Template:Did you know nominations/Historical religious demographics of the United States

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The result was: rejected by BlueMoonset (talk) 06:57, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Historical religious demographics of the United States

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... that Protestants made up over two-thirds of the U.S. population in 1948, but less than half of the U.S. population in 2011?

Created/expanded by Futurist110 (talk). Self nom at 01:05, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

This article relies overwhelming on a single primary source (a table of Gallup polls, published by Gallup), and at minimum it needs multiple sources. I have concerns too that it relies solely on opinion polling as evidence of demographic data; I am no expert in demographics, but this may not be appropriate.
There is also a clear issue of WP:NOTSTATSBOOK. The article currently consists solely of statistical tables, without sufficient explanatory text to put statistics within the article in their proper context for a general reader, or secondary sources to interpret the data.
I have therefore tagged the article for merger to History of religion in the United States. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:00, 3 September 2012 (UTC)