Talk:Al-Ghariyah al-Gharbiyah

Orphaned references in Al-Ghariyah al-Gharbiyah

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Al-Ghariyah al-Gharbiyah's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "CBS":

• From Busra al-Harir: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Jasim: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Inkhil: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Umm Walad: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Muthabin: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Deir al-Adas: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Al-Masmiyah: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Al-Hirak, Syria: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Daraa: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Abtaa: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Bosra: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Maaraba: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Al-Shaykh Maskin: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Saham al-Jawlan: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Districts of Syria: "Syria Description 2003" (in Arabic). Central Bureau of Statistics of Syria. Archived from the original on 2007-07-03. Retrieved 2007-05-09.
• From Tasil: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Adwan, Syria: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Khirbet Ghazaleh: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Al-Jiza: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Tell Shihab: General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
• From Da'el: Da'el population

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 13:26, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Check translation from Arabic

The article was originally copied and translated (poorly) from the article in Arabic. Could someone who reads Arabic please check the article. In particular:

• 1st para. "Romanian" - I wonder if this should be "Roman".
• 2nd para. "Jdautsthr"?
• "Geographical location" section. "Mashwar"?

Also, the whole text in general. thanks. Nurg (talk) 03:57, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

@Nurg: sorry for the late response, I've been crazy busy. I haven't had a chance to give the article a detailed look over yet, but in response to the above points:

1. Yes, Roman. In Arabic, the adjective is "Romaniya" which sounds like the way we refer to the country Romania in English. Google Translate from Arabic to English and vice versa is simply awful in more ways than one.
2. I think the other confusing looking transliteration was removed; I can't see it here now.
3. Mishwar appears to be what the author of the article is referring to the surrounding area as, and they cite Google Maps without an actual link. It isn't even properly cited on Arabic Wikipedia, in that case.

In general, this appears to have been written by someone from the place given the familiarity with the families and local buildings. Possibly someone from the third world creating an article for their village but not quite knowing site guidelines or even how to write English. I'll try to take a deeper look a bit later on. MezzoMezzo (talk) 04:43, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

19th century tidbits

• [1]: "in Sahara"
• [2] "in Africa"

On the other hand, the ref "Answorth, 1853, p. 85." is nowhere defined; has anyone any idea as to who s/he was? There was a William Francis Ainsworth who travelled/published from the area intuit period, was it him? Huldra (talk) 20:39, 15 August 2015 (UTC)