Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Flanagan (Jewish convert)
The tone of this discussion thus far leaves much to be desired. It seems that in spite of this article surviving the AfD in January 200'''9''' when it was deemed worthy of being retained, and as indicated in that AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Flanagan (former Minister), when the subject was rightly called a ''Minister'', meaning a high-ranking priest in his previous religion, yet still-and-all he saw fit to leave his former faith and openly convert to Judaism. So this is about a  personality who "capped" his spiritual life by conversion to a rival faith, in this case Orthodox Judaism. This is no small matter in the annals of either Christianity or Judaism and it almost ''never'' happens and that is why it was so significant. See the very few names mentioned in :Category:Converts to Judaism from Baptist denominations. Naturally, many Baptists and Christians automatically felt the need to cut him down to size, and as part of that his article was subjected to all manner of assaults. First he was "downgraded" from "Minister" to mere "convert" and then came the first AfD and now this second one, as well as a number of other attempts to rid WP of this article. It is a pity that the nominator has chosen this role of deletionist of such an important topic and personality in light of Jewish-Christian affairs and yes, spiritual confrontations. For example, there are strong efforts to keep articles about so-called unknown "rabbis" who went over to Christianity, lots of them at :Category:Converts to Christianity from Judaism, but now this one in the other direction part of :Category:Converts to Judaism from Christianity is facing not just deletion but ridicule. What a pity and a loss to WP openness and inclusiveness of valid topics and biographies
— User:IZAK, 04:47, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTABLE (Wikipedia:Notability)