Talk:Lists of Muslims

message: I have created a proposal for the reorganization of the lists of Muslims. It can be found at List of Muslims/Proposed Organization A. I have included comments about moves, merges, and deletions, but, of course, they wouldn't appear on the final page. joturner 22:46, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: List of Muslim converts is no good for List of converts to Islam. The way it is now is good. Your proposal leaves too much ambiguity. Is it a list of Muslims who converted, or a list of people who converted and are now Muslims? I know what you mean in this instance, but if I'm reading this where there is no context explaining it to me, I would certainly be puzzled. Besides that, on a glance, your proposed setup is more manageable and looks aesthetically nicer. Pepsidrinka 23:03, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I do agree with that ambiguity, but I presumed it wouldn't be too bad considering we have the category w:Category:Muslim converts. To be consistent, I may just request a move to w:Category:Converts to Islam. joturner 23:10, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would like to keep list of converts to Islam the way it is now but I agree with Joturner's organization of List of Muslims. --a.n.o.n.y.m   t 02:52, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Welcome back Striver! I think that the convert list is very large and really should be kept a separate page, but linked to the main list of Muslims article. Also the Islamic scholars article should be done the same way. We should do that for large lists. --a.n.o.n.y.m   t 03:04, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Thank you brother Anonym. I started a dialog with Joturner in Talk:List of Muslims/Proposed Organization A, but he didnt respond to my objections and just went to do as he pleased. I dont aprove of his proposal, so im reverting him. Peace! --Striver 11:07, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's not true; see Talk:List of Muslims/Proposed Organization A#Thanks for what I mean. joturner 11:26, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Organization 

message: A list has to be manually updated every time a new article that might be relevant is added, but categories are self-maintaining. I've seen a lot of opinions in the policy userspace (the metawiki) arguing for deprecating lists and stressing categories. Zora 03:39, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no reason it has to be updated that often. It can be sure, but it doesn't kill a list if it's not. Lists can also have criteria and add extra information.--T. Anthony 04:34, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lists versus categories 

message: This list is going to have 1.3 billion entries? I propose we also have List of humans,  List of individual atoms, and List of numbers divisible by 1.
:It would be more than 1.3 billion. That is only the number of living Muslims. And then there is the question of whether or not we include fictional characters.Cryo921 17:12, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  So... 

message: Thats the big question. With all these lists of scholars and scientists and what not, there should be a place where people like Mohamed Atta also fit in. Any suggestions? Or should we make a new list List of Muslim criminals? When you have these lists:
* List of Muslim scientists
* List of Muslim mathematicians
* List of Muslim writers and poets
Why not have a List of Muslim criminals? Or is that going to be a POV issue now? Please provide your suggestions as to where Mohamed Atta should be placed. --Matt57 (talk•contribs) 15:37, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where does [[Mohamed Atta]] fit in? 

message: ....  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.178.224.178 (talk) 04:00, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isn't the name of this article stupid?