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King Abdullah

hi, with all do respect to your opinion and to you contributions, the facts stated in the cotrevercy section are not acurate. i have looked through all of them. the israeli general didnt quite say that, his remarks were that there are fears from the situation in iraq. and the i didnt delete the one for human rights watch. and as for the los angeles times report. he doesnt have enough credibility with his opnion to be quoted in a biography. i have almost rewritten the military and achievements ares.. which in fact a user kept going in and removing alot of them. im not biased im basicly getting my information from official sources. please discuss with me how we can put the article in a "wikipedia acceptable" format with out any personal issues bieng involved. i look forward to you responce —Preceding unsigned comment added by Topsecrete (talk • contribs) 19:08, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

• ok about the israeli general, read http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4743244.stm ... it has better information about the issue. it doesnt mention any of that. any how you do have a point i acted hastfuly in editing. because i tried discussing it several times but my remarks keep getting deleted. any how. the language the controversy section is written in is very unprofesional in my opinion. with all do respect to the person who wrote it. ive been to the pages of several heads of state and there were no critisisms with such a sharp tone. and again. i can provide you with official/articles that contrididct the los angelous reporter. please help to rewrite some of the page to delete all bias from all sides

i look forward to ur responce

re: From grandia01

hi, can you please prove to me how the st. barnabas bible is a forgery??or is it just plain easy to say something like this from you?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grandia01 (talk • contribs)

From Gospel of Barnabas: "The Gospel is considered by the majority of academics (including Christians and some Muslims) to be late, pseudepigraphical and a pious fraud; however, some academics suggest that it may contain some remnants of an earlier apocryphal work edited to conform to Islam." I'm not sure that language could be any stronger.

Second, please avoid personal attacks (Wikipedia:No personal attacks) and conform to the 3RR rule (WP:3RR). Thanks. -Patstuart 10:10, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

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re: in reply to your "proof"

1)no muslim scholar denied the authenticity of the gospel of st. barnabas. 2)just because "some" scholar denied it doesn't mean that what he/she said is 100% right because you still didn't provide any logical stand-alone proof.for example:just because bush said that iraq had wmd's,does that mean that iraq really had wmd's?? 3)who are and what are the histories of these "scholars" that you mentioned??not a single name is given... thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grandia01 (talk • contribs)

First off, please understand, I am not trying to make an enemy out of you. I am trying to explain what I wrote. It is now twice that you have personally attacked me, and more times than that that you have simply been rude. I would appreciate if we could keep this discussion on civil grounds.

To explain, I actually took that quote right from Gospel of Barnabas on Wikipedia. That was not my own quote. Someone else wrote it. Secondly, when I called it a quackery in the edit summary, I was mimicking something that someone else had written earlier. So I am certainly not alonen in my position. If something is controversial, it is standard procedure that it is discussed on the talk page before it is added. This happens often; it happened with one of my edits earlier today. Please respect this. Thank you for your patience. -Patstuart 10:30, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Also, I believe that you are slightly mistaken in your facts. You have stated "no muslim scholar denied the authenticity of the gospel of st. barnabas." This is a blanket statement, and I find that highly doubtful. http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/gbar/index.htm, a non-partisan site, describes the text as solely adopted by Muslims, and completely rejected by western scholarship. Thus, it is not "some scholar" who says it's wrong. If anything, it is most of any scholar who says it wrong, with some notable exceptions in the Muslim world. -Patstuart 10:33, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

If you wish to have a discussion on the talk page, I am certainly prepared to back up my statements with reliable sources.

i ask god to show all of us the right path. - that is my prayer every day. Let us, then, do our part, and pray to listen, rather than speak to be heard (I speak as much for myself as for you). God bless. -Patstuart 10:52, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

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Dear Ahmedenijad, thank you for your advice.i guess i have to learn how to hold my temper.ramadhan mubarak!! :)) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Grandia01 (talk • contribs).

