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User 3skandar Selfstudier ( talk) 14:27, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
this. Did you check yours over already? I did make some edits last year, idk if the problem could be there, they didn't say where. Selfstudier ( talk) 22:49, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
Go ahead and zap it. The only sources is my own book. The only reason it made it to the book was because I was there. Further of course, the article never gained any weight from other editors. -- PaulinSaudi ( talk) 10:49, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
You misunderstand the language of the template. In this case "may" is a polite way of saying that it WILL be found. You're just drive-by tagging if you don't start a conversation. Please either engage with the article or remove your tags. Central and Adams ( talk) 10:13, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
Hey there! You didn't provide a reason or explained in your edit summary why you think the article needs an action from an expert in linguistic? While experts are always welcomed and encouraged to contribute, it would have been better to explain at least on the talk page on the issues at hand so that it can be discussed by the editors who are interested in the subject and overseeing the article maintenance, if any. — ♾️ Contemporary Nomad ( 💬 Talk) 13:49, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
The talk page of that article is pretty clear that "a new request for comments must be undertaken and reach consensus prior to any changes being made to the article's lead section. Editors editing the lead without consensus from an RfC are subject to sanctions such as page or topic bans or being blocked from editing.". You've made some significant changes to the lead without such a request. It seems you need to undo these changes and seek consensus for them first. And So It ( talk) 21:59, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
For obvious reasons please could you comment at
Talk:Aisha on different editors' proposed new paragraphs to the article on
Aisha concerning her age. --
Toddy1
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I comment here because the thread in the discussion was so long it crashed my browser. In respect to this I just wanted to say that all I've said was to illustrate that using specific terms through in a strict historiographical verdict can create odd claims, which are 100% true, but utterly confusing. The only think I truely believes is that Samaritans, Jews and Arabs are all Homo Sapiens, and the anything else is just a convenient label, and ultimately a lie. Our job is to reconcile between the different lies and prevent confusion and inaccuracies. Bolter21 ( talk to me) 09:16, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
None of the images in that page are actually needed, they’re all just portraits of relevant people, Muhammad is extremely relevant to that article and the section, so you have no reason to remove that one in particular.
the blurry one Doug tried replace it with was bad I agree, mine is neutral (and more tasteful than I think it deserved, I think something by Hebdo would be more suitable). Give an actual reason in talk or I’m putting it back. Ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarah ( talk) 06:56, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
This edit [2] as example is not WP:minor and not mere copyediting. Marking minor or writing copyediting in summary means no one reasonably can't object the edit if you have slightest doubt better not mark it as such especially in WP:ACDS area. Shrike ( talk) 10:08, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Brother, I applied to amend the claim that the commandos sank an Egyptian minesweeper before capturing 6 commandos of the Israeli navy. This was backed by reliable sources, however, no response Vergth ( talk) 00:51, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your help at Post Classical History, your citation fixes clean up the article quite nicely Also I did not know that 'auto' as you type into some of the citations is an option!
Thanks and best! Sunriseshore ( talk) 11:50, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello! This may seem out of the blue, but I am requesting some outside opinions from experienced editors on the
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Presume you know all about tertiary sources and their importance in assessing due weight, which can also help with titling questions. Please have a look at this page; I've been working on it solid and still have another dozen sources already [hand-]written up offline and just need to include them to finish, but am pretty burned out and need to go look at other stuff to clear my head (and what's this thing they speak of, known as 'eating' and 'sleeping'?). If you want to improve it, it's strictly a sources page, so no evaluation or summary or conclusions, other than that, go for it and add whatever you feel like. Also, the whole point of the page is to stop at some point and assess it and see if there's a trend in tertiary sources or not, so that should be done and whittled down to a paragraph or two with some tallies or remarks, and then added to a new subsection in "Discussion". And it should probably be done latest tomorrow, but it's probably already too late to affect the outcome, even if there is a trend. But at least there'll be something solid to look at next time, and there's no hurry, so I'm not bothered how it comes out this time. Mathglot ( talk) 08:40, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
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You may have seen the RM at Talk:Gautama Buddha was closed. I clarified with the closer that the close is without prejudice against an immediate renomination for "Buddha" or "The Buddha". I believe the latter is most in line with Wikipedia policies; I'm working on a nomination statement now. Ruбlov ( talk • contribs) 17:42, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Despite the ongoing discussion that I opened on the talk page, there's one IP vandal using different IP addresses that keeps deleting sourced content and continuously engages in edit warring (the same one from Talk:Ger toshav). So far, no admin has intervened to stop that guy despite all of this. I have already requested an increased protection of the page and reported his IP addresses to WP:AIV, and yet nobody seems to care. GenoV84 ( talk) 19:32, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
I think you have been somewhat selective with your addition of Category:Islamophobia in India, on the following articles:-
Can you remove this category from these articles?
