Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Libya/Archive 1
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Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Bilateral relations discussion
I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at
I believe this very unique culture, with a one-of-a-kind alphabet Tifinagh and history dating back as far as ancient Egypt, merits it's own WikiProject. There is a beautiful portal at Portal:Berbers, and I think Wikipedia would benefit greatly from this. Chris 02:20, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Project Banner
The {{Africa Project}} now includes assessment parameters for Libya. If any parties would be interested, replacement of the existing {{WikiProject Libya}} with that banner would be greatly appreciated, and probably help this project have a clearer idea of where it stands regarding content. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 23:04, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
neighbor Wikipedia:WikiProject Berbers
We're up and running! Please visit and contribute at Wikipedia:WikiProject Berbers! Thanks! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:39, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Libya material for List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area.
Greetings! I'm having trouble tracking down a reliable accounting of the area of Libya's largest political subdivisions for the set of lists
02:14, 7 April 2008 (UTC)Libya
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African cinema task force
An African cinema task force has been proposed at
Coordinators' working group
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Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.
The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
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Gaddafi
The naming of the Gaddafi articles are up for discussion, see
65.95.14.96 (talk) 01:19, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
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File:Libyan Fragment.jpg
File:Libyan Fragment.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 05:50, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
File:Amazonguards.jpg
File:Amazonguards.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 04:38, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Libyan money up for deletion
These bills have been nominated for deletion
- File:Libya 5 LYD banknote obverse.jpg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
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"Libya's reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence" proposed move to "Kosovo–Libya relations"
Please can you voice your opinions here. Regards IJA (talk) 19:14, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Discussion regarding renaming Category:African_people_of_Arab_descent and four other categories
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Wiki Loves Pride 2014
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Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 20:51, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Mustafa Tajouri
An article, albeit a stub at moment, which I created has been put up at Afd. The article being
Border crossings of Libya
I have created Category:Border crossings of Libya. Please include any border crossings you know of. Cheers. Hakeem.gadi (talk) 05:19, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Megrahi and Lamin - Free Use Licenced Images
Does anyone know of a free use licenced relatively recent photo of Megrahi suitable for upload to the
Lamin Khalifah Fhimah or Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah
Please excuse my ignorance in this matter, but can anyone tell me why this Libyan man's name is spelt in two different ways in the one article, namely, Lamin Khalifah Fhimah??
I also note that his name is spelt as Lamen, is this just a quirk or what?? --
Inaccuracy at List of heads of state of Libya?
Please see Talk:List of heads of state of Libya. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:36, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
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Arabic article
Someone who knows Arabic needs to start an article on Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 ASAP. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:16, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
- The Arabic article about Afriqiyah has a section here: ar:الخطوط_الجوية_الأفريقية#.D8.AD.D9.88.D8.A7.D8.AF.D8.AB but it needs to be expanded and split into another article. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:16, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
- Now there is an article at ar:الخطوط الجوية الأفريقية رحلة 771 - Thanks, guys! WhisperToMe (talk) 23:03, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Libyan placenames
I'm working on a standard (and official) system to transliterate (and retrotransliterate) Arabic script into
Problems are mainly concerning the unmarked harakaat for long vowels in the Standard Arabic version of the placename, and are the following:
1 | الجفارة | 'al-jifaaraº | 'al-jafaaraº | vowel of first syllable after article (or none?) | Al Jfara
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2 | النقاط الخمس | 'al-nuqaat. 'al-Hams | 'al-niqaat. 'al-Hams | vowel of first syllable after article | An Nuqat al Khams
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3 | سرت | sirt | surt | vowel of first syllable | Sirte |
4 | ترهونة و مسلاته | msalaataº | masallaataº | vowel of first syllable (of third word) | Tarhuna Wa Msalata
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5 | المرقب | 'al-murqub | 'al-marqab | vowel of first and second syllables | Al Murgub
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6 | مرزق | murSuq | marSuq / murSaq | vowel of first and second syllables | Murzuq
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7 | يفرن | yafran | yifrin | vowel of first and second syllables | Yafran |
8 | غريان | Rarii'aan | Rarii'aan / Rariyaan / Raryaan | vowels of second and third syllables | Gharyan |
