User talk:Ka Yaffa

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Ajami

Hi there, glad to have you in the class! Ajami, Jaffa is a great article to be working on. I commend your solid choice of a geography article; they are among the easier to write on Wikipedia, whereas articles on organizations or individuals can be more difficult for ones first editing experience. I really like what I see in your sandbox. Your writing style is very encyclopedic, which means it uses various dates and figures and there are sources for most everything. However, you should remove the external links, one to the photo of the boy's school, and one to the AJCC. If the photo also gave a description of the building, you'd be able to use it as a source for that sentence, but as it is, you don't need it. The AJCC link could be used as a source for itself, or it could go in a new "External links" section below the "References" section.

I do see two stylistic issues, which you can take or leave. I might move some of the images to the left side of the article to balance them out. The markup could look like [[File:Ajamimosket024.jpg|thumb|left|Al-Ajami Mosque in Jaffa]]. You also don't need to specify the pixel size with photos in the articles prose. The other thing is you might not need all the subsection headings. For example, unless there's specific events that require a branching off of the narrative, history sections are often undivided by subsections. I'm just talking about the bold text that says "The Nakba and the Israeli State" or "Recent History" above the text. And the same is true for the subsections on specific buildings, and on the "Housing crisis". And if wanted to know, the headings shouldn't capitalize each word, only the first, but again, Wikipedia values substance over style, so what you have is fine too. Best of luck, and let me know if you have specific questions!-- Patrick, _oѺ^∞ 15:35, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

External links

Hello, Ka Yaffa. I'd like to draw your attention to the link to the "Unprotected Citizens" report you have added to Jaffa article. I guess you have copied the URL as it appears in Google search results, which may be different from the actual URL. Thus, it became unreachable and was marked "dead" by bot. Please be more accurate and check the links as you add them. Thank you, and welcome to Wikipedia! --ElComandanteChe (talk) 21:54, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Ajami, Jaffa. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. --Geniac (talk) 01:54, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a link to your course

Hello Ka Yaffa. Are you part of this class: Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Introduction to Study of Arab World fall 2010? If so it might help to add that link to your user page. That will help others to figure out what your project is. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 00:55, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Intro the Study of the Arab World

I will do that right away, Thank you for your suggestion.

Ka Yaffa

nice job with suggestions!

		The Original Barnstar
		For thoughtful and on-target suggestions for improving Women's literary salons and societies in the Arab World, I award Ka Yaffa this Barnstar. --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 15:54, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]