Talk:Boualem Sansal

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Why does someone keep adding an "orphan tag" to this page?? It is linked to many pages on Wikipedia.--Gilabrand (talk) 10:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

the orphan tags are normally added by an automated bot. For definition of an orphan see WP:ORPHAN it needs at least 3 links from other articles (not categories, lists or user pages) to not count as an orphan. I've changed tag to attempted de-orphan to note its not possible to link it to more articles at the moment. Please don't worry about it though, it doesn't imply anything bad about this article. -Hunting dog (talk) 20:23, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

'Orphan' is defined by the incoming links, use the 'What links here' button which shows you [1] that no other articles link into here currently. I think you're confusing it with 'dead-end' tags which mean the article doesn't have any outgoing links... As I said it doesn't mean anything bad about the article, just that other topics that might eventually link to this one haven't necessarily been written yet.

As it still doesn't have any incoming links a bot will probably re-tag it again, which puts it back in one of the 'too be dealt with' categories at Category:Orphaned_articles, I was trying to switch it to an attempted de-orphan tag as that takes it out of those. It's no big deal either way. -Hunting dog (talk) 06:41, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Blue links and categorization are not links? I don't understand.--Gilabrand (talk) 06:52, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The blue links are links from this article to other ones. What 'orphan' means is that no other articles have blue links to this one. Its not something you solve by changing this article. If other articles already mentioned his name we could make them blue links and this one would stop being an orphan. Nothing else mentions him at the moment though; please don't try and fix that by mentioning him in inappropriate places, as other related articles get written there might be other pages that can link here later. Having the orphan tag on is a reminder to other editors to check if there are pages that should link here and fix them, that's all. -Hunting dog (talk) 06:59, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, now I get it. Thanks for the explanation. I guess it's easy enough to fix. He could be mentioned on the Algerian writers page, for instance.--Gilabrand (talk) 08:28, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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You wrote his name in Arabic. Boualem Sansal is not Arabic! Why the identity dened by requiring all the world to be Arabic? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adbouz (talk • contribs) 11:57, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What makes you think he's not an Arab? Can you cite anything where he suggests he does not identify as an Arab? From his books it seems he identifies himself as a secular Arab — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahassan05 (talk • contribs) 00:33, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Brothers

The description of the 2008 novel Le village de l'Allemand ou le journal des frères Schiller gives the main characters' names as "Malrich and Rachel Schiller," being "two Algerian brothers." Is it possible that Rachel is female and the characters are siblings? The author's page in the French WP doesn't clarify this, and the page there for the novel itself is merely a stub. A clarification here could then be reflected in the page texts, as this was an award-winning novel. -- Deborahjay (talk) 10:48, 8 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]