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Copyright issue affecting this project

A Copyright Contributor Investigation has been opened (here) that affects this project. This could result in the removal of content from articles, or the deletion of entire articles, within the scope of the project. Please read the CCI page linked above, or ask me on my talk page, if you have any questions. --Mkativerata (talk) 20:53, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Review of a three month move moratorium for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Since a three months requested move moratorium came into effect on the page Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a few editors have complained that there is no consensus for the moratorium, so I have initiated an RfC to see if there is a consensus to end the moratorium with the closing of the RfC. See:

• Talk:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant#RfC: Three months moratorium on page moves.

-- PBS (talk) 11:32, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Talk:2014 ISIL beheading incidents#Requested move

Page move proposal is discussed; join in. --George Ho (talk) 02:52, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Tell or Tal Abyad

There is a title->text mismatch in this entry on Tell_Abyad. If the correct place name of the town is Tell Abyad, then the text should refer to it as such, not Tal Abyad as it does now.

Either the title of the text ought to be changed. I am not an area expert so I am not qualified to make the change. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omerod (talk • contribs) 02:03, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Districts of Al-Hasakah

I don't know anything about the organisation of districts, etc. in Syria. Does Category:Districts of Al-Hasakah have the same scope as Category:Districts of Al-Hasakah Governorate? If so, should they be put up for WP:CFM? --Redrose64 (talk) 10:44, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

I opened Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 April 8#Category:Districts of Al-Hasakah. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:58, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

I have asked a more specific question at Category talk:Districts of Al-Hasakah. – Fayenatic London 18:04, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

ISIS copyright

FYI Commons:Help desk#Inquiry_regarding_the_hosting_of_IS.2FISIS.2FISIL_Videos_for_the_purposes_of_referencing_said_works_in_an_academic_article.--Alexmar983 (talk) 00:11, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Bulky Syria governorate navigation templates

Hello all. The templates for Syria's various governorates (see HERE) have become very bulky and messy to the point where it almost defeats their purpose, which is to allow readers to easily navigate through the articles on Syria's towns and villages. Back when Yazan and I were designing these templates we devised unofficial guidelines that basically limited the templates to include district (mantiqa) and subdistrict (nahiya) centers and sizable villages (populations of ~2,000 or more). Exceptions were given for smaller villages if they were historically significant. These guidelines were unilateral, unofficial and do not translate into Wikipedia rules. However, the purpose of the guidelines was to ensure a neat, easily navigable template that directed readers to the major/semi-major localities of Syria. Currently, the templates are filled with villages with populations in the low 100s and even farms that were included in the 2004 census. Also, there does not seem to be any alphabetical organization to the articles. It's just a big mess of blue links.

I'm proposing two solutions:

1). We revert back to the old guidelines, which I think is the best solution.

2.) We replace the governorate templates with district templates. So instead of the Hama Governorate => Hama District, Al-Suqaylabiyah District, Masyaf District, etc. it would be Al-Suqaylabiyah District => Al-Suqaylabiyah Subdistrict, Qalaat al-Mudiq Subdistrict, etc. See rough example here.

Let me know what you all think of my proposals or if you have any alternative solutions. The current state of these templates is unfeasible. --Al Ameer (talk) 00:12, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Al Ameer Hi, The main target of adding these links is to facilitate access to these villages from well-known and popular articles and the another reason that name of these villages is difficult for users to find them because of non-English titles and problems in pronounce and write the same titles in their articles.

I still think that a good template as is. In general, you're right, But I don't know what is the best way to easily link and find this articles. --Zaher ^talk 19:27, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I am looking at examples for other countries with well-developed "wiki-infrastructure" (if that's what it's called) and seeing which formats could best be applied for Syria's governorates. I think ultimately some of the really tiny places might be left out, but there could be a solution for them too.

As for the names, a standard English spelling of Arabic words should be used for every article. In general, for Levantine localities we use "Umm" instead of Om or Um, "Kafr" instead of Kfar, Kafar, Kafer, etc., "Al-Blank" instead of "Elblank", "Qalaat" instead of Qal'at, Kal'at, "Tell" instead of Tel, Tal, or Tall, "Jubb" instead of Jeb or Job, and so on. The other spellings could be mentioned as alternative spellings in the article itself and as redirects. This should hopefully stem confusion for editors and readers alike. It would be nice if we could have a table that lists all of this on the Levantine WikiProject pages. --Al Ameer (talk) 16:29, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

