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Created by Awsomaw ( talk). Self-nominated at 16:13, 17 May 2020 (UTC).
In
this edit, I added the Arabic name مرقس بن قنبر المنشق (Marqus ibn Qunbar al-Munšaq), sourced to
this page, because the subject matter is closely tied to the Arabic-speaking world. However, I noticed later that the epithet al-Munšaq might be derogatory and non-NPOV; while I don't speak Arabic, from what I do know about the language, it appears that the root n-š-q-q, from which this word is apparently derived, has to do with splitting (consider e.g. the Qur'anic verse اقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ وَانشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ, The Hour has come near, and the moon has split [in two].
) منشق is also listed as a translation for
separatist and
dissident at Wiktionary.
The reason that I find this to be a potential issue is that the source could be implying, using this name, that Ibn Qunbar was a heretic who sought to divide the religion. (I'm not familiar with the terminology that Christianity uses in such matters, but hopefully my point is understood.) The problem is that I was not able to find any other RS that mentions him in Arabic, and I don't know if it would be a good idea to remove the epithet from the end of the name while citing a source that contains it. M Imtiaz ( talk · contribs) 17:21, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
A fact from Mark Ibn Kunbar appeared on Wikipedia's
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check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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It is requested that a photograph be
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The result was: promoted by
97198 (
talk)
01:27, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Created by Awsomaw ( talk). Self-nominated at 16:13, 17 May 2020 (UTC).
In
this edit, I added the Arabic name مرقس بن قنبر المنشق (Marqus ibn Qunbar al-Munšaq), sourced to
this page, because the subject matter is closely tied to the Arabic-speaking world. However, I noticed later that the epithet al-Munšaq might be derogatory and non-NPOV; while I don't speak Arabic, from what I do know about the language, it appears that the root n-š-q-q, from which this word is apparently derived, has to do with splitting (consider e.g. the Qur'anic verse اقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ وَانشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ, The Hour has come near, and the moon has split [in two].
) منشق is also listed as a translation for
separatist and
dissident at Wiktionary.
The reason that I find this to be a potential issue is that the source could be implying, using this name, that Ibn Qunbar was a heretic who sought to divide the religion. (I'm not familiar with the terminology that Christianity uses in such matters, but hopefully my point is understood.) The problem is that I was not able to find any other RS that mentions him in Arabic, and I don't know if it would be a good idea to remove the epithet from the end of the name while citing a source that contains it. M Imtiaz ( talk · contribs) 17:21, 27 June 2020 (UTC)