User talk:KI

Mujahideen Shura Council

I'm about to go out of town but I plan on doing some more work on this article when I get back on Thursday. I'll try and better document my sources.

FYIs, complaints, begging, etc.

Nazir Ahmad

Hey. Thanks for you concern on Nazir Ahmad and you're right that I should find a specific quote. The LA Times article says "Nazir Ahmad, a laborer in his 40s, feared the younger girls, aged 4, 8, and 12, would follow in their sister's footsteps, police officer Shahzad Gul said." quoting the police officer on the crime. I believe the other papers had the same implications. Does that sound good? gren グレン 20:26, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Chung fu Tzi

Okay... here's the process. For the official version see WP:AFD#How_to_list_pages_for_deletion... but I'll try to summarize.

1. Add "{{subst:afd}}" to the page.
2. Click the link from the new template that says "this article's entry". On that page add:

   === [[ARTICLE NAME]] ===

   REASONS FOR DELETION NOMINATION. ~~~~

3. Then go to WP:AFD#Current_discussions and fidn the day's date and add the name of the article you created in step 2 in brackets {{ }} to the page. It should be below a bunch of others that look similar. It should be of the form {{Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ARTICLE NAME}}

Hope that helps. If not read the instructions since they are more detailed. gren グレン 22:46, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I was about to answer your question but see that gren got there before me. I was wondering whether it was all nonsense - suggest you put it up for Afd using the above process. Dlyons493 Talk 00:10, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Iraqi elections

Did you vote in them? Unsigned comment by Wikizach

Welcome

Hi, I saw you're edit to Qiyamah. You might want to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam:The Muslim Guild. freestylefrappe 21:36, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Invertebrates in Australia

What is the history of the Invertebrates in Australia article? Did you copy it from another Wikipedia article? It is unusual for such a large well organized page to suddenly appear, not impossible, but unusual. Hu 05:09, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Please help me

This vandal Anonymous Editor has blocked me for no reason! You must help now! Or else I am stranded! عزل

Rv

At least I always write 'RV'; unlike many of the reverts I see that say nothing of the sort. Thanks. Hmains 05:59, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

Can't delete anything right now, i'm awaiting the results of my re-rfa. Karmafist 18:04, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Headline text

I didn't vandalize Jtkeifer's discussion page. I honestly feel that way-- I'm glad he's no longer editing, he was not a pleasant dude. Lighten up. Please Don't BlockPlease Don't Block

Deleting Unsupported Examples

The examples I deleted were unsupported, as specified in the Talk page. If you feel they are valid examples, please explain why in the Talk page. Saying I am vandalizing a page because I am trimming it (and specifying that I am doing as such in the discussion, and explaining why, while you are simply reverting back on a whim), is ridiculous. Please use the Magical Negro talk page to explain which examples I cut that you believe should be kept. Sir Isaac Lime 02:54, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

The one other allegation of vandelism was incorrect. I had added something and they deleted it for no reason; the only mistake was the other user thinking my contribution was wrong when it was not. As for the Magical Negro article, the talk page has any number of examples of people who think the examples are incorrect, and I deleted those that are discussed as such on the talk page.

Also, I put my comment on the top of the talk page because it applies to the larger article. It was a mistake, and I apologize. I will fix it. However, I would appreciate it if you would take back your comment about me being a vandal. As you can see, the edit I made on the dollar article was re-instated after being removed, and the person involved apologized. (He wanted me to attribute it beforehand on the Talk page, although it was easily confirmed with a Google search.)

I am sure you too have seen this article swell in size until it is no longer manageable. The examples simply contain every African American character or character of African descent. They have nothing to do with the topic at hand: a very specific, demeaning archetype. Many of the "examples" I deleted did not fit most of the criteria listed at the top of the page, and the ones that I was unsure about, or did not know about, I left. It is not as if I indiscriminately hacked out the examples.

