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If you move a page, don't forget to move the Talk page as well. Don't just copy and paste the contents, that way the edit history gets lost. Errabee 14:19, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and one more comment (and I hate to cite rules and regulations, but they are necessary for a coherent content, and if noone told you, how could you possibly learn about it): according to the naming conventions, titles should not be included in the page name of a biography. So Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi should really be listed under Abdalqadir as-Sufi al-Murabit. As I cannot restore this on my own, I'll have to ask someone with more authority to set things straight, and that may take a while. Please continue your work in the mean time. Errabee 14:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I have already moved it to Abdalqadir as-Sufi, which is indeed the correct name. Errabee 06:49, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Those redirects will stay in place as long as nobody changes them (and it isn't policy to change them), so anyone searching for Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi will still get to the article. Uniformity across wikis is not the most important subject, uniformity within one wiki is. So while on the English wikipedia it is policy to not include titles, on other wikis it may be policy to include them; that really depends on the community from that wiki.

The main course to improve a rating is to expand the article conform some simple steps: See Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography#WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. After that, you can apply for Good Article Status if you feel your article has been expanded enough to satisfy the Good Article criteria. A peer review might get you some additional comments on how to improve to A-status, and finally a Featured Article review process might get your article elevated to FA status. And I speak just enough Afrikaans to understand what you said without the translation :) Errabee 09:02, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

That is correct. Errabee 12:42, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

But as an afterthought, we do provide links to articles in another wiki. I have searched the Italian wiki, and linked the English article to it. Look for it in the left column. This is the closest wiki can come to cross-language conformity. Errabee 13:00, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

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Abdalqadir as-Sufi

Sorry about the Sidi/Shaykh, when I looked at Muhammad ibn al-Habib I saw that Sidi was the first title and assumed it correct.

Now I have a question about the proper link. In the first line of Abdalqadir as-Sufi it says "...is a Shaykh of Tarbiyah (Instruction), ..." and the link is to Shaykh of Sufism. Later on it says "...as a student of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib [2],..." where the link "Shaykh" is a redirect to Sheikh. Now based on what I read in "Shaykh of Sufism" and "Sheikh" it would seem to me that whenever the title "Shaykh" is used in the "Abdalqadir as-Sufi" article it means "of Sufism".

As to improvement. First off, I reeally don't edit biographies much and know nothing about Abdalqadir as-Sufi and was just tracking vandalism when I came across the article. It appears to me to have improved quite a lot since it was tagged as "start class". This is how it looked then and this is a comparison of then and now. I would take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment#Quality scale as that will give you some ideas and then you could re-list it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment#Requesting an assessment. You might want to look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Members and see if one of the members could give you some tips.

Having said that here are some other ideas. The article is not bad in that it does not over praise him but it does need a criticism section. If you look at Talk:Abdalqadir as-Sufi there are some issues that were raised and they need to be addressed. One thing that is common to all articles, biographies or not, is that they tend to be written by people who know something about it. This is fine, except that we tend to forget others don't have our level of knowledge and may not understand what seems obvious. An example of this is in articles about airports, where I edit a lot, which can be filled with jargon and acronyms, NDB, VOR, DME, etc. Another example is here. It took me some digging to find out that "Masjid" is explained in Mosque but that needs to be balanced against making the intro too long. I changed it a bit so that it's now [[Mosque|masjid]] but at the same time I also changed [[Sufism|Tasawwuf]] to [[Sufism]] (Tasawwuf). With the mosque article it's clear what masjid means in the first line but with the Tasawwuf link it isn't clear at all. Finally, if you can try and look at the article in different browsers. In Firefox it looks fine but in IE the addition of the template causes a lot of whitespace at the top so I moved it down. Hope this helps. Looks like you've done a lot of good work on the article already. Oh, yes, why is he a Dr.? It's in the first line but there is no mention of it in the article. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 23:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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