Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Knowledge and Islam

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. Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:36, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Knowledge and Islam

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This article is entirely WP:Primary sources and apologetics. It does not address the issue neutrally, and does not provide a single WP:Independent source or example of external scholarship. It frequently dives into POV, choosing what is the "correct" way to interpret the Quran, etc. This article has literally no encyclopedic content, and I can't see any improvement short of a complete wipe and re-write from scratch. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:37, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete - a tough one. I can appreciate the want for an article like this covering Islamic education (which exists as a disambig) or History of Islamic education (which does not exist) but the article in question looks like personal interpretation of primary sources - fairly straight up-and-down WP:OR. I can see the value in some of the information being included somewhere but the current presentation is fairly unencyclopaedic. Stalwart111 23:56, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 18:09, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Islam-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 18:09, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notification: This Teahouse discussion relates to this article for deletion discussion. Mono 23:30, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I made this notification bigger as I think it gives some important background to this discussion - hope you don't mind. Stalwart111 00:26, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Courcelles 01:16, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete - the article relies exclusively on primary sources and doesn't offer any unique content that cannot be situated elsewhere. I assumed, by the title that the article would have been referring to the acquisition of knowledge via formal or other education. The article is simply one person's interpretation of what the Qu'ran says about knowledge. Very few reasons to keep it as is! EagerToddler39 (talk) 01:13, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

delete that all the citations but one are from the Qu'ran shows this for the personal essay that it is. Mangoe (talk) 01:52, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.