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Ottoman Empire was one of the good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones Date Process Result August 15, 2006 Good article nominee Listed May 4, 2007 Peer review Reviewed August 7, 2007 Good article reassessment Delisted December 17, 2008 Peer review Reviewed February 1, 2012 Peer review Reviewed Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on October 29, 2004, October 29, 2005, and October 29, 2006. This article was on the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive for the week of April 2, 2006. Current status: Delisted good article

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Section sizes Section size for Ottoman Empire (32 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 35,436 35,436 Name 3,821 3,821 History 3,332 3,332 Historiographical debate on the Ottoman state 4,059 4,059 Government 10,788 24,967 Law 7,224 7,224 Military 6,955 6,955 Administrative divisions 3,181 3,181 Economy 7,068 7,068 Demographics 6,458 35,899 Language 6,003 6,003 Religion 3,081 15,266 Islam 6,320 6,320 Christianity and Judaism 5,865 5,865 Social-political-religious structure 8,172 8,172 Culture 4,896 35,472 Education 2,528 2,528 Literature 8,303 8,303 Media 2,284 2,284 Architecture 7,352 7,352 Decorative arts 3,503 3,503 Music and performing arts 3,601 3,601 Cuisine 1,962 1,962 Sports 1,043 1,043 Science and technology 8,117 8,117 See also 553 553 References 17 2,965 Footnotes 32 32 Citations 31 31 Sources 2,885 2,885 Further reading 114 114 External links 1,590 1,590 Total 166,574 166,574

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I see some editors are putting double dates in their edits- specifically, the Hijri year calendar. Is this against the Wikipedia rules of standard formatting, or is double dates in isolation (aka, in that specific line but nowhere else) fine?

The prime example I'm referring to is the second map of the Ottoman Empire in the infobox, below which has a description that refers to the Islamic Hijri calendar as well as the standard Western calendar date.

Crazynyancat (talk) 12:49 PM 4 June 2021 (PST)

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 February 2024 and 24 April 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Phammywammy (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Lavenderluvr12 (talk) 22:41, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Re.ove text has to be pared down from reading. 64.189.18.39 (talk) 07:21, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article has multiple issues that apparently has just been ignored or maybe not addresses since content was incrementally added. The article is of interest to an amazing (to me) Twenty-seven WikiProjects.

I have reassessed the article on the reasoning that it does not pass the B-class criteria.

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"Unsourced statements" from June 2011, "Failed verification" from September 2016, "citation needed" from July 2021, and "better sources needed" from April 2022. Article with "dead external links" from May 2024

There are other issues. Please see the "Section sizes" and the Anchor tag at the top of this page.

• #1)- The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. While the article currently shows to have 314 references there are areas where unsourced content has been contested and some content (fifth paragraph of the "Rise (c. 1299–1453)" subsection) that should not need six references. There are large amounts of unsourced content, sentences as well as subsections like "Cuisine" and "Sports", as well as unsourced content added (from one to several sentences) after a reference.
• #2)- The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. Inaccuracies are hard to ascertain when so much material is unsourced.
• 4)- The article is reasonably well-written. Aside from having unsourced and apparently under sourced material it is hard to judge "reasonably well-written" when the article suffers from being severely bloated (read the "See also" section) with

a)- "Excessive detail",

b)- "Irrelevant content that is better placed in a different article" (or just cut down), and

3)- very possibly "Trivial content". Of particular relevant interest would be Wikipedia:Scope, Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, and Wikipedia:Too long; didn't read.

Aside from the enormous article bloat it extends to the optional appendices.

The "See also" section has eleven entries.

The "Further reading" section is enormously bloated. Under the heading is ((Main list|Bibliography of the Ottoman Empire)). All of these sections should contain minimum "summary" only content.

The "Further reading" section has the the unusual "General surveys" subsection with twenty-three entries, the "Early Ottomans" subsection with three entries, the "Diplomatic and military" subsection with twenty-one entries, the "Specialty studies" subsection with eleven entries, and the "Historiography" subsection with thirteen entries. Along with the four entries in the External links this is a total of an astounding 75 links. While possibly not a Wikipedia record the appendices seem to attempt to redefine "bloated".

The External links section follows the policies and guidelines of the External links.

Lacking any local editor's involvement I will cut the "External links" section down to 3 or maybe 4 entries. The rationale for trimming (with dynamite) would be:

• ELpoints #3) states: Links in the "External links" section should be kept to a minimum. A lack of external links or a small number of external links is not a reason to add external links.
• LINKFARM states: There is nothing wrong with adding one or more useful content-relevant links to the external links section of an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia. On articles about topics with many fansites, for example, including a link to one major fansite may be appropriate.
• ELMIN: Minimize the number of links. --
• ELCITE: Do not use ((cite web)) or other citation templates in the External links section. Citation templates are permitted in the Further reading section.
• WP:ELBURDEN: Disputed links should be excluded by default unless and until there is a consensus to include them. This is indicative of a fact that maintenance of the section (trimming) is not subject to BRD but concerns, comments, or other actions, should be post talk page discussion.

Normally I would just trim excessive links as uncontested maintenance and possibly move them here for any possible discussions, however, at this time I will just post the comments and see if anyone responds. Thanks in advance for any possible help. -- Otr500 (talk) 16:14, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]