Talk:Souks of Tunis

Merge individual souk pages here

Here are pages about individual souks listed on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/CXT/Pages to review. I'm proposing that we merge all or most of them here because from the detail/referencing on them it's not clear that they need individual pages. Moving the information here and then redirecting them seems the better way. In some cases, some historical background is repeated between articles. Parts of those could be combined into a new history section here. The article wouldn't need to become as long as the sum of the lengths of these pages. What do you think? Are they individually notable enough that they should be kept and expanded?

1. Souk El Kebabjia
2. Souk Es Sabbaghine
3. Souk El Bchemkya
4. Souk En Nhas
5. Souk Ech-Chaouachine
6. Souk El Bey
7. Souk El Berka
8. Souk Al Asr
9. Souk Edabaghine
10. Souk El Nissa
11. Souk El Trouk
12. Souk El Marr
13. Souk El Bechmak
14. Souk El Leffa
15. Souk El Attarine - this one contains various other monuments itself, so perhaps is more significant than most of the others

Mortee (talk) 21:31, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Pinging Youssefbhy, Leila_Ben-Gacem and Emnamizouni who created the pages and a few others who have been involved in editing them: Pigsonthewing, Arjayay, Moumou82. What would you think of merging some or all of the individual souks into the main article, which has sections (some empty) ready for them?

My view is that some, like Souk El Marr should be merged, unless they can be expanded with more sources, but others, like Souk El Attarine and Souk Ech-Chaouachine have more detail and perhaps shouldn't be. I nominated them as a group so as to have a discussion about them in general. Mortee (talk) 20:04, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Hey Mortee, thank you for your opinion. We created these articles as a part of the MedinaPedia project. Our goal is to make these historical places and monuments exist online. Although I admit that some of them does not contains a lot of information due to the lack of sources, but I think this can change in the future when other Wikipedians will improve and enrich the contents of the articles.

That is why I prefer to keep them personally.

However, if Leila_Ben-Gacem, Emnamizouni, Moumou82, and the other participants agrees, I have no problem at all.

Youssefbhy (talk) 4:00, 03 April 2017 (UTC)

I do not have a preference on my side. As far as the content is available, I am fine to have different but smaller articles or a unique and more developed article. Moumou82 (talk) 19:11, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Mortee, thanks for reaching out regarding those articles. Personally, I do prefer to keep the pages separated as suggested by Youssefbhy. As mentioned the final goal of the project is to create QRpedia codes for those articles, I'm afraid that once they are merged we will have repetitive QRpedia codes for each souk and it would appear annoying for any user. Emnamizouni (talk) 07:12, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

OK. I'm going to remove the merge proposal templates because the consensus on this page seems to be against merging. I don't see QRPedia as relevant but if the articles could be expanded to show that the individual souks are notable as topics in themselves, it makes some sense to keep them to allow the expansion to happen. I'll be away for two weeks but will revisit these when I'm back. Some of them are referenced only to pages like [1] that discuss the souks collectively. Perhaps someone will add to that and I will have another go myself when I'm back. Mortee (talk) 12:34, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Oppose merge. Each is notable in its own right. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:33, 11 April 2017 (UTC)