Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was: Merge into Religion and politics (done). BD2412 T 23:31, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
Too narrow a topic to justify a page. Furthermore, in this case, all the quotes are criticisms from a single source, making this essentially an attack page against the agency. — BD2412 T 22:03, 10 July 2010 (UTC) .
 * Vote closes: 23:00, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Alternatively, I suppose the current content of the page could be merged into a page offering broader coverage of the church/state issue. BD2412 T 22:31, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge into a page for a broader topic, as suggested by BD2412. ~ UDScott 00:45, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps some reorganization among Religion and politics, Theocracy, and Religious freedom  could be arranged. Though the distinction could be rather subjective, there may be some justification for separating a topical "politics" theme from broader ones. However, in my mind this sense of "topical" means "relating to particular events or situations in a manner that is unlikely to withstand the test of time for memorable quotes," so I lean toward deletion on grounds of quotability. I hesitate because some bits, like the first two lines of the last quote, do have a certain punch to them. ~ Ningauble 15:37, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Religion and politics would seem to be the right target for any merge. This is not really about theocracy, which suggests religion being the impetus for all government actions (here the author is just talking about the politics behind an office with a specifically religious mandate); and freedom of religion does not seem to be implicated where the government is not seeking to prevent any religion from being practiced, it is just funding some better than others. The last line of the first quote is usable, but the rest is just ticking off fact-finding. The second quote, I note, is almost entirely the author quoting other people, so if what they have said is "quotable" it should be sourced and attributed to them directly. I agree as to the first two lines of the last quote. BD2412 T 16:05, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge to Religion and politics, using the quotes that BD2412 has cleaned up nicely. ~ Ningauble 15:58, 13 July 2010 (UTC)