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Article: Aurangzeb

Background: Mughal emperor of India who live in 17th century. Generally regarded by Hindus and Sikhs are most fanatical and tyrannical Muslim ruler to reign over India. He destroyed several important Hindu temples, reimposed jizya tax and executed Guru Tegh Bahadur (a Sikh pontiff) for failing to convert to Islam.

Dispute: Article gives a touch too sympathetic portrayal of Aurangzeb's policies. Editors frequently use hypothetical langauge like:

' While some conversions were likely based only on practical considerations, clearly others converted out of sincere belief -- at least in part inspired by Aurangzeb.'

This article has been also a favourite target of vandals both Islamist and Hindu fundamentalists alike. The dispute centres around Aurangzeb's motivation for desecration of Hindu structures. While at first inspite of evidence and references provided, some editors edited out all mentions to temple desecrations in the article. Now though they do accept that he did indeed destroy temples, the contend that it was because Temples were a "centres for conspiracies". Note that this purely a unfounded and non-sourced theory.

Vandalism Frequecy: Highly frequent

Distortion Level: Low >

NOTE: Vandlaisms constitute obvious misinformation added to article while Distortions are more subtle vandalisms.