The result was Keep. Cbrown1023 21:49, 21 December 2006 (UTC) reply
the general style of religious converts lists has always been "List of converts to X", because their conversion to X is what has been notable. a "List of people who left Islam" or "List of ex-A" is unnecessary and irrelevant because a) it falsely assumes ex-Y became so because of Y, and not because of their conviction in something else (i.e. religion X); b) it consists of unnecessary duplication, by "leaving Y" they have automatically become a "convert to X"'; c) there is no precedence for this as we do not have a "
List of people who left Christianity", "
List of people who left Hinduism", "
List of people who left Athiesm", nor do we need it. d) the focus is inappropriately on negation, the title and entire purpose of such a list is implicitly loaded with a negative connotation against religion Y, and under the false premise discussed in point a) serves as a vehicle for propaganda/advocacy.
i have also included the following in this nom:
Delete all as unnecessary and irrelevant (previous AfD was no consensus, but it included all convert lists and not those exclusively associated with negatative identification like ex-A) -- ITAQALLAH 15:32, 14 December 2006 (UTC) reply
*Keep or Delete the lists mentioned by
T. Anthony with it
Alf photoman
15:04, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
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