Deletion of Shlomo Shtencel

Comment: Looking at , reveals separate notability guidelines that have been thoroughly explored for sports personalities, crime victims, and even porn stars because Wiki has been bombarded with article requests around those topics. I believe we do not have a similar set of dedicated criteria around religious figures, not because of the 'stickyness' and subjectivity of religious issues, but simply because there are fewer submissions, making it so far unnecessary that the issue be completely defined. In lieu of a defined criteria, I humbly suggest that a  approach would be to adopt a similar guideline as that used for Diplomats - "Diplomats who have participated in a significant way in events of particular diplomatic importance that have been written about in reliable secondary sources. Sufficient reliable documentation of their particular role is required." Using this test, I believe that Shtencel "participated in a significant way" to the culture of 20th century Judaism in Poland (an issue of importance), that this can be verified in RS per the current article, and that continued improvement to the article (as evidenced by its recent editing history) will likely result in even more RS supporting this viewpoint
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO||WP:COMMON)

Comment: this article about a very notable Polish rabbi. It satisfies : "The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record '''in his or her specific field'''" as well as  in this case in the filed of advanced Talmudic scholarship http://he.wikisource.org/wiki/חידושי_הגאון_מסוסנוביץ One of his works is on file at Wikisource. The nominator's rationale makes no sense. This is NOT an "artist" this is a theologian and scholar of Judaism, a rosh yeshiva and posek, a great Judaic scholar who had his works published, as the article's plentiful citations make very clear. It is hard to put biographies of rabbis together and in this case the editors have done an excellent job. In addition a few experienced editors, (namely Users {{user|Bachrach44}} and {{user|Brewcrewer}}), have recently been working diligently on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shlomo_Shtencel&action=history improving the article, ''after'' it was nominated that has not been acknowledged by the nominator
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ANYBIO||WP:SCHOLAR)

Comment: He was a Rabbi and wrote a book which was published posthumously. The book being viewable online at Wikisource does not aid notability. Wikipedia:OUTCOMES#Clergy  refers to the Rabbi of a country, and he seems to have been the rabbi of only a town. I do not see that  is satisfied, and I would not want to see similar bios of every clergyman/swami/mullah/practitioner  of every faith who ever lived kept on a similar scant basis, just because they faithfully served a congregation or town and wrote a diary, when there is a lack of multiple instances of significant coverage by reliable and independent sources.  Where are encyclopedias or histories of religion which document his "significant contribution
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: per  and  #6. His rabbinical posts certainly make him notable, as ''Beth din#Officers of a beth din|av beis din'' (head of the rabbinical court) of Sosnowiec and a rosh yeshiva (dean) in that town's yeshiva
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:SCHOLAR||WP:PROF)