Talk:Al-Bakri

hajj

he never performed hajj???

Proposal to move article to Al-Bakri

I propose moving (ie renaming) this article from "Abū 'Ubayd 'Abd Allāh al-Bakrī" to the much simpler "Al-Bakri" (with no diacritics).

The policy of English Wikipedia is to use the form of a name normally used in English - see WP:NAME. A person's full name would normally be included in the first line of the lead. Most English articles refer to him simply as al-Bakri. The guidelines suggest that the titles should be:

• Recognizable – Use names and terms most commonly used, and so most likely to be recognized, for the topic of the article.
• Easy to find – Use terms that readers are most likely to look for in order to find the article (and to which editors will most naturally link from other articles).

For example: Bill Clinton (not "William Jefferson Clinton")

See also WP:COMMONNAME, WP:UE and WP:ENGLISH. Aa77zz (talk) 17:15, 25 October 2009 (UTC)