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introduction citing

Citation 9: "see also: Ruthven, Malise. A Fury For God. London; New York: Granta (2002), p. 126." is not valid. 76.64.69.88 (talk) 03:43, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Gibberish

To be clear, the gibberish part was the part I removed. It wasn't English. How much clearer do I have to be, I dont have a metaphorical crowbar of understanding with which to insert this knowledge into your head. It has been removed again by another editor, so I just wanted to comment here, rather than the page history. - Roxy the dog 08:58, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As noted in my edit comment here, I have taken it a step further and removed the entire portion of material connected to the research of 'Mustansir Mir' - aside from the relative gibberish of the particular section most recently removed by other editors, none of this material is particularly substantive when speaking at an encyclopedic summary level about criticisms directed towards Islamic approaches to modern science. The views of 'Mustansir Mir' are not very important/due; what the article needs at this stage are sources summarizing the prevalent criticisms in the whole body of scholarship, not isolated academic opinions from individuals (- which would be far more due, in this instance, on a biographical article about Mustansir Mir, something that does not exist yet). Iskandar323 (talk) 09:26, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This article relies too much upon blogs

As the heading suggests. Much of what is said here is either original research, synthesis, or citing of self-published sources. I don't know which sources should be removed, as it seems like some of them are by reputable academics, but I think a great deal of them should be scrutinised. Does anyone know the policy regarding SPS by academics? Dawkin Verbier (talk) 17:23, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Undoing a few old doubtful errors

I'm manually undoing some cn (citation needed type) additions by Swingoswingo here and here. That user was banned, as far as I understand both for sockpuppetry and for outspoken POVediting; and made it rather clear on User talk:Swingoswingo that sources with claims Swingoswingo believed incorrect should not be employed in WP articles concerning Islam, whether or not they actually are RS's in the WP sense. (Actually, a somewhat incomplete but seemingly relevant source was removed by an IP only ever editing this article, here, shortly before Swingoswingo's cn.) JoergenB (talk) 17:37, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]