Talk:Al-Nasir Muhammad Mosque

Al-Nasir Muhammad Mosque was a good article, but it was removed from the list as it no longer met the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.
Review: January 5, 2006. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Al-Nasir Muhammad Mosque appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 June 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 1318 Mamluk Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque in Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the 16th century?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/June.

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Is this really a stub? The article would benefit from a picture, as many articles would, but it seems to be perfectly adequate textually. Agentsoo 17:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I guess you are right. — mark ✎ 17:55, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Removed it. — mark ✎ 10:52, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It should be noted that Enclopaedia Britannica's article with the title Qala'un Mosque is completely misleading as pointed out here. — mark ✎ 10:52, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Just one correction, the Qala'un Mosque mentioned in Wikipedia, which is officially termed the Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Mosque, is not the one adjacent to the Qala'un Complex. In fact, the Qala'un Mosque (Mosque of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad) is located in the Cairo Citadel, and the Qala'un Complex is close to Khan el-Khalili within the city. But there is one more mosque of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad, officially termed the Madrasah and Tomb of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad, which is adjacent to the Qala'un Complex. It was initiated by Kitbugha in 1295 and completed by al-Nasir Muhammad in 1304. --Chapultepec (talk) 01:36, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delisted GA because[edit]

This article can use a lot more work. It needs more thoroughness, such as the exact use of the mosque (besides just praying). It is not well-written and needs much more copyediting; just compare this with any other Wikipedia:Good articles. Surely pictures can be included. The entire article is just a description of the mosque; it needs to be better written then that. AndyZ 23:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There was I thinking that articles should be 'just descriptions', but apparently I was wrong. Not being a native speaker, I can't really judge the quality of the English, but I hope someone will come along to do a good copyedit. — mark ✎ 14:36, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Points for revision[edit]

I've just grouped some sections together in a more logical division (description vs history). The "structure" and "visual aspects" sections seem to overlap in terms of theme and information, and should probably be merged in the future.
The "mosque today" section is currently unsourced, but it was once sourced; perhaps this can be rescued. That being said, however, the information seems misleading or subjective (even if it came from that source). e.g.: I have been to this mosque recently and other times before, and it is as frequently visited as the rest of the Citadel (which is a major sight). It's also not quite right to say that it looked essentially as it did in the 1300s: the marble paneling inside the mosque was removed long ago and only restored in one small section; maybe more nuance is needed here to describe the state of its preservation and the outcome of previous restoration efforts.

These are some initial observations; please discuss or add more. (If I have time, I will try to make some revisions myself in the future, if no one else does first.) Cheers. Casual Builder (talk) 17:21, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]