Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Islamic studies of Christianity

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was redirect. I'm choosing Christianity and Islam because there is actually content there, as opposed to Islamic comparative religion. If you don't like it, be bold and improve upon my choice. Mangojuicetalk 15:15, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Islamic studies of Christianity

Islamic studies of Christianity (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

this article does not have any content that is attributed to reliable sources after two years. It is not a notable topic, and it is a clear POV fork. It should also be noted that the previous Afd does not discuss notability or whether this is a POV fork. Sefringle 22:04, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete or redirect to Christianity and Islam. Anything worth saying on the topic can be said there. --Born2x 00:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect to Islamic comparative religion. This is "about" the academic discipline, not the intersections per se of the two religions. But it's sort of pointless when most of what you see is a template. --Dhartung | Talk 03:27, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm not really sure such an academic discipline even exists.--Sefringle 04:08, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge per Dhartung.--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 09:57, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge per Dhartung RaveenS 22:08, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge what? - all that the article says is "Islamic studies of Christianity is the profession of Muslim Christianity scholars and one of the fields of study in Islamic comparative religion." That's not a lot to merge. It doesn't say much more than "Islamic studies of Christianity refers to Islamic people studying Christianity". --Born2x 22:48, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment What do you mean from Merge what?. You should write (Speedy) Keep, (Speedy) Delete, (Speedy)Merge or (Speedy)redirect--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 05:41, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
  • No one is required to say "delete," "keep," etc., since this is a discussion not a vote. Just the same, if it helps, delete this article since it has no substantive content whatsoever. Djcastel 16:50, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
    • I'm asking, "what is it that you want to merge"? There is nothing in the article to merge. It contains a bunch of templates and one self-evident sentence. --Born2x 19:24, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
  • REvert to much earlier version This article needs to a revert to a version of 12 February or earlier. It then contained some genuine statements about the Islamic view of Christianity. This is a significant subject, but it was a stub and unsourced. Then some one deleted all unsourced content leaving effectively nothing. I note that one of those who has done a lot of work on it describes himself as an atheist, ans as taking a stong interst in Islam and anti-semitism. This almost looks like vandalism; a poor article has been harmed, rather than improved. This may be the result of competitive editing Islamic comparative religion may have suffered a similar fate: I have not investigated. I write this as a Christian. It is important that we should be able to see what Muslims think of us. Peterkingiron 19:41, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
  • comment The "earlier version" is nothing but POV garbage with no reliable or scholarly sources. Zakir Naik is not a scholar on Islam or Christianity, and nothing from that version is encyclopediac. I removed it because it is unscholraly, unsourced, what is sourced wasn't a reliable source, and is very POV material that borders on propaganda.--Sefringle 00:03, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete: There's no content to keep. It was a good start but failed to grow. --Matt57 00:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.