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:hi 1234567, you probably haven't logged in in a while. There are additional problems with the text which need to be discussed (I can talk about those after you've responded to the above). All the text has been moved out of the main article space into [[WikiIslam:Sandbox/Muhammad and his Wives]] until the concerns are addressed. --[[User:Axius|Axius]] ([[User talk:Axius|talk]]) 03:28, 20 November 2012 (PST) | :hi 1234567, you probably haven't logged in in a while. There are additional problems with the text which need to be discussed (I can talk about those after you've responded to the above). All the text has been moved out of the main article space into [[WikiIslam:Sandbox/Muhammad and his Wives]] until the concerns are addressed. --[[User:Axius|Axius]] ([[User talk:Axius|talk]]) 03:28, 20 November 2012 (PST) | ||
::Examples of problematic statements are ''"Muhammad liked to play with children and '''he must have been a good stepfather to Hala and Hind, for they remained unswervingly loyal to him.'''"'' - (article on Khadija near [http://wikiislam.net/wiki/WikiIslam:Sandbox/Muhammad_and_his_Wives#Khadija_and_Muhammad ref 25], bold emphasis mine). The bolded statement is original research. The kids may have been loyal to him out of fear or cultural reasons. It doesn't necessarily mean he was a good stepfather. There are other statements and more may exist because we haven't looked at all the material, but these kinds of assumptions are not right for our site. We focus on simply "quoting" sources and not [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/editorialize editorializing] content. Still I believe an effort can be made to save this work and I hope you come back and talk to us about it. --[[User:Axius|Axius]] ([[User talk:Axius|talk]]) 20:57, 23 November 2012 (PST) | ::Examples of problematic statements are ''"Muhammad liked to play with children and '''he must have been a good stepfather to Hala and Hind, for they remained unswervingly loyal to him.'''"'' - (article on Khadija near [http://wikiislam.net/wiki/WikiIslam:Sandbox/Muhammad_and_his_Wives#Khadija_and_Muhammad ref 25], bold emphasis mine). The bolded statement is original research. The kids may have been loyal to him out of fear or cultural reasons. It doesn't necessarily mean he was a good stepfather. There are other statements and more may exist because we haven't looked at all the material, but these kinds of assumptions are not right for our site. We focus on simply "quoting" sources and not [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/editorialize editorializing] content. Still I believe an effort can be made to save this work and I hope you come back and talk to us about it. --[[User:Axius|Axius]] ([[User talk:Axius|talk]]) 20:57, 23 November 2012 (PST) | ||
:::Hi Axius, sorry I haven't been in touch. I am currently travelling with limited internet access and no access at all to my books (I was using hard-copy English translations of Tabari and Ibn Saad). For this reason it will be difficult for me to do much before January. | |||
:::I do intend to respond to everything you have written but I would rather not do it on the fly. Some friends who are native speakers of Arabic (non-Muslims now living in a safe country) have offered to help me and I would like their opinion on some of the English translations I have been using. | |||