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Why is this image not in the public domain? It looks plenty old enough. But as on your upload you indicated that it was not free, I've deleted it. Herostratus 17:17, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

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Removal of your edits from Muhammad

The Gospel of Barnabas is widely considered a forgery. No sources you referenced for commentary on the Didache make mention of Islam or Mohommad. Please stop adding them to the Muhammad article. Frotz661 07:05, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

It should by now be obvious to you that this addition is not accepted by the editors to this article, and will be removed on sight. If you continue with this behavior, you will at some point assuredly be blocked. Until then, you are merely wasting everyone's time, including yours.Proabivouac 21:42, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

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Baldwin II of Jerusalem

It appears that your addition is a cut-and-paste off the Columbia Encyclopedia online here. We are not allowed to copy in that fashion, it's considered a copyright violation. Columbia Enc. would need to give explicit permission. Wjhonson 18:46, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment on my Talk page. In general it is fine to quote and cite the source, providing your quote does not make up the majority of the article, and provided your quote does not replicate the entire underlying source. Those are the areas where we get into hot water. So you could quote and cite one sentence say from the Columbia Enc. but if you quote the entire entry that's a no-no. Also if our entire article is simply one big quote, that's a no-no. The best articles have a mixture of direct and indirect quotes, plus summations of other sources all mixed together. See for example Krishnamurti which happens to have a lot of quotes and citations. But again, it has summations. It pulls together many sources into one article. Wjhonson 18:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Disruption on Muhammad

Grandia01, your repeated restoration of tendentious material without discussion and in total contempt of consensus has reached the level of disruption.[1], [2], [3] Please desist from this unacceptably dysfunctional approach to editting Wikipedia.Proabivouac 05:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Foretelling of Muhammad in the Bible?

Hello Grandia01 thanks for your polite note. The primary reason is that the material you're entering is considered to be somewhat of a fringe theory on the Muhammad article. This type of material can generally be removed per the undue weight clause of Wikipedia:Neutral point of view policy. What I would recommend you do is consider creating an article about that idea and write it with well sourced attributable citations. The better sourced the material is (with scholarly sources, etc.) the more likely that it will remain on Wikipedia. (→Netscott) 06:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

It's certainly novel. I've never seen anything like it before. Any source, if quoted, that refers to the Didache as a Gospel seems a bit suspicious. Perhaps Grandia you could quote and cite the complete section to Talk first so we can see what it is. Wjhonson 07:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Noted, please see the Talk page of Muhammad where I've opened a new discussion on whether the Gospel of Barnabas should not be mentioned in the article somewhere. Wjhonson 07:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Grandia01, sorry you caught me as I'm right in the middle of working on a template. I'm going to be a bit busy with that and then I will go to sleep... so I won't be particpating in that discussion for now. If it is still active later on today I will join in. See you. (→Netscott) 08:33, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

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I see no evidence of Grandia engaging in 3RR violations. Avi, please don't be heavy handed when there is no need for it. Thank you. Wjhonson 07:15, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Muhammad

Hi Grandia01,

We need secondary sources per WP:RS to add that. I remember I have read that somewhere but don't rememeber where. I'll add it as soon as I find it. Cheers, --Aminz 21:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Barnabas

Grandia01, I'm reading the thread right now. I'm not at all familiar with the Barnabas story so I need to familiarize myself with it a bit more before I comment but at this point I wouldn't be too inclined to include it. Let me read up on it. (→Netscott) 08:33, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Another editor suggested we move some of the more contentious references to Muhammed into a new article. I would not be opposed to that. As far as the Gospel of Barnabas is concerned I'm a bit ambivalent. I can see the argument that you propose, but I can also see the argument, that from the point-of-view of the Muhammad article, it's a bit tangential. It's a very late work, or at least first attested in a late context. It also has elements that tend to speak perhaps toward a source among non-Trinitarian Christians instead of Muslims. The specific ways in which it speaks of Muhammad might be considered blasphemous by Muslims or heretical perhaps. I think most of this is discussed on the G.O.B. page, perhaps we should leave it there. Wjhonson 23:46, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

