Talk:Maha Bayrakdar

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Did you know... that the Syrian-Lebanese poet Maha Bayrakdar won the Miss Syria beauty pageant in 1967?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Bilorv (talk) 00:19, 20 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

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... that Syrian-Lebanese poet Maha Bayrakdar won the Miss Syria beauty pageant in 1967? Source: El-Khoury, Dominique (2017-04-15). "مهى بيرقدار الخال للفن- يوسف وورد أخذا مني جمال الخَلق والخُلُق" [Maha Bayrakdar, Youssef and Ward take after me the beauty character and creativity]. Elfann News (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2021-03-25. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

Created by Elias Ziade (talk). Self-nominated at 14:21, 25 March 2021 (UTC).Reply

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QPQ: Done.

Overall: Thanks for the submission, just the QPQ pending and a few small comments about the article. Otherwise seems good to go to me.

Typo in the the first mention of her husband's name? Different from link. "She met her future husband Yusuf el-Khal "
Used a hyphen for the other works: (The departure of the elements, 1995)
"Maha held 15 solo exhibitions" has held
There is an empty bullet point in the Sources section
Goodreads profile is almost empty. Is it worth including in external links? Alan Islas (talk) 13:56, 16 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi Alan Islas I have reviewed Rumahis_ibn_Abd_al-Aziz. Thanks for taking the time to review this DYK submission.

Thanks Elias Ziade good to go. I used machine translation for some sources, and took the rest in good faith. Alan Islas (talk) 13:33, 19 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

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