Talk:Graham Pulkingham

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: Rated as a Stub class article for the purposes of Wikipedia:WikiProject Charismatic Christianity/Assessment Wikiproject Charismatic Christianity. The article is brief and fails to cover the childhood, education, family, and early career of Graham Pulkingham. It deals only briefly with his ministry, impact on the Charismatic movement, and retirement. The article needs extending to cover all these aspects, at least briefly, and contain a suitable image in order to reach Start class.--Chris Jefferies 22:03, 1 July 2007 (UTC) (edit)

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Assessment comments The following comments were left by the assessors: (edit · refresh) Rated as a Stub class article for the purposes of Wikipedia:WikiProject Charismatic Christianity/Assessment Wikiproject Charismatic Christianity. The article is brief and fails to cover the childhood, education, family, and early career of Graham Pulkingham. It deals only briefly with his ministry, impact on the Charismatic movement, and retirement. The article needs extending to cover all these aspects, at least briefly, and contain a suitable image in order to reach Start class.--Chris Jefferies 22:03, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for deletion

Wow, that was fast, a speedy request for speedy deletion! I've only just started creating this article and hopefully will soon be able to demonstrate that Graham Pulkingham is notable enough for a Wikipedia article. I have already added a reference to a source about him, and will add at least one more before extending the article.--Chris Jefferies 08:51, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

The book isn't even influential. I did a quick Google search, and all it came up with was Amazon.com "Buy This Book" entries. Delete this please. - Pandacomics 09:15, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

It depends what you mean by influential, the book deeply affected a great number of people at the time. However, I've already added further (independent) references and I hope the speedy delete won't be decided on the basis of this one. The book is actually a self-reference, it will be useful to anyone wanting to know more, but it cannot be used to justify keeping the article so please take a look at the others.--Chris Jefferies 10:05, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

Find sources: Graham Pulkingham — news, books, scholar

Rev. Graham Pulkingham was an important figure in a significant movement within the Episcopal Church, and typical in many ways of the leaders of that time. Anyone wishing to understand the Evangelical and Charismatic movements within mainline Christianity in the 1970's and 1980's will find a handful of preachers and authors whose voices were central to the development of the movements. The development of the evangelical and charismatic movements in the Episcopal church contributed to the polarization now seen as the Epsicopal Church struggles with other issues, including sexuality and the secession of some parishes. Without understanding how the church came to its current state of diversity, news stories about the church in the current media have no context. Graham Pulkingham's significance and claim to space in Wikipedia is based on his place in modern church history, a specialized subject, but no less important than many other subjects of narrow interest that are covered in the Wikipedia. - I know this to be true from personal experience. I never met Rev. Pulkingham, but his work and his wife's affected churches that I attended in Alabama, in South Carolina, and in France. Bonnie205 (talk) 03:24, 27 February 2008 (UTC)Bonnie205

[edit] Request for uprate from stub

Hi. I've been to the article to assess an uprating request. Addressing the first major problem, I have inserted an approximate year of birth, worked out from two references, one of which I have used for verification in the article. Preferably, someone will be able to source an exact date of birth at some point.

However, the article is honestly scarce of in-depth information on the man (and his wife), whilst saying much about his works. The internet references quoted almost exclusively need subscription, sometimes paid, to access full versions of the articles being cited, although some basic verification is possible from the synopses. As you may know, sources which require registration should not be used in Wikipedia, and certainly not by paid subscription, so they are dubious.

For those reasons, I am not willing to uprate the article. I post this as an attempt to get someone to address the issues stated, in order that the article might hopefully be expanded, further referenced, and upgraded, in the future. Thanks. Ref ^(chew)(do) 16:04, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I have read the article and find that it does not have much detail. Also, the article for the Community of Celebration has no sources and does not establish notability. To no longer be a stub I think more information is needed as to why this man and the community he established is important.Ltwin (talk) 05:58, 28 March 2008 (UTC)