Enlarging images a little bit is ok - maybe up to about 12-13%. I did it up to ~30%, which was a bit much, and the result was a bit fuzzy. The unsharp filter did fairly well, but was a bit too contrasty. I figured it would be good enough until someone changed it or did it better. - ==S V 20:32, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Pointless, cheezy aethetics. - ==S V 21:03, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering if there was any reason why you reverted my changes to the layout of the images on the Gowanus Canal page. I moved the images since they were sitting on top of text, which is what happens when the images don't have enough space. I also think its a poor design to have images sitting across section bars, especially when there is a lot of space without images as there is in this article.
I added "Reformation" as a movement because, though it is not a modern movement, the Wikipedia page for it does say, "The Protestant Reformation was a movement which emerged in the 16th century (although out of earlier roots) as a series of attempts to reform the Church in Western Europe." Certainly, the Reformation was a movement with lasting significance for the church. Is the list only for recent movements? -- Flex 17:46, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hey, nice job on the Allah page. Looks a lot better now. Mr100percent 04:06, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You may have missed the discussion, but the consensus was for anything smaller state/province, a list was better as it is hard to truly figure out the limits for some of these small categories. As a result of that discussion, a previous category, Airports of New York City was deleted and a list List of airports in the New York City area was created to allow explaination. Per that, I have listed this category on cfd. Burgundavia 00:10, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Pharos - you wrote: I've changed the wording to, I think, make it more useful— linking to the WikiProject rather than the "main" Wikipedia article. What's the point of more links to New York City anyway; maybe this should be a general practice with stub notices?
Hey. Just wondering if you think I should resubmit Gowanus Canal for featured status. Any ideas? -- Howrealisreal 21:51, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
I would like to apologise for editing the article with such sudden actions. I dont think any of you are Arabic Scholars, nore do you reference Arabic Scholars or Arabic Lexicons and Dictionaries to support your article that the name Allah is not a personal name of G-d in the Arabic language.
Your error is that you stated:
"Allah (Arabic aḷḷāhu الله) is traditionally used by Muslims as the Arabic word for "God" (not "God's personal name", but the equivalent of the Hebrew word El as opposed to the Tetragrammaton)"
This is wrong, and was changed from its correct perspective before we made our edit. The proper name of God in the Arabic language is "Allah" which is a personal name of God in the Arabic language. In such a statement you failed to show what the proper name ie personal name in Arabic there is to refer to God among Arabic speaking Jews Christians and Muslims.
I will start with Arabic Lexicons and Scholars:
The Above quote is by Edward Lane a Christian Classical Arabic Scholar the last by a Muslims Scholar in which both Quote other supreme Arabic authorities. Further more there is no Arabic Lexicon or Dictionary that supports to the contrary of the word Allah not being a personal name or proper noune.
The Wiki entry on the word should be change to :
"Allah (Arabic aḷḷāhu الله) is traditionally used by Muslims as the proper name of God in the Arabic language."
Also we have supplied ample proof that the word is not a contraction of the two Arabic words "al-ilah" which is even supported by the two leading Arabic authorites above. Please see other proof provided in discussion of the Article.
Another problem in your Article is that its states that "Allat" is the femine of "Allah". This is a blunt contradiction in the article. You cannot support that the word is a contraction of "al-ilah" then on the other hand support that the word "Allat" is the feminine of the word "Allah". Because, in you supported contraction theory "Allat" would also have to be a contraction whereas the feminine of "al-ilah" is "al-ilahat" and if you apply the same contraction theory to "al-ilahat" you will get "Allahat",not "Allat", to be the feminine if the word "Allah" is suppose to be a contraction of "al-ilah"
We have given you the proof please correct the Wiki article. The word "Allah" is the proper name of God in the Arabic language, which has no feminine and is not a contraction. ( Oxy2Hydro 22:31, 23 May 2005 (UTC))
I'm rather perplexed at your taking this off of IFD as "not an orphan". The whole point is that it is unencyclopedic because the text has been deliberately garbled, not that it is an orphan. The only two editors to speak on this were myself, being the nominator, and the uploader, who agreed with its deletion. Perhaps you simply misread the disussion. Thanks.-- Pharos 01:44, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed the three Wikiprojects you just set up related to theater in New York City. This is a good idea, as Wikipedia seems to be rather lacking in these topics. However, I think you are probably spreading yourself too thin with three Wikprojects when one would do. It's a relatively narrow topic, and I think everything would be best together. BTW, your project would also be a "daughter" of WikiProject New York City. I'll be glad to help out with the NYC theatre project as best as (with limited knowledge) I can. Good luck.-- Pharos 29 June 2005 03:56 (UTC)
Hi Pharos —
I noticed you mentioned at Wikipedia:Requested pictures that a map of the Trail of Tears would be useful. I'd be happy to make a GFDL one, so long as I have a good source to work from. Looking around, I've found a few common versions on the web: the two versions here, one shown here (difficult to make out), the versions here and here, and an interactive GIS map here.
