Talk:Muzaka family

The chronicles of John Musachi
I find it kind of absurd to note that "Opar was inhabited by slavs" without mentioning that this was according to John Musachi, because in the following sentence it reads: "Gjon Muzaka, not completely reliable primary source". Why was this not worth mentioning in the previous sentence about slav inhabited Opar? I've made some edits to the article, but I still find it problematic. Maybe someone can improve it further.DevilWearsBrioni (talk) 11:10, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I did not find it necessary. There is a consensus that Slavs populated what is today known as Albania at the end of the 6th century while plenty of toponyms in Albania, especially (still) non-Albanized ones in southern Albania, still have Slavic names. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 19:00, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd argue it is necessary if we want to keep the article balanced. Of course, and it would not surprise me the least if the village was in fact populated by slavs. But making any inferences based on that would fall under original research. DevilWearsBrioni (talk) 19:20, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the world of bad use of bibliography

 * This edit of yours got me interested in searching a bit more about the subject . According to the edit: The edit cited: a)Anamali, Skënder (2002), Historia e popullit shqiptar në katër vëllime (in Albanian) b)Gjon Muzaka's chronicle as a WP:PRIMARY source. I, checked Anamali, then compared & contrasted what he writes with other sources.
 * Anamali reports what Gjon Muzaka has written about the origins of the family and then argues that the same information can be verified via the archaeological record of medieval architecture. Thus, the only source is supposedly Gjon Muzaka about the assertation that 1)the Muzaka come from the "village Opar" 2)this village Opar is inhabited by Slavs.
 * Gjon Muzaka writes that the ancestral graves of the family are in the village Lavdar: Lavdar is mentioned again in the chronicle as part of the wider region of Opar:  
 * Bad use of bibliography distorted the original citation via a half cropped quote There are many such edits which require verification and cleanup. --Maleschreiber (talk) 20:34, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Exactly Maleschreiber, a perfect example of WP:SYNTH and WP:OR in a single sentence. Ahmet Q. (talk) 13:51, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not very clear about what you're asking me to do since all those quotes make it a little difficult to understand. However, a valuable resource for article extension can be this:, which I don't know if has been reviewed in this article. I will try to find more on their origin but what I can say is that every reliable source that I have read refers to the family as "Noble Albanian family".  Bes-ART Talk  22:05, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
 * There's nothing that needs be done. The Muzaka were an Albanian family who knew fully well who was and who wasn't Albanian. I wanted to highlight how badly bibliography has been used to promote specific talking points. --Maleschreiber (talk) 19:14, 5 July 2021 (UTC)