Talk:Islam in Africa

message: Those numbers in the percentage field makes absolutely no sense. 45% of South Africans are Muslim, neither are 35% of Zimbabweans for example. That section needs to be either removed in its entirety or fixed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.145.134.172 (talk) 05:07, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number Nonsense 

message: This is a fairy important article. Google picks up this stuff, and next thing you know this is being spread as fact. I will attempt to find references, but if references are not found, the claims made here should be blanked pronto. Lets not spread disinformation. --Ezeu 01:32, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know how things have been done since, but when I first made this article it was just to collect all the various statistics on individual country pages, maybe they should be checked out as well? --Horses In The Sky 01:48, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll check articles for individual countries, the stats and refs are probably there. --Ezeu 02:00, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please reference these statistics 

message: I've been looking on national statistics and population evolutions in Africa since last 25 years. The Islam in Africa - even after last conversions of several populations - can not be more than 45% of the continent's population. The tables shown hera are highly inaccurate and need revisiting. More seriosity for this article, Please !  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.105.123.228 (talk) 11:56, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extrem POV article. Should be revisited ! 

message: The opening sentence cites the "World Book Encyclopedia", but after clicking on the reference the reader finds it cites Encyclopedia Britannica. What's more, it cites the same year edition and page as the article "Religion in Africa", but with different numbers. 
Further, there are issues with reference given for the table under the section "Muslim Population". The second page of the PDF file states that there are nearly 300 million African Muslims and that Muslims comprise nearly one-third of Africa's population. Then on page three, the table gives completely different numbers. The entire reference is of questionable credibility. I'm removing this entry.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.103.129.215 (talk) 03:35, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Part of the problem was the <ref> tag was misplaced, giving the appearance Encyclopedia Britannica source was supporting the World Book Encyclopedia statement. I've fixed that. Regarding the second concern, that the source seems to contradict itself, the source explains these numbers are the conclusion of different sources. Much like how we've included different numbers in the article and attributed them to different sources. Akerans (talk) 19:45, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflicting Numbers and Questionable Sources 

message: I have also posted this to Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents Please continue the discussion there to resolve the problem.
I am trying to contribute to history and size of population of Muslims in articles such as Islam in Asia. I have several peer-reviewed articles in scientific conference proceedings and journals and a recent 600 page book []. So I added some results in Islam in Asia and other continent and cited by book. Interestingly, some editors such as AndyTheGrump, Jreferee and Dolescum keep reverting my contribution (basically deleting all of it and the source). They keep citing COI or self-publishing, none of which applies here. In fact, Self-citations are allowed per Wikipedia:SELFCITE#Citing_yourself. When I refute their allegations they come up with another excuse and keep threatening of blocking my account. Such "referees" or "editors" may have other motives that they are not disclosing. The job of an editor or contributor is to make the article better, not deleting all sources and information. Better means: checking facts, better reference, etc. May be mis-understanding is promoting such ill-informed editors to go to war! Someone needs to stop this as it degrades the content of articles. Experts like me will not put up with this and will give up easily (they are busy doing real research and real publications). However, bloggers and those who know less, in the long term will control the quality and content of WP articles. Something that no one wants for WP. Hkettani (talk) 17:01, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Does not belong in the lead.--Inayity (talk) 14:07, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted Contributions 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Please improve the sections "Africa" and "Asia" in the article History of Islam.--Afrikiamld (talk) 00:59, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Islam 

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message: 44-48% of Africa is Muslim also no mention of mansa musa nearly all the countries percentages are inaccurate too 82.20.80.153 (talk) 17:06, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased report to Muslims 

message: Biased towards muslims lmao wikipedia history 82.20.80.153 (talk) 23:18, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccurate percentages of muslim countries n many more you can search yourself this can be made n edited by anyone this is totally biased towards muslims no mentiom that 44-48% of africa is muslim or mansa musa n many more