User talk:Khoikhoi/Archived

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Ivanov Image

Hi there khoikhoi i was hoping to get some help from yor self to align that photo that i uploaded to that entry so it would be in a centre alignment within the box, or is it just going to get deleted? --argonorgan (talk) 21:47, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Apologies for misunderstanding why the picture had been flagged for deletion in the first place, the image i have uploaded is a cropped photo of the same image which is found lower down in the entry, the original image is copyrighted for public use from the US government however i have not indicated this in the set up of my image onto the commons. Is it still applicable for the image i have added, since it has been cropped and if it is, how do i do this? I hope you can help a new user!! --argonorgan (talk) 22:01, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

An image name

Hi! I updated an image name on your Gallery page. Tsunami by hokusai is now The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hope you don't mind. Best regards. Oda Mari 14:54, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

WP Zimbabwe

Part 18:01, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

User:213.178.224.164

213.178.224.164 (talk · contribs) is another User:CoCoWaWa sockpuppet. Corvus cornix 22:07, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Tibetan towns and villages

HI I need to know who to speak to about this. I am currently as you know adding all the towns and villages in Tibet. I want to create a standard infobox Tibetan settlement for all the towns and villages such as Infobox Tibetan settlement. Is there anyway we can have something like this: Domartang but with parameters to include the Tibetan/Chinese language section like on Deleg at the top so it all goes neatly in one box for settlements? PLease respond on this as soon as you can as I feel it very important thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 13:35, 13 September 2007 (UTC) Something like this:

{{#if: | {{#if: |

Domartang, Tibet

Tibetan name
Tibetan:	{{{t}}}
Wylie transliteration:	{{{w}}}
Tournadre Phonetic:	{{{to}}}
pronunciation in IPA:	[{{{ipa}}}]
official transcription (PRC):	{{{z}}}
THDL:	{{{thdl}}}
other transcriptions:	{{{e}}}
Chinese name
traditional:	{{{tc}}}
simplified:	{{{s}}}
Pinyin:	{{{p}}}
Location	30°53′N 94°49′E
Region	Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Prefecture-level division	Qamdo Prefecture
County-level divisions	Banbar County
Population Approx. in a 7 km radius	439
Major Nationalities	Tibetan
Regional dialect	Tibetan language
Area code
Postal Code

Hi,

I don't see you around, have you left WP? :(( --Pejman47 21:48, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Attention Needed

Could you please keep an eye out for these pages, as two users are bent on removing all of the scholarly information that has been added. Pages are: Hurrians, Armenia (name), Proto-Armenian language, Armenian language, Graeco-Aryan language. Also, it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the Armenia, Mitanni, and Urartu articles.

The two users are User:Ghirlandajo and User:Dbachmann

Thank you.--Moosh88 22:13, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

I see that you are back. Have you had time to look through the articles I linked you to? I could really use your advise on how to continue with this. Please get back to me, thanks!--Moosh88 01:11, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

List of ... during the ... Intifada title

Hey, this is a spam note to anyone who has ever moved List of massacres committed during the Second Intifada. A discussion is ongoing on the talk page, which currently appears to endorse a move to "List of attacks on Israeli noncombatants during the Second Intifada". Consider making your views known. <eleland/talkedits> 17:33, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Hamid Dabashi

Can you have a look at the article and help? There is an edit conflict going on. It has been tagged for POV check and peacock terms, but it seemed ok to me before a user added allegations of anti-semitism. It has several relevant external links that are well organised and wikified, but someone keeps removing all of them. Thanks. 124.170.158.162 03:17, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Hey I'm back. If you need some help somewhere in Wiki let me know or if you want to suggest articles that need attention. Lisa the Sociopath 03:10, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Ahwaz territory

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Ahwaz territory. There are question about the truthfulness of the article and whether such a territory exists. Since you contributed to the Ahvaz article, I am hoping that you would consider participating in the Ahwaz territory deletion review to shed some light on whether the Ahwaz territory in fact exists. -- Jreferee t/c 17:44, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Mesage to 88.109.14.92

Hi, thanks for the message :). i've just checked over the past edits by this IP and it seems that it isn't any edits of my doing :). It seems as if someone has a similar IP to mine and is a dynamic one :). Marcus_bowen 20:10, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Personal Attack

Hi, I remember you could understand persian. Please check this page and see personal attacks to Roozbeh. Thanks. Hessam 21:06, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi

So what's up? Baristarim 06:40, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Armenians in Turkey

Hi. Could you please have a look at Armenians in Turkey? I've added a paragraph with a respectable reference and it is being deleted by anonymous users. I and another user tried to revert to original but it has been a couple of times and I am afraid of violating a rule. Maybe you, as an administrator, do something. Thanks. Filanca 05:45, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Pontic Greek Genocide

Hı, could you be involved in the "discussion" in that article..In fact Kekrops and Nıkosılver discuss nothing, but simply revert anything they dont want to see. The article has been in this shape for months, and ı think ıt ıs fair to have such a format. I dont thınk anybody can claim that sources that i have cited in the article can be claimed to be remotely pro-Turkish, Arnold J. Toynbee and Taner Akcam..

