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Paurastya Vidyapitham (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Does not have enough secondary references to merit an article. Fails notability. - The9Man Talk 06:38, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Saint John the Baptist Elementary School, Pittston (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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The page does not have any reliable sources that significantly cover it. There are some YouTube videos about it, but those are not reliable and likely not secondary. Using Google news, you can find some news articles that show up. However, these articles only cover people who are associated with the school and not the school itself, thereby failing

WP:SIGCOV. The school has closed, so this isn't likely to change in the future. Easternsahara (talk) 20:05, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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This history is actually mentioned in Pittston, Pennsylvania with a "citation needed" flag, so a merge to Pittston, Pennsylvania#Education probably makes sense. 21:26, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
Church of the Ascension of Christ in Warsaw (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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No evidence of notability, either in this article or the original in Polish. JohnMizuki (talk) 19:23, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WAYF (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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This repeater for the

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Noah Vivrette (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I originally nominated this article for speedy deletion [5] which was turned down. I believe this article fails

WP:BEFORE again (as I did when I nominated for speedy and can't find anything that is reliable or substantive. The amount of followers doesn't confer notability. Knitsey (talk) 22:45, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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You have to scroll down to February 2025 on ADL. It's mentioned in the reference. 2600:1700:36B0:2E30:1588:45F1:17EA:43DB (talk) 01:20, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You have to scroll down to February 2025 on ADL. It's mentioned in the reference. 2600:1700:36B0:2E30:1588:45F1:17EA:43DB (talk) 01:22, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That also appears a trivial mention. Oaktree b (talk) 01:28, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for pointing that out ip. Looking at that entry, I would agree with Oaktree that it is a passing mention. Knitsey (talk) 14:55, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Vanguard Presbyterian Church (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Every source in this article which mentions the subject is either from the denomination itself, one of its churches, or Dewey Roberts, the convening moderator (i.e. founder). Regardless of the author of the Aquila Report articles, the Aquila Report itself probably doesn't qualify as reliable. This is a splinter denomination that hasn't received

WP:SIGCOV in reliable sources. I went looking for SIGCOV and did not find it. - JFHutson (talk) 01:24, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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Knights of the Holy Eucharist (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Doesn't seem to have any really independent sources, indicating a lack of

notability
.

  • First source: "The Knights paid a modest amount for the writing and promotion of this article"
  • Second source", journalist: "In addition to working with the Knights of the Holy Eucharist (knights.org)[...]"
  • Third source is informing that the bishop (head of the diocese) is working with the Knight

and so on, a mixture of seemingly unreliable partisan sources (Catholic Online), non-independent sources (EWTN), contact information, ...

This seems to be a local organisation of just 12 people in 2016[8], not some large organization spread across the US or multiple countries.

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Grace Baptist School (Portland, Maine) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Kept at AFD in 2008; apparently largely on the then-held basis that all schools are notable. Tagged as unsourced since 2018 and appears to have been generally unsourced since creation aside from linking to the school's website. This is not really significant coverage. There are other such brief descriptions in the newspapers.com archives of the

WP:NORG for a nonprofict private school based on brief annual newspaper announcements stating that the school had opened for the year and two brief passages in a book stating that the school had strict rules about hairstyles and that a "Let's get rowdy" cheer chant had been suppressed. The 2008 AFD included a reference to sources existing but none were produced. Hog Farm Talk 05:16, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Wokingham (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Not seeing any independent

WP:BEFORE search turns up many more directory listings and trivial mentions (example) but nothing we can work with for notability. Open to a redirect to Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth but bringing it to AfD for that consensus since a draftification was contested with the addition of non-qualifying sources. Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:14, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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keep Many of the other churches in the diocese have a Wikipedia page, so I believe that it's only fair that this one does. There might not be too many references because it isn't a huge parish, but many other churches' Wikipedia pages have even worse referencing, it it is difficult to find relevant sources. But I believe that the sources are not biased and it does not compromise the quality of the article. Eterin (talk) 09:56, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Please see
WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS -- it's not a valid argument to retain a page. If it's difficult to find sourcing for this topic then we should not keep it as a standalone mainspace page. Dclemens1971 (talk) 12:51, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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Catholic theology on the body (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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This article is original research/synthesis through-and-through and has not substantially changed from its original form in 2008,

WP:ILIKEIT
, the original author of the article declaring his topic to be kept, and another who unfortunately simply did not understand that the content of the article is original research.

