Talk:Al-Hakim Mosque

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 4 September 2019 and 11 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Sarah77777.

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Issues with the article

With hope that someone would be interested: the article needs some clean-up for style and content. Like several other Fatimid-related pages, it seems to have been written mainly from a Dawoodi Bohra perspective, which is okay and a good start, but the emphasis is on this one modern restoration rather than on the full rich history of the mosque. Moreover, the tone of the article is unclear and maybe not encyclopedic at times; e.g. at point it speaks of a "miracle" without clarifying what this means. The page also needs inline citations so that we know where each piece of information comes from.
(I would do some of this myself but am working on many other pages. In addition to the already listed references, some very easy English-language sources to consult are Bernard O'Kane's "Mosques of Egypt" and Caroline Williams' "Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide", maybe even Michael Brett's "The Fatimid Empire".) Casual Builder (talk) 19:36, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

June 2022

I had another look at the article and it's still a mess, so I've done a major overhaul by reorganizing the sections and revising the text. I've left some remaining issues tagged. In particular, the article had a lot of unsourced information as well as original research, some of which was followed by citations to sources that did not support it in any substantial way (or in some cases didn't speak to the topic at all). In particular, see some major deletions and/or rewriting in these edits: [1], [2], [3]. With this revision, I think the most urgent issues have been addressed, so I will remove the maintenance tags at the top of the article.

This will be obvious to experienced editors, but for everyone else: in the future, please do not add your own original research to the article and do not add non-trivial information without citing reliable sources. Please also ensure you maintain Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and an encyclopedic tone; this means you should not be using the article to give your opinion of the mosque (or of its controversial restoration, for example), but merely reporting what reliable sources have to say about it. If you're unsure about your edits (or if they were reverted and you want to better understand why), you can ask about it on this talk page. Thanks, R Prazeres (talk) 21:56, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Photo of Modi

Md iet, speaking of image quality, who took this photo? R Prazeres (talk) 12:30, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

R Prazeres, this photo is from my whats app images, further developed on my p c by me. I request other well wishers of the article to present the better quality image with similar content if available. Meantime let the photo represent the historic event if there is consent on the importance.Md iet (talk) 13:38, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

You did not properly answer my question, which was about who is the original author of the photo. But in any case, I researched the image after my message above and found that it was very likely a copyright violation. It has since been deleted for that reason. Please read the message I left on your Wiki Commons talk page (here) about uploading non-free images and materials and make sure you read and understand the polices I indicated to you there.

So, regardless of the merit of having a photo of the event here or not, any future image must first be in the public domain or appropriately licensed by its original author for free use by others. R Prazeres (talk) 16:25, 10 July 2023 (UTC)