Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apostolic Christian Church of America

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. Wizardman 14:13, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apostolic Christian Church of America[edit]

Delete: brought to afd as my original db-spam was declined. Written in a seriously POV style, and totally unreferenced. Not an encyclopedic article by any stretch of the imagination at the moment. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 19:00, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 12:49, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

YWeak keep and expand - article has no references to reliable sources, but I found a couple of reliable third party sources that explain it's notability.--S_RX 13:52, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Between SRX's addition of outside-the-website sources, and some cleanup of the POV style, this can be a page about an offshoot of the Apostolic Christian Church, which has congregations across the United States, and some outside of the U.S. Mandsford (talk) 15:16, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - needs more refs, but a 90 congregation group is notable --T-rex 17:17, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This is a legitimate topic and article. Could use some serious editing for content and POV management, but almost all articles can be guilty of that in the beginning.--Paul McDonald (talk) 21:02, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. —Jclemens (talk) 22:23, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Definite keep -- This is a denomination (though a small one), not a single congregation. It is (as yet) an inadequate article, and I have given it a "stub" tag - I hope the right one. Peterkingiron (talk) 21:30, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as copyright violation The current article began as a copyright violation from http://www.apostolicchristian.org, with most of the sentences in the article directly copied from that site: the about page for the description section and all other sections from the page on that site with the same name as the section. If not for the copyright violation, I'd say to keep. They have an entroy in the denomination listing of the World Christian Database (as "Apostolic Christian Ch of America"). So I'm convinced they are a real denomination that has been around for over 100 years, and the sources will exist. I wish SRX had actually added the ones he found here so that they would be visible to someone rewriting after the deletion. GRBerry 15:53, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The church's notability is not in question. The problem is the article, which needs a good rewrite. Ecoleetage (talk) 00:08, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- So Fix It If it's just a content or style issue, then it should be edited and not deleted.--Paul McDonald (talk) 03:31, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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.