AethyrX

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March 2024

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did at Tamazgha, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. Skitash (talk) 11:34, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@Skitash: Did you misread the diff or something? AethyrX's version is far more referenced than the one you reverted to (and they did include edit summaries). Nardog (talk) 12:19, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

My edit was primarily additive, the only part of the article I outright removed was the statement that Tamazgha "is a fictitious entity". This was a controversial claim that caused multiple unproductive back-and-forth edits and was based on an unreliable source (IIRC, I mentioned this in my edit summary). Sorry if I'm misunderstanding something but I do think my edit should be maintained, even if without the removal of the claim about Tamazgha being a fictitious entity. AethyrX (talk) 13:09, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

I take Skitash's silence to be an acknowledgement of their mistake. I've reinstated your version. Nardog (talk) 02:30, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Apologies for missing your notification. I have only reverted the user due to their addition of unsourced WP:OR, such as the Latin Tamazight and Neo-Tifinagh Tamazight translations of the word, and their removal of "fictitious entity", which is supported by numerous credible sources. As for the rest of their additions, they seem satisfactory, so I will go ahead and reinstate them. Skitash (talk) 13:23, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

The Latin Tamazight and Neo-Tifinagh Tamazight translations were under the first citation, sorry if that wasn't clear. Brahim El Guabli's 'The Idea of Tamazgha' states "ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵖⴰ, تامازغا, or Tamazgha is a concept that has acquired a transnational cultural and political significance among Amazigh speakers since the late 1990s. Often described as a neologism, Tamazgha can be simply defined as the Amazigh homeland." I probably should've included it in the source's quote and just forgot to. AethyrX (talk) 18:00, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

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