> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> Dear Sir, >>> >>> I have read about the Wikipedia rules. After adding articles in it, i >>> face many problems, which can be explained / solved in detail by >>> Wikipedia. Thanks. I have also read that "honorifics" i.e. Hazrat, >>> Khawaja, SAW, RA are not allowed in Wikipedia. But i have seen the >>> same >>> are used frequently in many other Wikipedia articles as you can see in >>> following two articles: >>> >>> 1) Universal Sufi Silsila >>> 2) Pir Meher Ali Shah >>> >>> Sir, please help me if there is any way to add these "honorifics" in >>> article. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> M. Hussain >> >> I'm not sure we have a rule against honorifics, for example, Hajji is >> used in the article Hazrat Ali and even has it's own article: >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hajji Maybe you could >> use >> that treatment for Hazrat, Khawaja, SAW, RA all of which I, and others, >> I'm sure, would be interested in knowing the meaning of. >> >> Fred >> >> User:Fred Bauder >> > > > See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:HONORIFIC > and > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PBUH > for the English Wikipedia's guidelines. > > Any discussion about changing the guidelines, should start at the > guideline's talkpages. Any articles which don't currently follow the > recommended style, can be updated. > > Hope that helps. > - Quiddity
Changing the title of the article "Muhammad" to "Hazrat Muhammad" or using the honorific in the introduction to the article would be inappropriate. However, as with "PBUH" a section in the article "Muhammad" could address those usages and contain links to them. The basic principle is to maintain neutrality; however, as specific instances are considered common sense needs to be the guide. Mother Teresa, an Albanian Christian, is commonly known by that name worldwide. Her actual name, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, is obscure. Fred User:Fred Bauder _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
