Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeffersonian Christianity

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 delete. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 01:43, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jeffersonian Christianity[edit]

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No verifiable reliable sources exist to document the existence of this as a group or movement; and certainly nothing establishing notability or even tending to it. (Note that the article is about a current ongoing religious group or practice called "Jeffersonian Christianity", which is not the same as the religious beliefs Jefferson had, which are already well discussed at Thomas Jefferson and religion.) Tb (talk) 03:57, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Notes from nominator:

A speed deletion request was denied here: [1], with the admin commenting: declined, A7 really doesn't/shouldn't apply to this, which is a religious denomination. Once the author is given a chance to add sources, take to AfD if you still believe that it lacks notability. I do not understand the admin's statement that A7 doesn't apply to religious organizations.

The author created a web page for this group, with content initially virtually identical to the article, though later the article was changed. See [2]. First the author said, "I found this website" [3] and when I asked if perhaps he had created it, he said he had: [4]. A Yahoo group was created by someone as well: [5] with virtually no content. Tb (talk) 04:09, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I would agree that speedy deletion was correctly declined, in that the article asserts a direct connection to a notable work of one of the founding fathers. Jclemens (talk) 04:25, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that would make sense; it's different from what the admin said, though it doesn't seem to matter much any longer. Such things are always judgment calls. Tb (talk) 04:35, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete After searching Gscholar and Gbooks, I can find no evidence such a denomination exists. That said, "Jeffersonian Christianity" does appear to be a politico-social classification term, used to describe Christianity in America with a particular orientation called "Jeffersonian" (as opposed to, say, Hamiltonian or Jacksonian). It is possible that we might have an article on that topic of this name. But that's not this article, and this article could offer no contribution to it whatsoever. Ray^Talk 04:21, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. -- Ray^Talk 04:21, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No reliable sources document a non-trivial religious organization existing today. Jclemens (talk) 04:25, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Snow delete, per above.--Epeefleche (talk) 04:26, 24 November 2009 (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.