Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/El Camino Bible Church

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The result of the debate was delete. Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 20:13, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

El Camino Bible Church

a local church, the article provides no reason why this should be in an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not a web directory or a phone book. Gentgeen 09:36, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Delete, not notable. Megan1967 13:10, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Verifiable public institution. --Gene_poole 23:52, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is not a web directory or a phone book. --Calton | Talk 02:38, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  - Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, ergo it is encyclopedic.--Gene_poole 05:41, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    - - My god, call the editors of the Beg the question article, we've got a winner here. --Calton | Talk 11:43, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
        Congratulations! You're the first human being in 2005 to use the term "beg the question" with its correct meaning!
    - This article isn't encyclopedic without significant expansion - unless that happens, Delete or Redirect to Mennonite. KickAir8P~ 05:53, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)
    - My what circular logic. Dave the Red (talk) 06:27, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
    - Delete nonnotable. And incidentally, in the United States, churches aren't public institutions, at least not yet. --Angr/_comhrá 13:20, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
      - The inclusionists define "public institution" to include churches and private schools. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:11, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Just another church--only 42 displayed hits, a number of which are Wikipedia mirrors. Wikipedia is not the yellow pages or a web or neighborhood directory. Niteowlneils 01:36, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Maybe it rates an entry in the SantaClaraYellowPagesPedia. --Calton | Talk 02:38, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Delete. This isn't the yellow pages. Gamaliel 06:14, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Delete. There are probably well over two dozen churches in a 25-mile radius of my residence. Do all of them deserve encyclopedia articles? Of course not. Nothing indicates that this church is more notable than any other. Firebug 06:16, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Delete non-notable church. Dave the Red (talk) 06:27, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
Merge into Santa Clara, California and delete - Skysmith 09:10, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Delete Non-notable church. Substub. Unreasonable granularity. Plenty of room for this single line and web link in Santa Clara, California. I have already merged the material into Santa Clara, California and supplied a history-preserving notice at Talk:Santa Clara, California, so a merge-and-delete is valid. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:09, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Delete I like the approach of listing it in Santa Clara, California. I should have thought of that to start with. Jake 00:22, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Well, I just added the four catholic parishes in Santa Clara to the page, it seems only right that all the baptist, lutheran, orthodox, jewish, islam, buddist, shinto, LDS, wiccan, and so on, get listed soon as well. This will likely be a very long section. Gentgeen 00:28, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Shouldn't be unmanageable. My local Yellow Pages covers four towns with a combined population of well over 100,000 and lists less than fifty churches. If the editors of the Santa Clara page ultimately decide that churches should not be included that will be their business, but if they are not worth a mention on the Santa Clara page they are certainly not worth their own articles. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:47, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Delete. Not enough info about this entity to justify separate entry. Agree with others that inclusion on other pages (Santa Clara) is more appropriate. Tobycat 03:00, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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