My hope wasn't that every thing I deleted would stay that way, just that each example could be discussed, and explained. As you've also noticed, there are a couple examples that are deleted, explained why they are deleted, and then mysteriously re-instated despite previous agreements on the Talk page. And there are an increasing number of examples that are ridiculous. The Three Wise Men? Mateo in "From America"? Rose & Ecko from Lost? (Who are neither magical nor subservient) All of the most ridiculous ones were added by 24.96.201.193 and Can'tStandYa, and neither have supported anything. I not delete anything from the article from the while, but I certainly was not vandalizing in doing so. I was merely "being bold." Sir Isaac Lime 05:53, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Like I said, I'll hold off and see what happens in the talk pages. Sir Isaac Lime 20:42, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

AFD

Thanks for all your work, but please don't refactor AFD pages, as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of famous bank robbers and robberies. I know your intentions were good, but actually I've reverted it to try to make a decision. See Wikipedia:Guide to deletion#Discussion. Thanks. Chick Bowen 04:49, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Stub categories

Hi KI - a stub category is one used to store very short articles (the ones marked with stub templates). Because of that, stub categories all have names ending in "stubs" (like Category:Aircraft stubs and Category:Architect stubs, for instance). They're not there to help readers work their way around Wikipedia - they're there specifically for editors who want to expand articles. What you have with the Chad conservation category is a normal, non-stub category, just one that hasn't got many articles.

BTW, ISTR that there is a Chad-related WikiProject that's only been in action a couple of weeks, which is probably why this is so underpopulated. Rather than taking it for deletion, it's probably worth putting {{popcat}} on it, to let people know that it needs expanding. Grutness...wha? 07:19, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Double redirects

You moved 2006 Varanasi bombings, but didn't fix double redirects. Please finish the job. I am sure you know what it is. mikka (t) 06:08, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Roundhouse kick and Chuck Norris

I think that the image you added to roundhouse kick should not be there for these reasons:

• it does not show a roundhouse kick (at least as far as I can tell) and
• in the context of the article it is not fair use.

Due to the second reason (copyright problems should not be taken lightly), I have reverted your edit. Can you please explain why it should be there? Furthermore, while the caption is relevant, it would be much more useful if it were in the proper context. (How popular was it before? How popular is it now?) —xyzzy_n 21:51, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Norris might certainly be worth pointing out, but that should be more or less proportional to his significance to the topic. Did he invent the kick, as you claimed? If so, then he clearly deserves a mention, with the citation of a source. Was the kick barely known before he made it popular? Then you should by all means mention that and specify how the significance changed. Was the kick known (i. e. regularly practised in the context of some martial art) before but is now associated with him? Then—provided that the kick itself is really notable enough for this—the information would belong into a ‘Cultural significance’ section, but be prepared to have to provide citations if you write one. All this is just my 2¢, though, and I’m definitely not an expert on the topic. —xyzzy_n

"Vandalism"

Your edit here contained the edit summary "rvv," which I understand to mean "Revert Vandalism." User:MPS's edit may not have been necessary or the best wording, but I think it clearly lacks the malicious intent that defines vandalism. We should avoid calling things vandalism when they're not. --Mr. Billion 22:31, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

(Replied) --Mr. Billion 22:50, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for creating that article. i'd been struggling with it & had to rush out. i noticed your userpage on the way here. "This user is..." makes interesting reading. you have a unique mixture of opinions that superficially seem contradictory until further contemplation. it's refreshing to see someone so difficult to pigeon hole. Veej 03:18, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Didn't help much though, all of them are still redlinked.

I'm also suspiscious that it should be "Minister of ... of Chad" and not "Chadian Minister of ..." but I don't know the relevant MoS reccomendations. 68.39.174.238 20:57, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Right, but I suspect the country should follow the posision, but there are enough conflicting examples that I'm willing to leave it. 68.39.174.238 22:59, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Please explain...

That message was placed on a user talk page by another user and I don't see why it was reverted in the first place. However, if there is/was a consensus to remove it, I apologise. JSIN 21:37, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Foreign language redirects

Thank you for creating these redirects! I find them useful. Could you please tag them with {{R from alternate language}} (in the same line as the redirect magic word)? That might help against people proposing them for deletion (I saved two from being speedied today). Thank you, Kusma (討論) 23:19, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

68.147.129.44

You said: "In the future, when warning other users like 68.147.129.44, please take the time to at least revert the vandalism that you see, instead of warning and then forgetting about them. Thanks, KI 23:55, 29 March 2006 (UTC)"

If you note, the vandalism I warned the user about was back in February. It was reverted, though not by me. I was the person who noticed the user hadn't been warned and went and added a warning on the user's talk page. I suspect you are confused as the anonymous editor vandalised again today. But then, why didn't you add a warning to the user after reverting the user's vandalism today? I'm confused. --Yamla 00:07, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Sockpuppets on Afd

