Fiddling with Wikipedia

Thanks to a posting on bhuz.com, I've started editing the entries on raks, and raks-related stuff, for Wikipedia, a free-as-in-speech online encyclopedia of some size. The primary entry is, for now, "Belly Dance", but I plan to make that an off-shoot of "raks", so that all the various forms of belly dance that have been created can, simply, branch off of that name, since it's the progenitor name... In deference to those who feel pretty strongly about it, I've made it "raqs" on there, as opposed to "raks". We'll see if this one goes over OK. I'm also re-posting my original entries here, for the historical record. The first, for "Belly dance", follows.

belly dance is a name for one variation on raqs, a style of dance developed in the Middle East and other Arabic-influenced areas. Known in it's native tongue as raqs shaquri (translation is "Oriental Dance", or, really, "Dance of the East"), the phrase "belly dance" is utilized now as the best-known name in the West for this form. The creation of the term is generally credited to Sol Bloom, the promoter of the World's Fair that saw the first raqs dancers in America. Related Topics * dance * raqs * raqs shaquri