Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mariano di Gangi
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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 was keep. W.marsh 23:41, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mariano di Gangi
- Weak Delete- Seems unimportant. I could be wrong. Yankee Rajput 21:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, fails WP:BIO. He's written a few books, which also appear on Amazon (see here) however none of them appear to be even remotely popular and have no reviews at all. The article doesn't contain any references either, so it also fails WP:V. Jayden54 22:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keep Yes, He's an old man who's not preaching Sunday by Sunday anymore (so don't expect to see anything new), but was signifigant as a pastor, an educator, speaker/preacher, and Christian leader.
- Comment if the above argument is there, goodbye to a lot of Wiki sites of people from the past, There's a lot more I can add to the posting and above comment including Mentor and Friend, but what's the use ???
Bacl-presby 00:58, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keep He is as notable as a Canadian church leader can get. If he is not notable enough for an article, then no Canadian church leader is notable enough, especially in the Canadian Protestant church even though its congregations number in the millions. Paradiso 01:52, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 19:58, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- Keep, we cannot apply the same measure to establish notability with a church leader as with a pop star. Church leaders are mostly noted within their congregations. Alf photoman 13:19, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- Keep, though on the basis of his books, and definitely NOT on the basis of the spurious reasoning advanced by Alf photoman. Notability is determined in precisely the same way for everyone: by their actions. These actions may be more widely discerned for a pop star than for a priest, but the question is always the same: has this person actively chosen to make, and successfully made, a contribution to his field of human endeavour or understanding that others in that field might reasonably be expected to want to know about? For a pop star this may mean singing a hit, or never having a hit but laying the groundwork for a new pop genre; for a priest it may mean setting an example of human charity notable _beyond_ his immediate congregation, or preaching sermons that have a higher success rate in converting "pagans", or, as in this case, by writing books that in some small way advance human understanding of the divine. WMMartin
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