Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Assyria/Archive 3

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 04:48, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

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Aramaic language FAR
nominated Aramaic language for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 01:22, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

WP:NOT#PLOT
Apologies for the notice, but this is being posted to every WikiProject to avoid accusations of systemic bias. Hiding T 13:27, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Naheere(Syriac Orhtodox) from User:SchnitzelMannGreek
Hello, Assyrian brothers. I created this article about the Naheere service in the Syriac Orthodox Church. I also translated a couple of articles. How's it look so far? Schnitzel MannGreek. 02:48, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation
This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.

We are always looking for new members to assist with reviewing the remaining articles, and since this project has GAs under its scope, it would be beneficial if any of its members could review a few articles (perhaps your project's articles). Your project's members are likely to be more knowledgeable about your topic GAs then an outside reviewer. As a result, reviewing your project's articles would improve the quality of the review in ensuring that the article meets your project's concerns on sourcing, content, and guidelines. However, members can also review any other article in the worklist to ensure it meets the GA criteria.

If any members are interested, please visit the GA sweeps page for further details and instructions in initiating a review. If you'd like to join the process, please add your name to the running total page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles from the worklist or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. With ~1,300 articles left to review, we would appreciate any editors that could contribute in helping to uphold the quality of GAs. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 22:15, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Syrian vs. Syriac
I recently filled out an application and for the ethnicity wrote down Greek and SYRIAC. However, they put down Syrian instead. What's the major difference is it the same? What do you recommend I do? Schnitzel MannGreek. 23:29, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Dioceses of the Church of the East
I've just started work on a major Assyrian project, which I envisage will eventually yield about 120 related articles, namely to provide comprehensive information on all the known dioceses and metropolitan provinces of the Assyrian Church of the East throughout its history. Most of the information for the period from 1318 onwards has already been conveniently assembled in my book The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1918, and merely needs cutting, pasting, formatting and updating. For the period up to 1318 I am drawing heavily on the text of a second book which I wrote in parallel with EOCE but which, for the moment, remains unpublished on my computer. My aim is to write a series of balanced, authoritative and well-sourced articles.

I've started off by discussing the sources and giving an overview of the Parthian and Sassanian periods. I will move on to the Ummayad, 'Abbasid and Mongol periods in the next few weeks. I'll leave the post-1318 period alone for the time being as the evidence is already out there in my book, which quite a few Assyrians seem to have access to.

Once I get the structure sorted out, I would love help from other contributors providing things like templates and diocese names in Syriac and Arabic (at present the article contains only one Syriac name, that for Adiabene, and I had to cut and paste that from another article. If there's an easy way of writing Syriac and Arabic on Wikipedia, I'd love to know about it.  I'm competent enough in both languages, but technologically-challenged when it comes to typing them.

I intend to add detailed maps of individual dioceses as I go on. I've got a lot of stuff available on my computer which, if I can work out how to transfer it, will make very good Wikipedia illustrations.

Once this gets going it's going to be good fun trying to find apposite illustrations. There's some nice late-nineteenth-century photos of patriarchs and bishops around which it would be good to have, and a lot of good illustrations in the books written by European travellers. I think there's an early portrait of Abdisho IV at the Council of Trent in 1562. Does anyone know where to access it?

I'll be splitting off bits from this article as it grows and breeding secondary articles. In the meantime, can I seek fellow-users' views on the general concept. I'm trying to write this article in simple English, but I'm aware that it has an academic tone to it. Does that matter? I'm working on the assumption that people are looking for accurate information when they consult an encyclopedia, and that's what I'm trying to give. If some of it seems rather dry, I can't help that. Perhaps the maps will liven it up a bit.

Any comments, anyone?

Djwilms (talk) 08:53, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Request for assessment
Mar Dinkha IV I have made several changes that warrant this article graduating from start class. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:52, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Done. Ninevite (talk) 02:15, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Could you take a look at Enûma Eliš, it is listed as B-Class but appears to fail most the B-Class criteria. -- Kraftlos  (Talk | Contrib) 20:45, 29 December 2009 (UTC)