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August 2010

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your recent edits to Alhazen have been reverted as they could be seen to be defamatory or potentially libellous. Take a look at our welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Please do not make intemperate general claims about groups of people as you did in this edit summary. SteveMcCluskey (talk) 14:38, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. I've deleted the "potentially libellous" phrase, which is standard in the template. Your comment about childishness, however, strikes this observer as ironic; that term describes this silly debate about whether Alhazen was an Arab or a Persian. Let's stop that kind of discussion (as has pretty much been done in the similar case about whether Copernicus was Polish or German) and get on with writing a good encyclopedia article about this important scientific figure. --SteveMcCluskey (talk) 18:15, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

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Evolution edits

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European state

Turkey is a transcontinental country. I don't give a f... to being a European state or not, and less to your opinions on my country, but as you made an aggressive edit summary on Turkey, I will state FYI: the Ottoman Empire was formally accepted as a "European power" at the Conference of Paris, in 1856, if not before. Read the Council of Europe article to see when Turkey joined the only pan-European political (intergovernmental) organization and also begin counting how many European states have emerged from Ottoman Turkey. Also FYI Atatürk was born in a European city of Ottoman Turkey, studied in two other European cities of the Empire and is the architect of the Balkan Entente. --E4024 (talk) 18:23, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

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Edit warring Alhazen

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The first words about this great man shouldnt consist of guesswork. The autobiography section has ample room for talk about possibility of him being a Persian, Chinese or whatever.

The sources which describe him as a Persian, base that on the fact that his native home (Iraq) at thr timr of his birth was ruled by a tribal confederation from Iran. To some idiot 'scholars' that makes him Persian. Even though that ruling tribe wasnt even Persian, the were Daylamites. An Iranian ethnic group.

Here are the facts

1) He was born a predominantly Arab city in a predominantly Arab region. Later he moved to Egypt, never leaving for Persia

2) He never commented on his ethnicity.

3) He wrote exclusively in Arabic and in his use of Arabic never shows a Persian or non-Arabic influence. His Arabic is extremely 'pure'

4) His (near)-contemporaries never gave us a reason to believe he was a Persian

5) His name shows no non-Arabic trace

I'm not saying he wasnt a Persian, all Im saying is that there is no evidence to believe he was. Maybe he was Indian or Chinese, or Egyptian, Andalusian. All we no for sure is that he was an Iraqi native

Please remove that first sentence and feel free to cobtinue your guesswork in the autobiography section.

This is in the wrong place, please transfer it to Talk:Alhazen and get consensus there. Kansas Bear has started a section, please contribute to that discussion. --Merlinme (talk) 11:04, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

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Warning about pov editing

Your comment "Arabs are not a learned people." and removal of the words 'Arab' and 'Persian' in various articles suggests a pattern of pov editing. If this continues, the usual remedies are either blocking or banning from editing related articles. Please make sure it doesn't come to that. Dougweller (talk) 11:19, 14 December 2013 (UTC)