Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Islamophobia and Islamism

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I count 7 clear "delete" votes, 1 "keep" vote (one very new user discounted) and 4 "keep as merge" votes (one probable troll discounted). Reviewing the article, I conclude that the content was in fact a fork from Islamophobia and find nothing that is appropriate to merge back. I also note that the article is an orphan.

On the principle that we should discourage the creation of forked articles that have the intent of pushing a particular point of view, I am going to exercise my discretion on this one and call it as a delete. Rossami (talk) 22:48, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Islamophobia and Islamism
POV fork. Firebug 05:13, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or else merge back into criticisms section of Islamophobia,Islamofascism,Islamism. I think this article is good starting point for documenting how charges of "Islamophobia" get bandied about by Islamists, similar to charges of antisemetism by some Zionists. Klonimus 05:51, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. User has created an awkward title just to push his POV. The issue - both sides of it - is covered well by Islamophobia. Eixo 08:06, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep The article makes a good case for the right of free speech versus the effort to suppress it by association with racism.--Artoner 12:27, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This is Artoner's first edit. Anyway, it's not the function of articles to "make a good case" for political propositions; Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Firebug 13:03, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Islamophobia. Why do we need 2? Internodeuser 13:10, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * merge seems ok to me Yuckfoo 17:48, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per Internodeuser. &mdash; RJH 19:05, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete No need to merge any of this content. The issue is already covered in a reasonably NPOV fashion in Islamophobia. Leithp 20:37, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per Internodeuser. Jayjg (talk) 21:06, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not another one. - Mustafaa 03:13, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Leithp carmeld1 01:38, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete duplicate content. JamesBurns 10:38, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect to Islamophobia --Irishpunktom\talk 10:58, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge --Aesed 02:01, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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