Talk:Science and technology in the Ottoman Empire

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 August 2019 and 6 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Pgibs2220, Behtocheh.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 08:46, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Removal of Unreliable Source

I have removed information from this article drawn from or sourced from the paper "The First Attempts of Flight, Automatic Machines, Submarines and Rocket Technology in Turkish History" by Arslan Terzioglu. This source is unreliable, as discussed on Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Rocket_Technology_in_Turkish_history. Dialectric (talk) 17:11, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

What is going on with this page? It looks like someone has dumped a whole lot of information with no references, and then there's heaps of random unformatted stuff at the bottom too. 124.170.190.25 (talk) 10:37, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Revert?

This page appears to have been severely vandalised (mistakenly?) back in 2011 with this edit: [1] and then had stuff tacked on ever since. I've just had to blank the first section due to wp:COPYVIO and now it's a total mess. I suggest we revert back to the 13-June-2011 version[2], reword/remove the copyvio and continue afresh from there.

I'll probably have time to do this in about 24 hours.

Tobus (talk) 21:46, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

This seems to have happened again more recently with this edit: [3] I'm going to revert it back to the 11 March 2019‎ version [4] and then leave it as is because that version seems fine? Funnily, someone seems to have fixed one single word of the vandalism but kept the rest.

Protome (talk) 13:35, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Ali Qushji

A student editor has recently added extensive content about Ali Qushji. I have reverted this addition. This article should have, at most, one paragraph about any given researcher. Overview articles with general titles like 'Science and technology in X' rarely have more than a few sentences about any given individual. Adding multiple subsections is undue weight, and a content fork (WP:FORK) from the current Ali Qushji article. If you want to add content about Ali Qushji, the bulk of it should be at his article, with at most a paragraph here. A long list of 'Notable Works' for a single individual, sourced only to low-quality muslimheritage.org is not appropriate.Dialectric (talk) 18:29, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

University_of_Oklahoma/Science_and_Civilization_in_Islam_(Fall_2019)

At least 3 students in University_of_Oklahoma/Science_and_Civilization_in_Islam_(Fall_2019) have been recently adding large amounts of content to this page. Much of this content overlaps existing articles about individuals active during this period. Repeating this content is Wikipedia:Content forking. Per the guideline, content forking "results in redundant or conflicting articles and are to be avoided." As this is an overview article, information about any given scholar should be limited. Large sections of their works and personal history are best left on the pages for those scholars. If you see that a given scholar is not mentioned, feel free to add that individual, but I suggest no more than a paragraph about any one person. More than that, and you run into the issue of giving WP:Undue weight to that person relative to others active in the same time period. I also urge you to stop using muslimheritage.org. As discussed several times on Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard the site has inconsistent publishing standards, and has published numerous articles that make multiple incorrect claims. If a claim from muslimheritage.com is correct, it is likely also mentioned elsewhere in a higher quality source, either peer reviewed journals or books.Dialectric (talk) 03:18, 27 November 2019 (UTC)