User talk:BrokenMirror

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I'm not a vandal silly

Hey! The reason I started removing Persian and Arab is because this is according to Wikipedia policy what we should do. Me and user Scythian discovered this last night when we were overviewing the manual in how we should handle the Avicenna situation. Please see this: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies). Thanks! --Enzuru 19:12, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I won't revert you on Mulla Sadra because that one was accidental: his contributions were primarily Iranian in nature, because they were to Twelver Shi'a Islam, and later had direct ripple effects to the Iranian Revolution. --Enzuru 19:21, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, you can look at this. For example, articles like Jackie Chan don't open with any mention of his ethnicity at all, which would be Cantonese. --Enzuru 19:27, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You have called me a vandal and told me to open history books. I have called you silly. I expect an apology for your rudeness.
If you can bring a source citing that their ethnicity is often confused, perhaps we can include it in the start, but we may still not be able to mention it. For now, we are obligated to follow the Manual of Style.
Historically there was a confusion if Arab, Muslim, and all those groups were the same thing. That is an old Orientalist literature. As early as Gibbon was see it stopping.
Their contributions were global, like Jackie Chan, not to just Iranian civilization.
My family has spoken Persian for decades in Afghanistan, and I am an Ismaili. I know the differences between all this, please don't be condescending. I have treated you with dignity.

--Enzuru 21:03, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We're further discussing this on my talk page, please join! --Enzuru 02:09, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]