Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of the founders of religious traditions


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The result was redirect to List of founders of religious traditions. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:14, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Comparison of the founders of religious traditions

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Was initially created based on a single primary source from the Baha'i faith then has become bait for original research and grew. Was slightly discussed before here and here, I finally decided to nominate it. — Paleo Neonate  – 21:45, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
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 * Redirect - Sure seems awfully redundant to list of founders of religious traditions, which also has tables for additional information. Not saying merge because it's unclear how much of this would be appropriate there. I'd recommend keeping the history and anyone who wants to merge can propose doing so on the other article's talk page (or be bold independent of this AfD). &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 15:22, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Rename - Can it be renamed to "Comparison of the founders of religious traditions (Bahá'í view)"? Wiki-uk (talk) 16:51, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete or Redirect - the article is well intentioned but the structure and categories introduce a POV about the unity of religions. Cuñado ☼ - Talk  17:18, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect per WP:CHEAP as suggeseted by . Bearian (talk) 20:43, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Agree with Rhododendrites. This is an Essayish comparison - might be something worth merging - that can be done after the redirect. The rename wouldn't work here as while this seems to be the Bahá'í view, it is sourced (for other religions) to non-Bahá'í sources.Icewhiz (talk) 06:20, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect per the above, I agree a rename won't work. Doug Weller  talk 18:36, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete -- This is a very peculiar table. It is not an obvious search term, so that a redirect does not seem useful, but I would not oppose that.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:38, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:AGF (I did not check the sources). This is actually a comparison, not a list. Not a content fork to the list of founders of religious traditions. My very best wishes (talk) 04:29, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect The form doesn't work, the topic is too complex, for example the "event" column states a lot of startling things in WP:s voice and internal/external is too simplified. And what religion did they start? An article based on scolarly sources that discuss the topic could possibly be written, this grid-structure needs simple stuff to work with, like place in time and geography. "Comparing" Muhammad to Buddha is harder. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:31, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:OR. The "facts" in the table are things like: Death; Moses: "Natural death (age c. 120)"that we cover on other more appropriate pages. I do not  doubt the significance of Bahá'u'lláh's "Vision of the Maid of Heaven", or of Joseph Smith's "First Vision, where God the Father and the Son appeared to Smith as a young boy." But comparing cherry-picked items from disparate scriptural traditions and arranging them in a table is a work of pure  WP:OR that is NOT ENCYCLOPEDIC.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:23, 26 August 2018 (UTC)


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