User talk:Abrnkak

KSU

Hey Abrnkak. It looks like you've done a great job on the King Saud University article. You've included sources too, which greatly raises the value of your contributions. On Wikipedia, we try to take a neutral point of view when we write articles. This means that passages such as the following:

"The University aspires to meet the educational and development needs of society by providing high-quality academic programs, pioneering innovative research and creative articulation, and through active involvement in the community for the prosperous cultural and economic development of the country."

are usually not appropriate for inclusion because they sound like someone is trying to sell the university, much as an advertisement would, using lots of peacock terms that sound "grand" and "pretentious". For example, look at the article on Rice University, where I go to school. Notice how the introduction only states facts about the university, including its name, history, number of students, and available programs. It says that, "Rice has a very high level of research activity", similar to what you have said in your article ("pioneering innovative research"), but says it in a more neutral tone, and provides a source to substantiate the claim.

To summarize, the content is good, but should be more neutral, so that it doesn't sound as if you're trying to convince someone to go to the university (that's not what wikipedia is for). Another thing you can do to improve your article is to adhere to the article guidelines for university articles (see WP:UNIGUIDE) and make the KSU article look more like the articles for other universities.

Keep up the good work, and let me know if there's anything else I can help you with. AniRaptor2001 (talk) 03:49, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so muchAbrnkak (talk) 04:06, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be happy to take a look. Rodface (talk) 04:15, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Some points:

I've worked on the intro a bit, to give you an idea of how it should be laid out. Try to emulate featured articles about universities, such as
The History section needs to be summarized. On the English Wikipedia, we use Gregorian calendar-style dates.

More later... Rodface (talk) 04:55, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

King Saud University

Hi, I took a quick look at King Saud University, and am happy to look more closely. I was impressed with what I saw; clearly you've put a great deal of quality effort into the article. I could make a few suggestions for improvement after reading it more closely. I'm curious, by the way -- what lead you to me? I do a fair amount of work with universities and Wikipedia, and am actually currently working on a project that relates pretty closely to this..but I'm wondering what you've run across that led you to ask me for feedback? Thanks! -Pete (talk) 01:11, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Pete, actually you made a recent edit to the article couple of months before. So, I went to your talk page and found that you are a very active wikipedian. I am a beginner wikipedian and I am looking forward to learn some tricks from you.Thanks!Abrnkak (talk) 02:42, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see! I didn't remember making that edit, all I did was add a link. But, it's a fortunate coincidence, I have worked on a number of university articles, and would be happy to offer some suggestions. -Pete (talk) 20:26, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

King Abdulaziz Medical City

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Thank you for your feedback. This is my first article so I hope I do well. I am currently rewriting the article in my own words to avoid this issue. I appreciate your feed-backs in the future...regardsAbrnkak (talk) 16:03, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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(I want to delete this page Arabians as it is a duplicate of an existing page)Abrnkak (talk) 20:50, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Arabians is a duplicate of what page? Salvidrim! 00:34, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Are you suggesting the page is a duplicate of Arab people? -- Patchy1 03:01, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Upon further investigation I see you mean it is synonymous with Bedouin. I am not an expert on the subject so I would suggest discussing it with someone who is. (FYI: if something is likely to change the page would be merged/redirected instead of deleted, but please do not do this without discussing it). I would suggest discussing it in either (or both) of the following places:

Hope this helps. -- Patchy1 03:10, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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