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belongs to the section on the history of Qurayza before arrival of Muhammad (i.e. Arrival of the Aws and Khazraj). I have a suggestion: to add it to "Arrival of the Aws and Khazraj" section. The last sentence may be better to be written as "Muhammad later raised the assessment of the Qurayza to full amount of blood money". The last bit "thereby establishing friendship with them" seems to be someone's opinion, so may be we can remove it. Just an idea. --] 04:30, 13 September 2007 (UTC) belongs to the section on the history of Qurayza before arrival of Muhammad (i.e. Arrival of the Aws and Khazraj). I have a suggestion: to add it to "Arrival of the Aws and Khazraj" section. The last sentence may be better to be written as "Muhammad later raised the assessment of the Qurayza to full amount of blood money". The last bit "thereby establishing friendship with them" seems to be someone's opinion, so may be we can remove it. Just an idea. --] 04:30, 13 September 2007 (UTC)


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Talk:Muhammad/Mediation#Suggestion_.28untainted.29

You voiced your opinion in the original straw poll which has caused some confusion. Please do the same in a new version, Talk:Muhammad/Mediation#Suggestion_.28untainted.29, which should be clear and allow us to better assess consensus. gren グレン 22:16, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Response

You've been around the block a few times. Itaqallah and Aminz do this with every revert, they throw the baby out with the bath water. I will agree to be more conscientious with reverting you if you will with reverting me as well, OK? Now about that quote, you weren't quoting Watt on my talk. What is the full quote? Arrow740 05:13, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

RE: Your user page

No I wouldn't mind at all! Go right ahead.¤~Persian Poet Gal 17:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


Poll on every little issue

Please sign if any of these things applies to your understanding of this issue. Please put you name under all of the options you think would be acceptable. You can sign all or none of these, I'm hoping this will give us a more-fine grained understanding of the issue. futurebird 23:23, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Location

You might want to update your userpage. Arrow740 01:03, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

If you say so. Arrow740 20:05, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
You indicated you were in Lancaster, England. Arrow740 20:20, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
So it's not true? Arrow740 06:06, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I guess it's just a little taqiyya on your userpage ? Arrow740 21:33, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Maybe just a vacation. Arrow740 23:58, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Re:Islam and Slavery

Nice!! --Aminz 02:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

If only it were true. Keep in mind the example of Muhammad and the earliest Muslims. Everything Muhammad did was ethical, remember. Arrow740 06:58, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Battle of Khaybar

I completely agree with you. --Aminz 04:51, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

WP:NPOV

{{helpme}}

Hello, WP:NPOV#Undue_weight says that users shoudln't give undue wieght to minority views. Let's say we have an article that is 10 paragraphs long. While 5 paragraphs are devoted to a majority perspective, and 5 are devoted to a minority perpective. This is clearly a violation of WP:NPOV#Undue_weight. But should it be solved?

One solution is clearly that we can add majority views, so that the majority receives due prominence in the article. But let's say that users are unable to find more material on what the majorioty believes. Should we then begin to remove the minority perspective, although it is sourced to Reliable Sources? Bless sins 17:25, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

It's rare that removing sourced information is a good thing. If you can't find more sources on the majority view, you could tag the section as {{unbalanced}}, explain the problem on the talk page, and that will attract the attention of editors and readers who might be able to help. Hope that helps! --ais523 18:23, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
This is something of a tricky situation. In my opinion, if you can't fix the situation yourself tagging the page is better than removing information in an attempt to balance it, as long as that information is well sourced. As for moving the information, you need to be careful. Moving it into another article that expressed a non-neutral point of view would be a POV fork, and therefore strongly discouraged. However, in some circumstances it would make sense to create an article about the minority point of view. For instance, there are articles like Criticism of Misplaced Pages that discuss a certain point of view without violating neutrality rules. Hope that helps! --ais523 09:27, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Muhammad

Hey Bless sins, regarding this, I would love to hear your view on the matter. It's hard to discuss at Talk:Muhammad and Talk:Muhammad/Mediation because some users on both sides have become somewhat belligerent, myself (maybe) included :O. Anyways, get back to me when you have a chance. Thanks, --Hojimachong 22:40, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Wheeeeee

<the award below has been copied to the main page>

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For being nice and not screaming, like so many other editors do. And you're long overdue. Hojimachong 20:26, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

PS: your template idea looks pretty solid, if I am understanding it right. Would that be the image description page, or the top of the Muhammad page, or a section further down in the Muhammad page? --Hojimachong 20:26, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

You're too kind. Screaming never got anything done. The most scholarly image should be put near the top, while the second most scholarly one should be put lower down. We can put as many images as we want on the article devoted to images of Muhammad.Bless sins 20:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
I agree with your statements; the only question is which image is the most scholarly? ALM brought up the Jyllands-Posten cartoons, thought I think this was a point, not an actual suggestion. I hope the person who is supposed to be mediating the discussion comes back, he hasn't really been active since the 19th, with his last edit being three days ago. --Hojimachong 22:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
I am with you. --Aminz 22:59, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Ali Sina

Please lets not fill every sentence on Ali Sina with Claimed and Alleged. Its messy as Sefringle pointed out and its pretty clear without it - all references are given, so there's no need of "Alleged" and "Claims". There's no need of that stuff - it just makes things hard to read. --Matt57 00:02, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

This isnt libel. Ali writes about it here: http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates/Ghamidip6.htm - you're saying that Ali has lied? --Matt57 00:14, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
How many times do we see the word Claim or Aledge in Muhammad? For example, are you saying we should change this line "After this event, Muhammad sent a message to Mecca with three conditions, asking them to accept one of them." to "After this event, Muhammad claims that he sent a message to Mecca with three conditions, asking them to accept one of them. " - There is not a SINGLE mention of the word "Claim" in the sense we are talking here, in Muhammad - why should there be such a word in Ali Sina then? --Matt57 02:20, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
What false statements does Ali sina make? Give me one example. I think its pretty clear that the article is about the website and its claims and stuff. The Claims and Alledges will just make it harder to read, so use it only when really necessary. You cant put "claims" in every sentence.--Matt57 04:41, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I would say with personal experience that the statement is generally true - and its obvious he was talking in a general sense. Not all Muslims lack pride and self-esteem and also there are many degrees of Muslims. There would be some with a lot of good healthy self-esteem, for example. Saying that all Muslims have 0 pride is not true, however thats not what Ali said. I think we're going into debate now which I wont do. Since the article is about Ali Sina, its relevant to quote him and the website. You can work on a Criticism section in that article, but be sure to follow standard wiki policies, which you know already. --Matt57 18:11, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Its alright, I'm not here to tell others what I think of Muslims and Islam. We are here to improve articles.--Matt57 18:32, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
What statement do you want to remove and why? Please take it up in the talk page: Talk:Faith Freedom International. The statement is a quote by the way from the author of the site. If Bush said "All monkeys are stupid", its ok to have that in his article, since its a quote. Please continue in the Talk page of the article. --Matt57 18:38, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

<R> - Oh ok, so it was that statement, I thought you were refering the blanket statement Ali made. I see you removed them now. Since its according to policy so I guess it cannot be contested.--Matt57 18:43, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Trying to get your attention towards the Faith Freedom page. My eidts are being deleted for no reason. I have made some comments regarding the article and its presentation. which violates many of the Wiki rules.

would you like to discuss. I am not against deleting the article or anything. Rather i am for putting the article in its right perspective. for example.1) the article alleges that it has 20,000,000 visitors. I agree however i state that it has only 1200 members who write ever wrote on its fourmns. I state that all the stuff on the website is read around only 10,000 times out of the 20,000,000 visitors it had. all this has been referenced by me (site meter is the ref:)Aditionally each visitor spends 5 minutes or less on the entire site and less than 5 seonds on each page.

