[Foundation-l] Israel article (was: Quran in Sitenotice)

Fri Jul 14 08:13:21 UTC 2006

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 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: geni <geniice at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:20:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Israel article (was: Quran in Sitenotice)
>
> >No one sane?
>
> >It has been edited by:
> >http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1
>
> >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.
>
> >It was created by:
> >http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%DB%81
>
> >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 at 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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