Talk:Jonah ibn Janah

Worst Wikipedia page I have tried to read
As it stands today, this looks awful. It is full of abbreviations and almost no punctuation. It is hard to read. Is it someone's lecture notes? Did someone scan it with OCR and then failed to proofread it? It even has four paragraphs at the end which are not in English -- I guess it is Spanish; if so, it belongs in Spanish Wikipedia, not English Wikipedia.

So I looked at the History page, and compared the current version (last changed in November 2010) to a previous version (October 2010). It appears that this writer removed all the double brackets signifying wikilinks, removed all the braces signifying templates, removed most of the punctuation, but left the text of the wikilinks and templates. Don't people use the Preview button any more? Or was this the work of some malicious bot?

They also removed the Hebrew and Arabic versions of the subject's name. I think the originals of translitrated names are helpful to those readers who can read them. (It would be even better if the vowel points were added, if these are known.)

And then they added a Spanish translation, which does not belong here.

In a few days, I may revert. Any objections? --- Solo Owl (talk) 00:07, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Unpopularity or popularity?
In this diff, I replaced a paragraph that suggested that ibn Janah became unpopular due to shift to Ashkenazi scholarship which did not read Arabic, to another that describe him as being popularized even outside the Arabic-speaking world. It is true that the Scherman source suggested the unpopularity as suggested by the prev version of this paragraph, but Brisman and Martínez-Delgado both argued the opposite. Translations and the migration by Spanish-Jewish scholars to the rest of Europe made ibn Janah's works universally popular. Since these two sources are (1) newer, (2) written by more academic writers, (3) published by more scholarly publishers, and (4) 2 > 1, I think we should follow them over Scherman. HaEr48 (talk) 07:16, 8 February 2018 (UTC)