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hi, thanks for advise, actually i am already using MS Office for spelling check, it do provide a little assistance in grammar but it cant help me in the issue of "style", english language have its own style, i am not a native speaker of english so "style" has always been a problem for me. Since i started writing on wikipedia i have learn a lot on this style stuff and will learn more. Regards الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 12:22, 31 October 2009 (UTC) reply

It goes like this..... first heraclius sent reinforcement, probably to attack muslims at their rear while they were besieging the city, this reinforcement was checked by Muslim scouts deployed at damascus-emesa road at "Uqab pass" (Saniyyat al uqab) 20 km north of Damascus, a column under Raafai was sent to counter this threat, but Raafai's column proved to be too small and was nearly surrounded, until it was rescued by Khalid's mobile guard which then drove back the byzantine reinforcement north towards emesa. 5000 men were sent with raafai and khalid took a further manpower of 4000 men, thus threatening Muslim's position at damascus in case of a massive sally at any gate. Khalid therefore didnt pursuit the fleeing byzantines at this battle of uqab pass and rather hurried to damascus to press the siege. Hope this will clear the confusion. Regards. الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 10:28, 29 November 2009 (UTC) reply

• Thanks for your excellent copy-editing. I was just thinking to put the article on any copy editing desk before u just voluntarily started its copy editing. Thumbs up !

I will shroty provide the references to the article. الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 07:48, 3 December 2009 (UTC) reply

• When Muslim army started march to fahl (Pella), Khalid was leading the advance guard and when he arrived at pella he saw tht the plains were being flooded by the water of river jordan. Byzantine garrison in order to halt muslim advance towards pella had blocked river jordan and thus the plains in the suburbs of pella were flooded.

I will take a look at tht article one i am done with damascus's الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 09:23, 4 December 2009 (UTC) reply

• yes he said all this at one time.

الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 12:20, 7 December 2009 (UTC) reply

• Hi, i have added some new stuff in the siege of damascus, please check it for grammar and style. In a peer review they urged for a copy-editing.

Regards الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 11:58, 11 December 2009 (UTC) reply

thanks

الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 15:57, 11 December 2009 (UTC) reply

• hi, we are having a little dispute on Talk:Muslim conquest of Persia. See if you can help making the language of Religion section of the article more neutral.

الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 20:58, 13 December 2009 (UTC) reply

• Thanks

الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 10:17, 14 December 2009 (UTC) reply

• thats a big opps, thanks for pointing out i will fix it shortly. My grammar and spellings really sucks, they really do.

الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 12:41, 14 December 2009 (UTC) reply

I think you already have copy edited battle of yarmouk ????

You tagged it with copy editing tag.??

الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 09:28, 20 December 2009 (UTC) reply

Ok then plz do it when ever you get time. a week Before you User:Unflavored did its copy editing.

الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 11:23, 20 December 2009 (UTC) reply

If you have some spare time take a look at Khalid ibn Walid's article, it might need a minor copy-edit, its up for a peer review now a days.

الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 23:34, 6 January 2010 (UTC) reply

byzantine sources such as Theophanes the Confessor, mentions this, no muslim sources mentions this story of defection, although they talk about individual defections of some byzantines to muslim side usually by converting to islam. Modern historians agree with this individual defections but usually discard the possibility of whole scale defections of christian arab tribes (as mentioned by Theophanes the Confessor who says 12,000 defected.) They consider is a possible excuse for the defeat.

الله أكبر Mohammad Adil 15:10, 7 January 2010 (UTC) reply

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If you don’t have the time I would be happy to change the colour scheme myself, but I thought I should first seek consensus. Odysseus1479 ( talk) 04:13, 24 October 2010 (UTC) reply

 Done on each respective page.

Thanks. Lihaas ( talk) 12:05, 2 November 2010 (UTC) reply

Thanks for doing some work on my image... feel free to work on any of mine! QFL 24-7  ^{bla ¤ cntrb ¤ kids ¤ pics ¤ vids} 16:32, 20 March 2011 (UTC) reply

Yes, it looks great. Thank you! I see from the messages above that you have done other such work. So:

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		To Wereldburger758/Citypeek for his ace mapwork. Cheers. Saravask 01:43, 13 September 2011 (UTC) reply

Thank again! Saravask 01:43, 13 September 2011 (UTC) reply

The dots in Kashmir and Spain are the current centers. Is it also possible to remove the surplus transparent area around the border? Thanks again. Regards. Saravask 00:40, 14 September 2011 (UTC) reply

Map looks wonderful. Now all that's needed is to make it a rotating orthographic projection gif with blinking indicators ... Just kidding. Take care. Saravask 00:16, 15 September 2011 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the link, I didn't know it existed. I wanted to know how the image looked on the article though; that's why I said I was testing it. But I suppose I could use the Test.svg image to do that and apply it on the article page from now on. _EricLeb⁰¹ ( Page | Talk) 18:50, 25 September 2011 (UTC) reply

Hello,have you received my message on the graphics lab map workshop concerning serbia map? Drax90 ( talk) 15:44, 15 October 2011 (UTC) reply

please check map workshop for additional remarks i have made thanks Drax90 ( talk) 07:03, 1 November 2011 (UTC) reply

