Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sectarian violence among Muslims


 * 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   no consensus. There is consensus that the topic is notable but that the current content is poor. There is no consensus about whether this means that it should be deleted or kept until a full rewrite occurs.  Sandstein  19:09, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Sectarian violence among Muslims

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What exactly is the point of this article? After removing the unref'd material, we have two refs, the Beeb and the Post. This is not OK for such a huge and contentious subject which would require a lot scholarly work to be any kind of useful article. Better no article than this. Herostratus (talk) 06:21, 31 January 2012 (UTC) Herostratus (talk) 06:21, 31 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep Theres a similar article with Sectarian violence among Christians. This one should be expanded rather than deleted. Pass a Method   talk  09:46, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions. Ism schism (talk) 13:35, 31 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Sectarian violence among Christians is not "similar" as looking at the two articles shows, notwithstanding that you probably wrote this article to make that WP:POINT. Herostratus (talk) 14:14, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete or userfy. It's obviously a topic, but Herostratus is right that it would need to be written using scholarly sources, not news sources. Until it's written with appropriate sources, it's unsuitable for mainspace (and there's nothing there worth keeping right now - WP:TNT), but since the topic is notable, I see no reason not to let the creator have it and keep working on it. –Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 03:14, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - obviously a legitimate topic for an article. Yes, there's virtually no content here at the moment, but I don't see the need to 'blow it up and start again' when this article could simply be improved instead. At the very least, instead of deletion this article could be redirected to Sectarian violence, which contains more material on the subject. We do have existing articles on similar subjects at Shi'a–Sunni relations and Persecution of minority Muslim groups, but I'd recommend against a merge as neither of those are quite the same thing. Robofish (talk) 18:32, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete and possibly userfy, if there is a serious editor. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 15:16, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete or improve - this article is not ready to be in the main space yet and can be misleading. Reading the part about Bahrain; it says nothing about any sectarian violence, so why mention it in the first place?  Bahraini Activist  Talk to me 06:52, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep as viable topic. This one should be expanded rather than deleted. Remember, all articles are work-in-progress, some more than others. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 19:13, 8 February 2012 (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.