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 transwiki to Wiktionary. KrakatoaKatie 20:53, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bus ministry

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Even if the term can be verified by reliable sources, its a neologism. Sasha Callahan 06:14, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - we can't be sure it's a neologism. A RS might show the term has been used for 40 years or so. It's faintly familiar to me. Even so, I don't see how this can go beyond a dictdef. -- BPMullins | Talk 15:43, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It's at least more than 30 years old, as there was a pamphlet by W.T. Crutcher published in 1976 entitled “A Bus Ministry Manual: A Guide for National Baptist Churches”. —SlamDiego_←T 09:32, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki to Wiktionary. This is a legitimate term that has been around for quite awhile, but still doesn't belong here Rackabello 23:40, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 17:03, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep if expanded ≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 17:09, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Don't think it is a neologism. I guess if the article can be expanded it may be encyclopedic. However, we keep pages all the time saying that they could be expanded, but it never happens and just gets renominated for AfD and deleted. I say just delete this, and somebody may re-create it with a lot more context. - Rjd0060 17:35, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki to Wiktionary. It seems like a widely-used term, judging by the number of them that Google finds, but it's unlikely that there's much to say about them and they're far too common to list them all. Cosmo0 20:55, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki to Wiktionary per Cosmo. Notable term in the U.S. Christian community judging from search hits, but not appropriate for treatment in an encyclopedia as yet. VanTucky ^Talk 22:24, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - agree with Rjd0060, the person creating this should have added more (they might be the only one that knows what this is.) MarsRover 06:33, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The person creating this article (me) was an atheist originally unfamiliar with the term, which he first encountered in various Wikipedia articles. The article is a stub; Wikipedia does not and should not have a policy of deleting articles for being stubs. —SlamDiego_←T 11:29, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep (best) or Transwiki (second-best). I created this article because I was baffled by various references within Wikipedia to bus ministries, did enough research to have a basic answer, and then created a stub so that other users wouldn't need to jump through the same hoops as did I. —SlamDiego_←T 11:17, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:
- Google returns about 65,700 hits for ‘"bus ministry"’.
- The term itself is used in the following Wikipedia articles (identified by Google search):
  1. “Jack Hyles”
  2. “Southwest Baptist Church, Oklahoma City”
  3. “First Baptist Church of Hammond”
  4. “Lee Roberson”
  5. “Billy Joe Daugherty”
  6. “Nashville Dream Center”
—SlamDiego_←T 11:42, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki then Delete as a dic def. Nuttah68 12:55, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki per Rackabello et al. Bearian 18:59, 22 October 2007 (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.