The other option could be to open up a separate article about the atrocities of the Greek army, presented in an isolated fashion as such being made in this article..--laertes d 19:29, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Macedonia Arbitration

Hi,

I notice you haven't been editing much, but I recall your work as being neutral, calm, and well-respected in related topics. If you have time, could you take a look at the current RfArb Macedonia? Jd2718 15:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

unprotecting Demography of Afghanistan

Hi Khoikhoi. I hope you are doing good. Can you please unprotect the Demography of Afghanistan article? It's been 3 months now and I think the disputes are over since there are no disputes on the talk page anymore. Thanks. -- Behnam (talk) 06:26, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, it's ok now. -- Behnam (talk) 22:46, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Use of picture collages

Hey dude, what up? I remember going through the whole thing with picture collages and how they are a copyright problem, but I don't recall where the conversation took place. You remember where that conversation took place? Much appreciated and i'll be in touch. Ciao. Tombseye (talk) 01:57, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Did you know...

...that Jews did WTC? ;)--Doktor Gonzo 23:27, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Ehud Lesar

I was considering blocking Ehud Lesar, but I became hesitant after a number of editors said the evidence for sockpuppetry wasn't compelling enough for a block. Glad to see my initial hunch was correct. Thanks for doing the block. Nishkid64 (talk) 04:04, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Tibet and South Asia

This User:Thegreyanomaly is back in pushing crappy POV with fake/offtopic citations on Tibet and South Asia. Could you please kindly take a look. Thanks! --210.0.212.59 (talk) 04:24, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I'd also like to make it clear that the ip vandal above accusing me has been warned by User: Master of Puppets for being uncivil and for not justifying their claims (see User talk:210.0.212.59). Thegreyanomaly (talk) 05:11, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Greetings

Didn't see you for quite a while, so I just thought I'd stop by and say hi. So... hi! :-) --Illythr (talk) 19:40, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Arbitration

Hi. Please be aware of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Ehud Lesar arbitration case. Thanks. Grandmaster (talk) 07:19, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Bună ziua! :)

Dear Khoikhoi: Bună! I am wondering if you could help me translate a very short stub version of 1 or 2 sentences of this article in Română for the Молдовеняскэ wikipedia? Thank you very much for any help you could provide. I hope to hear from you. All my best, Khoikhoi, cu recunoştinţă Cãtãlina Maria (talk) 06:08, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Shusha infobox

Hi Khoikhoi,
Based on short conversion we had one year ago, I think that you wanted two COAs in the infobox at Shusha. Can you please review that infobox as I am going to place the single use Template:Shusha on TfD. Rregards, —MJCdetroit ^(yak) 02:44, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Tuva Workgroup

As a past contributor to a Tuva-related article, I was wondering if you would be interested in forming a Tuva workgroup of Wikipedia:WikiProject Central Asia with me? If enough people show interest, I'll go ahead and create the workgroup. --Stacey Doljack Borsody (talk) 18:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

User:Talyshli

THis user has requested unblock. As you stated he was an sockpuppet, I wonder if there was checkuser evidence or not. _→AzaToth 13:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Block

Khoikhoi, I am troubled by your precipitous block of User:HaniEGY. Both editors were clearly edit warring, and the new user did not get a warning explaining policy adequately before breaking 3RR. I also do not see an unblock request in the notice you left on his talk page so that he may contest the block if he wishes. Please consider unblocking and having a talk with him instead, as I do not consider this a proper block at all. — Zerida ☥ 07:41, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Hmm I see, I hadn't even checked. Didn't mean to overreact, it just seemed like too much WP:BITE for one small edit, and I am not even one to fully extend that courtesy because of all the trolling that I've encountered. Thanks for the clarification (I feel like I haven't "seen" you in ages). — Zerida ☥ 08:33, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Spam in Friesian

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Friesian, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Friesian is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article.

