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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) —cyberpower ^Chat_{Limited Access} 15:40, 12 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Abd (Arabic) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • Stats)

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Article is a complete violation of Wikipedia's policy of not being a dictionary (another user even said that on the talk page back in December and the three references all say "dictionary"). Nothing in it is verifiable. Even if there is something encyclopedic about this "Abd" term, it is an Arabic word, not an English one, so it belongs in the Arabic version of Wikipedia, not this one. The Legendary Ranger (talk) 19:50, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:38, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep It's notable as a popular given name; I came across it through List of most popular given names (currently #4 for Muslim Israelis), where many if not most of the names listed have their own article. It should be moved to Abd (given name), though, and the "slave" stuff needs scrutiny. --JaGa^talk 05:45, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: per above. - Ret.Prof (talk) 15:52, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment

• The "slave stuff" is dealt with in the Abeed article, which is well referenced.
• I don't believe that Abd does exist as an independent name; the mention in List of most popular given names is not sourced there, and is probably a misunderstanding based on the occurrence of (very common) names like Abd al-Rahman, which is a single name even though in transliteration it may be written using one, two or three words. So the suggested move would not be appropriate.
• This article is a bit of a mess. There is overlap with Abdul and with List of Arabic theophoric names
• '-B-D is a Semitic triconsonantal root that is an element of a large number of Arabic personal names, and quite a few Hebrew ones. One could use that as the starting-point of an article as is done with S-L-M for instance. Whether or not that is done, there needs to be an article that deals with the root well enough to create a focus for existing articles like Abdul, Abdu, Abdi, Abeed, Abid, Abida, Abidi, Ibadah etc. Possibly some of them could be merged in here. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 18:07, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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