Then there are violations of references. No outside references are given. If given they are reports of Ali sina himself. How can that be credible when speaking about his own self. Z2qc1

Moved

I moved the discussion/template on my talkpage to User:Hojimachong/Muhammad Image Template, and placed a link in the section on my talk page. Is this OK? --Hojimachong 03:22, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I just moved it somewhere else as well. No problem. Bless sins 03:29, 25 February 2007 (UTC)


Suggestions

>>The most scholarly image below will be put at the top of the page.

If there is no reliable humanoid image avaialbe then only one or two calligraphic images are enough.


>>The image here, or atleast a link to the image. A brief background history.

Image's Creator name should also be there, as "WHO" drew the image. If picture is really draw by a notable artist then why is his name not there?


>>Other reason

Other reason should Include, What are the compatible features of the image that represent the article's description.

Is the poroposed compatible the physical description of Muhammad which has higher notability and credibility than the image srouce?

Any place where this picture is associated to Muhammad in mainstream?

Is the image more notable than the cartoon images of Jylland Posten and Bahomet?

VirtualEye 05:11, 25 February 2007 (UTC)


Meaning:

Is the image more notable than the cartoon images of Jylland Posten and Bahomet?

This means, if some biased editors want to dictate the pictures on the basis of notability then better put those cartoon or Jylland posten images, so that a reader can run away after coming to know what stupidity wikipeida has. The cartoon or Bahomen image will tell all the story how reliable is wikipedia, instead of deceiving the readers by not putting the cartoon/bahomet image and giving the wrong information to the reader at the same time. It is better to make the reader aware from the start how biased wikipedia article is about Muhammad. (SAW)VirtualEye 18:05, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I have read you competetion page. It is good but it will NOT solve the problem. We need arbitration. May be we can file arbitration using above arguments. --- ALM 11:17, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Vaglieri

It does not seem to me that Vaglieri meant to agree that the situation with the Banu Nadir " him no choice but to attack Khaybar."Proabivouac 01:28, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

For one thing, you're stating that the Jews were "intriguing." Arrow740 20:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
No you're not. Look at the sentence again. Arrow740 20:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
It is stating the intriguing as fact. Arrow740 21:09, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

New page

Hi. Maybe a new page called something like

It is being blocked from being merged into Al-Aqsa Intifada. This page has a lesser amount of related material:

But it does not have the room for much more material. And it does not seem like a good place to put the info. The material is about human rights in the Palestinian territories, not Israel itself.

The disappearing info is found here:

I recommend copying the wiki code before it disappears too. When I have time I may keep converting the links to reference links there. That way the relevant sourced info can be copied to the appropriate wikipedia pages. Feel free to copy any of the info to other pages. --Timeshifter 00:16, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Jerusalem in Islam —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stevertigo (talkcontribs) 08:17, 28 February 2007 (UTC).

Ramadan riots

ASA. Desperate help needed on islamophobic article Ramadan riots which is actually the same thing as French riots. Claims that the french unrest in the ghetoes was motivated by hatred of jews and christians as allegedly commanded by the quran, as opposed to alienation of arab and african kids. Support speedy deletion. Aaliyah Stevens 00:12, 1 March 2007 (UTC)


Jazak Allahu khayr for your kind advice

Thanks for your gentle advice on AFD over the ramadan riots article Aaliyah Stevens 17:18, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:NOR

Material counts as original research if it introduces an argument without citing a reliable source who has made that argument in relation to the topic of the article. You have to abide by policy, you really, really do. Jayjg 23:00, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I find it hypocritical that you post on my talk page after removing my comments that I posted on your talk page .Bless sins 23:02, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to remove them; I won't be upset. I'm only trying to get your attention. Jayjg 23:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Fortunately, I can take legitimate (ill-legitimate in this case) criticism. I also understand that the purpose of talk pages is communication, something that can't be achieved through deliberate censorship. I only wish the same was true for you. In any case I request you to stop blanking the sourced statements on Islam and antisemitism and discuss this matter on talk.Bless sins 23:07, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

You keep talking about "sourced statements", as if that's meaningful, but ignoring the fact that they violate WP:NOR. You really have to follow policy, not just keep repeating "sourced statements". Jayjg 23:10, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Correct Jayjg, but you do realize, that at wikipedia atleast, you are subject to the same policies as I. Thus please go take a look at WP:NOR yourself.The exegesis is clearly in relation to anti-Semitism, you yourself have admitted that.Bless sins 23:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

No, I never said any such thing; I said that there are some sources relate it to antisemitism. If you want to bring other sources that say its not antisemitism, that's fine, but you can't bring any old sources you want that discuss the verses just because the topic has been raised. You have to bring sources that discuss the verses in relation to antisemitism. That's what WP:NOR says. Jayjg 23:18, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Why don't we take our conversation to the talk of Islam and antisemitism - there you'll find exactly what you said. I'll wait for your response to my last comment in the "Apes and pigs" section.Bless sins 23:21, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. Jayjg 23:30, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Whitewashing is a violation of POV as well

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Misplaced Pages articles, as you did to Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais. Doing so violates Misplaced Pages's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. -- Avi 04:36, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Please review WP:BLP. You seem to have a misunderstanding as to its proper application. Thank you. -- Avi 04:40, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Once again, please review the policies you seem to be quoting; your acts resemble POV whitewashing, which is not allowed in wikipedia. Thank you. -- Avi 19:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I'll look into it

Hey Bless sins,

I'll look into the article you mentioned soon. Cheers, --Aminz 21:16, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Militant Islam

Hi, I noticed you recently edited Militant Islam. I have put it up for deletion. Please contribute to the afd discussion. Thanks.--ĶĩřβȳŤįɱéØ 23:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I have revised my comments at the deletion vote, but I still feel that an article on that topic would be an appropriate one for Misplaced Pages. The related articles do not quite have the same topic. On such a topic thre are certain to be strong differences of opinion, and I agree with your concerns about POV issues and a lack of references. The {{fact}} tag is useful to highlight questionable statements, and a discussion page can be used to try and arrive at compromise language. Failing that, there is always the option of adding your text (fully referenced) which contradicts what someone else's reference claims. I wonder also if you mightn't object to some of the "see also:" references at the end of the article as not meeting standards of WP:ATT? I believe I have seen coverage of the topic in Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, and similar European publications which are generally accepted as reliable sources. Many religions have extremists, or terrorists, or militants, or fundamentalists, and these four categories are not always the same. Regards. Edison 23:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Overwheliming clause

Salam aleikum,

I have seen your call foe help on the WP:BLP talk page. I want to remind you that everybody is entitled to help make guidelines and policy. If you have a suggestion of what should be in them please explain your idea on the talk page and it may will gain consensus among other wikipedians. Take care Alf 00:34, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Per your request

Bless sins, per your request, I have copied this to your talk page. Are you saying that you are not in any way connected to the person who posted as User:216.99.52.133?Proabivouac 03:05, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Do you not think that it is far too late for you to be asking the question? You have already made it clear that you believe I'm involved in "personal attacks, vandalism, vote-stacking or disruption" . If you were not serious at all, and randomly pointing a finger at me - then I owe you no explanation. On the contrary if you seriously believe I'm that user, and have "evidence" to back it up, then report me on Misplaced Pages:Suspected_sock_puppets and I'll make my response there. Bless sins 20:55, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
I would never have "randomly point the finger at" you, and it brought me no joy to have arrived at that conclusion. It is by this time quite salient that you have avoided a direct denial.
So, are you in any way connected to the person who posted as User:216.99.52.133?Proabivouac 21:06, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Does the statement "false accusations" (that were made by you on Str1977's page) mean anything to you? Why don't you report me as a sockpuppet? I would really like to see the "evidence" that you have threatened to bring forth.Bless sins 02:11, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Reliable sources

