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Aswan Dam was a Engineering and technology good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. 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.

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March 4, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed

Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on July 21, 2004, July 21, 2005, July 21, 2006, July 21, 2011, July 21, 2014, and July 21, 2017.

Why is he trying to hide the truth?

User:KNHaw from his anger and envy wants to hide the chief engineer of the project Malyshev Nikolai Alexandrovich Details about all the participants can be found on the official resource =Hydroproject= http://www.mhp.rushydro.ru/company/history/asuanskaya-plotina/ that designed this dam, there are no details in English. If there is no resource in English, this does not mean that the truth should be hidden. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.145.62.194 (talk) 06:28, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You have been making repeated unsourced edits and refuse to provide any valid sources, despite attempts to reach out to you in good faith. The one English language source you cited did not mention the Aswan Dam project and is a dubious anyways (FreeDictionary.com). As for your other source (mhp.rushydro.ru), it is not an English language site (and, no, "you're lazy - just translate this Russian source with google" does not cut it as an English language source) and also appears to be a commercial webpage, not a historical site or news site. Find an English source that meets the criteria in wp:sources as I asked you to do and you can redo your edit. But you refuse to do so.

Additionally, the person you are claiming was the project engineer has never been mentioned before and does not have a Wikipedia article. Even if they did contribute, no one has ever seen a need to add it to the article before. See Wikipedia:Existence ≠ Notability for details.

Finally, you add insulting comments in your edit comments and are now making personal attacks on me here. I am not on some sort of vendetta - I have simply asked you to obey the policies cited above and you refuse to do so. If you were to simply find a sutiable source, redo your edit, and move on, we'd both be happy. But you refuse.

Just find a suitable source and make us both happy, okay? KNHaw ^(talk) 15:48, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is the official source of the company that designed the project. The dam was built by the USSR. Every company has its own history, if you're so dumb you don't understand the basics. Look who designed this dam? and go to their website. http://www.mhp.rushydro.ru/company/history/asuanskaya-plotina/ Source of the company that developed the project- 100%. 37.145.62.194 (talk) 09:05, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Малышев,_Николай_Александрович 188.19.187.233 (talk) 09:09, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

First, can we stop with the personal attacks here? This is a clear violation of Wikipedia:Civility. I don't know where you're used to posting but that kind of garbage has no place on Wikipedia. I wouldn't stand for someone insulting any user - including you - in that way. So I sure am not going to stand for you doing it to me. It stops now.

Second, you haven't answered the core question: Can you find an English language source that backs up your claims? If so, please make your change with my blessings! If this is really important to you, do some digging - you may just find what you need. But as it is, these sources don't cut it.

Finally, I get that you're not going to listen to me. So, I'm moving this discussion here so experts can inform us who is in the right. Sound good?

Good luck. KNHaw ^(talk) 20:34, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

High floods destroy crops?

Crops are planted on the floodplain. Flooding should destroy all crops every year except when the flood fails by this logic. Surely the danger posed by high flooding was damage to infrastructure (such as dykes) built to maximize yields, or to structures built on the lowlands. 108.34.149.124 (talk) 18:07, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Traditional agriculture in Egypt - before the building of the first dams in the 19th century - was based on a single crop planted after the annual flood and harvested a few months later. The floods thus did not damage any crops. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooding_of_the_Nile#Agriculture. I thus believe you are right when you write in your second sentence that the benefits from flood protection (mentioned in the article by Abul-Ata and quoted in this Wikipedia article) refer to damage to infrastructure. Mschiffler (talk) 16:47, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Appraisal of the Project

This whole section is full of grammar and punctuation errors, and it reads like an advertisement rather than part of a wiki. 2601:601:4085:AFE0:0:0:0:8813 (talk) 05:41, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Completely agree, and it only cites one source. It should be removed or reduced to a couple sentences 213.27.234.246 (talk) 22:26, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it entirely, cant see how the current content adheres to basic policy of verifiability and neutrality. JoaquimCebuano (talk) 17:18, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]