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Featured articleAl-Mu'tadid is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 9, 2013.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Caliph al-Mu'tadid managed to halt the decline of the Abbasid Caliphate during his reign, but at the cost of a huge bureaucracy and some 80 percent of expenditure going to the army?
On this day... Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on April 5, 2018, and April 5, 2023.
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Hi Constantine. I am a little puzzled as to what you mean by "abolishing the fiscal department on property in escheat". (I do know what "property in escheat" is, but can't work out what was abolished. Could you enlighten me? Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:42, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"the grammarians Ibn Durayd and al-Zajjaj, who became tutor of the Caliph's children" Should that be 'tutors' or 'the latter of whom...'? Gog the Mild (talk) 12:49, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"Of his four sons, only one, Harun, did not become caliph." Seems an odd way of phrasing it. Maybe 'Of his four sons, three - x, y and z - were to become caliph'? Gog the Mild (talk) 13:05, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Constantine. Bar the three queries above I am done. So I shall mark it as finished at GOCE, but leave it on my watchlist for you to respond to the above. As usual, feel free to revert or query anything you don't like or don't understand. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:27, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot Gog the Mild, it looks very good. I've done some very minor tweaks, and tried to address the issues above. And now the usual query on my part: how does it read? Is it understandable to the average reader? Constantine 16:57, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It reads very well. Always a trade off between succinctness and lay reader understandability. IMO this article strikes a very reasonable balance. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:50, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Happy to hear that. With that out of the way, I'll proceed with the FAC. Thanks again for your help :) Constantine 18:13, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]