Talk:Warith Deen Mohammed

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Objectivity?!?
I just attempted to addend some dissenting information regarding this 'Imam' however the well documented site I referenced has been blocked! It seems it is not allowed to question this individual's greatness. Devoted followers indeed. Supertouch (talk) 14:36, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

External Links at the End
There are two sets of external links in the article, with the second set mainly refering to Elijah Muhammad instead of Warith Muhammad. I think the links should be combined into one section and they should more closely focus on the person who is actually the subject of the article. Everyguy 18:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Reads Like Self Promotion
the whole page sounds like a fan boy wrote it...

needs to be re written--Bijun 00:47, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Yep, definitely some NPOV issues going on this article. Themalau 05:10, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Concern with promotion
The language used in this article strongly indicates a biased viewpoint. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.40.181.69 (talk) 00:30, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarism
I just came across this artcle so I don't know how long it's been there, but I just deleted this sentence:


 * Warith Deen Muhammad thanks you for plagiarizing this article from http://www.micgh.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=126.

The mid-section of the article is virtually cut and paste from the site mentioned. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 22:46, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It does look like some of the article was taken from that web site. I removed some of that content but haven't gotten all of it out yet. However, this article has been on Wikipedia over three years, so if we go back through the edit history we should eventually be able to find a version which did not copy from that page. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:38, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

BLP
Unfortunately, the version that has been reverted to has only a single source for a single quote. As per WP:BLP this fails and needs to be cleared and rewritten using sources. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fixthepedia (talk • contribs) 14:48, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Most of the content in this article is not contentious and therefore does not need to be removed per WP:BLP. Furthermore, your recent edit identified W. Deen Mohammed as a leader of the Nation of Islam, when in fact it has been something like 30 years since Mohammed's organization was called the Nation of Islam. The article does need to be sourced but cutting out almost all the information is not needed. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 19:19, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Multiple citations are lacking

 * Note There are multiple claims in the article that are not backed up by ANY sources, much less reliable ones. I have tagged the article as its lacks sources. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 03:06, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Warith Deen Mohammed
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Warith Deen Mohammed's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Independent": From Pope John Paul II:  From Malaysia:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 16:26, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

That Imam W. Deen Mohammed practiced polygamy is disputable
My source is reliable of this disputation. http://siddeeq.com/2011/11/21/laila-muhammads-interview-on-am-360-and-muhammad-siddeeqs-response — Preceding unsigned comment added by $indbad 408 (talk • contribs) 06:18, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid that there is no indication that the website you are attempting to post conforms to WP:IRS, $indbad 408. As has been explained to you, websites of individuals generally do not conform. Beyond that, even if it were a reliable source, the website does not verify what you wrote - it does not verify that the community disputes what Mohammed's daughter said of him. It verifies only that Brother Muhammad Siddeeq disputes it. What Laila says about her own father is likely to be pertinent and relevant to an online encyclopedia, but opinions of miscellaneous members of the public will be less so. If a newspaper, for instance, views it as worth noting that Siddeeq disputes Laila's claims, then it might be appropriate for inclusion, but almost all of the references I find to Siddeeq come from his own website. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 04:13, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Terminology
"Because of this conclusion, he was excommunicated five times, but by 1974, he was returned permanently to the church." Excuse me "Church" as in a a Christian church? Surely whoever typed this meant "Mosque" or is someone to tell me the Nation of Islam calls their Mosque a "Church", I am aware members of the Nation of Islam sometimes call them "Islamic Temples" but I have never heard a Muslim of any denomination or sect say "Church" when referring to a Mosque. Did the citation at the end of the that sentence say "church" if so is it that trustworthy? --Primus1x (talk) 21:32, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, Primus1x. The source is linked; if you click on it, you can read it yourself. The source uses the term "temple" for specific places of worship, but like Mosque, a temple is a single place, not a collective body. You're welcome to help improve the language - Wikipedia is a "wiki", which means that almost every page can be edited by almost anyone. Everyone is welcome to help improve articles! Please, pitch in. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:39, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

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Is "progressive" an appropriate or helpful adjective?
The opening of the article uses the adjective "progressive". The word is used around the world in many contexts with a variety of meanings. I cannot tell what "progressive" is meant to convey in this context. Maybe somebody can either explain it a bit in the article, or use a different descriptive. Pete unseth (talk) 21:32, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

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Successor in infobox
23.28.214.144 (talk) removed the successor parameter from the infobox. My inclination was to revert and add it back but am unsure. On the one hand, Louis Farrakhan wasn't really a direct successor, and similarly "Leader of the Nation of Islam" wasn't a formal title as such. On the other hand, to a general wikipedia user parsing the lead, linking Farrakhan up top as the next leader makes sense and the hand-wavy nature of "leader" is likely not an issue. Thoughts? - Procyonidae (talk) 03:47, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Ideas for improvement
Need to elaborate of subject's relationship with Malcolm X Feoffer (talk) 08:49, 23 July 2023 (UTC)