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Your GANs

Please read through the Good articles criteria before nominating articles. Medina and Mecca both need reliable sources at the end of every factual statement (especially at the end of every paragraph). Your history sections are also divided into far too many sub-headings; ideally, an article should only have up to seven subheadings per major section. SounderBruce 02:46, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

@SounderBruce: Hey! Thanks for the feedback! I have added more citations to the Medina article and merged some of the subsections in history as you suggested. I will do the same with the Mecca article when I am able, otherwise, I think Medina meets all of the criteria for a GA. --AccordingClass (talk) 04:23, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Mecca and Medina

Those are the city names in English. Your change in usage to Macca and Madinah is inappropriate.--Khajidha (talk) 14:01, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

@Khajidha: I will take care of that but that does not justify your reverting of the article. --AccordingClass (talk) 15:32, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

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Saudi administrative divisions.

"issued on 27 Sha'baan 1412 AH (March 2, 1992) by Royal Order A/92, amended by Royal Order No. A/21 on 30 Rabi' al-Awal 1414 AH (September 17, 1993)."

Thanks for updating these pages. But it strikes me that this is unnecessary to add to each of the pages you've added it to. This information simply needs to be provided in the title of the citation/source. Putting it in the actually article is redundant and rather clutters the articles. Also, if you can look at the questions I've left on the article of Subdivisions of Saudi Arabia and see if you could answer them, that would be great. It'd also be worth adding to the charts for the governorates on these various pages which are Category A and which are category B. that could simply be done by adding "(A)" or "(B)" by the name of the governorate. --Criticalthinker (talk) 02:07, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

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Redirection

Hi, the redirect you placed at Tawaf didn't work. For a redirect to work, the redirect syntax needs to be at the very start of the page's code, with any templates placed after it. Furthermore, I'm not sure that {{italic title}} should ever be used on a redirect.... — Smjg (talk) 11:28, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

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Hello, this is regarding the renaming discussion that you started a few weeks ago. I feel that your opinion isn’t shared by many Wikipedians so I have asked other Wikipedians who might be able to help us out and let our voice be heard. Feel free to look for people who might share our opinion and place the following text at the bottom of their talk page. Peace.
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I have given some suggestions at Talk:Battle of Badr/GA1.VR _talk 14:49, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

I passed the article for GA. Mabrook! VR _talk 02:05, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

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I hope you are not too discouraged by this. The article does need some work, but it definitely deserves attention from someone passionate about the subject like you are. Sincerely, Ovinus (talk) 04:33, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

@Ovinus Real: Oh, that's fine. Thanks for going through the article and highlighting the flaws, I'll make sure they're fixed before I nominate it again. AccordingClass (talk) 06:37, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

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