User talk:Abdullah Tahir

Your edits to tawhid

Abdullah, you made numerous small changes to Tawhid that moved the article in the direction of Salafi ideology.

You also seem to think that Muslim should not be capped, and that various other words, like references to God as He, should be capped. WP usage is to cap Muslim and to NOT cap words relating to God, as that would be POV.

I reverted your edits, but I don't want to consider that the end of the matter. Please discuss things on the talk page. We want the article to be accurate, and you may be able to help us get there. Zora 01:43, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the polite message

Dear Abdullah,

I'm impressed by your equanimity and politeness in discussing my reverts and glad you've entered the conversation.

It seemed to me that a lot of the changes you made -- aside from the the capping -- were in the direction of Muslim piety, and the language used sounded like Salafi language to me. Well ... I thought I was getting good at divining the various brands of Sunni-ness by the language an editor used, but I must be too confident of my abilities! So let's just step back and say that your edits were somewhat pious and formulaic. This is a secular encyclopedia and we can't sound like a mosque brochure. I was particularly concerned by the removal of some of the material re Christianity and the conflation of Christianity and "idol worship". That's a specifically Muslim view of Christianity and I'm not quite sure it's fair to the Christians. (I'm not a Christian, BTW -- I'm a Buddhist.)

We desperately need level-headed editors to work on the Islam-related articles. However, they aren't so much needed at the high-profile articles, like Islam, Muslim, Muhammad, and Tawhid. Everyone and his brother feels qualified to have opinions on those subjects, and the articles are in a state of constant churn that doesn't make them any better. But articles on less high-profile figures and events languish without any editors. Contributing to articles on some of the Companions would be helpful to us and probably useful to your study of Islam. Just make sure that your contributions sound like an encyclopedia!

Another way you could contribute would be to take pictures, if you have a digital camera and you're a good photographer. The article on Islam in the United States doesn't have any pictures at all. If you could take some nice ones of US mosques and Muslims and donate them to Wikipedia, that would be a big addition to the article. Probably would also help readers to understand that US Muslims aren't just a faceless scary THEM, but real people with families. Zora 21:34, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

External link policy

A good percentage of your edits consist of linking various articles to faizani.com. You state in this edit comment that you are the webmaster of that site. Adding these links is clearly against out policies prohibiting self-promotion. See Wikipedia:External links to read it yourself. I have removed the link in all sorts of various places, and I have to say that it doesn't seem like the sort of thing that would be put there if you weren't the webmaster yourself. DreamGuy 20:30, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help

Can you please join in the discussion on the following:

Aga Khani Islamic Cults

in reference to Aga Khani please do a Google search under this heading and join the discussion, I need as many muslims as possible to join this discussion as possible.

trueblood 04:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ottoman language Wikipedia

Hello Abdullah Tahir

I am a history teacher from Istanbul, in Turkey. We need your vote [1] for opening Ottoman Language wikipedia

--Tarih 21:07, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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