To state that the ADL is not (in the words of WP:ATT) “ authoritative in relation to the subject at hand,” which is antisemitism and anti-semitic people, is somewhat bizzare. Perhaps you do not know of the Anti Defamation League, seeing as you are from Canada. I will assume good faith and refuse to believe your statement has anything to do with trying to whitewash certain people. Also, I'd like to remind you about WP:3RR, especially as regards the Al-Sudais article. Thank you. -- Avi 02:54, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais

Please stop. If you continue to blank out (or delete portions of) page content, templates or other materials from Misplaced Pages, as you did to Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, you will be blocked from editing. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 14:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC) (please stop blanking)

Ilan Halimi

Please respond on Talk:Ilan Halimi before you revert categories that are eminently applicable and supported by the text itself. -- Avi 16:17, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

med

Talk:Jerusalem in Islam -Stevertigo 22:13, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Documentaries

Hi! I am looking for a new name for the Category:Documentaries critical of Islam. I thought you might be interested in helping me out with finding an appropriate name. Most of the films (which I have seen) do not say that the recorded footage represents the religion of Islam. It is more about Islamic culture that exists among some Muslims, not all Muslims. You may want to see the beginning of Obsession, where in the first minute it makes a point to say what the movie is about. Please let me know. Thanks. --Shamir1 21:40, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Seriously

Work with me, honestly, and we'll get somewhere. Otherwise, it will be impossible to edit. I really take policy seriously. It's a great offer. Jayjg 06:04, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

From what I see, so far, you don't want to work with me. You seem to think that I'm not serious about my edit, that I don't want to follow wiki policies, and that I'm on wikipedia in order to make negative changes. Please consider the fact that the other person also has feelings and ideas.Bless sins 06:07, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

You have to agree to WP:NOR, you really do. All sources have to refer back to the original topic. You can't claim that once someone has made a claim, you can bring anything you want to refute it. You know this. Otherwise WP:NOR would be meaningless. Please stop playing around. We can take out the other junk sources too, but I need to see some good faith on your part fisrt. Also, you know you had no idea who Craig Smith was until today, but you defended him anyway. Just admit it and move on, it's no big deal. Jayjg 06:09, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I've already said that I agree with WP:NOR . Seriously Jayjg, if someone claims that the Quran/Bible/Talmud advocates colonization of the planet Mars in verse X:Y, how is one to refute such a silly claim. Should wikipedia present the claim as if it was fact. I appeal to your common sense.Bless sins 06:12, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

You can't just say you support WP:NOR, you have to support it even when you really want to insert some, as with the Islam and antisemitism stuff. Even if you think it's really important to "refute such a silly claim". There are much better ways of dealing with this that don't violate policy, and I can teach them to you, but you have to honestly agree to follow WP:NOR first, even if you don't like the results. First agree that you cannot insert material that doesn't relate to antisemitism as well, because it it WP:NOR. Even if you find it silly, or offensive, or you really feel a need to "refute such a silly claim". Then I'll show you how to deal with the rest. Jayjg 06:17, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Please show me how to deal with such ridiculous material.Bless sins 06:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

First agree that your response was to try to refute the arguments with WP:NOR because you found it ridiculous and offensive. Then I'll tell you how to deal with it. Jayjg 06:28, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I feel like I'm bieng interogated by some police officer, trying to extract a confession from me. It's getting late, and I think I should get some sleep. By the time I wake up, both of us will have calmed down and then we can discuss some more. Good night (or morning/afternoon, depending on where you live).Bless sins 06:33, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

To answer your question on 06:28, 25 March 2007: No, WP:NOR is neither ridiculous nor offensive, and infact works extremely well 99.99% of the time. However, all wiki policies must be used in conjunction with common sense and reason. When I interpreted the "in relation to the topic..." clause, I didn't choose the most obvious interpretation, but rather the one that made the most sense. You see, I'm not "ruthless" about policies, and am willing to consider the other user's perspective, to work out a compromise that will build concensus.Bless sins 16:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Sockpuppet of Allah

'Sockpuppet' is a term used on wikipedia for masquerading. Maybe there is a definition here: . It's like dividing your personality. Maybe run the term through www.dictionary.com or think of the example of a person doing a voice impression of George Bush or Al Gore with their hand imitating the action of a mouth talking.DavidYork71 06:34, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

My thesis is that the same Userbox applies to you.DavidYork71 21:24, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

banging your head against a wall

Hi, I see JayJG has been leaving messages on your page, with his false concern about the rules and supposed reasonableness. In reality, JayJG is a rabid Zionist and is trying to purge Misplaced Pages of any negative information about Zionism, and is trying to paint Muslims in a bad light. Along with many of his cohorts.

The problem is that JayJG is part of the Misplaced Pages cabal. When there were elections, despite massive efforts to the contrary, a number of people got a higher vote percentage than JayJG - but Jimbo Wales put him on ArbCom anyhow. Jimbo has shown his true colors as well.

These people control Misplaced Pages. They are all together, and attacking you. No one is coming to your aid. This is because they control Misplaced Pages, with Jimbo at the center, and have more or less driven off everyone else. You are banging your head against a wall here - any massacre by Zionists against Palestinians will be covered up, distorted, justified etc., anyone who attacks an Israeli soldier will be castigated here.

My suggestion is to direct your efforts to somewhere more creative, like a wiki encyclopedia that is not pro-Zionist and anti-Muslim like this one. Or if you do continue here for a little bit, to spend less time. It is better to waste 5 hours of time accomplishing nothing than 10. Eventually you will give up here, everyone does. You are fighting a losing battle. Ruy Lopez 04:01, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

WT:BLP

Seems that most comments (including those by WAS, Alf, Slim, etc.) agree that the sources do not need to be bowdlerized, even if they "give you the shivers" as Alf says. I think the best thing that you could do for the article would be to bring some suitable sources about the good that Sudais does. FOr example, I've asked on the talk page that the part about his renditions of the Qur'an be sourced; they have been tagged since February. That is obviously a good thing that Sudais does. I'm sure there is much more that can be expanded about his work in the university and the mosques. He preaches about many things besides Jews, I hope, and his calls for charity and the like should be represented. Also, there still is little to no mention of his family. -- Avi 04:55, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Alf and slim specifically reference the overwhelming for example " but one cannot exclude some aspects of it because it is "too much"" (Alf). It seems that those who cared to pass comment believe that the article as it stands is not overwhelmed in wiki standards. -- Avi 05:04, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Wiki policy is discussed, and consensus reached, by people, so there will never be 100% consistency. If there is an issue that you have with Gilbert, why don't you post a link to the BLP talk section on the Gilbert talk page and ask for comment? -- Avi 05:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Islam and antisemitism under disputed?

I need your point of view about this article. I think they only took the apes part but they hide other verse of the Quran and I also think that its should be delete. How about you? should it be delete? or ..?--Towaru 20:02, 30 March 2007 (UTC)


WP:ANI#WP:NPA violation

Bless sins, a complaint has been filed on WP:ANI regarding your associate, User:216.99.60.104/206…/216…. I should like to think that you don't approve of this user's behavior, and would deeply appreciate your help in putting a stop to it.Proabivouac 02:43, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Mediation on Islamic military jurisprudence

I've requested mediation proceedings here concerning the "sex with female captives" dispute and listed you as a party. Would you be willing to join the discussion? Many thanks for considering this, and for all your good work on the article. BYT 08:54, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Report made at incident board

Please see: WP:ANI#Admin Humus sapiens and his personal attacks, insinuations, and defamations.

