Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United Arab Emirates/Archive 3

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Licensing of Etihad Airways headquarters
In regards to

I'm trying to figure out whether the Etihad airways head office picture would be considered to be non-free due to the lack of Freedom of Panorama in UAE law. If so, I'll add a fair use rationale. If it is a free image, I'll move it to the Commons. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:25, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

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Dubai
Hi!

Following a discussion at the talk page, I've recently made a series of edits which may or may not be considered controversial. I'd welcome review of my actions, and the chance to discuss this at the talk page or here (or, indeed, anywhere!)

Cheers, TFOWRpropaganda 12:16, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

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Licensing of Etihad Airways headquarters
In regards to

I'm trying to figure out whether the Etihad airways head office picture would be considered to be non-free due to the lack of Freedom of Panorama in UAE law. If so, I'll add a fair use rationale. If it is a free image, I'll move it to the Commons. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:25, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

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Dubai
Hi!

Following a discussion at the talk page, I've recently made a series of edits which may or may not be considered controversial. I'd welcome review of my actions, and the chance to discuss this at the talk page or here (or, indeed, anywhere!)

Cheers, TFOWRpropaganda 12:16, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

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An Invitation From Sue Gardner
Dear Wikimedia Project Contributors,

I am the assistant to Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. Sue and I will be traveling to the United Arab Emirates in early December to attend and speak at TedxDubai on Saturday, December 4. While traveling in Dubai Sue would like to meet with local Wikimedians and other project contributors to learn about your community and to inform you about the Wikimedia Foundation. We find these informal meet-ups a useful way to gather groups of Wikimedians who may enjoy learning about the work of other contributors in their region, and to learn about the work of the Wikimedia Foundation. While in Dubai we plan for Sue to conduct press interviews with mainstream media and to possibility speak at a local university.

The reason I am contact you is to inquire if you are interested in meeting Sue and gathering with other Wikimedians during her upcoming visit. I plan to arrange a private location with light food and beverages in an open space for attendees to share and meet each other. If you are interested to attend or know other Wikimedia contributors who may be interested in attending please email me at jowen@wikimedia.org.

We hope to have the opportunity to meet you in December.

Regards,

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WikiProject cleanup listing
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Sheikh Zayed Bridge
This article could really use a photo. Does anyone have a camera and live in the area? Many thanks. 06:50, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Higher Colleges of Technology
This article has been subject of an edit-war for what looks like well over a year. I've full-protected it for a month and seek new, external input on the dispute. I've brought it here because the page is part of this Wikiproject. Thanks, &mdash; Scientizzle 13:44, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Ezar
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/sharjah-s-decency-law-takes-effect-today-1.425632 says: "(the 'ezar is the local national male underwear)." (of Sharjah) Do we have an article about this? Does the Arabic Wikipedia have one? WhisperToMe (talk) 19:12, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:United Arab Emirates will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in United Arab Emirates'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) 21:50, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Help re Mahmood al/Al Zarooni
Hi, I'm looking for some advice re the Emirati racehorse trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni - is it correct to capitalize the "Al" in his name? By comparison we have Saeed bin Suroor with no capital. Any advice gratefully received, thank you. --Bcp67 (talk) 18:53, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Aabar
Hello. Could someone from this WikiProject please take a look at the Aabar Investments article. Have been making some edits and added lots of information to it, so maybe it could use a better rating. Any feedback on improvement is appreciated. Thanks! Doge120 (talk) 13:36, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

List of tallest buildings in the United Arab Emirates
Hi, i have edited and added detailed content in "List of tallest buildings in the United Arab Emirates", to make it better for readers, everyone is openly invited to add / suggest their comments on this article, so that we can improve its rating.

