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Middle East
Maybe should be renamed to Wikiproject Middle East most of the countries in scope are better known in mainstream media as Middle East. Turkey and Lebanon should be moved to WP:Eurasia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.230.112.13 (talk) 04:49, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Ancient Arabic units of measurement
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Israel FAR
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Asian Games by country articles
FYI, several Asiad related articles have been prodded for deletion on March 23, see WP:PRODSUM for that day.

76.66.194.32 (talk) 04:39, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


 * They have all ended up for deletion at AfD, see Articles for deletion/Log/2010 March 25
 * 76.66.194.32 (talk) 04:39, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Southwest Asian countries
Category:Southwest Asian countries,, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. -- Black Falcon (talk) 21:52, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Regions of the Middle East
Regions of the Middle East has been sent for deletion at WP:PROD 76.66.193.90 (talk) 06:38, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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Portal:Roads
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The use of barley in cuisine
I have a quote that the grain barley is not much used in food except in the Middle east, yet I didn't see much mention in the cuisine articles. I figured I'd ask here, if anyone was familiar with the uses of barley in any western asian/middle eastern cuisine, adding it to the Barley section of the barley article would be highly appreciated. Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:17, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes that's correct, Barley is used in Western Asian/Middle Eastern dishes. It goes back to the Ancient Iraqis/Mesopotamians (who first cultivated the grain). Izzedine (talk) 15:52, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Rename Southwest Asia to Western Asia
Please share your views here. Izzedine (talk) 14:00, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Ancient Arabic units of measurement
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Israel FAR
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Asian Games by country articles
FYI, several Asiad related articles have been prodded for deletion on March 23, see WP:PRODSUM for that day.

76.66.194.32 (talk) 04:39, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


 * They have all ended up for deletion at AfD, see Articles for deletion/Log/2010 March 25
 * 76.66.194.32 (talk) 04:39, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Southwest Asian countries
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Proposed move: Foreign relations of Palestine
It has been proposed that Foreign relations of the Palestinian National Authority be renamed and moved to Foreign relations of Palestine. Please see the move discussion here. Alinor (talk) 06:45, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Discussion closed and then re-opened again from scratch at Talk:Foreign_relations_of_the_Palestinian_National_Authority Alinor (talk) 06:36, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Portal:Ras al-Khaimah
Portal:Ras al-Khaimah has been nominated for deletion. 184.144.166.87 (talk) 06:44, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

FAR
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WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Western Asia will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Western Asia'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) 21:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Perth requested-move notification
A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation), which proposes to move:
 * Perth → Perth, Western Australia
 * Perth, Scotland → Perth, Perthshire
 * Perth (disambiguation) → Perth

Background: There was a previous requested-move survey which ran from late May to mid June. There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the closure and subsequent events, which involved a number of reverts and re-reverts which are the subject of an ongoing arbitration case. There was a move review process, which was closed with a finding that the original requested-move closure was endorsed; however, the move review process is relatively new and untried. — P.T. Aufrette (talk) 03:24, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Palestinian Authority issue
Users are welcome to express their opinion on a reformulated discussion Talk:Palestinian National Authority. Thank you.Greyshark09 (talk) 21:37, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Palestine at Asia topic
An ongoing discussion at Asia topic template talk page is proposing to change the redirection target of "Palestine" from "Palestinian territories" to "State of Palestine" at Template:Asia topic. Thank you.Greyshark09 (talk) 13:57, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Culture of Asia
Culture of Asia has been requested to be renamed, see talk:Culture of Asia -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 05:23, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Category discussion
Input welcome at this discussion Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_May_28. --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 05:08, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

AjmanMen-Arabia.jpeg
image:AjmanMen-Arabia.jpeg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 07:56, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

RedSea.jpg
image:RedSea.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 06:44, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

CanaaniteRelief.jpg
image:CanaaniteRelief.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:49, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries of Western Asia
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:24, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries bordering the Persian Gulf
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:43, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries and territories of the Mediterranean Sea
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:43, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries bordering the Caspian Sea
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:51, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries bordering the Black Sea
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:51, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries bordering the Red Sea
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:57, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries bordering the Arabian Sea
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 11:04, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries and territories bordering the Indian Ocean
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 11:09, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Turkic Council
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 01:42, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

