Talk:Nilometer

Larger version of the Rodah Nilometer
For a larger version of the Rodah Nilometer: LoC 72.184.44.68 (talk) 01:17, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Useful data on the rise of the Nile
For useful data on the rise of the Nile: with tables of lowest & highest water level at places on the Amietta & Rosetta branches and a table of lowest & highest water level at the Rodah Nilometer during 58 years (1882), see. [Unsigned addition, from IP 72.184.44.68, 01:17, 27 April 2008‎ ]

Moving citation here, because text not verifiable from this single inline citation
The following reference: appeared following this sentence: The Latin for this patriarch's name is Dionysius Telmaharensis and a search for it in the Latin portion of Vol. 1 of the cited Chronicon Ecclesiasticum gave two page locations, neither of which correspond in any way to the "373" appearing in the citation. (Found were appearances in Latin section 308 on p. 296, and Latin section 364 on p. 324.) Moreover, there is no apparent mention of "Mutawakkil" (see Al-Mutawakkil here at WP), who is the second principal agent represented in this sentence in this reference.
 * Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum, i. 373
 * "While this nilometer dates only as far back as AD 861, when the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil ordered its construction, it was built on a site occupied by an earlier specimen which was seen by the Syrian Orthodox patriarch Dionysius of Tel Mahre in 830."

Bottom line, either the reference was simply intended as a further reference to the patriarch's name, cut-and-pasted from elsewhere, and so functioning like a low value wikilink (to a Latin-Syriac text), or the citation presented above and formerly in the article is incomplete, making its trace to this particular source version unhelpful (see for the version searched).

Regardless, information in the sentence shown cannot be traced to this source—not by me, and certainly not by most other editors—and so the source is moved here as the print equivalent of a dead link. If I am wrong in this analysis, please let me know, but as the only inline citation appearing in the article, it was worth checking for its veracity.

In short, the article—10 paragraphs, 25 sentences—had only this inline citation, and even the one was useless to verify anything of the article's content. Bon chance to any that wish to take this further. I am content to say the article is unsourced, the crux of which has been noted for this article since May 2010. Cheers. Le Prof. Leprof 7272 (talk) 05:56, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

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