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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:53, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Kazamzam. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Delores Taken Alive, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Hi Kazamzam, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the new page reviewer user right to your account. This means you now have access to the page curation tools and can start patrolling pages from the new pages feed. If you asked for this at requests for permissions, please check back there to see if your access is time-limited or if there are other comments.

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

Hello Kazamzam, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2025. Happy editing, Abishe (talk) 23:36, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply] Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 23:36, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, why have you reverted the change I made on "History of the Jews in Tunisia/French Protectorate (1881–1956)"? Michael Boutboul (talk) 15:43, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Boutboul - The French version of the article is not necessarily "better" and should not be pasted whole-cloth into the English. The translation from French Wikipedia was full of many stylistic mistakes, overlinking, and removed cited information without explanation. It would have taken longer to fix everything than to rewrite it. Please make smaller changes with more detailed edit summaries so that it is clear what is being done so other editors can review as necessary. Thanks and happy holidays. Kazamzam (talk) 17:14, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok clear. I’ll do it step by step Michael Boutboul (talk) 17:52, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Boutboul - doing something “step by step” does not mean adding a 4000+ byte addition. Again, you need to clean your translation, much of which has statements that absolutely need a reference. French and English Wikipedia differ in the location of references (en-wiki is after the period; please note this) and does not use capital tense in the section header. Please be cognizant of this going forward. Kazamzam (talk) 22:46, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advices, I'll try to do it better. Unfortunately I saw your message after adding another a 4000+ bytes section. An administrator explained me that making translation small paragraph by small paragraph is considered as "gaming the rules". Michael Boutboul (talk) 10:31, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Kazamzam, thank you for editing and improving the article about the El Zein family, could you please provide additional information on where extra reliable citations are needed, which citations are unreliable and where the contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information to resolve the maintenance tag. Thank you. Aldm 1234 (talk) 19:51, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Aldm 1234 - thank you for your question. A number of the "citations" you provided were just the titles of the books the family members have written so those are not really citations, nor are they reliable at all. The peacock wording has decreased since I removed some of the flowery language and honorifics, but frankly the article seems like a promotional piece about this one family whose notability as a unit is questionable, in part because the notability of some of the members is questionable. I think the article could be pared down to the truly notable members without providing so much detail for every single person (similarly, there are not biographies of every member of the Rockefeller or the Horowitz families) that the article becomes very bloated.

Also, if you have any personal connection to this family, please be sure to state it as per the conflict of interest guidelines. Best, Kazamzam (talk) 00:45, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response. Concerning the references, I have not used any citations taken from books authored by members of the family (as that would be unreliable) for the points of the article and the history of the family. Every reference I have used is an independent source, most often taken from a book in arabic. Furthermore, the amount of citations I have included very well verifies the notability of the works mentioned and notability of the family and members. If you were to go to the citations, you will find very often I have provided more than 1 citation for the same point.

Concerning the member's biographies and achievements, I have made them more concise, removing unnecessary information. While there may not be biographies of every member of families like the Rockefellers or Horowitzes, this is not necessarily a benchmark for all articles. If parallels are drawn to other prominent families from other regions of the world, it should be noted that the scope of coverage depends partly on the family’s historical documentation and regional impact, which can make some of the achievements of the family members' achievements (such as works published) may seem less notable to those unfamiliar to the region's history, undermining the family's importance in Lebanon and in Shia communities. For reference, the El Assaad Family, a similar family to the El Zeins, is much more bloated in terms of irrelevant information. You can also see Alkhalil family of Palestine, which in is immensely bloated and lacks bibliography.

Finally, the article's tone has been revised to reduce flowery language to document their contributions.

I believe the maintenance tag is resolved and can be removed, I hope these clarifications address your concerns effectively. I am always open to constructive feedback. Thank you. Aldm 1234 (talk) 02:22, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Aldm 1234 - I appreciate your message but some of what you've said is not true. You have added 'citations' from books authored by the family members when you included the books themselves as citations for works written by family members. The flowery language and unnecessary information were also added by you as the primary contributor, so I don't think it's entirely unbiased for you to be saying that the issues are now resolved. That needs to be the consensus of the community. I'm sorry that you don't like the maintenance tags but the article needs further work and there's nothing wrong with that being made clear to external readers. Kazamzam (talk) 12:59, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

Thank you for your response, yes I've added citations of books written by family members but I haven't used them for anything except for referencing the books themselves. Additionally, you seem to have removed all of them, so they aren't in the article anymore, which doesn't explain the maintenance tag for reliability of sources and additional citations for verification.

As for the flowery language, I believe it is unbiased as I disagree with the fact that this article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information since I have stated facts backed up by multiple sources, but nevertheless I would appreciate if you could give me an example of flowery language used in the article and information that isn't verified.

I hope these clarifications address your concerns, the maintenance tag for reliability of sources and additional citations for verification should be removed, keeping the one for flowery language for now. Let me know what you think. Aldm 1234 (talk) 13:25, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 5 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi opened the first commercial movie theater in Iran, only for it to be banned within a month? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 12:03, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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On 10 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Peri Alypias, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a PhD student discovered a lost manuscript of Galen's Peri Alypias in 2005, in "one of the most spectacular finds ever of ancient literature"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Peri Alypias. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Peri Alypias), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 12:02, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		Hook update
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