Talk:Qal'at Bani Hammad

Since this is a World Heritage Site, I think this article should have an image. Nocturnal  Wanderer  00:21, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

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"Beni Hammad Fort" is a crude and not quite accurate translation of Qal'a(t) Bani Hammad. "Fort" usually implies a smaller fortification, not a citadel or capital city. The vast majority of English-language reliable sources refer to this site by its full Arabic transliteration, "Qal'at Bani Hammad" or "Qal'a Bani Hammad", or more rarely "Qal'at of the Bani Hammad" or one of those variants with "Beni" or "Banu" instead of "Bani", and so on. "Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad" is used by UNESCO, but like other UNESCO names it's more of a title than a common name.

So per both WP:COMMONNAME and WP:USEENGLISH, something like that would be the most appropriate name of the article. Authors vary on whether to write the "t" from the taa marbuta, but of the varying transliterations "Qal'at Bani Hammad" appears to be the most abundantly-used; e.g. see Google Books search results (but note that Google Books searches include repetitions, non-English books, and non-identical spellings in its results, so the results aren't worth much unless you take a closer look at the books themselves). "Beni Hammad Fort" is virtually non-existent in published sources; the only two examples I could find in a Google Books search are more peripheral sources from recent years that could have been influenced by Wikipedia itself.

The name "Qal'at Bani Hammad" is the most common among reliable mainstream English publications, for example:

Others use the same spelling but without the "t", as mentioned, for example: And so on. Since there is no basis for the current name in reliable sources to begin with, and since I expect there are few active editors with knowledge of this topic, I'm just going to do a WP:BOLD move. If there's an objection, then we can revert and go through an RM instead. R Prazeres (talk) 07:01, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

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Image perhaps of interesr
Kalaa des Beni Hamma.jpg Elinruby (talk) 09:55, 20 March 2024 (UTC)