Don't worry. I will not count those votes in the final count for the Afd or I will tell that to the closing admin in a few days. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 21:03, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Deletions

Yes I deleted them. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 02:32, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Chad

Redirects

When you click on Mohammed Nour and get the "(Redirected from Mohammed Nour)" message, click on the "Mohammed Nour" link there and edit the article. It's as simple as that.--Pharos 17:44, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Acknowledgement

Oh, ok, I was just assuming good faith and didn't want to discourage him. When he posts from the battlefield (or wherever he's corresponding) I'm sure we can put that back in. -- Natalinasmpf 01:31, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

How to create a temporary subpage

I notice that you temporarily replaced your user page with work in progress. There is a better way to do this without replacing your user page. Create a page User:KI/Temp where "Temp" is anything you like ("Temp" is just a suggestion). The only downside is that you can't delete this page without help from an administrator, but you can reuse it whenever you like. Andrew pmk | Talk 02:54, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Chad-Sudan war

Sorry... I didn't look into it when you had asked and... well, I can't move it without seeing consensus and since I'm not really involved too much I don't really know. Try to get consensus and everyone agreeing on the talk page or put it up at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Sorry I can't just move it now. gren グレン 04:31, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Could you show me where? I didn't see the consensus... but if you show me where I can move it. gren グレン 19:10, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I saw your message on my talk page and at Talk:Chad-Sudan_conflict. It generally isn't considered necessary to have a discussion before making the kind of edits Sherucij and I made to the article. Users here are encouraged to be bold in editing pages. Bold edits are especially normal in new articles that are still being polished up to encyclopedia quality. Please don't take offense if something you wrote was taken away! :-) It's a normal part of the Wikipedia process. --Cam 04:19, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

More about Chad-Sudan war

I saw your answer. I actually did a mistake by putting only the forces of the rebellion - I am myself working on the rebellion so I am focused on it -.Though, according to Wikipedia "military of Sudan", Sudan military is 60 000 men strong. According to the American Congress, Sudan is 110 000 men strong + 10 000 paramilitary, so 300 000 is still an overestimation.

Casualty figures

It was basic math ;) ....470 casualties divided by 23,000 troops yield 2%, and this may vary based depending on how certain the numbers are (and whether 20% of the Chadian army even exists). -- Natalinasmpf 03:35, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

UFDC

No problem with a move, glad to be of help. --Cam 22:32, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi, I saw your note in the Chad-Sudan confict edit -- note that vandalism has a specific meaning in the Wikipedia: the editor has to consciously want to lower the quality of the article for it to be vandalism. Other edits may be mistaken, wrongheaded or what-have-you, but if the editor is not consciously trying to mess up the page it's not vandalism. --Cam 22:02, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: N'Djamena image

Sorry about not replying fast enough, I missed it. Well, currently it says access is denied. Unless it's free use, I don't think we can use it, as we have no fair use claim on this one (we can right now go down and take pictures if we wanted to, and could afford it, it's not a war photo). Elle _{vécut heureuse} ^{à jamais} (Be eudaimonic!) 09:02, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Chad

Thanks for your invite; I am very interested, and find your project a very good idea, even if I doubt there will be many participants. But I can guarantee I will continue working quite a lot on Chad nextly, especially: 1) an article for all Chadian ethnic groups 2) a biography to all important Chadian in the 20th century (wnen the information can be found, that is) 3)articles related to the Chadian civil war 4) an article for all regions of Chad. We could even project the idea of a portal: for an example, see the Chadian portal at French wikipedia. Our principal problem with Chad will be the paucity of internet material, even in French: on most African countries there is much more. Ciao! Aldux 19:01, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

FROLINAT

Hi KI. I have to object to your choice to move Frolinat to Front de Libération Nationale du Tchad. Frolinat (or more correctly FROLINAT) is far more common than any other variant. For this I'm oriented to move Front de Libération Nationale du Tchad to FROLINAT. Also we must reach a common ground on the language to use for political and military groups: with the exception of FROLINAT I have always preferred English, basing myself on A Country Study: Chad, which opted for translating the parties' name and offering in parenthesis the original French one. Aldux 20:43, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Chadian-Sudanese conflict