GCC
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 00:55, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Discussion regarding renaming Category:African_people_of_Arab_descent and four other categories
You are invited to join the discussion at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_December_4. __ E L A Q U E A T E  01:12, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

CfDs
See my three CfDs related to Israel/Palestine historical cats at Categories for discussion/Log/2014 February 9. trespassers william (talk) 21:54, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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Rinse Use October 99 Percents ———————————————— 22 FT — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.48.100.216 (talk) 00:32, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

GA Class Review of the United Arab Emirates
Can someone please reassess the United Arab Emirates article. I believe it has geatly improved, and deserves a review. -- MoHasanie Talk  13:10, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Missing task forces - propose creation for categorization purposes
Seems this project is affected by the same issue as the Central Asia project. Please see my argument and proposal here. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:19, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

New project
Please note that WikiProject Asia is now up and running SatuSuro 09:12, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Experienced editors with specialist regional knowledge urgently wanted
The Arbitration Committee is seeking to appoint additional people to the CheckUser and Oversight teams, in particular people with specialist knowledge.


 * Because of increasing activity in the South Asian, Southeast Asian, or Middle Eastern regions, CheckUser applications are particularly sought from people who not only meet our general requirements but also are familiar with the ISPs and typical editing patterns of any of these regions.

Successful candidates are likely to be regularly available and already familiar with local and global processes, policies, and guidelines especially those concerning CheckUser and Oversight. CheckUser candidates are expected to be technically proficient, and previous experience with OTRS is beneficial for Oversight candidates. All candidates must at least 18 years of age; have attained legal majority in their jurisdiction of residence; and be willing to identify to the Wikimedia Foundation prior to receiving permissions. If you think you may be suitably qualified, please see the appointments page for further information. The application period is scheduled to close 18 September 2011. Roger Davies talk 15:48, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

New 'Women in the Arab Spring' article
I'm planning on writing a new 'Women in the Arab Spring' article as part of my Poverty, Gender and Human Development course at Rice University. I will add the page to this WikiProject because the Arab Spring represents a major change in many countries of Western Asia. The topic of women in the Arab Spring is not currently discussed in the Arab Spring article or anywhere else on Wikipedia. I plan to cover the role of women before, during, and after the Arab Spring with my article (see the Arab Spring talk page for details) and would greatly appreciate any feedback on my plans. Thanks! Nadhika99 (talk) 06:53, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Categorizing descent
Hey, WikiProject, I work on categorizing articles and categories on Wikipedia and today delved into the field of categories involving "people of Asian descent". The work has brought up a couple of contentious issues but I'm posting here because I have a question of nomenclature.

WP has Category:American people of Southwest Asian descent and Category:American people of Middle Eastern descent and not only are the contents for the two categories close to being identical, the categories are cross-posted. Think of categories as a family tree with parent categories and child or subcategories that are placed in the parent category. It causes confusion to have two categories both listed of parents to each other.

Now, I come to WikiProject Western Asia to see if there is a preferred choice for nomenclature and discover that here it is identified as "Western Asia". Enter a third option.

So tell me, if we are discussing Iraqis, Israelis, Kurds, Azerbaijanis, Turks, etc. is the proper identification Middle Eastern, Southwest Asia or Western Asia? Thanks so much for your help! Liz Read! Talk! 21:44, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Two articles on the Middle East/Islamic world and LGBT attitudes
Hi! I found some articles by Georg Klauda on LGBT attitudes and the Islamic world. They talk about how anti-LGBT attitudes were not always the norm (previously Europe was homophobic and Europeans went to the Middle East and had homosexual experiences there), but that the anti-LGBT attitudes came to the Middle East when "gays/homosexuals" were made into an identity group.
 * Klauda, Georg. "With Islamophobia against Homophobia?" (Archive). MRZine, Monthly Review. 12/11/07. Originally published in German in: Arranca! 37 (October 2007).
 * Klauda, Georg (English translation by Angelus Novus). "Globalizing Homophobia" (Archive). MRZine, Monthly Review. 08.12.10. Previous version appeared in Phase 2 No. 10 (December 2003). Also published as the first chapter of Die Vertreibung aus dem Serail: Europa und die Heteronormalisierung der islamischen Welt (Berlin: Männerschwarm-Verlag, 2008).

