Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mission of Mercy Magazine

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The result was merge to Worldwide Faith Missions. (non-admin closure) Bryce (talk | contribs) 03:22, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mission of Mercy Magazine

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PROD tag removed by OP. As Admin, I restored a hasty speedy and told the editor to work on sources with time in a PROD. He removed it instead. Article is a bout a religious magazine with no ghits other than its own and social media (facebook and blogs). The links the OP provided do not address the notability issue, commenting on the founder and not on why the organization is notable. Seems to me it's just one more church-related charitable organization with its own advertising media (the magazine). Alexf^(talk) 12:35, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:41, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:41, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as OP. No notability. Just a marketing/promotional arm of a church. -- Alexf^(talk) 21:22, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I was the editor who originally nominated this for speedy delete. Nothing's changed since then - no claim of notability and no independent sources. Like Alexf I wasn't able to find any evidence in my own research that suggests this could be a notable topic. Kuguar03 (talk) 20:25, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - I have researched other articles about magazines. The articles in many fields including art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_magazines seem to be equally unsourced similar to this article under discussion. I used their format when creating this page. Perhaps most of them should be deleted--some have been listed for years. It is rare to find news sources that would give a magazine some notablility. Thus said, efforts should be made to improve this magazine article and thousands of others. รัก-ไทย (talk) 05:23, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps they should be deleted, but that's not relevant to this discussion. Please see WP:OTHERSTUFF. If "It is rare to find news sources that would give a magazine some notablility(sic)" then it follows that they may not be notable. Kuguar03 (talk) 08:50, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and redirect to Worldwide Faith Missions. According to my reading this is a periodical solely to promote the work of the mission, and thus best covered in the course of its article. Almost every missionary society has such a publication, and they are almost invariably subsidiary activities concerned with fund raising for the mission. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:50, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to Peterkingiron for a sensible, non-biased opinion. As author of the article, I have researched many NGO articles and observed that their official magazines do not have a separate article. Perhaps his advice is the most relevant. Also, apologies to the administrator for a deletion of his notice--a mistake of the head and not of the heart. รัก-ไทย (talk) 08:57, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per Peterkingiron. -- Whpq (talk) 17:51, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
merge as suggested--avery simple solution; this should be the general recourse for the newsletter of a notable organization. DGG ( talk ) 02:31, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge as per Peterkingiron. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 14:32, 12 January 2012 (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.