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Afrin [Kurdish: Afrîn or Efrîn, Arabic: عفرين, مدينة عفرين ، مركز منطقة عفرين] is the designation both for a district region in the Syrian province Aleppo [Aleppo Governorate], as well as for the government city of the same name (with approximately 80,000 inhabitants). The region Afrin known as [Kurd-Dagh], [Kurdish: Çiyayê Kurd yan Kurmanc جبل الاكراد; English: Mountain of the Kurds and/or Kurd-Mountain, Kurd mountains] far admits. The district has a surface of 3.850 square kilometer and e.g. consists of 7 municipalities (Afrin (center), Jindêrês, Sharan, Mahbata/Mahbatli, Rajo, Bulbul, Shiyê) with 366 villages like Qatma, Kastall, Qîbar, Rajo and Midan Akbes. The name Afrîn means on Kurdish literally fruitfully creation.
Edited by abdallah-osman@hotmail.de, Berlin.
Hey @
Dbachmann:
while otherwise appreciating your efforts, your unilateral decision to merge the
Afrin District and
Afrin Canton articles into the town's article IMHO is a bad idea.
Even if the overall article quality is on a stub-to-start level, you can't merge different entities just to make at least one of the articles comprehensive enough. The Afrin district consists of a multitude of municipalities. If the Efrin article is too short we will have to cover the topic more thoroughly, or accept that it currently has to remain a stub. What we simply can't do is throw in other stuff until it is long enough.
If I get you right, one of your motivations was avoiding duplication. Now while that's a fine motivation, your approach is very much flawed and in fact leads to more, not less text duplication. It won't take long until the articles are recreated, as you can already see on the
Afrin District article.
It is worth discussing whether Afrin Canton can be considered the successor of Afrin district, so the district might be merged into the canton. But for now I have to revert your changes and will try my best to recover your textual improvements. Regards, --
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talk) 18:46, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, I am a Turkish user and I was translating this article from English into Turkish. And in "History" part, I realised an information in the text is not exist in the source. The text says: « In a field northwest of the city, a 9th or 8th century BC Luwian stele (named the Afrin stele) was discovered... »
And I checked the source (3rd source) but there is no information about that stele was written in Luwian language. Can someone check it too? If there is no information about this language, we should add an {Citation needed} tag or delete the part about Luwian language. – Amillians Talk 24 January 2018
Someone introduced a template contradiction, yet there is no discussion here about the contradiction. Please engage in the talk page or try to solve the edit conflict yourself before adding such templates. Paradise Chronicle ( talk) 08:53, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
The first paragraph that i removed was because it was based on a video shown on the website of The Independent. The Independent is owned by Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev. So it cannot be neutral with respect to the rebels and their Turkish allies. So there is a random video that shows a few angry fighters making threats to their enemies in the heat of battle. What does it mean ? Nothing. It is some of the worst level of journalism from a tabloid level media. Also, the head of the Syrian Organization of Human Rights (SOHR) is anti-Turkish.
The second paragraph that i removed was because it was based on kurdistan24.net, which is a biased source. The third paragraph that i removed was because it was based on a POV description of a photograph. It is not what the media have said, but rather a description by a Wikipedia editor. This constitutes original research, which is not allowed. Tradedia talk 20:16, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
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Afrin [Kurdish: Afrîn or Efrîn, Arabic: عفرين, مدينة عفرين ، مركز منطقة عفرين] is the designation both for a district region in the Syrian province Aleppo [Aleppo Governorate], as well as for the government city of the same name (with approximately 80,000 inhabitants). The region Afrin known as [Kurd-Dagh], [Kurdish: Çiyayê Kurd yan Kurmanc جبل الاكراد; English: Mountain of the Kurds and/or Kurd-Mountain, Kurd mountains] far admits. The district has a surface of 3.850 square kilometer and e.g. consists of 7 municipalities (Afrin (center), Jindêrês, Sharan, Mahbata/Mahbatli, Rajo, Bulbul, Shiyê) with 366 villages like Qatma, Kastall, Qîbar, Rajo and Midan Akbes. The name Afrîn means on Kurdish literally fruitfully creation.
Edited by abdallah-osman@hotmail.de, Berlin.
Hey @
Dbachmann:
while otherwise appreciating your efforts, your unilateral decision to merge the
Afrin District and
Afrin Canton articles into the town's article IMHO is a bad idea.
Even if the overall article quality is on a stub-to-start level, you can't merge different entities just to make at least one of the articles comprehensive enough. The Afrin district consists of a multitude of municipalities. If the Efrin article is too short we will have to cover the topic more thoroughly, or accept that it currently has to remain a stub. What we simply can't do is throw in other stuff until it is long enough.
If I get you right, one of your motivations was avoiding duplication. Now while that's a fine motivation, your approach is very much flawed and in fact leads to more, not less text duplication. It won't take long until the articles are recreated, as you can already see on the
Afrin District article.
It is worth discussing whether Afrin Canton can be considered the successor of Afrin district, so the district might be merged into the canton. But for now I have to revert your changes and will try my best to recover your textual improvements. Regards, --
PanchoS (
talk) 18:46, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, I am a Turkish user and I was translating this article from English into Turkish. And in "History" part, I realised an information in the text is not exist in the source. The text says: « In a field northwest of the city, a 9th or 8th century BC Luwian stele (named the Afrin stele) was discovered... »
And I checked the source (3rd source) but there is no information about that stele was written in Luwian language. Can someone check it too? If there is no information about this language, we should add an {Citation needed} tag or delete the part about Luwian language. – Amillians Talk 24 January 2018
Someone introduced a template contradiction, yet there is no discussion here about the contradiction. Please engage in the talk page or try to solve the edit conflict yourself before adding such templates. Paradise Chronicle ( talk) 08:53, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
The first paragraph that i removed was because it was based on a video shown on the website of The Independent. The Independent is owned by Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev. So it cannot be neutral with respect to the rebels and their Turkish allies. So there is a random video that shows a few angry fighters making threats to their enemies in the heat of battle. What does it mean ? Nothing. It is some of the worst level of journalism from a tabloid level media. Also, the head of the Syrian Organization of Human Rights (SOHR) is anti-Turkish.
The second paragraph that i removed was because it was based on kurdistan24.net, which is a biased source. The third paragraph that i removed was because it was based on a POV description of a photograph. It is not what the media have said, but rather a description by a Wikipedia editor. This constitutes original research, which is not allowed. Tradedia talk 20:16, 5 July 2021 (UTC)