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The result was keep. Cleanup needed, though. Tone 07:40, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Judaism and environmentalism (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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This article is someone's personal essay and violates WP:Original research and WP:ACTIVISM. The sources are not reliable sources. The bibliography is someone's dump of every book they've ever read... ever. It either needs deleting or WP:TNT. Normal Op (talk) 01:06, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletion discussions. Normal Op (talk) 01:06, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. Normal Op (talk) 01:06, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. There's clearly a topic here - a number of cited sources on this specific topic - and the article is not beyond cleanup. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 01:29, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. There is a reasonably well-discussed cross-section of reliably reported views on this topic. BD2412 T 05:30, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The bibliography demonstrates that the topic is quite notable. The rest is then a matter of ordinary editing per our policies WP:IMPERFECT and WP:PRESERVE. WP:TNT is not a policy; it is disruption. Andrew🐉(talk) 11:08, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • The presence of a lengthy bibliography where not a single book is referenced in the article, means nothing. I had already checked the edit history and the majority of those books were put in the article all in two dumps: [1] [2]. Like I said, a "dump" of a list of every single book someone ever read. It doesn't mean they are relevant to the topic. Normal Op (talk) 17:20, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • See WP:GENREF which explains that "A general reference is a citation that supports content, but is not linked to any particular piece of material in the article through an inline citation. General references are usually listed at the end of the article in a References section. They are usually found in underdeveloped articles, especially when all article content is supported by a single source. They may also be listed in more developed articles as a supplement to inline citations." A bibliography is a collection of such general references and so is quite reasonable and respectable. My !vote stands. Andrew🐉(talk) 17:48, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: Per above Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 21:06, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Jewish environmentalism is a growing field with a growing academic literature to match. See: <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C21&q=%22jewish+environmentalism%22&btnG=>. 216.164.60.237 (talk) 06:13, 20 August 2020 (UTC) IP editor 216.164.60.237 19 August 2020 (talk) — 216.164.60.237 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
• Delete: This appears to be a propaganda article. Certainly, there are many Jews who are passionate about environmental protection. But there isn't a correlation between traditional Judaism and environmentalism. Yes, Judaism advocates against waste but environmental destruction for a cause is permitted in halakha.--Cts499m (talk) 20:25, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, clearly a notable topic, the link between Judaism and Environmentalism has been subject to large amounts of coverage. The article is crap, but that's a fixable problem. Devonian Wombat (talk) 08:04, 23 August 2020 (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.