for being post offices or junkyards are for being junkyards. This article (this church) needs to be in some way notable to be included in Wikipedia. Unless the church has a famous pastor or participated in a famous event, I say delete as vanity. CaveatLector 02:50, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, per nom Tom Harrison (talk) 02:22, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, the assertions of notability are essentially self-promotion of Lindsay Falvey, the author. Gazpacho 02:57, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. I agree with Batmanand. -- JJay 04:32, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. This is just silly. There are tens of 1000s of churches. Denominations are notable. Religions are notable. Churches are just instances or (even less) buildings. If every church is notable, then so is every Scout troop, Jaycees chapter, and Union local. Airumel 06:54, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
There are also tens of thousands of schools, and yet they are all classed as notable - even when closed (see VfD about three above this one) Batmanand 12:22, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Will churches be to 2006 what schools were to 2005? I hope not. pfctdayelise 03:20, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. As per CaveatLector and Airumel, religions and denominations are notable, but individual churches are generally non-notable and generally should not have encyclopedia articles of their own. This article appears to be one of a series of articles created by User:Lindsay.falvey about himself and things associated with his life and career; per WP:AUTO such autobiographical articles should be discouraged. --Metropolitan90 07:17, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. WhiteNight T | @ | C 07:20, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Churches may be notable for their architecture or for their history. This article asserts nothing beyond the routine functions of a house of worship: important to the congregation yet of no broader significance that might merit encyclopedic interest. Durova 08:30, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete not notable.--cj | talk 11:41, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Note should be Deepdene Uniting Church, Rev Dr A. Harold Wood OBE is notable but association here not. Paul foord 12:48, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Ambi 13:50, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. NeoJustin 18:26, December 31, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. It sounds like a nice place, but not something that deserves an encyclopedia article.Benami 03:24, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment If kept this should be moved to Deepdene Methodist Church per WP:NC. (ESkog)(Talk) 17:42, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep
    • Just as noteable as any of the 1000's of other wikipedia articles on schools (example list)/churches/shopping centres/etc all around the world. (see next point)
    • From Wikipedia:Schools regarding which school articles should be kept:
      • It has 3 or more full and complete sentences of verifiable, factual information that is not published solely by the school itself, or already included/better located on a district or city wiki article (ie: phone book information does not count toward the sentence total, that includes city, address, district, or phone number(s)). Such information can be included in the article but will not count toward the sentence total.
    • Linked to from A. Harold Wood, who was an advocate and player in starting the Uniting Church of Australia. He was a minister at Deepdene Methodist Church upon retirement (according to the biography). (this is also a reason under Wikipedia:Schools to keep an article relating to schools)
    • If deleting, merge into the A. Harold Wood article instead, to add more information on what A. Harold Wood did with his life?
--Phanton 03:46, 3 January 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.