Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chinese neo-charismatic house churches

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The result was merge to House church (China). Overall consensus is for a merge. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:21, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese neo-charismatic house churches[edit]

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The article has multiple issues, including being orphaned and with questionable use of sources, and duplicates material in House church (China) Caorongjin (talk) 08:25, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:47, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:47, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into House church (China). STSC (talk) 00:20, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into House church (China). St Anselm (talk) 01:01, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Merge (or just redirect). I understand there to be about five streams of house churches in China, many of them operating without registration. Efforts by Westerners to promote their union have come to nothing, apparently because the Chinese authorities want to keep them separate, so that they will not became a threat to the status quo in PRC. Ideally we would have an article on each stream (as a denomination), alongside the Three-Self Patriotic Church and the Chinese Catholic denomination, but so much is clandestine that this is probably impracticable. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:49, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I think it can make sense to merge, though it would require a significant rewrite of its contents (1) which are not of good standard to begin with and (2) that would add much different into House church (China). I agree with Peterkingiron's comments and would be fine with a redirect. It is worth noting that the actual phrase "Chinese neo-charismatic house churches" does not seem to exist anywhere on the web and the article itself is orphaned. So, I am not sure what advantage it is to redirect. Caorongjin (talk) 09:03, 3 May 2016 (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.