Talk:Islams

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Islams

Plural of a noun. We only have Islam as a proper noun (with no plural). SemperBlotto (talk) 12:58, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Keep, for the same reason that we have Christianities and Judaisms --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 13:27, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Keep, so we don't have to direct as many users to Wiktionary:English proper nouns and then explain it or argue about it. DCDuring TALK 14:25, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Sounds odd, but sounding odd isn't a criterion for exclusion, ergo, keep! It's real, what more do you want? Renard Migrant (talk) 14:41, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Keep per WT:COALMINE (of either I + slams or Islam + -s). --WikiTiki89 14:52, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Surely "I slams" is not even English (possibly in Wiltshire, but meh). Renard Migrant (talk) 14:58, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

In case anyone cannot see through my sarcasm, my point is that Islams is attestable and spelled without a space and therefore, by our rules, should be kept. --WikiTiki89 15:01, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

We need more emoticons, dammit! Renard Migrant (talk) 15:47, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

We don't facilitate the creation of plurals of English proper nouns, even when attestable and they would convey useful information. (Is it Jerrys or Jerries?) We exclude them on the grounds of their being trivial and, mostly, exceptional. OTOH, adding them would be any easy way to increase one's count of new entries. DCDuring TALK 16:08, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

There's a difference between creating them and not deleting them. --WikiTiki89 16:46, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Actually, if you add plural information to {{en-proper noun}}, it does create a green link you can use to ACCEL-eratedly create a plural form; see my recent edits to Argos and Argoses: I've used that feature to create entries for the attested plurals of a lot of proper nouns, especially personal names like Caitlins. Semper mentions that Islams isn't linked-to from Islam, and that Islams is categorized incorrectly, both of which can be fixed. Keep and clean up. Incidentally, google books:"islams of" suggests we're missing an uncapitalized sense — perhaps it's usually uncapitalized when plural and referring to individual groups' varieties of Islam? - -sche (discuss) 17:17, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Or, Equinox could unilaterally delete it because reasons. Whatever. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 01:22, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

I did this because it seemed like User:Pass a Method's work, someone who was blocked for being repeatedly stupid, and who still comes back all the time as an IP to create rubbish made-up words relating to incest and Islam. We used to spend time cleaning them up, but at some point you have to give up and say "nope, instant deletion". Hope that makes my (and not only mine!) position clear. Of course you are always welcome to produce multiple convincing cites instead of whining against someone who works hard to clear shit from this project. Equinox ◑ 01:46, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

• Closed as kept: The preponderance of editors want this article kept. Just because an article was created by a blocked editor is not in and of it itself a rationale for deletion. Purplebackpack89 14:36, 30 August 2015 (UTC)