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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 09:06, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In the last sentence of 20th century the Ottoman Empire is missing:

Outside Europe, few areas had remained without coming under formal colonial tutorship – and even Siam, China, Japan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Persia, and Abyssinia had felt varying degrees of Western colonial-style influence

Islam spreading and building in countries that are not Islamic. With their ideological perceptions of the world becoming islamic is clear and definitive use of colonizing in the pre-text of a religion based on murdering those who don’t convert. Like the church who forced themselves into countries and converted upon death the indigenous peoples. Islam is spreading Islamic Imperialism throughout the world for world domination. Farah fatwah (talk) 19:43, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have any reliable sources that equate the spread of Islam to colonialism? EvergreenFir (talk) 20:48, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's been 4 years since the tag was added and since then it seems the article has grown a lot and users have added many additional sources so I don't believe it's applicable anymore AscendedGoblin (talk) 03:11, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so, there's still lots of uncited paragraphs and sentences. The article is very WP:COATRACKy, it really needs a rewrite but I'm not seeing broad-view best sources we can base the structure on Kowal2701 (talk) 13:18, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why not just remove the unsourced content so we can at least remove the maintenance tag. I agree a lot of it needs a rewrite though AscendedGoblin (talk) 18:55, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It’s just an essay (ie. not policy), but WP:USI says you’re supposed to look for references for that information first (unless there are other reasons for removal like undue). I know the tag’s a bit of an eyesore, but at least it lets the reader know the article’s rather poor. If there are uncited bits you don’t think are relevant or whatever, feel free to remove Kowal2701 (talk) 19:10, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Currently, there is no mention that a significant percentage of people, whether academics or not, consider the term "colonialism" to have very strong negative connotations, and even colonizers rarely refer to themselves using this word. Shouldn't this be included in the lead? Aim551551551 (talk) 20:57, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]