Namir58

March 2009

Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Sivas, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Kafka Liz (talk) 18:10, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Merhaba Namir58. Çok az Türkçe biliyorum -- I know only a little Turkish, and I do not understand very much of what you have written here -- I am sorry. Can you explain to me in English? On the English wikipedia, we do not usually remove large sections from articles. If we do, then we explain our reasons to the other editors. Kafka Liz (talk) 18:42, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Also, I am happy to try to improve the article or to add something that is missing. Can you tell me what you want to change? Kafka Liz (talk) 19:17, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Sivas

Merhaba, Namir58. I am sorry to take so long to reply to you. I don't know if you are still around. I spent a week in Sivas in 2007, and it is one of my favourite cities in Turkey. Somewhere I have pictures of the beautiful Seljuk architecture there; I will try to upload them and add them to the article. This English student was making a mistake when he (or she) decided not to visit, and I am very sorry to hear about this. I do understand why you wanted to remove the information about the Sivas Madımak Olayı - but I still think that the article needs to have this information. It was a very tragic event, but it is also historically important, and I think it is better to write the truth and acknowledge it than to remain silent. I think that a similar example can be found in our article on Birmingham, Alabama, which talks about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. This was an event in the 1960s when a Black/African American church was bombed, and four young girls were killed.

Perhaps we can work together to write more about the history, people, and architecture of Sivas so that the Madımak tragedy does not dominate the "Modern" section so much? It is an important event, but it is not the most important thing about this beautiful city, and people from outside Turkey should know this. Please let me know what you think. İyi akşamlar, Kafka Liz (talk) 00:51, 10 March 2009 (UTC)