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University of Islamic Studies

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Procedural nomination per WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 March 11#University of Islamic Studies. There was no support for this page as a redirect. An opinion from the RfD was that it is likely there are sources which aren't in English so it needs a full evaluation as an article. Jay 💬 12:55, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education, Islam, and Pakistan. Jay 💬 12:55, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:36, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
• Keep. Can be better sourced but decent. I will say that the article has been around since 2007. Ramos1990 (talk)

Which tells us that better sourcing is not forthcoming most likely. Iljhgtn (talk) 19:18, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

• Delete, Weak Keep I could change my !vote if it is found that non-English sources bring this around to be deemed notable. Please ping me before closing if that is the case. Otherwise, in the English search I ran this only has itself to cite, and that is not sufficient for notability. Though the name of the University makes it sound more prominent than sources seem to indicate. (as I said I would, I updated my !vote to a Weak Keep after changes were made and further sourcing updates were found for the article. Iljhgtn (talk) 03:24, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CycloneYoris ^talk! 07:58, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

• Leaning Keep, although I'd move to redirect if there were a good target. The University of Islamic Studies is a private institution in Karachi. Work began on it in 1987, and it seems to have opened in 1990. It ran as an unregistered instittion for its first 14 years but sought suitable registration when threatened with closure in 2004. There seems to be very little in the way of secondary sources about the University itself, but it does keep popping up in sources that are looking at Islamic radicalisation and extremism. I have added a few of these to the page in a bibliography, but not sought to use them to write any prose yet. There are also a fair few publications from the university, and also multiple sources about an alumnus who is a gay imam. The problem is that this is a private educational establishment, and thus it needs to meet WP:NORG. What we don't have is significant coverage at WP:ORGDEPTH about the university. Primary sources won't do either. So really I should be !voting delete here. But the coverage about the extremism does make me feel there could be more here than found to date. I think my preference would be to redirect to an appropriate oage that treats this in the context that the sources are covering. The problem is I don't know where that would be. So I will lean weakly for a keep pending discovery of or creation of such an article. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 20:36, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
• Keep per above. Sourcing will need improvement though. Lorstaking (talk) 03:43, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

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