Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Jordan/Archive 4

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February 2014
This project is being re-activated, please be patient while various pages and templates come back on line!! satusuro 05:52, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Al Karak
Al Karak has the initial 'al' the article title, which I believe is a bit unusual among Arab place names in en.wiki. Am I correct? Is there a reason for this? A policy? trespassers william (talk) 21:11, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 20:50, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Jordan articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 23:40, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Article needed at "Khalda"?
A stub created for Royal Academy of Culinary Arts linked its location as "Khalda, Amman", but "Khalda" is currently a redirect to Khaledah, Iran. I'd change that redirect to a dab page if there was anywhere sensible to which to redirect Khalda, Amman or Khalda, Jordan, as other entries for the dab page, but I can't find anything. There are a few mentions of "Khalda" in articles including List of roads in Amman and Sport in Jordan, which suggest that it ought to have an article. Over to you Jordan experts. (For now, I've just changed the college location to "Khalda, Amman, Jordan"). Pam D  13:50, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank You for helping the usa live free.
To the people of Jordan,Thank you for helping us live free. --Jlands5736 (talk) 19:58, 5 February 2015 (UTC)John Landsberger

To-do list
Hi, I replaced the to-do list page with WikiProject Jordan/todo (including an article needing translation) and added it to Template:WikiProject Jordan but people should feel free to add more to the various sections within the to-do list. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 06:58, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Political party help
Hey folks! I stumbled upon the orphaned article Ahd Party which claims to be a political party in Jordan. It's not listed at List of political parties in Jordan and the official website linked to in the article is now dead. There's an archived copy available from 2011, but since it's not in English I have no idea what it says. If this is a legitimate political party, could someone more knowledgeable please add it to List of political parties in Jordan? If it's not a legitimate party, we can nominate the page for deletion. Thanks a bunch!! Ajpolino (talk) 05:35, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Category:Grand Masters of the Order of Independence (Jordan) has been nominated for discussion
Category:Grand Masters of the Order of Independence (Jordan), which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 04:37, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Red's special November activities
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I just started a stub...
on Samih Abdel Fattah Iskandar, but I can't read Arabic, can someone find more information from Arabic sources? Thank you!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 13:13, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Good Article Reassessment for article: Zarqa River
Hi all, I am requesting a reassessment for this article by community. The discussion can be found here. Thanks! -★- PlyrStar93. → Message me. ← 19:45, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:37, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Jordan for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Jordan is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Jordan (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 09:22, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Dear all. This MfD is open since 01:57, 27 April 2019 (UTC) and is supposed to last 7 days. It would be of interest to have a statement from your part concerning the following points:
 * Is WP:WikiProject Jordan an alive and well Project (no offense intended, there are so many projects that are only remains of a past and gone former epoch).
 * Have you any interest towards this portal that has 13 views a day when the article Jordan has 5439 views a day (see [|Portal:Jordan wmflabs] for more details).
 * Have you any intent to participate to the maintenance of this portal (i.e. doing more than simply saying: any one else can do what she want).
 * Best regards Pldx1 (talk) 09:53, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Occupation of Ma'an
Please see the new article Occupation of Ma'an - apparently "one of the most confused chapters" in Jordan's history. Onceinawhile (talk) 23:13, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Discussion of Al Bawaba and The Globe Post on the reliable sources noticeboard
There is a discussion on the reliability of Al Bawaba and The Globe Post on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at. —  Newslinger  talk   00:36, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge
The Middle East really needs constributors to this. Jordan has no articles coming in for it! Please get involved!♦ Dr. Blofeld  14:51, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Name: Naharayim or Baqoura?
See here: Talk:Naharayim, Huldra (talk) 20:42, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Reorganize Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottoman Empire as a task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries?
Dear users of this WikiProject:

At Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Former_countries I have left a proposal to convert WikiProject Ottoman Empire into a task force of WikiProject Former countries. I asked this project (as all or parts of this country was formerly in the Ottoman Empire) and several other projects to get further feedback. Please let me know if you have questions, comments, or objections.

Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 01:57, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Sa'adeh College School
Unsourced, what is Arjan, Amman?Xx236 (talk) 09:25, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Farid Aksheh or Farid Akasheh (1921-2014) - spelling of former government minister
He was a doctor and politician. He served in the Cabinet in the 1960s and 1970s. Different reliable sources spell this differently. There is a discussion regarding a possible page move at Talk:Farid Aksheh. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  14:48, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

More eyes needed ....
on Talk:Irbid Governorate

There is a lot of "clean-up" to do; duplicate articles, etc, Huldra (talk) 22:43, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Women in Red Asian women contest
From 1 October to 31 December, Women in Red is running a virtual contest on Asian women. In November, this will coincide with Wikipedia Asian Month. We look forward to strong participation from all those interested in improving coverage of Jordanian women.--Ipigott (talk) 19:03, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Old maps
The earliest known detailed maps of Transjordan, from 100+ years ago, at:
 * Gottlieb_Schumacher
 * Maps of Palestine from the German Vermessungsabteilung

Onceinawhile (talk) 21:13, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Lighter relief map for Module:Location map/data/Jordan
Wouldn't it make more sense to use File:Reliefkarte Jordanien.png as the relief map as opposed to File:Jordan location map Topographic.png? Changing the map to the lighter version would make it the same as the majority of other relief maps used for other locations. Aris Odi ❯❯❯  talk  06:36, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Update: I will go ahead and make the change as it seems pretty uncontroversial. If anyone has a problem, feel free to discuss it. Aris Odi  ❯❯❯  talk  05:03, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

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Requested move at Talk:Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 10:50, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

That probably was cryptic... why do we care about that? This RM involves about 50 state funeral articles, including at least one that is related to this WP. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:11, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

GAR notice
Amman has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 04:49, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Literature and Short stories from Jordan?
Hi, all,

Ok if I start a section on Literature and Short stories from Jordan? I've searched but haven't found any already started. I would start with Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short Stories from Jordan Translated and Edited by Ibtihal Mahmood & Alexander Haddad, which has an introduction to "The Jordanian Short Story: Origins and Outcomes." K8ndrs (talk) 12:44, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

weak descripted and partly false connected sides
Hello, As someone who has been to Jordan many times, participated in various archaeological projects there and became fond of the people there, I unfortunately find that some Wikipedia pages on Jordanian sights are very poorly described. Things are often written without naming references. But there are also pages that create an alleged link to Jordan, although this does not really exist. The country does not need this at all. In my opinion, it would therefore be important to check this content. As an example I would like to mention the Wikipedia page on Raphana, here it is said without archaeological support that Abila was in Wadi Queilbeh Raphana. Neither Wadi Queilbeh nor Abila as ancient ruins need this connection. Abila is a really must-see place and there is a lot of research on the painted tombs and rich history. Likewise, the longest ancient aqueduct passes by there and supplied this city. You can also read all of this with other content on the website www.dekapolis-aquaedukt.de/en. The Raphana of the Decapolis has its own history and was definitely in Syria and there with a high probability southeast of Damascus. Abila, along with Beit Ras, was not directly mentioned by Pliny the Elder, but it was the capital of an entire region that Pliny called "Ampelloessa". This important region, later also associated with Abila as "Abila viniferos" located 12 miles east of Gadara, is still covered with ancient wine presses and old vines. Therefore you should check the subpages for the Jordanian sights again and update them if necessary.

regards jens Qanatir (talk) 16:03, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
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Amman
The order of the monuments is not well understood and, so as not to risk making a mistake, I don't intend to change the order of the monuments (for information: I left the order unchanged; I only corrected the wikilinks and explained the order better, but it is the same order: Amman. JackkBrown (talk) 21:36, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Abbadi (Bedouin)
I tried to fix this article, but the creator objects. Srnec (talk) 00:30, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Hussein of Jordan
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hussein of Jordan that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 12:43, 20 June 2023 (UTC)