Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Arabic language

This is a pretty good article, but it doesn't have any references. It has lots of external links though. If someone could add inline references (like this), it would improve the article a lot. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 20:45, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article wrongly states that the word 'Algebra' was taken from English, when it is in fact the opposite.

Update: The references have been organized, and I added one. Awhile back I added some stuff about Arabic Grammar, and the article looks pretty good now. What else needs to be done? The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 22:42, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm adding some comments on the talk page. --Cbdorsett 05:48, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The first sentence of the last paragraph of the "History" section is confusing. Here's the original:

By the fourth century AD, the Arab kingdoms of the Lakhmids in southern Iraq, the Ghassanids in southern Syria the Kindite Kingdom emerged in Central Arabia.

And here's a proposed clarification:

By the fourth century AD, the Arab kingdoms of the Lakhmids in southern Iraq, the Ghassanids in southern Syria, and the Kindite Kingdom in Central Arabia (had?) emerged.

Would anyone object to this going in? It makes it grammatical, and while I'm unsure of the facts—thus the optional had—I don't think it's any worse than what's there now. --Pkahle 08:36, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]