Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Islam and pork

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 merge to Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork. WjBscribe 09:24, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Islam and pork

Unnecessary article with almost no content. It is POV to single out Islam for this aspect of its dietary law when Judaism and other religious groups and cultures prohibit the consumption of pork as well. Islamic dietary laws already exists, and even that is unnecessary considering the existence of the halal articles. In general, I have noticed a tendency on Wikipedia to single out Islam for such things, even when they are not unique to Islam. Khorshid 11:38, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There's also the fact that it simply isn't an article - just a couple of bits of gossip and lots of requests for people to write an article on the subject. Either delete outright, or change to a redirect to Islamic dietary laws. Vizjim 11:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge There in another article about this issue (Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork) and we don't need to both of them. --Sa.vakilian(t-c) 11:53, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - other articles already cover this. Metamagician3000 12:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Poor quality article. Looks like it might have been created as an unnecessary fork. As Metamagician says, this is already covered elsewhere on WP. --Folantin 12:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork --Mhking 15:46, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork; there tends to be a bit of attention paid in the United States to this particular facet of Islam -- read the links on the page -- and I was trying to give a voice to that, but as an article, I think this would be better developed in a large topic about dietary restrictions. --User:Crtrue 12:34, 23 March 2007 (EST)
merge anything relevant to Islamic dietary laws then delete. There is not enough content here to warrent an article.--Sefringle 17:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
~~Keep~~ it would be better to develop this article and have both Islamic dietary laws and Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork reference to it, rather than maintaining both updated when the other one has been modified. --FateClub 17:23, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Changing to Merge into Islamic dietary laws per below discussion. --FateClub 18:18, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete or redirect~~. Clearly an unecessary content fork, no need to keep it. A redirect to, say, Islamic dietary laws would also be acceptable. Arkyan  ^(talk) 17:25, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I thought about that too, a redirect... but to which one? Islamic dietary laws or Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork? --FateClub 17:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uh-oh, this is bad. Turns out that the appropriate section in Islamic dietary laws simply directs us to Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork, which in turn directs us here to Islam and pork. I have to rescind my previous !vote and change it to a merge, as we can't have a redirect that references itself, and a simple delete would leave redlinks where information ought to be. Therefore I would propose merging any useful and verifiable information to the Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork article, as the first references it. Arkyan  ^(talk) 17:58, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork. --Ķĩřβȳ ♥♥♥Ťįɱé Ø 19:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork. Garcia-Fons 22:55, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Seems to be a sock-puppet, whose only edits have been today, to a string of AfDs. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 23:18, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, merging any appropriate content into wherever. Islamic dietary restrictions arguably should have an article; a particular aspect of them, not so much. -Amarkov moo! 23:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I dont know what the big deal was. We have Islam and alcohol as well. Nominator, can you please also nominate Islam and alcohol? I will leave you a message. --Matt57 01:30, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CommentIslam and alcohol is one of the sub-articles of Islamic dietary laws. But in the case of pork it has two sub-articles and one them is excessive.--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 02:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever it is, I will make sure Islam and Alcohol goes as well. They are both small stuff that should be mentioned within the dietry laws. Thats the reason why infact I made the Pork article. --Matt57 04:33, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I hate to tell you guys going for "merge" this, but there is literally nothing of value in this article to merge. The only two links are to a Google search for "pork + islam" and a blog (see WP:BLOG). So whats with people voting "merge"??? Weird. Khorshid 09:07, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, do not merge to anywhere - there is nothing worth merging. As it stands, the article is complete junk: completely POV and an OR essay. Right, I'm off to Saturday lunch. Moreschi ^{Request a recording?} 10:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, doesn't seem to be anything worth merging really.. ITAQALLAH 13:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Islam-related deletions. ITAQALLAH 13:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete/Merge with Islamic dietary laws - not necessary to have an entire article dedicated to this - and there is currently no article per se anyway. Sfacets 13:41, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
keep and restore previously deleted content. --Striver - talk 22:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
delete, and merge the previously deleted content Striver mentions above into Islamic dietary laws - but redirect the title that gets left here to Islamic dietary laws, since I could certainly see someone typing "islam and pork" in the search box here. Striver, I think the content you point to above is great, but why fork it out of the Islamic dietary laws article in the first place? I'd rather see your content merged there and also into Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork, instead of floating off in this article where it obviously got deleted since. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 00:17, 31 March 2007 (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.