Remember, that political parties, individuals and entities in India or elsewhere may spew anti-Muslim lines from time to time, but it needs a lot more to categorise them as Islamophobic. Captain Jack Sparrow ( talk) 07:52, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I opened a DRN for Book of Daniel here
Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard#Talk:Book of Daniel Billyball998 ( talk) 00:07, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi,
I started the above article some 16 years ago, and I can assure you I did not mean anything offensive with the title! If you look at the books I used (see the biblio in the artickle) all of them use that name "costumes". And User:Tiamut, a Palestinian woman who worked with me on the article, never thought it was offensive, either.
I don't have any strong opinion about the title, I am not very happy with " Palestinian clothing". As you see from the article, it is about traditional clothing, perhaps the article should be moved to Palestinian traditional clothing -or moved back to the original name? Cheers, Huldra ( talk) 23:00, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
2021 Jerusalem shooting You are a better judge of these things than me, is this an AfD candidate? Selfstudier ( talk) 17:39, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
I was brought up in a Muslim family, Shia background, and the government system was Sunni based, among all my friends I have never heard of such thing as "secondary source" in Islam - that would be either hadith or a scholar but hadiths are also primary sources, so what do you mean by that? Like a scholar supporting the Quran and Hadiths for example? we do have that, but AFAIK the secondary source here is the Hadiths, interpretations, etc... which support the clear Quranic context, furthermore there's thousands of Saudi and Azhar and IR scholars and even Iraqi Shia scholars (most of them, besides the modern necktie scholars who reject most islamic source) agree with these things, so again, what do you mean by secondary sources? Mrox2 ( talk) 15:49, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
Sunnis tend to view this as Sahih and have included it in Sahih Muslim.
And right hand posession: They are the slaves owned by those who owned them as slaves, male or female.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1132514455 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.28.184.235 ( talk) 06:35, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I saw your most recent edits to the Achaemenid Empire. Your edits mainly trimmed unsourced material. Well, if you come to think about it, much material is unsourced, not only in this article, but many other articles. Instead of directly deleting it, I think finding sources or challenging the material in the talk page would be likely better. Also, some information you deleted was quite important, so I came to discuss. I am still quite an inexperienced wikipedian, so please inform me if that information was deleted due to any specific reason. Thanks. PrathuCoder ( talk) 14:57, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I do not disagree that this should be a dab, however the long-standing redirect is to History of ancient Israel and Judah, which is not one of the choices you leave on the dab. And it has hundreds of links. Going through some of the links, it's going to be difficult to ascertain which target to use of the choices you provided. Shouldn't the current target of the redirect also be on the dab? Onel5969 TT me 12:06, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
The quote from Maududi you keep deleting is found in more than one posting of a full text of the work Towards Understanding Islam. Here is another not from archive.org:
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The quote from Maududi you keep deleting is found in more than one posting of a full text of the work Towards Understanding Islam. Here is another not from archive.org: https://zulkiflihasan.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/towardsunderstanding.pdf It is from a blog of a DR. ZULKIFLI HASAN, but the looking at the posting (of an e-book published by UKIM Dawah Centre) there certainly seems to be no reason to declare it " unreliable". -- Louis P. Boog ( talk) 17:21, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
Iskandar323, a seperate article for criticism of Wahhabism has already been created. Its better to go along with lines similar to criticism of Islamism. I am creating a small sub-section of criticism within the main Wahhabism page which will redirect to that article
Other sub-sections like "comparison with other Salafiyya movements" should also be reduced but core sub-sections like Doctrines, History, etc. cannot be entirely reduced. Because if you check articles of other ideologies, these sections are mostly reserved in these aricles, while criticism section is given a seperate article.