Feel free to comment there. Your user name was mentioned in the report. --Timeshifter 22:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Request for Mediation

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72 virgins

How is the quote not relevant? Mohammed in the hadith said that Muslims will get 72 virgins. Please discuss on the talk page before removing content like this. --Matt57 18:11, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

There you go. Dont delete the quote and do any kind of similiar deletions again. I have many more improvements to make to this article. OFCOURSE its relevant. A notable person said this in the context of religion. Its just amazing what lengths people go to, to censor information. --Matt57 19:44, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

High quality edits

Hey, your quality of edits are much improved. Wow! --Aminz 20:25, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

EL

WP:EL - links are determined by relevance. Notability is not an issue. I undid your edit here. --Matt57 23:40, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

1. Tell me how the links you left are reliable as compared to the ones you took off.
2. I have left a query here
--Matt57 00:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
I got the response from the editors there at EL. An EL doesnt have to be a RS. Think about it - who will determine whether a link is RS or not? Its not even possible. The editor there said, that only links which are not "factually innacurate and unverifiable original research" should be excluded. But for sure, you cannot take out links saying they're not Reliable Source (WP:RS), because that is not a requirement as the Talk page there says.--Matt57 00:45, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
I'm doubtful of the quality of your edits when you questioned the RS status of Ibn Warraq (reply over there too please). Please use Talk for the Lsits of converts to Islam. Being a terrorist is a very notable fact about a person and should be mentioned. I'm seeing that you're not using talk for big reverts. --Matt57 01:41, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Elimination of Junk-Articles on Afghanistan

Hi, I agree with your proposal to remove the (silly) article called the Islamic "Emirate(???)" of Afghanistan. I have tried editing the "Emirate" Of Waziristan as well as the Afghan one, but either way I think they are throw away. Are you familiar with how the article-removal process is started?Mehrshad123 06:08, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits to Islam and antisemitism

I decided to keep the material you added origionally, but decided to make some changes to NPOV it somewhat, as most of your changes are one sided. I'd appreciate it if you can use the talk page to explain your edits before you make major reverts in the future.--Sefringle 02:47, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

unexplained deletions

Please do not delete content from articles on Misplaced Pages, as you did to Ahmed Yassin. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Misplaced Pages:Sandbox for test edits. Thank you. -- Avi 21:36, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary, your own personal analysis, or make any non-neutral point-of-view deletions to the content or categories of Misplaced Pages articles, as you did to Ahmed Yassin. Doing so violates Misplaced Pages's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. -- Avi 22:57, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Removing Category:Islam and antisemitism from articles where it belongs is POV-based vandalism. -- Avi 21:41, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Read the article; it is documented. -- Avi 03:03, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Section 2. -- Avi 03:21, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Please read the article again, carefully. -- Avi 19:02, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

In the future, why don't you refrain from mischaracterizing POV-style edits as legitimate, and then we would not be having this conversation . Also, please educate yourself on the wikipedian meaning of vandalism. If it makes you feel better, I will substitue {{uw-npov2}} for {{uw-delete2}} -- Avi 19:26, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

It depends on the content. Sometimes it should be deleted (BLP issues, for example) Othertimes an attempt should be made at finding sources. Regardless, this is sourced now. -- Avi 20:45, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Inuse tag

Please don't abuse the inuse tag to simply revert to your previous edits, as you have done many times before. Thanks. Jayjg 01:00, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Given the fundamental disagreements on the Talk: page, would be best if you got consensus for these edits first. Jayjg 01:03, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I haven't made major edits, I've mostly just undone your POVing. No doubt I'll have to do so again, until you finally get some consensus. Jayjg 01:09, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I've explained at length on Talk: why your POV edits aren't acceptable. Please get consensus first, and don't use the inuse tag as a weapon in your edit-wars. Thanks. Jayjg 01:23, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Can you please explain your recent edits to Islam and antisemitism on its talk page? I think it would be better to discuss the changes rather than revert war over them.--Sefringle 01:31, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Bless sins, you're just repeating yourself on the Talk: page. You need to come up with more valid arguments. Jayjg 01:50, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
And please refraim from making such massive reverts/edits in the future without discussing them first.--Sefringle 04:00, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Sources

Bless sins, regarding your inquiries on Talk:Battle of Khaybar, I don't wish to approach you with mistrust. However, there have been debates in the past surrounding the representation of sources, and it can save everyone a lot of time and frustration if you share the relevant passages in full. You have my assurance that if something is topical and comes from a respected academic source, I will support its inclusion.Proabivouac 18:38, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

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Jizya

Hello friend. Who is "Ali" that is referenced in the Jizya article? There needs to be at least one full citation and it appears that you're the user who added the partial citations to this author. If that's the case, can you please fix this as soon as you can? I'd like to use the citation in the Arab Christians article. All the best. Slacker 13:08, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Hello again. The problem here is that "Ali (1990) p. 507" is only a partial citation; it doesn't include his full name or the title of this work (among other things). You can't use a partial citation until after you've provided at least one full citation, otherwise how will the reader reach the original source? So, do you have at least the title of this book so we can modify the citation? Thanks again and sorry for the inconvenience. Slacker 16:28, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Oh I see what you mean. Sorry, and thanks for your help. Slacker 06:59, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Inuse tag

Bless sins, if you've finished making your edits on Battle of Khaybar, you should remove the {{inuse}} tag to allow for others to edit, even if they are unfortunate blanket reverts. just informing you if you forgot to remove the tag or something. ITAQALLAH 23:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

That template is bogus and I will generally ignore it. Arrow740 23:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
That wouldn't be surprising considering you ignore WP:RS, WP:NPOV and WP:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_censored.Bless sins 11:49, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Why did you remove sourced content?

Hi Bless sins,

My main issue is that a lot of the content is moved around to change what is given how much weight, and I would feel a lot more comfortable if you could make changes one at a time with reasoning for each so that we can all be very clear about everything on this contentious entry. I know that it is frustrating to be reverted, and I hope you can look past that. Thanks, Tewfik 21:42, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

You know the score; if Schweitzer and Perry move down, the whole thing is reverted. You need to avoid whitewashing, and start working with other editors. Jayjg 13:57, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Ali Sina

What does the website say that you reverted here? The website actually says what you had reverted so I restored your change. --Matt57 13:51, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Your reversions

You reverted in that "Judaism in Islamic theology" nonsense again, in the Qur'an section. You know there is no consensus for your whitewashing changes, but you continue to insert them anyway. Please get consensus first, and please don't post any more about article content on my Talk: page; rather, post on the article Talk: page. Thanks. Jayjg 03:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I would advise against constantly widening this conflict. Jayjg 03:13, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm certainly willing to work with you, but in turn you would have to be willing to stop trying to whitewash every article you touch, actually make compromises (rather than simply edit warring for weeks on end till you get your way), and work towards consensus on the Talk: page first, rather than just stuffing your edits in and then trying to edit-war to keep them there. Are you willing to do that? Jayjg 23:33, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Your use of the sources is abusive, and intended only for whitewashing. Everything I said above applies. I'm willing to work with you, but you must stop whitewashing, and be willing to compromise, not shove stuff in against consensus, then edit-war for it ad infinitum. And do not re-post material to my Talk: page after I have archived the entire page. Jayjg 01:04, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

"Compromise" or any such thing is next to impossible if you keep on deleting my comments from your talk page. That not only says that you practice double standards (for the baove is evidence that you post on my talk page), but that you don't even want to listen to me.

You have not done this once, but on multiple occasions. Most recently you removed my comments saying "Please stop repeating posts on my page that have already been archived". Yet I added comments dated to 00:55, 5 June 2007 and you archived your talk page on 00:13, 5 June 2007. How can you have "already archived" my comments 42 minutes before I made them?

