Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of English words of islamic origin


 * 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 of the debate was delete. Johnleemk | Talk 14:37, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

List of English words of islamic origin
Makes no sense / bad faith. The word "Turkey", for example, has roots older than Islam. We do have pages listing English words of unusual origin by language group; see Lists of etymologies. Author has repeatedly vandalized that page along with many articles linked from it, and is probably the same person as the anon who has vandalized those pages dozens of times before. I don't know what the agenda is, but delete. Melchoir 07:55, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete because "Islamic" isn't a language, it's a religion/culture that has people of many languages. It'd be like having List of English words of Taoist origin or List of English words of Hinduism origin. Perhaps there are Islamic terms that became the basis of English words, but I'm not sure this is the best way to deal with that.--T. Anthony 08:06, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per t.anthony. 3 unverified, unreferenced examples doesnt make much of a list -- Astrokey44 |talk 10:31, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - But expand to replace existing article (Which is terrible). There are a lot of words of islamic, rather than just Arabic/Farsi/Turkic etc. --Irishpunktom\talk 11:57, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * What, pray tell, are some of these Islamic words without a country? --Calton | Talk 04:04, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Eh?--Irishpunktom\talk 15:03, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
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--Westwells 11:52, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, there's no linguistic status that can be associated with Islamic. Malaysia is an islamic country; does that mean Malay words in English (like amok) should be included?  Undefinable, unverifiable.  Also, I'm amused to note that the template above included by Westwells has placed the AFD log pages into the suspected sockpuppets category.  Chick Bowen 15:06, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I've gotten rid of the categories, but the template body doesn't do any harm. Melchoir 22:50, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * delete nonsense listcruft per Anthony, Chick Bowen, and nom. KillerChihuahua?!? 15:37, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * delete linguistic nonsense. List of English words of Arabic origin and suchforth are fine and make sense. Morwen - Talk 15:39, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per the above ... existing list is more than adequate to this purpose as "Islamic" and "Arabic" are pretty much one and the same for linguistic purposes (Are there any Islamic terms not of Arabic origin? I don't think so). Daniel Case 19:11, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * There are plenty, first one that comes to mind is mihrab. --Irishpunktom\talk 15:03, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * delete per Chick Bowen. --Squiddy | (squirt ink?)  16:07, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Morwen. David | Talk 16:15, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per T. Anthony et al. &mdash; RJH 16:44, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, linguistic nonsense as someone above said. Pavel Vozenilek 22:32, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Linguistically suspect, to put it mildly. --Calton | Talk 04:04, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as rather tiresome. Opinionated too, and a list that appears to have been created solely for the purpose of having a list, i.e. listcruft. Stifle 14:46, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom Incognito 00:43, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Islam is not a language --BadSeed 10:10, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete --CltFn 04:38, 20 January 2006 (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.