I'm really sorry I can't help you much here. I have only scant knowledge of the subject, and more in general of Chad's last fifteen years. But I can tell you this: the article is of the highest quality, and you should consider to candidate it as a feature article. I only think that the War's End section should be expanded, for example by offering a summary of the article you wrote, the Tripoli Agreement. Ciao! :-) Aldux 21:17, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Template:Chadian-Sudanese conflict

I fixed up some of the code so that it renders but I'm not sure what you're seeing as your final vision. It seems to me that for a template you want it to be relatively simplistic and not too big... else it should be formatted text on the conflict main page. gren グレン ^? 23:28, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikisource

I do have an account... but I know nothing about wikisource and what I can put there... my few edits were ill fated I believe. I recommend going to their version of the community pump and asking what should be done with it. Do you definitively know the copyirght status of the document? gren グレン ^? 04:01, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

New member

Great news :-))))) I didn't expect honestly we would attract others than us two. Happy to see I was wrong! Aldux 23:09, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Chad-Sudan Conflict/War

I feel that a war is declared and a conflict is undeclared, usually in a formal process, such as Congress declaring war. Although I understand some conflicts are known in name as a war, I don't think we should call every armed conflict between groups and/or nations war, as in this case. - Rudykog 10:09, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikisource

I indeed also have a wikisource account (it's not mentioned in my rfa, however). I cannot insert http://hrw.org/backgrounder/africa/chad0206/ in wikisource because it's copyrighted (there is a copyright notice at bottom). I cannot insert User:KI/Temp either, as I cannot endorse the authenticity of this document. Sorry. - Liberatore(T) 12:40, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Re:Government of Chad

Holy Crap. Well, let me teach you the one lesson I learned to get my formatting knowledge...

Find a table you want on here, then steal the surrounding code, and put in your data to replace the existing data.

Ultimately it's nothing harmful because in theory, nobody owns anything on here. We're just here to learn from each other. I have a whole slew of tables and boxes and such on a subpage on my userpage that I keep handy for just such a purpose. Please free to steal my thefts, and please remember to pass those thefts on. I'm sure we've both got stuff we each want, but couldn't get without collaboration. Karmafist 01:40, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

P.S- I'll try to fix it in the morning if I don't do so in a few hours. It's getting late here. Karmafist 01:40, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

As Karmafist suggest you just need to copy the structure of some other tables and see how they are made. In this article there was just some missing table formatting but I think you will agree it looks better now, so I have removed the cleanup tag. ww2censor 05:18, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Elections

I doubt there's going to be much suspence on the winner ;-) Anyways I've started to keep in the ambit two articles on the past elections, 1996 Chad Presidential Election and 2001 Chad Presidential Election. BTW, I believe you don't know French; in this case, I just wanted to let you know that whatever Chad-related article in French you'd want to translate or simply to know the contents, don't have problems asking me. Ciao! --Aldux 20:46, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Translation from French

OK, here comes the piece on the failed coup:

The President of the Commission of the African Union (AU) has strongly condemned the attempted coup d'état that has taken place in N'Djamena, Chad, in the night between March 14 and 15 2006. Conformly to the Algiers Decision of July 1999 and the Lomé Declaration of July 2000 on changes of government by inconstitutional means, the President of the Commission has reiterated the AU's opposition to all taking power by violent means. The President of the Commission has launched an appeal to Chadian politicians so that they use dialogue to sort out their differences and promote the democratic process in their country.

The text was quite easy, so I didn't have problems understanding it; as for my English, as you see, it's not too good, and for this reason the translation may seem a bit cranky. Ciao! :-)--Aldux 11:24, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Weiping

At the time of the corruption allegations, Xilal was a provincial governor. --Robth^Talk 23:50, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Here's a link that refers to the corruption as "official graft" 1, which would fall under the category of political corruption. According to this one Xilal's actions were taken during his time as mayor of Hong Kong, and involved protecting his friends and family.

I think we may be on different pages on how we're defining political corruption. The articles we have that I've been disambiguating between are political corruption, police corruption, corporate crime, corruption (philosophical concept), and a couple of unrelated ones. Out of those options, political corruption best covers any sort of action taken by a politician.

That said, I couldn't find the specific allegations that Weiping made, and in their absence there's no way to be sure that I'm linking to the right thing. If it goes back to just corruption, though, it'll point to a disambig page, which we try to avoid. I probably should have been more careful about changing a current events page like that, but I was hurrying up to finish all this disambiguation and didn't even notice. If you want me to change it back, I will.

