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Major edits at Misunderstander of Islam
Greetings, I did some major chopping at Misunderstander of Islam. The article purports to be about a neologism, but fails to demonstrate the scholarly WP:Notability thereof. The "usage" section does indeed demonstrate that some authors have used the term (though there are no citations/links provided to the claimed sources). Per Neologism, you need to identify not just that the term has been used in WP:Primary sources, but the WP:Secondary sources have examined and researched the neologism.

That aside, I chopped large amounts of the article which were WP:Original research. For example, you had a section associating "Misunderstander" with "Islamofascism", but had no citations proving that a scholar had associated the two terms. Similarly, you list a number of terrorist groups as "Misunderstands", implying by your citations that the State Department has designated them "Misunderstanders". This is not at all the case; State identifited them as "terrorist", then your personal opinion is that "terrorists" can be labeled "Misunderstanders". There's nothing wrong with having that opinion, and that'd be a totally valid topic to write on for an academic journal or news source, but Original Research is not what's used for Wikipedia. Now, if you have an authoritative source, such as a scholar, religious leader, etc. opining that "Terrorists would be better labeled Misunderstanders", that'd be exactly what you want.

I hope this clarifies why I made the changes I did. Please feel free to come to my Talk page with any questions. MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:38, 13 August 2012 (UTC)