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The result was merge to Benjamin Creme. (non-admin closure) Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 14:30, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Maitreya (Benjamin Creme)

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No third party references, I am trying to help out some of the Theosophy articles, but this one is completey non-notable. Benjamin Creme is even low profile for a Theosophist. The concept of Maitreya is only found in a handful of post-theosophist books, the article is not neutrally written. I suggest a deletion or redirect. GreenUniverse (talk) 19:17, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 20:43, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 17:52, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep without prejudice to possible merge (not deletion). Whether Creme is "low profile" within Theosophy I am in no position to say; but over the years there have been many news stories about him, and his version of Maitreya teachings and predictions,[1], including for example the Los Angeles Times (1993)[2] and the The New York Times (1996)[3] and The Guardian (2010)[4]. On the other hand, I don't know that there need to be multiple articles about Benjamin Creme and Share International and Maitreya (Benjamin Creme), but at least some of the material in this article appears to be usable and valuable, in conjunction with independent references available in the other articles or in the media, to contribute to a full picture of Creme, Share, and their teachings. --Arxiloxos (talk) 19:00, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge the parts that are specific to Creme to the article Benjamin Creme. (Much of the article is not specific to Creme's teachings and duplicates material from Maitreya.) There is no need to leave a redirect, since the article title is an implausible search term. --Lambiam 08:15, 19 January 2012 (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.