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Name change on Ahmad Wali Karzai
Hi. The correct spelling is Ahmad. [1] --AlimNaz (talk) 19:05, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Mohammad/Mohammed
لا أفهم, من أين جئت بالنطق الغريب لمحمد و أحمد, بكسر الحرف قبل الأخير؟ هذا ليس نطق عربى ولا ينطقه هكذا حتى من يتحدث لغات عامية عربية. أرجو أن تجاوبنى بالعربية.
If you look at the "Vowels" section on "IPA for Arabic" you will see the IPA "e" as in pet for the sound of the letter "e". محمد is transliterated commonly in English text as "Muhammad" or "Mohammed/Mohamed".
There isn't just one pronunciation in Arabic or English, the final vowel in English could be the listed "ə" or "ɛ" also.
And in Arabic also, the "e" pet sound in the final vowel is highly common so I can't see why you can't accept this as an Arabic pronunciation, it matches up letter by letter in the Arabic IPA.
I don't think one can argue any Arabic implied vowel as just an "a" pat sound. John Cengiztalk 03:06, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
لقد أثبت لى أنك لا تعلم شىء فى اللغة العربية ولا تفهم ما الهدف من الألف باء الصوتية الدولية :) التحريفات يجب أن تتماشا مع الجدول لكن ليس عشوائيا. [mɑħɪmmʊd]. كل هذه الصوائت موجودة فى الجدول, لكن هذا ليس نطق فى اللغة العربية أو فى اللهجات المحكية.
I totally understand your reason behind your Arabic statements. I really do, but please avoid writing Arabic-only on the EN Wiki for the community to be able to follow. Btw, I love the "مصرى زى اللبلب" on your userpage. I love the way how Egyptians mix English and Arabic terms :p
I agree with you Mahmud, as I haven't also heard it. I haven't been to much Arabic countries, but I've met almost all nationalities elsewhere. Can you please bring a source for your claim John? Thanks you both ~ AdvertAdam talk 23:08, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi JohnCengiz77! Could you possibly add this Arabic name means? I'm thinking of Al-Masri... and Yılmaz and Deniz (given name). On a bit of a tangent, I can't for the life of me remember what the Turkish name that means "star" is.--Shirt58 (talk) 09:12, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
That would be an interesting ménage à trois, although I'm not sure on the etymology of Mzali, other than it is similar to names such as Mzoughi and Mzoudi. They are possibly names relating to a place where the bearer is from. John Cengiztalk 09:49, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
Al-Fayed
Both the Bower biography and the BBC profile assert that the "al-" was added in the 1970s. Bowers biography provides more details. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 16:05, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Do you know how ridiculous "which was said to have afforded him importance in the Arab world" sounds, when "Al-" is a part of the majority of Arabic family names. Often when written in English, the "Al-" bit may be ignored or deleted (Saad Hariri, Muammar Gaddafi), and just the family name itself kept, or it may be returned if the bearer feels like it, without the English press thinking you're a "phony" for adding some "title". John Cengiztalk 16:16, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Why would one decide to use the "al-" or not? Why did you move the "Fayed" diambig page? There are other pages on Arab surnames, like Gaddafi, without the "al-" prefix. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 16:25, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
I moved the page because more people have the name on Wikipedia with the "Al-", so it is more fitting. Maybe Mohamed did not have a choice as to who would transliterate his name when he moved to an English speaking country, and added it back himself, plus he has the option as other Arabs do - to use it or not, the English press clearly have no clue about Arabic and only attack him about the "Al-", there's oodles of others they could call "phony". John Cengiztalk 16:37, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
I understand you now. I am just wary of his name changes, seeing that he called himself as Sheikh in Haiti. His missives to Max Hastings reflect, I think the importance he places on this. I do of course respect his choice of name. There are certain well respected newspapers that still refuse to call him "Al-Fayed", something I disagree with. Keep up your great work on Arabic names. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 17:45, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Aziz
Hello,
I have reinstated the bodybuilder/internet celebrity, Aziz Shavershian, into the Aziz article. You had previously reverted it due to notability concerns, when clearly in it's article, it is shown otherwise. If you have any issues, take it up with myself, or at the talk page. Thank You -- MelbourneStar☆(talk to me) 04:55, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
The Aziz Shavershian article was created on 17 August 2011, I last edited the Aziz article on 11 August 2011, so at the time of my editing he would not have been notable. John Cengiztalk 05:04, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Right, sorry if I sounded a little harsh above. If sources are needed to coroborate his notability in the Aziz article, I'll be more than willing happy to provide. Thank you for your time :) -- MelbourneStar☆(talk to me) 05:09, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
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Given name / Surname templates
Hello, JohnCengiz77. You seem to have the page Chadi well in hand, but I just wanted to point to the documentation for Template:Given name and Template:Surname. In particular, the templates should be placed at the bottom of the page. You may also want to think about whether or not the page is intended to be a disambiguation page, in which case either {{Hndis}} or {{Disambig|given name}} may be appropriate. Happy editing, Cnilep (talk) 03:21, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Aladdin
Would appreciate an answer to the point - this is an article about a fairy story that happens to have an Arabic name rather than an article about that name - in this context its pronunciation in Arabic seems unconnected to the matter in hand. This seems much more like common sense than the sort of thing likely to be covered by a rule. Sorry if this idea seems single minded, just that you won't say what is wrong with it. As I've said more than once - no objection to whatsoever to a point about the arabic pronunciation at a more appropriate point - like say in the article about the name, or the disambiguation page. And I'm more than ready to admit myself wrong - if you can convince me by something other than just "reverting the reversion". --Soundofmusicals (talk) 04:43, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Cut and paste moves
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If there was a discussion as to whether to rename this article can you point to where I can read it?
