Talk:Ghiath Suleiman Dallah

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Info from 2020 US Department of Treasury article

This link (https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20200820) says that he was born on July 31, 1971 and he was born in Beit Yashout, Jableh District. I would've added this but idk how to handle the "<ref name=c87march>" Asclepias tuberosa (talk) 16:24, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The ref name info just means that the ref can be reused later in the article without creating a duplicate reference. Just copy the whole ref to wherever it's reused and then adjust the info for the new ref that's being added.

I took care of it. David O. Johnson (talk) 18:05, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 20 April 2025

It has been proposed in this section that Ghiath Suleiman Dallah be renamed and moved to Ghiath Dalla.

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Ghiath Suleiman Dallah → Ghiath Dalla – WP:COMMONNAME

"Ghiath Suleiman Dallah" seems to only come up on Google for search results that relate to Wikipedia, so it isn't a common name. Looking at Google search results by putting a possible name in "quotes", I've went through a bunch of spelling variations and combinations of "Ghiath" and "Dallah", and here are the results (sources included are any English website that isn't a social media site (or Wikipedia) or a nearly-identical duplicate to what another site says):

Ghiath Dalla appears on 15 pages and 24+ sources (sources after seventh page not in English)
Ghiath Dallah appears on 10 pages and 18 sources (sources after fourth page not in English)
Ghiath Dala appears on 7 pages and 18 sources (sources after fourth page not in English)
Ghiath Dalah appears on 1 page
Ghaith Dalla appears on 7 pages and 9 sources (sources after fourth page not in English)
Ghaith Dallah appears on 3 pages and 2 sources (sources after first page not in English)
Ghaith Dala appears on 3 pages and 7 sources
Ghaith Dalah appears on 6 pages and 22 sources (sources after second page start to be more non-English)
Ghiyath Dalla appears on 6 pages and 12 sources (sources after fourth page include social media or non-English)
Ghiyath Dallah appears on 2 pages (first page only includes social media sites)
Ghiyath Dala appears on 4 pages and 3 sources (sources after first page not in English)
Ghiyath Dalah appears once
Ghayath Dalla appears on 7 pages and 10-13 sources (sources after second page tend to be non-English)
Ghayath Dallah appears on 2 pages and 11 sources
Ghayath Dala appears on 2 pages (second page not in English)
Ghayath Dalah appears nowhere
Ghayth Dalla appears on 1 page (not in English)
Ghayth Dallah appears on 1 page
Ghayth Dala appears on 1 page
Ghayth Dalah appears nowhere

Looking at this, it appears that "Ghiath Dalla" is the most common spelling of his name, and thus should be the new title of this article. Asclepias tuberosa (talk) 00:00, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the proposed move. David O. Johnson (talk) 00:35, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]