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AfD of Battle of Waddan
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Censorship
I suggest that whoever is undoing updates on the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology page stop immediately. If you're afraid of the truth then find another corner of the internet to sulk in. We're trying to bring Saudi Arabia out of the stone age here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Waheywahey (talk • contribs) 04:51, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

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Dammam
Large parts of the article Dammam appear to have been machine translated, probably from Arab into English. This has made a lot of information incomprehensible. See for instance the sentence "That the blood could be considered as a way similar to the lighthouse marine although the adoption of the first sound and second light". Because I don't speak Arab, I don't know what the author wanted to say. Could anyone who speaks Arab have a look at this article? 94.212.31.237 (talk) 13:47, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

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University of Dammam
Another editor started the article University of Dammam. Part of the article was removed as a copyvio, leaving only a stub. Please consider expanding the article. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 14:31, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
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Dammam
Large parts of the article Dammam appear to have been machine translated, probably from Arab into English. This has made a lot of information incomprehensible. See for instance the sentence "That the blood could be considered as a way similar to the lighthouse marine although the adoption of the first sound and second light". Because I don't speak Arab, I don't know what the author wanted to say. Could anyone who speaks Arab have a look at this article? 94.212.31.237 (talk) 13:47, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

University of Dammam
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Lighthouses
I started List of lighthouses in Saudi Arabia mainly because of Jeddah Light (which could use a good photo). Maybe one day someone will continue this. Best regards. --Muhandes (talk) 18:26, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

King Saud University
I expanded the article as much as I can. Please visit the page and give me your opinion on the talk page.Abrnkak (talk) 10:42, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

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Asian Football Confederation WP:Saudi Arabia?
Just wondering how is this article is under WP:Saudi Arabia? Nothing about it is directly about Saudi Arabia. Banana Fingers (talk) 14:28, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Criticism
I started adding some information in this part of the article about his son prince Saud Abdul Aziz bin Nasser Al-Saud and information that was given to the king about the mosques in saudia arabia but it was deleted it. I sited the information inside of the paragraphs. Was I supposed to put my references at the end of the wiki article? Does anybody know why they keep deleting my information?

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Wikileaks stuff on Saudi nightlife
Hi! I found: WhisperToMe (talk) 03:50, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Lister, Tim. "WikiLeaks: Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll -- Saudi style." CNN. December 8, 2010.

Saudi/Jordanian monarchy move request
Hello, I have started a move request for several Saudi and Jordanian monarchs without regnal numerals. The move would shift these articles from the "[Name] of [Country]" formulation to "[Name], King of [Country]" (like the recently moved John, King of England and so on). If you have any view on the matter, the centralised discussion is located here. Thanks, The Celestial City (talk) 20:25, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Saudi Airlines HQ stuff
Hi! I saw in some personal webpages that Zahyr Siddiqi was the guy who designed the Saudi Arabian Airlines headquarters

Where can I find a reliable source that says this? WhisperToMe 13:15, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Bin Saud Pesidents of Al Nassr FC - can you help?
These biographies were all created by the same editor (no longer active) in 2008 and have remained unreferenced ever since. The claim to notability appears to be both the membership of the Saudi royal family and the Presidency of the Al-Nassr football club. I have tried (and failed) to find any reliable sources for any of these articles and am posting here in the hope that someone with a better knowledge of the subject and an ability to read Arabic might like to take and interest. if they remain unsourced much longer, they are likely to be nominated for deletion.--CharlieDelta (talk) 20:11, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Sultan bin Saud
 * Prince Faisal Bin Abdulrahman Bin Saud
 * Mamdoh bin Abdulrahman bin Saud
 * Abdul-Rahman bin Saud bin Abdul-Aziz (no longer living but still unreferenced)

Sourcing for Abdul Majid Abdullah
Could someone find some reliable, independent sources for this article. I looked for them for the English-language name, but didn't find any about this person - only about other people with the same name (I tell a lie, I found a minor mention along the lines of "Singers include Abdul MNajid Adbullah who is famous and xyz who ..."). However, I do not read Arabic, so I cannot tell if any of the hits on GNews Archive, etc, are about this person, rather than another person with the same name.



