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Welcome to the Arab world WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the Arab world. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list of project members!
This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the Arab world with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its future subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page.
Goals[edit]
- To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of Arab history and culture.
- To improve Wikipedia's coverage of the Arab world by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
- To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to the Arab world in Wikipedia.
Scope[edit]
- The project generally considers any article related to historical or modern-day Arab subjects to be within its scope. A more detailed description of the scope, and our primary focus areas within it, may be found in the section on project scope.
Structure[edit]
- Internally, the project has developed several structural features to help in managing our work:
- Departments, which host work on several specialized tasks, including article quality assessment, detailed article and content review, and project outreach.
Announcements and open tasks[edit]
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Article alerts[edit]
Articles for deletion
- 25 May 2024 – Al-Jami al-Kamil (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mccapra (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)
- 15 May 2024 – Arab Canadian identity (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c) was closed as merge by Star Mississippi (t · c) on 30 May 2024; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
Categories for discussion
- 02 Jun 2024 – Category:12th-century Arab historians (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
- 27 May 2024 – Category:Secularism in the Arab world (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
- 07 May 2024 – Category:Kuwaiti people of West Asian descent (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aldij (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 16 Apr 2024 – Syrian literature (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Munfarid1 (t · c); start discussion
Requests for comments
- 02 Jun 2024 – Jinn (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by TheEagle107 (t · c); see discussion
- 28 May 2024 – Emir Abdelkader (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by 808 AD (t · c); see discussion
- 25 May 2024 – Azd (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by The MK (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 27 May 2024 – South Yemen (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Abo Yemen (t · c); see discussion
- 04 May 2024 – Regency of Algiers (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Scope creep (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 21 May 2024 – Shia–Sunni relations (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Sunni–Shia divide by Completely Random Guy (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Apr 2024 – Arab citizens of Israel (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Palestinian and Arab citizens of Israel by Onceinawhile (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Jun 2024 – State of Palestine (talk · edit · hist) move request to Palestine by MountainDew20 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 16 Jan 2024 – Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to July 2022 Damascus airstrikes by Sakiv (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 30 Jan 2024 – C'est la vie (Khaled song) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Magiciandude (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Feb 2022 – Foreign fighters in the Syrian Civil War and War in Iraq (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 29 May 2024 – Draft:Amr bin Muhammad bin al-Qasim al Thaqafi (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ribosome786 (t · c)
- 28 May 2024 – Draft:Aziz Amoura (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JoHisAmm20 (t · c)
- 27 May 2024 – Draft:Dar Es-Sultan (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 25 May 2024 – Draft:Abdulaziz bin Thani Al Thani (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Spicy (t · c)
- 18 May 2024 – Draft:Jad Melki (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jmelki (t · c)
- 02 May 2024 – Draft:Mulay (title) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Moharh55 (t · c)
- 01 May 2024 – Draft:Islam and Arabic language (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 202.134.9.153 (t · c)
- 28 Mar 2024 – Draft:Muhammad Mustafa's government (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 3xFLAGv2 (t · c)
- 03 Mar 2024 – Draft:Mohamed Aboelgheit (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ypedia1 (t · c)
- undated – Draft:Heya Masr Foundation (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
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Guidelines[edit]
The recommendations presented in this section are intended to be guidelines only; while they are well-suited for the vast majority of Arab world articles, there exist a number of peculiar cases where, for lack of a better solution, alternate approaches have been taken. These exceptions are often the result of protracted negotiation; if something seems unusual or out-of-place, it may be worthwhile to ask before attempting to change it, as there might be reasons for the oddity that are not immediately obvious!
Manual of Style (Arabic)[edit]
For details please refer to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Arabic)
The Arabic Manual of Style WP:AMOS proposes a guideline regarding the transliteration from the Arabic alphabet to Roman letters in the English Wikipedia. The discussion is ongoing at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Arabic).
Content and style[edit]
Sources[edit]
Policy requires that articles reference only reliable sources; however, this is a minimal condition, rather than a final goal. With the exception of certain recent topics that have not yet become the subject of extensive secondary analysis, and for which a lower standard may be temporarily permitted, articles on the Arab world should aim to be based primarily on published secondary works by reputable historians. The use of high-quality primary sources is also appropriate, but care should be taken to use them correctly, without straying into original research. Editors are encouraged to extensively survey the available literature—and, in particular, any available historiographic commentary—regarding an article's topic in order to identify every source considered to be authoritative or significant; these sources should, if possible, be directly consulted when writing the article.
Citations[edit]
The nature of historical material requires that articles be thoroughly—even exhaustively—cited. At a minimum, the following all require direct citation:
- Direct quotations of outside material
- Paraphase or other borrowing of ideas from an outside source
- Controversial or disputed statements
- Subjective or qualitative judgements
- Numerical quantities or statistics
In general, any statement for which a citation has been explicitly requested by another editor should be provided with one as well.
Beyond this, editors are encouraged to cite any statement that is obscure or difficult to find in the available sources, as well as any significant statement in general. There is no numerical requirement for a particular density of citations or for some predetermined number of citations in an article; editors are expected to use their best judgment as to how much citation is appropriate. When in doubt, cite; additional citations are harmless at worst, and may prove invaluable in the long term.
- Citation style
In general, articles may use one of two citation styles:
- Footnotes
- Footnotes are generally the more appropriate option when the level of citation is very dense, or where the citations include additional commentary. A number of different formatting styles are available; so long as an article is internally consistent, the choice of which to use is left to the discretion of the major editors. For example, discursive notes may either be combined with citations (as here and here), or separated (as here).
- A single footnote may be used to provide citations for any amount of material; while they typically apply to one or a few sentences, they may also cover entire paragraphs or sections of text. In cases where the connection between the citations and the material cited is not obvious, it is helpful to describe it explicitly (e.g. "For the details of the operation, see Smith, First Book, 143–188, and Jones, Another Book, chapters 2–7; for the international reaction, see Thomas, Yet Another Book, 122–191").
- Harvard-style references
- Harvard-style references are useful where a limited number of simple citations is needed; they typically should not be used if the article has a significant number of other items in parentheses, or if citations must be accompanied by commentary.
The final choice of which style to follow is left to the discretion of an article's editors.
- Requesting citations
Editors should attempt to take a reasonable approach when requesting citations. Unless the accuracy of a statement is in significant doubt, it is generally better to start with a request for citations on the article's talk page, rather than by inserting {{fact}} tags—particularly large numbers of such tags—into the article. Over-tagging should be avoided; if a large portion of the article is uncited, adding an {{unreferenced}} or {{citation style}} tag to an entire section is usually more helpful than simply placing {{fact}} tags on every sentence. Note that some articles contain per-paragraph citations, so checking the citations at the end of a paragraph may yield information about facts or figures in the paragraph as a whole.
