Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam:The Muslim Guild/User comments/Striver/1
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Striver, while I appreciate your obvious enthusiasm, could I request that you slow down a little? You keep making major edits to important pages without running it by other people first, making the Islam pages on Wikipedia look bad. For example, you changed the "Islam" template on many pages to your own "Muslim Beliefs" template. This template had spelling errors (now fixed), and the top link on it went to a non-existent page. That linked page does now exist (Basic Muslim Beliefs) but it is a very basic stub and full of typos. I have other issues with the template as well, but this is not the place to discuss it. I would ask you to please slow down, especially in the creation of brand new pages and then linking existing pages to them. This guild should be a place where we can all discuss things and then roll them out, as opposed to all of us simply reacting to each other's edits. Thank you. Turnstep 13:45, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
- Hi! Thanks for your comment.
- As you might have seen, i did apologize several times for my rushed decision on the making and implementing of the new template. I did not re-add it after people removed them from some articles, rather im waiting to people to discover it (wich i hoped would go quicker than i has). I tried to react to some of the critizism, i created the missing pages and then felt that since Khums is prominantly shia, i re added the template, arguing that i tend to have the support of shia editors, due to my energy, wich is rare in the shia articles, ie: bad spelling is better than no spelling, since bad spelling tends to be copyedited away, but non-existing articles tend to remain uncreated. In other words:
- Yes, i do spell bad; yes i have horrible gramar. but that can and do get corrected. But my knowldge and zeal in creating and expanding articles is, in my experience, not something that would be done anyway.
- As for this guild being the place for discussing thing, that is exactly what is happening now, and the same thing happened when i pointed out my changes to the template and hajj section. thanks to this guild (that i created), people can see what im doing without feeling they need to "chase" me.
- Again, thanks for your comment!
- --Striver 14:17, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
- Assalamu alaykum striver, and Eid Mubarak --
- May I ask you to pause for just a few minutes and, with all respect, consider whether the feedback you've gotten from Turnstep mirrors feedback you've gotten from other editors? Peace and blessings, BrandonYusufToropov 16:08, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
- Wa aleyikom as-salam my dear brother in Islam!
- Striver agrees that he was to rushed in creating the Template:Muslim Beliefs template and apologises.
proposal[edit]
- Yes, it does mirror what other editors have said. How about this: Make a list of articles you think i should treat with caution, and ill think about agreeing to the list. In the future, if i want to make a change to article x (that is in the agreed list), instead ill make a proposal at striver/x. Then ill notify people about it in this page and wait 24 houres for comments before i add them to x. What do you say? --Striver 18:56, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
- Brother, this is alhamdulillah a wonderful suggestion. Thank you so much for making it, I think it's an excellent idea. You won't mind, I assume, if I talk to other editors to get their input on what should be on this list of articles? I will post it inshaAllah on your talk page when it is ready for your review. BrandonYusufToropov 19:02, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Yes, i also hope its a good sugestion and inshallah it will remove some wikistress of all editors head. You may discus this with anyone you feel to do so with. Do mind that i aim to keep the list of articles limited to high-profile non-shia articles, ie not expand it to less known biographies or articles. best regards! --Striver 21:00, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
- Striver is waiting for a reply regarding his proposal.