Talk:Khaleel Mohammed

Professor Mohammed's religion

So, is he a Muslim or not? --Striver 19:15, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

• That is a good question. I did a quick Google search for him and found way too much information about Muslim religion sects and his refusal to join any sect, so it may take a while to figure this out. Obviously it shouldn't matter one way or the other, but it is interesting information to consider. On his own webpage, Professor Mohammed declares that he wants to "simply say that I am a Muslim" (see link) but refuses to state much more than that. Streltzer 01:05, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I studied under Dr. Mohammed for a year and a half and let me just say that he is totally unbiased in his discussions on Islam, which is why, even though having studied for a while under him, I never knew what sect he was or who's "side" he belonged to. Let me just say that he does sound like a Musli though...isn't that the whole point? Why must someone fall under a label or sect?

201.170.17.198 20:13, 9 May 2007 (UTC)Kal-El

I know this was last update over a decade ago but I just want to say that the Professor was a Muslim. This was made clear during his lectures though he never let it affect the academic nature of his lectures, and I even have an email where he mentioned it as well. Sadly he recently passed away but I wanted to make it clear. His burial is also on YouTube along with a memorial service posted by San Diego State University, both of which confirm his Muslim faith. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:600:8D80:28C0:314A:AF8D:3F07:C983 (talk) 13:13, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

External links

I have removed the following from External links per WP:EL because neither of them makes any mention of the subject of the article, Khaleel Mohammed.

• http://www.forpeoplewhothink.org Discussions on the Islamic law
• http://www.cias.sdsu.edu SDSU Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies

The first link is for an anonymous domain hosted on GeoCities (meaning that it is just a personal Yahoo! website), and therefore it does not satisfy WP:RS in any context. The second link is already used in the introductory paragraph of the article, although it serves absolutely no purpose - there is no reason for it to be linked twice. --Dennette 00:33, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Copyvio

The new section Free Muslims Coalition was added to the article by Streltzer (talk · contribs) after the AfD was started, and they added the link to http://www.freemuslims.org/about/mohammad.php ... then they copied the material from that copyrighted page into these newly created sections:

3 Biography

3.1 Background and Education

3.2 Significant Events

That is why I added the {{copyvio}} tag in that location.

OTOH, Streltzer also added the new section The "For People Who Think" Organization with the assertion, Some of Professor Mohammed's material can be found at the http://www.forpeoplewhothink.org website, under the pseudonym "Abu Yousuf al-Corentini." ... I was going to add a {{fact}} tag to that statement when I realized that they were trying to use the freemuslims.org link as the citation for the claim ... but even so, all that we would have is a claim from a website with which the subject is associated (violating WP:RS) that the subject runs another website under a pseudonym ... no independent, 3rd party verification of of that assertion, which is apparently an attempt to influence a claim of notatbility. ("He's more well known as a blogger under his pseudonym than by his real name.")

The exact same biographical text from the freemuslims.org bio page also appears on the public relations bio page under External links, but that page does not have a copyright notice, which is why I used the first one. The point is, over half of the article is a copy&paste from material duplicated on two other websites, both associated with the subject ... neither meets WP:RS for WP:V, so they are useless for satisfying WP:PROF or WP:BIO criteria.

Anyway, it all began with starting to add the {{fact}} tag, and then realizing that most of the newly added material was a WP:COPYVIO, so I flagged it accordingly and entered it in the log ... I don't know how this will affect the still-open AfD, but I will also mention it there. --Dennette 05:45, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Another editor removed the copyvio material after the AfD was closed as no consensus ... I have removed the tag and the deleted section headers that the other editor missed. —Dennette (talk · contribs) 06:02, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

AfD closed

I've closed the AfD discussion as lacking consensus. Having reviewed the discussion while closing it, I'd like to note that the people supporting the deletion do have a point about the article being quite weakly referenced, and that this needs to be corrected to comply with the core policies on Verifiability and Biographies of living people, as well as with the notability guidelines for academics and people in general. On the other hand, the notability bar for professors is rather low, and it does seem evident that this person has done something of note, if only by making controversial statements in public. I'd like to encourage those who supported keeping this article to work on making sure that the article clearly describes what he is notable for and that all claims in the article — including but not limited to those establishing notability — are well referenced (with citations, not chunks of text copied from other sites, please!). —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 02:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Possible copyright problem

This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. Mkativerata (talk) 21:03, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Khaleel Mohammed. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080708102707/http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~khaleel/ to http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~khaleel/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 06:29, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on Khaleel Mohammed. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20071206070641/http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=604855a0-7b9c-4519-a841-f4736d59eaa1 to http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=604855a0-7b9c-4519-a841-f4736d59eaa1
• Corrected formatting/usage for http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~khaleel/
• Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.fasspr.com/fsb/KhaleelMohammed.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 16:52, 9 December 2017 (UTC)