Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karen Smith Sellers

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The result was delete. — Nearly Headless Nick 11:40, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Karen Smith Sellers

Non-notable minister. Fails WP:BIO. References are to her own site or writings only; also concerned it might violate WP:VAIN or WP:AUTO. ZimZalaBim (talk) 02:02, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. 98 ghits; these consist of brief summaries of her sermons and portions of her personal Website. There are thousands of United Church of Christ ministers in America alone and this individual has done nothing of note. Ministers are not inherently notable. Srose (talk) 03:49, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per above. MER-C 05:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
• Question I know little of this denomination's organization. I get the impression that she is in some way the chief minister for Minnesota. Is a "Conference Minister" something that should be considered analagous to a bishop in other denominations, and if so, is that, in itself sufficient notability? The Conferences of the United Church of Christ article has no wikilinks on any name but hers. Fan-1967 22:32, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
  • I don't know about the relative status of the position, but the fact that she is the only such person with an article, and that the article was created/edited only by Nasellers (talk · contribs) (similar surname) makes this seem even more like an WP:AUTO violation. --ZimZalaBim (talk) 23:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - I am not a member of this faith but based upon a visit to their website, firmly believe she has notability as the Conference Minister which would make her akin a bishop. Its companion article, Conferences of the United Church of Christ lists over 20 CotUCoC conferences across the USA. My only concern would be that its creator is Username:Nasellers who may be related to this person. This minister was elected, January 1, 2006 with Nasellers creating the article on January 5, 2007. Ronbo76 23:50, 6 January 2007 (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.