Mathias Schindler wrote:
On 7/13/06, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
Such things are up to the individual project, IMHO.
Wikipedias central pillars are not up the individual project. These include
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
- Wikipedia is written in NPOV (these include religious endorsements)
- Wikipedia respects copyright law
- Wikilove.
Mathias
However, I would point out that the only thing this violates is #2 listed above. The Quran (Koran?) is in the public domain and certainly free of copyright, and Wikilove would encourage you to try and come to an accomodation here rather than micromanage this from the WMF board or stewards.
In other words, let the individual project deal with this, using their own cultural standards for native speakers of Urdu, tempered with these pillars and principles you mentioned. It doesn't need to take up bandwidth here unless there is a deadlock on this issue and isn't being dealt with.