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My RfA

File:David,larry.JPG		My RFA
		Thank you muchly for your support in my recent request for adminship, which was successfully closed on 76%, finishing at 73 supports, 23 opposes and 1 neutral. The supports were wonderful, and I will keep in mind the points made in the useful opposes and try to suppress the Larry David in me! Now I'm off to issue some cool down blocks, just to get my money's worth! Kidding btw. All the best, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 11:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Persian Gulf

It would appear that the dispute faltered after the mediator, Cloudnine withdrew without notice. The mediation hasn't seen new activity since December of last year. I think Cloudnine saw the matter as intractable - people on one side insisting we follow the guidelines (WP:LEAD, WP:N) - to whit, mentioning the alternative name of Arabian Gulf in the Lead as discussion of the nomenclature dispute is both notable and already present in the article. The other side of the discussion have offered successive arguments of undue weight, notability, political maneuvering, ethnic bias and space alien intervention (just kidding about that last one) as reasons to disinclude the alternate name. Frankly, I don't see what to do at this point. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 22:49, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks for allowing me to keep you appraised. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 04:22, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

A little help with the Pashtuns article

Hey dude. I need some assistance with the Pashtuns article. This user keeps interjecting faulty information which he knows is not reliable just to make a point. Arbitration or what? Hope you're doing well and I'd appreciate the help. Ciao. Tombseye (talk) 20:07, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello, this request is unnecessary and can be sorted out by further discussion. It mostly concerns the valididty of Ethnologue as a reliable source. From my understanding, it is widely used on Wikipedia and meets WP:RS. Tombseye disagrees. Please see the continuing discussion here. With regards, Anupam^Talk 20:25, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm OK with some sort of investigation into the validity of Ethnologue, but some things to consider: they have no bibliography and their figures seem to widely all over the place. Some figures are outdated (they claim 161,000 Azeris live in Armenia which is really outdate even for 1993!), and others are simply unverifiable. I myself used them before I learned more about them. They seem like a nice and neat organization to look at, but produce very sloppy results. As far as I can tell the "Pashtuns" figure for India comes from refugees most of whom are Punjabis, thus further confounding where these figures are coming from.[1] So is this going to be simply, "sure they meet the low-end criteria even though the figures seem completely unverifiable," route? There are, for example, Pashtuns in Germany, Scandanavia etc. (and probably in larger numbers than in India), but no listing b/c we don't know how many there are. This is really a lot of trouble to include a shaky source to include a negligible figure frankly. Tombseye (talk) 16:51, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

2008 unrest in Tibet article revert

Hey, saw you reverted the article. Reason for editing: you don't see articles with "THE UNITED STATES Government said..." on it 100 times do you? It's pretty obvious which subject the sentences are referring to. The article uses "Riots" earlier in the article. It makes more sense to refer to the situation as already described. (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 06:21, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Kandze

Hi. Nice to hear from you. It would be nice to have an article about the city of Garzê, or whatever one calls it. However, I've found it a bit difficult to get good information on that sort of thing, so I don't know how feasible it will prove to be. I suspect that Garzê County might be roughly the same place as the city. As for the spelling issue, this was discussed a bit on Talk:Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. There are a couple of underlying issues. One is that we're not really sure how "dkar mdzes" is pronounced. The obvious possibility is [kárdzeʔ], but the m in mdzes introduces a bit of a wildcard which could be pronounced different ways—a lot of sources have an "n" instead of the "r". The "standard" (Lhasa-based) pronunciaton might be different from the local pronunciation, and I'm not sure which we would go with in that case. Also, determining the most common spelling is a bit tricky. I think that some of the Google hits for "Garze" come from sites such as the various weather sites which I imagine mine placenames from some sort of database, so I'm not sure those should all be counted separately. Some of the hits are no doubt also referring to the Autonomous Prefecture, rather than to the city or county. That said, "Garzê" or "Garze" does seem to be the most common spelling in English currently, so I suppose I would recommend using that.—Nat Krause^{(Talk!·What have I done?)} 19:11, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Userpage

Hi, you have a nice user page, mind if I copy the layout? thestick (talk) 20:11, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

your comment

Regarding your comment [2] That account was not mine at the first palce and the admin who blocked me did not justify his accuastions --Aziz1005 (talk) 11:10, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Lindsay658

Please see User talk:Lindsay658. This user was caught in an autoblock of one of your checkuser blocks of DavidYork71. I didn't want to remove the autoblock without checking with you first. Can you look and make sure it is ok to remove this autoblock or soft block the IP if appropriate? Thanks. --B (talk) 04:38, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Please vote in survey over whether to have article title Human rights in Iran or Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

• 23 November 2007 Sinooher changed the article name from Human rights in Iran to Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Koavf changed the article name back to Human rights in Iran 9 March 2008,
• Crazy Suit changed it back to Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran a couple weeks later, 23 March 2008.