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Peter Beter

Hi there. I would suggest thoroughly reading and understanding Wikipedia's policy about no original research. Your belief, although you think it is interesting (as you stated), does not belong in Wikipedia because it has not been published in any reliable sources.--Dcooper 17:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I would also like to warn you that you are one edit away from violating the three-revert rule.--Dcooper 17:55, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I was unable to find sufficient reliable sources about Beter, despite looking at numerous database and sources beyond Google. Maybe you can find some sources, but I don't think there are enough available to support Wikipedia having an article on Peter Beter. As such, the article is nominated for deletion. I only found sources that talk about him, in reference to Jonestown. If there were enough sources, I would be willing to help improve the article. It's possible he can be mentioned in that or other articles, provided that suitable sources are given. You can weigh in on the deletion page. Regards. --Aude (talk) 18:52, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, you removed the article for deletion template from Peter Beter with this [4], claiming that there is no discussion about the deletion. You can find where it is being discussed here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Beter. Feel free to contribute to the discussion, and to vote to keep or delete the article.--Dcooper 17:13, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Peter Beter

I don't know much about the article, I closed the AfD based on the discussion (where no consensus developed). Re sources, yes, in principle you can use audio sources, but it would be better if you can find an online transcript of the recordings and cite that. Also, bear in mind that the article shouldn't rely fully on primary sources from the subject themselves; on Wikipedia, independent secondary sources are preferred. See WP:RS and WP:ATT for more information on sourcing. Walton ^{Need some help?} 16:55, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Salam

Will you like to help in improving Including Muhammad Pictures Against wiki-policies using references. Thanking you in anticipation. --- A. L. M. 22:12, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Top Rank

[5] dear brother we do not need it. It is not a useful information. We do not need a western author support to tell other his contribution to our lifes. Many western authors say him bad but we do not also quote them. Because they are not relavent. We should try to tell history in clear way. :) :) --- A. L. M. 07:47, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

ALM, you are absolutely correct.Proabivouac 03:49, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Personal attacks (again)

Grandia01, this edit is completely unacceptable.[6] Personal attacks are not allowed on Wikipedia; do not make them.
Bear in mind that Wikipedia aims to discuss topics from a neutral point of view; this is not the appropriate venue to prove that anyone "is the greatest person who ever lived."
Finally, Wikipedia operates on the principle of consensus. Repeating the same edit against consensus, as you did for some time early with the "Gospel of Barnabas" material, and as you are doing now with the Hart quote, is disruptive. Use the talk page to try to obtain consensus (though it seems unlikely that you will) and refrain from personal attacks. Thank you.Proabivouac 03:47, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

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Hitler

Grandia, if you don't have that passage then it is not saying anything about Hitler's religious beliefs is it, so what relevance does it have to the article? There is some reason to link Hitler's thought to broad ideas about Indo-European thought, especially as mediated by the German Idealist tradition. These points are discussed in detailed literature on Hitler's religious thought such as the papers published in the Journal of Contemporary History earlier this year and Michael Rissmann book Hitler's Gott (Zurich, 2001). Paul B 16:35, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

You are not making any sense. The Nazis believed that the Aryans originated in Germany, following the ideas of Gustaf Kossinna. They thought that the swastika was a symbol used by the Aryans in their travels, and that it eventually ended up in Iran and India. They did not think it originated there. Actually the more "paganist" of Nazis, such as Himmler and Rosenberg, were much more influenced by Zoroastrianism than Hinduism. The point is that this passage is just confused about the nature of Aryanist religious ideology. Paul B 16:45, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't have any problem with the BBC article itself. As I say, much of it is copied from what I wrote anyway! It's the interpretation that's at assue. However, this section could probvably be expanded, so I will add material from scholarly sources later. Paul B 17:06, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

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Nice addition there about Organic honey. You might want to consider combining that paragraph with the existing paragraph on organic honey. By itself, it seems out of place. The resulting larger section would likely work well as an Organic honey subsection to the Types of honey section or Honey as a product section. Also: I moved the cholesterol-related references you added, and made a comment about them on the talk page. I'd appreciate if you could respond to that. -- Bigwyrm 06:36, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

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thank you,i followed condition# 1.Grandia01 15:35, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Photos

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Image:D icke.jpg

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REQUEST FOR A NEW TAG(REFERENCES)

