Talk:Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi

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[edit] Name, and other issues with this article

After the mention of the subject's name as Ashraf Ali Thanvi in the intro paragraph, he is thereafer referred to as Mawlana Ashraf ‘Ali Thanawi; is this another way of writing his name or does the "Mawlana" mean anything?

As I see it, this article, while having a wealth of information, needs to be cleaned up and rewritten. Some of the issues are:

• many, many instances of POV
• terminology unclear to readers unfamiliar with the subject area
• overlengthy quoting of sources
• inconsistency with years used

--BrokenSphere 23:16, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Response: Mawlana is a title, as in 'President Bush' rather than just Bush.

To sort of echo what's written above, this article is dripping with POV and is overly long both from quotations and information that doesn't always seem that relevant. Someone needs to go through this entire article and trim it down so it is more concise and falls in line with the official Wikipedia:Neutral point of view policy. MezzoMezzo 04:04, 2 June 2007 (UTC)