Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of spiritual entities in Islam

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The result was Withdrawn. AmbergGuy (talk) 23:40, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

List of spiritual entities in Islam[edit]

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"This article is basically entailed by Outline of Islam and List of characters and names mentioned in the Quran#Supernatural. Since Islam has no official categorizition of super natural creatures, this article is always a sort of original research and depends on the opinnion of the editors (for example the exact nature of jinn). Sources given here, usually do not support the idea of the article, rather they are copied including the sentences they are citing from other articles. The jinn, angels and so on, are all copied from their corresponding main-article's lead section." AmbergGuy (talk) 01:09, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 01:18, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Islam-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 01:21, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Who are you quoting? Mlb96 (talk) 06:34, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mlb96: I presume they're quoting VenusFeuerFalle--VFF had been flailing in trying to nominate this article for deletion by various methods (see article talk page for discussion); as per the edit summary of AmbergGuy's re-tagging of the article, their submission of a completed nomination was done as a courtesy to VFF. --Finngall ^talk 18:26, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - According to WP:LISTN, lists that fulfill recognized informational, navigation, or development purposes often are kept regardless of any demonstrated notability. This is one of those lists that, despite the fact their subject may not (often) be discussed as a group by reliable sources, just is of a sufficiently high informational value to be worth keeping. The most important criterion for lists like this, in my view, is that there should be selection criteria that are unambiguous, objective, and supported by reliable sources. Given the fact that spiritual entities such as jinn and angels are already explicitly classified in the Quran, starting a long tradition that has at least to some extent been documented by modern scholars, it seems to me that it should be possible to objectively decide on the basis of reliable sources what are and what are not spiritual entities in Islam. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 20:13, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This list is superior to the other two as it list information about each entry. Also it has their English names, which are the names used for their articles, while List of characters and names mentioned in the Quran list them with different spellings. Dream Focus 06:30, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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