-- shadowwarrior8 ( talk) 5:50, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
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User 3skandar Selfstudier ( talk) 14:27, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
this. Did you check yours over already? I did make some edits last year, idk if the problem could be there, they didn't say where. Selfstudier ( talk) 22:49, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
Go ahead and zap it. The only sources is my own book. The only reason it made it to the book was because I was there. Further of course, the article never gained any weight from other editors. -- PaulinSaudi ( talk) 10:49, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
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Hey there! You didn't provide a reason or explained in your edit summary why you think the article needs an action from an expert in linguistic? While experts are always welcomed and encouraged to contribute, it would have been better to explain at least on the talk page on the issues at hand so that it can be discussed by the editors who are interested in the subject and overseeing the article maintenance, if any. — ♾️ Contemporary Nomad ( 💬 Talk) 13:49, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
The talk page of that article is pretty clear that "a new request for comments must be undertaken and reach consensus prior to any changes being made to the article's lead section. Editors editing the lead without consensus from an RfC are subject to sanctions such as page or topic bans or being blocked from editing.". You've made some significant changes to the lead without such a request. It seems you need to undo these changes and seek consensus for them first. And So It ( talk) 21:59, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
For obvious reasons please could you comment at
Talk:Aisha on different editors' proposed new paragraphs to the article on
Aisha concerning her age. --
Toddy1
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16:11, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
I comment here because the thread in the discussion was so long it crashed my browser. In respect to this I just wanted to say that all I've said was to illustrate that using specific terms through in a strict historiographical verdict can create odd claims, which are 100% true, but utterly confusing. The only think I truely believes is that Samaritans, Jews and Arabs are all Homo Sapiens, and the anything else is just a convenient label, and ultimately a lie. Our job is to reconcile between the different lies and prevent confusion and inaccuracies. Bolter21 ( talk to me) 09:16, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
None of the images in that page are actually needed, they’re all just portraits of relevant people, Muhammad is extremely relevant to that article and the section, so you have no reason to remove that one in particular.
the blurry one Doug tried replace it with was bad I agree, mine is neutral (and more tasteful than I think it deserved, I think something by Hebdo would be more suitable). Give an actual reason in talk or I’m putting it back. Ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarah ( talk) 06:56, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
This edit [2] as example is not WP:minor and not mere copyediting. Marking minor or writing copyediting in summary means no one reasonably can't object the edit if you have slightest doubt better not mark it as such especially in WP:ACDS area. Shrike ( talk) 10:08, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Brother, I applied to amend the claim that the commandos sank an Egyptian minesweeper before capturing 6 commandos of the Israeli navy. This was backed by reliable sources, however, no response Vergth ( talk) 00:51, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your help at Post Classical History, your citation fixes clean up the article quite nicely Also I did not know that 'auto' as you type into some of the citations is an option!
Thanks and best! Sunriseshore ( talk) 11:50, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello! This may seem out of the blue, but I am requesting some outside opinions from experienced editors on the
Bentinho Massaro article that I created - in particular as questions of neutrality and tone. Any help would be appreciated
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talk)
21:30, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
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Presume you know all about tertiary sources and their importance in assessing due weight, which can also help with titling questions. Please have a look at this page; I've been working on it solid and still have another dozen sources already [hand-]written up offline and just need to include them to finish, but am pretty burned out and need to go look at other stuff to clear my head (and what's this thing they speak of, known as 'eating' and 'sleeping'?). If you want to improve it, it's strictly a sources page, so no evaluation or summary or conclusions, other than that, go for it and add whatever you feel like. Also, the whole point of the page is to stop at some point and assess it and see if there's a trend in tertiary sources or not, so that should be done and whittled down to a paragraph or two with some tallies or remarks, and then added to a new subsection in "Discussion". And it should probably be done latest tomorrow, but it's probably already too late to affect the outcome, even if there is a trend. But at least there'll be something solid to look at next time, and there's no hurry, so I'm not bothered how it comes out this time. Mathglot ( talk) 08:40, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Iskandar323,
If you believe an article should be deleted, please nominate it for deletion consideration at Categories for Discussion, do not just remove all of the contents of the category and then tag it CSD C1. Doing this is called "emptying categories out of process" and is not the way to go about having a category deleted. Your edits to empty this category can be subject to reversion.