Also if anyone edits on the Arabic Wikipedia, these articles need to be posted to the appropriate articles there, with text used from these sources translated into Arabic within the citations (to show what was cited) WhisperToMe (talk) 14:46, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
I created Category:Western Asia articles needing expert attention for making Category:Ottoman Empire articles needing expert attention a child of it. Category:Western Asia articles needing expert attention will maybe be populated in the future, and might be of interest to your WikiProject. Iceblock (talk) 02:20, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

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Middle East
Maybe should be renamed to Wikiproject Middle East most of the countries in scope are better known in mainstream media as Middle East. Turkey and Lebanon should be moved to WP:Eurasia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.230.112.13 (talk) 04:49, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Why not use the term MENA - Middle East and North Africa since most articles and countries fit within that regional scope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MENA

Vincentbarnhard (talk) 15:47, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Proposed article move from Syro-Palestinian archaeology to Levantine archaeology
There is a proposal to move from Syro-Palestinian archaeology to Levantine archaeology here and to create separate pages for Archaeology of Syria and Archaeology of Palestine. Your opinions would be welcome, thanks! Drsmoo (talk) 06:37, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Islamic State (ISIS)
Hello, This WikiProject was recently created and I'm trying to determine if there is any level of interest in it. Right now, this WikiProject consists of just one editor. I'm notifying several related WikiProjects in order to gauge whether there is sufficient interest in this one that it should be allowed to grow or be deleted. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 17:09, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

"Palestine"
The usage and primary topic of is under discussion, see talk:Palestine (disambiguation) -- 67.70.32.190 (talk) 04:17, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

"Caravan"
The usage and primary topic of is under discussion, see talk:travel trailer -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 05:24, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:37, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Images of threatened/destroyed cultural heritage in Syria


Dear everybody,

Through a partnership between Wikimedia Sverige, Wikimedia Italia and Gruppo Archeologico Romano (GAR) a batch upload of 442 images of cultural heritage in Syria have recently been added to Wikimedia Commons. I am very happy that we can now share these images with the world as they depict objects and places that have been damaged or completely destroyed during the war in Syria.

To increase the value of this collection we hope that you can assist us with the following (it will help to encourage more image releases such as this in the future):
 * 1) With adding the images in the category to different suitable Wikipedia articles. This is a new collection and many articles would benefit from images being added that show the object or a specific detail. The more views the images get, the happier the GLAM institutions usually are. It make it easier for staff members to convince their boards to release more media files later on.
 * 2) Translations of two templates used on Wikimedia Commons into as many languages as possible: Template:Connected Open Heritage and Template:Gruppo Archeologico Romano cooperation project. This task only take a few minutes but is of great value.

Please help spread the word!

Best,

John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 13:19, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge
Everyone is invited to the WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge. The editathon aims to create or improve 10,000 articles related to Asia. Pratyush (talk) 18:09, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

MEMRI
Hello.

I am posting here to ask members of this community to help me improve the Middle East Media Research Institute page. I work for the organization and have been tasked with representing it on Wikipedia. The page is out-of-date and biased, so I made this account to submit recommendations for updates, which I've done on the talk page. My last message contained a new draft for the "Projects" section for editors to use to better the article. There's been a very brief discussion about it, but I'd like some other points of view. Thank you. R at MEMRI (talk) 19:43, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

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Was the removal of content about Arab/Levantine passengers from the Titanic justified?
Please see this talk page section Talk:Passengers_of_the_RMS_Titanic on whether the removal of content about Arab/Levantine passengers from the Titanic justified. In particular: is it necessary that information on the demographic makeup of the Levantine/Arab passengers come from a formal historian, or would an Al Arabiya news article be enough?

