Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old Catholic ministry

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The result was delete. — JJMC89 (T·C) 05:27, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Old Catholic ministry[edit]

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This article is essentially unsourced and essayish. Much of its content is speculative, if not outright inaccurate. I did a search, but all the uses of the term "old catholic ministry" are about other topics with the same name. Reyk _YO! 09:00, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 10:06, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This article has zero citations. Of the four external links, three of them are to websites which have expired or are dead links, while the fourth is to the first ten pages (only) of a master's thesis -- that is, just the table of contents, acknowledgments, glossary, list of abbreviations, and abstract. The article claims that "Old Catholics do not need to raise money for pensions, building maintenance or to fund the local diocese", although in fact some Old Catholic denominations have churches with buildings that require maintenance, dioceses, and clergy who retire and need to have their pensions funded. There are a great many denominations which classify themselves as Old Catholic (see List of independent Catholic denominations), and it's not clear which of them the writer of this article had in mind. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:36, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: This is about ordained ministry in the Old Catholic Church. This is a function of the Church, not independent ministry. And agree with earlier comment, this article is definitely an essay. -- Whiteguru (talk) 11:25, 31 August 2020 (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.