Talk:Sahn

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August 2007

Mardavich, can you please state what your problem was? This is the second time you remove the changes made; the first time I thought you were upset for removing the picture (which is duplicate by the way) so I kept one copy of it.

You also removed the category, the link to courtyard and the stubs; I added them because the sahn is used extensively in Arab Architecture so the categoery is relevent, the suhn is actually a courtyard so the link is relevent and I believe the article is more than a stub; I also believe the photos are relevent because they show more than one sahn in different types of buildings and different uses besides, they are nice photos.

Can you please explain your objection so that we can come to a compromise? --Maha Odeh 07:20, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Scope and definition

Having checked many sources now, they all consistently define the sahn as the courtyard of a mosque. It's not clear to me that the word itself can be used in Arabic more broadly, but even if it is, it appears that in English references it is used for mosques specifically. The article currently claims that the term applies to other types of buildings, but there are no cited sources to this effect and I can find no evidence of this usage elsewhere. (In other sources that discuss the central courtyard of a house, there are other terms used, including wust ad-dar in Arabic.) So I must conclude that this is WP:OR, which has remained unsourced since 2007 without any improvement, so I'm removing it. I'll try to add sourced content if possible instead, but getting the scope right to begin with is important. R Prazeres (talk) 02:27, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

August 2007

Scope and definition

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