Talk:6th century in Lebanon

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To editor دانيالوه: Certainly there were notable people and events in the geography of Lebanon during this century. The problem is that you've provided no reliable sources discussing this century in Lebanon. In fact, I suspect you took content from other Wikipedia articles without crediting the original source. You haven't been using edit summaries, which is also a problem. Chris Troutman (talk) 18:48, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I did take a paragraph from the Beirut earthquake article, I'll quickly try to find some proof of this article's notability, I mean, if a '6th century in Wales/Ireland/ETC is considered notable enough I might as well try to find some secondary sources, I'll do it today for sure.

دانيالوه (talk) 18:54, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, there isn't really a source that talks about this specific region in this specific century, so this article is more or less a mosaic of different informations from different sources which usually focus on the Byzantine empire as a whole. دانيالوه (talk) 19:04, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me, a source that is entirely consecrated to talk about this region in this century* دانيالوه (talk) 19:05, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What I find troubling about this article is that it's a pastiche of factoids gathered from many sources. It seems to me that the creator of the article doesn't really understand the history of this place and time any better than I do, having "compiled" without actually creating a narrative with context. I learned nothing from reading it. Context is everything. So is proper attribution.

If you are unable to find sources which cover the article's subject (books, periodicals), understand them, and base the entire article on them, with footnotes, you haven't got a notable subject for a Wikipedia article.

We don't write articles in any other way, (especially not by pulling stuff from other Wikipedia articles) if we want then to stay on the encyclopedia. In the past, standards were quite a bit lower. Our standards have tightened a lot since then. Writing a Wikipedia article is hard. The unsourced articles you have found need a lot of help. Would you like to pitch in with sourcing them?--Quisqualis (talk) 01:34, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The article is a list, therefore I can't really clarify every detail of the events posed in the article, and despite the facts that the events are chronologically listed, without context, you may not know what you are reading is about – which is something lists aren't really about –. As for the sources, I will try to find several other citations, but I'll have to rely on additional non-english sources, which although allowed, was not something I expected having to do, (although the blame is on me since I should've expected the responsibilities of creating an article), anyways, I feel like the subjects and events talked in this list are important enough to make them unworthy of deletion, this considering the fact that the historiography of Lebanon usually lump the 5th and 6th century together as if they didn't witness their own events. دانيالوه (talk) 04:04, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]