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Gassan Hamdan
I noticed the spelling change that you and another editor, who was not logged in at the time, made to Gassan Hamdan.

As a general rule, the English Wikipedia uses the most common English spelling of a person's name. See WP:Article titles for details.

Since the only reference, and it - or rather, the copy of it on archiveurl.org - spelled it "Gassan Hamdan" I changed the spelling back. If you know that this is incorrect and you can find reliable sources that say otherwise, please update the article but put a note on Talk:Gassan Hamdan explaining why the "new" spelling is the more common one. Before updating it, please read WP:Reliable sources, WP:Independent sources, and WP:Citing sources.

Also,  is deliberately restricted on the English Wikipedia. It can be used to do things like italicize part or all of a page's name, but it cannot be used to change the spelling of a page's name. See WP:DISPLAYTITLE for details. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  17:22, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I changed the spelling as it wasn’t the correct one that is used by Ghassan Hamdan himself. You can check the second reference that I just added, which is an interview with Al-Monitor, which clearly uses this spelling. You can check his personal facebook account at https://www.facebook.com/ghassan.hamdan.12 Alikindeel (talk) 17:48, 1 October 2020 (UTC)


 * What second reference?
 * Also, the Facebook page is "not found."
 * Also, please do not add  as it does nothing except put the page in the category Category:Pages with disallowed DISPLAYTITLE modifications.
 * Likewise, the  line only tells categories where to put the file in alphabetical order.  It is very confusing if the "DEFAULTSORT" isn't obviously related to the page title.  For names of people from countries where the last name is "first" when alphabetizing, the Wikipedia convention is "last name, first name." davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  00:28, 2 October 2020 (UTC)


 * This is the second resource: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/07/iraqi-iranian-novels-arab-translation.html

Alikindeel (talk) 11:44, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I am writing because I haven’t heard from you regarding changing the name spelling. The above resource is an interview with Al-Monitor that clearly shows the correct spelling. This is Ghassan Hamdan’s profile on Academia which shows that too: https://independent.academia.edu/GhassanHamdan Regards Alikindeel (talk) 19:13, 9 October 2020 (UTC)


 * The page is now at Ghassan Hamdan. I removed the text you lifted directly from https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/07/iraqi-iranian-novels-arab-translation.html since Wikipedia respects copyrights.  See WP:Copyright policy and WP:Close paraphrasing for details.  I added the interview to the page as an "external link."  You are welcome to use it as a source.  If you do, delete it from the "external links" section. If that leaves the "external links" section empty, please delete that section.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  20:36, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, I am still learning how to use wikipedia properly. Appreciate the feedback Alikindeel (talk) 23:00, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Copyright infringement
I can see that you are a new editor, but you need to know that Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. You must not copy and paste text from sources you find on the web into articles as you did in the article Ghassan Hamdan. The infringing text has been removed because the material you copied is subject to copyright, as is almost everything on the web. When creating or expanding articles, you should completely rewrite the information from the source using your own words. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:16, 10 October 2020 (UTC)