Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shaddai (god)


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The result was withdrawn. (non-admin closure) clpo13(talk) 05:31, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Shaddai (god)

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This seems to have appeared as a WP:COATRACK for some notion that El Shaddai represents some absorption of some other god of the region into YHWH. Nothing in either article, however, supports this case, and there's no indication that "Shaddai" (other than John Bunyan's idiosyncratic usage) was ever the name of a god in ancient times. The only unique content of this article is the uncited claim in the first sentence. "Shaddai" is a place; it's (perhaps) an attribute of the Hebrew god in one of his names; it's a synecdoche in The Holy War; but it's no "west Semetic deity" as far as anyone knows, that I can see. Mangoe (talk) 17:45, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

I have now merged the material into El Shaddai (which I then moved to "Shaddai (name of God)"). I have changed "Shaddai (god)" to a Redirect. I think we should just leave it in order to preserve its History. Eric Kvaalen (talk) 10:37, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions.  /wiae   /tlk  13:42, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletion discussions.  /wiae   /tlk  13:42, 5 March 2016 (UTC)


 * One shouldn't redirect an article in the middle of an Afd discussion. Still, I think this was the right call. Debresser (talk) 16:48, 5 March 2016 (UTC)


 * The redirect is fine as obviously only one article is called for. As for the content, it is quite poor and is missing many citations. Also see the talk page about the identity of Shaddai. Zerotalk 07:34, 6 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Now keep -- I came to this after the merge had been done and found myself redirected to an article that is not tagged. I assume that there is a redirect that is tagged; if so, it should be kept as a redirect.  Peterkingiron (talk) 18:07, 6 March 2016 (UTC)


 * withdrawn given that the main article has been moved back and this is now a redirect. Mangoe (talk) 02:25, 8 March 2016 (UTC)


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