Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Islamic sports


 * 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 delete.  A  Train ''talk 14:08, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Islamic sports

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The bulk of this article is in violation of policies. Much of it is unsourced, and most of the rest is sourced to a single Salafi website and primary sources. The text also confuses the topic of religious views about sports with the topic of sports in the Muslim world. There's not a single cited RS about "Islamic sports". I've merged the sourced content in Islamic_sports into Women's sports and I think the rest should be deleted per WP:TNT. I'm not sure if there are enough RSs on the subject such as this one, but the article based on such sources would need to be created from scratch. Eperoton (talk) 22:54, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Islam-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:29, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:29, 27 September 2016 (UTC)


 * At the very least, this needs a move to Sports in Islam, because "Islamic sports" implies that there are sports founded/created by Islam. I would not oppose a WP:TNT delete, considering that the article was created by Striver, a user infamous for publishing tons of Islam-related original research and synthesis in Wikipedia's olden days. --HyperGaruda (talk) 18:50, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Whether or not it's started over again doesn't factor in to my vote. The article was created by a long-gone editor who, while a major and important contributor ten years ago, was also a notorious stealth POV pusher via creation of non-notable articles. Additionally, this appears to be a violation of WP:SYNTH in more ways than one, basically gathering sources about sports that happen to occur in countries with many Muslim people in them. This article, in and of itself, is about a non-topic (unless we consider praying five times a day to be a sport; I'm assuming that nobody does). MezzoMezzo (talk) 03:33, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Definite case of pushing POV and article non-encyclopedic. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk)  06:37, 4 October 2016 (UTC)


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