User talk:Esperfulmo/Archive 5

Thank you for reverting vandalism
Hi! Thank you for restoring info to the governorate articles. I was wondering if you could restore the Faiyum Governorate pronunciation info in the lead. I don't know Arabic and don't want to restore something wrong. Thank you. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 23:05, 28 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Isn't it sufficient from governorates of Egypt and Faiyum articles? Both words are there. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 22:49, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikitravel
I see you contributed to Wikitravel awhile back. Do you think the New Alamein city will ever be a great place for tourists and locals? --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 23:09, 28 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Can't give an answer. Sorry. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 23:48, 29 September 2020 (UTC)


 * No problem. Thanks. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 00:08, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Unlock a page
I need you to unlock a page as it has bias and inaccurate information. Reinhearted (talk) 03:39, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

How to do so and which page? --Mahmudmasri (talk) 13:20, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Template redirect deletion proposal which you may be interested in
Please see this Rfd discussion, where I propose to delete another Hebrew-related template: Template:Hebrew. Debresser (talk) 19:29, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Third opinion request
Hi Mahmudmasri,

I saw (here) that you edited Levantine Arabic in the past.

We have an ongoing debate about the content of the summary and the infobox on the talk page. As you are an experienced Wikipedian with a good knowledge of the Levant region, it would be great to have your opinion.

Thanks for any help you can provide. A455bcd9 (talk) 09:50, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

removal of Levantine Arabic
Hi, i saw u removed the Damascus Arabic link in the article. since i saw you are experts in multilingual field, im not gonna argue. but just wanna ask question outside the article, what do you mean about no standardized contemporary Arabic dialect? curious genuine question. thanks. Ahendra (talk) 00:24, 24 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your message. The article Damascus Arabic was in the table, falsely claiming that it is a standard language, a.k.a a literary language, i.e a language with official status, taught and used in all fields, including education, which is not true, just like all other Arabic dialects, spoken, but not used the way you would use, e.g. English or Literary Arabic. Mahmudmasri (talk) 07:59, 24 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Ah i see. thanks a lot for the answer, anyway sorry for late respond... by the way, i have one last question, what do you know regarding Zubayrids dialect? Zubayrids article saying there existed such dialect used by peoples in Iraq-Kuwait border in a city called "Zubair". Ahendra (talk) 16:27, 15 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello. I'm not familiar with the topic. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 16:41, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Language tags
Thanks for your fixes to Arabic diacritics and Hamza, particularly the one where it used Unicode presentation forms instead of regular letters. But please note that the difference between  and   is not a stylistic one. These templates do different things. The former marks the text up as being written in Arabic language, the latter doesn't even mark it up as being written in unspecified language in Arabic script, but only applies some font styles and is of limited usefulness in the body of text. It might be appropriate in places where articles talk about certain letters or their combinations and display them set off separately, but where actual Arabic words or phrases are given, please leave them marked as being in Arabic (for multiple reasons given in ). I don't care if it's  or , but   is just wrong. If the former somehow displays in a less pleasing way than the latter for you then maybe the styles applied by the templates could be improved, or perhaps you could configure your browser or your user styles better, but please keep it tagged by language. – MwGamera (talk) 10:41, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello dear. I did that in the lead to keep the whole article's arabic text looking the same and since even the lead used diacritics. Diacritics appear very badly on default fonts. That was the reason for my edit, however, feel free to change the lead back. Mahmudmasri (talk) 21:12, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Levantine Arabic FAC
Hi Mahmudmasri, I nominated Levantine Article for FAC. As you contributed to this article in the past, I thought you could be interested in reviewing it. Thanks for any help you can provide. A455bcd9 (talk) 14:28, 27 March 2022 (UTC)