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A fact from Arba'in pilgrimage appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 November 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Arba'een Pilgrimage, the world's largest annual gathering, is held every year 40 days after Ashura for the commemoration of Husayn ibn Ali's death? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Arba'een Pilgrimage.

A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on November 20, 2016, November 9, 2017, October 30, 2018, October 19, 2019, September 16, 2022, and September 6, 2023.

What is Mawakibs (meaning) and its distinction with hotel? Nannadeem (talk) 18:34, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nannadeem: Mawakibs are temporary residing places which are typically small. --Mhhossein ^talk 17:14, 29 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mawakib also cook and serve food, drink, and general human necessities. They are essentially non-profit human necessity workshops for the pilgrims (if they need to eat, sleep, or use the restroom facilities for example). JasonMoore (talk) 07:37, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It is proven to be the largest annual event in the world. The only other larger gathering is Kumbh Mela which only occurs once every 6 to 12 years. So it is wrong to say “one of,” rather it is. JasonMoore (talk) 20:54, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to see an ideal society away from colors, races and languages. If you want to take a closer look at utopia. If you want to see humanity as pure as glass and a society based on peace, freedom and morality, you must know Arbaeen.

Hello User:Kwamikagami. Can you please elaborate on your page move? Thanks. --Mhhossein ^talk 12:24, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, we had the pronunciation/transcription wrong. It's الأربعين, with an ayin, not الأربءين with a hamza. — kwami (talk) 12:28, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Kwamikagami: I find this a rather inconsistent application of transliteration rules. The straight apostrophe can refer to either hamza or ayin, not just the hamza (WP:MOSAR). Besides, you ignore the unacademic representation of an elongating ya → Arbaʿīn. --HyperGaruda (talk) 07:17, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome to fix the vowel. But the 'straight' (i.e. ASCII) apostrophe is a punctuation mark, not a letter. It may be used for abbreviations, as when the /a/ drops out of al 'the', but not for a consonant, not unless we're being sloppy. It's also a problem to confound different consonants. You wouldn't use 'ja' to transcribe both я and джа in Russian.

We could also move the article to e.g. "Arbaeen" if the word is sufficiently naturalized. — kwami (talk) 07:41, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Still, I'd be cautious pushing single-handedly for ʽ (U+02BD), where major transliteration systems prescribe ʾ (U+02BE; ISO & DIN) or ʻ (U+02BB; ALA-LC). --HyperGaruda (talk) 04:44, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with HyperGaruda. This new title seems inconsistent to me and we use straight apostrophe for both hamza and ayin. I think the title should be moved back to the former one. --Mhhossein ^talk 12:33, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

HiHowcheng, regarding your edit I was just thinking maybe it would be good to feature the pilgrimage page in the OTD section, too. Arba'een pilgrimage is an important event. Thanks. --Mhhossein ^talk 16:30, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good timing! I second that. Albertatiran (talk) 16:53, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that's what I was doing when I added this year's dates. —howcheng {chat} 17:27, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. --Mhhossein ^talk 03:31, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Albertatiran. I see you have recently conducted a couple of edits among which there's a massive change to the article. While your interest for shaping the page into the best status is appreciated, making massive changes by only one edit may cause difficulties for following the history of edits. The inserted edit summary is too general making me ask you briefly your changes here please. Best. --Mhhossein ^talk 17:40, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

HiMhhossein, thanks for the comment. At a high level, the earlier version of the article violated WP:TONE (read like promotional content) and relied almost entirely on news websites (even for historical claims and opinions). Roughly speaking, the article was stitched together by many editors from many news articles. There were also way too many biased quotes sprinkled throughout the article. Now the article features a "Significance" section about the Battle of Karbala and its historical impact in Shia Islam, which was previously absent. The "Origins" section (previously "Background") is now reliably sourced and traces back the event to the early Islamic period. The section "Largest annual gathering" gives a reliably-sourced description of the pilgrimage, followed by a summary of what the previous version used to say about the number of participants over years. The sections about security and politics were summarized and then extended from new sources. The section "Around the world" is mostly about mock Arba'in walks elsewhere not the Arba'in walk itself. Perhaps there is room for a couple of sentences here to introduce these other walks but they don't have much to do with the topic of this article. So, most (all?) of this section was removed. Maybe some of it could be added to Arba'in... Hope this short summary answers your question. Albertatiran (talk) 09:32, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response and the edits. I also think the page is improved now. The previous version had a sub-section on the 'free services' which I think would better be reflected here, too. --Mhhossein ^talk 17:37, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Mhhossein: Thanks for the feedback. I'll also restore (and probably summarize and edit) 'free services'. Albertatiran (talk) 08:38, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]