Talk:Mohsen Shaalan

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Did you know... that Egypt's Deputy Minister of Culture Mohsen Shaalan was imprisoned for a year in connection with the unsolved theft of Van Gogh's Poppy Flowers?

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Death date/birth date and age[edit]

At least one media report lists his age at death as 63, but even that report includes the same birth date and death date found here in the article, so it seems very probable that the reporter simply did the math wrong and that his actual age at death was 62, as reflected in the article. Jake (talk) 04:15, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Name translation and other issues/Arabic speakers wanted[edit]

Obviously as Shaalan was Egyptian, his birth name is almost certainly in Arabic, but I couldn't find it on the web. So it would be great if an Arabic-speaking Wikipedian could translate his name and add that to his infobox template/the introduction. Also, I relied heavily on news stories translated from Arabic to create the page, so I'm sure my stab at the article was limited and it could be fleshed out by any English/Arabic bilinguals who care to help out. Cheers! Jake (talk) 06:06, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 10:48, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Egypt's Deputy Minister of Culture Mohsen Shaalan was imprisoned for a year in connection with the unsolved theft of van Gogh's Poppy Flowers? Source: "An Egyptian court has found 11 culture ministry employees guilty of negligence, after the theft of a Van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum. The officials include Deputy Culture Minister Mohsen Shalan, and the museum's director." ([1])
- ALT1:... that 11 members of Egypt's Ministry of Culture, including the Head of the Fine Arts Sector Mohsen Shaalan were convicted of negligence in connection with the unsolved theft of van Gogh's Poppy Flowers? Source: "An Egyptian court has found 11 culture ministry employees guilty of negligence, after the theft of a Van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum. The officials include Deputy Culture Minister Mohsen Shalan, and the museum's director." ([2]

Created/expanded by Jake12195 (talk). Self-nominated at 04:35, 5 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

This interesting article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline and I prefer the original hook, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:26, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I came by to promote this. I added a cite (the right one, I hope) for the hook fact of his being jailed for one year. But none of the sources are formatted with the date of the article; this would help to follow the timeline. Yoninah (talk) 09:27, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yoninah, thanks for adding that cite there. However, I don't exactly understand what you mean when you say that none of the sources are formatted with the date of the article, could you clarify? I'm happy to clear up any issues with the article, and would like to, so please let me know! Thanks, Jake (talk) 09:54, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jake12195: Each of your citations just has a title, publisher, and accessdate. It would be more helpful to add at least the date of publication to each citation to show that these weren't all published at the same time. Yoninah (talk) 10:24, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yoninah, gotcha, makes total sense now. I can definitely update that later today, hopefully within the next ~12 hours. Cheers, Jake (talk) 12:55, 2 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yoninah, took me a little longer than I said, but I formatted the cites with their publication date. Let me know if there are any more issues to clear up, I'm eager to get this article to the front page! Jake (talk) 07:01, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Restoring tick per Cwmhiraeth's review. Yoninah (talk) 10:43, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]