Talk:Irvin Baxter Jr.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or if there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]

This article was nominated for deletion on 251005. The result of the discussion was keep. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

Although this article currently reads like an advertisement, I think it is worth saving. Baxter's activities may be interesting to scholars who study evangelical organisations or millenarianism in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. There should be enough information here to help them decide if it's worth tracking down the books and other sources for themselves. I'll try and scrape out a little of the cruft and ad-copy, although I'm not the best person to work on this topic. TECannon 05:42, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

I took this out: "It has now become the most widely circulated prophecy magazine in America." -- because it is uninformative. Cite some circulation numbers with dates and sources, if it's important. I shortened and combined the paragraphs on Baxter's publication history, removed some passive voice, and revised a little grammar. I moved the broadcast stuff after the publication stuff, but tried to be careful to keep the prophetic nonfiction and fiction separate. I've tried to be as respectful as possible of the original material while still supporting the conventions of writing. I left in some material I regarded as fairly information-free because I didn't want to completely change the sense of the article, but I encourage people with more specific knowledge to include it here. How much growth is "rapidly growing"? Where are the citations on the frequency of use of "New World Order" over the years? Thanks in advance for being patient with my attempts to help out here. TECannon 06:32, 23 October 2005 (UTC)