(Ofcourse there is a possibility that you deleted my comments without even reading them. But that raises another issue: how can we work torwards a compromise if you don't even read my comments)

If you want to work towards a compromise, I suggest you restore my earlier comments, and promise not to delete my comments again. Else, I see no way in which we can reach a compromise.Bless sins 01:22, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

You included in that comment previous comments from June 4; indeed, this constituted the majority of your post. I had already archived my Talk: page, I don't need stuff repeating on me like a over-spiced meatloaf. Try again. Jayjg 01:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
And what's the point of trying again? You will delete my comments just like you have in the past. The fact is that you delete comments of mine that you didn't archive. Your above comments is even more proof to hypocrisy under which you delete my comments on your talk page, but continue to add comments on my talk page.
Since it is your talk page, I leave it to you to restore my comments that you unjustly deleted, and to commit to not deleting my comments agian. I will not communicate with you only to see my communication deleted.Bless sins 01:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
You don't control what's on my Talk: page, nor do you set the rules for what must go there. The issue here is article content, not my Talk: page. If you want to discuss article content, do it on the Talk: page of the article in question. If you want to work together with me, then stop whitewashing, stop abusing sources, stop trying to shove in your POV and the edit-war to keep it there. Commit to that and we can work together. Jayjg 01:35, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
That is why I ask you to restore my comments. The underlying issue here is your double standards. After forbidding me from removing Schwietzer and Perry, you yourself removed content sourced to the authors. And now you post on my talk page, while deleting my legitimate comments from your talk page, is yet another exmaple of your double standards. I can't work with double standards. You will need to respect rule of law, if you want to achieve comrpomise. You will have to hold yourself to the same rules as me. You can start by restoring my legitimate comments.Bless sins 01:38, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
I've seen your comments. Do you want to talk about article content, or continue to whine about User talk: pages? It's up to you, but I'm not going to bother responding to any comments that do not deal specifically and solely with article content. Jayjg 01:44, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
If you've seen my comments, then why do you delete them? What sense does that make? You also seldom give straight answers on talk page, but constantly tell me to look at random articles. I want you to first make it clear that you will not practice double standards, and that you will use respectful language (e.g no "whine" and calling scholars "nonsense").Bless sins 01:46, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Your bogus 3RR report

Was a serious error; the bad faith is staggering. I suggest you withdraw it if you have any honor. Jayjg 04:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to recommend a block against you for an obvious bad faith filing. Jayjg 05:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Your 3RR report

Bless sins, can you explain to me why you say that the first edit was a revert? Thanks, Crum375 05:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I already read your report before I closed it. My question to you is to please explain to me why you reported the first edit as a 'revert'. Thanks, Crum375 05:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Bless, please don't just copy from your 3RR report - I told you I already read it. I understand someone else removed and replaced that paragraph before. I saw your message saying you felt it was wrong and needed fixing. I saw Jayjg's edit that seemed to rewrite the paragraph that you felt needed fixing. My question to you is why did you report that first edit as a 'revert'? Crum375 05:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
I understand he self-reverted. That does not explain to me why you reported the first edit as a revert, can you please answer that? Crum375 05:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Without a proper explanation of BS's rationale for this filing, Jayjg's claim that it is motivated by bad faith seems more and more plausible, making his suggested course of action appear increasingly reasonable. Given that BS objected to the material, but then attempted to get Jayjg blocked when he tried to edit it to address BS's concerns, it appears that BS has made this complaint purely in bad faith. BS, please give me a reason why I should not block you for this. FeloniousMonk 05:34, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Respectfully, Felonious, I'm recalling a block you appear to have issued yourself not very long ago against User:G-Dett, despite Jayjg's very similar statement that the material should be paraphrased, and G-Dett doing exactly that. I wouldn't challenge a no-violation in either situation, but going after BlessSins here seems rather unnecessary, particularly after he offered to withdraw the report if Jayjg self-reverted, and then did so, doesn't it? Mackan79 16:45, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Bless, the first revert has to have a 'previous version reverted to'. In this case it was a brand new attempt to phrase a paragraph, which you suggested was needed, so there was no version reverted to. Crum375 05:54, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
I have to call this a day. As of now I'm logging out, so won't be responding queries for about 10-12 hours.Bless sins 06:03, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Bless, (a) when you filed your report, you saw a requirement for a version reverted to, and (b) any edit that anyone ever makes either adds or removes some material. So clearly this report was improper. Please be more careful when filing 3RR reports in the future. Crum375 06:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Is that a reason to admonish somebody, that they didn't include all information in the report? Also, a partial revert is still a revert; I'm intrigued by the theory that all edits are partial reverts at some point, but don't believe that's normally applied within less than a day... Mackan79 16:45, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Version reverted to

Bless, when I said above "you saw a requirement for a version reverted to", I was referring to the WP:AN3 page where you made your report, not the general 3RR policy page. On the AN3 page there is a template that you should use for filing the 3RR report, and it includes the "version reverted to". Unfortunately there are lots of incomplete or incorrect 3RR reports every day, and typically they just end up with the report being invalidated. In my message to you above, I am letting you know that your report was improperly filed and that you should be more careful when you file a 3RR report in the future. Crum375 20:05, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Bless, please keep the discussion here. You are misreading the instructions on WP:AN3. There is always a requirement for a 'version referred to' for the first revert, for any 3RR report. The part you are quoting says that it is also required to add actual words that are reverted and reverted versions for each revert for more complex reports (although I would recommend it for each report of any complexity). Crum375 20:15, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
And so if the user modifies his/her revert slightly every time it doesn't count as a revert? So if there is not version that a user reverts to, then it is not a revert.Bless sins 20:20, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Adding a version reverted to makes it a complete 3RR report. However, there are circumstances where a block will be issued even when the 3RR report is incomplete, and sometimes no block is issued when the report is complete - it all depends on the blocking admin and the specific circumstance. Crum375 06:07, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Please note this block. In this block the "Previous version reverted to" requirement is missing. Yet the user was still blocked.Bless sins 04:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

See my reply above - each case is different. I generally like to see a complete 3RR report. Other admins may block on 'edit warring', even if the 3RR report is incomplete. Crum375 06:07, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Endpoint

Yes, they're very similar concepts. An endpoint is a type of equivalence point, where the reaction has reached completion. There can be equivalence points before this though, for example the triprotic acid H3PO4 (phosphoric acid) reaches equivalence for each proton transfer, so there are 3 separate equivalance points, the first being the point where it has all become H2PO4, the second HPO4, and the third is the endpoint where only PO4 remains. For many reactions the terms are synonymous. I've moved equivalence point to the category titration, and added merge tags to both articles. Thanks for pointing this out. Richard001 21:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Article in use

Bless sins Arabs and antisemitism is in use by me. I even placed the "inuse" tag. Can you please refrain from editing? Thanks. Jayjg 03:27, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Don't abuse the inuse tag by using it for reverts to your article whitewashes, when you know they are not agreed to; that's what ridiculous. Jayjg 03:27, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Your first "edit" was a revert to a whitewash which you knew was contentious. Don't abuse the inuse tag; get consensus first. Jayjg 03:29, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I restored Lewis, and you're playing games; we can't restore the Lewis stuff about Muslims, because Muslims and Arabs aren't the same thing. I put the actual quote about Arabs in the lead. Jayjg 03:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

All of your edits are whitewashes, as that is your sole purpose for editing these articles; therefore this was for the same purpose. Get consensus first. Jayjg 03:33, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

"All of your edits are whitewashes" : "All" and "None" statements are usually heard from extremists and radicals. What is this consensus when four editors are working on an article and two of them agree with something? I don't remember Jayjg convinced others of his edits (e.g. removal of the subsection title on theology). --Aminz 03:47, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
You're talking about the wrong article. Jayjg 03:49, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunately, Aminz's comment still applies. You have done a massive revert on Islam and antisemitism (under the assumption that all my edits must be bad), removing lots of reliable info.Bless sins 03:52, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
None of the edits were discussed and agreed to, and they were preceded by the usual revert-wash. Jayjg 03:52, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
From Misplaced Pages:Consensus: "someone makes an edit to a page, and then everyone who reads the page makes a decision to either leave the page as it is or change it." It can not be applied to cases where few editors work on an article. --Aminz 03:54, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Not sure what your point is. Jayjg 03:57, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
You abuse the inuse tags for reverts. The inuse tag is for non-contentious editing, not whitewashing. Jayjg 03:35, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

You started by reverting, and then playing games about which Lewis quote belonged in the intro. I'm tired of your whitewashing and game-playing. Jayjg 03:42, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