Hello,can anyone make a template for articles/sections that cite the same source(s)repeatedly throughout its paragraphs???thank youGrandia01 08:34, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually that already exist - if I get what your saying. Try this - when you first cite the source put <ref name="Something_You_Can_Remember">(ref goes here)</ref> and then when you want to cite it again just type <ref name="The_name_you_put" /> --danielfolsom 15:38, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Ahh, here it is - it was already created: Template:Onesource - sorry for the confusion--danielfolsom 02:38, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Ohh, well actually, that doesn't exist and it can't. There used to be a template like that - Template:More_sources - but it was deleted. Sorry bout that - really having 2-3 sources though, is fine. There's no policy against it - you just have to avoid having one source.--danielfolsom 03:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

AHH - nevermind! Template:Refimprove - the article needs additional sources--danielfolsom 03:09, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Eep

long essay added to my talk page. --Alvestrand 05:10, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

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Warning you again about Personal Attacks

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This is your last warning.
If you continue to make personal attacks on other people, you will be blocked for disruption. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Smashville 16:07, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

with all due respect,what are you talking about??after officegirl i didn't say anything to anyone!!!Grandia01 18:06, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

This revision and this revision. Smashville 20:47, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Smashville, 1)I may agree you about saying the word bull**** there, and i apologize for it, but, in all fairness, did you say the same thing to the ^*&#$ who said it first???i may be overly sarcastic but i didn't initiate downright filth like that guy 2)calling someone a professor sarcastically is a personal attack?do you have experience living here on earth or in a different planetSmashville????Grandia01 21:14, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I read the sarcasm very clearly, hence the warning. Smashville 21:20, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Also, the editor claimed the article as "bullshit" in an AfD. That was his Delete reason. Maybe not the best argument, but it wasn't a personal attack directed at anyone and wasn't made in bad faith. Smashville 21:25, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

not on bad faith and not a personal attack,then he is being respectful then eh??oh so after all it's ok for him to use such words in wikiepdia right??good luck finding anyone who will buy your justification.whatever manGrandia01 21:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

This is your only warning.
The next time you delete or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia, as you did to User talk:Grandia01, you will be blocked from editing. Removal of talk page comments - specifically personal attack warnings - constitutes vandalism. - Smashville 04:35, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

oh you're the so-called editor who condoned the use of the word bullshit on wikipedia.leave me alone and get a lifeGrandia01 05:57, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Speaking only as myself, but it seems last warnings are being chucked around rather freely in here. They are meant to serve the purpose of stopping really disruptive users, but I think they can also be quite provocative and menacing. While I also don't condone Grandia's behaviour, I think they got offended by something and overreacted to it, and the above is just continuing the wikidrama and provoking further reaction. Unless something major and new happens, there doesn't seem any point in dropping any further warnings and hopefully Grandia will move on quickly. Should also be noted that blanking a section of one's own user talk page is foreseen by WP:TALK and does constitute acknowledgement, so the last warning for "vandalism" was pretty much invalid - although I'd also note that blanking disruptively, or removing valid warnings with the intention of hiding them, is another matter. Orderinchaos 03:45, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

thanks for your unbiased interference Orderinchaos. you hear that Smashville??your last warnings are "distributed" irrationally and your last "warning" is simply invalid. Orderinchaos, thanks for clarifying this and seeing things from my perspective, i apologize. as for you Smashville??i'd say that your warnings are nothing but bullshitGrandia01 05:17, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I actually think Smashville (and others) were acting in good faith but got carried away, just as you did in making the initial comments. Usual situation of sometimes it is possible to get too close to a situation and not see the forest for the trees. Orderinchaos 07:21, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

thanks again Orderinchaos, per your words of wisdom, i'll try my best to calm down first hopefully to see the big picture before i judge anythingGrandia01 07:34, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

comments

From your other contributions, it would be my belief that you signed up to Wikipedia with the intent of improving it. However, it's easy to get sidelined into battles, some of which are quite pointless and use up a lot of energy. I don't actually see what the one above is achieving for either party. Firstly, when someone disagrees with you in a debate, I would suggest not taking it personally. I've read the AfD concerned and the vote made by the person you seem to be most upset about would almost definitely get ignored by the closing admin. By getting in and fighting with them, all that happens is your own credibility suffers, and you accumulate enemies. Secondly, as a result of being sidelined into this dispute, only 4 of your recent edits don't relate to it. My advice would be to forget about it for a few days and contribute to other articles which you can improve - that will go a lot further to establishing your credentials than debating above, as I think it's long past the point where anyone can win. Orderinchaos 03:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Image:David Ic..jpg

