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The article is in need of some steady revision, I think. There are long stretches of unsourced (though not necessarily inaccurate) material, as well as material that could be abridged to be more relevant to this topic. (It's also possible that when this article was being written earlier, other Cairo articles were of poor quality and so more information was being included here than necessary, whereas now this information should be relegated to their respective main articles.) I will make some revisions where I can, based on the scholarly sources I have. There are some in-depth studies of the cemetery neighborhoods that are fairly authoritative (particularly by Galila El Kadi & Alain Bonnamy in 2007 (english edition)).
I'm starting this talk section so that any discussion/disagreements pertaining to the general revisions can be added here, if helpful. ( Casual Builder ( talk) 06:42, 23 May 2019 (UTC))
@ Casual Builder: I plan on deleting two of the current sections, specifically: "Historic tours" and "Festivals". The first is a list of prominent shrines across Cairo, but some of these are not located in, or otherwise related to, the City of the Dead or the Qarafa, while the others are now mentioned and described in the "Geography and description" section above. The second section ("Festivals") again describes a festival related to a shrine well outside the Qarafa or City of the Dead; the information may be valid but it should be moved to the Sayyida Zaynab Mosque page or another directly related page. Additionally, both sections are unsourced. (Addendum: not quite unsourced; the second section is sourced to Rodenbeck's Cairo: the City Victorious. While the author's description of the Mawlid of Zaynab might be in the "Cities of the Dead" chapter, the book isn't referring to the Cairo necropolis in particular at this point but is talking about the cults of saints in general. He even specifies that the shrine is in the city center, and makes no mention to the inhabitants of the necropolis celebrating this festival in particular as opposed to Cairenes generally.) Casual Builder ( talk) 21:16, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
I've completed a major overhaul of the article, but there's still room for improvement. If interested editors are looking for things to contribute, here are a few suggestions of things which I think are needed:
Those are just my opinion of what's needed; please discuss further as you see fit, as always. Cheers, Casual Builder ( talk) 05:20, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
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The article is in need of some steady revision, I think. There are long stretches of unsourced (though not necessarily inaccurate) material, as well as material that could be abridged to be more relevant to this topic. (It's also possible that when this article was being written earlier, other Cairo articles were of poor quality and so more information was being included here than necessary, whereas now this information should be relegated to their respective main articles.) I will make some revisions where I can, based on the scholarly sources I have. There are some in-depth studies of the cemetery neighborhoods that are fairly authoritative (particularly by Galila El Kadi & Alain Bonnamy in 2007 (english edition)).
I'm starting this talk section so that any discussion/disagreements pertaining to the general revisions can be added here, if helpful. ( Casual Builder ( talk) 06:42, 23 May 2019 (UTC))
@ Casual Builder: I plan on deleting two of the current sections, specifically: "Historic tours" and "Festivals". The first is a list of prominent shrines across Cairo, but some of these are not located in, or otherwise related to, the City of the Dead or the Qarafa, while the others are now mentioned and described in the "Geography and description" section above. The second section ("Festivals") again describes a festival related to a shrine well outside the Qarafa or City of the Dead; the information may be valid but it should be moved to the Sayyida Zaynab Mosque page or another directly related page. Additionally, both sections are unsourced. (Addendum: not quite unsourced; the second section is sourced to Rodenbeck's Cairo: the City Victorious. While the author's description of the Mawlid of Zaynab might be in the "Cities of the Dead" chapter, the book isn't referring to the Cairo necropolis in particular at this point but is talking about the cults of saints in general. He even specifies that the shrine is in the city center, and makes no mention to the inhabitants of the necropolis celebrating this festival in particular as opposed to Cairenes generally.) Casual Builder ( talk) 21:16, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
I've completed a major overhaul of the article, but there's still room for improvement. If interested editors are looking for things to contribute, here are a few suggestions of things which I think are needed:
Those are just my opinion of what's needed; please discuss further as you see fit, as always. Cheers, Casual Builder ( talk) 05:20, 17 July 2019 (UTC)