Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theanism

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The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD 00:16, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Theanism

Nonnotable religion about a neopagan goddess-centric faith (yeah, that's unique) with no external evidence of its existence. "Theanism" gets about half a dozen entirely unrelated google hits; "theanism" + "goddess" gets 0. Delete. Postdlf 01:24, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Delete unverifiable, vanity, non-notable. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 01:44, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
• This is not correct. It exists. It is a newly developed form of Dianic Wicca. We are currently attempting to set up a web page. Please do not delete!!!! (Note: Unsigned comment by User:172.132.30.33, the article's author.)
  • I'm sorry, but a religion has to be much more established than that to merit an article. I wish you luck and perhaps some day, if you gain enough followers and outside attention, you may have become notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia. That day simply hasn't arrived yet. Postdlf 01:48, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete NN. Recreate if this changes. --Fuzzball! (talk) 02:27, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• delete. Wishing you people luck in developing your religion, but it must first become famous enough to merit an article, and only *then* we include it. Not vice versa. Aris Katsaris 04:12, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
  • And as a sidenote, I'm Greek and I can tell you that your usage of Greek is flawed. Brother and sister are "Adelfos" and "Adelfi", not "Aldefos" and "Aldefi". Also the names of your months have a mixed usage of cardinal and ordinal numerals (i.e. "pente" means "five" and "endeka" means "eleven", but "proto" means "first" and "ekto" means "sixth"). Aris Katsaris 04:20, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, it must be known before an article is created. Please note that Wikipedia is not a hosting service. Mgm|^(talk) 10:37, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, sadly. I get 9 google hits, 2 of which point to this VfD, and one of which is a typo of "prometheanism". If at all verifiable, perhaps a note on it could be dropped in pandeism. -- 8^D ^gab 02:01, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
  • Never mind the last part, apparently it's out of vogue. -- 8^D ^gab 22:03, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
  • At most it would get a bare mention in Dianic Wicca, but this would amount to nothing more than "one group of practitioners, in an undisclosed location, have invented new names for the days and months and call their version 'Theanism'." It would be like naming individual Bible study groups in Protestantism. Postdlf 23:04, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, unless this is a horrendous misspelling of "Theism" or something like that. Master Thief Garrett 11:07, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
• Do not delete, this is a a real religion. It has 5,000 adherents many of whom reside in the New England region. It is not known in wider circles, even most neo-Pagans are not aware of its existence. I must say that just because a religion is not well-known or "popular" doesn't mean it should be ignored or written off.

Note: unsigned comment by 172.172.49.228; first contribution ever by that IP. Postdlf 21:58, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

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