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Mathematics in medieval Islam[edit]
I reverted your recent edits to Mathematics in medieval Islam for reasons discussed on the talk page. I see that you are new to English wikipedia, and are not a native speaker of English. While your contributions are welcome, I urge you to be more careful with your translations from French. Some of the sentences in your edit have serious grammatical problems, to the point where the meaning of the sentence can only be guessed at.
Also, in general, it is best to avoid accusations of vandalism against established editors. They almost always have a reason for their changes that is based in wikipedia policies, and will usually discuss their reasoning in detail if asked on their talk page. Dialectric (talk) 14:14, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
- Problems of translations is one thing. The grammatical problems can be solved by correcting it. If a person refuse to correct it and prefere delete, then it's vandalism. If a chapter or part of a chapter is not understandable or comprehensible, then the best manner to work is to transfer the part of chapter in the talking page. If a person don't do that and prefer delete, then it is vandalism. I am new in english wikipedia but not really new in wikipedia. I knew the rules of wikipedia and I demand you to respect these rules (they are the same for the french and for the english wikipedia). Sincerly yours.Tranquil Pepere (talk) 14:41, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
- By all means regard it as vandalism if you like, but using that term at Wikipedia in relation to good-faith edits is regarded as a personal attack and should not be repeated. We have a specific definition of "vandalism"—see WP:VAND—and it means obvious nonsense such as deleting half a paragraph while leaving broken text. For your information, a large number of articles like the one in question (Mathematics in medieval Islam) have been subjected to extreme POV editing in the past (POV = point of view, meaning that some editors have attempted to express personal opinions in articles to inflate the accomplishments of certain historical figures). The fact that there has been severe disruption on a large number of articles in the past means that editors now are less likely to want to accept significant changes to the article unless those changes do not need a lot of fixing in order to assess whether they are an improvement. Please just start a new section on the article talk page and propose a single change (post the text, and say where it would go, and briefly why it is needed). Johnuniq (talk) 01:25, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
- You don't understand. It's not a point of view. It's a translation of french wikipedia. Must I understand that some people dislike the translation in this sense (from french to english). I do not understand why you suppress this contribution.Tranquil Pepere (talk) 12:28, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
- By all means regard it as vandalism if you like, but using that term at Wikipedia in relation to good-faith edits is regarded as a personal attack and should not be repeated. We have a specific definition of "vandalism"—see WP:VAND—and it means obvious nonsense such as deleting half a paragraph while leaving broken text. For your information, a large number of articles like the one in question (Mathematics in medieval Islam) have been subjected to extreme POV editing in the past (POV = point of view, meaning that some editors have attempted to express personal opinions in articles to inflate the accomplishments of certain historical figures). The fact that there has been severe disruption on a large number of articles in the past means that editors now are less likely to want to accept significant changes to the article unless those changes do not need a lot of fixing in order to assess whether they are an improvement. Please just start a new section on the article talk page and propose a single change (post the text, and say where it would go, and briefly why it is needed). Johnuniq (talk) 01:25, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Mark Arsten (talk) 14:35, 30 July 2013 (UTC)