Hello again I left you a message on map workshop :D Drax90 ( talk) 16:26, 7 December 2011 (UTC) reply

Hello, Wereldburger758. You have new messages at Kirill Lokshin's talk page.
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Hi,

Thanks for comment on ShareMap grant page. I tried to fix some misspellings as you suggested . I will be happy if you also add other comments

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/ShareMap

regards -- Jkan997 ( talk) 10:33, 10 October 2013 (UTC) reply

I also see that you added and removed your endorsement - if you have done this intentionally its fine, but in case of mistake just add it again - I know it is not very easy to be first in public speech :)

In case of any further questions just let me know - opinions of all Wikipedians are important for us

-- Jkan997 ( talk) 21:40, 10 October 2013 (UTC) reply

Thanks a lot for the new map! Nyttend ( talk) 13:05, 27 October 2013 (UTC) reply

hi Wereldburger758, thank you for your message. I personally favour this one [1]. However, there are some changes that need to be done. Could you please take the same orange colours like in the old map? The right side should be a stronger colour, the left hand very light. In that way you can avoid the white border in between those two parts and draw the international border that is dividing them instead. Could you also add the rivers to it, like in this map File:Badakhshan.svg? The colours should be similar to each other, because the right hand side is the original region. The left hand is a later addition. So orange and yellow would be good. Thank you. Gryffindor ( talk) 10:11, 22 November 2013 (UTC) reply

Wereldburger758,

A brief response to your observation on the Gaugamela talk page: In a nut shell, the map can be both correct and incorrect depending on which source you choose to accept. There is some ambiguity in the ancient texts.

The first map show the opening phases, in which Darius ordered his wings to try to outflank the Macedonians, it is fairly representative of all three accounts.

The second map is also fairly representative of Arrian's account, which is considered by most classical historians to be the most accurate.

Arrian states that Mazaeus sent about 1,000 Scythian and 2,000 Indian cavalry into the center gap created between the Macedonian right flank and left flank by Alexander's oblique movement on the left (Arr., 3.14.6-8). Yet Diodorus and Curtius are much more vague and can lead readers to conclude that Mazaeus sent the same force around the flank. Diodorus: "Mazaeus...sent off two thousand Indian [and] one thousand Scythian horsemen with orders to ride round the enemy's flank and continue on to their camp (Diod., 17.59.5)." Curtius' account is similar, stating that Mazaeus sent one thousand cavalry "to ride around and plunder the enemy's baggage (Curt., 4.15.5). However, anyone who has even the slightest amount of military bearing or knowledge would be able to conclude that Arrian's account is the most accurate.

The flanking movement that you mentioned is indicated by Arrian, in the very last sentence of 3.14. Arrian states that the right flank was unaware of Darius flight from the battlefield, and were continuing their attack, and had begun a flank attack on Parmenio's left flank troops. This near encirclement is part of what caused Alexander to break of his pursuit of Alexander (Arr., 3.15.1). In this aspect, the second map is correct, the center gap breech is correctly depicted, and the flank attack, which appears to be and encirclement, is correct.

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Someone took my username and my introduction page and used that on the Wikipedia of Tajikistan: https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80:Wereldburger758

What can I do? Wereldburger758 ( talk) 10:08, 22 December 2019 (UTC) reply

Did you ever visit the Tajik version of Wikipedia, even accidentally? I don't get the sense that someone took over your account and used it just on the Tajik Wikipedia to transfer your userpage there. I'm wondering if it was somehow transcluded there. 331dot ( talk) 10:48, 22 December 2019 (UTC) reply

Accidentally visited the Tajik version of Wikipedia? No, I don't think so. I cannot read Tajik. I don't think my account itself was stolen. But this is so weird. I put a message on the page of the one who posted a welcome on my talk page. A few questions:

• Isn't it so that you get a welcome message only after your first edit?
• Who to contact about this issue? I really don't want to be on the Tajik website.
• Is there some overriding authority that can deal with this?

Thank you for your answer. Wereldburger758 ( talk) 11:00, 22 December 2019 (UTC) reply

Any Wikipedia account on any version of Wikipedia(or its sister projects also run by the Wikimedia Foundation) can be used to access any other language version of Wikipedia(or again, its sister projects). I've seen some other reports about messages on the Tajik Wikipedia or emails from it, evidently the editors there might be using a bot to contact editors reminding them that the Tajik project exists(which probably does not have many editors). I'm guessing that at some point you might have accidentally and even very briefly ended up there for some reason; that's happened to me and I have several welcome messages on versions of Wikipedia in other languages some of which I've never heard of. I don't think there's much you can do about it; you could request that your user page there be deleted(but you would have to be able to do it in Tajik) but since accounts are global across all such projects, you can't prevent this sort of thing from happening. You could go to the Meta-Wiki, the global community site and ask for further assistance; you could also ask at the Help Desk here to see if others know more than I. 331dot ( talk) 11:11, 22 December 2019 (UTC) reply

Thank you again for your answer. Things are more clear now. I know what to do. -- Wereldburger758 ( talk) 05:52, 23 December 2019 (UTC) reply