Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anti-Hinduism


 * 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 Keep. There does not seem to a be huge consensus to keep, but their arguments are better. An overlap does not dictate a merge. Bearian (talk) 20:21, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Anti-Hinduism

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The article is a clone of Persecution of Hindus Darkness Shines (talk) 19:05, 22 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Merge any stuff that is relevant and not repetitive with Persecution of Hindus. Kanga Roo in the Zoo (talk) 20:40, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. §§ Dharmadhyaksha §§ {T/C} 14:19, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Hinduism-related deletion discussions. §§ Dharmadhyaksha §§ {T/C} 14:19, 23 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Persecution of Hindus
 * -Stereotypes used by Anti-Hindus- is not well sourced. An opinion of a missionary(francis), has been over hyped, WP:SOAPBOXing.
 * -Historical instances of anti-Hindu views- has been taken from Persecution of Hindus.
 * -In the West- refers to asians as well, No comments on pat robertson, because he hate just everything. Tony Brown's article was forked. Brown, Denver Post apologized already, they don't base their identity being "Anti-hindu". Rajan Zed prayer protest has been forked to this article.
 * -In South Asia- Pakistan_Studies_curriculum has been forked. Bangladesh' is also from Persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh. Dotbusters attacked all south asians. Malaysia' has articles such as Hinduism in Malaysia, Cow head protests, 2007 HINDRAF rally, HINDRAF, where more content can be added, if there is a need.
 * Yes, aim was to present "Anti-Hinduism", but there is not even a single official organization that is based on opposing Hinduism. If these named ones are opposing, they are clearly opposing multiple religions, for example Taliban are favorable to almost none. Bladesmulti (talk) 14:59, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment: Just because Anti-hinduism is talked about in other articles is not a reason not to have an article about anti-hinduism itself. There is also no single official organization opposing Christianity, but wikipedia still has Anti-Christian sentiment


 * Keep Significant coverage in the multiple reliable sources (actually around 100) warrants a standalone article. Anupmehra  - Let's talk!  09:21, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think anyone over here is saying that the topic is not notable. They are saying that the current content is duplication of another article. Do other delete voters support creation of new article on the "Anti-Hinduism" topic? §§ Dharmadhyaksha §§ {T/C} 11:07, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment: But there is also both Anti-Christian sentiment and Persecution of Christians. And both Islamophobia and Persecution of Muslims. Anti-hinduism and Persecution of Hindus is likewise not the same, the former is about intolerance, bias and prejudice, the second about physical persecution.


 * Delete This article is a complete duplication of persecution of Hindus and neutrality of this article is also disputed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Septate (talk • contribs) 15:24, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment: It is not a duplication, the content is different.


 * Leaning towards keeping both. From searching google scholar, WP:GOOG, both "anti-hinduism" and "persecution of hindus" get about 100 hits each, as Anupmehra mentioned.  However, if you search for both terms at once, there is only one hit:  the terms are not used together in the scholarly literature.
 * The top hits for anti-Hinduism span from 1948 thru 2013 (indicating a sporadic and/or venerable field of inquiry), and tend to be concerned with the topic inside India, with mention of hinduism/dalit/islam/atheism/dravidian/christianity/secularism. The publishers are economic and psychological.
 * By contrast, the top hits for persecution of Hindus span from 1994 to 2008 (indicating a bit heavier of a publication-breadth), and tend to mention neighbors of India (Pakistan/Bangladesh/Singapore/MiddleEast), with common mention of Islam only. The publishers are primarily human-rights-related.
 * Besides the indications from google-scholar, that these are separate topics, we also have WP:COMMONSENSE. The contents of Anti-Hinduism article in the west covers spoken remarks (by politicians, media personalities, protestors, and similar).  By contrast, the contents of Persecution of Hindus covers physical violence (Dotbusters and the Bonn attack... the protest-negation in Italy feels out of place).  If both are kept, suggest separating the verbal/political attacks from the physical/conquest attacks.  If only one is kept, suggest renaming it Attacks on Hinduism and Attacks on Hinduism.  HTH.

There is a lot of anti-Hinduism shown in the editorial comments. There is need to keep this article. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 23:43, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep Anti-hinduism and Persecution of Hindus are not the same, the former is about intolerance, bias and prejudice, the second about physical persecution.Shyamsunder (talk) 09:23, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep – I agreee with Shyamsunder. Can someone also please tell me where to insert the incidents of attacks on temples (my edits are being repeatedly reverted - please see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hinduism_in_Pakistan&diff=596079157&oldid=596037343)?—Khabboos (talk) 16:22, 4 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep per Shyamsunder -- Trevj (talk · contribs) 23:54, 6 March 2014 (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.