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Formal and small but important edits required

The spelling of Asad should be with one "s", given that putting two ("ss") whould imply a stress on the "s" sound in English, which is not the case in Asad's name. For a "z" sound in transliterating Arabic words into English, one would use a "z", not an "s". See for example Patrick Seale Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East. 18:24, 27 January 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plgx (talk • contribs)

Bias, indeed!

There are so few sources used in making sweeping assertions about Assad and Syria during his tenure, and curiously, they're all widely known to be friendly to US/UK imperialism. Is this really the best you fucks can cobble together???50.101.248.23 (talk) 14:17, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Why official, "nice" picture?

I'm happy to be one of the above-mentioned fucks. Continuing his personality cult on WP? Shameless. Arminden (talk) 09:07, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 08:07, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Article move

Three months ago the article has been moved to a new title by a bold move [1] which appears to be controversial, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_January_15#Category:Hafez_al-Assad. I am going to submit a technical move request to return to the status quo ex ante. If desirable, a WP:RM may follow. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:14, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Formal and small but important edits required

Bias, indeed!

Why official, "nice" picture?

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