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 05:22, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Nadya Labi article keeps getting removed from LGBT in the Middle East
This article by Nadya Labi about homosexuality in Saudi Arabia keeps getting removed from the further reading section of LGBT in the Middle East by anonymous IPs. I suspect the removals have no factual argument/merit as the IPs never say why they're removing the article. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:44, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Photos of Syria on Wikimedia Commons
For years, Syria has been the scene of a bloody civil war resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, and the destruction of entire cities. The recent image donation by the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (the National Museum of World Cultures) in the Netherlands shows another Syria. Many of these photos were taken in the 1980s and show scenes of daily life and images and cities not yet devastated by war. Other images show objects from the collection of the museum. Together, they form a valuable resource on Syria for the various Wikimedia projects. The upload consists of 352 photos in total and can be accessed here. It coincides with a photo exhibition in the NMvW on Aleppo. The upload was part of the project The Netherlands and the World, which aims to make accessible Dutch collections on non-European heritage. Kind regards, --AWossink (talk) 10:51, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
 * This is an excellent contribution! I wonder if there's somebody who can add Arabic descriptions to the images. If needed I can hook you up to potential ARwiki contributors who may know somebody who is interested. WhisperToMe (talk) 10:53, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Ezidkhan
I've raised an original research issue about this at WP:NORN. Doug Weller talk 12:45, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Ali Bin Said Bin Smaikh Break Al owair Al-Marri
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Ali Bin Said Bin Smaikh Break Al owair Al-Marri. James (talk/contribs) 10:14, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Western_Asia

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.&mdash; Rod talk 20:01, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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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  11:02, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Turkish people
Dear wikipedians, for the last two years now, I have seen the Turkish people article in a complete mess. It is time for the nationalist nonsense to stop (whether pan-Turkish or anti-Turkish). Are there any wikipedians willing to help me write-up an objective article? O.celebi (talk) 17:41, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

RfC
Please see Reliable_sources/Noticeboard Jytdog (talk) 17:04, 9 September 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)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Azerbaijan for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Azerbaijan 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:Azerbaijan 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 10:25, 8 May 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)

Discussion of "The Kingdom in the Closet" from The Atlantic on the reliable sources noticeboard
The reliability of "The Kingdom in the Closet", by Nadya Labi from The Atlantic, is being discussed on the reliable sources noticeboard. This article was previously cited in the LGBT in the Middle East article. If you're interested, please participate at. —  Newslinger  talk   00:11, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Armenia for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Armenia 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:Armenia 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 06:50, 1 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) 04:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Make WikiProject Ottoman Empire 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 much of this region was formerly under Ottoman rule) and several other projects to get further feedback. Please let me know if you have questions, comments, or objections.

Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 01:59, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

FAR for Istanbul
I have nominated Istanbul 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 "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. (t · c)  buidhe  04:10, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

RFC on whether Ottoman capital city should be referred to as "Constantinople" or "Istanbul"
Please see this request for comment on whether Ottoman capital city should be referred to as "Constantinople" or "Istanbul": Talk:History_of_Istanbul WhisperToMe (talk) 15:08, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

RFC on Nagorno-Karabakh War
A Request for Comments is in progress on identifying the belligerents and non-state actors in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_war#RFC_on_Infobox_(Listing_of_Parties) --Armatura (talk) 22:20, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Splitting discussion for Rayan
An article that been involved with (Rayan) has content that is proposed to be removed and moved to another article (Rayan (disambiguation)). If you are interested, please visit the discussion. Thank you. Cnilep (talk) 07:17, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Idea: Make WikiProject Qatar a task force of Western Asia?
WikiProject Qatar is inactive. Maybe make it a task force of this project? WhisperToMe (talk) 16:50, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol

 * New Page Patrol needs experienced volunteers
 * New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles, including Western Asia related articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
 * Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines ; Wikipedia needs experienced users to perform this task and there are precious few with the appropriate skills. Even a couple reviews a day can make a huge difference.
 * If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions and review our instructions page. You can apply for the user-right HERE. --John B123 (talk) 14:58, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

"Zangezur Corridor" deletion
There is an interesting discussion on deletion of Zangezur Corridor article, relevant Armenia-Azerbaijan topic. Members of this Wikiproject are very welcome to participate in the constructive discussion and diversify it. Thanks. --Armatura (talk) 13:57, 26 May 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 (☎</b>) 15:40, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Oriental studies § Proposed merge of Asian studies with Oriental studies
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Oriental studies § Proposed merge of Asian studies with Oriental studies. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 18:13, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Levantine Arabic FAC
Levantine Arabic is a FAC and any review would be more than welcome. A455bcd9 (talk) 10:14, 28 March 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)

FAR notice - First Nagorno-Karabakh War
I have nominated First Nagorno-Karabakh War 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 "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Cinderella157 (talk) 08:13, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Feedback requested for Draft:Democracy in Iraq
I've started a draft on democracy in Iraq and would appreciate any feedback! –– FormalDude  (talk)  04:36, 21 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)