Talk:Aynaba

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Magaalada caynaba waxay soo martay taariikho iyo mahadhooyin badan oo aan laga gayooneyn. Laga soo bilaabo hilaadii boqortooyadii kite fiqi Yuusuf ilaa hadda waxay kujirtaa meelaha lagu xusi karo taariikh marka laga soo hadal qaado gogol ahaan sardar.

Ancient temple

Could you guys share a source for these ancient temple ruins that are supposed to be around the town? Otherwise, I suggest we remove the "ancient ruins" text. Awale-Abdi (talk) 01:24, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 29 September 2019

change '</refb>` to '</ref>' Desb42 (talk) 12:40, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

 Done thanks! aboideau^talk 12:56, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Aynaba

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Aynaba's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "auto":

• From Somaliland: Lansford, Tom (2015-03-24). Political Handbook of the World 2015. CQ Press. ISBN 9781483371559.
• From Salaan Carrabey: Galaal, Musa H.I; Andrzejewski, B.W (1963). Journal of African languages A Somali Poetic Combat - III. Macmillan. pp. 190–205.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 19:16, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Poetry

This article is about a city, so I've again removed the full text of a poem about the results of a battle fought over a feature of the city. A link ot the author's article for this poem is more than enough coverage, per WP:WEIGHT; there's certainly no reason to repoduce the text and translation of the poem fully here. -- Mikeblas (talk) 00:23, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

WP:WEIGHT refers to minority views, which this is not. The full text of the poem details the overall conflict between two tribes that clashed in Aynaba along with many different localities nearby. This is a key event that occured not only in Aynaba but also in eastern Somaliland and should therefore be kept in there.

One thing to note is that wells in Somali societies are not just a "feature" but is rather the main centre of towns. Towns arise from wells and towns are often conflated with the very well they're built nearby.

Overall, I see no reason for the text to be removed given that there are also many cases of poems and other long texts that sre reproduced in several other articles. Dabaqabad (talk) 13:48, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Oop! Sorry, I meant WP:PROPORTION. I'm not trying to fix any other articles, just this one. I'm sure we can find other articles that have unreferenced, original research -- that doesn't mean we should feel free to add unreferenced, original research to any other article.

The link to the article is more than enough; there, the poem and its author can be given all the detail they need. -- Mikeblas (talk) 18:38, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Just read up on WP:PROPORTION and it appears you're right. I'll make sure to think about this in the future. Dabaqabad (talk) 20:41, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. I think that's the right choice. -- Mikeblas (talk) 23:01, 21 May 2021 (UTC)