User talk:Accurate Amendments

Please stop making edits to the Afzal Amin article that appear to be (a) not referenced to Wikipedia's standards, and (b) may be contrary to Wikipedia's Biography of Living People policy, which states that "Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately." -- The Anome (talk) 15:47, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Afzal Amin
a) Full sources were given, so one fails to see the justification for your remark from that aspect. b) Furthermore, there is nothing "contentious" at all, the book was published, edited by Afzal Amin and has his name on the book (I was actually given a copy by the individual himself in 1998!) and is in circulation - how on earth can that be deemed as "contentious". Let's not re-write the historical record for expediency.

Removal of that detail on your part, is quite inappropriate in this regard. I urge you to reconsider and in the name of impartiality and fairness allow the detail as the work in question was also referenced in a published academic bibliographical work by a Spanish Professor from Madrid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Accurate Amendments (talk • contribs)


 * Firstly, the bare reference you cite only shows that a book was written by someone with a name that might resemble his, and tells us nothing about its content except the title. That's not a good cite either for authorship or for content. Secondly: can you really not see why the content of your edit might be contentious? -- The Anome (talk) 22:35, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Ian Dallas: The Shaykh Who Has No Clothes
Well, as I type this now I actually have the book next to me! It was published in Rome in 1994 (no publisher) and I have scanned the front cover and the back cover, which features Afzal Amin's name (as 'editor') on it as he wrote the blurb! Not sure what more can be said really, he played a role as editor, as per the blurb. He gave me the book personally!

So I can place scans here, but he himself does not deny his role in it, he is trying to hide the fact. Your removal of the detail, when Amin personally distributed copies of the book himself between 1995-1998 in the UK, is merely serving to contribute to Amin's folly.

Moreover, we have the further reference to the book by Dr Maria Corpas Aguirre in her Spancish bibliographical reference book on Muslim communities in Spain. I really see no justification for your removal of that detail apart from possibly Amin complaining about it himself. Yet as has transpired with the individual, he is hardly a stalwart example of honesty.

I again implore you to follow the evidence of his involvement in this book and allow the entry.