User talk:Ddragovic

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Speedy deletion nomination of Institute for Bible, Theology & Hermeneutics[edit]

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Status and Advice[edit]

I saw your changes, and restored the article. But I do not think that by our ordinary standards it is separately notable: Even though at Cambridge, it still remains a recently-founded research institute within a single college, and our usual practice is not to consider these notable. I'm one of the admins here most sympathetic to articles on academic subjects in the humanities, but it would not be fair to give you advice based on my own perceptions of what should be considered notable here,but rather on what the community is likely to judge appropriate for a separate article.

I suggest the best course would be to add a paragraph within the article for St. Mary's, and redirect the article there as a cross reference. If you need help, I can assist you with this--just ask on my talk p. Otherwise, it's highly likely that I or someone else will take it to our regular deletion process, WP:AfD. If you do want to maintain it as a separate article, it will not be defensible without references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online. By third party, we mean outside the University.

If you are interested in adding articles in this subject, what we need most are articles on people who will meet the criteria at either WP:PROF or WP:AUTHOR -- either authorities in their field, or people who have written 2 or more books, which have received substantial published reviews. If you do these, remember to add the references to the reviews , etc., at the very first edit. DGG ( talk ) 18:42, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

January 2012[edit]

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Talkback[edit]

Hello, Ddragovic. You have new messages at Ukexpat's talk page.
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I also replied to your image alignment question in the section below. ukexpat (talk) 16:18, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Can someone point me as to where I can find guidance on how to create a link to another wikipedia site but so that it is automatically redirected to a sub-heading on that site rather than to the top of the page.

See Help:Wiki markup, particularly (and here's an example of how to do it) Help:Wiki markup#Link to a section of a page. If, by "another Wikipedia site", you meant a different language version, the same technique works, e.g. es:Ayuda:Edición#Enlaces. JohnCD (talk) 10:21, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback[edit]

Hello, Ddragovic. You have new messages at Ukexpat's talk page.
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ukexpat (talk) 16:32, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Ddragovic. You have new messages at ChrisGualtieri's talk page.
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ChrisGualtieri (talk) 15:07, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Athari[edit]

Sorry, it would appear I've logged back in a tad bit late for the deletion discussion. Either way, the articles current state is absolutely not acceptable, as it was clearly written by an Ash'ari (a rival school) in an attempt to convince readers of their POV. I'll try to find some more moderate (and most likely non-Muslim) sources, perhaps you could review it if you have the time. MezzoMezzo (talk) 10:34, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

please have a read of my reply on the talk page, what exactly defines it as a school as oppossed to a metholdogy. All I know is the Athari "way" is the third madh`hab in Islamic Aqeedah which roughly translates as "school of thought". Also it's not a "non-school" as some may misunderstand as it has many defining principles tied in with taking mutashabihat as dhaahir in meaning and mutashabihat in modality with tafweedh employed. Sakimonk (talk) 22:13, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

With regards to the Athari page[edit]

I considering entitling it Salafi Theology however after a short while I realised this was a big mistake since the Athari creed pre-dates the Salafi movement by a long shot so wrong call on my part! Sakimonk^talk 05:56, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Athari yet again[edit]

I'm sorry to bring this up again, but I know that you're quite knowledgeable of Muslim movements and would like to enlist your help. I think my contributions to the discussion previously were disjointed, because I was not looking at all the related articles; I was just looking at the article for Athari. I think I have found a reason for some of the confusion by looking at Arabic Wikipedia.

First of all, on Arabic Wikipedia, the Athari page simply redirects to Ahl al-Hadith. The division of Sunni Islam, as far as I know, is a product of 20th century Muslim scholars only; Muslim scholars before the 20th century and non-Muslim scholars, as far as I know, have not divided Islamic theology at all. It seems to me to be a recent attempt to organize how Sunni Islam is understood, so these ideas were around and were separate but were not really studied as the three groups basically excommunicated each other. For example: Abu Mansour, the founder of the Maturidi school, declared Ash'ari principles regarding inference and internalization to constitute blasphemy; Ash'arites viewed the traditionalists as anthropomorphists, and so forth. Only recently has Muslim scholarship has used the "three groups" thing.

Second, the name Athari seems totally new and unprecedented. Again, my comment above regarding Ahl al-Hadith or Muhadittun or, as I have seen in Orientalist texts, the traditionalists. Ignaz Goldziher defined them as "pre-Ash'arite orthodoxy." This seems to be what people refer to when they mention a third group beyond Ash'ari and Maturidi, though because they refused to engage in theological debate, there is much less written about them in historical texts in both the East and the West.

Here's where things here on English Wikipedia get more complicated: the Salafist political-religious revival movement is being confused with the traditionalist "theology." For example, the division of Tawhid into three categories as you see, is something which came from later proponents of following the Salaf, or early scholars. The problem I'm trying to convey to you here is that I think multiple terms are being misapplied. Part of the problem is that the Athari article mostly contains primary source material from ancient scholars the modern-day Atharis happen to like.

I'm telling you all this because you obviously have studied Islamic theology quite a bit and you seem to have taken an interest. Also, given the gravity of the issues I've illustrated above, I cannot handle all this on my own, especially since Sakimonk has retired from Wikipedia. I hope you're willing to delve into this matter with me so we can get these articles more in line with current mainstream scholarship regarding what is theology and what isn't. MezzoMezzo (talk) 04:01, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel Street[edit]

Thank you for the nomination for deletion, hope it goes through.Phd8511 (talk) 15:16, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Another thank you for the AFD which was cited as deleted. Good job.Phd8511 (talk) 23:09, 11 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. It seems that there is a lot of work that needs to be done to get puff pieces out of Wikipedia. --Ddragovic (talk) 07:49, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]