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Wikipedia has a policy of not calling people or groups "terrorist". This is not an indication of condoning "terrorist" activities, but of neutrality, and avoidance of passing judgment, affirming or denying. Please debate the merit of this policy at WT:Words to avoid, not here.
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate.
In my opinion, it should only when it is the first letter of a sentence or the first word of a title. (For titles, it would be like how “the” is only capitalised if it is the first word.)
Agree. And the criterion is not Arabic rules of grammar, but how English sources spell it. Also, while many source use a hyphen, it seems to be a minority usage and we might consider changing it. TFD (talk) 04:10, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I just did a search inside Google Chrome, because that gave me counts of matches. "Al-Qaeda" reported 33.8 million matches. "Al Qaeda" reported only 29.4 million. However, "case:yes Al-Qaeda" reported only 3.83 million, while "case: yes Al Qaeda" reported 4.18 million. In sum, "Al-Qaeda" is preferred over "Al Qaeda" UNLESS I restricted the search using "case:yes", which flipped the preference.
AND using "case:yes" showed NO differences between "al-Qaeda" and "Al-Qaeda", etc.
My tentative conclusion:
Leave the title as is.
Change "Al-Qaeda" to "al-Qaeda" everywhere in this article except when it begins a sentence or appears in the title of something cited.
I will make those changes now. Currently, the article is inconsistent. I will make it consistent per this rule.
Someone else can do something different, if they wish ;-)
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I think there is a typo in the section titled "War on terror". Specifically, please change the text "The West was criticized for not being able to handle sl-Qaeda despite a decade of the war" to "The West was criticized for not being able to handle al-Qaeda despite a decade of the war" 98.208.46.5 (talk) 04:14, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Many of the sources, although quite valid, aren’t concrete and self declared ideological positions that AQ actually aligns with. Perhaps could it be altered to make it clear that it is an alleged ideology or just removed entirely? Guardafuuii (talk) 06:43, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
WTC bombing 1993
In the Wikipedia article about the 1993 bombing of the WTC it is attributed to Al Qaeda. However, in this article about Al Qaeda this is not even mentioned. Actually I cannot remember that the bombings were ever attributed to Al Qaeda. So what is correct? Tiki (talk) 08:47, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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