9 | سوفاجين | sawfaajjiin | sawfajjiin | length of vowel for consonant "f" | Sawfajjin
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10 | زلتان | Slitan | Slitaan | length of vowel for consonant "t" | Zlitan
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11 | القبة | 'al-qubaº | 'al-qubbaº | gemination ( shadda ) of "b" or not? |
Al Qubah
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12 | الواحات | 'al-waaKhaaº | 'al-waaKhaat | last consonant: h, t or ta marbutah ? |
Al Wahat
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13 | مرادة | marad | maradah | structure of third syllable: ta marbutah? | Maradah
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14 | مصراتة | mis.(u)raatah | mus.(u)raatah | vowel of first syllable after article and last consonant: h, t or ta marbutah? | Misrata |
I am committed to upload the publication of the final article, if released, the same way I did with the previous one. Please check in my talk page if this is already answered. Sobreira (parlez) 15:24, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Mohammed El-hadhiri
The article on Libyan politician
WikiProject cleanup listing
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Warfalla tribe
Just a quick note that I've started an article at
) 20:14, 25 February 2011 (UTC)Mersa Brega Seaport
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--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 11:41, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Hrawah
I've created a stub for
What to do with the articles Italian North Africa ?
I started a discussion in Talk:Italian Libya--Kimdime (talk) 11:23, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Network of Free Ulema – Libya
Please take a look at this article, Network of Free Ulema – Libya and read my comment on the discussion page. This is not acceptable on an encyclopedic project that professes to be a neutral source of knowledge and brings shame on Wikipedia. For the record, I'm neither pro or anti Gaddafi or the rebels. 85.211.62.194 (talk) 01:22, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
Urgent need to update image
This map needs to be updated with battle lines and dates a la the Tripoli and Misrata battle maps. I'd do it myself but I'm not that good at Inkscape yet. -Kudzu1 (talk) 18:34, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- I dont think that anyone but Rafy is experienced enough to do such thing. EllsworthSK (talk) 23:34, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
1920 Jabal al-Gharbi civil war
WikiProject Libya,
Article:
There seems to be a slight problem with the above article. It appears as to be a "Stub", but has been assessed as "Start". Then there is the name of the city/place in Libya "Jabal al-Gharbi". According to Wikipedia, there is an article that is quite similar to the above name
- Oh its the same place. From my limited understanding of arabic, I believe Jabal al-Gharbi is essentially, Gharbi Mountains or mountains of gharbi. Al Jabal al gharbi would then be THE mountains of gharbi. The format we have been using is to mostly drop that. Its part of the arabic word, but in english it wouldn't be, so in the transliteration it has been getting removed. Mind you, I don't speak arabic, so i could be completely wrong, but from what I've seen, that's pretty much how its been. By all means try and improve it :) Jeancey (talk) 07:20, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Party of the Brotherhood
Currently we have two articles on Islamist parties in Libya with links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
) 20:13, 5 March 2012 (UTC)- Yes, that should be the case although we got both names wrong. According to these two articles [1] [2] name of MB party is Justice and Construction Party, head of party is Mohammed Sawan and has backing of Ali al-Sallabi and Abdulhakim Belhaj. EllsworthSK (talk) 23:23, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
- Now, if I understand it right, there are two parties and they are rivals: "...he (=Belhaj) is joining the National Party. The party is said to have the backing of Sheikh Ali Salabi and is seen as a strong competitor to Muslim Brotherhood’s Justice and Construction Party." So we have (1) National Party=) 00:10, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, that is probably the way it is. I had a link few weeks ago where one Libyan activist have written names and websites of all parties. It will be probably helpfull to find it and post it here. EllsworthSK (talk) 02:20, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
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Mercenaries in 2011 Civil War at History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
Hello. I have twice reverted the removal of the word 'mercenaries' at the page about the history of Libya under Gadaffi. Another editor says the reference I have used is 'a lie'. I just want to follow policy, and I would ask a few others to see what they think. Thanks. Dbrodbeck (talk) 21:30, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
- The use of "mercenaries" at the infobox is a lie, more when its only applied to the pro-Gaddafi forces, like if the so-called "rebels" did not have foreign fighters in its ranks. (Irony ON) Or perhaps the "rebel" foreign ones were "volunteers" or "freedom fighters" instead "mercenaries"? (Irony OFF). Come on...--HCPUNXKID (talk) 12:01, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
- There actually is a very distinct difference between Freedom Fighters and Mercenaries. If the foreign fighters on the Gaddafi side were being paid, or promised money, and the foreign fighters on the rebel side were doing it because they either wanted to help or were simply against Gaddafi for their own reasons, then the first group would be termed mercenaries, while the second group would not be. It is a simple definition issue. If you have evidence showing rebel foreign fighters were paid, please feel free to share it. Jeancey (talk) 18:26, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Ansar al-Sharia needed
The Islamist group which was partially responsible for the embassy attack in Libya does not have a page.
