Re: Please help with wikipedia's article on Arabic Numerals that's falling victim to vandalism


mensanator@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> casioculture@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I visited this page a little while ago and I was startled by the
> > extreme Hindu-nationalist and anti-Arab biases, and the resulting
> > ludicrous factual errors on the page. I therefore took the time to find
> > reputable scientific and academic sources that are neutral, edited the
> > article so that it was in line with the scientific consensus, quoting
> > even a professor who is an effective member of the International
> > Academy of the History of Science, and reputable Indian sources such as
> > from the Indian National Science Academy and from the Bulletin of the
> > National Institute of Sciences of India, and many others.
> >
> > Let me make it clear; I have no anti-Indian bias, in fact, I listened
> > to Indian music on my playlist many times over the past few days
> > (Musafir, Gypsies of Rajasthan) and ate some pretty nice Indian food.
> > I'm against blatant biases leading to blatant factual errors and
> > deliberate distortion.
> >
> > I have had help from many reasonable editors whom I thank, but the
> > article is now having a problem with a few individuals with quite
> > pronounced Hindu-nationalist who remain in persistent refusal to base
> > their content on reliable sources as per Wikipedia policies and whose
> > version contains too many serious errors to accomodate. They keep
> > reverting the page. The more I try to reason with them, going to
> > excruciating lengths as evidenced by the talk page linked to below, the
> > more I become aware, from the evasive and ironic one-liners they reply
> > with, that they're not really interested in being reasoanble.
> >
> > Please visit the page, it still needs some work to edit it and fill in
> > some gaps, which must be based on reliable sources, and if you don't
> > want to help with that then at least put it on your watchlist and
> > ensure that the version you're in honest agreement that is based on
> > reliable source and is in line with the wikipedia policies linked to in
> > the talk page is kept from being reverted and hidden form the public.
> > Your comments on the talk page are also welcome.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Arabic_numerals
>
> Tempest in a teapot, eh?
>
> Could you post a scorecard so I can tell who's on which side?

I don't care who's on which side, what I care about is that people
abide by wikipedia policies and cite reliable sources.

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