Talk:List of campus preachers

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I tend to agree with the POV in this article, but it is still POV, and so I added the tag. Brainhell 00:01, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I would look to the Garry Cattell (PSU) article for a good example of how this page should be written. It says that his views are conservative and controversial but does so from the NPOV. Mithunc 04:35, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Listworthiness

We've had a few preachers trying to increase their Google ranking on here. I think we should limit this list to campus preachers with their own articles. --Adamrush 16:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I disagree completely to limiting the article in such a way. It's not titled "List of campus preachers with their own articles." If a preacher has made a significant impact then that preacher should be listed. I listed one who was recently involved in a lawsuit that garnered significant news coverage, so he should not have been removed. Hunter00047 16:35, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

There needs to be some threshold of notability; why not use the one applied to articles? If the preacher in question has garnered significant news coverage, you might as well write up an article and add him. --Adamrush 02:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Lack or presence of an article doesn't always indicate a lack or presence of notability. It simply notes whether or not editors have elected to create an article on an individual. For example I created the article on Larry Davis (minister), a Southern Baptist minister who was caught behaving badly. Currently there is no article Annie Armstrong, who is well known in Southern Baptist circles as a leader in the home missionary movement of the early SBC. The Easter offering is named in her honor. Of the two, Annie Armstrong has far greater notability, but no Wikipedia article. SonPraises (talk) (contributions) 20:46, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Indiscriminate

This appears to violate WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE. This is a list of non-notable people, with no verifiable sources, of interest to very few readers. Unless it improves very soon, somebody should nominate it for deletion. See Wikipedia:Listcruft. Mrees1997 21:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

This list is hardly indiscriminate; it simply leaves the burden of notability to the articles themselves. Furthermore, I disagree that this list is of interest to very few people. Anybody who went to a major college got to see these guys in front of the student union a few days a week. --Adamrush 12:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Agree Adamrush. I've found that "non-notability" helps these figures become not only quite influential, but also selective about revealing the nature of their church affiliations and past problems. Tom Short for example has visited at least 60 verified and over 100 claimed campuses BUT is nearly always identified as "non-denominational" though he has that clear affiliation when researched. Furthermore, this affiliation has in the past been under scrutiny by cult watchgroups, as my article verifies through RS such as the Washington Post. The people on this list are not just local yokels. Bro. Jim for example was a Clinton advisor. Campus preachers have often been newsmakers in (sometimes) reliable campus papers, but since most libraries only carry local campus papers, it has been rather impossible for us to connect the dots until now. The term "campus preacher" however is not universal. Google "Tom Short"+"campus preacher" and you get very few hits. Google "Tom Short"+campus+debate and you get lots of relevant hits. Consider changing name to "list of campus evangelists". ClaudeReigns 17:20, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Adamrush that the article may be of interest to anyone who has experienced the phenomenon of campus preachers. But then the interest is in campus preaching rather than specific campus preachers. Maybe a detailed description of campus preaching could included in the article Open-air preaching with a list of campus ministers there.SonPraises (talk) (contributions) 20:58, 26 July 2007 (UTC)