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Clarksville Christian School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Not seeing a WP:GNG pass for this private school in Tennessee. Sources are:

I didn't find any other GNG-qualifying sources in my WP:BEFORE search. The page creator unilaterally removed maintenance tags for notability, promotional language and third-party sourcing without coming close to addressing the problems, so rather than edit-war over a tag, I am going to AfD as the next step. Dclemens1971 (talk) 02:54, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Schools, Christianity, and Tennessee. Dclemens1971 (talk) 02:54, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    While I acknowledge that many of the currently cited sources are affiliated with the school or its denomination, there are also independent, reliable local media sources covering Clarksville Christian School that demonstrate its notability. For example, Clarksville Now and The Leaf-Chronicle have reported on CCS’s accreditation milestones, scholarship achievements, and athletics, providing substantive coverage beyond routine directory listings or press releases. Additionally, local news outlets have covered CCS events and student accomplishments in a way that goes beyond trivial mention.
    I am actively working to incorporate these independent third-party sources into the article to strengthen its verifiability and comply with WP:GNG. I respectfully request additional time to improve the article with these reliable sources before any deletion actions are taken. GatewayPolitics (talk) 03:02, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Also you could have taken these concerns to my talk page before taking this step. GatewayPolitics (talk) 03:04, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    (You could also have taken your perspective to a talk page before unilaterally removing the maintenance tags on a page you created. Your removal of them is what prompted me to do a WP:BEFORE search that turned up no qualifying sources.) Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:18, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Those articles I saw in my BEFORE search; they all appear to be based on or just reprints of press releases from the school. I have not seen anything that constitutes WP:SIGCOV in an independent, reliable, and secondary source. Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:14, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I hear what you’re saying about the sources, and I understand the importance of meeting WP:SIGCOV. That said, I think tagging or taking further steps without any prior discussion — especially when some effort was clearly made to include sources — feels a bit premature. A quick note on the talk page could’ve opened the door for collaboration rather than escalation. I’m still open to improving the sourcing if better material exists, but I think we should be careful not to rush into cleanup actions without first giving editors a chance to respond. GatewayPolitics (talk) 03:18, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Deletion discussions run 7 days so you have plenty of time. If you supply sources that pass the test of GNG, the page will be kept. Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:19, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Dclemens1971 I have cleaned it up. Any other things that need to be changed? GatewayPolitics (talk) 03:44, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I still don't see any sources that support notability. The Clarksville Now piece appears to be based on a pair of press releases from the school ([16], [17]) and the Leaf-Chronicle link is to a "subscribe" page. Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:53, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, I changed it a bit more and I believe that the article is good and is notable enough. I will have to see other opinions, and will respect the outcome. GatewayPolitics (talk) 04:04, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Proclaim! (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Non-notable local television program; no independent in-depth sources found online ForsythiaJo (talk) 01:59, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pope Benedict XV and Russia (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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This article would be better off as simply a subheading of the Diplomatic agenda section of the main article, but merging it does not seem viable because it is simply not up to encyclopedic standards. The talk page reveals possible copyvio issues as well. It appears to be substantially the same as it was in 2009.

If this article is not to be deleted/merged, it would need to be completely rewritten by someone with subject expertise or at least competence. M.A.Spinn (talk) 20:03, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of works depicting Jesus as LGBT (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails NLIST -- no coverage of this concept by external sources. JayCubby 22:29, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Popular culture, Sexuality and gender, and Christianity. JayCubby 22:29, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for raising this, Jay. I welcome the opportunity to find some more sources for an article I wrote a while ago.
    • Shore-Goss, Robert E. (2021). "Queering Jesus: LGBTQI Dangerous Remembering and Imaginative Resistance". Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies: 47–70. doi:10.17613/9exn-n122.

      Queer folks liberate Jesus’s fleshliness imprisoned within Christian heteronormative and cisgender theologies—promoted by the biblical industrial complex and aligned with authoritarian politics. Queer imaginations have unleashed perverse impulses that reinscribe Jesus within a variety of artistic mediums. Anthropologist Will Roscoe reclaims Jesus in the shamanic tradition of same-sex love, while in Jesus in Love, Kittredge Cherry re-imagines a bisexual, transgender Jesus, who is also an erotic mystic, manifesting a gender fluidity. ... On Netflix, there is a Brazilian film portraying a gay Jesus and weed-smoking Mary. Jesus comes out the wilderness with a young gay companion named Orlando, and they are erotically involved. ... Kittredge Cherry ... worked with gay artist Douglas Blanchard on The Passion of the Cross: A Gay Vision, which depicts Jesus as a contemporary gay man who suffers and dies from fundamentalist Christian hatred in 24 stations of the cross. ... The British transwoman Jo Clifford wrote and produced a one-woman play, The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of the Heaven, at the Edinburgh fringe festival. ... Finally, Terrence McNally’s play Corpus Christi has received threats and protests from the Catholic League and other Christian fundamentalist groups as it opened at the Manhattan Theater in 1998 and was forced to close down two weeks later.

