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Islamic Texts Society
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It seems to me that an article you worked on, Islamic Texts Society, may be copied from http://www.fonsvitae.com/OtherPublishers/IslamicTextsSociety/tabid/178/Default.aspx. It's entirely possible that I made a mistake, but I wanted to let you know because Wikipedia is strict about copying from other sites.

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Proposed deletion of Islamic Texts Society


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 * no indication of notability. No independent WP:reliable sources. Largely copy/paste of companies own about page so is a WP:COPYVIO

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Speedy deletion nomination of Sulayman al-Mahri


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 * Hello, Desde la Torre,
 * Is there are reason why you cut the Sulaiman Al Mahri article down into a redirect? It was later deleted by mistake when your article was deleted and it turned into a broken redirect. Please do not do this again. Liz Read! Talk! 20:33, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Liz, I am truly sorry for the mess I made. I meant to correct several issues in the article, starting by the use of the transliteration in the article title. But I was working in a hurry and just forgot to check the right procedure to move the article as I meant—something I had done right in the past. Thanks for your note. I'll go back to work on that article within some days, making sure I check the manual first! Desde la Torre (talk) 22:41, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

January 2023
Hello, I'm Doug Weller. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Sources doesn't say that was the date it became a city.  Doug Weller  talk 13:32, 21 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks Doug. I think you may agree that Lisbon should be on the list, especially since several Wikipedia pages claim that it is one of the oldest cities in Western Europe. I did notice the source problem, and tried to find something better but I did not have the time. Why don't you reinstate it with a template to "get a better source" or somehing, as other cities in the table? Desde la Torre (talk) 13:41, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Because once unsourced material is removed policy says you can't remove it. The list is still a mess. Old Cairo doesn't belong there but Cairo does. Chania is wrong. There are 81 citation needed tags that need fixing. Adding more claims that need sourcing is not just against policy, it's a really bad idea and doesn't help our readers. Sadly we get a lot of nationalist editors, editors who don't understand what "continuously” means,etc.  Doug Weller  talk 14:42, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I will do as you suggest, to include a good citation and re-add it. I will also bring the date forward by a few centuries, which makes finding a reference a lot easier. Desde la Torre (talk) 15:00, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Actually, it was not difficult at all this time to find a reference for earlier archaeological evidence. Thus the date I've used tallies better with the antiquity claims in other WP articles. Desde la Torre (talk) 15:27, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Archaeological evidence (seashell waste) of a human settlement does not prove that: a) a city existed at the time and b) that is has been continuously inhabited since. M.Bitton (talk) 15:32, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello M.Bitton. I'm no nationalist. I'm not Portuguese. I'm not an archaeologist. I'm also not trying to make up information. I've cited what surely must count as a "reliable source" (Bloomsbury publication, based on the 1997 Oxford World Biographical Series, vol. 199). Please go ahead and question the validity of my source, put a note or something, but don't undo my edit. As I mentioned above, what I am trying to address is the ridiculous situation that Lisbon is absent from the list, while Évora and many other cities are there. Let's jointly address that, and by all means feel free to select a date and criteria of continuous habitation that are supported by a better source. Cheers. Desde la Torre (talk) 15:42, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Where does your reliable source say “continuously occupied”? Doug Weller  talk 15:50, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Not just "continuously inhabited", but "continuously inhabited as a city", otherwise this list would include most of the modern African cities with dates that would make the others look ridiculous. M.Bitton (talk) 16:03, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Definitely! Doug Weller  talk 16:06, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Considering its length this may be the worst sourced article on Wikipedia. Doug Weller  talk 16:10, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree the whole article it's terribly sourced. Just please don't take it on Lisbon guys!
 * "Continuously inhabited as a city" is a fair point. I would have appreciated it if instead of undoing the addition, which is reasonable, you would have objected to the date in the first place.
 * Now, I suppose "continuously inhabited as a city" means from Roman times.
 * Here is this source:
 * The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites,
 * “According to Strabo, in 138 B.C. the consul Decimus Junius Brutus fortified the city.”
 * Unless there are objections, I will proceed with that later.
 * Thanks. Desde la Torre (talk) 16:37, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Continuously inhabited as a city means just that. The new source that you're proposing doesn't support the claim. Please, stop suggesting that we have a thing against Lisbon. As you know, the whole article is in need of a serious clean-up (which will take a long time to do) and you are encouraged to help delete anything that doesn't belong there, but in the meantime, all we can do is stop others from adding more nonsense to it. M.Bitton (talk) 16:47, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm not really suggesting any bad intention from your end. I apologise if I gave that impression.
 * I would just be grateful for the editorial benefit of doubt, in this vein: “In the case of a good faith edit, a reversion is appropriate when the reverter believes that the edit makes the article clearly worse and there is no element of the edit that is an improvement.” Revert only when necessary
 * I believe my adding the Lisbon line to the list improves the article and it is far from nonsense. The question to discuss is the date and its criteria.
 * See also Revert only when necessary
 * Back to the question then. This is from M. Jack's book (pp.10-11), “following excavations for the building of the metro in the Praça de Figueira in 2000. A vast cemetery was uncovered underneath the square, with numerous epigraphic inscriptions on the stonework. During excavations pieces of Roman ceramic plate were dug up with other more ancient fossils, indicating continuous inhabitance of the Baixa area since earliest times.”
 * It does not say "as a city", though. We have however the Princeton source above and this, for example, to account for the status of Roman city since 138BC.
 * Perhaps we can give on the list 138BC and add a note with refs to both sources? There is a sufficient general caveat about dates at the top of the article, and as you've remarked, many other entries are simply unsourced. Desde la Torre (talk) 17:46, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I tried to tell you.  Doug Weller  talk 17:09, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

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