User talk:Yodakii

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-- Sango123 22:20, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

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Zaragoza

I tried several times, but the Wikicommons (or whatever it is) notice box messes up the format no matter how hard I try. If you know how to fix it, GREAT, it belongs at the bottom of the page. Staxringold 18:21, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Update template

I suggest a new template for articles that have outdated information or that need to be updated to current events, etc.. Is there already a template for this? Yodakii 17:12, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Great idea! That template exists. It is {{Update}} and currently looks like this:

This article or section is out of date, and is requested to be updated.

-- Reinyday, 18:59, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the template Reinyday! I was looking for such a template on Wikipedia:Template messages but couldn't find it. Thats one page that needs updating ... Is there any another page with a list of templates that can be used on wikipedia? it seems they're not organised very well. Yodakii 05:10, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Yodakii, there are so many templates, it is certainly hard to find a good list. I often refer to Wikipedia:Cleanup resources. You can also list all templates alphabetically. -- Reinyday, 03:05, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Bilad al-Sham

My understanding is that the two terms are different, with the Bilad al-Sham being somewhat smaller than the Levant and somewhat larger than Greater Syria. Though both the Levant article and Greater Syria article claim to be the same thing as the "Bilad al-Sham." In English the term "Bilad al-Sham" is almost exclusively used by historians who are refering to the region in the pre-colonial period. - SimonP 12:49, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Timeline of the Muslim Occupation of the Iberian Peninsula

Many Thanks. Your edit reads much better than mine (I wish Wikipedia had a spelling checker). Yet, by removing parts of my text you might be hiding some outstanding information. (Threshold 10:51, 12 September 2005 (UTC))

• Answering you remark on my talk page;

• • all in all, you are right. But, again, I introduced the word "presence' on purpose, just because the strong controversy on "ruling" versus "occupation" in the article. I understand that it introduces other issues in the discussion. So let us forget it by now.

• • On the other side, about the introduction of “piracy", that was, in fact, the main visible concern of Charles I, Philip II and Philip III in respect to the population (Though there were other political reasons for the expulsion, of course). By that time, the South Eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula, and most of the Western Mediterranean sea was under systematic and continuous attacks by North African pirates (actually corsairs servicing the Ottoman Empire), and it was one of the triggers for the Battle of Lepanto. For logistic reasons, since I am writing from memory, as I do not have my documentation at hand (recently moved from USA to Europe), I cannot provide any written source on this, but I will try. (Threshold 11:53, 13 September 2005 (UTC))

Your recent edit at Abu 'Abd Allah ash-Shafi'i

Hi,

You can solve bidirectional algorithm problems by embedding a literal LRM or RLM, but these can be tricky because they're invisible. Another way to do it would be to embed an HTML comment.

For instance: <!--B--> serves the same purpose as a left-to-right mark, and <!--ب--> should serve the same purpose as a right-to-left mark. Except they're visible rather than invisible, so they can't be accidentally deleted during editing. -- Curps 10:53, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

I wrote a description at Village pump (technical)#Arabic.2FHebrew: a proposed solution to Unicode bidirectional algorithm woes in the text editor that could serve as the basis for a Wikipedia policy page.

Most of the time, you can add Arabic to an article page without any problem at all. Problems only happen in relatively rare cases, such as the Arabic string begins or ends with (or is enclosed by) a directionally-neutral character (like apostrophe or a numeral). If the first non-blank character on either side of the Arabic text is a Latin letter (the usual case), then there's almost never a problem. I'll try to write all this down in a clear way and make a Wikipedia policy page out of it, time permitting. -- Curps 13:12, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Imam Hanbal

Hey, thanks for the support... I moved your vote down since I changed the request from "Ahmed" to "Ahmad" which is how Britannica has it and which is how I think I see most transliterations now (like Muhammad over Mohammed or whatnot). If you disagree it's not a big deal and I still like "Ahmed" better than what we have now. Do you think we should change all four of the main ones now? and if so what are the full names exactly? gren グレン 19:58, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Okay, well, you can move your vote from the 'e' section to the 'a' section.

just for the record... Britannica has:

• Imam Malik as "Malik ibn Anas" -- full name "Abu 'abd Allah Malik Ibn Anas Ibn Al-harith Al-asbahi"
• Imam Hanafi as "Abu Hanifah" -- full name "Abu Hanifah An-nu'man Ibn Thabit"

Not sure if that's what we should have... but, they see pretty decent to me. gren グレン 13:22, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Reverts

Thanks for your revert at Zionism. I'm also sorry to have to bother you with this, but I may be getting ganged up on in a revert war at Occupied Territories. Could I get an occasional assist from you there? Thanks in any case. Marsden 18:05, 17 September 2005 (UTC)