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Speedy deletion nomination of Became predominantly Muslim due to missionary Sufi saints whose dargahs dot the landscape

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Became predominantly Muslim due to missionary Sufi saints whose dargahs dot the landscape requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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What you found there looks like an example of spam, adding the same phrase to over a hundred articles where I doubt it's always relevant (and "dot the landscape" isn't particularly encyclopedic language anyway), but that doesn't make it a valid topic for an article of its own. In fact, since the editor who added that phrase has since been blocked for copyright violations, that paragraph too may be copy-pasted from elsewhere in violation of copyright, though the spread through more than a hundred Wikipedia articles that often get copied themselves will make it exceedingly difficult to locate an original source. Huon (talk) 13:19, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

I have raised the issue at the Pakistan noticeboard, the appropriate venue for discussion of issues that affect multiple Pakistan-related articles. There are worse issues here than the "dargahs dot the landscape" line, including copyright problems. Thanks for bringing it up. Creating a new article, however, is the wrong venue since we want to keep encyclopedic content and discussions about encyclopedic (or less encyclopedic) content separate. Huon (talk) 17:39, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

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