I know very little about the history of the trail of tears, so don't know what's best, but would be happy to draw a map based on whichever is most appropriate. — Asbestos | Talk 1 July 2005 14:05 (UTC)
I didn't understand your comment. I was restoring text that was changed by a vandal. I wasn't trying to remove whichever information you are referring to. Parmaestro 6 July 2005 18:49 (UTC)
I responded to your comments on the talk page. I just wanted to say that I have nothing against the change. It was my fault anyway for the confusion. I am thankful you have been so involved in that COTW. Thanks. Falphin 7 July 2005 01:59 (UTC)
I just wanted to let you know, History of South Carolina(which you voted for is the current USSCOTW. Please come and help make it a featured-standard article. Falphin 22:54, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
Done. -- EugeneZelenko 05:47, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
Hmm. Did you want to say something at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 62#Vandalism in progress at Meta? You only signed without writing anything... - dcljr ( talk) 23:02, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi Pharos,
I do not agree with your explication, that:
"the Velvet Revolution was more than a decade before that in Belgrade - it may well have inspired the 'Color revolution' movements, but that's another matter."
The Velvet Revolution is "the mother" of all this colors, flowers, ....and so on revolutions. They all were inspired with it and they all were speaking about "their velvet revolutin" (Ukrain´s Velvet Revolution than -later- was named Orange and so).
Go at news.google.com and check out the terms "Velvet revolution" and compare it with "Color and Flowers". Simply You Are Wrong.
Sorry, my revert crossed in the ether with your INUSE tag. I'll run and hide until you're done. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:27, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
Compare Twosret and the article I just wikified, Queen_Tausret. I don't know where to leave such a message, so I leave it here.-- FourthAve 05:02, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
Enlarging images a little bit is ok - maybe up to about 12-13%. I did it up to ~30%, which was a bit much, and the result was a bit fuzzy. The unsharp filter did fairly well, but was a bit too contrasty. I figured it would be good enough until someone changed it or did it better. - ==S V 20:32, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Pointless, cheezy aethetics. - ==S V 21:03, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering if there was any reason why you reverted my changes to the layout of the images on the Gowanus Canal page. I moved the images since they were sitting on top of text, which is what happens when the images don't have enough space. I also think its a poor design to have images sitting across section bars, especially when there is a lot of space without images as there is in this article.
I added "Reformation" as a movement because, though it is not a modern movement, the Wikipedia page for it does say, "The Protestant Reformation was a movement which emerged in the 16th century (although out of earlier roots) as a series of attempts to reform the Church in Western Europe." Certainly, the Reformation was a movement with lasting significance for the church. Is the list only for recent movements? -- Flex 17:46, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hey, nice job on the Allah page. Looks a lot better now. Mr100percent 04:06, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You may have missed the discussion, but the consensus was for anything smaller state/province, a list was better as it is hard to truly figure out the limits for some of these small categories. As a result of that discussion, a previous category, Airports of New York City was deleted and a list List of airports in the New York City area was created to allow explaination. Per that, I have listed this category on cfd. Burgundavia 00:10, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Pharos - you wrote: I've changed the wording to, I think, make it more useful— linking to the WikiProject rather than the "main" Wikipedia article. What's the point of more links to New York City anyway; maybe this should be a general practice with stub notices?
Hey. Just wondering if you think I should resubmit Gowanus Canal for featured status. Any ideas? -- Howrealisreal 21:51, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
I would like to apologise for editing the article with such sudden actions. I dont think any of you are Arabic Scholars, nore do you reference Arabic Scholars or Arabic Lexicons and Dictionaries to support your article that the name Allah is not a personal name of G-d in the Arabic language.
Your error is that you stated:
"Allah (Arabic aḷḷāhu الله) is traditionally used by Muslims as the Arabic word for "God" (not "God's personal name", but the equivalent of the Hebrew word El as opposed to the Tetragrammaton)"
This is wrong, and was changed from its correct perspective before we made our edit. The proper name of God in the Arabic language is "Allah" which is a personal name of God in the Arabic language. In such a statement you failed to show what the proper name ie personal name in Arabic there is to refer to God among Arabic speaking Jews Christians and Muslims.
