Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Religious affiliations of the Chairmen of the Federal Reserve of the United States

Religious affiliations of the Chairmen of the Federal Reserve of the United States

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Non-notable list; religious affiliation is not particularly relevant to the to the position of chairman of the Fed. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 16:50, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - This article nominated for deletion is no different from these articles. If this article is deleted then these articles (given below) should be deleted as well:

Religious affiliations of Vice Presidents of the United States

Religious affiliations of Presidents of the United States

Religious affiliation in the United States Senate

Prachursharma (talk) 16:56, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's different in one respect: those positions are all elected positions, so the religion of the candidate could (and frequently does) become significant in their election. The Fed chairman is appointed by the President, not elected, so his religion isn't really relevant. That said, I wouldn't oppose the deletion of any of those lists as well (particularly the Vice President's list). Also, see WP:OTHERSTUFF. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 17:03, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Being elected is hardly different from being appointed. If you are elected, it means that you were appointed by the majority. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prachursharma (talk • contribs) 17:06, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question: Are there reliable sources about the religious affiliations of the Fed Chair? None are cited in the article. That could be the relevant difference between this article and the others you mention. LadyofShalott 17:10, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The religious affiliation of each of the Fed Chairmen is clearly mentioned in each of their respective Wikipedia articles.

Read these articles for yourself: Charles S. Hamlin,William P. G. Harding,Daniel R. Crissinger,Roy A. Young,Eugene Meyer,Eugene R. Black,Marriner S. Eccles,Thomas B. McCabe,William McChesney Martin, Jr.,Arthur F. Burns,G. William Miller,Paul A. Volcker,Alan Greenspan,Ben S. Bernanke

(It is interesting to note that for some of them, their religious affiliation has been edited out of their articles in recent edits.)

And in any case, it is better to find and add the missing sources to the article than to delete it.

Prachursharma (talk) 17:21, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The question is not whether each individual's religious affiliation has been documented, but whether there are reliable sources (not zionistjewfedreserve) regarding the topic as a whole. LadyofShalott 17:39, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lists are treated differently — we don't demand a comprehensive list of Albanians in order to keep List of Albanians from deletion, for example. We need reliable sources proving that entries on a list fit the scope of the list, and we need to be sure that the list isn't trivial intersection (which really can't be determined without discussion), but other than that the only valid reasons to delete a list are non-topical issues such as copyvio or attack page. Prachursharma, I looked at the article histories for all of the men on the list, and I couldn't find any in which religion was removed, except an unsourced portion of Hamlin's article. About which of the others were you thinking? Nyttend (talk) 18:23, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. This is borderline speedy for me (G10). Did anyone notice that the only source is "zionistjewfedreserve.com"? --BDD (talk) 17:37, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah, that was added after I tagged it as unreferenced and this AfD was started. LadyofShalott 17:39, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions. LadyofShalott 17:44, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. LadyofShalott 17:48, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. LadyofShalott 17:51, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Obviously (to those of us not taking a too strict interpretation of WP:Assume good faith) the purpose of the list is to point out that most of the Chairmen have been Jewish. Of course not every Jewish person is religious. Overall the article is WP:Original research since secondary sources have not said that the religion or ethnicity of the person holding this job is something of importance, in contrast to the case of the President of the United States. The article on the Vice Presidents should go too. Borock (talk) 18:00, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And what about this article? Prachursharma (talk) 18:07, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The article is not Original Research. The article about Ben Bernanke already mentions that he is Jewish and the same is true for other Fed Chairmen's articles. Therefore this article does not introduce any new information. Prachursharma (talk) 18:27, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Delete This page was created for the sole purpose of serving as anti-Semitic propaganda. This is clearly demonstrated by the links included by the original creator, as found here. But, regardless, this topic doesn't appear to meet notability guidelines. I have not seen this topic discussed outside of in the context of hate pamphlets, neoNazi websites, etc. But, if you have a reliable source discussing this in a context not dealing with conspiracy theories how the evil Jews run the world banks, etc, I would be happy to change my vote. JoelWhy? talk 18:05, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean to say that this article is merely anti-Protestant/anti-Presbyterian/anti-Episcopalian propaganda? Prachursharma (talk) 18:16, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - subject is not itself of demonstrable notability, so the article fails notability. I also agree with editors above that there seems to be not only, perhaps, some driving purpose, but also, as per Borock, that there are serious potential OR problems in saying ethnic Jews are necessarily religious Jews. I am not so sure I agree with him on the article on Vice Presidents, however. John Carter (talk) 18:08, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - list of a non-notable subject; seems to be trying to advance a POV. A request for sources has only resulted in very inappropriate links. LadyofShalott 18:11, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, simply listing the religious affiliations of these men does not make it an attack page, and we could easily rework it by changing the non-Jews to "Christian" or something like that. Listing a specific group of prominent people by a central defining topic such as religion is more substantive than pages such as List of Presidents of the United States with facial hair, which survived AFD — it would be absurd to delete this list as a trivial intersection when consensus has supported the existence of another list with substantially less defining of an intersection. Nyttend (talk) 18:12, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I dunno, that sounds more like an argument to make Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of United states presidents with facial hair during their tenure (2nd nomination) a bluelink to me. The key is that, however ridiculous presidential facial hair may seem, there are reliable sources that discuss presidents in terms of facial hair; I know of no reliable sources that discuss Fed chairmen in terms of their religion. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 18:16, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're free to, but until/unless consensus changes, that article stays and is a good basis for keeping other articles. Some months ago there was a discussion about mandating that lists themselves have sources of the sort you demand, and that concept was solidly rejected. Nyttend (talk) 18:24, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Was it? I didn't know. Could you link me to the discussion? Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 18:26, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]