    • Martins, Flávio (1 January 2025). "Artistic Freedom and Religious Sentiment". Aracê (in English and Brazilian Portuguese). 7 (1): 110–128. doi:10.56238/arev7n1-007.

      Cases involving satirical cartoons of a religious nature also illustrate the complexity of the theme. ... In the United States, Terrence McNally's play Corpus Christi, which portrays Jesus as homosexual, has faced censorship and protests. ... In Brazil there was a very similar case in 2018. The play The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, written by British playwright Jo Clifford, was staged in the interior of São Paulo. The play presented Jesus as a transsexual woman. ... The case involving the 2019 Christmas special, produced by the comedy group Porta dos Fundos, entitled The First Temptation of Christ, is a milestone in the debates on artistic and religious freedom in Brazil.

    • Bádue, Alex; Jay, Jeff (2 September 2022). "Queer performance and indecent theology in the Gospel according to Porta dos Fundos". Theology & Sexuality. 28 (2–3): 112–130. doi:10.1080/13558358.2023.2225369.TWL

      In 1996 Leo Steinberg described the sexuality of Christ as “Christianity’s greatest taboo.” Those who dare, as Kwok Pui-Lan argues, to touch this taboo almost as a rule meet disbelief, disgust, protest, threats, and sometimes violence. Representations of Jesus in film and drama provide no exception. The First Temptation joins a distinguished list of targets, which include Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ and Terrence McNally’s play Corpus Christi, in which Jesus and the apostles appear as gay men in Texas. Bomb threats against the latter elicited security measures at performances. The erotic life of Jesus, even the straight Jesus but more intensely the gay one, remains taboo, and those who touch risk scorn.

  • I'll have to look into including some of the ones Shore-Goss mentioned that currently aren't in the list. For what it's worth, even if none of this coverage existed, I'd still argue that this passes WP:NLIST on navigational grounds, namely that it replaced a bunch of see-alsos from the different articles to one another, and keeps them from all needing to be see-also'd from Sexuality and marital status of Jesus (where we're now able to have an easy hatnote for the Gay Jesus redirect). -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 23:32, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I've added Cherry's books, but left out Blanchard as failing the inclusion criteria for the list. On which note, I've added a section on talk detailing the inclusion criteria I've been using. Feedback welcome. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 00:49, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Guy Pagès (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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No sources giving significant coverage are on the article and a search has not revealed any WP:SIGCOV in any reliable source. Boynamedsue (talk) 18:32, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: As someone in the relevant academic field he's both not someone I haven't heard of inasmuch as I'm vaguely aware of figures in far-right politics and Islamophobia in France who are involved in Catholic-Muslim relations but at the same time he's also not someone I can find much in the way of verifiable sources dealing with him. He's mentioned in brief in a French polemical book written to criticize Pope Francis from a secular liberal perspective and he's mentioned in some literature on Christian eschatology for his diatribes against Hans Urs von Balthasar but there's not really anything to establish notability. So with that in mind, Delete per the foregoing. M.A.Spinn (talk) 17:19, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Divine Mercy Catholic Elementary School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Non-notable run-of-the-mill elementary school. Only independent coverage cited is a database entry; nothing beyond the school district found on search. Could reasonably redirect to Toronto Catholic District School Board. — Moriwen (talk) 18:38, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Geneviève Jeanningros (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:GNG. She briefly went viral during Pope Francis's funeral, but other than that... she's just a nun. Luxic (talk) 21:12, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 22:32, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: Enough coverage in RS. Not only in books but in The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Washington Post, Agence France-Presse. I added a Reuters and a People.com reference. The article has room for improvement, but notability is proven. It's not just 1E in the pope's funeral. Itzcuauhtli11 (talk) 18:10, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dee Brestin (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:BIO. Disputed draftification. WP:DRAFTOBJECT prohibits unilateral return top Draft. WP:ROTM author. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 15:38, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 22:42, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Draftify: I just want to say that this is incredibly poorly written. I fixed a few of the worst mistakes. It's almost impossible to get past the typos for me to judge the notability of the subject. Bearian (talk) 04:26, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Loyola Jesuit College (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Seems to lack WP:SIGCOV and has had WP:PROMO edits. In WP:BEFORE did not find reliable sources such that WP:GNG fails here. Iljhgtn (talk) 02:36, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – robertsky (talk) 14:38, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Eddie891 Talk Work 04:15, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Keep: The article doesn't seem to violate WP:PROMO as a whole, and it seems to have enough content and references to merit keeping it. The issue is there isn't much legitimate notability, a simple google search leads to less than 1 page of results.
Good Day (Forrest Frank song) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Redirect to Child of God (album). Despite charting, the song is not covered in reliable sources, thus failing WP:NSONG. UnregisteredBiohazard (what i dowhat did i do now?) 04:23, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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