Talk:Norwegian Fishermans' Church, Liverpool

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This article needs to be changed, there are not such thing as the Norwegian Fishermans Church. The real name is the Norwegian Sailor or Seaman church. Orginally intended for Norwegian seamans, working on boats abroad. Why should the fisherman have a church abroad they are not working abroad, but along the Norwegian coastline.

The article is named after the building do you want to change the building as well? --84.9.192.124 10:38, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

There doesn't appear to be a Southwood Street either, unless it was changed some time ago. There's a Southwood Road in Aigburth which doesn't look a likely location.Ellwd (talk) 13:23, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

There is a Scandinavian Seamen’s Church in Liverpool at 138 Park Lane but the subject of this article looks unlikely. Anyone know any more?Ellwd (talk) 13:26, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

This article looks like a candidate for deletion; the author is currently banned and I'm struggling to verify that the subject exists. I've added a notability tag.Ellwd (talk) 13:41, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

The building is a Grade II listed one and is linked to by the [[listed buildings in liverpool] list. --Kitchen Knife (talk) 16:41, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

From Liverpool Council Web Site "36/1170 Southwood Road (west side) L17 No. 22 II 14.03.75 (Norwegian Fishermans’ Church)" Council list of listed buildings, Walking books Flickr--Kitchen Knife (talk) 16:46, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. I'm still not convinced it's notable, however.Ellwd (talk) 19:19, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

All listed buildings are considered notable from an architectural point of view. In this cases it would also be notable as unusual for a UK location to have a Norwegian Church. There are several guides to notability but usually if a government has considered it notable for some reason then it is notable on Wikipedia. One of the strange ones is that all A class roads no matter how short a considered notable because A roads are considered important.--Kitchen Knife (talk) 19:31, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Is there a guide to this anywhere in Wikipedia?78.151.182.213 (talk) 10:07, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Are all listed buildings really considered notable enough to have their own WP entry? The vast majority on the Listed buildings in Liverpool page don't have their own page for example. Whether it's notable that a Norwegian church has a branch in the UK is also debatable. Would it be notable if, say, Newcastle Football Club had a supporters' club branch in London? And would that supporters' club be deserving of its own entry here? The point about A roads is interesting in its own right, however.Ellwd (talk) 13:42, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

If you look at what a building requires to be listed then that is more than enough to make it on to Wikipedia. In the end perhaps all listed buildings will have articles but they have to be written and as it is difficult to get hold of the listing information from English Heritage it is difficult to where such articles should start. If you writte to EH they may send you the listing information. The Celtic and Rangers supporters clubs in Corby are notabler as they are the largest in England. Most CIties have Newcastle Supporters not all have Norwegian churches.--Kitchen Knife (talk) 17:40, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

OK this sound reasonable...Listed buildings aren't something I previously knew much about. If I get a chance maybe I'll incorporate some of the references you gave into the article. Cheers for the correspondenceEllwd (talk) 17:55, 20 January 2010 (UTC)