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NCIC

Looks good to me (all the changes I made were formatting ones, except for the addition of a lead sentence). One slightly confusing aspect re the refs is that they seem to call it the "...executive" rather than the "center", and the AAAS link suggests the Executive replaced the Center in Jan 2001, but seems to be no problems otherwise. Also worth a look is Template:Infobox Govt Agency, a fairly new infobox template for government agencies. Overall, great :) Orderinchaos 06:10, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Grandia01, everything looked fine except for the name of the office, which was changed on Jan 5, 2001 - the original organization was created in 1994 (that's where you got the date 5 January 1994.) I was about to move it to Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, only to find the article already existed (albeit not a particularly impressive one.) So, I merged your material with what was present, with a redirect from the old name. I'm honestly not certain how to do this and remain in compliance with GFDL: I credited you with the material in the summary and stated which article it was moved from, which provides a link to the original edits should anyone wish to follow up.
We have a "primary sources" tag, because the original article had no second-party sources. Thanks to you, we now have one, but we need more to justify removing the tag.Proabivouac 07:07, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

BIG thanks to both of you,can i ask you guys to "audit" my contributions more often in the future??thanks again and againGrandia01 07:20, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

______________________

• Grandia01, Nice Artistic illustration of Beibars in battle. Do you have a nice illustration for Sirat al-Zahir Baibars ? Thanx

Samsam22 20:23, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

hmmm,this can be tough,you will have to-most probably-scan the book cover or some of its pages(if it has any in-book pics/photos).give me some time please and let me see what i can find.thanks for the suggestion.Grandia01 22:23, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

• Thank you. take your time. yes I have many books of it but the problem if I scan and put will be a copyright matter.

Samsam22 01:19, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

its no biggie really,there's no copyright issue as long as you: 1)indicate that this is a scan of a book's cover 2)provide a fair use rationale to make sure that ur not violating anything.hope you do!!!Grandia01 01:59, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

• Ok. Thanx . I will scan .

Samsam22 10:50, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

• Hi Grandia01 , no I did not yet. I havn't been on internet for a few days. I will scan soon. I have a few .. I'll let you know when ready.. regards

Samsam22 20:18, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Grandia01, thank you for your supportive comments awhile back.Proabivouac 04:09, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

my pleasure buddy,you've always been there to correct/improve my edits on pages like peter beter's and Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive's.after all this,the least i could i do is vouch for you to show my gatitude.if you don't mind me asking,what's stopping you from becoming an admin though??does it make a difference in anyway for other editors to voice their opinions on who to nominate for adminship??please let me know.thanksGrandia01 08:15, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

In defending the weak and despised, I've made far too many enemies. All the people who would keep us on our knees…. My current username is shot, a Flying Dutchman corpse only useful to continue existing discussions in which the introduction of a new sock would be inherently suspicious. Were I to seriously continue, I'd have to do so under another username, rack up yet another 5-10k edits and another 10 barnstars, and even then I'd have to be wary of hostile RWI trolling from the IRC crowd and the Arbitration Committee.Proabivouac 09:36, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

that's sad man,i remember a while back you were actually offered to be an admin but you refused.i guess you have no choice but to keep on making good edits hopefully you can change the opinions of other admins about you.hey did you think about messaging the admin who offered you adminship??try that and see what happens.best of wishesGrandia01 00:36, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

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At best, this is misleadingly described, which at least borders on vandalism. - Jmabel | Talk 02:04, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Your comments on my talk page

I'm not going to warn you on your civility or personal attacks because you already know this isn't acceptable. My block of Matt57 was designed to halt his stalking and harrassment of Elonka over related articles and because of the amount of disruption that seems to follow him round. The block was endorsed at ANI by several other administrators and there was no tangible opposition from what I remember. In short, I'm happy with the decision. Spartaz ^Humbug! 12:10, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

