Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Biblical place names in Khorasan


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  08:57, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Biblical place names in Khorasan

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Multiple problems. The only readable portions of this article are those that are cribbed from other wikipedia articles (itself not a crime) like that of the history of Greater Khorasan.

The rest is indecipherable nonsense. It is not evident what is being claimed or how. It merely itemizes long lists of toponyms without a claim on whether it is a Biblical reference or a current or recorded Khorasan place, or presents Old Testament quotes without context, etc etc.

Looking at the article's historical contributors it would suggest COI (or at least absense of neutrality) isn't unlikely. Even the four "images" are different iterations of the same map three times and one with a strongly non-NPOV caption (replete with typographical as well as logical errors).

And while there certainly are "sources" here, they are hardly all GSs or actually establish the claim of the article as anything other than a fringe element. It is almost all editorializing, speculation and synthesis at best, and OR at that.

WP:TNT. JesseRafe (talk) 21:35, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * The article was tagged for deletion. The note said: "article should have high quality evidence".

This article shows names of places in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Afghanistan + Pakistan = Khurasan; old name). The names of these places were not assigned in recent or even modern history. These are actual place names. Look them all up on google maps or any other extensive atlas. The names are provided with reference from various books (This also includes the bible since the title includes the word). It requires editing and corrections but it is original research and referenced material. Consider that the region is not Europe where you can find cemetery records from the 10th century. I request a Pakistani or Afghan based editor to have some say in the matter as well otherwise you'll have an encyclopedia without much about this region. As to the point of the article, it is related to the Afghan (Pashtun/ Pukhtun) decent from Bani Israelis. Like it or not there is extensive material on the subject which cannot be out rightly rejected. This article shows what it says. There are places in the region with place names before recorded history which are also found in the bible. It requires improvement not deletion. Dr Pukhtunyar Afghan (talk) 06:27, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment: This article could be merged with Theory of Pashtun descent from Israelites. Despite what the page's creator (above) says, this article does not establish a single thing he claims it does, and if the "extensive material on the subject exists" it is not here. JesseRafe (talk) 20:48, 6 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete as synthesis and original research. Most of it is unsourced and for that which is sourced, the Grant R. Jeffrey one is WP:Fringe Christian fundamentalist conspiracy theory and thus inadmissible, and the other sources seem to have nothing directly to do with the article's title but are there to support the synthesis. If there is sourced evidence for ancient Jewish settlements in this region, or for some of the place names being mentioned in the bible, as the Jewish Quarterly Review source suggests, surely there are more appropriate existing articles that could contain such content. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 21:04, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as an essay. --Sammy1339 (talk) 22:16, 7 January 2016 (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.