Sargon Gallu

Formatting citations

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It is pretty easy to format citations.

You will notice that when you are in an edit window, that up at the top there is a toolbar. On the right, it says "Cite" and there is a little triangle next to it. If you click the triangle, another menu appears below. On the left side of the new menu bar, you will see "Templates". If you select (for example) "Cite journal", you can fill in the "doi" or the "PMID" field, and then if you click the little magnifying glass next to the field, the whole thing will auto-fill. Then you click the "insert" button at the bottom, and it will insert a ref like this (I changed the ref tags so it shows):

(ref) "Video: Iraqi troops liberate Christian town of Bartella from IS group - France 24". France 24. 23 October 2016. (/ref)

That takes a few seconds seconds. As you can see there are templates for books, news, and websites, as well as journal articles, and each template has at least one field that you can use to autofill the rest. The autofill isn't perfect and I usually have to manually fix some things before I click "insert" but it generally works great and saves a bunch of time.

Please use it in the future. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 22:17, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

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Barnstar

Sargon Gallu, thank you for the barnstar, I sincerely appreciate it. Assyrian-related topics have been largely neglected and whilst a lot has been achieved, we still have a long way to go. I'm currently working on the list of Assyrian settlements, so if you have any sources you would recommend, I'd be grateful for that. Thanks again. Mugsalot (talk) 17:28, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

My pleasure brother, I really appreciate your dedication to our mostly forgotten nation. My roots are from the village of Iwardo in Tur Abdin, I could ask my grandad if he has any sources to help build the page. Tho most would be in Turkish or Syriac. I'm currently working on a page for the Assyrian volunteers of WW1 Sargon Gallu (talk) 03:41, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

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Name controversy

Hi Sargon Gallu,

I saw that you created the following two pages: Defence of Iwardo and Midyat rebellion. How reliable is it to identify these people as Assyrians, since there is an ongoing name controversy within the Syriac Orthodox community of Tur-Abdin?

Reldex (talk) 23:52, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi Reldex, sorry for the late response. I have been inactive for a while due to personal reasons. Generally speaking, the Syriac Orthodox community is divided between the Assyrian and Aramean identity, it's an ongoing controversy mentioned on the Assyrian people page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_people#Identity_and_subdivisions. As defined by the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation "The Assyrian nation is composed of multiple sub-identities known as Souyrayih, Chaldeans, Nestorians, Syriacs, Jacobiets, Maronites, and Arameans" as official Ottoman documents never referred to a people based on their ethnicity instead referring to religious denominations: members of the Church of the East were called "Nasturi", the members of the Syriac Orthodox Church were called "Suryani or Yakubiler" and the members of the Chaldean Catholic Church were called "Keldani". That's the reason I used the Assyrian name as an umbrella term. I hope it clarifies things --Sargon Gallu (talk) 04:05, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

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Assyrian volunteers

Hi Sargon. If you want sources of Assyrians in battle during WW1 there is a great book called Assyrians and Two World Wars: Assyrians from 1914 to 1945. It was originally written by Yaqou Bar Malik Ismael in Assyrian but was recently translated to English. He was the leader of Upper Tyari and fought in all of the battles during WW1. It details all the battle Assyrians from Hakkari were involved in. I will be contributing to the page you created but if you need a good source that's detailed you can use that book. Henanton (talk) 22:10, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Thank you my friend Henanton, ill be sure to read it. Do you know if there is an online version of it available? --Sargon Gallu (talk) 21:43, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

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