Talk:Waleed Al-Husseini

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A fact from Waleed Al-Husseini appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 December 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Palestinian Authority has detained Palestinian blogger Walid Husayin for allegedly blaspheming against Islam on Facebook and in his personal blog?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/December.

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Waleed is involved in plagiarizing

"Plot Spoiler" has been reverting my following addition, first from the Article and now even from this Talk Page although it has both the copy of Waleed's blog post and the post of Reuters' website. They are identical and Reuters is clearly a trusted source, and therefore the original. His blog used as a source in the article is full of plagiarization, from online sources easily detected if one googles some of its content, this is just one example.

@Plot Spoiler, do you really think Reuters has stolen the article from Waleed's blog?

As there is no third choice

Why are you trying to silence debate about it even here?

I opened a request at the dispute resolution noticeboard about it..

"Waleed has been accused of plagiarizing much of the posts of his blogs, in English and more in Arabic, he claimed authorship of articles written by other writers, e.g. the whole article on Reuters' website entitled "The Higgs particle - what it is and what it does" written by Chris Wickham[14] is exactly copied and claimed to be written by Waleed at his English blog called "Proud Atheist" [15].

[14] http://mobile.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSBRE86306W20120704 OR http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/04/us-science-higgs-explanation-idUSBRE86306W20120704

[15] http://proud-a.blogspot.fr/2012/07/higgs-particle-what-it-is-and-what-it.html

For more information about the problem and the importance of mentioning it in the article, see the discussion on Waleed starting from Reply #7 in the subject "French Council of Ex-Muslims" at http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=23309.0

Atheerkt (talk) 23:02, 9 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]