I am leaving a message about this on relevant WikiProjects, but if no sources are found, I will take this article to Articles for deletion in a week - in the meantime, I have Proposed it for deletion  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 16:20, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Al ash-Sheikh
I've created the above article. How do I get it assessed under Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment? DeCausa (talk) 22:15, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Template:Saudi Arabia topics
I've just finished some fairly major revisions of this template. First I merged the almost-unused Template:Life in Saudi Arabia with this one; then added all the articles I could find which usually are included in these templates. I've also added the template to the articles listed in it, as well as to a few related Saudi-related articles (may have overlooked some of those in the template).

I think it's now considerably easier to survey the subject area. I didn't set out to make such large revisions (template article more than doubled in size); hopefully I didn't go out of bounds for editing without prior approval. I invite you to add anything I've overlooked and/or make other revisions as you see fit. Also, please add this template to all Saudi-related articles in which it would be proper to have it included. Shoplifter (talk) 01:11, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Miscellaneous sources
I found some things from the Saudi Embassy in London and the Saudi tourism department
 * http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sauditourism.gov.sa = Website of the Saudi Department of Tourism
 * Includes advice on how to dress: http://web.archive.org/web/20050306011914/http://www.sauditourism.gov.sa/sct/indexlist.php?catid=41&maincat=Travel_Tips
 * http://web.archive.org/web/19991125035359/http://www.saudiembassy.org.uk/publications/questions-of-human-rights/questions-of-human-rights.htm = FAQ from the Saudi Embassy of the UK from foreigner questions - has Saudi justifications for what they do

Also an editorial from a Pakistani newspaper
 * Saleem, Farrukh. "Challenges for the House of Saud." (Opinion) Jang (The News International, Pakistan). 23 November 2003 (27 Ramadan 1424 A.H.) ISSN 1563-9479

And State Dept stuff..
 * http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_931.html = Guide on marriage in Saudi Arabia (Archive)
 * http://web.archive.org/web/19991013015947/http://travel.state.gov/marriage_to_saudis.html = Old version of "Marriage to Saudis"
 * http://web.archive.org/web/19980508012500/http://travel.state.gov/tips_mid-east&nafrica.html - Tourism tips
 * General tips = http://web.archive.org/web/19990203015807/http://travel.state.gov/saudi.html

This could be useful on a section about relationships between Saudi men and western women WhisperToMe (talk) 23:35, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Al-Harm being considered for deletion
The article Al-Harm is being considered for deletion. Feel free to improve the article. Northamerica1000 (talk) 06:56, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Umma Islamic Party
Hi,

There has been some discussion on the notability and/or verifiability of the actual existence of this party. The party seems to have a Jordan-based website at http://www.islamicommaparty.com/ and is widely being reported as being a newly formed party by various news outlets. However these reports seem to be almost exclusively based on a reports by AFP and AP. Some of the usual Arab outlets don't seem to report on it at all, while other regional sources quote AFP/AP also. There seems to be no locally originated reports on this party. Could members of the project perhaps assist with finding Arab original sources that are not based on western newswire reports ? At this point it has been suggested that this party's existence may be a news myth, with one news outlet simply copying the info from the last. See discussion at Talk:Umma_Islamic_Party for more info. Travelbird (talk) 22:28, 11 February 2011 (UTC)


 * IMHO this discussion is obsolete now - Human Rights Watch reported the arrests of five of the founding members, and there are several other sources - see the article for details. Boud (talk) 01:35, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Saudi Arabia will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Saudi Arabia's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:45, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Rebelling Saudi style
Please see: WhisperToMe (talk) 17:15, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Davies, Catriona, Rima Maktabi, and Aroub Abdelhaq. "How to rebel, Saudi style." CNN. Friday 23 March, 2012.

