Talk:Rania Khalek
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Date of birth
[edit]JPHC2003, regarding this edit, I don't see the need to include the exact date of birth, especially if it has be fished from a Facebook or Instagram post. I'm not sure if that archived conversation is the most up-to-date consensus regarding this matter. The exact date of birth doesn't seem entirely relevant or important, and to me it seems kind of doxxy to publish that information from a social media birthday post. إيان (talk) 04:41, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- It's only three years old, and I saw a bunch of other pages do the exact same thing, but since you created the page, then whatever. JPHC2003 (talk) 05:10, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Title
[edit]This article should be titled "Anti- Rania Khalek Talkingpoints"
It's a joke. She was one of the first American journalists to interview Claudia Sheinbaum BEFORE her election to President of Mexico. Yet the lede doesn't mention that achievement but rather includes criticism about her positions regarding the Syrian government and imperialism in the Levant. Wikipedia has a terrible POV problem when it comes to left-dissident journalists in "Western democracies."
rULeZ bAsEd 0RdEr 2601:5CF:8601:6A40:AD3D:9AA1:557D:2905 (talk) 22:05, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
- Well, give me a source (which satisfy WP:RS) for that ("one of the first American journalists to interview Claudia Sheinbaum BEFORE her election to President of Mexico"), then I can include it, Huldra (talk) 22:27, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thats not the type of achievement that gets cited. Furthermore, when Sheinbaum was mayor of Mexico City she was interviewed in English-language press earlier. And what RS is going to include in a report that Rania Khalek interviewed Sheinbaum a full year before any RS considered to, with regard to Presidency?
- Nonetheless, its a fact that Khalek interviewed Sheinbaum about her Presidential campaign in early 2023, and all the sources that wikipedia considers reliable didn't get there until 2024.
- Its funny (to me) that when I criticize the POV problem on wikipedia and allude to the project's rules that disfavor left dissident perspectives, you straight up make an appeal to one of the rules.
- The fact remains that this article SHOULD BE RENAMED: because if this is the only notable information that is "credibly cited" concerning the topic, then it clearly demonstrates a bias among the sources that are considered reliable.
- And of course, biographies of living persons doesn’t matter. If RS slanders someone, wikipedia editors are free to repeat that, with citations of course. 2601:5CF:8601:6A40:F1BE:E482:8B6E:2F72 (talk) 12:29, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
- Given this is a bio, it would be great to include some information about Khalek's work, in addition to the various opinions that we currently include. Finding suitable sources seems to be the problem. A 2017 interview on arabamerica.com provides some information. The site has been used elsewhere on Wikipedia. Meanwhile, the second paragraph of the lead needs to be removed. Firstly, it makes a claim about Khalek's coverage of the Syrian civil war causing controversy. Khalek's coverage of the war is not mentioned elsewhere in the article. There are mentions of two trips she made to Syria. Secondly, the paragraph includes an opinion by someone named Sam Hamad about Khalek. The opinion is not appropriate for the lead. Burrobert (talk) 15:01, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
- Well, give me a source (which satisfy WP:RS) for that ("one of the first American journalists to interview Claudia Sheinbaum BEFORE her election to President of Mexico"), then I can include it, Huldra (talk) 22:27, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
Khalek should be referred to as an American, not Lebanese-American
[edit]The leading sentence is meant to describe the subject's nationality, not their ancestral background. Unless Khalek has Lebanon's citizenship to me it seems improper and xenophobic to describe someone born in the U.S. as anything other than American unless they have gained citizenship from another country. Perhaps she can be described as Lebanese-American later on the page, like in the Early Life section, but the first sentence should only describe her as American. 2601:246:5680:5F50:D193:62ED:502E:37E1 (talk) 16:47, 24 July 2025 (UTC)
- I seriously think she has dual nationality and lives in Liban a lot. --Inayity (talk) 16:37, 11 December 2025 (UTC)
writer Sam Hamad (WHO)
[edit]Who is this guy to be in her lede? he is less notable than her, and has a wiki entry just as short as hers. Who is he again? Inayity (talk) 16:35, 11 December 2025 (UTC)