Talk:Gigi Ibrahim

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The result was: promoted by Desertarun (talk) 18:38, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

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Gihan Ibrahim in May 2011

• ... that Egyptian citizen journalist and revolutionary socialist Gihan Ibrahim (pictured) founded a shoe manufacturing company after the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état? Source: Jeune Afrique: Égypte – Gigi Ibrahim : « La contestation se fait désormais dans la clandestinité »
  • ALT1:... that Western media treated Egyptian activist Gihan Ibrahim (pictured) as a face of the Egyptian revolution of 2011, but rarely mentioned her revolutionary socialist political views? Source: “Not This One”: Social Movements, the Attention Economy, and Microcelebrity Networked Activism "For example, Egyptian activist Gigi Ibrahim [...] has been the recognizable face of the Tahrir revolution in many media outlets [...] Her politics, self-defined as “revolutionary socialism,” however, represents a relatively small group in Egypt and would ordinarily be defined as marginal in Western media. This is, however, only rarely mentioned in Western mass media accounts".

• Reviewed: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
• Comment: Article had AfD discussion here, closed as keep

Created by Ezlev (talk). Self-nominated at 19:58, 22 May 2021 (UTC).

• I'm fine with the article, but someone put a "when" template in there. I think that can be solved by tweaking that sentence and getting rid of the "eventually". The high school link wasn't loading; that may need to be retweaked, without the name, if that's not verifiable (but "went to school in America" is in a couple of sources). It's long enough, it's new enough, the image is properly licensed. I checked and read a dozen or so of the sources and found no plagiarism, and that text was correctly verified; the others I'll take on good faith. I can't really decide between hook 1 and 2; both are verified. The first one has a fun bit to it, the second one a serious bit. I think I'm going to go for the revolutionary socialist one. Drmies (talk) 00:30, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

  Thanks, Drmies! I've tweaked the part with the {{when}} and removed the template. I finally found a working archive of the high school link, so I've added that along with a news story for additional support and details in the early life section. I prefer ALT1 as well. ezlev^tlk
  _ctrbs 01:14, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

we're good to go, with ALT1. Drmies (talk) 20:58, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Vacant0 (talk · contribs) 12:39, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi! I will review this article due to the ongoing GAN backlog. I will start the review soon. Cheers, --Vacant0 (talk) 12:39, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Good Article review progress box Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Comments

General

• Image caption can be shortened to just "Ibrahim in 2011".
  •  Done
• Add birth location in the infobox → Long Beach, California, U.S.
  •  Done
• Implement a horizontal list in the infobox → {{hlist|Citizen journalist|activist}}
  • Huh, I've never used that template! Neat.  Done
• Are there sources that call her "Gihan Ibrahim"?
  • Almost all call her Gigi, but yes – see for example LA Times (currently in article) and Al-Ahram (not used in article, but mentions Ibrahim)
• Revolutionary socialist seems to not be that important to be mentioned in the first sentence. It can be moved somewhere elsewhere in the lede.
  •  Done – fits well in second sentence, so I moved it there.
• Only 21k bytes–the lede will have to get rewritten. Twitter is linked twice, "her political views were rarely mentioned" mentioned twice.
  • Trimmed the lede a bit, and fixed those specific issues. How much more is needed?
    • @Ezlev: Here, I re-wrote it a bit.
    • Gigi Ibrahim (also mentioned as Gihan Ibrahim) is an Egyptian citizen journalist and activist. During the Egyptian revolution in 2011, she reported events about the protests and became a face of the events for much of the Western media.
    • Ibrahim was born in Long Beach, California to Egyptian parents although she soon moved to Egypt, where she lived until she was 14. Her family subsequently returned to California, where she began attending a local Catholic high school. She graduated from high school in 2005, attending Orange Coast College at first before transferring to The American University in Cairo in 2008. She became involved with the Revolutionary Socialists organization and graduated in 2010 with a degree in political science.
    • Ibrahim became an organizer of the protests in 2011 and used Twitter to document events that took place during the revolution. Western news media treated her as a face of the revolution. After the 2013 coup d'état, Ibrahim chose to stay and continue her involvement in activism and protests. She later co-founded a shoe manufacturing company in Cairo.

• Add her birth date in the "Early life" section.
  •  Done, although the degree of precision based on the sources isn't great.

Images

• All alright, would prefer the addition of alt texts.
  • Alt texts added, though they might not be great.

Sources

• Move the Ourdan 2011 source to "Early life" section.
  •  Done
• "Some find Time Magazine cover controversial" has a dead URL.
  • I just noticed that too, and I can't seem to find an archive. I've removed that source – luckily another source supports the same content. I've tried to run IAbot to prevent future issues with other sources, but AbuseFilter seems to be blocking it.
• Unlink Quehacer and Centro de Estudios y Promocion del Desarrollo.
  •  Done
• Rest of the sources are alright.

@Ezlev: On hold until these issues get fixed. --Vacant0 (talk) 18:44, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Issues addressed, Vacant0! Thanks for reviewing this! ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 19:16, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Promoting. Good job. Vacant0 (talk) 19:47, 6 January 2022 (UTC)