Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Japan Bible Seminary

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The result was keep. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 02:27, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Japan Bible Seminary

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No sources found to establish notability, and the Japanese language sources present in the Japanese article don't appear to provide significant, independent coverage to meet WP:ORG. This does not seem to be part of a larger organization so there's no obvious merge target. StarM 16:27, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. StarM 16:27, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. StarM 16:27, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. StarM 16:27, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. StarM 16:27, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - institutions such as this are generally notable and lots of Google Books results indicating coverage in secondary sources. I will add some content to article when I get a chance.

Further on this, I see one of the results is An International Directory of Theological Colleges (SCM Press, 1997). There is no preview available, but it seems that JBS has an entry. And that's the thing about sources - they only have to exist, not to be readily accessible. St Anselm (talk) 22:36, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment An entry in a directory is not significant coverage to meet WP:ORG. I have no doubt it exists, just whether it's notable. StarM 23:09, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep no evidence that an adequate check for Japanese langauge sources was performed before listing this article. Plus, such schools are typically notable.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 23:39, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I did indeed check, as well as review the sources in the Japanese article. In my opinion, nothing that establishes notability. Would love to be proven wrong. StarM 17:22, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. on the basis of what's been said. Most such institutions are notable. DGG ( talk ) 04:51, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as has reliable book sources as shown by Google Books search and highlighted in this discussion, imv Atlantic306 (talk) 00:20, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete All the book sources that I looked at are all trivial passing mentions and name drops. None address the school directly and in-depth. Otherwise, people who say the books make it notable can point out three specific ones that do, instead of just going off the raw number of search results, and I'll be glad to change my vote to keep. --Adamant1 (talk) 09:26, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that none of the ones that look like they have significant coverage have full preview on Google. St Anselm (talk) 18:46, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep despite it being a poor stub. However, this is likely to be the only protestant seminary (for clergy) in Japan. Christianity is a minority religion there, though I am told that aspects of Christian culture are more engrained there than one might expect, but such unique facilities are likely to be notable. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:54, 17 January 2021 (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.