User talk:Ian Rastall

Welcome!

Hello, Ian Rastall, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Bahá'í Faith. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or click here to ask for help here on your talk page and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! Smkolins (talk) 10:09, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

you may be interested in some specifics

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Islam-related articles - this isn't about whether the Faith is Islamic. This is about the rules of rendering Muhammad related honorifics and pious language. There are similar style manuals in other cases, this is just the easiest to refer to. If you need some realm of justification about this consider Revelation and Social Reality, by Paul Lample, (pp. 124-125).
also consider Wikipedia:WikiProject Bahá'í Faith. --Smkolins (talk) 10:14, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Baha'i Faith is not Islamic. It's a separate world religion. Ian Rastall (talk) 11:16, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's not the point if the Baha'i Faith is separate from Islam. The point is Smkolins is pointing to the the types of rules that Wikipedia follows, and the rules above in the Islam MoS of indicative of the general policies, and one is that Wikipedia follows the neutral point of view and capitalization of pronouns in Baha'i related articles is not neutral, in much the same way that capitalization of pronouns in Islamic articles is not neutral. Regards, -- Jeff3000 (talk) 11:51, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]