China-Saudi Relations
I am university student who has been assigned the project of expanding the stub article about the relations between China and Saudi Arabai. I am currently focusing on China and Saudi Arabia's energy trade. If there are any sources, comments, advice, etc please post to the discussion section of my sandbox. Here is a link to my sandbox article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Bparker-goos/sandbox&action=edit&redlink=1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bparker-goos (talk • contribs) 05:06, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

help at Articles for deletion/Tarot island
Can I ask for your help at the Articles for deletion/Tarot island? We don't have enough info on what is the right English translation of the name of this island-- Lenticel ( talk ) 00:43, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Sharoura to Sharurah
I have redirected a stub named Sharoura to a longer stub named Sharurah. It seems that they are the same city in Saudi Arabia. If they are different cities, undo it or let me know. Also: Is "Shahroura" used for the city also, or is that a spelling only used for other things in the region around Lebanon? (I found references to "Shahroura" while looking for different spellings, but I don't think they were about the Saudi city: some were about Sabah (singer) though.) --Closeapple (talk) 22:54, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

image:Saudi troops enter Bahrain.jpg
File:Saudi troops enter Bahrain.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.252 (talk) 06:09, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Adult breastfeeding
Does anyone have anything to add to this discussion? Thanks in advance. Formerip (talk) 22:04, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

NPOV Review
Today I read the article about Abdullah, the current king of Saudi Arabia. It is anything but neutral. I added a comment to that effect on its talk page. I raise the same issue here, in hope that someone will work on it.Carmaskid (talk) 05:52, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Need Arabic-speaker help at Ogab bin Mohaia
I found an article, p. I did find the ar.wiki article about him which is pretty extensive. I searched his name in Arabic on gBooks and got a number of hits which (by mentions of time period and the Transjordan) do appear to cover this same person. This looks to be one of those cases where a person is well-covered in non-English books but not in English, so there could be real utility in using Arabic sources to build the English article and thus expose a whole new readership to this biography. MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:59, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

AjmanMen-Arabia.jpeg
image:AjmanMen-Arabia.jpeg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 07:57, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Countries bordering the Persian Gulf
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:38, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries bordering the Red Sea
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Countries and territories bordering the Indian Ocean
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GCC
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Help finding sources?
I was wondering if someone could help me look for sources for a film. The film in Arabic is نظرية عمتى, and the article can be found at Nathariat Amti. I've run into a language barrier since I am relying on Google Translate for sources. I admit that I'm not sure if the Arabic name I gave is the correct name, but I believe that it is. I'm not finding much, but then given that I'm not even sure that the Arabic is correct, I wanted to get someone from here to check for sources. It feels like there should be more out there. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   08:37, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Help a student editor?
I was wondering if anyone would like to help a college student with a school project. The user in question is User:BrendonPorter and his school project theme is "Gender Inequality of Education in Saudi Arabia". Can anyone help him out with the basics and sort of mentor him and/or the other students? Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   09:37, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Nader Kadhim
Appeal for Arabic-competent editor's assistance at Template:Did you know nominations/Nader Kadhim. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 01:27, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

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Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 20:51, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud
I updated this biography based on new information provided by the subject and which could be adequetly referenced. It was made in Arabic and English. (with the Arabic being approved). The changes in English remained for a month at which point the entry was changed back to its exisiting form. I have contacted the editor to understand the reason but to no avail. Can someone help advise how I can work collaboratively so we can ensure the much needed updates are made on a permanent basis? — Preceding unsigned comment added by LimelightME (talk • contribs) 03:49, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

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request
Hello everyone, maybe you do not that Regions of Saudi Arabia have been changed since a long time. In Arabic Wikipedia, we just discoverd that while improving the article. However, it is true that we upgraded the information about the number of governorates and the area, but we could not find a free image to represent the current regions. Can somenoe please help us my making a free one? you can find a picture of the current regions here.
 * Thank you, and sorry for my English.--Sayom (talk) 20:21, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

