User talk:Alawi

hi Alawi. Just to let you know that i added your signature, or rather, your unsignature ;) on Talk:Gas in Mesopotamia. From your geek profile i would guess you should probably be a wikiholic, though by your record you don't seem to be one - not on en.wikipedia anyway (maybe on ar.wikipedia you're more active...?). In any case, you probably know that from the wikipedia point of view, your personal testimony cannot be quoted in the article itself, despite the fact that it looks credible and is probably much more direct info than any of the existing content. My guess is that possibly the only relatively easy way you could get the info into the article would be if you went to some faculty member at your university, e.g. someone working on west asian history, and got him/her to interview your grandparents and publish the results in some scholarly form.

BTW, you might be interested in this article: Violence against academics in post-invasion Iraq. A previous related article, listing Iraqi academics who had been killed, got deleted by some wikipedians who thought that systematic killing of Iraqi academics was not notable enough. Boud 22:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

December 2008[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Michael Collins (computational linguist)[edit]

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