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just to let you know, there was stuff you out on the Islam in France page that were already there
Dear, about mr. Qaradawi, you said youn wanted to see sources. But, in the text, you have cut out two of the sources I added So what do you really want? It appears to me that you radically remove several well-documented sections that are critical on Qaradawi! That appears to me censorship on objective information! -- Rudi Dierick 13:34, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
You're welcome. It was not a big deal... Happy new year to you and your family as well. And happy editing! If you have time, do not hesitate to review the L&H article, I feel sorry to be the only one who contributed to it. -- Edcolins 20:54, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)
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This is about your recent edit to the Sharia article:
Currently reads:
"Prophet Muhammad" is not NPOV. It should just say Muhammad. The Wiki uses Muhammad everywhere else. The word prophet is used only when hadiths are being referenced. If you have confusion see the article Muhammad.
This is not a Muslim Wiki, where Muhammed will be called "Prophet Muhammed". Try to understand what this Wiki is. It is to be unbiased. You have a problem, go change Muhammaed to Prophet Muhammed in the Muhammad article. I am bringing up this issue on the Discussion page of Sharia. Good luck.-- Matt57 22:11, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
§1. Though I would like to encourage you to continue your attempts to correctly state that cities and municipalities in Flanders are indeed part of that region, please be careful not to leave out the country as well. That is done for all cities in the world and Flanders is not a country. Precisely because some people would like it to be one, edits that pretend such desire to be a fact (regardless the text linked by 'Flanders' or 'Flemish Region') will read as a violation of
WP:NPOV.
§2a. You also created a sentence like "... in Flanders, one of the three communities and regions of Belgium", which is rather nonsense (the third community, German-speaking, has nothing to do with the third region, the Brussels Capital Region).
§2b. Furthermore, a city or municipality is not in a community; just the inhabitants can be part of the latter. More importantly, communities have nothing to do with a geographical location, and that's what each city/municipality's intro sentence is supposed to point out.
§3. Also replacing 'the Belgian coast' with 'the Flemish coast', is unacceptable while the next statement mentions the Dutch border. Especially for the English-language Wikipedia, the national borders are more important than those between regions, and in English one will not commonly speak about the 'Flemish coast'. Compare: I do not like the English referring to our language as 'Dutch', a word they use for Dutch people - as if it were their language and not just as much ours. But those things have historical causes that we as editors on Wikipedia have no right to present as if they were changed. We can fight misconceptions by presenting proper facts, but we cannot fight the language.
§4. While you are at it, may I suggest trying to keep or create a rather consistent way of mentioning the location, e.g.:
Note 1. In these sentences, one should go from the smallest (city) to the largest (country), never small/bigger/in between/biggest or so.
Note 2. I assume it may be better to say 'a city and a municipality', than 'a city and municipality' because the two entities do not exactly coincide: the latter often comprises the city proper and several villages.
Note 3. I suggest linking the word 'province' to '
Provinces of Belgium' (more useful and to-the-point than the article
province and a link to the latter occurs on the first line of
Provinces of Belgium anyway. (Something like that would not be proper for 'municipality' because the article is about that topic: the term may need to be explained, one does not wish to get a list.) An alternative might be to leave 'province' as [[province]] but give '
Belgium' the link [[Communities, regions of Belgium|Belgium]] (as Belgium is here clearly used in that meaning). In this sentence, the normal article
Belgium may be irrelevant and if one would be interested anyway, the suggested link's article has as its first word
Belgium.
Note 4. E.g. 'Antwerp province' (just 'Antwerpen' would be the city, thus we speak about 'provincie Antwerpen') but 'the province of Limburg' (there is no city Limburg, Flemish people often refer to the province simply as 'Limburg'; it is not 'Belgian Limburg' as that is not its name, and the country will follow in these sentences anyway - mentioning it once is enough, I assume), but verify that the links for the provinces' names end up on the correct pages (e.g. [[Antwerp (province)|Antwerp]], [[Limburg (Belgium)|Limburg]]).
