Talk:Yahya ibn Zakariyya

Retelling of Story by Jafar to the King of Abyssinia

I crossed checked the reference in the book ' Sealed Nectar'. This passage was mentioned in the Chapter 'Open Preaching' in the passage 'Quraish Machinations against the Emigrants' page 122. --Nabeelaejaz (talk) 17:15, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Unreadable

This article is completely unreadable. For an online article, paragraphs should be no more than 4-6 lines. My eyes were almost bleeding after trying to read this. EricLeFevre (talk) 22:12, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Move request

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The result of the move request was: moot. Has been stable as a redirect for a few weeks now. If there is consensus to re-create as a stand alone article then there is consensus here that the title should be Islamic view of John the Baptist.. Dpmuk (talk) 22:50, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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Yahya ibn Zakariyya → Islamic view of John the Baptist — 04:39, 27 December 2010 (UTC) I'd like to move the article to Islamic view of John the Baptist, as that is the English version, and since this is English wiki, I think we should let it stay that way. Many other articles, related to Islamic prophets are termed in English. What do other editors think? Peaceworld111 (talk) 21:21, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

That would be consistent. Yes. Also, notice that after using the name Yahya, the article suddenly switch to "John" (i.e. not keeping the titular name) and then switch back and forth (Yahya and John) between each editors who carries different viewpoints. Bennylin (talk) 11:57, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

• Support. Few English speakers would recognise the transliterated Arabic Yahya ibn Zakariyya, while the proposed title Islamic view of John the Baptist will be very widely understood. It's a bit long but I can't see how to shorten it, and describes the topic well. I note that we are reversing a previous move [1]. Andrewa (talk)
• Support, far more recognizable to English speakers.--Kotniski (talk) 12:15, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.