Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Otis Moss III
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[edit] Otis Moss III
Reverend Wright is notable, Barak Obama is notable, is the pastor hired after the last guy quit notable? Only mentions I can find of him are in conjunction with Wright and Obama...notability is not conferred by relationships. Perhaps a merge into the article about the Church until more is written about Pastor Otis outside of the Presidential race? LegoTech·(t)·(c) 04:54, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
- Merge into article about church. No independent notability as yet. May be in the future, but not yet.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 04:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
- Delete the subject hasn't received substantial independent, and seems to fall into Wikipedia:Notability (people)#People notable only for one event guideline. Mentions such as this in the Wall Street Journal, and this in the Washington Post only mention him tangentially as part of Obama's relationship with the church, and do go beyond trivial coverage. -Optigan13 (talk) 05:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
- Merge and redirect to Trinity United Church of Christ. It's a reasonably important church in the UCC and in Chicago contexts, but not of the stature that merely leading it confers notability. Wright didn't even have a national profile prior to a few months ago. --Dhartung | Talk 07:35, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
- Keep. He is the new lead pastor of one of the most talked about churches in America, which has played and will continue to play a huge role in the 2008 election. There are over 5000 google blogsearch results for Otis Moss. 224 Google news stories. 85,000 Google web search hits. This is an obvious, overwhelming keep. Trilemma (talk) 13:03, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
- Merge per Optigan12 and Dhartung. Gamaliel (talk) 21:16, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
- Keep The church in this case is sufficiently notable that he is an important religious figure. DGG (talk) 01:50, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