We should decide this once and for all and not what the name is as it makes a difference to the wording of the text in the article.

Arguements

• In favor of Human rights in Iran, Arguement: Most of the Human Rights articles about a particular country are just Human rights in France or Human rights in Germany and do not include the full formal name of the country.

• In favor of Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Arguement: some articles do include the full name of the country - e.g. Human rights in the People's Republic of China (not Human rights in China). Both Iran and China underwent a revolution in the last century and both now have radically different governments then they did before their revolution, so it makes sence to include the full name of the regime. --BoogaLouie (talk) 16:28, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

The issue would be especially important for China, given the physically separate parts of what they agree is still one China. The revolution has been recent enough in Iran that I'd agree it should be "Islamic Republic", as there plausibly might be an article on rights under the Shah, or even earlier 20th century governments. On the other hand, it might make sense to have one article with the different governments and different rights policies. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 00:06, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Possible sock/rude user

Hi. I'm kind of at a loss as to where to go because no one wants to help. Me and another user are currently in mediation of sorts with User:Nyanrunning. Long story short, the user has taken it upon themselves to attack the other editor (see: Nyan's last comment) and is basically uncivil all the time. Suggestions? Thanks. Pinkadelica (talk) 03:58, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me. Yes, the hogwash comment. They actually just changed the talk page to clean up their comments. We suspect this user is also User:Debbiesvoucher and User:Dooyar. Aside from the same editing styles, Nyanrunning has made personal comments about the other editor's disability (something Nyanrunning would not know unless they went through an archived talk page of a dispute that ended months ago on an unrelated article). Debbiesvoucher has also told Wildhartlivie to "get some help" on 2008 another occasion (same thing Nyan just did). It gets deeper than that, but that's the jist for now. Basically this person has these account to bring up issues on three obscure articles: Karyn Kupcinet (now resolved), Johnnie Ray (we had a dispute that went nowhere with Dooyar a few months ago when she/he decided to go MIA because they weren't winning) and Dorothy Kilgallen. Pinkadelica (talk) 04:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry...as PS, User:Wildhartlivie and I filed a sock puppet report on Dooyar in 2007. It basically went nowhere because it was Thanksgiving weekend and they didn't use their account during that time. In fact, it's probably impossible to tie them all in together because they don't use all their account concurrently. Hope this helps! Pinkadelica (talk) 04:33, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Awesome. Thank you so much for helping! Pinkadelica (talk) 04:52, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Edit War in progress in article Wahhabism between User:Xe Cahzytr Ryz and User:BoogaLouie/User:CreazySuit

Hi Khoikoi,

I would like to call your attention to an edit war in progress in article Wahhabism between User:Xe Cahzytr Ryz and User:BoogaLouie/User:CreazySuit.

Also, are User:BoogaLouie and User:CreazySuit in fact the same person, may I ask?

Note that recently, while both users are prolific, there are days when User:BoogaLouie is prolific and User:CreazySuit is quiet and vice-versa, but both users are doing the same aggressive deletes on User:Xe Cahzytr Ryz.

Thanks, Erxnmedia (talk) 15:33, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Sadly, there's no ability to protect part of an article...

In the case of Iran-Iraq War, it would have been nice, but I would have been surprised if it had been technically possible. Just for background, the warring over the infobox proper has been going on for months. There may be little point to going on about the history, but the Military History Project is technically responsible for the infoboxes for wars, and various people have tried to get across that infoboxes were intended to assist in the understanding of a war or major campaign, rather than become a war in and of themselves. It's been fairly fruitless, with a group of half a dozen or so editors seemingly focused on proving the guilt of the United States by making sure there is a US flag in the Iran-Iraq War infobox, focused on arguing the numbers of soldiers and tanks there rather than discussing the nuances of those numbers in the main article or even sub-articles, etc. Ernxmedia, at least, has been put on temporary block over that.