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You may have seen the RM at Talk:Gautama Buddha was closed. I clarified with the closer that the close is without prejudice against an immediate renomination for "Buddha" or "The Buddha". I believe the latter is most in line with Wikipedia policies; I'm working on a nomination statement now. Ruбlov ( talk • contribs) 17:42, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Despite the ongoing discussion that I opened on the talk page, there's one IP vandal using different IP addresses that keeps deleting sourced content and continuously engages in edit warring (the same one from Talk:Ger toshav). So far, no admin has intervened to stop that guy despite all of this. I have already requested an increased protection of the page and reported his IP addresses to WP:AIV, and yet nobody seems to care. GenoV84 ( talk) 19:32, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
I think you have been somewhat selective with your addition of Category:Islamophobia in India, on the following articles:-
Can you remove this category from these articles?
Remember, that political parties, individuals and entities in India or elsewhere may spew anti-Muslim lines from time to time, but it needs a lot more to categorise them as Islamophobic. Captain Jack Sparrow ( talk) 07:52, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I opened a DRN for Book of Daniel here
Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard#Talk:Book of Daniel Billyball998 ( talk) 00:07, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi,
I started the above article some 16 years ago, and I can assure you I did not mean anything offensive with the title! If you look at the books I used (see the biblio in the artickle) all of them use that name "costumes". And User:Tiamut, a Palestinian woman who worked with me on the article, never thought it was offensive, either.
I don't have any strong opinion about the title, I am not very happy with " Palestinian clothing". As you see from the article, it is about traditional clothing, perhaps the article should be moved to Palestinian traditional clothing -or moved back to the original name? Cheers, Huldra ( talk) 23:00, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
2021 Jerusalem shooting You are a better judge of these things than me, is this an AfD candidate? Selfstudier ( talk) 17:39, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
I was brought up in a Muslim family, Shia background, and the government system was Sunni based, among all my friends I have never heard of such thing as "secondary source" in Islam - that would be either hadith or a scholar but hadiths are also primary sources, so what do you mean by that? Like a scholar supporting the Quran and Hadiths for example? we do have that, but AFAIK the secondary source here is the Hadiths, interpretations, etc... which support the clear Quranic context, furthermore there's thousands of Saudi and Azhar and IR scholars and even Iraqi Shia scholars (most of them, besides the modern necktie scholars who reject most islamic source) agree with these things, so again, what do you mean by secondary sources? Mrox2 ( talk) 15:49, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
Sunnis tend to view this as Sahih and have included it in Sahih Muslim.
And right hand posession: They are the slaves owned by those who owned them as slaves, male or female.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1132514455 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.28.184.235 ( talk) 06:35, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I saw your most recent edits to the Achaemenid Empire. Your edits mainly trimmed unsourced material. Well, if you come to think about it, much material is unsourced, not only in this article, but many other articles. Instead of directly deleting it, I think finding sources or challenging the material in the talk page would be likely better. Also, some information you deleted was quite important, so I came to discuss. I am still quite an inexperienced wikipedian, so please inform me if that information was deleted due to any specific reason. Thanks. PrathuCoder ( talk) 14:57, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I do not disagree that this should be a dab, however the long-standing redirect is to History of ancient Israel and Judah, which is not one of the choices you leave on the dab. And it has hundreds of links. Going through some of the links, it's going to be difficult to ascertain which target to use of the choices you provided. Shouldn't the current target of the redirect also be on the dab? Onel5969 TT me 12:06, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
The quote from Maududi you keep deleting is found in more than one posting of a full text of the work Towards Understanding Islam. Here is another not from archive.org:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Islamism&diff=next&oldid=1134872162 There certainly seems to be no reason to declare it "
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The quote from Maududi you keep deleting is found in more than one posting of a full text of the work Towards Understanding Islam. Here is another not from archive.org: https://zulkiflihasan.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/towardsunderstanding.pdf It is from a blog of a DR. ZULKIFLI HASAN, but the looking at the posting (of an e-book published by UKIM Dawah Centre) there certainly seems to be no reason to declare it " unreliable". -- Louis P. Boog ( talk) 17:21, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
Iskandar323, a seperate article for criticism of Wahhabism has already been created. Its better to go along with lines similar to criticism of Islamism. I am creating a small sub-section of criticism within the main Wahhabism page which will redirect to that article
Other sub-sections like "comparison with other Salafiyya movements" should also be reduced but core sub-sections like Doctrines, History, etc. cannot be entirely reduced. Because if you check articles of other ideologies, these sections are mostly reserved in these aricles, while criticism section is given a seperate article.
-- shadowwarrior8 ( talk) 5:50, 24 January 2023 (UTC)