Talk:Allah: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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nobody says 'Allah' is exclusive to Islam. But think again: Many articles linking to [[Allah]], including {{tl|Islam}}, intend to link to the Islamic concept of God. Think about the "principle of least surprise". You may change all these links, but people will still continue linking to [[Allah]] in other than etymological contexts. It is safest to keep a summary of the Islamic concept of God here, but have a detailed article somewhere else. [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;''')]]</small> 20:11, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

: When I first read the original post under this section, I thought this was a bad idea. But seeing as how things turned out, I am okay with the comprimise of having sufficient information about the Islamic conception of God in the [[Allah]] article but still having a separate article that elaborates. However, I strongly oppose eliminating the Islamic conception of God off this page completely (as proposed by an unsigned editor earlier). If that were to happen, this article would just be about the etymology of an Arabic word. It is very likely that any person searching the ''English'' Wikipedia for Allah is going to be more interested in the Islamic concept of God rather than the Arabic etymology. The English Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary and especially not an Arabic dictionary. We don't have articles about words in other languages (such as [[Dios]] for ''God'' in Spanish) unless they bear some significance in the English-speaking world. All in all, I like the Allah article as it is.

: P.S. I'm moving the Islamic conception of God article to [[Islamic concept of God]]. Although the word conception can mean the same thing as the word concept, the most common use of the word conception refers to fertilization of an egg. I don't think that was what we were going for. [[User:Joturner|joturner]] 20:15, 27 December 2005 (UTC)