Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deeper Life Bible Church (Nigeria)

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The result was keep. John254 19:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deeper Life Bible Church (Nigeria)

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Fails to meet notability guidelines r.y.right 19:34, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

It says it has branches worldwide. What are our notability guidelines for religious groups? Secretlondon 20:55, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Keep. Just because none of us have heard of it, does not mean it is not notable.Chickenboner 21:10, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. This is one of the largest and most prominant churches in Lagos. The article could probably be expanded. I don't think that we have a guideline for churches, but it would meet WP:CORP, as I've seen newspaper articles about it (mainly focusing on the church's faith healing claims). Heather 00:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I can't find any major sources covering it if I do some quick research (except the Church itself) - amazon.com lists a book but has no information on it, so in terms of its spread or presence, I can't really tell. If someone wants to expand the article and has the sources to back it up, please feel free. r.y.right 00:35, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I was referring to Nigerian newspapers; I don't know whether those would be appropriately major or not. As I said before, I don't know what the guideline for churches is. But here are a few articles about it: [1] [2] [3]; apparantly it was destroyed by a mob at one point: [4] [5]. For whatever it's worth, that's more press coverage than most of the high schools that we've kept articles about have had. Heather 00:52, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

• Keep - The Daily Sun, Nigeria's top-selling newspaper, also has many articles about it. See Google. Tearlach 01:51, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Indeed, to put it into perspective, it claims to have 120,000 members, which makes it the third largest church in the world. The largest church in the US is Lakewood Church with 40,000 members. StAnselm 14:05, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

To be fair, it is not a single building so much as a denomination, as far as I can tell; it says it has individual buildings in several countries, so the Lakewood Church thing is irrelevant. But it looks like people do genuinely know about it, so I'm okay with keeping it. ryright 20:49, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

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