Talk:Islam in Somalia

message: Why has the author of the current article been allowed to write such a flawed piece?
Some months ago i visited this same page, and there was a far better article up, which was
far more substantial (i.e. actually mentioned the start of Islam in Somalia) and accurate. Somaliwarrior (talk)
this article is floored , ladies and gentlemen....peace and baris..........—Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.202.250.6 (talk • contribs) 17:18, 26 February 2008
This article has several inaccuracies, including the statement that Islam was modified by Somalis.The authors of this article clearly wrote it with the intention of discrediting the Somali people and further isolating them from the rest of the muslim world. To really study Islam in Somalia, one needs merely to visit the country and observe. It is obvious that the authors did not really visit the country; they obtained their information from sources who intended on making the Somali people look like a bunch of wild renegades.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.26.16.242 (talk • contribs) 01:47, 15 December 2004‎
While I don't have enough knowledge of Islam in Somalia to comment either way, I would like to.  Could whoever wrote the above comment perhaps help to improve upon this article?  I might even read up a bit on my own to see if I can contribute anything as well.  MezzoMezzo 21:20, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article quality

message: I am married to a somali sister and have some incite into somalia and would like to rewrite this whole article.
It tells you nothing about the beliefs and practices and mosques of present day somalia and is an opinion piece based on what evidence?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.171.129.70 (talk) 14:17, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  this article is terrible 

message: As the References indicate, this article incorporates text from a Library of Congress Country Study ().  However, as we've used the text wholesale, it does not use inline citations.  The problem is that when article text is added, modified, or deleted, it is difficult to determine what portions lack attribution and which parts remain from the Country Study.  Case in point: the "Rising Islamism" chapter of the Country Study (; though this may not work permanently) reads,
 However, the text in our article (apparently derived from the LoC original) reads,  This changes "Islamism" to a specific group, "Al-Itihad," and changes the location of a specific event from "Bender Cassim" to "Boosaaso." Yet, there is no source for the modified text.  I'm not sure if the rest of that section came from the LoC or not (I haven't checked).  We'd have to really comb through this, I think, to distinguish public domain text from unsourced assertion.  That, or roll back to the old version that is directly based on the Country Study.  This illustrates one problem with the use of public domain texts: since this is a wiki, text can, and does, get changed.  I recall some community-wide discussion about more properly integrating Country Study material (using in-line citations etc.) but right now I can't locate it.  Thanks, -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 19:12, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've since found that additional text in the "Rising Islamism" section was copied, at least in part, from a conference paper ().  Unlike the LoC Country Study, this is not public domain, and I have removed the text.  However, my point about distinguishing LoC text from unattributed text remains. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 19:39, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
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