Talk:Saudi Arabia
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editEnglish Wikipedia generally applies the transliteration and spelling standards developed by English-language scholars and academics. This is certainly the case with historical terms, while current terms may be spelled according to official policy in the respective country. The scholarly norms have evolved over time and are well founded.
The common academic name spelling in English requires the definite article (al, etc.) and "son of" (ibn) to be written small, unless it occurs at the beginning of a sentence. The article must be followed by a hyphen. Examples:
- Omar ibn al-Khattab, not Omar Ibn Al Khattab
- Dumat al-Jandal, not Dumat Al Jandal
I know some perceive it as irreverential, but it's not meant to be and it is the common practice. If administrative units (national governments, regional or municipal authorities) decree a different English spelling as normative, this concerns only the individual names to which the decrees apply, and the modern administrative units, not the historical or archaeological sites.
Thank you. Arminden (talk) 13:56, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Spelling
editThe banner used to be in British spelling but I changed it to British Oxford spelling since the majority of words with the ending ize/ise (izing/ising and ization/isation too) were already using the American/Oxford spelling, and I think enforcing the other variant would just lead to an inconsistent article, it also appears that the first version that's not a stub used the spellings "flavour" and "recognized" for example: https://en.luquay.com/w/index.php?title=Saudi_Arabia&oldid=1637856 Terbofast (talk) 07:26, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
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In the intro, where it mentions Saudi Arabia is a country in “West Asia in the Middle East”, please change this to “a country in West Asia in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.” 2600:100C:A216:3864:88D3:5C19:3185:B825 (talk) 22:16, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
- Not done: no reason given for the proposed change. M.Bitton (talk) 22:38, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Köppen-Geiger climate classification map and layout
edit@Nikkimaria What layout issues are you referring to from my edit? BurqueMesa (talk) 06:31, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
- It causes sandwiching, as the section already has too many images. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:29, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- I see. Thank you for the explanation! BurqueMesa (talk) 19:22, 21 June 2024 (UTC)