User talk:Synoman Barris/Archive 5

I wasn't going to mention it, but
Re your non-admin close. You may not be aware that there was 10 years ago something of a possible racial undercurrent to the reaction of some editors to Asian names, which was in some cases, 10 years ago, stronger than the reaction to, say, Lech Wałęsa as an East European name. I'm not going to be the one that might speculate why 10 years ago some editors found Mỹ Linh more problematic than Édith Piaf, but there you go, they did. It could have nothing to do with Mỹ Linh being Asian and Édith Piaf being European, there could be other reasons. But either way the prospect of not making a racial distinction was for me at least component on why we resolved the issue by treating Asian and Westerners the same as far as Latin font names goes. That was 2009-10. In ictu oculi (talk) 14:00, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , Thanks for letting me know. Cheers Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  17:25, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations!
It took a lot of work, time and effort. It wasn't easy - you did what needed to be done and did it well - and now you can apply to be a new page reviewer. Atsme Talk 📧 22:53, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , Thank you! The certification looks very beautiful, gonna copy this to my user-page. Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  23:23, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , And I also made a request at WP:RFP/NPR Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  01:18, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, I had composed my response, but when I hit save, there was an edit conflict with your response, so mine follows yours. Atsme Talk 📧 01:36, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

RE: Siege of Baghdad
Good day,

Thank you for the message re: the change in article the Siege of Baghdad (812–813).

The reason I thought to make the change is that the initial caption just said that al-amin was playing chess (portraying it as historical fact). the source cited for that claim in the page (https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/200904/the.game.of.kings.htm) Clearly mentions it's aprocryphal nature "... his son al-Amin (died 813), figures in an apocryphal chess tale..".

It seemed to me that clarifying that this story is in fact aprocryphal would provide the reader with a more accurate view of the material and more consistent with the sources cited.

Best regards

152.11.170.162 (talk) 18:36, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ and Thanks for clarifications. Regards  Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  18:39, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you very much for the welcome!

152.11.170.162 (talk) 18:58, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Thanks for this Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  17:42, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted
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 * , Thank you Salvio! Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  11:19, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

About List of rulers of Boer - "Can a redirect be necessary here?"
Hi Megan and user whose family name is Li. To my understanding the issue you raise is that the State President of the South African Republic article - the South African Republic does not include State President of the Orange Free State of the Orange Free State. Is that correct? That said, in my opinion "List of rulers of Boer" is an implausible WP:REDIRECT to this or any similar topics. Please do feel free to disagree. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 10:00, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , Hi, after evaluation of the article, I am inclined to agree (that’s why I reverted my messages on your talk). The article is copy pasted from two Wikipedia articles, stated above. I had reinstated the CSD. Cheers Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  10:10, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations!
It took a lot of work, time and effort. It wasn't easy - you did what needed to be done and did it well - and now you can apply to be a new page reviewer. Atsme Talk 📧 22:53, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , Thank you! The certification looks very beautiful, gonna copy this to my user-page. Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  23:23, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , And I also made a request at WP:RFP/NPR Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  01:18, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, I had composed my response, but when I hit save, there was an edit conflict with your response, so mine follows yours. Atsme Talk 📧 01:36, 17 August 2020 (UTC)