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"Shams al-Din Juvayni—who was the minister of Ilkhanate": what does "the minister of Ilkhanate" mean? Does it just mean he was an official in the Ilkhanate government, in which case I'd make it something like "who was a minister of the Ilkhanate government"? Or does it mean more than that?
You have a mixture of spellings; "honor" is AmEng; "favour" is BrEng. Which is it meant to be?
Hiya Mike. I hope you don't mind me writing inbetween your comment, thought it would make it easier to track whats fixed and whats not. I prefer BrEng, and therefore I have changed honor to honour. --
HistoryofIran (
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00:01, 16 August 2022 (UTC)reply
"and of his ghazals is also mentioned": looks like a word or two is missing here?
HistoryofIran, I realized after I promoted this to GA that I should have been doing spotchecks during the review. I've now done some; everything I checked was basically OK, but there's one sentence that I think needs attention.
"Humam's poetry was influenced by poets such as Sanai (died c. 1130), Anvari (died 1189), and Saadi Shirazi (died 1291/92)." The names are supported by the source, but the dates are not -- can we either remove the dates or add sources for them?
Hello. I just used the dates listed in their respective Wiki articles, as I thought that shouldn't be controversial. Tbh I always do that, I think it gives a good insight on when these figures were actually active, and adding citations would just unnecessarily clutter the sentence imho. --
HistoryofIran (
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13:43, 7 October 2022 (UTC)reply
I don't think that's enough. Aside from the fact that we can't use the Wikipedia articles as sources, there's no way for a reader to verify the information. If you're getting the dates from Wikipedia articles with reliable sources for those dates, I think those sources need to be added. Multiple citations don't bother me, but if you dislike them you can bundle them.
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20:54, 7 October 2022 (UTC)reply
I've removed all the parenthetical birth death dates, since as you say they are not sourced. To be honest I don't think it's always a good idea to include them; that's what links are for. In some cases I can see that the reader needs to know the dates of someone mentioned, but that's not true in every case. Please source anything you re-add.
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10:29, 19 October 2022 (UTC)reply