I've been figuratively biting my tongue about the infobox wars, and trying to ignore them, while making attempts to move the feuds into a more productive discussion. On the talk page, I've been trying, in what I hope is a reasonably gentle way, to suggest there is stereotyping about national character in both ways. Of course there are Americans that are ignorant about Iranian/Persian history, and that for reasons that seemed good to the people involved at the time, did unwise things -- be they overthrowing Mossadegh or seizing the U.S. embassy. It's good to find editors at least talking, but when an editor is saying that the US people and/or government is somehow in the wrong for "permitting" the movie 300 to be made, portraying the Persians badly, and this is a reason for enmity, there's what, to take a classic movie line from Cool Hand Luke, "what we got here is a a failure to com-mun-i-cate." When Cheney and assorted neocons are even seriously suggesting a preventive military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, when the four-star regional commander has resigned quite possibly over policy, etc., there is a more immediate problem than a movie about the Battle of Thermopylae.

Periodically, I've suggested that people editing in the Iran-Iraq area look at what is being done in the Sri Lanka Reconciliation Project, which has just as strong POVs, but who manage to have a real spirit of internal moderation, have specialized 1RR rules, etc. I had encountered this in a peripheral manner, when I was heavily editing an article on counter-terror, and had used Sri Lanka as one example of where terror and counter-terror (and, for that matter, anti-terror), take place. My use of each of those words was as a military term of art, and I kept repeating and explaining on the project talk page. Eventually, with the gentle interpretation of another Project member, it became evident that I was, indeed, using terms in a technical sense, and the editor who originally complained was graceful enough to say that he had literally never heard of a technical use of the terms, but only in the context of politicians assigning groups to the "Global War on Terror". We eventually worked out that what was not needed was additional sourcing of my examples, but a bit of education on how I was using the terms.

My personal feeling is that the Iran-Iraq editing controversy, in large part, has lost sight of the reality that the war was fundamentally between Iraq, the aggressor, and Iran. If you look at my userpage, you will see that I have set up, at least as placeholders in userspace, probably 30-plus countries that supported, in different degrees, Iran, Iraq, or both. I have hoped that will help get across perspective, but there are some editors that seem to want to establish that the U.S. was co-equal as a major belligerent with Iraq, and there is a sense that Iraq would do nothing without U.S. "permission". That, I'm afraid, makes little historical sense. The role of Saddam Hussein seems to be lost in the arguing about American guilt.

While it may be verging on original synthesis, I believe that a reasonable approach, which has significant WP:V and WP:RS, is that at a given point in time, there was an Iran-Iraq war, and also an Iran-US war, the latter often being called the "Tanker War". There were unquestionably war crimes on both sides of the latter, such as the Airbus shootdown, but also releasing drifting mines into international waters. The US, going back around 200 years, has considered freedom of navigation a critical national interest, as evidenceed in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812.

I would greatly appreciate your independent opinion (email is fine) on whether my approach, which I won't have time to take to completion, about showing specifics of other nations (Italy, France, UK so far, USSR in progress), as well as a major (my userspace) rewrite of US support to Iraq, all showing the intertwining of Iraqi circumvention of international controls as well as the US "tilt to Iraq", make things much more complex than can be shown in an infobox. I'm frustrated over the time being wasted about assorted reverts in an infobox, and would like to find some way out of this mess. To my amazement, over six months or so, I was able to play a role in getting the conspiracy theories in context and the main Central Intelligence Agency article back to reasonable size, with a large number of detailed sub-articles. Is there a way to get some of the same recognition of a problem, with different POVs that need to be reconciled, in Iran-Iraq War? Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 08:13, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Following around a/k/a community behavior

Hi Khoikhoi,

CreazySuit reverted me on U.S. support for Iran during the Iran-Iraq war 3 times on 29 March and 3 times on 30 March for a total of 6 times, so you're saying the rule is simply revert 3 times a day and you're good to go:

1. (cur) (last) 19:23, March 29, 2008 CreazySuit (Talk | contribs) (5,505 bytes) (fringe view) (undo)
2. (cur) (last) 12:41, March 29, 2008 CreazySuit (Talk | contribs) (5,505 bytes) (It's a fringe view, not supported by
3. (cur) (last) 00:49, March 29, 2008 CreazySuit (Talk | contribs) (5,371 bytes) (not rue) (undo)

CreazySuit followed my contributions around, if you look on 29 March he followed me around a total of 10 different articles that I modified to add link to U.S. support for Iran during the Iran-Iraq war as a companion to link U.S. support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. In all cases he reverted me, but I guess 10 * 1 is not the same as 1 * 3 + 1 * 3:

