User talk:Sefardicus

God in Islam
Hi Sefardicus!

I'm just letting you know that I deleted your edits to the above article. The mmaterial that you had put there simply doesn't fit Wikipedia style.

One cannot simply lift a whole article written and published by another person and dump it into wikipedia.

One can only quote a small amount of an article to support a point that is made. When you do this you must give the name of the author.

When quoting or citing an article from a newspaper or periodical you must give ALL the details, "Star and a day" is not adequate. What year? What country?

As you must be perfectly well aware, the material in the article is likely to be extremely offensive to some readers. That doesn't mean that it cannot be said, because wikipedia is not censored. However, there are ways of going about it that are not unnecessarily imflammatory. The original article sets out to state what Muslims believe about God. If what you do is overwhelm the existent article by dumping in a lengthy blurb which sets out to prove that Muslims are wrong, its really not appropriate.

The way to go about it is to make an introductory statement such as "Some scholars believe that the origins of Islamic beliefs are....." Then you use some brief quotations and some info drawn from the Star article. And you cite the article as your source, with inline references. It is always perfectly fine to say that some people hold different opinions but because the article is specifically about Muslim beliefs, then the beliefs really ought to take up more space than the opinions of some non-Muslim scholars. --Amandajm 15:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)