Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Muslim refugees


 * 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 redirect to Refugee. Consensus was that there is a lack of clarity around the scope of an article concerning this topic as named. I JethroBT drop me a line 06:11, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Muslim refugees

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Article serves no purpose other than to say that there are Muslim refugees. Al-Andalusi (talk) 19:20, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Islam-related deletion discussions. Everymorning (talk) 19:26, 26 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete All this can ever be is a dictionary definition: "A Muslim refugee is a refugee who is a Muslim."  Of course notable groups of Muslim refugees through history should each have their own article. Thoughtmonkey (talk) 19:55, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:55, 26 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Clearly, Muslim refugees is a likely search term and shouldn't be a redlink. If we decide we don't want this content, a redirect target will be required.— S Marshall T/C 19:58, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect to Refugee. Not only does it manage to be a WP:COATRACK, which is no mean feat for a stub, it is also redundant in principle, given the plethora of articles about Muslim refugees linked from Refugee and no rationale for grouping these refugees together except their religion. Eperoton (talk) 20:00, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Agree.Thoughtmonkey (talk) 20:31, 26 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete -- "Delete & redirect to Refugee" -- yes, please. Definitely issues of coatrack going on. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:56, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as per WP:DICDEF, then redirect to Muhajir or Refugee. We don't need a Christian refugee, Buddhist refugee, etc. article when each article should deal with specific countries, phenomena, and instances. For example, we have Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries, Refugees of the Syrian Civil War, and Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–50). GABgab 23:25, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment. This page used to be a redirect to Mujahir, but probably Muhajir was meant. Perhaps that is a better target? - HyperGaruda (talk) 06:49, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Muhajir means "emigrant" rather than "refugee", and it's laden with religous and historical connotations due to its connection to the Hejira. The standard word for refugee in modern Arabic is laji'. This is going somewhat off-topic, but the Muhajir article should be turned into a disambiguation page that lists the Arabic meaning plus links to articles directly related to the term "muhaijr", with all the unsourced links to random emigrant and refugee groups removed. P.S. I went ahead and did that. Eperoton (talk) 14:25, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * That's true, yes. By the way, Muhajir was actually meant to be a dab page until someone removed the dab note in December 2014. - HyperGaruda (talk) 17:41, 27 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. It is a thing, but it is such a mess that it is unclear what the thing is or that people have been made into refugees on account on their being Muslim per se. Both the sources and this discussion do not clarify the matter. Bearian (talk) 20:58, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge the content of the article into Muhajirun.Saff V. (talk) 15:47, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't see anything to merge. All the (scant) material in Muslim refugees relevant to Muhajirun is already covered there. Eperoton (talk) 18:45, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. The current article is a tautology followed by a WP:COATRACK pair of WP:DICDEFs. I can't see where it would redirect to. It's more of a category than an article topic; there isn't any clear common thread around which to unite coverage of the 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis, refugees of the Syrian Civil War, and the 17th century expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain in the same article. Largoplazo (talk) 02:56, 1 August 2016 (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.