Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Latino American Dawah Organization

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The result of the debate was KEPT. Vote undecisive: d/k=5:3, but the article has been seriously rewritten

[edit] Latino American Dawah Organization

This was listed as a copyvio but the author owns the copyright. As is this page is a personal essay, Delete --nixie 04:33, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

• Delete NN religious organization. Klonimus 05:07, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, self-promotion. Megan1967 05:27, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable. JamesBurns 10:03, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

• Keep --JuanMuslim 16:29, 23 May 2005 (UTC) I think that the article needs to be userfied. For example, I would like to strip the author's name and then edit the article so that it comes from a 3rd person, objective point of view. The article is also too long. The original article was written for an entirely different audience. Most well-known, accomplished Muslims are simply not listed, because they aren't very vocal or crazy. Radical groups, such as the Nation of Islam and Taliban, are listed but mainstream Muslim organizations, such as ISNA or ICNA, are not. However, they are known among all American Muslims. I plan to help in that regard. You can learn more about LADO at http://www.latinodawah.org/about LADO and various LADO members have been mentioned in several articles in a number of publications: http://hispanicmuslims.com/articles

• Total rewrite. I'm not convinced by the "not notable" line, although I could possibly be swayed. I mean, have you guys seen some of the groups in Organization stubs lately? How notable must a group be? A more fruitful approach might be the writing of a new stub comparable to Alianza Islámica – which is straightforward, informative, and not long-winded. But I would certainly agree that almost none of the material currently in the article is worth keeping, for our purposes. QuartierLatin1968 21:19, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. The new stub provided by copyright holder (viz JuanMuslim) looks fine as far as I'm concerned. The word "notable" doesn't even appear on the Wikipedia:Deletion policy, and there are lots of relatively small groups that have articles or stubs on Wikipedia. LADO is worth 724 google hits, not even counting misspellings. At worst, the current stub is harmless. QuartierLatin1968 23:05, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete POV essay. Leanne 05:25, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
• Comment I've been editting the article to conform to Wiki standards. Thank you for your patience. I was looking at the organization's stub. Wow, the descriptions are short. I didn't realize that. Please feel free to edit the LADO posting. JuanMuslim --JuanMuslim 17:57, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
• Comment I've editted the entry on Latino American Dawah Organization (LADO) as best as possible, addressing the concerns some of you have addressed. Please look over the entry to see if you still want to keep your current vote. I still welcome other users to edit the entry further. Thank you for your patience. I've changed my vote from userfy to keep.JuanMuslim --JuanMuslim 04:09, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. rewritten. mikka (t) 15:51, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

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