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Good articleBattle of Tawahin has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
January 2, 2014Good article nomineeNot listed
February 26, 2014Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 29, 2013.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that at the Battle of Tawahin between the Abbasids and the Tulunids, the commanders of both armies fled the battlefield?
Current status: Good article

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Battle of Tawahin/GA2. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Seabuckthorn (talk · contribs) 00:28, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator: Constantine

Hi! My review for this article will be here shortly. --Seabuckthorn  00:28, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]


1: Well-written

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        • The Battle of Tawahin (Arabic: وقعة الطواحين‎ Waqʿat al-Ṭawāhīn, "Battle of the Mills") was fought in 885 between the forces of the Abbasid Caliphate under Abu'l-Abbas ibn al-Muwaffaq (the future Caliph al-Mu'tadid) and the autonomous Tulunid ruler of Egypt and Syria, Khumarawayh.
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As per the above checklist, there are no issues with the article and it’s a GA. Thanks, Constantine, very much for your diligence in writing such great articles.

Promoting the article to GA status. --Seabuckthorn  23:20, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking the time to review this and thanks again to Ro4444 (talk · contribs) for improving the article and making it that much more comprehensive. Constantine 11:23, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]