Thank you for your contributions in Baghdad! keep up the great work!
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Here is the link you was searching for: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmian_Region

See the first link. It’s called Garmyan Region in English.

Andy,
Firstly, I had no interest or bias at all about having a specific language over the other. And also just for your information, Arabic is not my mother language, or the language we speak at home, and unfortunately, I find it really absurd that I have to share such personal information to debunk an accusation.

Secondly I agree about the discussion should be on a public form, but here I'm talking about the name you used, which is vague and not accurate as I stated, and not backed by any source. I'm not talking about the language at all, but about the name itself is just wrong and missing the key feature in it's name.

So let's assume the sign now just changed to Kurdish, you are preferring to have a incorrect name in the more used language in town, or an accurate name used by the majority of the state? respectfully, please answer this.
And ok let's say you preferer the incorrect name to be in the 'name' tag, then why did you also made name:ar wrong when it was also correct? this has nothing to do with this matter.

Lastly, I don't know what your problem is with me. In a similar example, I made a correct edit by deleting an incorrect name that is not used in a certain language, but you blocked me in user_blocks/15652 for a week based on a complaint from a user who does not speak that language at all! As proof that the deletion I made previously was correct, a user who speaks that language redeleted the wrong name that I deleted 2 days later, but you did not block him. What does this mean? By the way, I sent an email regarding this block but you ignored it and did not revoke the block. https://osm.mapki.com/history/way/1241152677

And a simple online search showing the picture is over 3 years old https://www.gulanmedia.com/ar/story/267083/

This doesn't address the issues I mentioned at the comment above.
The picture you used as "source" do not match the name you put. You did not notice this?

>Source was the picture I linked in the first comment above.
But the name on the sign does not match the one you put in 'name'
And you also changed the Arabic name which was also correct before.

In top of that, the name you used is not clear and might give confusions, as you just stated the name like Kifri administration office, but you did not state, it is for the District of Kifri? or the subdistrict of Kifri? Because each has it's own office. Before your edit, it was clear and correct.

We should not leave this mistake on OSM like this, and shall be corrected.

Also, what is the date of this picture? and when it was taken? before or after my edit? Did you ask this question to the one who sent it?
In OSM, we should not rely on images that may be old and prefer them to other modern sources that may not rely on images, such as survey.

Regards.

Source of the image please?

What is the source for the image you used?

What was your source for this change?
My source was eye survey.
Also, see the message I sent on you on OSM now.
Regards.

As I stated, eye survey.
And the nameplate can be found online, see: https://i.ibb.co/XkrZQZB/image.png

Hello, SomeoneElse,

Have you seen the history? way/332658571/history
It was initially added with an Arabic name, but in changeset/127308649, it was changed, and the changeset comment was only "set of edits." I don't see your comment there asking for a source or suggesting a better changeset comment.

The source used was an eye survey, as I saw the sign in Arabic when I was there. The signs frequently change with each new mayor, on top of other factors like furnishings, etc.

Currently, the mayor is Sahir Ali Jasim, who is Arab, and in his office, there is a nameplate on his desk written exclusively in Arabic. It states his name and job title as follows:

ساهر علي جاسم
قائممقام

I suggest that whoever sent you the report simply comment on the changeset next time and initiate a discussion instead of wasting DWG’s time.

Regards,

But here you deleted those names entirely, you did not move them to alt_name. Please do restore those names that you deleted as alt_name. Regards.

Hello OmarHakim, and welcome to OSM! please write a changeset comment that do describe your edit instead of typing your name, this way other mappers will understand and know what your edit is. Thank you!

Hello, Can you explain what and why it is "bad naming"? And maybe a source to back the naming, example for way way/260285732/history
Regards.

Place=* nodes outside the official kurdish region boundaries shall be on named after the federal government main language.

Why did you delete the Arabic name entirely?

The only vandalist is you that you keep delete neighborhoods that do exist and add others in fake name against the whole local community, the only one who use sock puppet accounts is you, example V4 here: https://osm.mapki.com/history/node/11629870960
Stop this behavior

Yes, name:ar=* is in Arabic now, thank you.

No problem my friend.