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Raif Badawi nominated for ITN
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Muhannad Al Jumaili
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2016 Saudi Arabia mass execution
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Muhannad Al Jumaili - notable?
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The user who created that article has also created Moghamarat ‘ayn × 2, which is a very poorly-worded article that doesn't even establish what the subject is. A book? I think the editor might need someone who speaks Arabic to keep an eye on him. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:24, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

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Merger notice - Al-Baqi cemetery
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Cannabis in Saudi Arabia needs improvement
We have a new article Cannabis in Saudi Arabia, but it could really use improvement and expansion, especially from anyone who can read Arabic sources. With a little polishing, it'd also be really useful to make a translated version for Arabic Wikipedia since it's a topic of increasing interesting these days. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 03:01, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Add Saudi Arabia portal to Category:Populated places in Saudi Arabia articles
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Saudi Arabia–United States relations#Media reception
Was wondering if some more editors would take a look at the newly added Saudi Arabia–United States relations. Such a section might actually have value the article, but this version seems a bit WP:UNDUE and maybe even WP:PROMOTIONAL by emphasizing a single book/author, neither of which seem to meet WP:AUTHOR or WP:NBOOK -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:30, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

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A requested move discussion has been initiated for Gulf Cup of Nations to be moved to Arabian Gulf Cup. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. Hashim-afc (talk) 17:11, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Possible COI and NPOV issues at Mecca Metro
I believe there are possible WP:COI and WP:NPOV issues at the article about the Mecca Metro. I tagged the article and the user at issue just over a week ago without any comment since, and would appreciate other editors having a look. Please see the talk page. -papageno (talk) 02:14, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

List of things named after Saudi kings
I think this list article needs renaming! Govvy (talk) 18:49, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:54, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

RfC pointer: Arab/Arabic/Arabian
Please see: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Words to watch

Gist: to include or not include advice about usage and misusage the terms Arab, Arabic, and Arabian (most of it originally at MOS:IDENTITY but removed last year). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  14:46, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Saudi Vision 2030
Hi there – I recently posted on the talk page of Saudi Vision 2030, which would benefit from some attention. If anyone has time to look at my suggestions (under ‘Current version needs work’) and get back to me there or on my talk page it would be very much appreciated. Thanks. Tarafa15 (talk) 15:27, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

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  15:40, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Request for input on proposed Saudi Vision 2030 section in Saudi Arabia
There's a discussion at Talk:Saudi Arabia on including a brief summary of the main economic aspects of the Saudi Vision 2030 program. I've suggested some options for this, which editors here are invited to give feedback on. Thanks. Tarafa15 (talk) 15:20, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Goal: "Create and maintain fair and unbiased information on Saudi Arabia."
You guys have a lot of work to do. --Sultanic (talk) 16:02, 23 April 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)

Dulay Rasheed (ضليع رشيد)
Hello, I just submitted a page for Dulay Rasheed and I need some help in getting it reviewed and published. Here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Dulay_Rasheed --Zarhouni1995 (talk) 14:39, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Cerebellum (talk) 15:55, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Category:18th century in Saudi Arabia has been nominated for discussion
Category:18th century in Saudi Arabia and its sub-categories, which are all within the scope of this WikiProject, have been nominated for possible deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies 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.. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 14:18, 11 March 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 parts of this country were 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)

Requested move 18 July 2020
I would like to request moves for the following children of King Abdulaziz, also called Ibn Saud: Most if not all of the other many offspring of Ibn Saud are referred to in the article title without using the last name. Векочел (talk) 03:01, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Luluwah bint Abdulaziz Al Saud→Luluwah bint Abdulaziz
 * Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud→Nayef bin Abdulaziz
 * Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud→Talal bin Abdulaziz
 * Sultana bint Abdulaziz Al Saud→Sultana bint Abdulaziz
 * Haya bint Abdulaziz Al Saud→Haya bint Abdulaziz
 * Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud→Sultan bin Abdulaziz

