Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rabbi Gedalia Zweig

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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 delete. keeps has no policy based reason Secret account 02:23, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rabbi Gedalia Zweig

Rabbi Gedalia Zweig (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

This young rabbi does not meet the threshold for notability of such people. He is one of hundreds of Aish HaTorah rabbis no different to similar Chabad rabbis who work as outreach rabbis to non-Orthodox Jews who fail all the criteria required in WP:BIO and WP:BLP. This article reads like a resume and is a violation of WP:NOT#ADVERTISING; WP:NOT#MYSPACE; WP:NOT#WEBHOST and more. Aish HaTorah has it's own multiple websites and Wikipedia is not aish.com. True, the article says he published a book last year (2007) but it is not well known and too early to know if it's of any long-term value or importance. IZAK (talk) 06:38, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete Unfortunately, not yet notable enough. Lawrence Cohen 07:43, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete for all the reasons stated by nom. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 13:21, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment There are a few sources for this rabbi. On his role at The Kiever Synagogue [1]. An article about a speech on his book Living Kaddish located at the Jewish Journal, at [2]. Info about his latest book at, [3]. Also, concerning his musical group - [4]. Culturalrevival (talk) 13:31, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
    • Comment Acknowledging an inclusionist argument for a keep could be made, the difficulty with these sources in terms of WP:BIO is that (a) the first source only describes typical activities for a synagogue rabbi with no biographical content or notability assertion, and (b) the sources on the book and music groups are simple announcements and similar rather than independent reviews that would demonstrate notability. Best, --Shirahadasha (talk) 15:16, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
      • Comment I recently cleaned up the page and added some new sources. I agree with the above that an inculsionist arguement could be made, but there might be other sources out there yet on one of these specifically. Culturalrevival (talk) 15:53, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Notable rabbi... also an author and musician. Culturalrevival (talk) 05:13, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Speedy Keep a rabbi who authored a book and is active in aish and is a musician as well, seems to me notable enough for inclusion in the worlds biggest free and open encyclopedia. Especially now that some users have sourced the article very professionally, thanks to them for saving it--יודל (talk) 11:01, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per IZAK, Lawrence, etc. Avi (talk) 16:32, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Speedy Keep for all the reasons stated by Yidisheryid, the article is cleaned up and the rabbi is looks quite notable--Gregorykay (talk) 01:23, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Speedy Keep Notable Rabbi, Musician, and Author... looks quite notable to me. What else does Wikipedia require?--TooJewish (talk) 02:20, 18 January 2008 (UTC) — TooJewish (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.


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.