Category talk:Islamic text templates
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[edit] Copyvio?
It looks like the website to which these templates link is one huge copyvio collection of copyrighted English translations of Muslim religious texts. If so, the templates must be deleted. Beit Or 23:28, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- These templates recognize that there are already countless Wikipedia articles that cite the online USC-MSA version through explict external links. It is one of the oldest and most stable resources available. (My only regret is that they do not include the original Arabic language text, as some other sites do.) Use of these templates will provide consistent citations and avoid the proliferation of references to multiple (possibly POV) translations on potentially transient (short lived) sites. If you want to delete {{Quran}}, then you might as well delete {{Bible}} and {{Bibleverse}} as well!
- Obviously the University of Southern California does not have any copyvio problems with hosting a translation of the Qur'an, and you will never be able to remove all of the references to the site from Wikipedia articles, so at least using templates keeps it contained and managable ... if some publisher forces the USC pages to be deleted, then the template can simply be re-written to create hyperlinks to some other public domain translation.
