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The article Abdallah Marrash has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Nothing to indicate notability; founded an ephemeral magazine?

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Thanks for your note. Sounds like a real challenge. Maybe copying the information into an article about one of his relatives would be a good way to preserve it, until you (or someone) have time to create a real article. --MelanieN (talk) 00:15, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bryan -

Thanks for adding the link to History of Middle Eastern Newspapers in the Newspaper article. I added the links to Asian newspaper history to shift the article away from an almost totally Anglo-American focus. Yes, newspapers are dying, but NOT in places like India. I know that journalism is a vital part of the Arab Spring (Al-Jazeera, etc.), but what of newspapers? Can you add something to the Newspaper article, or link to some other articles, on the current state of journalism & newspapers in the Middle East?

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	Happy new year!
	we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year! Pass a Method talk 19:14, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Please note that your one line "article" has been replaced by a simple redirect to our existing article List of Syrian Armenians. Please take some time to do some simple research before you create a new article. — Fly by Night (talk) 23:28, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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The article Francis Marrash you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 4 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Francis Marrash for things which need to be addressed. Kürbis (✔) 18:31, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The article Francis Marrash you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Francis Marrash for comments about the article. Well done! Kürbis (✔) 12:14, 2 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wow thank you so much! I'm so glad it worked! Bryan P. C. C. (talk) 15:19, 2 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for creating Sorbonne University (alliance), Bryan P. C. C.!

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Hello Bryan. First of all, congratulations on your wonderful work with the "Marrash" brothers. I saw your inquiry at the resource exchange page about Maryana Marrash's full name. While I haven't been able to get my hands on the book in question, I've looked up several sources, and it seems that there's indeed a Butrus Marrash that is Maryana's great-grandfather (father of Nasrallah Marrash). Khayr al-Din al-Zirakli (a prominent poet and writer of the time, has several mentions of him in his encyclopedia of Syrian biographies (الأعلام للزركلي)). Butrus Marrash seems to have been killed in Aleppo in 1818, during a feud between Catholic and Orthodox Christians of the city, according to Zirakli. I hope that helps. Yazan (talk) 08:26, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Quick reply: this article by Sayyed Ali Ismail (Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Critique at Helwan University) explicitly says that Butrus was her great-grandfather. Yazan (talk) 16:43, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The article Maryana Marrash you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 5 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Maryana Marrash for things which need to be addressed. Kürbis (✔) 15:56, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The article Maryana Marrash you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Maryana Marrash for comments about the article. Well done! Kürbis (✔) 09:13, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello you did a huge mistake by editing the patriarch Douaihy name. U misspelled our family name. Kindly bring it back to patriarch Estephan El Douaihy. For more info check the patriarch's website. Tx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Douaihy (talk • contribs) 10:33, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please refer to its talk page. Bryan P. C. C. (talk) 10:33, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

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Hello, I'm curious about your changes to the names of the public universities in France. It seems that you are preferring French versions of names over English versions. For instance Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie instead of Pierre and Marie Curie University. I may be wrong about this, but I think that it is pretty settled English-language Wikipedia policy that English versions of names should be preferred. In any case, shouldn't the articles themselves be the places to begin renaming, and shouldn't the template simply reflect the naming convention used for the articles? Kind regards, MyPOV (talk) 23:28, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I'd like to invite you to work on this list: Talk:List_of_public_universities_in_France#Names_of_the_universities. Many French universities themselves provide English language names on their own English language websites. Pierre and Marie Curie University is an example [1]. MyPOV (talk) 23:45, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bryan P. C. C., sorry to be so slow to reply, I've been AFK for awhile. I must say, I don't know what the best answers would be to your questions. Should it be Panthéon or Pantheon? Should it be Bretagne Occidentale University or University of Western Brittany? I'm not really sure. But I would be happy to try to work out with you a set of guidelines that we could apply across the names of the French universities. Kind regards, MyPOV (talk) 12:02, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Can you please explain the objections? I've retained the original date formatting, right? Tony (talk) 09:18, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Syrian writers
Thank you for quality articles on Syrian writers such as Francis Marrash and Maryana Marrash, for music and precision, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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A year ago, you were the 953rd recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:49, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Two years ago, you were recipient no. 953 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:38, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Four years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:20, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Editor's Barnstar

I read the Francis Marrash article through and through. I was deeply impressed by not only the man, but of the article itself. Kudos to you! Very well done! I am glad to read about something about Syria that isn't so depressing. I thought the timing was perfect for the FA. Now people can see Syria not only as a war-zone, but of something more than that. Keep on editing! Étienne Dolet (talk) 22:14, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I took some parts of the article about Middle East newspaper publishing and added it to Media in the Ottoman Empire WhisperToMe (talk) 19:10, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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