The one you deleted wasn't about Arabs, and doesn't belong in the intro. Jayjg 03:46, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
"The one you deleted wasn't about Arabs.." This is the quote I deleted: "The volume of anti-Semitic books and articles published, the size and number of editions and impression..."Bless sins 03:52, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, the one you kept inserting wasn't about Arabs, and doesn't belong in the intro. Jayjg 03:53, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
The quotation I added was "According to Bernard Lewis, during the past 1,400 years, Arabs, for the most part, have not been antisemitic..." This quotation, as you can see, is about Arabs. Lewis specifically says "Arabs". A-r-a-b-s. Arabs, not Muslims, but Arabs. Bless sins 03:59, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
You're right, it was about Arabs. I was looking at the second statement from Lewis which as about Muslims. The first statement, however, is qualified; he says "not antisemitic as the Western world understands antisemitism", or words to that effect. Jayjg 04:55, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Bless sins, you are right that the quote is about Arabs. But I think that quote could be put inside the body of the article; not in the intro. Further, we should state the definition Lewis is using. --Aminz 04:01, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Lewis in his book in 1999 says that the claim that Arabs can not be antisemitic because they are semitic is absurd but that Arabs were not antisemitic for other reasons. --Aminz 04:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Eventually Lewis should most probably go into the body but that is if Jayjg agrees that all of Lewis' quotes can be put into the body. I think we should leave Lewis in the intro until we can find better content. Yes and we should put the reasons as well.Bless sins 04:06, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Oh, now you suddenly don't want Lewis quotes in the lead any more. See what I mean about whitewashing? Jayjg 04:55, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
The current quote from Lewis in the intro is biased as it, being the intro of the article, only talks about present day situation.
Please take a look at --Aminz 04:36, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Given the volume of serious literature on the subject, I wouldn't bother trying. These kinds of inconvenient facts don't go away so easily. Jayjg 04:55, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Smile

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Banu Qurayza

Hi Bless sins,

I hope you are happy with my latest edit (where I provided an external link to barakat's thesis). If not, please feel free to revert. Cheers, --Aminz 22:27, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR

Thank you for the note explaining your 3RR actions. I included it in your defense as part of my application to Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR. I am interested to see how that plays out. Prester John 22:39, 10 June 2007 (UTC)


I left a comment on the board. Honestly, I disagree with many of your changes, but I feel that the other side can be a bit severe as well.

However, it's always better to discuss than to edit-war over things. I believe that most issues can be resolved- don't worry, I'm always willing to listen to complaints and concerns, but only if the opposition listens as well.--C.Logan 00:39, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Blocked for 36 hours

I've blocked you for 36 hours for violating the three-revert rule on List of notable converts to Islam. Please refrain from edit warring when your block expires. --Coredesat 00:36, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello Coredesat. As you can see I self-reverted my last "revert" on the article, per WP:3rr#I_have_violated_3RR._What_do_I_do.3F. In addition to that there was no "previous version reverted to", for three of my "reverts". Can you please reconsider this block? I think it is unjustified. Bless sins 00:40, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, if you think you have a reason to be unblocked, you should add this to your talkpage: {{unblock|YOUR REASON--~~~~}}--Jerry 00:50, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks.Bless sins 01:33, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Explanation

I self-reverted here and further clarified my self rv in the edit summary of this edit.

The second revert, as reported, is not at all a revert. Please note the difference between my "Previous version reverted to" and "2nd revert". The main difference is that I replaced a dead link with a better one, and also added another notable person.

Please note the difference between my alleged "Previous version reverted to" and "3rd revert". The difference is the same as above.

The differences between "Previous version reverted to" and "4th revert", are even larger. In my fourth "reversion" I add two more notable persons to the list, and conduct some other minor edits.

The allegation that the fifth is a revert (to be counted in 3rr) is ridiculous. That is a self-revert, as I declared in my edit summary.

Hi Bless -- just FYI, I think you may have mixed up the way the reporting works, which is to show that you reverted to the previous version, not that you reverted the previous version itself. That means the fact that your edit resulted in basically the "reverted to" version is how a revert will look. It's too bad you didn't get a chance to fit the self-revert in; 36 hour seems like a bit much to me when you tried, but I guess sometimes that's how it goes. If you see that it was simply a mistake on your part, you could try explaining that, otherwise the time will probably pass soon anyway. Best, Mackan79 04:50, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

List of converts to Islam

Please stop playing with these lists and deleting important information about converts to Islam. Its not going to work. --Matt57 13:54, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

By the way we had just discussed on Talk:List_of_notable_converts_to_Islam the lack of a credible source for Yvonne Ridley being an Anglican and taken the comment out for that reason. Reverting this without checking or replying on the talk page is a bit naughty...but I cannot say I haven't done worse --BozMo talk 14:29, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

House demolitions

The source says "In the Gaza Strip alone, more than 18,000 Palestinians have lost their homes since the start of the intifada", but as many live in each house, the number of houses destroyed is less than 18,000. Regards ابو علي (Abu Ali) 14:08, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Genocides in history

did you intend to add this reference "Georges Andreopoulos, Genocide. Conceptual and Historial Dimensions, p.24, 37" to your last edit to Genocides in history? --Philip Baird Shearer 20:05, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes I did. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.Bless sins 20:07, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

You have to think of a different way of editing

Seriously, you have to work this out in some different way. If you only edit to whitewash, then you'll find no-one is willing to accept any of your edits. In addition, if there is no consensus for your changes, then you need to move on - you can't just keep coming back 4 or 5 days later and reverting in the hope no-one will notice. Finally, if you talk about making some small change on the Talk: page, and then make a huge series of undiscussed changes in the article, no-one will trust you. This is the position you find yourself in now. In order to regain credibility, you need to

  • a) focus on small changes,
  • b) show you can edit from both sides of the NPOV equation,
  • c) work with other editors,
  • d) get consensus for a change first, and
  • e) accept if there is no consensus for you edit, and move on.

I'm telling you this in the hopes that you will actually re-think what you have been doing, and become more successful in getting your edits to stick. Build bridges, and try to re-gain credibility through extremely honest and impartial edit suggestions, not simply whitewashed edit-wars - that's what will get people to start to trust you. I'm telling you this in good faith, because I think it will make a huge difference if you try it. Jayjg 05:12, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Bless sins, to begin with, there's not point in asking "where is the rule for this etc". Your edits are not sticking, and I'm giving you good advice on how to be more successful. Regarding your insinuation that I was anti-Arab or anti-Muslim, far from it. I used to keep track of these things, here are some examples: Now, if you take my advice, you'll be much more successful, so that's why I recommend it. Jayjg 21:06, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
This is a really provoking comment. From my limited experience, Jayjg himself doesn't follow these rules, particularly number (a). To put it more accurate: When there are two different versions, everybody wants the other party to follow (a). --Aminz 08:48, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Number (b) is really interesting. Does Jayjg closely follow this?? Isn't it strange that Jayjg calls the view of Encyclopedia of Islam "random" and "outdated views" and as such wants to remove them from the article altogether? (ref his comment on 03:40, 18 June 2007 (UTC) on the talk page of "Islam and Antisemitism")
Everyone familar with Encyclopedia of Islam(a very prestigous academic source) knows that it represents notable academic views (in many cases it covers important ones; not just the POV of the author). Part (c) says: "Work with other editors"; this is only possible if the parties want to follow part (b). I highly doubt Jayjg always does it. In fact, he goes as much as saying that adding information included in a detailed passage of EoI adds nothing of value to the article. One might ask if this is so then Norman Stillman must be out of his mind when he was writting EoI.
And here is a quote from Jayjg: "your purpose here is to whitewash". Not so encouraging indeed. --Aminz 08:58, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Battle of Khaybar