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Your note

Hey, thanks for your note. Let me look into the article history and figure out whether I think it's getting vandalized enough to be protected. If it's only a couple times a day, in my opinion that's not enough to merit protection, because it could lose us good edits. I think a good edit is way more valuable than an vandal edit is harmful, so I hate to protect unless it's absolutely necessary. So I'll get right back to you. Peace, delldot talk 06:28, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey again. Yeah, I don't think that amount of vandalism merits protecting. One thing I do think we could do to prevent the section from being removed continually is to make it more neutral in tone, since it reads like it's critical of the leader. The person may just be removing this because they think it's an unfair treatment of the subject. I'll try to work on this myself, and I recommend you do to. Thanks for keeping a lookout for the page! Definitely let me know if the vandalism gets much heavier. Peace, delldot talk 06:37, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Definitely! I'm working on it now, but I haven't gotten to the contentious part yet :) Let me know what you think when I'm done. Peace, delldot talk 07:22, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey again Grandia, I couldn't figure out what you were referring to, but I was pretty tired last night, so I probably made an error. If it's an obvious mistake, go ahead and replace the ref and remove the fact tag, then show me the diff of your edit. If it's not, could you show me the diff of my edit where I did it, and point out the part of the particular part of my edit where I did that? I looked briefly at the 3 edits I made, but didn't see what you were talking about. Sorry for the mixup, Peace, delldot talk 05:35, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I see what you were referring to. I changed that because I checked the reference and I couldn't actually find in it where it asserted what the article asserted. It was just a list of human rights violations. I think that reference is not that good of one anyway. What we really need to do is find the specific article where they say that, and link directly to it. Because having a reference for a fact that's not in the reference is really bad, in terms of honesty and verifiability. Again, I was really tired last night, so I might have missed where it said that. Can you point me to it? Thanks much, delldot talk 06:07, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

I know, let's take this to the article's talk page, so others can be involved in the discussion and it's easier to keep the thread together. We can leave each other notes when we've posted there so we'll know about it sooner. Peace, delldot talk 06:44, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

OK, I posted my note, it's at Talk:Abdullah II of Jordan#Issue with references. (Look out, it's long!) Thanks for the hard work you've put in, sorry to keep bringing stuff up. Peace, delldot talk 07:05, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey, sorry to take so long to respond! I replied at User talk:Delldot#vandalism on King Abdullah II's page. Peace, delldot talk 10:51, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

What do you think? :) delldot talk 12:55, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I responded on my talk page. Peace, delldot talk 15:28, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey Grandia! Here's my thoughts on the article's talk page. Thanks for doing such a good job getting the additional info I asked for. Sorry to bring up more objections.  :) Peace, delldot talk 16:44, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:K-philby.jpg)

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Reference Template

There already are those templates the can be found here Ctjf83 ^talk 21:21, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

try using {{refimprove}} this one, it is as close as it gets Ctjf83 ^talk 21:28, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Toujan al-Faisal

Aw, thank you for your kind words! Sure, linking to Toujan al-Faisal sounds fine, especially since the ref you provided is more directly related to democracy in Jordan than to Abdullah himself. Of course, I hope you'll take my suggestions on Talk:Abdullah II of Jordan into account when doing it. The more refs you can find on the subject the better! Peace, delldot talk 17:26, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Joke edit on Paul is Dead

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To be clear, in case you somehow really didn't understand waht happened inthat clip: Huckabee had been confronted about the 'subliminal message' in his christmas season advert. as a means of dismissing the charge against him, he referenced The Beatles, whose white album, or abbey road, i forget which, had been the subject of an urban legend wherein if played backwards, some song or other would say 'Paul is dead, Paul is dead'. Thus Huckabee was jokingly referring to the Beatles, who were jokingly refering to Paul McCartney. Fox News' ticker simply happened to run the summary news of that topic during an interview with Ron Paul. Hope this helps, and if not, then your'e being deliberately obtuse. ThuranX (talk) 07:12, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

deliberately obtuse??at least i'm no jew!!Grandia01 (talk) 08:28, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

