User talk:Fightersunni

Fightersunni, the biographies of Ali (or Abu Bakr, or Umar, or Uthman, or Mu'awiya) are not the place to argue about Islamic history or Sunni-Shi'a disputes. Striver is trashing article after article with his mean-spirited, ill-written prose -- I'm trying to fix it, as I have time. But there are articles like Succession to Muhammad and First Islamic civil war for discussing the actual events, in detail. They're both just sketches, since I'm grossly over-committed to various articles. But that is the place to conduct the real skirmishing.

It also doesn't help much to respond to Striver in kind. We are trying to produce a useful and free public resource, and we should try to be encyclopedic. Striver does not understand what that means -- please don't imitate him! Basically, we are trying NOT to take sides, but just to step back and recount, in as neutral and accurate a manner as we can, what the various sides can and can't agree on, what positions they take, and what evidence they can adduce for their positions. If we give enough information, and references and links to further information, readers will have enough information to make up their own minds. Zora 6 July 2005 22:53 (UTC)