Right now I am tagging based on the principle of inadequate reason for the blanket exclusion of sources based on Muslim/ religious affiliations. I haven't really followed the content as yet to take specific positions on them, but can do so later. NPOV is a non-negotiable part of the process and my concern on this article is with the systematic bias that crept into it by over-reliance on western sources and a censoring of eastern scholarship which has eliminated the way Muslim historians view(ed) the events.--Tigeroo 04:35, 27 June 2007 (UTC)


Sure, I'll try

to help but no promises. Is it Arrow740 or someone else? --BozMo talk 08:18, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

This sums up what I would say, and I think a few other editors would agree based on posts of theirs. Arrow740 08:40, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
That's ok. Lets try and talk through some "for examples" and see if we can improve things. --BozMo talk 10:18, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Ok. I have found the obvious examples from edit histories. Both of you going to 3RR on a straight content revert isn't really good but at least you stopped at 3RR. But I have looked through the changes and I really struggle to see the significance of them. Most of them just look like odd wording changes. What is the alleged POV being introduced? --BozMo talk 10:27, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
You could start here if you really want to get into it. That Muhammad is "the exhaustive embodiment of the divine message" is basically the POV of the sources in question. Arrow740 10:33, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Even taking that as agreed, it doesn't mean that the sources are unreliable on everything, just that they have to be watched for that bias/POV. They look like credible sources with a POV to watch to me (but I could be convinced otherwise): you cannot get a serious appointment in a POV location by being a pipe-dreamer, you have to be a scholar with a perspective. Most major national newspapers for example have some POV issues but they can still be considered reliable on a range of issues of fact. So why are you reverting even small details just because the source given happens to have a POV? I would think it very unlikely that something like evidence of a previous assault (which may well not be notable by the way) would be made up by a serious scholar with a POV: it has to have come from somewhere. Subjective content on say personalities etc I would treat with much more caution. --BozMo talk 11:00, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Umm, I'm not sure what the above conversation is about. Please note that I'm not trying to insert the above source which Arrow740 calls POV.

Firstly, I thank you BozMo that you'll attempt to help us. Actually, it was more a dispute between me and Jayjg on the articles Islam and antisemitism and Arabs and antisemitism. The dispute seems to be increasing and has spread to other articles as well, but I'd like to concentrate on the above two articles. I beleive that the biggest problem here is that me and Jayjg are not able to communicate well with each other. Please take a look around at the following sections to see what's going on.Bless sins 12:54, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok. Hmm. I have to say I am a bit reluctant to get too involved with antisemitism as an issue on Misplaced Pages. It is, I think, the area where Misplaced Pages most consistently fails to achieve any kind of NPOV. There are also some fairly aggressively editors around the antisemitism articles, with WP:OWN issues. I wonder if the mediation committee might be a better place to start. Personally, I don't think Jayjg is likely to listen to any opinion I might offer. --BozMo talk 13:04, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
It might be useful to note that BS is usually alone in his massive whitewashing edits. He doesn't even get support in them from editors who share his views. Arrow740 19:28, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Arrow no one is perfect but few are without any merit. I am happy tring to help people understand each other in most circumstances but am not keen to touch antisemitism more than I feel I really have to. --BozMo talk 20:13, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

House demolition

Hi Bless Sins. The article House demolitions and it's spin-offs undoubtedly need improvement. Have you seen a proposal for one of the spin-offs, being here. Your suggestions would be gratefully received and likely operated when clearance has been given to resume writing articles. PalestineRemembered 20:02, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Edit to Infidel

This edit tells us that two very interesting things have occured to you. Arrow740 09:27, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Overlapping Text

just a comment about your page: Text mentioning Misplaced Pages prophets of islam and the line that says you are a student seem to be overlaping each other. You may want to rearrange it Cs1kh

Under the title "My future plans 1", I am viewing using a Firefox browser using 1280*1024 resolution Cs1kh

I have the same problem with the page (also Firefox). --BozMo talk 14:10, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Welcome

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task force that might interest you

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Military history/Early Muslim military history task force Greetings Wandalstouring 11:34, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I added you as participant. Wandalstouring 15:22, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Ahmed Yassin

Please do not delete content from pages on Misplaced Pages, as you did to Ahmed Yassin. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Misplaced Pages:Sandbox for test edits. Thank you. -- Avi 14:43, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

OR

Can you please stop adding original research to Ahmed Yassin? Misplaced Pages is clear that original research does not belong in any of its articles. Respond back on Talk:Ahmed Yassin.Bless sins 14:45, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Statements in the articles that have reliable sources ipso facto cannot be OR. Please read articles before making unsubstantiated statements. -- Avi 14:49, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Please read the article before removing sourced categories. Thank you. -- Avi 01:47, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Once again, if you READ the article, you will find the source for it. Please take the time to carefully read the article before making statements that, unfortunately, are not based in fact. -- Avi 16:27, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Islamic military jurisprudence

و عليكم السلام, i think the first thing to do would be to see if you can find any reliable source material on the topic and see what you can derive therefrom. then, once you're happy with the content, the coverage and so on (also making sure there are no ongoing content disputes), you can then submit the article for a peer review (which can then also be transcluded onto the WP:ISLAM peer review page) where you will then get feedback from those who usually offer advice. you may be interested in comparing the article with the GA criteria to see what needs to be done to bring the article up to good article standard. you could also look at other good article candidates or recently passed good articles to see the kind of standard you're aiming for. hope that helps. ITAQALLAH 16:24, 25 July 2007 (UTC)


A request from a new member

hi, how are you. I began recently to contribute in wikipedia. I did my best to clean up and to enrich the article Zionism and racism allegations, but I am still a new wikipedian and my English language is not as good as what it should be. I think I still need some help. I hope you will participate in developing that page.

Please be sure to see my edits in the article since I fear that they will be reverted quicly. --Aaronshavit 21:49, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

dear Bless sins, I am not sure what do you mean by "they are far from what is expected on wikipedia"!!! I did my best to comply with the WP:V and WP:OR. The article lack resources, I added information from authontic resources without violating WP:OR + it contained POV which made it related to any thing but its title, I made it more related to its title+ almost solved noncompliant problem.
Anyway I am rechecking now the pillars and the pollicies of wikipedia. Thank you for your reply. --Aaronshavit 08:21, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Islam and antisemitism

Bless sins, i would strongly urge you to consider mediation on Islam and antisemitism, as per WP:DR. as talk page discussion and RfCs have not worked, perhaps the involvement of an independent mediator will help bring things to a resolution, and perhaps will at least help temporarily stop the edit warring. as it currently stands, i don't believe there is likely to be any resolution to the back-and-forth reverts in the near future. ITAQALLAH 22:29, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

The problem is still the inclusion the "Judaism in Muslim theology and beliefs", which is constructed of quotes not connected directly to antisemitism, hence WP:SYNTH. This is in addition to the other problems relating to the moving of Perry and Schweitzer, all of these issues which have been extensively discussed on Talk. Tewfik 18:06, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

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Sources are there

What are you doing here? The sources are in the article. Whats the issue here? --Matt57 04:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Say…

Say, Bless sins, three people have nominated me for adminship. Supposing I accepted one of these days, would you trust me with the tools? Are there concerns you would have which I could address? Because we've disagreed a lot, you seem like a better person to ask than someone with whom I've never been in editorial conflict.Proabivouac 06:31, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Pro: By that logic, you should also be asking me.
  • But that might mean addressing directly questions about why you a) tampered with my userpage without first posting a note on my talk page about the changes you wanted to make, why you b) violated WP:3RR and then talked your way out of being blocked for it on Kaaba, where you were fixated on inserting an image of the Prophet, and why you c) refused to work with me to generate a consensus draft at Muhammad on disputed text, ducked questions there, and refused, via the silent treatment, mediation on the resulting logjam.
  • If you (or your buddies Matt57 or Arrow740) ever do want to talk about any of these things (as in, you know, maintain a continuous dialogue) why not drop me a line? BYT 14:21, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Help for title issue

