Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Persecution of Muslims in Sri Lanka


 * 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. Per WP:SYNTH.  —♦♦ AMBER  (ЯʘCK)  13:22, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Persecution of Muslims in Sri Lanka

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The article is original research, in particular synthesis. None of the given sources, not even the US State Department's report on religious freedom in Sri Lanka, state there is persecution of Muslims in Sri Lanka, and a few unrelated incidents are woven together by the author. There are also neutrality concerns when a blog is used to label as "militant" what the BBC calls a "new hardline Sinhalese Buddhist group". No reliable source links that group to militancy or violence, though "hardline" is certainly an apt description. Huon (talk) 21:42, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sri Lanka-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:18, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Islam-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:18, 23 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep Just look at the pictures in this Facebook page and you will see the truth in this http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.540051396020136.125225.263220480369897&type=1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.231.122.49 (talk) 17:23, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep This article highlights some of the key issues that have been further covered by the senior journalist Charles Harviland in this article published through the BBC titled "The hardline Buddhists targeting Sri Lanka's Muslims" published on 25th March 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21840600 This article exposes the growing hatred been ignited against the Muslim minority in Sri Lanka, and signals the begining of serious persecution.  Shiranya101  ( talk ) —Preceding undated comment added 17:04, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep I don't see why there needs to be an explicit 'admission' anywhere that Muslims are (or aren't) persecuted in Sri Lanka. The content of the article just needs to conform to the subject of the article as defined in the title and be backed up by sources - and I can see this being the case here. The article strings together several notable events where Muslims have been discriminated, specifically targeted or 'singled out' as the phrase goes. We do have many religious/ethnic persecution articles on Wikipedia and this is one of those. The article subject is notable and encyclopedic enough, IMHO, to have an article. The issues pointed out in the nom. are things that could be done by working on the article, really. I don't see how deletion is a solution here.  Mar4d  ( talk ) 16:10, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * If the contention is that some of the content of the article does not fit well with what the title of the article is, then perhaps we could have a go at renaming the article. Something like Discrimination and persecution against Muslims in Sri Lanka might sound accurate, as discrimination and persecution are both different things, and not everything currently in the article is necessarily 'persecution' - there are some things that may just be called discrimination.  Mar4d  ( talk ) 16:13, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

09:18, 29 March 2013 (UTC) 
 * Delete The sources do not show any persecution. The halal meat boycott is being used as an example of "persecution" by Buddhist group Bodu Bola Sena, but when you look at what actually happened, the Buddhists just objected to having the government pay Muslim religious authorities to certify meat at public expense, and to being forced to buy food with Muslim religious symbols on the packages.  Nobody's businesses are going to be effected, they're just going to stop putting the labels on the food. Sure, there are groups screaming that this is "anti-Muslim", but I don't think you will find any WP:RS reliable sources that say this.115.67.39.165 (talk) 04:20, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nominator.--Blackknight12 (talk) 12:51, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete Seems to be original research -- PHEONIX  TER  16:12, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep The Muslims in Sri Lanka faced massacres and ethnic cleansing by Tamil Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The Buddhist hardline Bodu Bala Sena is trageting Muslim for Halal meat. Delljvc (talk) 18:09, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep Muslim genocide were carried out several times by LTTE. Some are presented here.  Mrwikidor   ←track  05:18, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Look at their disclaimer. This can't be used as a reliable source.115.84.77.188 (talk) 15:43, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete Original research.Nishadhi (talk)
 * Keep There is currently a growing racial hatred and intolerance against the Muslims in post-war Sri Lanka. Land grabbing by Military which had been restricted to only Tamils previously has now been extended to Muslim lands as well. The latest in the news is the razing down of a Muslim property in the heart of the capital^. This article in fact requires a greater expansion and a dedicated timeline that covers what happened to the Muslims in the pre-war times, the LTTE era and the post-war present day persecution that is being meted out.--CuCl2 10:46, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Shii (tock) 06:06, 1 April 2013 (UTC)




 * Redirect to Expulsion of Muslims from the Northern province by LTTE Wikipedia is not a crystal ball and cannot predict future ethnic violence, no matter how persuasive the facts on the ground seem to other !voters here. As of right now this is an article about 1990 + halal meat which is far from satisfying. Shii (tock) 06:06, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:SYNTH of several not very connected incidents widely separated in time.  Also, the title is an WP:NPOV violation with connotations of systematic and organized persecution, possibly government backed, which is not borne out either by the article or the sources.  The article seems unable to distinguish between persecution and discrimination and I agree that the halal boycott is actually neither of those things.  I don't want to eat ceremoniously killed animals either.  Spinning  Spark  15:03, 1 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment - I like the idea of combining synopses of LTTE violence under the excellent introduction. The third incident, a Buddhist meat boycott, strikes me as lacking the same sort of close relationship which is needed to avoid a coatrack situation. I think the issue here is one of editing rather than notability — that the third incident should be split out and the title changed to something like Tamil Tiger violence against Muslims in Sri Lanka. Carrite (talk) 16:23, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep, but turn into a disambiguation page. Then create another article for Campaign against Halal Food. On the disambiguation page we could have the current lead and then links to the different cases. Revolution1221 (talk) 21:15, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep, per Delljvc above (sourced in the article).  Mini  apolis  21:28, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete, most arguments for keep here are very unconvincing. Kattankudy mosque massacre and Expulsion of Muslims from the Northern province by LTTE already have their own pages and the halal meat section screams of WP:NOTNEWS. We have three separate issues here that are being WP:SYNTH'd into one page. J04n(talk page) 01:46, 2 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete - no evidence of a significant organised or ground-swell cause joining individual acts of persecution, or anything unusual going on. It is always possible to find evidence of the persecution of any group in any given territory, but that does not make it Notable or Encyclopedic.  Or even real, rather than a series of unrelated acts of normal human (inhuman?) activity.  The very creation of such an article seems to be a POV.--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 08:19, 2 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete - The page is an original research collection of separate issues under the heading of persecution. The Campaign against Halal food noted in the article is not to exterminate, drive away, or subjugate Muslims in Sri Lanka. Rather, it is an animal rights reaction to the Halal slaughtering of animals for meat. The other two events occured in August 1990 and October 1990 were by one group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). That does not show persistence required by persecution or establish that Sri Lanka government had anything to do with the events. In fact, LTTE was defeated by the Sri Lankan Military in 2009. Delete. Redirect to Persecution of Muslims if needed. -- Jreferee (talk) 11:08, 2 April 2013 (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.