Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Solar Islamic calendar
I suggest deleting this article for the following reasons:
- There is no such calendar name, it is a complete misnomer.
- It is a small subset of the actual calendar system it tries to describe, the Persian calendar.
- The main article (Persian Calendar) is written and enhanced by people who know and understand calendar systems correctly, including a review and contribution by a renowned authority on calendar system (Simon Cassidy, per history logs).
- There is nothing "Islamic" about the Persian Calendar, other than a political decision made at the time of its revision to coincide its starting date with that of the Islamic calendar. Other than that, it is completely independent of the Islamic calendar and has no lunar calculaions. Any given date in history could be randomly picked as the starting point of this calendar system and it would work just fine.
- Best Regards, Sergio Correa
- Delete - Sergio Correa
- Merge with Iranian calendar. I have seen the usage of "Solar Islamic Calendar", although it may be a misnomer. roozbeh 13:26, Jul 25, 2004 (UTC)
- I have dedicated a good part of my life to studying calendar systems, and I have never heard of "Solar Islamic Calendar". I just did a google search on it, and all the sites with these exact keywords seem to be replications of Wikipedia articles, not that I am saying Google search results necessarily mean anything. What does "merge" in this context exactly mean? To invent a new name for a well-established calendar system and at the same time acknowledging that we know this is a misnomer? I certainly hope Wikipedia's goal is to inform people better not create confusion and misinformation. The article I have nominated for deletion has nothing that the Persian calendar article does not explain in more detail and correctly other than just one paragraph which is wrong information, i.e., it gives the reader the impression that the calendar is Islamic, when it is clearly not. Best Regards, Sergio.
- Delete: Redirect, for those who decide that they have to search by this way. Geogre 14:42, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Redirect to Iranian calendar and drop a 1-liner there to state that the Iranian calendar is sometimes called the "solar Islamic calendar". I have reviewed solar Islamic calendar and Iranian calendar and I agree the former has nothing not already stated by the latter. However, a web search shows that "solar Islamic calendar" is indeed sometimes used, e.g., [1] [2] [3]. Incidentally, the last link there indicates the use of the calendar in Afghanistan, so it is not only an "Iranian" calendar. Wile E. Heresiarch 14:56, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Actually it is "Iranian". In the 10th century the calendar was revised but it's the continuation of the same calendar that existed long before it. All the month names are Iranian and were kept unchanged. It goes way way back in their culture, if I am not mistaken, at least as far back as the ancient Iranian sacred books.
- Wile E. Heresiarch seems to offer the best solution. Redirect to Iranian calendar and drop a 1-liner there to state that the Iranian calendar is sometimes called the "solar Islamic calendar". Arevich 21:36, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I redirected it. If anyone minds that I didn't wait before doing so, then I apologize. Aris Katsaris 23:33, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)