Hi, I saw you contributed to British Mandate for Palestine. Could you give your mind for a title issue between Palestine and British Mandate for Palestine here.
Thank you in advance !
Regards, Alithien 18:59, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

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WP:STALK

You appear to be stalking me. Please stop wikistalking my edits to revert them.--Sefringle 03:49, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Please keep your utterly ridiculous accusations to yourself. I "stalked" you by reverting your edits on Islam and antisemitism/Arabs and antisemitism, you've got to be kididng me! The the edits I'm making have been on articles I've been editing before.Bless sins 03:54, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm not talking about those articles. I am talking about Islamophobia (which you never were an involved party to until I reverted someone), the Religious attitudes to racism Afd (you voted within minutes of my comment there), somehow you knew I nominated Sheila Musaji for speedy deletion; I doubt you were watching the page. You were the first person to comment on my afd of The American Muslim . Just to name a few recent examples. And please respond here.--Sefringle 03:59, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
  • I have been editing Islamophobia since January.
  • I was looking into Sheila Musaji so as to list her as a notable convert to Islam. Besides your proposed deletion was ridiculous. Sheila Musaji and The American Muslim are connected, so when you edit one, you are lead to the other article as well.Bless sins 04:08, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Oh yeah, if you delete my comments from here, then I'll ignore all your subsequent messages on my talk.Bless sins 04:08, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

More accurately, with Islamophobia, you didn't edit it since March 3 All of a sudden, you show up and revert me after I revert someone. The timing was just perfect with the Sheila Musaji article (and related) stuff as well. Same thing with the religous racism article afd. It makes a good case.

And see the big blue box, where I asked you to respond on your talk page. I'm not deleting your comments. I am jsut moving them here, because it is better to have a discussion on the same talk page, not over two different talk pages.--Sefringle 04:16, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

After you deleted my comments from your talk page, I no longer want to pursue this on mine either. If you think you have a case, report me. Otherwise, this argument appears to be a waste of time.Bless sins 04:21, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Request for Mediation

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With regards to this, can you please move all the issues originally added by you into the "Issues to be mediated" section, and all those added by Sefringle into the "Additional issues to be mediated" section. Cheers, Daniel 12:36, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
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Questions on Mediation talk page

Hi Bless sins, thanks for giving me the opportunity to help you mediate this dispute. According to Sefringle, the issues listed at Misplaced Pages:Requests for mediation/Islam and antisemitism are themselves under dispute. As such, I've created a bit of a template for you to fill on Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for mediation/Islam and antisemitism, so we can decide what issues are to be mediated. I'd appreciate it if you could fill it in, so we can get going. Thanks. --Deskana (apples) 10:57, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Request

Salam (peace),

I have seen you editing many articles related Islam or Muslim culture. I have also never seen you edit-warring or holding strong prejudices. For these reasons, I request that you take a look at Islamic military jurisprudence.

Please give feedback (either on the article's talk page, or mine) about the quality of the article. It would be appreciated if you gave back constructive criticism, keeping in mind that I eventually want to nominate this article for WP:GA status.Bless sins 17:32, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually this article is related to WP:MILHIST. Please follow these steps to get the article reviewed by the community. -- FayssalF - 17:43, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

List of converts to Islam

Whats this? Why did you remove Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig? --Matt57 03:34, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

IP socks

The issue of your extensive use of IP socks for personal attacks is going to have to come before the community. Arrow740 23:49, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

some actual evidence would be nice. ITAQALLAH 23:55, 29 August 2007 (UTC)


Proposed change of name from War on Islam to War Against Islam

This seems less ambiguous and more widely used. Any objections? --BoogaLouie 17:59, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Rashidun army

Hi Sameer

Could you merge Rashidun army and Rashidun Caliphate army since you seem more familiar with the subject and I'm afraid to make mistakes because I lack knowledge and sources on the subject. Thank you. In my humble opinion, the result could be nominated for a peer review or even an A class review. Greetings Wandalstouring 11:32, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Reply To Comments

Thank you very much for your comment. It is a question that I feel must be asked, and one that has been utterly ignored in the Western world. Padishah5000 01:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

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Vandalizing Younus Shaikh

Please stop vandalizing the Younus Shaikh. If you feel a thing needs sourcing the correct way is to flag it as uncited and let it stay so for a while to see if anybody turns up with a cite – you should not just go out at random and delete large segments of an article. In any case I cited them, but perhaps you didn’t notice with your latest delete? And Rationalist International a "hate site"? Yeah right. The link to Faith Freedom, is a link to an article he has written. I can include the old link to a Finnish translation if you insist. Rune X2 06:04, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

I have blocked you for revertwarring on List of notable converts to Islam

When your block expires I hope that you are able to join the rest in discussing the issue on the talk page. Thanks. —— Eagle101 03:14, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

You should check out what the dispute is about. Contentious content (that someone has converted to Islam) about living persons is being inserted despite sources on talk page provided that usggest otherwise.Bless sins 03:33, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
This was a block long undue. BlessSins regularly reverts without using talk and removes sourced information. --Matt57 03:55, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I agree that Bless sins has done much wrong in terms of his edits/actions, but a block for edit warring when there were only 2 reverts is a bit excessive.--Sefringle 03:58, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Matt, those kind of accusations do not bring good will to you. Please consider the impact of what you state. I have just warned you and others in this dispute to settle down and discuss the editorial issue. Please do so, rather then pointing fingers. Thanks. —— Eagle101 03:59, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Unblock please

checkY

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

I have unblocked you as it turns out the page was protected while I was in the process of blocking you. I suggest that you engage in discussion and that you don't continue to revert (in case the article gets unprotected). Best of luck in resolving the dispute.

Request handled by: —— Eagle101 03:42, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

{{unblock-auto}} I believe my IP is still blocked. Can you unblock it? Thanks.Bless sins 03:48, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

That should be fixed now. Try editing the sandbox or something and let us know if it works. ~ Riana 03:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

List of notable converts to Islam 2

I've replied to your request at my talkpage.

In a nutshell, if the editors on the page don't come to a consensus and would prefer this as an option (protip: a straw poll helps!), I am willing to blank the entire page so there is no "bad protected version" being displayed. That's the extent of my willingness to modify the page contents.

Otherwise, come to an agreement or use the dispute resolution system (of which I am not a part of at the moment) instead. In these cases, you're free to request page unprotection after you've either come to consensus decisions or have resolved your disputes.

Further edit-warring on the page, of course, will result in protection being extended and possibly people being blocked for 3RR violations again. I'd prefer neither of those happened. Thanks. ~Kylu (u|t) 05:40, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Islamic military jurisprudence

Ping! --ROGER DAVIES  06:55, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Religious Segregation

I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish by removing all references to Islam from this article. Of course religious segregation exists in non-Islamic societies. They are all (or should be all) mentioned in the article. The statements in the Islam section are sourced in the linked articles. If you have a problem with the statements in those articles, then you should address them there. Alexwoods 15:00, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Qurayza

Hi Bless sins,

I think the passage,

In pre-Islamic Medina the Qurayza was of inferior status to the Banu Nadir, as the blood-money paid for the murder of a man of Qurayza was only half of the blood-money required for a murder of a man of Nadir. Muhammad raised the assessment of the Qurayza to full amount of blood money, thereby establishing friendship with them

belongs to the section on the history of Qurayza before arrival of Muhammad (i.e. Arrival of the Aws and Khazraj). I have a suggestion: to add it to "Arrival of the Aws and Khazraj" section. The last sentence may be better to be written as "Muhammad later raised the assessment of the Qurayza to full amount of blood money". The last bit "thereby establishing friendship with them" seems to be someone's opinion, so may be we can remove it. Just an idea. --Aminz 04:30, 13 September 2007 (UTC)


Please leave me alone, Mr. ______ (redacted.).Proabivouac 11:30, 13 September 2007 (UTC)