Talk:Shaikh Farid Bukhari

sahib-us-saif-w-al-qalam

sahib-us-saif-w-al-qalam is translated as 'master of sword and the qalam'. Saif is sword , qalam is qalam. I fail to understand the revert war. The reverted says " translation is from source, no need to change it". Sources may be mistaken, especially in foreign languages translations. By the way, even the arabic term was misspelled. Which speaks about the quality of the source Loew Galitz (talk) 17:42, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Google shows the most common rendering of the title is " master of the sword and the pen", not qalam, so I am changing accordingly. Loew Galitz (talk) 17:53, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

It's pedantic but I reverted simply because I didn't want there to be creative liberties with translations, and the 'safe' option would be to use exactly what was provided by the source (which is an Oxford University Press publication so I don't think it's a low-quality source). Yes, saif means sword and qalam means pen so a correct translation should reflect that order, but given that either way the translation would mean the same thing I didn't think it was more important than following what the source said. Plus, qalm can't be really considered a 'mispelling' given that this is a transliteration and there are multiple ways of romanizing a word from another language.

That being said, I think I agree with using the common rendering Google suggests, I just felt the above explanation was worth giving. Gowhk8 (talk) 19:08, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

I understand that to a layman the word order looks like an insignificant change, but this is a title, meaning it is a fixed formula. That is why I was insistent. Loew Galitz (talk) 21:12, 5 May 2022 (UTC)