Deletion of Christian persecution complex (2nd nomination)

Comment: A handful of top quality reliable sources is enough.  doesn't apply to scholarly research
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (WP:NEO)

Comment: This article is a |GLISM and an  article. Most of the citations used in the article are opinionated blog articles, such as the Salon article. Some of the citations provided by the creator of the article User:Cinadon36, are '''self-published''', such as "Persecution Complex: Why American Christians Need to Stop Claiming That They Are Persecuted" (printed by Crowdscribed, LLC). What a neutral book title by the way (sarcasm). This article also contradicts academic studies that demonstrate that Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world in the present day. https://www.foxnews.com/world/christians-most-persecuted-group-in-the-world-as-vicious-attacks-grow
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (WP:NEO||WP:ATTACK)

Comment: Per User:Seraphim System's reasoning both here and on the article's talk page. Take away the handful of op-eds written by unauthoritative commentators in sources that fail , and the remaining article violates 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS||WP:CFORK)

Comment: This article doesn't pass . Furthermore, the idea that Christians suffer from persecutory delusions sounds like a |fringe theory
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:FRINGE)

Comment: This article should be deleted per  and . Could you imagine ''Encyclopedia Britannica'' or ''Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia'' hosting this article? I think not
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Article titles (WP:POVTITLE||WP:CFORK)

Comment: looking above, the concerns about sourcing have not only been rebutted, but {{u|Cinadon36}} seems to have demonstrated that this article is well-sourced for its size, to a degree that other pages should strive to ''emulate''. Furthermore, this is clearly a  concept especially within American politics -- I note this dispute is, probably not coincidentally, occurring during the happy month of the year where accusations of "War on Christmas" responded to by accusations of "War to impose Christmas on non-Christians" tend to be hurled back and forth. Within that discourse, the concept is clearly of note and worthy of study even by those who disagree with it. It being controversial (yes, it clearly is) does not negate its clear notability
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTABLE)

Comment: reviewing {{u|Cinadon36}} and {{u|Excelse}}'s discussion of sources, I find the former more persuasive and more in keeping with Wikipedia policy. I see no reason to exclude sources like ''The Atlantic'', so  is met
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: and expand, It will be a crime against humanity to delete this article, on the basis of !votes frivolously claiming unsourced/poor source. After careful review of the sources in the article and those presented and discussed above it is quite obvious for anyone that the topic is a highly notable topic and should be discussed separately. The sources are highly reliable. Absolutely no problem with the sourcing. Delete votes appear to me as  votes. Just because Persecution of Christians exists is no reason to delete this article. "Persecution of Christians" article can contain a para about this topic and this article Christian persecution complex can elaborate about it in detail. The article Persecution of Christians is already 230 KB and heavily bloated.  applies here, hence this is an absolutely valid  for this article. I also agree with other participants above like DGG, Calthinus who have also rightly pointed that delete reasons stated, don't really apply here
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:IDONTLIKEIT||WP:SIZERULE||WP:CFORK)

Comment: per |OR and |COATRACK
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR||WP:COATRACK)

Comment: This is an  with not enough citations to establish notability. If someone searched, "atheist persecution complex" you'd also get Google hits because some polemical sources use that term (that's the same thing that's going on here). As others have said, it doesn't belong on the project
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Essays (WP:ESSAY)

Comment: clearly the topic meets  per references established above. RM is the place to request a move, and AfD is not cleanup. This article discusses the attitude of Western Christians towards secularization, not the actual persecution experienced by Christians elsewhere, for example the Soviet Union or Islamist states
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: I quickly reviewed about three mainstream sources in the article and this passes  pretty clearly
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: nothing that can't be fixed through regular editing, with https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Christian+persecution+complex%22 plenty of  on the subject
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)

Comment: and redistribute the material more appropriately. There are basically three sets of information here: one, some reasonably-well-sourced stuff about persecution and its perception in the early centuries of Christianity; two, some other stuff about feelings of persecution experienced by (or claimed by, or used as a means of manipulation by or of) 20th/21st century evangelical Christians; three, some other stuff about genuine hostility experienced by Christians. These three do not (and, I think, cannot) make a cohesive whole. The stuff about early persecutions should probably be merged into Persecution of Christians.  The stuff about the modern perception of loss or persecution that is sometimes labelled a "persecution complex" is actually a more complex phenomenon and deserves better treatment and a tone that doesn't come off as . It should probably be covered over at Christian privilege and/or Religion and politics in the United States. And finally, real and recent persecution of Christians has a home over at Persecution of Christians in the modern era
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Attack page (WP:ATTACK)