Note 5. When looking up a city or municipality, one will not be looking for the constitutional nature of Flanders as a region. I think it is better to avoid the lengthier (and after seeing it three times: boring) style as now found in many articles, like:
— SomeHuman 8 Oct 2006 23:41-23:59 (UTC)
§4. While you are at it, may I suggest trying to keep or create a consistent way of mentioning the location, e.g.:
Should we then, if the cuntry as a higher governing level is to be included, also mention the European Union. AS self-centered Euopeans, we might overlook this, but for people from far away, this might make much sense to me. And it would be more coherent. Secondly, given that the region has such a limited ignificance, it looks to me that the general language may be 'Flanders', where the link could then refer to the Flemish region. Moreover, the provinces do not directly 'belong' to Belgium as such anymore as these have been transferred also to the regions. they thus 'belong' to Belgium in a similar way as they belong to the European Union: indirectly! Thus, taking into account all this, we maybe better use following conventions:
Given this, and (seems to have been saved before finishing the comment, thus unsigned — above comment by Rudi Dierick 12 Oct 2006 11:39 (UTC)
I've added the "{{ prod}}" template to the article Flemish emancipation movement, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also " What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Flemish emancipation movement. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Tocharianne 20:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Your recent insertion into the article has not been particularly helpful. It mentions controversy over his positions, but there is no source proving such a controversy exists. You simply cited opinions from his own website and declared them on your own to be controversial, and this is in violation of the official
Wikipedia:No original research policy.
Look man, I know the guy is controversial. A lot of the stuff he says is shocking, prejudiced, and boneheaded. But you can't just post his statements up and declare them controversial, because that's just your own opinion. It's not like it's hard to find criticism of him from a democratic perspective, you could probably find enough just google searching for five minutes.
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Hello, welcome to Wikipedia. Here's some tips:
Other useful pages are: how to edit, how to write a great article, naming conventions, manual of style and the Wikipedia policies.
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Angela . 23:38, Mar 15, 2004 (UTC)
Please read Wikipedia:Talk Page#Standards and conventions of writing and layout and Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages, and sign your posts. This is an essential aspect of communication here. It helps other users understand the progress and evolution of a dialog. Thanks. -- Edcolins 20:55, Aug 25, 2004 (UTC)
just to let you know, there was stuff you out on the Islam in France page that were already there
Dear, about mr. Qaradawi, you said youn wanted to see sources. But, in the text, you have cut out two of the sources I added So what do you really want? It appears to me that you radically remove several well-documented sections that are critical on Qaradawi! That appears to me censorship on objective information! -- Rudi Dierick 13:34, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
You're welcome. It was not a big deal... Happy new year to you and your family as well. And happy editing! If you have time, do not hesitate to review the L&H article, I feel sorry to be the only one who contributed to it. -- Edcolins 20:54, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits are considered vandalism, and if you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. Thank you.
This is about your recent edit to the Sharia article:
Currently reads:
"Prophet Muhammad" is not NPOV. It should just say Muhammad. The Wiki uses Muhammad everywhere else. The word prophet is used only when hadiths are being referenced. If you have confusion see the article Muhammad.
This is not a Muslim Wiki, where Muhammed will be called "Prophet Muhammed". Try to understand what this Wiki is. It is to be unbiased. You have a problem, go change Muhammaed to Prophet Muhammed in the Muhammad article. I am bringing up this issue on the Discussion page of Sharia. Good luck.-- Matt57 22:11, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
§1. Though I would like to encourage you to continue your attempts to correctly state that cities and municipalities in Flanders are indeed part of that region, please be careful not to leave out the country as well. That is done for all cities in the world and Flanders is not a country. Precisely because some people would like it to be one, edits that pretend such desire to be a fact (regardless the text linked by 'Flanders' or 'Flemish Region') will read as a violation of
WP:NPOV.
§2a. You also created a sentence like "... in Flanders, one of the three communities and regions of Belgium", which is rather nonsense (the third community, German-speaking, has nothing to do with the third region, the Brussels Capital Region).
