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*'''Delete''' Per discussion on ] concerning this issue. <b><font color="teal">]</font></b>''<sup><font color="teal">]</font></sup>'' <sup><b><font color="teal">]</font></b></sup> 23:17, 2 September 2007 (UTC) *'''Delete''' Per discussion on ] concerning this issue. <b><font color="teal">]</font></b>''<sup><font color="teal">]</font></sup>'' <sup><b><font color="teal">]</font></b></sup> 23:17, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
*'''Keep''' as per Sfacets, we use "Abrahamic religions" and don't consider it an "obscure neologism". Just seeing the term "Dharmic religions" used in a text made instant sense to me as a religious student. Also, bad "idea" to remove the term from the articles which use it, and then nominate it for deletion...bordering on bad faith. I notice ] also pointed out your "personal crusade" and told you to stop trying to remove the term from every article that uses it. ] <sup>(]) </sup> 23:38, 2 September 2007 (UTC) *'''Keep''' as per Sfacets, we use "Abrahamic religions" and don't consider it an "obscure neologism". Just seeing the term "Dharmic religions" used in a text made instant sense to me as a religious student. Also, bad "idea" to remove the term from the articles which use it, and then nominate it for deletion...bordering on bad faith. I notice ] also pointed out your "personal crusade" and told you to stop trying to remove the term from every article that uses it. ] <sup>(]) </sup> 23:38, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

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Dharmic religion

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obscure neologism, though the subject of Buddhism and Hinduism is well researched, hardly results for google books. The main source for this article seems to be WP:Fringe books by David Frawley, so any redeemable contents could be merged there. See

Andries 17:01, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Note: closely related category for deletion is here Misplaced Pages:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_September_2#Category:Dharmic_religions. Andries 19:29, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep and discuss possible move to Dharma in religions or other suitable name. The subject is encyclopedic. Also, I would avoid making claims of WP:FRINGE in reference to Frawley. Google books is not a library (at least not yet) ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 17:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - Dharmic religions being part of a classification of religions (as this article asserts-ed) is not attested by reliable sources. Or redirect to Dharma, which more or less covers what this article currently does and which is pretty much what the famous Frawley reference(page 27) merits. Doldrums 17:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete or redirect per Doldrums. --Strothra 19:05, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep or redirect. The phrase seems to me to have sufficient currency to justify the article. Johnbod 19:56, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Having come across the term dharmic religion, I came upon this article last week and found its existence invaluable. I was looking for information on Dharmic religions and would not have looked for the Dharma article since I would assume that is about a concept rather than a group of religions. --Dajanes 21:23, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. "Dharmic religion" is a neologism. The religions discussed have multiple points of contact, the concept of dharma being only one of them, as they all emerged in a common intellectual and philosophical milieu. There have been comparativist studies of various aspects, but no academically well-known source has been cited. (Frawley and Klostermeier are dilettantes, Guenon and Cousins are tangential, etc.) This is an OR puff job, with any salvageable material belonging in other pages such as Dharma. rudra 22:15, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment It is difficult to believe that the commonality among these religions has not been discussed by academics - if this isn't the name for it, then there must be another similar name this could be filed under. Providing a taxonomy of related religions is a basic building block of the study of world religions. MarkBul 22:37, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep- Dharmic Religion is a used term and it disambiguates religions from Abrahamic religions. Sfacets 23:04, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Per discussion on WT:HNB concerning this issue. Gizza 23:17, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep as per Sfacets, we use "Abrahamic religions" and don't consider it an "obscure neologism". Just seeing the term "Dharmic religions" used in a text made instant sense to me as a religious student. Also, bad "idea" to remove the term from the articles which use it, and then nominate it for deletion...bordering on bad faith. I notice other users have also pointed out your "personal crusade" and told you to stop trying to remove the term from every article that uses it. Sherurcij 23:38, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
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