Nabil rais2008 (talk) 16:56, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Nader Kadhim
Appeal for Arabic-competent editor's assistance at Template:Did you know nominations/Nader Kadhim. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 01:26, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

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Mukhadram
Can anyone here explain the meaning of "Mukhadram". The word is used by Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum as the name of one of his racehorses.  Tigerboy1966  14:15, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

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)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:38, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Activity
How active is this project? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 13:09, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Gulf Cup of Nations listed at Requested moves
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) 17:12, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

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RfC on election/referendum naming format
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Dhiyab bin Isa Al Nahyan
Can any member please help me improve and expand Dhiyab bin Isa Al Nahyan? Catinthedogs (talk) 06:46, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

That's pretty much all that's known about him. Didn't understand the need for speedy deletion, BTW... Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 09:01, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Category:2017 establishments in Abu Dhabi has been nominated for discussion
Category:2017 establishments in Abu Dhabi, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for merging to Category:2017 establishments in the United Arab Emirates, along with similar merges and deletion for a total of 83 Abu Dhabi categories. 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) 15:08, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Organisation of Emirates
Wikipedia formerly had pages for each of the UAE's emirates under the name of the Emirate, covering both the city and the wider emirate. Someone swung by a few years back and then split these out to two pages 'Emirate (city)' and 'Emirate of (emirate)'.

So we have Sharjah and Emirate of Sharjah, Dubai and Emirate of Dubai. The Sharjah page is weaker than the Emirate page; the Dubai emirate page is weaker than the city page.

The issue with this is that Dubai IS Dubai, city and emirate. They really should be one page. As should Sharjah and Abu Dhabi. Emirate of Fujairah redirects (properly, IMHO) to Fujairah, so does Ras Al Khaimah. Ajman (city) is weaker than Emirate of Ajman.

I'm proposing to merge them back again, so that there is ONE page for Dubai, which would include a section for the wider emirate. And so on for them all, with redirects from Emirate of.

Any views out there? Alexandermcnabb (talk) 10:49, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Because the UAE is fairly small, the emirate and the city is basically the same. I hate that information in the emirate page and the city page interlude. I don't mind the emirate to have its own page, but it shouldn't basically cover the city again. For exmaple, in the emirate of Dubai we can include Hatta (a town which is not in Dubai, but part of the emirate of Dubai) .. same thing goes for Abu Dhabi (Al Ain for example), Sharjah (Kalba, Dibba Al Hisn), Ajman (Sayh Mudayrah), Umm Al Quwain (Falaj Al Mualla), Ras Al Khaimah (Al Jazirah Al Hamra), and Fujairah (Dibba Fujairah). Its basically similar to a city and state. Most people just re-add information about the city of dubai in the Emirate again. That's not how its supposed to be. Wikiemirati (talk) 01:24, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

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Dana Gas draft for review
Hello, I'm Fatima! I am the External Affairs Manager & Investor Relations Officer for Dana Gas, a natural gas company based in Sharjah, UAE. As I've noted at Talk:Dana Gas and on my profile page, I've made a Wikipedia account to represent the company and propose improvements on the company article's discussion page.

I've saved a draft article here for editors to consider. I've outlined issues with the live article and explained my work at Talk:Dana Gas, but so far no editors have updated the page. Thanks in advance to any WikiProject UAE editors willing to help review my request and draft. Fatima at Dana Gas (talk) 05:46, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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Talk:Mohammed_bin_Rashid_Al_Maktoum
Ongoing WP:Rfc on an article tagged as of interest to this project. Please comment there, thanks, Johnbod (talk) 02:30, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

UAE agreement move discussion
See Talk:Israel–United_Arab_Emirates_peace_agreement. Onceinawhile (talk) 09:32, 14 August 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 Emirati women.--Ipigott (talk) 19:15, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

helping in reviewing an article
Hello There,

is there any way that I can ask you to review my article Radhihudijan (talk) 22:49, 29 October 2021 (UTC)?

Requested move at Talk:Geo TV
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Geo TV that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him &#124; talk) 18:44, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
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Wheely
On behalf of Wheely, I've proposed a few improvements on the article's Talk page, one of which is to correct information about the company's operations in Dubai. Might a project member be willing to take a look at the suggested replacement content? Also, more generally, should this article be placed under the umbrella of WikiProject United Arab Emirates and/or WikiProject Dubai? Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 16:04, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikimania 2023 : Singapore, 16-19 August
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