1. 12:36, March 29, 2008 (hist) (diff) Iraq-gate (Gulf War)‎ (This page is about Iraq-US, it has nothing to do with US-Iran) (top)
2. 12:35, March 29, 2008 (hist) (diff) Project Babylon‎ (It's not, this page has nothing to do with US-Iran) (top)
3. 12:35, March 29, 2008 (hist) (diff) Rationale for the Iraq War‎ (It's not, this artcile has nothing to do with US-Iran)
4. 12:34, March 29, 2008 (hist) (diff) Khairallah Talfah‎ (Undid revision 201826583 by Erxnmedia (talk) This artcile is about Iraq, not Iran)
5. 12:33, March 29, 2008 (hist) (diff) Anti-Iranian sentiment‎ (US-Iran has nothing to do with Anti-Iranian sentiment)
6. 01:35, March 29, 2008 (hist) (diff) Riegle Report‎ (both unrelated) (top)
7. 01:34, March 29, 2008 (hist) (diff) Arms-to-Iraq‎ (unrelated to this page)
8. 01:29, March 29, 2008 (hist) (diff) Project Babylon‎ (not related here)
9. 01:26, March 29, 2008 (hist) (diff) Ruhollah Khomeini‎ (OR, doesn't belong here)
10. 01:25, March 29, 2008 (hist) (diff) Anti-Iranian sentiment‎ (not related)

I raised the issue to you of Wahhabism because it was symptomatic of CreazySuit's interaction with me, which is:

• Aggressive deletes with no discussion to start with. These are done not using the revert key but by cut and paste with a comment, but the net is still a revert
• Continued pattern of reversion over multiple days
• Initial apparent efforts to appease if he gets into some hot water, e.g. a request for dialogue
• Often no response to actual dialogue after making the request for dialogue (see: this exchange with User:Imad marie) --- although we did get talking a little bit, finally, but not on the thread of his initial request for dialogue.

However, note that:

1. Wahhabism is in my area of interest, which is why I ran into CreazySuit to begin with. (I.e. general Middle East and war issues.)
2. People following each other around is just natural behavior. In daily life, I have observed that in any endeavor where there are 2 or more people in a room, be it film-making, finance, cooking, wine-tasting or what have you, people in a community will follow each around, whether or not they had an initial interest in a subject, simply as a function of how much interest another has in that subject -- it's human nature. Is there a Wikipedia rule against human nature, common interest, and the tendency of people to take an interest in what is in fashion in a particular group?

Thanks, Erxnmedia (talk) 16:28, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Checkuser on Rezistenta

I'm pretty sure that, with his pattern of spelling problems, his half-ceremonious-half-insulting language, his areas of interest, his chauvinism, and now the use of a singularly-crafted old canard aimed at me, User:Rezistenta strongly recalls Icar. Do you think it warrants a usercheck? (And, btw, there may be clues that Icar shared something with Dacodava - was he this ever brought up in the blocking process?) Dahn (talk) 15:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I read the comment of Icar on top of that talk page of "Romanians" , and I copied his accusation regarding the Trotzkist POV because I found them true.You've reported me 3 or more times before abusively and your accusations were proven wrong. I will suggest to stop because my "mr nice guy attitude" won't last fover Rezistenta (talk) 15:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Çaka Bey and Chaka of Smyrna

Khoikhoi, this is a friendly notice to inform you of an ongoing discussion about merging the articles Çaka Bey and Chaka of Smyrna, and the most appropriate name for the merged article. Your significant contributions to the latter article suggested to me that you might want to contribute to the discussion. Regards, Aramgar (talk) 15:36, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Persian_Mesopotamia#Requested_move

Please give your opinion, after you read the article. Chaldean (talk) 21:28, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

hey

just had a question for the yellow monkey, but you deleted it, innit? turns out his mate samir got shot at the bourbon club, was on Triple J, wanted him to confirm. maybe you can if you know? cheers mate —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.113.242.69 (talk) 05:34, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Page move: Peter Mogila to Petro Mohyla

Hello! Back in 2006, you poined out that "Peter Mogila" was the most common name. Over the last two years, "Petro Mohyla" happened to became more common, in particular, by 2:1 margin by re-running the Google test you used. I've requested the page move, and I'd like to ask for your support of the move. Sincerely, Greggerr (talk) 03:49, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

EOKA

Hi, I am proposing to split the article on EOKA into two separate articles. I noticed you have contributed to the article so if you are still interested, please have a look at the talk page and add any of your thoughts. Georgeg (talk) 16:40, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

