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



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

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