User talk:Maxim Mansour
Wadi al-Uyun
[edit]Hi Maxim, welcome to Wikipedia! You are free to edit articles, but please keep in mind some of the important guidelines including WP:NPOV, WP:VERIFY, WP:CITE and WP:Edit war. In particular, please stop removing organized and sourced material from Wadi al-Uyun and replacing it with unsourced and disorganized material. I am going to restore the article to its previous state, while keeping and copyediting some of the other material you added. If you have any questions, you could drop a message to my talk page. Cheers! --Al Ameer son (talk) 04:37, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
- Please stop reverting my restorations, see WP:Edit war. If you continue to revert you will blocked and the article will possibly come under protection. --Al Ameer son (talk) 04:45, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for making that important clarification. The main problem with your edits was that you removed sourced material without explanation. Now that you've made things clear, I've removed all material relating to Ayun al-Wadi including the Christian inhabitants claim. However, we do need a source to say that the village is Muslim. I'll move the article to Wadi al-Uyun since it appears to be the more common spelling and more in line with WP:MOS-ARabic. The list of villages in the nahiyah of Wadi al-Uyun seems unnecessary, but I'll restore it since the information is backed by a reliable source. Facebook is not a reliable source though. Information on the elevation of the town and the distances from all of Syria's major cities is fine, and won't be removed but if there's a source that would be better. Salam, --Al Ameer son (talk) 05:38, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
- Salam, the reference to the Blood Rock incident of 1832 is page 277 of this book by Matti Moosa: [1]. Further information is found in Jacquot, L'Etat des Alouites page 15 and al-Tawil, Tarikh al-Alawiyyin page 451. It's possible the incident happened in the valley instead of the village itself.
- You cannot add information from personal knowledge. See WP:Original research and WP:Verify.
- However, Arabic sources are more than fine. If you have any, then you could use them. --Al Ameer son (talk) 00:30, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for making that important clarification. The main problem with your edits was that you removed sourced material without explanation. Now that you've made things clear, I've removed all material relating to Ayun al-Wadi including the Christian inhabitants claim. However, we do need a source to say that the village is Muslim. I'll move the article to Wadi al-Uyun since it appears to be the more common spelling and more in line with WP:MOS-ARabic. The list of villages in the nahiyah of Wadi al-Uyun seems unnecessary, but I'll restore it since the information is backed by a reliable source. Facebook is not a reliable source though. Information on the elevation of the town and the distances from all of Syria's major cities is fine, and won't be removed but if there's a source that would be better. Salam, --Al Ameer son (talk) 05:38, 6 February 2013 (UTC)