Speaking from my professional qualifications as a Catholic theologian: The term "theology of the body" (not "theology on the body", which appears to be a name a user made up moving the page in 2020 and sounds like bad English at best) refers properly to a series of addresses made by Pope John Paul II. The article identifies a grab bag of Patristic and medieval sources as proponents of a discrete "theology of the body" which they were collectively developing as opposed to being various sources—some of whom were close collaborators, such as Ambrose and Augustine, and some of whom were at odds—who at times spoke of issues that today may be called theological anthropology. The verifiability of the references has been unclear for years as the Talk page reveals.

It may be possible to invoke

WP:TNT here—I think it is possible to have an encyclopedic article on the history of Christian views of the human body—but as it is, this is original research, not a history of Christian anthropology. M.A.Spinn (talk) 03:26, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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St. Patrick Church (Wyandotte) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Apparently non-notable parish church in metro Detroit. The only source provided is an official parish history, which is obviously non-independent. A

WP:BLAR was appropriate in that situation. Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:24, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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Redirect to the list article recommended by Dclemens1971. —A. B. (talkcontribsglobal count) 04:18, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Trinity Christian School (Morgantown, West Virginia) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I have carried out

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  • At least Weak Keep. Ideally, I'd like to see more in depth coverage from sources from further away, but there's a lot of documentation and enough I could find from other newspapers in the state.
    • "Trinity, St. Francis Schools Expand in Morgantown" (Feb 2006)[17] State Journal, Charleston
    • "Trinity Christian School Breaks Ground on New Wing" (November 2004)[18] Dominion Post
    • Residents Question Trinity Christians Impact (August 2004)[19] Dominion Post
    • "Trinity Christian opens new campus, transportation issues arise"(April 2005)[20] Dominion Post
    • "Trinity Adds Finishing Touches" (August 2005)[21] Dominion Post
    • "Trinity for sale to highest bidder: Bank looking to sell bankrupt Christian school" (May 2010) [22], Dominion Post
    • "Bank wants to sell bankrupt private school in Morgantown"(May 2010) [23], Charleston Gazette
    • "Trinity to keep school: Reaches deal with bank for $5 million" (July 2010) [24] Dominion Post
    • "Prep Sports:: Morgantown Christian school getting ready to tackle football" (Jan 2009) [25]" Charleston Daily Mail
    • More[26][27][28][29][30][31]
There are also hundreds of more routine sports articles, which actually makes it difficult to find the more in depth ones Jahaza (talk) 23:48, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Relisting comment: Relisting. Weak arguments on both sides of the fence here.
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  • Keep In situations like this, I would normally go to Newspapers.com for sources. However, content from that state is surprisingly scarce. Sources in old newspapers likely exist, but they are hard to find. BeanieFan11, you are much better at navigating the Newspaper Archive than me. Is there anything you can do? The Knowledge Pirate (talk) 19:06, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Keep - Passes GNG. One good source showing in the footnotes; HERE is coverage from MaxPreps. [HERE is coverage of Trinity Christian's selection for part of a NASA mission via coverage of WBOY channel 12. There is a reason we used to have a special notability guideline insuring Keeps of high schools of documented existence — they are cultural centers of their communities. Not just public high schools, private schools as well. As a writer of sports bios for WP, high schools are a BASIC part of every sports bio and we should want these links to be blue, not red. Carrite (talk) 17:50, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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