User talk:Atcovi/Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nah

The name
The name is incorrect. The Wikipedia article (which should always be referenced when one exists) is for Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. But since we may be moving the page anyway, let's get placement straight before creating unnecessary temporary redirects and log entries. —Abd (discuss • contribs) 18:59, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I was incorrect. The Wikpedia article that Goldenburg used is Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. —Abd (discuss • contribs) 19:35, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Biography
A university course on a specific biography of a specific person such as our subject would be very unlikely. There could be a Geography or Geopolitics or specific country study. This biography would be out of balance as a direct subpage of the Comparative law and justice project, but a subpage of Persons with this as a subpage of that could be done. —Abd (discuss • contribs) 18:59, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Living person issues
Wikipedia has special policies for biographies of living persons (w:WP:BLP)). We have no developed policy, to my knowledge. Such pages, that appear as articles, have often been deleted here as they supposedly belong on Wikipedia. However, as a student exercise, they could be here. We don't want student exercises in mainspace directly, unless they otherwise qualify for mainspace (The principle I'm following is whether or not there could be a university course on the subject, or close to that. Other documents can then be placed as subpages underneath this, as one might have a session of a course, or a session or special seminar, or a lecture or guest event. Or student papers, all as part of a course. This is not intended to restrict, but to organize.)

(This may be more than a student exercise, but Wikipedia is protected by widespread attention. Wikiversity pages often get little or no attention, until someone gets upset.... or until the user who started the page is no longer editing and then vandals or POV pushers appear, and it often escapes notice.) —Abd (discuss • contribs) 18:59, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

So where, then?
I'm just looking for a first home for this resource. Obviously, it could be in user space. However, that's not the only possibility. If it is going to be in mainspace, from what I've written above, it should not be a top level page. It could be placed under Comparative law and justice/United Arab Emirates page, but it is really not directly on point there, it's about a person not a government, as such. We could start a Biography project, where students write biographies. Before moving the page, I want to solicit comment. I will start by using or creating some related categories, and applying them to the page. —Abd (discuss • contribs) 18:59, 4 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree on having it as a subpage rather than a main page. We tend to be more plural here, which I prefer.  Perhaps a Biographies project could be started.  There is already an excellent one at Federal Writers' Project - Life Histories, but this would (and should) be different, and could simply link to that one as a See Also, or could have a subpage or redirections depending on how biographies are organized. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 19:21, 4 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Biographies learning project added. Feel free to edit mercilessly as needed.  -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 00:10, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Biographies Project Ended
Per RFD, the Biographies project has ended. Biographies with significant user contributions have been moved to user space. Anonymous biographies have been deleted. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:17, 12 June 2019 (UTC)