Talk:Zabaleen

Merge from Zabbaleen
Original author of the zabbaleen page here. I am about to merge the pages, keeping the bb spelling and putting a redirect from zabaleen. --Tariq Abdulla (talk) 01:28, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Both of those pages refer to the same thing, i agree that they should be merged keeping the Zabbaleen formula. That's how we utter it in arabic if it's translaterated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.235.80.147 (talk) 21:39, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

The Zabbaleen article and this one are about the same thing. They should definitely be merged, I'm just not sure which spelling should be kept. Could someone who knows please add a comment here? --Hugh Charles Parker (talk - contribs) 09:13, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Zebaleen appears to be a more common transliteration in English. Both articles contain useful information, so I think care should be taken during any merge. — Zerida 00:46, 31 July 2007 (UTC)


 * In searching the two spellings, Zabbaleen appears more in news sotries, such as CNN and BBC, while Zabaleen is used on more coloquial pages, such as blogs and .org sites. I would therefore go with "bb", "Zabbaleen". I agree that a careful merging is important as they both contain good, information. Jrc272 09:34, 31 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I would assess that the two spellings are used with about the same frequency online (there are similar numbers of Google results for each, etc), however I concur that the "bb" spelling is probably the better one. Unless an expert on the subject can say otherwise, I say merge the articles. ropable 02:01, 1 August 2007 (UTC)


 * 'Zabbaleen' corresponds more accurately to how the word is pronounced because of a feature in the language called gemination. I am not an expert on the topic itself however, so I would go with whatever is used more often in literature. — Zerida 06:11, 2 August 2007 (UTC)