I have reorganized the template based off of subdistricts (nawahi) and am currently in the process of renaming many of the articles to conform with standardized Arabic transliterations, cleaning them up and adding coordinates. The template is still bulky, but much better organized. I still support cutting out places with tiny populations, but maybe instead of ~2,000 people, it could be something like less than ~500. Anyway, until a different solution could be agreed on, this is probably the best way for now. See the revised template HERE. --Al Ameer (talk) 17:45, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

This may be somewhat different, but it's about the names. I notice there's an inconsistency where the names of governorates and subdistricts like Raqqa, Hasaka, Safira, Qusayr, and others have an "al" added to them. This appears unique to Syria, as the articles for Rabat, Bayda, Libya, Ismaïlia, Kuwait, and Basra don't have the "al", which would be redundant since al is a mere definitive article unnecessary for English language proper nouns. Another issue I find is the inconsistency of naming the capital Dimashq as Damascus, while the governorate around it Rif Dimashq is left as-is.

I'm not sure of the relevant guidelines here, but from what I understand, common English names should be preserved. Constructs like Ar-Raqqah or Rif Dimashq appear to be exclusive to Wikipedia. NightShadeAEB (talk) 02:35, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

For example, Googling Raqqa gives 786,000 results on Google. Raqqah gives 369,000, Al Raqqa in quotation marks gives 141,000, Ar Raqqa gives 71,700. Ar-Raqqah gives 338,000, but I suspect that is largely due to Wikipedia's popularity. NightShadeAEB (talk) 02:39, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

I'm glad you've brought this up. I was going to propose that a table be devised for how to spell Arabic place names as there is a general confusion out there for English readers. There should be a consistency in how these places are spelled. I've been trying to do this, along with some editors who are mostly inactive now, for a while. Basically, the standards we've been using for Syrian articles is to strike a balance between staying as faithful to the Arabic spelling as possible but also highly considering the common name used by English sources. Sometimes the two coincide but often times the common name used by English sources isn't really a single common name, but instead a variety of similar spellings. Therefore, to keep things consistent, I lean more towards staying faithful to the Arabic spelling which is easier to use as a model. The colloquial pronunciation, which many times sounds very different from the Modern Standard Arabic spelling or the common English spelling, is also a factor that is considered, but less so. The reason it is less considered, is because it becomes difficult for us English-speaking editors who aren't native to Syria to accurately know or spell those names which in Arabic are still spelled in MSA. WP-MoS Arabic might be useful as a guideline for the creation of a table of spellings or a guideline for Arabic place names in the Levant and elsewhere in the Arab world. --Al Ameer (talk) 03:24, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

I think the article "al-" should be kept because that is how these places are listed in the Syrian census and it's just the way they're spelled in Arabic. Not all of them of course. But wherever you see an article with an "al" or any of its variants, it's because that's how the name is officially spelled in Arabic and transliterated in English. However, I'm not dead set on that position. Generally, with articles on Syrian places we keep the "-ah" for places that end with ـق (qāf) like Raqqah (الرقة). --Al Ameer (talk) 03:24, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to be moved to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:49, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

June 2015 Kobani attack

• June 2015 Kobani attack

Created this. Big attack, scores dead, lots of coverage. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 00:53, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

I even think you can change it to "Kobani massacre", as it has been referred to as such by many outlets. FunkMonk (talk) 13:40, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

This article is nominated for deletion. You can improve consensus at AFD. --George Ho (talk) 06:16, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Islamic State (ISIS)

Hello,
This WikiProject was recently created and I'm trying to determine if there is any level of interest in it. Right now, this WikiProject consists of just one editor. I'm notifying several related WikiProjects in order to gauge whether there is sufficient interest in this one that it should be allowed to grow or be deleted. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:05, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Gazillion articles about this and that "offensive" or militia

Is it just me who find it a bit superfluous to create an article for every single minor "offensive" and latest formation of some inconsequential militia gang? Hardly even WW2 is covered in this much detail! FunkMonk (talk) 11:14, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

1860 Druze–Maronite conflict move discussion

A discussion has been started regarding a proposed name change of the 1860 Druze–Maronite conflict article. Your participation is welcomed, cheers. --Al Ameer (talk) 03:54, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

RFC: Is the One Million Plan relevant to the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries?

See the RFC at:

Talk:Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_and_Muslim_countries#RFC:_Is_the_One_Million_Plan_relevant_to_the_topic_of_this_article?.

