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Speedy deletion nomination of Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars

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A tag has been placed on Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Improvements for Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars

Greetings, your article Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars is looking good, but with a few small tweaks will be really solid. Here are a few things you can do to smooth it out:

It currently has no lede (WP:LEDE), or intro section. The lede should give the name in bold, a basic who/what/why/when/where for context, and then the actual sections start.
Some of your footnotes are listed as "ibid". This is best avoided, since if someone inserts an additional footnote, it could obscure which book each "ibid" refers to. Instead, you can use<ref name=> in your references. For example, if you have multiple quotes from "Bob's Books of Mosques", for the ''very first'' mention do a standard ref, but have the first <ref> tag say <ref name=Bob> (or whatever). Then the next time you want to reference that book, just use <ref name=Bob/> and it will populate the whole footnote.

Feel free to write me if you'd like any more pointers on smoothing out the article. MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:34, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]