The discussion was carried out on
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The conclusions of the discussion are summarised below (and then disputed by SimonP).
The subject that was discussed, and the conclusions refer to, is in the second section below.
After debate, community consensus was that, taking into consideration Wikipedia:Don't include copies of primary sources, the vast majority of these articles should be merged (if any content proves relevant) and otherwise redirected to its parent chapter article, unless it can prove outstanding noteability on its own. A simple discussion of a verse does not make for an acceptable article, original research or not. -- InShaneee 04:14, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Currently there are individual articles for every single one of the first 18 verses of the 20th chapter of the Gospel of John, i.e 18 articles. Is this appropriate in Wikipedia?
There has been much more generalised discussion and voting on the subject of bible verses in general, elsewhere. The only conclusions being that some bible verses are notable in their own right, e.g. John 3:16, and deserve articles of their own, but that others do not, and that most people thought that the number of notable verses was comparatively small, less than 500.
This discussion is specifically to address the following articles, and whether they should all continue to exist independantly as 18 individual articles:
This discussion is seperate to the discussion of the first 200 verses of Matthew due to differing subject matter, and continuity amongst the verses in question, and also to avoid over generalising the discussion, and thus ensuring that the existance of these articles in particular is discussed.