Wow, I just wrote a whole lot about something really insignificant. --Robth^Talk 00:10, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Monotheism article and God#Names

Hi. I noticed that you had listed some under-representation of views on your page. I should point out that Monotheism and (to a lesser extent) God pages now have some representation of the views of the Bahá'í Faith on them. -- Christian Edward Gruber 20:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

On God, the Baha'i Views are only expressed in the "Names of God" section. I'll try to add them in. W.R.T. Monotheism, I go back and forth on the question of seperating POV with sub-headings, vs. a nicely written narrative. Oh well. I think the monotheism changes are fine, regardless. Thanks -- Christian Edward Gruber 21:46, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

RFA-related

Thank you!

Thanks for supporting me on my Rfa, KI! I appreciate your trust. The puppy is now an Admin (final tally 58/7/2) Please let me know if there is anything I can ever do to assist you. KillerChihuahua?!? 17:39, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

I don't have a fancy layout like other new admins, but I just want to thank you for your support at my RfA. It passed 48/3/1, so I have officially been promoted. I hope I won't let you down. If I'm not doing something properly, please tell me. Aecis ^{Mr. Mojo risin'} 21:01, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Possible sockpuppets

Thanks but no thanks. If I request another CheckUser people will hate me even more, which I don't want. SWD316 ^{talk to me} 21:56, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

SWD316's RfA

Thank you for informing me about this. That is no way for an admin to act. Next time I see myself asking the question "How can this person not already be an admin?" I'll check to see why. Keep up the good work and have a nice day! Dustimagic *\o/* ^{(talk/contribs)} *\o/* 23:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm really sorry to hear he's left wikipedia, it's wikipedia's loss. Thanks for bringing this to my attention Pete.Hurd 23:51, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

RFA Consensus

It does say on RFA the threshold for consensus here is roughly 75–80 percent support, meaning that 75-80% of voters have to support the nomination. I can't really think of any clearer way to put it. -- Francs2000 23:49, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

All the votes that say "support" are added up and compared to all the votes that say anything else be it oppose or neutral. I would point you to Wikipedia:Consensus for more information but that doesn't explain it too well. I would suggest though that that would be a better place to try and explain it than on the RfA page, where it's something that most editors would already know from other parts of Wikipedia and would just clutter the page. -- Francs2000 00:22, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Nominate [regarding my suggestion of nominating Cunyado or Jeff3000]

Can't. 1. I'm not the most popular admin of wikipedia so haveing me nominate a person is not a great way to increase their chances. 2.I'm on record as saying that I think only self noms should be allowed.Geni 02:18, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Thank you! Hello KI, and thank you for your support in my request for adminship! It passed with a final count of 98/2/0. If there is anything I can do to help you, please leave me a message on my talk page! -- xaosflux Talk

My RfA

Thanks for your vote My request for adminship passed with a final result of 78/2/0. Hopefully I will live up to everyone's expectations. Please ask if I can ever help out with anything in the future. Martyman - 09:06, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Your vote on my RfA

With regard to your accusation in my RfA, I assure you that I am not using a sockpuppet. It's a ludicrous and hurtful accusation and I hope you'll read my comments on said page and consider changing or at the very least withdrawing your vote. ⇒ BRossow ^T/_C 21:24, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I also encourage you to withdraw that ill-informed vote. I am not a sockpuppet. I live several states away from BRossow. Look at my contributions if you don't believe me. Check my IPs (if that is possible?) to confirm legitimacy. Nova SS 22:23, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Lets be fair to KI, on first blush it looked like sockpuppetry to me too. Please assume good faith, a bunch of newbie voters is a very unusual occurance. The truth is, this RfA was a month or two premature anyway. Almost no one is successful with an RfA that comes just 2 months after they become active. Use this RfA for feedback and you will do much better next time. NoSeptember ^talk 23:08, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for voting on my RfA, it passed with a final tally of 68/0/0 so I'm now an administrator. If there's anything I can do to help, you feel I've done something wrong, or there's just something you want to tell, don't hesitate to use my talk page. Thanks. - Bobet 10:25, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Your RfA

Your adminship nomination didn't achieve consensus. Please look at the reasons voters opposed your nomination and this will be a big aid to succeeding in the future. Many initially failed nominees have gone on to be admins later. Cheers, Cecropia 23:07, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

This user thinks it is ironic that thanks for supporting Cyde's successful RFA came in the form of a userbox.

