Please remove me from this crazy mailing list, I have no idea what are you talking about!!!!
Thaks & Regards, Gihan Don Gihan Devapriya Textprint Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. *MAS* Fabric Park Kurunegala Road Thulhiriya Sri Lanka. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +94 11 4768700 Mobile: 94 0772 385554 Fax: 94 37 2277078 On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
