Deletion of Mendel Shapiro

Comment: http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22rabbi+mendel+shapiro%22 Four relevant articles in Google News Archive, http://news.google.com/news?q=%22rabbi%20mendel%20shapiro%22 one in current Google news seem clearly enough for . The theological validity of his views is irrelevant for determining notability. Bad faith nomination
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: if we would have gone just by  in the nomination I probably would have had less of a problem with voting delete, but it is very hard to do that if the basis of the nomination is the fact that somebody does not like the content of it. On the other hand, all the pains certain people go through to get the Jewish Feminism out of Wikipedia in itself shows that the theme is noted and therefore notable
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: The relevant guideline is , whose central notability criteria is publication in multiple |reliable sources. Rabbi Shapiro easily meets this criterion. As to scholarly coverage within his field, the Rabbinical Council of America, North America's largest Orthodox Rabbinical association, devoted a considerable part of an issue of its scholarly journal ''Tradition'' to comments on Rabbi Shapiro, see e.g. http://traditiononline.org/news/article.cfm?id=100780, which specifically identifies R. Shapiro's contribution as notable, and http://traditiononline.org/news/article.cfm?id=100781, who calls it "important". See also http://www.edah.org/backend/JournalArticle/1_2_henkin.pdf, by Yehudah Herzl Henkin, a major Posek, whose scholarly commentary also asserts that Shapiro's contribution is notable. In addition to scholarly coverage, there is also extensive media coverage by e.g. http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=6937&print=yes, http://www.cjnews.com/pastissues/02/nov21-02/international/int2.htm,http://www.jta.org/page_print_story.asp?intarticleid=12072&intcategoryid=5, http://www.jta.org/page_print_story.asp?intarticleid=12072&intcategoryid=5, http://www.kehilathadar.org/Aboutus/jewishweek08-02-02.html
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO||WP:RS)