Talk:Abu Firas al-Hamdani

Speedy Delete
This article DOES specify why he was notable...he was a governor and a famous poet. You should have tagged it as a copyright violation as that's what it is...a cut and paste from. - House of Scandal (talk) 10:03, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, if you review the history, it has been changed since its first inception. It is no longer a direct copy and paste job, but was in May of this year.  Syn  ergy 10:35, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but so darn close I was fooled. Or maybe I somehow looked at an old version. I don't know...it was my responsibility to look closer.  Am I mistaken in placing the tag?  It seems I might be.  Should we remove the copyright tag or…? - House of Scandal (talk) 10:44, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It really doesn't matter, so long as its deleted. Substantially its a copyvio, although its not a notable person, so it fits into both.  Syn  ergy 10:52, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I deleted it as a copyvio but rewrote as a clean stub. This is most definitely a notable poet; please see Systemic bias: just because the average American doesn't know him and there's not too much about him on the web doesn't mean he's not notable. The mere fact that his memory was preserved over more than a thousand years should be enough to prove the opposite, and he does seem to be covered in academic works on Arabic poetry. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:51, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Good work. Thanks for rewritting the article and addressing our respective concerns. I hope you'll be able to expand it at some point if that's your intention.  It looks like there's plenty of information, albiet in French, in Encyclopédie Universalie. - House of Scandal (talk) 18:24, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

While we're at it ...
If a writer goes to the trouble of providing the Arabic spelling of a transliterated name, might he/she not also provide an English translation? I think that would be lovely.

Terry J. Carter (talk) 00:42, 2 February 2010 (UTC)