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


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?

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