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Muslim women in sport edit
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- Result: Delisted, as issues with original research have not been addressed. This is a tough topic to address because of the question, who is a Muslim? In many majority Muslim countries, right to leave Islam is not respected[1] and many people are officially registered as Muslims even if they are not. (t · c) buidhe 13:47, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
The article does not meet with the "Verifiable with no original research:" criteria. I have encountered the Muslim women in sports article while I was reading the Islamic feminism page. A citation I've found on IF page caught my attention and later I've realized that athletes listed on the source, which Muslim women in sport nearly entirely relies on, was deeply flawed. I'd like to present my comment that I've left on IF talk page.
- At the lead section of the article it has been stated that "In the 2016 Olympics, fourteen Muslim women won medals, participating in a wide range of sports.[7]", giving this Buzzfeed tier mic.com article as a citation. Apart from failing to mention fourteen being an horrible misrepresentation among thousands of women medalists, the article lists women from predominantly Muslim countries and immediately assumes that they are "Muslims" without any sources whatsoever. Not all athletes from Muslim majority countries are themselves Muslim, and that the article as it stands makes this assumption. For example, according to the article Mariya Stadnik, an Ukrainian Azerbaijani athlete is a Muslim, yet there are no sources or public statement from her to verify this assumption. I also cannot find any sources stating half-Russian Aliya Mustafina, Kazakh Zhazira Zhapparkul, Indonesian Sri Wahyuni Agustiani, Egyptian Sara Ahmed, Turkish Nur Tatar or Azerbaijani Patimat Abakarova among others being Muslims.
- The so-called good article Muslim women in sport is an equally flawed article because of this issues. It's like claiming any sportswomen from Europe or the USA "Christian" regardless of any public statement by them. It is dreadfully reductionist and assumptive and [the statement] need to be deleted.
Thus I don't think that it should in its current form be a good article under any circumstances. The article claims to be Muslim women in sport, not Women from Muslim majority countries in sport . Are all Europeans Christians, and being Turkish or Arabic is synonyms with being Muslim? Same concerns had been voiced years ago by an anonymous user on its talk page, yet got little to no attention. Also, the article contains quite a lot of synth material. Just because a nation is a member of OIC does not make its national team Muslim, for example. --Gogolplex (talk) 08:42, 19 October 2020 (UTC)