notice. Thanks! --Jprg1966 (talk) 20:07, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
A discussion has begun in order to gain a consensus on whether to include or exclude material involving the CIA and weapons smuggling in the article. Please weigh in on the discussion at the talk page. This may also be a good time to reassess the rating on the article. Thank you.--Maleko Mela (talk) 22:02, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
Help with a place name
Hi, I'm currently working on the article
Contests
I just started stubs...
on Mohamed H. Fhema and Mostafa Salem, but I can't read Arabic, can someone find more information from Arabic sources? Thank you!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 12:05, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
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AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!
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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!
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RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g.
AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!
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Revamp of Libya wikiproject
Hello to all active members, I was wondering if I can make this page as interactive and attractive as wikiproject Syria? If so please shoot me a message on some changes you want to see or if you want to join in! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Max Pigeon (talk • contribs) 12:57, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
- Sounds like a good idea. I suggest removing inactive editors from the list of participants. This makes the project look bettter supported than it really is, and might serve to bring in new members. Are the 2006 goals stil relevant, or should revised goals be proposed? Either way, I suggest putting in a new date. Goals dated at 2006 make the project look instantly stale. Good luck? Nick Moyes (talk) 06:26, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
Misurata Province vs Misrata District
There has been edit-warring over this split for years. I have no idea which approach is better, but the latest incarnation of historical
The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
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- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
- Diversity winner - $100
- Gender-gap filler - $100
- Language Winners - up to $100*
We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!
Thank you once again for being part of this global event! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 10:30, 06 November 2020 (UTC)
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Re: Abdulhamid Dbeibeh
Hello, I recently created an article on
Is there someone how could tell me which option is preferred? Thank you! --Bespin (talk) 13:56, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
Wiki Indaba 2021 is here!
Hosted by the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, the first ever virtual Wiki Indaba conference is taking place online from the 5th to the 7th of November 2021 under the theme Rethink + Reset : Visions of the future.
Wiki Indaba 2021 is a unique opportunity to come together to build the capacity of African Wikimedians both within the continent and the diaspora to foster the growth of the coverage and our involvement in Wikimedia projects.
The call for submissions is open, please submit your session proposal either as a presentation, panel discussion, lightning talk, or workshop before September 24th 2021.
Most importantly, we would like to have you at the conference, please register here to get your free ticket and spread the word to your community members.
Looking forward to seeing you and hearing you speak at the conference.
Geoffrey Kateregga (talk) 23:45, 16 September 2021 (UTC) - On behalf of the Wiki Indaba 2021 Local Organizing Committee
The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
Greetings,
It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.
Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.
We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
- Overall winner
- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
- Diversity winner - $100
- Gender-gap filler - $100
- Language Winners - up to $100*
Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
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User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
)
and turns it into something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.
The script is mostly based on
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
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This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)