Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yemen/Archive 1

Himyarite capital of Zafar
Missing is an article on the ancient Himyarite capital of Zafar (110 BC-525/545 AD). Much research has been done there since 1998. Pyule87.178.154.23 (talk) 10:57, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Alsalam Alikom All, I would like to join in this project. My name is Mohamed & my wiki username is User:bamakhrama

Can anyone tell me what to do?
 * My best guess would be to go the "Participants" section of the project page and sign up. After that, I'm fairly sure that the other members of the project will contact you.  Actually, I'll add your username myself.Badbilltucker 20:26, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of this post, so thanks Badbilltucker for adding bamakhrama. --Inahet 20:41, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

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Portal:Yemen
Hello, just thought I'd bring to your attention that Aymx has started a Portal:Yemen that could do with some work to get it up to speed. &mdash; Hex    (❝  ?!  ❞)   15:54, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Bilateral relations discussion
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Its nice to have NON-Yemenites in the Wiki project, BUT!
A Yemenite Muslim or Jew or Christian Yemeni (Ghassani) from Lebanon/Syria Or even better a non biased NON yemenite student/scholar. will have respect for his or (The Yemenite) Semitic past, but a certain member in this project is disrespecting our culture, which was the main reason. Many Yemenites don't want to join the group.

Why would a Yemeni deny that Yemen i "Asl Al Arab" thats every Yemenites pride. and only an Anti-Yemenite will try to down play the origin of Yemenis. --Skatewalk 22:35, 9 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm not Yemeni, but how am I anti-Yemenite? My views are based on those of historians. The Yemenis are descended mainly from the Sabaeans, Minaeans, Hadramis, Himyarites, and Qatabanians, not Arabs, who came onto the scene later. While in Arab tradition Yemen is often thought to be the original homeland of the original Qahtanite Arabs, evidence of Arabs (through early forms of the Arabic language) are found further north in Central and Northern Arabia, in what is now Saudi Arabia, not in Yemen. Many Ethiopians believe that they're the offspring of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, but this does not make it true. We have to distinguish between history and legend. It's fine to incorporate both on Wikipedia, as both are notable, but we have to state which is which. &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 05:22, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Wrong, if you know anything about Yemenihistory, you will know that Saba, Minaeans, Hadramis, Himyaris.. ancestory goes to Qahtan! Did you even read teh basic history of Yemen by Al Hamdani? Are the Lebanese and Syrian Christians are just idiots by claiming Arab pure origin through Qahtan! Teh adnan arabs came from? Qahtani tribe Jarham. I read your contributions and you might not think you are Anti Yemeni. Bt you are saying the Arabs came later! The Arabs never came to Yemen! They originated from Yemen thats basic knowledge. I strongly disagree with many of your edits I saw (afrocentric), but thats not my interest. And I think Afrocentrics should balance off Eurocentrics. However, Yemen is not Egypt or the Tigray region its the core of the Arabs and Anti Yemeni edits will not be accepted. If you can respect something as basic the Arab Qahtani identity of Yemen (existed as far the time of Abraham, becaus Jurhum adopted Ishmael! thats around 2000BC), if you cant respect that. I am asking you politely to kep your hands off our history. --Skatewalk 09:47, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Project banner
Hey folks; hope you don't mind, but I expanded your project banner to include some more parameters. If you don't like, feel free to revert. (:  Bl a  st  [ improve me ] 13.06.07 0935 (UTC)

Incense Road
The article would benefit if someone versed in the history of Yemen would rate the article on the importance scale. Best Wishes, Havelock the Dane  21:53, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Assessment page needs to be updated
Someone has been using the assessment page for comments. I added a brief header but WikiProject Yemen/Assessment needs to be updated and linked to the appropriate pages. Currently, it appears as a link to the project template on all tagged talk pages. &mdash;Viriditas | Talk 10:17, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

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coordinates of Al Ghaydah
Are there two different places named Al Ghaydah in Yemen ? geonames.org gives these two different coordinates (links go to OpenStreetMap): --katpatuka (talk) 10:37, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 14.9111111E 49.9922222N and
 * 16.2166667N 52.1833333E

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Truce term
Can anybody help me please with what Yemen children use as a truce term. A truce term is a word used to call a temporary halt to a game for respite for something like discussing the rules or tying a shoelace etc? Fainites barley scribs 21:24, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
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Unreferenced living people articles bot
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Yemen articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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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:Yemen will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Yemen'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)

Adan or Aden?
I looked at an article on Socotra and found references to 'Adan Governorate' and 'Adan' which I am used to seeing written 'Aden'. I found the Wikipedia article 'Adan Governorate' but everywhere else I searched it seems to be called the Aden Governorate. Is this is a simple case of mis-spelling or is there a reason for spelling it 'Adan'? if so I think this should be mentioned in the text as I think most, like me, will assume a spelling mistake...

Bcoxhead (talk) 21:42, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Yemen at the 2010 Asian Games


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Suggested article split for the Imams
Hey, I started a discussion at Talk:Imams of Yemen about possibly splitting that article. I was hoping to get some community feedback on it. MezzoMezzo (talk) 04:18, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

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Government of South Yemen
Looking for input in an ongoing debate as to what the system of government in the country infobox should read. JamesBay (talk) 01:43, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

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Raidah and Raydah
I am asking for help with the articles Raidah (a disambiguation page) and Raydah (a town in Yemen). I think that Raydah may also be the name of a political subdivision bigger than the town. There may also be other places in Yemen with the same name.

For the town, the corresponding article in the Arabic Wikipedia is

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9_(%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%86)

I copied the Arabic name in Raydah from a U.S. government website, but it does not seem to be the same as the name in the Arabic Wikipedia. If the name in the article is wrong, could you please fix it?

As well, if you can expand the article and the one in the Arabic Wikipedia, that would also be helpful.

If anything is wrong with the disambiguation page, or you feel that something should be added to it, please make whatever changes seem necessary there. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 14:51, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Skhug listed at Requested moves
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Add Yemen portal to Category:Populated places in Yemen articles
Hi, i want to add Yemen portal to Category:Populated places in Yemen articles by JarBot and i ask for approval.--جار الله (talk) 00:48, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Village articles
Hello. Should ALshgb, Mawiyah and Alrkph, Mawiyah be renamed? I can't find the names or anything similar online, even in a useful searchable map. The articles have interwiki links to Arabic and Persian WP which may help, but I don't read those languages. There may be other articles in a similar position - I can have a more thorough look through the categories once we know the situation with these two. Thanks, Certes (talk) 19:47, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

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