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The Book of Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964. Following the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in the 9th century AD, the book was written in Arabic, the common language for scholars across the vast Islamic territories, although the author himself was Persian. It was an attempt to create a synthesis of the comprehensive star catalogue in Ptolemy's Almagest (books VII and VIII) with the indigenous Arabic astronomical traditions on the constellations (notably the Arabic constellation system of the Anwā'). The original manuscript no longer survives as an autograph, however, the Book of Stars has survived in later-made copies. This image from the book shows the constellation of Orion, in mirror image as if on a celestial globe, and is from a copy in the Bodleian Library dated to the 12th century AD. Ilustration credit: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi Recently featured: African helmeted turtle Winston Churchill The Rose of Persia Archive More featured pictures

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:53, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ixtal

I was only alerted to this discussion recently, and only wish I'd known about it at the time. I would also liked to have invited people from projects relating to Commonwealth countries, who I think would have provided more opposition to the idea. These are my objections (apart from the fact that the template is used in thousands of articles, and it would be my guess that nearly all of these are in the first sentence):

As one commenter pointed out, it is a shorthand way of conveying the various honours and most important professional affiliations of the subject - brief, easy to be clicked on if interested, easy to move on if not.

It's all very well saying that they can be put in the body, but this template simply does not fit anywhere else in a biography. They don't have them when they're born, so not early life, and the rest of the article is descriptive prose where, ideally, the various honours or affiliations are explained and cited. I just don't see another use for the post-nom template, if this use is scrapped. The discussion as it stands has a lot of opposition and I don't see a persuasive article for removing what is standard in thousands of articles. Can this be re-opened somewhere? I would like to see more input from Australian, NZ, Canadian, and British editors. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 08:11, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Laterthanyouthink, I'm not home right now but I'll get back to you on this. All I'll say for now is I'm currently on somewhat of an extended wiki-break so if this issue is reopened again I won't steer or participate heavily in such an effort. — ♠ Ixtal ^{( T / C )} ⁂ Non nobis solum ♠ 18:24, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, no worries, enjoy your break. 🙂 Laterthanyouthink (talk) 21:40, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Preliminary results show that prompting users on an image they’ve just added leads to higher completion rates (18%) compared to unrelated images (6%). The overall revert rate for alt text edits was 3.4%, lower than the app’s average revert rate of 8.1%. We’ll decide next steps for this feature after completing the analysis.

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Recommended Content in Search

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