Thread:Comments:Pakistan frames law against 'honour killing'/To add the catogery of Islam or not/reply (8)


 * 1) Of course. Or nominate it for deletion; depends on exactly how well-defined SE-Asia is.
 * 2) I have no idea. Feel free to propose the alternative. These were debated in the mists of time, many years ago; at this stage, I couldn't tell you how decisions were reached and be at all confident I was accurately reflecting the conversation.
 * 3) So that people interested in these topics can see all the relevant articles in one place (note that when placing categories into subcats we do list them by the lowest denominators).
 * 4) Categories are based on what's in the articles. If the information you describe appears in a given article, that would create a strong case for inclusion in the cat. As a related tangent, there has been discussion of late as to whether league cats should include games played in them (like one would for a geographic cat) or articles about the league itself (like a cat for an organisation with member states such as the UN or EU). Historically, I'd have gone (as have you) for the first; there's now some feeling maybe we should go for the second.

A rule of thumb is to imagine a news source dedicated purely to covering all news for a given topic. Could that source write an article on this? A hypothetical IslamNews could write at least two stories, with a different focus each: Pakistan moves to end Islamic Sharia practices in 'honour' killings (interestingly, Sharia defies any attempt to properly describe it in a headline; it is a widespread, but by no means universal, phenomenon, as described on its category), Pakistani senator says honour killing law waters down Islamic law (very interestingly, meets the same problem; further compounded that Eng-lang sources sometimes use "Islamic law" as bywords for Sharia when as I understand it Sharia is a form of Islamic law, but not the sole topic that can be described thus. Then again, Hamdulla doesn't name Sharia specifically.)

Now, we don't need to work out good headlines; we're not IslamNews. Suffice that such a source could produce articles out of this. This line of thought is what leads me to think Bundesliga etc apply to matches played in the respective leagues. I understand arguments to the contrary, however.

I've answered your questions, carefully and in detail; now answer mine: Why is this debate happening in Thread:/Comments: space, known affectionately as trollspace, and not a water cooler or other community space?