Oncenawhile (talk) 15:18, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Democratic Forces in Syria

Democratic Forces of Syria - apparently a brand new alliance composed of Kurds, Arabs and Syriacs. Seems like there should be a Wikipedia reference. See http://news.yahoo.com/u-backed-syrian-kurdish-militia-joins-military-alliance-053128674.html 108.49.137.123 (talk) 12:34, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Syrian Civil War

The intro, consisting of six paragraphs, is too long for most readers. As ongoing the conflict is, we can't overcomplicate the introduction to the conflict. The topic is recent, so I need help on condensing the intro. --George Ho (talk) 00:11, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Marwan Farhat

Hi all, the article on Marwan Farhat could use some help. I can't tell if he meets the notability criteria for actors and the article is very poorly written so it's at risk of being deleted. If anyone knows who this person is, a few indications of major notable roles and a few extra refs would be very helpful. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:17, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello, I took a crack at finding sources. Things are pretty sparse online, I only found one substantial source aside from the elcinema entry. He is mentioned in this magazine and this one, but I can only see snippets so I can't tell if the coverage is significant. I think he probably meets WP:NACTOR for having notable roles since he appeared in several films which have articles on the Arabic wikipedia, e.g. ar:الموت القادم إلى الشرق (مسلسل), ar:البحث عن صلاح الدين (مسلسل), and ar:آخر الفرسان (مسلسل). However, I can't be sure that he would make it at AfD. --Cerebellum (talk) 22:41, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Category:German involvement in the Syrian Civil War

Category:German involvement in the Syrian Civil War, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. GreyShark (dibra) 17:17, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Economy of Syria§Energy and mineral resources

I've proposed a couple of changes to Economy of Syria, being a merge of one article and a split of another, over at its talk page. I would greatly appreciate any feedback. Thank you — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 18:33, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Qays and Yaman discussion

There is currently a discussion regarding the name and perhaps scope of the Qays and Yaman tribes article. For those interested, your participation is welcome. Cheers --Al Ameer (talk) 21:50, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Syria entry missing from a key template (National symbols of Syria)

Syria is one of the few big countries missing this overview topic. See the template at National symbols of Japan, for example. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:49, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Discussion on the 1948 Arab–Israel war in WikiProject Israel

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Israel#1948_war_articles--Bolter21 (talk to me) 17:57, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Red's special November activities

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I just started a stub...

on Ibrahim Zakaria, but I can't read Arabic, can someone find more information from Arabic sources? Thank you!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 10:54, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Free Syrian Army-related vandalism

Hello guys, we just stopped a Twitter-coordinated, intense 1 hour multiple IPs vandalism on Free Syrian Army.

I would like to add the following. As the Syrian Arab Army are crushing the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo, the SAA supporters will likely rejoice and vandalize a bunch of FSA related articles. Please watch out vandalism on FSA articles this coming days. If something suspicious arise, ask a semi protection on WP:RfPP. Wish you the best ! --Yug (talk) 23:42, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

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Category:Order of Umayyad has been nominated for discussion

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Nizar Nayyouf

This article was nominated for a GA Review back in June. The nominator has not edited Wikipedia since early November. I started a GA review on December 25th at Talk:Nizar Nayyouf/GA1 but I cannot proceed unless someone else steps in and works with me on editing the article per my Review and suggestions. Would welcome help on moving this article towards possible GA status. Shearonink (talk) 21:19, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Battle of al-Bab

There is a discussion at Talk:Battle of al-Bab#Death reports about the inclusion of death reports, which are provided daily by the military and calculated as totals for this battle beginning November 6, 2016. A suggestion has been made to create a separate timeline article to get into that kind of detail. Would you please take a look at this and weigh in with your opinion. Thanks!—CaroleHenson (talk) 17:52, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Laodicea in Syria

An article that you have been involved in editing—Laodicea in Syria—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Yazan (talk) 20:53, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

garbled sentence

(Copied from Talk:Turoyo language#garbled sentence)

Turoyo is not mutually intelligible with Western Neo-Aramaic, having been separated for over a thousand years is considerable, but to a limited degree.

Intro section, 2nd paragraph. Maybe from cut-and-paste, but who can tell what it's supposed to mean?

(Cross-posted to the Talk pages of WikiProjects Assyria and Languages.) --Thnidu (talk) 06:22, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Requested move notice

Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Jabhat Fateh al-Sham#Requested move 29 January 2016, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, SkyWarrior 17:58, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming "420 collaboration", which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017! The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. WikiProject Syria participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Syria. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:31, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Khirbet Hazur - official name

Article created by Zaher.Kadour, I would like his input as well as input of others to determine whether Khirbet Hazur has any other official name or not. Currently we are having dispute over it on the article. According to Google searches number, I find more search results for "Khirbet Hazur" than any other related names like "Khirbat-Hazzour". OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 11:02, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

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Hama revenge massacre

The article Hama revenge massacre is in a terrible state, and was last edited in January. It urgently needs to be reviewed by editors with an understanding of the situation. Should it be merged to another related article? Should it simply be deleted? Can it be fixed? --Slashme (talk) 08:05, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Syrian Census Office WWW site address

