Talk:Al-Rahba

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Review: June 21, 2016. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Al-Rahba appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 July 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the last Mongol invasion of Syria ended with a failed siege against al-Rahba (pictured)?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Al-Rahba.

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GA Review

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Reviewer: Sainsf (talk · contribs) 06:08, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Will review. Sainsf (talk · contribs) 06:08, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Fairly well-written, only a few comments: Sainsf (talk · contribs) 07:58, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

General

Some dablinks need to be fixed. [1]
No copyvio detected

Rahbat Malik ibn Tawk

Wikilink Bedouin
with the arrival in 942 of I think "in 942 with the arrival of" reads better
Al-Basisiri's revolt ultimately failed I think you mean "Al-Basasiri"?

Architecture

The citadel of al-Rahba is described by Bylinski You need to introduce Bylinski to the reader.

Thanks for taking this nomination Sainsf. I fixed the issues above. --Al Ameer (talk) 19:02, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to promote this. Cheers, Sainsf (talk · contribs) 10:33, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]