I m sorry if I haven t been clear enough in explaining my reasoning Judging from your response it seems like you don t really understand what I m trying to say I am not suggesting that we should use incorrect terminology because many people use the wrong terminology My claim is that the English language definition of the word royal does not mean must be descended from god I am arguing that the term royal is accurate and is entirely consistent with the Al Sabah family as described by you and Michael Herb My disagreement with you is on English language definitions not Islamic culture Your explanations about Islamic cultural norms include the implicit assumption that the word royal includes descended from god as part of its definition If as I assert that isn t an integral part of the definition then it calling the Al Sabah s the Kuwaiti Royal Family does not go against cultural norms at all It is also important to be aware of your audience Wikipedia is not a place for formal academic papers When I am writing a paper in my field computer science I write using the formal terminology of the field The audience of the paper is formal academia When I am writing for a non academic audience I will use different terminology I will avoid words that we have re defined or defined especially narrowly since I know that those definitions are only meaningful within the appropriate context Wikipedia is supposed to be written in standard English Correctness and accuracy are supposed to be achieved using language that is understandable by people who are not academics in the field of the article From what I understand of your statements your portion of the academic community has taken the standard English language definition for the word royal and added an additional requirement descended from god Think through the implications of your idea You re going to write your text with in your mind certain definitions for your words However since your audience while educated is not a part of your academic field they ll think the words you re using mean something else You re saying that this is clearer and more accurate That s ridiculous Clarity and accuracy come from the reader and writer using the same definitions for words Your more formal and more accurate word re definitions are I m sure useful and valuable when you are discussing this topic within academic circles Wikipedia is not one of those circles I hope this at least makes my position clearer I would sincerely appreciate it if you could stop trying to portray me as somehow being anti intellectual or anti academia I consider accuracy and correctness to be very important I value academic research and input It is unreasonable for you to assume that I have disagreed with you because I have ignored your reasoning I have carefully read through and considered your reasoning before I have disagreed with it