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Single source[edit]

This article largely depends on a single source, its official website, which means it could well be biased. Please contribute by adding more information from various reliable sources. TYelliot (talk) 20:57, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Credentials[edit]

Should there be academic titles before the names of the key people in this article? WP:CREDENTIAL has nothing to say about this. TYelliot | Talk | Contribs 21:29, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Part of the Khalili Foundation[edit]

The Maimonides Foundation official web site says that "The Maimonides Interfaith Foundation is an initiative of the Khalili Foundation" so the Khalili Foundation (which presently lacks an article) is more properly the bearer of notability, especially since the Khalili Foundation overlaps the Global Hope Foundation and Faith in the Commonwealth initiatives which have attracted third-party coverage. I'm preparing some text on the Khalili Foundation in the process of overhauling the Nasser Khalili biography, but maybe there could eventually by a Khalili Foundation article into which this one will be merged. MartinPoulter (talk) 15:09, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Requested edit[edit]

Part of an edit requested by an editor with a conflict of interest has been implemented.

The article as it exists now is very out-of-date. With a new draft that I've written in my userspace, I've used more third-party sources and given more detail both about the present activities of the Khalili Foundation and its past activities when it was named the Maimonides Foundation. Because I receive money from the Khalili Foundation as part of a GLAM project, I have a conflict of interest. Please could another editor look over my version and paste it into this article, or give me permission to do so. Naturally, I'm happy to discuss any improvements to the draft. Pinging @TYelliot: as the main contributor to the present version of the article. MartinPoulter (talk) 09:43, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Partly done: PK650 (talk) 11:10, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@PK650: Thanks so, so much for doing this. I've edited just to delete a rogue comma and to fix a citation warning. Just a few further suggestions: The quotation "cultural, academic, sporting and educational programmes" in the lead was sourced to the old version of the foundation's web site, not its present web site, which is potentially confusing. I don't think this sentence needs its own citation, since it's summarising what is already cited in body text. Again in the lead, wouldn't "art, culture and education communication" be better without the final word? "Education communication" doesn't sound correct. I think "Jewish - Christian - Muslim interfaith (Abrahamic religions)" would read more elegantly without the bracketed phrase. Do you agree?

P.S. These people mentioned in the Infobox as "Key people" - Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet, Lord Hameed of Hampstead, Robert Yentob - I think can be safely removed. They are not mentioned in the rest of the article (or the article's sources, as far as I can tell) and they do not seem to be currently involved with the foundation. Since Sir David Khalili is already identified in the Infobox as Founder, I don't think this article needs a "Key people" line.

P.P.S. You didn't add the {{Nasser Khalili}} navigation template at the foot of the article: do you have any objection to it?

To address the (who?) tag, the quote from the source is from Mehri Niknam "Six months later 9/11 happened and everyone told us it would be impossible to co-operate with Muslims.". How about the following as a replacement for that paragraph?

In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in the United States, according to Mehri Niknam, Executive Director of what was then named the Maimonides Foundation, "everyone told us it would be impossible to co-operate with Muslims." Instead they intensified their effort, considering it especially urgent to promote peace via inter-cultural understanding.[8] Niknam said at a conference about the attacks that "religions cannot be isolationist, cultures must develop or stagnate, and communities need to interact."[9]

MartinPoulter (talk) 16:07, 13 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In the thread above I've suggested some small changes to make the lead flow more easily and to make the article consistent. I've suggested removing "(Abrahamic religions)", removing the superfluous word "communication", removing the quotes and citation from "cultural, academic, sporting and educational programmes" (rewording if necessary), removing the "key people" line from the infobox, adding the navigation template at the foot of the article, and replacing one specific paragraph with what is given above (preserving the existing references). If anyone can make these changes, or give me permission to make them, I'd be very grateful. MartinPoulter (talk) 09:56, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I've done some of what you've requested. I think Abrahamic is a key aspect of the foundation, and as such have left it. PK650 (talk) 06:32, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]