Talk:Muhammad/images

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Portrait of Mohammed

Why isn't there any attempt to at least put a portrait of what Mohammed might have looked like? I know it's a hard topic for Muslims because they are forbidden to draw any imagery of the prophet or God but this is a neutral article right? RickyBlair668 (talk) 09:35, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what exactly you had in mind but the article currently has 8 pictures of Muhammad. Did you miss them? DeCausa (talk) 10:20, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean as a WP:LEADIMAGE, there has absolutely been attempts. A few short comments on that at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Muhammad_images#Question_2:_What_image_should_appear_in_the_infobox?. Most depictors seem to have guessed that Muhammad had a beard. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:27, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Because calligraphic depictions of Muhammad are the most common and recognizable worldwide, the current consensus is to include a calligraphic depiction of Muhammad in the infobox. And all the portraits available today not depicts how he exactly look like. Tousif ❯❯❯ Talk 17:00, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the calligraphic representation should remain in the infobox. Hemiauchenia (talk) 17:05, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also agree with current consensus. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:06, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Kuwait.5 (talk) 20:19, 6 July 2024 (UTC) I would like to change the picture[reply]

Like it says slightly above, you need to much more specific. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:46, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Add pbuh after mohammed (S.A) name

FAQ No. 5

Add pbuh after mohammed (S.A) name It disrespectful if we won't say pbuh or (S.A)..After taking his name.. 106.200.188.225 (talk) 22:06, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Read the FAQ, please. - Sumanuil. _{(talk to me)} 22:43, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remove illustrations images

FAQ No. 1

There shouldn’t be any illustrations images on this page. Can this be removed? Calligraphic images are okay. 2605:8D80:13B1:541F:91DC:8278:4AB3:7C70 (talk) 12:49, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:NOTCENSORED. Some1 (talk) 13:53, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And FAQ question 1. - Sumanuil. _{(talk to me)} 18:28, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There should totally be illustrations on this page. Illustrations are a standard feature of biographies on Wikipedia. 203.211.104.189 (talk) 00:00, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Showing FAQ 3 as a notice at the top of the main page.

So I stand with Wikipedia's neutrality, and understand that showing images is important in any encyclopedic biography, but rather than causing un-necessary topic creations on the talk pages by people who might not have looked at the FAQ, I suggest that we can show a similar notice to the one on this talk page on the main page, something along the lines of "This page contains depictions of Muhammad, and while such depictions are prohibited in Islam, Wikipedia has a neutral point of view, and if you are a Muslim who wants to hide these images, you can refer to FAQ3 on how to do so."

Also, for anyone talking about "if we do this similar notices should be added to other religions", I don't really mind, I just don't know of any others. I'm not even Muslim myself, I am just suggesting a proposal on how we could potentially mitigate this topic that is often brought up on this talk page, and I completely understand if you don't implement this, but I'm just bringing the idea to the board. Sleet827 (talk) 16:27, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why does it need further mitigation? It would be raised even if there were warning plastered in every location... Alssa1 (talk) 18:08, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We don't put disclaimers in articles, if that's what you're suggesting. See the guildelineWP:NODISCLAIMERS. The bottom of every page on Wikipedia already links to the general disclaimer, which in turn links to the content disclaimer: WP:DISC. Any disclaimer we would put in the Muhammad article would be redundant with the content disclaimer. ~Anachronist (talk) 21:23, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]