Okay, perhaps we should just wait for this discussion to pan out, to
see what comes of it before we do anything else. This would seem
sensible to prevent any kind of conflict or unwelcome pressure.
On 14/07/06, Heema Khan <heema_khan(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I can definitely do that. If you provide me the exact
text.
But it seems that a steward already contacted an administrator yesterday
http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8…
There is a new discussion, where it is a
general agreement to remove the Qur'anic verse
from the Sitenotice but to display it on the main
page in any case. There is still an argument going on
in favour and against this new proposition.
--heema
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So, are we okay to post one of those notices? Heema, are you willing
to translate and post both? I think we need to at least open
discussion on the wiki as we're just repeating ourselves here on the
list, it seems.
On 13/07/06, Heema Khan <heema_khan(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
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Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:20:50 PM
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No one sane?
One of the buracrats on that wikipedia.
this guy argued that if you are against Qur'anic verses in the Sitenotice
means you are against Qur'an.
The admin we have contected over the sitenotice
issue.
Doesn't surprise me, because he added the Quranic verse into the Sitenotice
in the first place.
--heema
On 7/13/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all.
(I apologise this won't show up in threading - I've only just
subscribed and I'm reading old mesages through the archives)
Heema Khan:
On Urdu Wikipedia, article on Israel is very
short:
http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%84
I can translate it:
"Israel, a palce where jews live. In addition to Pakistan there are many other
countries that do not recognize this place of Jews as a country.
Majority of the Urdu speaking public believes that there
is no country by the name of Israel exists. But there is
a country named Palestine, whose some part is captured
by Jews and they call it Israel. And the English speaking
world says that in a country called Israel some
Palestenians want to create a country called Palestine."
This is the whole article. Quite extraordinary, nothing to add more.
In this specific case, if my reading of the page is right, this
article has had a grand total of 21 edits, the ten most recent of them
in a single three-day period in June. Every single bit of the content
has been contributed by one single registered user; all anon edits
have been vandalism (well, one was pageblanking, that might count as
justified!) No discussion page, of course.
On the whole, while it's still a pretty terrible article, it scares me
less once I know that it's the work of one guy and it's just that
no-one sane has managed to look at it yet...
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