Talk:Gole Sangam

Notes on creating a new page on Wikipedia (on occasion of launching a page on "Gole Sangam"

As a very active Wikipedia editor member under the name "werldwayd", I create and edit a great number of articles on Wikipedia on a daily basis in English and other languages. Of course this gives me great satisfaction and seems to be a daily fix that keeps me going with my day. Almost a thrill. But there are few times when my gut tells me I did something extremely good, and I have that genuine ecstatic feeling for having created an article about something of a great value and yet so dear to my heart. In this case, it is the song "Gole Sangam", for it is a song that is an absolute favourite of mine since my childhood days in the 1970s in Lebanon. But after 40 years of hearing the song for the first time in Beirut, I try to revisit the song through English Wikipedia and to my utter surprise do not find any article about this iconic Persian / Afghani song. The Persian and Pashto Wikipedias also mysteriously do not have pages on the song either.

Besides editing massively on Wikipedia, I also publish a personal 1wxrld Top 100 music chart http://www.1wxrld.com chart where I highlight some new international releases from various countries and in various languages and mostly for lesser known artists. And through my daily search for interesting songs to consider for my chart, I come across a brief mention of a young Afghan singer from the diaspora in Norway called Samir Yawar singing a contemporary version of the song "Gole Sangam". (See the music video through this link). Just 2500 views in 8 months since it was released in January 2017. So insignificant you may say. Nothing remarkable. Other songs gather as much views in an hour... Yet a young artist Samir Yawar residing in Norway, with his beautiful new version of a distant precious song adds to tens of other versions of the song I already know from 40 years back. So in addition to featuring his newest version on my 1wxrld.com personal site this week, I also had the immense pleasure of doing some preliminary research about the song and launching an English Wikipedia page dedicated to the song based on the new version that I had just heard from what is a timeless tune. And yet, with the little resources I had, I came up with these precious 2-3 small paragraphs describing the song, with the wish that there will be more edits to develop the page through contributions by others more knowledgeable editors who know more facts about the song, plus one would hope very soon Persian and Pashto Wikipedia articles about "Gole Sangam". It just proves Wikipedia is not only a source of information to readers in general, but a source of immense satisfaction to editors contributing to things truly personal that we as individual editors cherish and respect, subjects that bring new inspiration to our own lives and hopefully the lives of many others visiting the page. werldwayd (talk) 20:25, 16 August 2017 (UTC)