§2b. Furthermore, a city or municipality is not in a community; just the inhabitants can be part of the latter. More importantly, communities have nothing to do with a geographical location, and that's what each city/municipality's intro sentence is supposed to point out.
§3. Also replacing 'the Belgian coast' with 'the Flemish coast', is unacceptable while the next statement mentions the Dutch border. Especially for the English-language Wikipedia, the national borders are more important than those between regions, and in English one will not commonly speak about the 'Flemish coast'. Compare: I do not like the English referring to our language as 'Dutch', a word they use for Dutch people - as if it were their language and not just as much ours. But those things have historical causes that we as editors on Wikipedia have no right to present as if they were changed. We can fight misconceptions by presenting proper facts, but we cannot fight the language.
§4. While you are at it, may I suggest trying to keep or create a rather consistent way of mentioning the location, e.g.:
Note 1. In these sentences, one should go from the smallest (city) to the largest (country), never small/bigger/in between/biggest or so.
Note 2. I assume it may be better to say 'a city and a municipality', than 'a city and municipality' because the two entities do not exactly coincide: the latter often comprises the city proper and several villages.
Note 3. I suggest linking the word 'province' to '
Provinces of Belgium' (more useful and to-the-point than the article
province and a link to the latter occurs on the first line of
Provinces of Belgium anyway. (Something like that would not be proper for 'municipality' because the article is about that topic: the term may need to be explained, one does not wish to get a list.) An alternative might be to leave 'province' as [[province]] but give '
Belgium' the link [[Communities, regions of Belgium|Belgium]] (as Belgium is here clearly used in that meaning). In this sentence, the normal article
Belgium may be irrelevant and if one would be interested anyway, the suggested link's article has as its first word
Belgium.
Note 4. E.g. 'Antwerp province' (just 'Antwerpen' would be the city, thus we speak about 'provincie Antwerpen') but 'the province of Limburg' (there is no city Limburg, Flemish people often refer to the province simply as 'Limburg'; it is not 'Belgian Limburg' as that is not its name, and the country will follow in these sentences anyway - mentioning it once is enough, I assume), but verify that the links for the provinces' names end up on the correct pages (e.g. [[Antwerp (province)|Antwerp]], [[Limburg (Belgium)|Limburg]]).
Note 5. When looking up a city or municipality, one will not be looking for the constitutional nature of Flanders as a region. I think it is better to avoid the lengthier (and after seeing it three times: boring) style as now found in many articles, like:
— SomeHuman 8 Oct 2006 23:41-23:59 (UTC)
§4. While you are at it, may I suggest trying to keep or create a consistent way of mentioning the location, e.g.:
Should we then, if the cuntry as a higher governing level is to be included, also mention the European Union. AS self-centered Euopeans, we might overlook this, but for people from far away, this might make much sense to me. And it would be more coherent. Secondly, given that the region has such a limited ignificance, it looks to me that the general language may be 'Flanders', where the link could then refer to the Flemish region. Moreover, the provinces do not directly 'belong' to Belgium as such anymore as these have been transferred also to the regions. they thus 'belong' to Belgium in a similar way as they belong to the European Union: indirectly! Thus, taking into account all this, we maybe better use following conventions:
Given this, and (seems to have been saved before finishing the comment, thus unsigned — above comment by Rudi Dierick 12 Oct 2006 11:39 (UTC)
I've added the "{{ prod}}" template to the article Flemish emancipation movement, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also " What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Flemish emancipation movement. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Tocharianne 20:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Your recent insertion into the article has not been particularly helpful. It mentions controversy over his positions, but there is no source proving such a controversy exists. You simply cited opinions from his own website and declared them on your own to be controversial, and this is in violation of the official
Wikipedia:No original research policy.
Look man, I know the guy is controversial. A lot of the stuff he says is shocking, prejudiced, and boneheaded. But you can't just post his statements up and declare them controversial, because that's just your own opinion. It's not like it's hard to find criticism of him from a democratic perspective, you could probably find enough just google searching for five minutes.
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15:54, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
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