User talk:Divonbriesen

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I'm trying to figure out the proper way to do this.

There is a community I was heavily involved with called Dar al-Islam, founded in the 80's and still around today. I created a page for it: [1] When i search Dar al-Islam i get a page redirect to [2]

I want to have some way for Users to see both articles- with a redirect on one or the other- i used Lebanon as an example. If you go to Lebanon there is one big article about the country (the most obvious) and then a disambiguation page for all the little towns around the US called lebanon. However I'm finding this more complicated than i thought, as the Dar_al_islam (spaces, no dashes) is simply redirected, whereas the one i created (Dar al-Islam) one space, one dash) are slightly different in the use of spaces/dashes.

What is the proper approach to this? It seems to me either it should go to my article with a disambiguation link, or to the other with one (though i'm not sure a disambiguation from Divisions in the World of Islam to Dar al Islam makes sense).

What should I do? Divonbriesen (talk) 02:49, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Your primary concern should be to add some sources to your new article. It is very likely to be challenged soon if you do not add WP:Reliable sources. I'm not sure why your disambiguation page was deleted. Once you add sources to your article, try to recreate it, as that is generally the correct way to do what you are attempting to do. Gigs (talk) 03:38, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I did add some sources, and have been trying to figure out how to fix the fact that the i in Islam was small, and deal with that redirect. making some progress.Divonbriesen (talk) 01:32, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome; please say hello (note - you might want to RIGHT click on that, and open in in a new tab or something - and when you get there, please wait a few mins for a reply) Chzz ► 22:25, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Dar-al-Islam

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Redirect Issues with Dar-al-Islam

Hey Divonbriesen. I seem to have sorted out what you were trying to do, but you may wish to double-check to make sure. The easiest way to fix caps in the article title is to look on the top of your screen for a tab that says "move". This will take you to a form asking you where you want to move the article to and for what reason. You have to be autoconfirmed to do that, and I'm not entirely sure that you are, so you may not see that tab yet. Anyway, all it does is what I did manually, but faster. :) Thanks for helping out. t'shael ^mindmeld 01:28, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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