Talk:Donald H. Frew

Major Revision

This article was noted for unverifiability / non-notability issues. I have extensively revised the biography to concentrate on the notable and verifiable facts of his life. I have removed all references to Aidan Kelly as this is a personal, and very minor issue. Greg Stafford (talk) 17:08, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion

There is a proposal to delete this article because of unverifiability / non-notability issues. You've verified that Frew exists, and is a Wiccan priest -- so far so good. I can add some further refs, which you may or may not feel are reliable sources:

• [1]: "Donald H. Frew is a Wiccan Elder and is High Priest of Coven Trismegiston in Berkeley, California. He has represented the Covenant of the Goddess in interfaith work for almost two decades and is one of its two National Interfaith Representatives. He has served in the Parliament Assembly of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, and currently serves on the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative. He is on the board of directors of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio, and is a member of EURIMA. Frew is active with various local, regional, national, and global interfaith groups and is the founder/director of the Lost and Endangered Religions Project, focused on preserving and restoring the religious traditions of marginal communities." - this site is run by Interfaith Center at the Presidio.
• [2]: "Elder Don Frew, a Wiccan priest, is past President of Covenant of the Goddess, the world’s largest Wiccan organization. He has been an interfaith activist for more than 20 years, including nine years on the Interfaith Center at the Presidio Board of Directors. He has served on United Religion’s Initiative Global Council and the Religious Assembly of the Parliament of the World Religions since 1993."
• There are numerous links scattered around the internet on reputable sites to pages on the Covenant of the Goddess site; however these links all seem to be broken. Presumably COG has recently re-shuffled their site. Some of these pages are still in google cache (google frew site:cog.org).
• I can have a look in some printed journals (I'm specifically thinking of the Pomegranate journal) for further bio material.

Frew's position as past-president of CoG should give him a degree of notability, as well as his being the high Priest in whose coven Aidan Kelly was initiated, and subsequently one of Kelly's biggest detractors. I'll see what else I can find. Fuzzypeg★ 05:36, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

I've added some pertinent links regarding the controversy regarding scholarship of Wicca and it's history, which Frew is involved in. I hope this helps. Graphite.goddess 00:53, 6 November 2010 (EST)