Talk:Islam in Oceania

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I wrote a basic fact page... please wikify this and add as necessary (also I am new to WP, and I have no idea how to categorize stubs; if someone can do this and/or teach me how this is done, it will be appreciated :) ) Abidh786 03:15, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

your Today section is just truncated, perhaps you didn't notice. 76.22.78.80 01:28, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Date Line

There's more content on this topic in the article International Date Line than there is here. It would be good for someone to include it into this article. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 13:46, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

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I have also posted this to Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents Please continue the discussion there to resolve the problem.

I am trying to contribute to history and size of population of Muslims in articles such as Islam in Asia. I have several peer-reviewed articles in scientific conference proceedings and journals and a recent 600 page book [Kettani, Houssain (2014). The World Muslim Population, History & Prospect. Singapore: Research Publishing Service. ISBN 978-981-07-7244-4.]. So I added some results in Islam in Asia and other continent and cited by book. Interestingly, some editors such as AndyTheGrump, Jreferee and Dolescum keep reverting my contribution (basically deleting all of it and the source). They keep citing COI or self-publishing, none of which applies here. In fact, Self-citations are allowed per Wikipedia:SELFCITE#Citing_yourself. When I refute their allegations they come up with another excuse and keep threatening of blocking my account. Such "referees" or "editors" may have other motives that they are not disclosing. The job of an editor or contributor is to make the article better, not deleting all sources and information. Better means: checking facts, better reference, etc. May be mis-understanding is promoting such ill-informed editors to go to war! Someone needs to stop this as it degrades the content of articles. Experts like me will not put up with this and will give up easily (they are busy doing real research and real publications). However, bloggers and those who know less, in the long term will control the quality and content of WP articles. Something that no one wants for WP. Hkettani (talk) 17:01, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

My contribution was as follows (but got all deleted, either by an ill-informed editor or ill-intention):

Oceania consists of tens of thousands of islands with total land area of 8.54 million square kilometers, over 90% of which is mainland Australia; spread over eighty million square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean. The total population of this continent increased from 2.7 million in 1870, to 12.7 million in 1950, to 42.3 million in 2020, and is projected to reach 55.2 million by 2050, and 65.8 million by 2100. Therefore, it is the least populated continent in the world. Muslims entered Oceania as early as the sixteenth century as Islam spread through current Indonesia. However, until 1950s the number of Muslims remained few. Remarkable presence of Muslims started in 1960s with migration of Muslims for economic means mainly to Australia. Noticeable increase of Muslims in other parts of this continent started in 1990s, such as New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, and Palau. A substantial increase in the number and percentage of Muslims is expected through this century. Thus, the Muslim population in this continent increased from a couple hundred or 0.01% in 1800, to 6,000 or 0.1% in 1900, to 0.38 million or 1.2% in 2000, to 0.90 million or 2.1% in 2020, and is project-ed to reach 4.1 million or 5.8% by 2100, then 5.7 million or 8.2% by 2200, and then 7.6 million or 10.3% by 2300. Hkettani (talk) 17:55, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

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