January 2008

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Image on Adolf Eichmann

I've posted a note about the image you put on the article about Eichmann here. I'm simply unsure if the image you've posted or the one you replaced qualify for inclusion on Wikipedia. AniMate 08:04, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

If you look at my post at WP:AN I just said that I was unsure about the rationale for your photo and the other. I have no stake in which picture is in the entry, and of course will abide whatever the consensus is. Peace, AniMate 08:20, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Granadia, done. Note that the fair use policy is pretty strict, so you can't use fair use images except in a pretty narrow range of circumstances. On an unrelated note, what on earth was this about? Why would you want to harm the project that way? I find that quite upsetting, but I'll assume that you're not going to do anything like that again, right? If it wasn't you, have you taken steps to secure your account, e.g. by changing your password? Peace, delldot talk 15:28, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the apology. I'm so pleased to hear it wasn't you. Definitely change the password right away, and I'd also suggest having a look at Wikipedia:Security. Be careful when logging in on public computers like school computers, for example don't leave yourself signed in when you get up from the computer. (Incidentally, security is why I'm editing from this alternate account right now: I'm editing from a computer at work, and I like to take paranoia about my account getting hacked to a whole new level =] ).

As I understand it, the change you showed me was not correct because it would be the original picture's copyright, not that of the website it happens to be on, that matters. But I'm not the biggest expert with this, so I'm going to let other folks on ANB handle it. I asked that editor to explain their change to me.

I'm not aware of the rules governing copyright of seized Nazi property, can you point me to them?

One minor thing: it's customary per the talk page guidelines to post new messages at the bottom of a page. If you do that on my talk page, it will increase the likelihood that I'll actually see it quickly ;) Thanks much, Delldot on a public computer (talk) 07:19, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Personally, I would have waited to see if they responded to my note or tried to discuss it first, before just reverting. I'm not an expert in image matters so I wasn't sure about the original copyright either. But at any rate, hopefully the way it is is cool. If someone has a problem with it, we'll have to figure it out with them. Peace, delldot talk 22:06, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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Robert Ley

Hey Granadia. Sadly, the copyright policy is very strict, so absence of copyright info does not mean that it's not copyrighted, and the burden of proof is on the person who wants to keep the image.

You did a good job with the fair use, I think it should be ok, since he's dead it may not be replaceable. You should check first, though, to figure out whether you can find a free image. The reason the speedy deletion template's there is because you haven't provided a fair use rationale, as explained in Wikipedia:NFCC#10c. basically you have to fill in this guy: {{Non-free use rationale |Article= |Description= |Source= |Portion= |Low_resolution= |Purpose= |Replaceability= |other_information= }} or find a more specific one in Category:Non-free use rationale templates. There's more info at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline. You have to provide the rationale before the 31st. Do you know the other people in the deletion discussion? How did they come across it? Not to jump to conclusions, but I hope you didn't canvas them. Anyway, let me know if you need help. Peace, delldot talk 05:43, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Has it? If so, and you can demonstrate it, definitely go for that. delldot talk 14:56, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi again, sorry, but I don't think that will work. As I said, you have to actually be able to demonstrate for sure that it's not copyright, not just assert a common sense reason why you don't think it would be. I think you should change the license back unless you can demonstrate for sure what the copyright status is. However, the fair use claim would probably hold up. Peace, delldot talk 06:39, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm sorry, but I still see that as absence of evidence, not evidence of absence of copyright. You might have to ask someone that's better at image copyrights, I'm kind of an amateur. But my belief is that it still won't work without positive evidence of the image's source. Why not go the fair use route? delldot talk 07:01, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

I think the unknown copyright tag that you had would be the right way to go here, unless we can actually figure out what the copyright is. I have never heard of fair use being disallowed for free images, it just wouldn't be as good, since fair use content is so much more restricted. Why don't you ask on the help desk? Maybe someone with more of a clue than me can help figure out how to deal with it. Peace, delldot talk 07:09, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Cool, I hope that works out. Thanks for working so hard on it! Peace, delldot talk 13:52, 27 January 2008 (UTC)