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There are directions at the bottom to unsubscribe. 2010/12/23 Don Gihan Devapriya <[email protected]>: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
