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There is considerable disagreement among the editors of Islam-related articles about which sources are reliable. The important thing to remember is that all sources and articles must conform to Wiki policies such as WP:NOR, WP:V. and WP:NPOV.

General form of articles

Islam-related articles should generally satisfy the following, as should all Wikipedia articles:

Grammatical standardization

Arabic transliteration

See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Arabic) for details on how to transliterate Arabic words into English, and how to use them on Wikipedia. As a rule, diacritical marks over and under the letters should not be used in article titles or text (only in the etymology section). If a non-standard form of transliteration is to be used, it must be the primary transliteration, based on references or self-identification. For example Mecca rather than Makkah, mosque rather than masjid etc. Otherwise, a standard transliteration should be used. The characters representing the ayin (ع) and the hamza (ء) are not omitted in the standard form, represented by the grave accent (`) and the apostrophe ('), respectively.

Words of Arabic origin should be written out in lower case, except at the beginning of a sentence, and italicized, except when the word has passed into common English vocabulary (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Foreign terms). For example, fiqh, kharaj, and wudu should usually be italicized; jihad and hadith should not. Proper names are exempt from these rules: they should always be capitalized but never italicized.

Articles should include the original Arabic on the first line. If you do not know the Arabic, place {{Arabic}} at the top of the talk page to mark the article for attention from someone who does.

Translation

Arabic terms should be translated into standard English wherever possible without compromising the meaning of the text. For example, "Allah" should be translated as "God", but a literal translation of "Deen" as "path" would obscure the special meaning of this term as used in Islam (although "way of life" might be acceptable).

Templates

Various templates useful when editing Islam-related articles can be found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Islam-related articles)/templates; for other templates please see Wikipedia:Template messages.

Islamic honorifics

In keeping with the neutral nature of Wikipedia, Islamic honorifics should generally be omitted from articles, except where they are part of quotations.

Allah

Allah has many honorifics, the most common one being

Allah should be replaced with its translation of "God", unless used as part of an English-language quote. Also, the first occurrence of "God" in the article should be something to the effect of the following: [[God in Islam|God]].

Muhammad

There are several honorifics for Muhammad which should generally not be used in articles. The page Islam and veneration for Muhammad discusses these honorifics in more detail, the most common ones being:

Companions

Capitalization of Companions of Muhammad (Sahaba) when referring to those who knew Muhammad — corrective action is to write in lower case in keeping with Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capitals.

There are also other honorifics for companions all of which can be abbreviated to:

Angels and Prophets

An angel or a prophet has the honorific:

Qur'an

Terrorism

The use of the word terrorism is contentious; see Wikipedia:Words to avoid#Extremist, terrorist and freedom fighter. Its use should be decided on a case-by-case basis.

Categorisation

Due to the huge number of Islam articles present, as well as to address the problem of 'dumping' new Islam articles in Category:Islam (and similarly for other subcategories), appropriate placement of articles in categories is required. This has been done to some extent, but quite often new editors are unaware of more technical categories (e.g. Category:Tafsir). Of course an article may be (and usually is) placed in more than one category, but to avoid cluttering categories the number of categories any given article is placed into should be kept to a minimum.

Islam category

With respect to the 'dumping' problem mentioned above, it is requested that editors check Category:Islam frequently, as this is the place where many new Islam articles are placed, but where the articles could (sometimes clearly) be better placed in at least one subcategory of Category:Islam. Currently, there are a handful of articles on the Islam category page.

Criteria that should be satisfied for inclusion of an Islam-related article in the Islam category are:

Divisions of Islam

There is a Category:Islamic sects for placing articles on various sects in Islam.

Sunni, Shi'a and Sufi Islam

These 3 sects have their own categories, in fact they are subcategories of Category:Islamic sects, which is a subcategory of Category:Islam.

People

There are many Islam articles that are about Muslims. These articles should be placed in the appropriate category such as Category:Muslims or a subcategory thereof such as, Category:Caliphs, Category:Imams and Category:Muslims by nationality. Only the most notable or famous Muslims should be placed in Category:Muslims.

Stubs

There is currently one stub category with 6 subcategories:

Hadith