Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tentmaking

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 (non-admin closure). Pablo Talk | Contributions 18:46, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tentmaking

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"Tentmaking" appears to be a neologism describing missionary christians who maintain secular employment instead of accepting donations for compensation. The concept may be very old, however I feel this article should be deleted based on the following:

1. WP:RS - It is completely unreferenced, except for sermon-style references to bible verses and a self-support "how-to" for evangeicals (neither of which really meet with reliable source guidelines).
2. WP:OR - As a sermon would be, it is original research.
3. WP:NEO - Use of the word ("tentmaking") seems mostly confined within the community to which it is applicable (namely christians, especially evangelicals) and has not taken on this context from an objective perspective.

• Delete as nominator. /Blaxthos 19:00, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep; the term "tentmaking" is not a neologism, and this article is not unreferenced. Today's Tentmakers (listed in references) was written by a respected evangelical scholar and is still in print today, decades after it was written. A brief search on Google Books results in dozens of books on the subject, all using this term. Regardless of whether or not the term is "objective" (whatever that means), it is widely used and best describes the subject of the article. --Spangineer^ws (háblame) 20:09, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep: An ancient and useful metaphor which applies to many editors here, I fancy. Colonel Warden 20:26, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. The religious usage far outstrips any canvas-sewing. The word dates to the 19th century. --Dhartung | Talk 20:49, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
• Super strong keep, this is far more than a dicdef, and the religious usage is the primary use of the term. I'd (maybe for the first time) go so far as to disagree with Dhartung here; depending how you translate the Hebrew, you can trace this term (or similar) in this context clear back to Exodus. — iridescent (talk to me!) 22:07, 1 October 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.