DavidYork71 & Childnicotine

Hi. Can you please point me to the checkuser report on Childnicotine being a sock of DavidYork71? For the life of me I can't seem to find it. Thanks. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ^{(talk / cont)} 04:11, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

soapboxing, etc

Regarding this revert in Talk:Persian Gulf, I was wondering what you found to be particularly soapboxing. I think I understand your claim of linkspam, but maybe you could elucidate precisely what you meant. I ask because I want to see the edit as you did, and how it prompted you to remove it as such. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 17:41, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually, that is not entirely accurate, Khoikoi. A person cannot be blocked for reinstating a banned user's edits. They just become responsible for them once they are re-posted. So if the edit from the sock was a normal, acceptable edit (and I am not saying it was), I could upload it without worry of "being blocked" for doing so, as per Wikipedia:Ban#Enforcement_by_reverting_edits:

Users are generally expected to refrain from reinstating edits made by banned users. Users who reinstate such edits take complete responsibility for the content by so doing.

I note this because if the edit was cited and cleaned up (linkspam removed and whatnot), it seems a pretty good argument. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 04:55, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

re NPA

I was expressing my frustration that Victor keeps focusing on sources which all appear to be of Russian origin and which he uses to bolster that the world is out to "get" Russia. That's really not the case at all. You will note my extremely positive comments regarding Orthodoxy when Victor postulated WWI and WWII had as their goals the deaths of practitioners of Orthodox Christianity. I wish for Victor to see that the world is far more positive than he believes, in the case you cited, that Orthodoxy is truly one of the bright lights of today's Russia. There was nothing in that comment meant as an "attack." Please do not not focus on individual words and take them out of context to attribute motivations which do not exist. If I've offended Victor he may contact me directly. Thank you for your interest, have not seen you around my neck of the woods much lately. Best regards, Peters —PētersV (talk) 02:44, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

It does appear that a lot more is taken "personally" than I mean it. There's nothing that I write commenting on editorial behavior that I mean as a personal comment on character, but I can see that being too colloquial can be taken in a way not intended (meant for the person, not for the comments of the person). Can I blame English as my second language? :-) PētersV (talk) 03:58, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

But I guess it is OK for Victor V. V. to incite etchnic hatred, as in here [3] (scroll down), as eSStonia is considered a racist insult? 88.196.138.214 (talk) 08:38, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Excuse me, that is not what I am suggesting or saying, Khoikoi. I am not advocating posting comments on behalf of a banned user (and where on earth did you come up with that idea??) I am saying that the user did present some convincing arguments that no one else has thus far. Yes, there was unacceptable content mixed in with it (linkspam and whatnot), but many of the arguments, if properly verified would be appropriate for the discussion and eventually inclusion into the article.

Aside from the accusation of proxying, can you point to another place within our rules and guidelines that says that I cannot clean up the posts, separating citable info from claptrap and re-posit the argument? - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 20:37, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Hummus

Hello, Khoikhoi, I don't know if you're interested in food-related articles, but... in the Hummus article, there is the claim that hummus is very ancient (perhaps even ancient Egyptian), all based on various Web sources which seem to me completely unreliable, and offer no evidence for their claims. This sounds like the typical sort of unsupported claim made in cookbooks and so on. I have tried to remove or at least bracket these claims as unsubstantiated, but another editor insists on retaining them and in fact recently added another. Though I have tried to reason with her on the Talk page about WP's Verifiability and Reliable Source guidelines, she doesn't respond, instead claiming that her references are just fine. Could you help resolve this? Thanks, --Macrakis (talk) 02:30, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick response. I'll consider mediation, but I'd hope that the editor would get the picture if you simply said what you said on my Talk page on the Hummus Talk page. No need for long discussion. If it comes to that, then I suppose we have to drag in mediation, which seems like a heavy procedure for a simple question.... Maybe I'll try for a third-party editor to start.... --Macrakis (talk) 05:27, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Kish Island

Hi - it's good to see this issue is coming to a head - but I am not sure about the process here. The people who have been deleting the text which is at issue, have not been forthcoming at all about why they have done so during their deleting work (no comments on any of those edits at all when they were made). So it is unfortunate that the page has been locked with the said text deleted. There is no incentive for any of those mostly anonymous users to discuss it, as they've got what they wanted - the text is gone, and the page is locked. Belatedly somebody has made some comments - but the arguement is weak. I have written a convincing argument why it should stay, so my question now is this: What happens if there is no more input? --Commking (talk) 04:26, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

FROM PUMPJACK -

I feel the argument to include the Levinson case is overwhelming and compelling. Since the case is well documented, the only remaining reason for not including the incident is protection of the island’s image. It is not the intent of Wikipedia to either improve or detract from the image of any subject being discussed. Rather, isn’t our objective to present a fair and accurate representation of the subject in a way that is NPOV?