I have rescued a dead link to a 2004 Census Table in the Shinshar article by replacing www.cbssyr.org with www.cbssyr.sy (chg). Probably similar fix should be done in other articles (special:search/cbssyr.org). However I expect the linked page contents should be verified each time by a human editor and it needs someone who can read Arabic, so I make this note here instead of Wikipedia:Bot requests. --CiaPan (talk) 08:09, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Photos of Syria on Wikimedia Commons

For years, Syria has been the scene of a bloody civil war resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, and the destruction of entire cities. The recent image donation by the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (the National Museum of World Cultures) in the Netherlands shows another Syria. Many of these photos were taken in the 1980s and show scenes of daily life and images and cities not yet devastated by war. Other images show objects from the collection of the museum. Together, they form a valuable resource on Syria for the various Wikimedia projects. The upload consists of 352 photos in total and can be accessed here. It coincides with a photo exhibition in the NMvW on Aleppo. The upload was part of the project The Netherlands and the World, which aims to make accessible Dutch collections on non-European heritage. Kind regards, --AWossink (talk) 10:50, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Please come and help...

The requested move at Talk:2018 missile strikes against Syria has been relisted, because there is no consensus yet either to move or not to move the article to a different title. Your !vote and rationale in this debate would be appreciated!  Paine Ellsworth  ^put'r there  23:49, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

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Category:Syrian territories has been nominated for discussion

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Ba'athist Syria listed at Redirects for discussion

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New article(s) assessment request

Would someone from WP:SY take a look at Haj Fadel Government and Fadel Al-Aboud and assess them? They have both been newly created by the same editor and didn't pass through WP:AFC for review. Also, I'm not sure of the naming convention followed for Syrian names, but I'm wondering if "Fadel Al-Aboud" should be "Fadel al-Aboud" instead since in some Wikipedia articles with similar last names the "A" in "Al" is lower case. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:12, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:41, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

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Articles for Syrian governments

I have created articles for all governments under the presidency of Bashar al-Assad and improved some of the existing ones:

• Second Mustafa Mero government (2001–03)
• Muhammad Naji al-Otari government (2003–11)
• Adel Safar government (2011–12)
• Riyad Hijab government (2012)
• First Wael al-Halqi government (2012–14)
• Second Wael al-Halqi government (2014–16)
• Imad Khamis government (2016–present)

Periodization is copied from arwiki. Ideally all of them would have a table with all ministers, including reshuffles, as in Second Mustafa Mero government, but I didn't come to do it for all of them. Any help will be appreciated. Best, --MarioGom (talk) 17:07, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Reorganize Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottoman Empire as a task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries?

Dear users of this WikiProject:

At Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Former_countries#Make_WikiProject_Ottoman_Empire_a_task_force_of_Wikipedia:WikiProject_Former_countries? I have left a proposal to convert Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottoman Empire into a task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries. I asked this project (as all or portions of this country was/were a part of the empire) and several other projects to get further feedback. Please let me know if you have questions, comments, or objections.

Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 01:54, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

FAR of Elagabalus

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Women in Red Asian women contest

From 1 October to 31 December, Women in Red is running a virtual contest on Asian women. In November, this will coincide with Wikipedia Asian Month. We look forward to strong participation from all those interested in improving coverage of Syrian women.--Ipigott (talk) 19:12, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Village 3imm عم between Aleppo and Antioch

Hello everyone I'm currently trying to rework the Ibn Butlan article in my sandbox and on his travels he speaks of a village between Aleppo and Antioch, which I cannot find. The account is from the 11th century and can be found on page 296 of this account by Bin al Qifti quoting from a missive Ibn Butlan wrote. https://archive.org/details/TarikhAlHukama/page/n227/mode/2up Its name is only spelled as بلدة تُعْرَفُ عم in the versions of al Qifti's text I can find, without diacritics, tho in a translation by Schacht and Meyerhof they transliterate it as ʿImm, but they sometimes get these names wrong in this text.

The village must lie on the one day and one night travel between the two cities, and must have been under Byzantine control during the 11th century. It must have had a spring which was used for fishing, and a watermill, and probably along some sort of waterway along with many other villages as I understand Ibn Butlan's comments quoted by Yaqut al-Hamawi. Which as I understand it means the traditional route between these two cities probably follows those waterways in some way as well. It must have had lots of pigs and prostitution (in the 11th century at least) and four churches and one mosque (whose call for prayer was carried out in secret during times of Byzantine rule).

Thank you very much to anyone who can help with this. Pari Sarcinator (talk) 18:41, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

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