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 Saudi women.--Ipigott (talk) 19:09, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Requested move
There is a move discussion at Talk:Abdul Elah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Input would be appreciated. Векочел (talk) 17:22, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi, I'm first day on Wikipedia so sorry for doing everything wrong. Something on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Saudi_Strategic_Missile_Force#History page was just wrong in a damaging way (implying the Saudis have nukes), so I tried to change it. But really the page needs more work from mil geeks, and that whole section of nuclear speculation should be on the page about the nuclear program. Thanks! 51.149.9.118 (talk) 21:52, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Change Requested Prince Abdullah bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Prince Abdullah was never in business with the criminal Ghaith Rashad Pharaon, the link attributed is written by someone from India and there is not evidence to support this. Kindly remove all links between Prince Abdullah bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Ghaith Rashad Pharaon. 80.169.233.180 (talk) 17:17, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Arabeyes up for deletion
Open source publisher trying to aid Arab language users with their computers etc. It was established in early 2001 by a number of Arab Linux enthusiasts. Trying to find sources is hampered by the presumed language of sources. It is a systemic bias in Wikipedia. Arabic language speakers needed. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 15:40, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Muqrin bin Abdulaziz
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Muqrin bin Abdulaziz that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 23:41, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Nayef bin Abdulaziz
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Nayef bin Abdulaziz that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Векочел (talk) 19:54, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Turki (II) bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Turki (II) bin Abdulaziz Al Saud that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 17:31, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Frontiers Media partnership in Saudi Arabia
Hello! May I ask if Wikipedia editors are willing to review and add a request found at Talk:Frontiers Media on bringing Frontiers for Young Minds to Saudi Arabia? The initiative is the first of its kind in Arabic. I am an employee at Frontiers Media. For this reason, I am posting this request for others to inspect and implement on my behalf.

Best, JBFrontiers (talk) 08:10, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Houthi attacks on United Arab Emirates
I'm not in the right place but I'm looking for an answer to this request.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  16:59, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, yes, I am in the right place. 100 people might have died and the Saudis are responsible.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  16:49, 23 January 2022 (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.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

move discussion in progress, naming conventions
There is a move discussion in progress at Talk:Sultan bin Abdulaziz which is of interest of this Wikiproject. Kindly participate on that page as needs wider attention. Also, it is requested to create naming conventions for royal persons of Saudi Arabia to avoid such repetitive move requests, and to achieve consistency (kindly see my relisting comment in the move discussions). Regards, —usernamekiran (talk) 13:46, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Anazzah
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Anazzah that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 15:42, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:National Commercial Bank (Saudi Arabia)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:National Commercial Bank (Saudi Arabia) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 13:56, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. echidnaLives -  talk  -  edits  02:35, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikimania 2023 : Singapore, 16-19 August
Wikimedians! You are highly encouraged to apply for travel scholarship for Wikimedia Movement's largest gathering, Wikimania 2023. Wikimania 2023 will happen in Singapore and online from 16-19 August, 2023. There is a pre-conference on the 15th and a post-conference on the 20th. It is back on Asia since Hong Kong in 2013. Application deadline is on 5 February 2023 at 23:59 AoE. Regular registration will happen around May 2023. --Exec8 (talk) Exec8 (talk) 07:43, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:51, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon
 Hello WikiProject Saudi Arabia:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a  month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there! Grnrchst (talk) 13:41, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Luluwah bint Abdulaziz
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Luluwah bint Abdulaziz that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Векочел (talk) 22:10, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Muqrin bin Abdulaziz
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Muqrin bin Abdulaziz that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Векочел (talk) 00:45, 10 February 2024 (UTC)