Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Sufi saints


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The result was keep. postdlf (talk) 19:08, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

List of Sufi saints

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Lists are not to be Wikipediac. Also most of the names lsited there are unauthentic saints except a few like Abdul-Qadir Gilani, Moinuddin Chishti, Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki. Wasif (talk) 17:30, 11 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment Nominator created with page without using the afd2 template or transcluding to log page. Fixed now--no further comment on the nomination itself.  -- Finngall   talk  09:46, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
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 * Keep and copy edit if necessary. The article qualifies per WP:NOTDUP relative to Category:Sufi saints. Furthermore, the article does have citations verifying content therein. Subjects not confirmed as saints can be removed from the article/category if needed. North America1000 10:14, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep -- WP has lots of lists. In the early days of WP, they were useful for identifying significant subjects that needed an article, something that a category cannot do.  I suspect that what persons were (or were not) saints is a POV-issue among Sufi Muslims, but that is something that can be accomodated in a list - by adding text to explain the issue, but cannot be handled by a category at all.  I am not a Muslim and take no view on the merits of any of the persons concerned.  Peterkingiron (talk) 14:03, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
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