I am not claiming that my original post is perfect. In fact, I would be open to any and all changes to my original entry that would lead to resolution of this dispute. I would agree to virtually any iteration of the disappearance and encourage the reader’s to improve it. But, on what basis can we allow a topic to be completely deleted, when the only reason for the deletion is protection of the subject's image?

What is the next step to resolution?

--Pumpjack (talk) 18:37, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipdia is not the place for current events and missing person notices. WikiNews is there for a reason. If we were to include every disappearance or missing person case on every city`s page, there would be no end to it. --InputPoem (talk) 23:55, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

---

Levinson vanished over a year ago, hardly a current event. The suggested text is not a missing person notice, but a brief description of the case. Wikinews isn't really appropriate, because it is no longer 'new'. The incident is old, established, and documented. While I agree with you that we can't document every missing person's case on every place's page, I also believe this case is different due to its unprecedented international attention.

--Pumpjack (talk) 13:26, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Spelling: Mosaddeq, Mossadeq, Mossadegh, or Mosaddegh?

Google search survey:

• 40,700 for Mohammed Mosaddeq
• 86,000 for Mohammed Mossadeq
• 78,400 for Mohammed Mossadegh
• 2,010 for Mohammed Mosaddegh

Proposed name change

I propose changing the title of the article to Mohammed Mossadeq --BoogaLouie (talk) 21:38, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Alhacen

Hi. Maybe you should unprotect the article on Alhacen, or at least change his religion because he was a Shi'a Muslim not an Ash'ari. Chears. Carticus (talk) 15:20, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't think him being a Shi'a is controversial. I haven't found sources that state his religion, be it Sunni or Shi'a but I think it is agreed upon that he is Shi'a Muslim and his name, his birthplace and the fact that he worked for the Fatimids make it even more certain. Thanks again. Carticus (talk) 14:59, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing it out, I didn't notice it. The source said nothing about him being a Sunni. Take care. Carticus (talk) 17:43, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Reverting my talk page and others

Greetings to you. I have to admit I was fairly annoyed when I logged on a little bit ago and found that my talk page was edited by you. I followed the links to your page and see that you also reverted other people's pages as well simply because user pumpjack posted on them. Honestly, I thought that he was following wiki-policy on this as I have no idea about the case that he is talking about on Kish Island, or even honestly of Kish Island itself. I'm an English Lit Major with a minor in linguistics, geography is not my fortay. So when this guy posted on my page, I actually considered ignoring it or staying out of it, as I did with the Fox News article, despite that I was also requested to help there. But, thinking I was followingn wiki-policy, I went and checked out the arguments and tried my darndest to be impartial about it. This despite a part of me wanted to be glib about how the last half of the Kish article read more like a tourist brochure, complete with majestic photos of stunning landscapes. I thought that simply because my input was given that the revert had been done, but it was still annoying. I have a false accusation of puppetry on page and my complaint about it, I figure it is a part of my page's history whether I like it or not. Please put the request for help back on my page. It seems that you have managed to hide the old edit by pumpjack somehow and to be honest I am a bit resentful that my page was changed. Rocdahut (talk) 08:23, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Little mishap

Hey Khoikhoi!

Remember me? Long time no write. :-) I just created the article Francois Lelord, but I had first created Francois lelord with a lower case "l". What do I do to have the page with the misspelt title removed?

Thanks, Krankman (talk) 17:21, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

That was quick and easy. So an article like that with a misspelt tile isn't deleted? Well, what do I care, everything should be alright now. Thank you a lot! Krankman (talk) 23:54, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

BTW, any copy-editing and/or proofreading of the said article would be greatly appreciated! Krankman (talk) 23:59, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Khoikhoi, I don't mind at all. Thanks very much for the work you did there! Reliable as always ... Cheers, Krankman (talk) 18:59, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Please do not revert Edits

I request you not to revert my edits in the Wiki page on the cricketer Vivian Richards. I think as a non-follower of the game, you are not aware of many facts that are being covered up and many lies that are being spouted as facts on various pages. Please do not act merely on somebody's telling you something. I have been made guilty of reverting thrice or more which is why somebody dragged you in.

I only wish to see this site have good articles that are honest and realistic. Some people just will not allow that. Please co-operate with me.