If there wasn't a prior discussion would it be possible for you to explain why you thought the transliteration you chose was superior to other transliterations?
Unfortunately, Arabic is not like Chinese. With Chinese there are standard transliteration schemes for transliterating Chinese into latin characters. I am old enough to remember when Wade-Giles was always used when transliterating into English. But just about everyone uses Pinyin scheme now. But there is no standard for transliterating Arabic to English.
It can be frustrating. Personally I think the best approach for us is to try to be consistent. Al Shehry has several relatives who we also cover. An argument could be made that we should use the same transliteration for all of them. But which of the dozen or more choices should we use?
Can I trust that you are also interested in working towards consistent transliterations? Geo Swan (talk) 07:11, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Well, the names "Gaithan Mureef" didn't belong in the title. The Bani Shehr tribe of Saudi Arabia use a standardized spelling of Shehri for members. This is the spelling used in most articles I found about Abdul Salam. The article receives so few views and is needing some attention I decided to move the page.
There are several Guantanamo prisoners pages with half a dozen other names in the title which don't belong there, once I deleted the word "Hyacinth" out an inmates title. A lot of these pages lack effort on them so I enjoy working on them, and working towards consistent transliterations. John Cengiztalk 03:32, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
I have picked up enough familiarity with Arabic names to know it is quite complicated, and that I have only scratched the surface. If you know more about this topic, then please share your knowledge with the rest of us.
WRT consistency, Consistency, among all your edits, while admirable, is not going to be as much help, I suggest, as working with others to make sure the edits of all these related articles are done consistently.
Can you explain how you know that "Gaithan Mureef" doesn't belong in this individual's name?
There was another contributor who I had a lot of disagreements with, who was permanently blocked a few months ago for various policy violations unrelated to his conflicts with me, who wanted to always use the transliteration chosen by the New York Times. While I really admire the NYT's efforts I was not convinced by his assertion that their choice of names was informed by experts in Arabic naming. The NYT's never claimed this. I think they were merely doing their best to be consistent.
I asked this other contributor where they stood on captives who claimed the DoD's official name for them wasn't their actual name, wasn't close to their actual name. The NYT's was inconsisten on this, sometimes using the captive's own version of their name, sometimes using the version supplied by the DoD.
I tried to get this difficult contributor to discuss the common issues in choosing whether or not to rename articles on Guantanamo captives in one location. He was totally unwilling to discuss this.
I hope I have convinced you that discussion is necessary, even if you have the true word, if only so less informed individuals aren't tempted to revert your changes, because they don't understand them.
Give me a little while and I will try to find those attempts.
WRT Hyacinth -- (1) so that wouldn't be credible? (2) maybe it slipped in via vandalism? The DoD had an "emdash" as a component of one guys name. Of course an "emdash" is a typographic term, and could have slipped into the name when a file with typographic commands in it was inexpertly converted to plaintext. Another guy was named "adbul" -- not "abdul".
Ahcene Zemiri comes from an Arabic country that had once been a colony of Spain. So initial reports of him used a francophone based transliteration. It took me over a year to realize he was the guy the DoD called Hassan Zumiri.
You probably know the DoD uses non-standard transliterations. Usama bin Laden, for instance.
Abd Al Salam Ghaytan Murayyif Al Zaydani Al Shihri
Abdul Salam Ghetan
Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 04:12, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
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European Market Infrastructure Regulation – EMIR
John, I see you did not like the redirect. Take a look now and see if you can live with that. I gave Emir as the title top billing.
Rick --Rick (talk) 02:17, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
"EMIR" is an acronym and has little confusion with the title "Emir", "EMIR" redirects to the only acronym that uses it.
John - I see you removed the reference to EMIR from the Emir page. This is a challenge as people who enter emir seeking EMIR land on the Emir page an there is no xref. What would you think of emir going to a disambig? Is the any reason you want users looking to land on EMIR to land confused on Emir? Very different audiences. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.199.61.220 (talk) 13:02, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
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Zakariya
Hi, I am minded to reverse your work expanding the page Zakariya, as the people you added do not seem to be known by the name Zakariya alone – see MOS:DABNAME. Any objection? – Fayenatic L(talk) 00:29, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
There's other guidelines that show that middle names may also be listed, there are countless name pages with people with the middle name listed; and or a separate middle name section added.
As for my other work in that edit, they are all positive contributions that expand the article. John Cengiztalk 01:48, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
I apologise, as I see it has since been made into a name page rather than disambiguation. I initially thought it was better to include Zakaria, Zakariya and Zakariyya in the lists of names at Zechariah (given name) and Zacharias (surname), but taking these spellings together I now agree that they do justify a separate page, so I will help to split the relevant content from these and tidy up the many redirects.
By the way, are you sure that all the last names are surnames? North African and South Asian names are often cited either way round, and I think Zakariya was a given name rather than family name for Baha-ud-din Zakariya. I suggest combining the lists into one as "People with this name". – Fayenatic L(talk) 11:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
In Indian, Pakistani, and Arab cultures the surname may be just the last given name. In the English context, it is treated as a surname in every respect, and as such with every other Arab name page the surnames are listed separately. Possibly Baha-ud-din Zakariya is quite a rare example, if that is the individual's accepted given name, and what they are always called in full - it may be listed on the given name section. John Cengiztalk 05:16, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
I've done some more work on the page, splitting the list by historical era, and just separating surnames in modern times which sidesteps the above. There are more entries in Special:PrefixIndex/Zakari which you could add if you like. – Fayenatic L(talk) 08:16, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your work expanding that article, it is looking quite thorough. John Cengiztalk 02:15, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi. I have reverted Yasmine Niazy as there appears to be no WP:RS evidence for the spelling to which you moved the BLP. Feel free to comment on the Talk page if there's a reason for this move. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:16, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
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