I will start with Arabic Lexicons and Scholars:
The Above quote is by Edward Lane a Christian Classical Arabic Scholar the last by a Muslims Scholar in which both Quote other supreme Arabic authorities. Further more there is no Arabic Lexicon or Dictionary that supports to the contrary of the word Allah not being a personal name or proper noune.
The Wiki entry on the word should be change to :
"Allah (Arabic aḷḷāhu الله) is traditionally used by Muslims as the proper name of God in the Arabic language."
Also we have supplied ample proof that the word is not a contraction of the two Arabic words "al-ilah" which is even supported by the two leading Arabic authorites above. Please see other proof provided in discussion of the Article.
Another problem in your Article is that its states that "Allat" is the femine of "Allah". This is a blunt contradiction in the article. You cannot support that the word is a contraction of "al-ilah" then on the other hand support that the word "Allat" is the feminine of the word "Allah". Because, in you supported contraction theory "Allat" would also have to be a contraction whereas the feminine of "al-ilah" is "al-ilahat" and if you apply the same contraction theory to "al-ilahat" you will get "Allahat",not "Allat", to be the feminine if the word "Allah" is suppose to be a contraction of "al-ilah"
We have given you the proof please correct the Wiki article. The word "Allah" is the proper name of God in the Arabic language, which has no feminine and is not a contraction. ( Oxy2Hydro 22:31, 23 May 2005 (UTC))
I'm rather perplexed at your taking this off of IFD as "not an orphan". The whole point is that it is unencyclopedic because the text has been deliberately garbled, not that it is an orphan. The only two editors to speak on this were myself, being the nominator, and the uploader, who agreed with its deletion. Perhaps you simply misread the disussion. Thanks.-- Pharos 01:44, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed the three Wikiprojects you just set up related to theater in New York City. This is a good idea, as Wikipedia seems to be rather lacking in these topics. However, I think you are probably spreading yourself too thin with three Wikprojects when one would do. It's a relatively narrow topic, and I think everything would be best together. BTW, your project would also be a "daughter" of WikiProject New York City. I'll be glad to help out with the NYC theatre project as best as (with limited knowledge) I can. Good luck.-- Pharos 29 June 2005 03:56 (UTC)
Hi Pharos —
I noticed you mentioned at Wikipedia:Requested pictures that a map of the Trail of Tears would be useful. I'd be happy to make a GFDL one, so long as I have a good source to work from. Looking around, I've found a few common versions on the web: the two versions here, one shown here (difficult to make out), the versions here and here, and an interactive GIS map here.
I know very little about the history of the trail of tears, so don't know what's best, but would be happy to draw a map based on whichever is most appropriate. — Asbestos | Talk 1 July 2005 14:05 (UTC)
I didn't understand your comment. I was restoring text that was changed by a vandal. I wasn't trying to remove whichever information you are referring to. Parmaestro 6 July 2005 18:49 (UTC)
I responded to your comments on the talk page. I just wanted to say that I have nothing against the change. It was my fault anyway for the confusion. I am thankful you have been so involved in that COTW. Thanks. Falphin 7 July 2005 01:59 (UTC)
I just wanted to let you know, History of South Carolina(which you voted for is the current USSCOTW. Please come and help make it a featured-standard article. Falphin 22:54, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
Done. -- EugeneZelenko 05:47, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
Hmm. Did you want to say something at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 62#Vandalism in progress at Meta? You only signed without writing anything... - dcljr ( talk) 23:02, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi Pharos,
I do not agree with your explication, that:
"the Velvet Revolution was more than a decade before that in Belgrade - it may well have inspired the 'Color revolution' movements, but that's another matter."
The Velvet Revolution is "the mother" of all this colors, flowers, ....and so on revolutions. They all were inspired with it and they all were speaking about "their velvet revolutin" (Ukrain´s Velvet Revolution than -later- was named Orange and so).
Go at news.google.com and check out the terms "Velvet revolution" and compare it with "Color and Flowers". Simply You Are Wrong.
Sorry, my revert crossed in the ether with your INUSE tag. I'll run and hide until you're done. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:27, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
Compare Twosret and the article I just wikified, Queen_Tausret. I don't know where to leave such a message, so I leave it here.-- FourthAve 05:02, 16 July 2005 (UTC)