Talk:Muhammad Abu Zahra

The need for citations
Citations to reliable, authoritative, and neutral third-party sources are essential. Wikipedia requires them. Two good sets of Wikipedia guidelines that I have found really useful can be found HERE and HERE. See the Manual of Style guidelines for biographies located HERE. Wikipedia's rules on biographies of living persons are strict. If something is unreferenced, and potentially contentious, it should be removed immediately. George Custer&#39;s Sabre (talk) 17:17, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Except that Abu Zahra died long ago, and wikipedia guidelines on the biographies of living persons don't apply here. 17:53, 3 January 2016 (UTC)CounterTime (talk)

So what do you make of what WP:BURDEN states:
 * At best, you may add, or the "factual accuracy of this article is disputed" banner, but that's not an excuse to remove content. So I kindly invite you to re-add back the content.
 * I also added citations for the Works section.
 * 18:09, 3 January 2016 (UTC)CounterTime (talk)


 * Dear CounterTime, I clumsily missed the fact that he is dead. Sorry. Yet I'm not wrong to point out that WP:BURDEN places an onus of responsibility upon editors who add unreferenced material, but not upon editors who remove it. So let's both work on finding sources. Regards, George Custer&#39;s Sabre (talk) 18:20, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
 * In addition, this article should be more or less a translation of the arabic one, and if you visit it you'll find all of the books I listed previously there. Regards. --CounterTime (talk) 11:45, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Dear friend CounterTime, I hope you are well. I'm sorry I haven't been able to get to this issue. I've been ill for a few weeks and have hardly looked at Wikipedia. George Custer&#39;s Sabre (talk) 10:45, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Responsibility for providing citations
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