Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gospel of Westboro

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Postdlf 01:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gospel of Westboro

This article is an unsourced attack page. Google returns no results for "Gospel of Westboro", and no meaningful results from a search for the same phrase without quotation marks. Please delete it soon. NatusRoma 06:11, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Comment see also Westboro Baptist Church, Brent D. Roper, and Members of Westboro Baptist Church. Somebody went to a lot of effort writing these. -maclean25 06:17, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, hoax and/or rant. Dcarrano 06:30, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless it can be verified and NPOV'ed. But somehow I wouldn't be surprised if it were all true. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 07:13, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete hoax. JamesBurns 08:38, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge. Westboro Baptist Church is a genuine organization and, while this article is heavily POV, the information provided therein is factual. WBC and Fred Phelps have made mention in the press, particularly in regards to the death of Matthew Shepard. Should be cleaned up a bit to fit Wikipedia standards, however. ThePurpleBuddha 18:52, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
  • You're right about the Westboro Baptist Church article. However, the content of Gospel of Westboro is presently unverifiable, and thus should be deleted. NatusRoma 00:44, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
    • With the way they proselytize, I'd say that the gospel of Westboro is one of the most verifiable articles we have on Wikipedia... Almafeta 09:03, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
      • Do you have any evidence that they consider their writings to be a 'gospel'? I'd love to keep this article if there's any truth to it, but claiming that they consider their writings to be "a legitimate addition to the canonical gospels" is a very big step from simply asserting that those writings exist. You're right, the activities of WBC are generally extremely public; so if there was a 'Gospel of Westboro' I'd expect it to have been heavily covered in the print and online media; in fact, Google finds no web pages mentioning the term. TSP 14:31, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Weak delete. Currently unverifiable due to lack of cited sources. Also has POV problems. However, the other articles are legit: the Westboro Baptist Church does get a (disproportionately) large amount of coverage in the media due to their enthusiastic nationwide demonstrating and outspoken homophobia. — Gwalla | Talk 22:02, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Not so weak anymore. The title seems to be an original creation of the3 article author. — Gwalla | Talk 00:47, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete severe verifiability problems, POV bordering on rant. -Splash 01:22, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Go to www.godhatesfags.com/main/index.html. The lower lefthand corner has the WBC epics. The letters to heretics are here. I will post the links in the article. I hope after seeing that this is true and not a hoax that you will all repeal your votes. - anonymous entry by 69.154.189.180

  The existence of Westboro Baptist Church, the "epics" and the letters is certainly true; but you don't seem to have provided any evidence that the church considers these to be part of a 'gospel'; and, as has been said, a google for "Gospel of Westboro" finds no results. Mention of the epics and letters may well belong in the Westboro Baptist Church (Topeka) article, but I've seen as yet no reason to believe that there is any "gospel" to write about. TSP 13:24, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

• CONDENSE, MERGE INTO WBC, AND DELETE . THIS IS JUST...ahem. This is just Phelps-cruft, mildly interesting but not worth an entiire article. --Calton | Talk 05:42, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Merge provable material into the WBC article and Delete, though any valid material could go into Westboro Baptist Church (Topeka). WBC is real, noteworthy and all that, but I've seen no source to suggest that this "gospel" exists. Writing some letters does not a gospel make. TSP 13:24, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: "Merge and delete" is usually considered an invalid vote. — Gwalla | Talk 00:47, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Hmm, good point. This is a bit of an unusual case; there may be some valid content in the article - in that it mentions the Epics and letters, which do exist; but the subject the article is on doesn't seem to have any validity, so it should not be a redirect and no material should be moved into the WBC article in its current context. Changed to a delete as there doesn't seem to be an option acheiving exactly what I want :-) TSP 00:56, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into Westboro Baptist Church. Almafeta 07:41, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

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