Here's a userbox for you. --Cyde Weys 04:17, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi K.I., I wanted to thank you for taking the time to consider my RfA, which passed this morning. If there's ever anything I can help you with, just ask; you know where to find me. Emphatic apologies for the spam. ×Meegs 06:38, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

This hippo looks contented.

Thanks for your support in my RfA. It passed, with a final tally of 62/0/1. I'm touched by all the kind comments it attracted, and hope I'll be of some use with my new tools. You know where I am if you need to shout at me. Flowerparty■ 15:46, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

WikiThanks

Thanks for supporting my RFA. I really appreciated the show of support and all the kind words from so many great Wikipedians. I hope I live up to them! -- Vary | Talk 17:24, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for your recent vote on my RFA. While the nomination failed, I was rather expecting it due to the big lapse between registration and recent edits. I appreciate the comments you left when you voted, and I will definitely keep them in mind. If you have any other suggestions as to how I could improve as a Wikipedian, so as to hopefully succeed next time, please let me know! Thanks! —akghetto ^talk 07:55, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Makemi RfA

File:Stick insect02.jpg

Thank you for voting on my RfA. It passed with a consensus to promote of 45/7/1. To those of you concerned about the fact that I am a relative newcomer, I encourage you to poke me with a sharp stick if I make a mistake. Or better yet, let me know on my talk page, and I'll do my best to fix it. Makemi 05:20, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Cote D'Ivoire

Hey...thanks for the message - I'll check those articles out :) I'd really appreciate if you were to add in anything you knew about the situation or any information or whatever, since I don't actually know a great deal about it. There's so little information about those parts of Africa and so we basically only know what the media tells us, the real situation is probably much more complicated. Thanks for making the disambiguation page, btw, it's great :) XYaAsehShalomX 22:46, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

No thats perfectly fine...:) - i'll try and do it right now but i cant guarantee i wont make a stuff up...im not really sure how to do redirects XYaAsehShalomX

Jeish al mansoura

Thanks again for sorting out the structure and stuff on some of the articles I've been working on ... I appreciate it. :) Btw, are jeish al mansoura or whatever, an african organisation that spread to Iraq? because I was a bit confused as to why it was classified as an "africa-related stub"...**sigh** XYaAsehShalomX :)

No problem! :) XYaAsehShalomX 17:10, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

State of the Union addresses-related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:George_W._Bush%27s_2006_State_of_the_Union_Address

So I guess that's a "no", you don't care to provide any evidence for your position? Bigtimeoperator 16:24, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I prefer to rely on facts rather than truthiness. KI 17:40, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I guess you "know" you're right, but may I ask, what facts? All I see is a bunch of unjustified reverts and a spurious accusation of vandalism. By the way, isn't there a rule against doing that last?

I cited the US Senate as saying that there was no SOTU in 2001. You cited nada.

Truthiness, indeed.

Bigtimeoperator 18:14, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

• As howcheng wrote on AN, this is a content dispute, not vandalism. If he commits a 3RR violation, I'll block him, but otherwise work it out on the talk page. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:12, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
  • He is in fact citing sources on Talk:George W. Bush's Sixth State of the Union Address (2006) to back up his claims. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:14, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Merge tag on Democratic response to 2006 State of the Union address

I will not object to the merge tag being removed on Democratic response to 2006 State of the Union address. Based on the size of the two articles and how closely related the subjects, I suspect that someone else might add it back in though. --Allen3 ^talk 18:07, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Original research

You wrote:

That's ridiculous, how am I suppose to discuss the speech? All of what I've pointed out is factual, but it's not legitimate unless it's posted on another site? This policy needs to be changed.

You discuss the speech on your own blog, that's how. An encyclopedia is a tertiary source. It does not make news, it does not analyze or report news, but instead reports what others have reported and consider important. You are free to attempt changing the policy at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) but I doubt you'll get much support, this being one of the core principles of Wikipedia. Regards, howcheng {chat} 22:19, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey--sorry for any snark on my part

I guess that I just get worked up about certain things. Apparently, this includes life and death matters like the naming conventions of SOTU addresses.

Anyway, good job on starting the article(s) on the State of the Union. --Bigtimeoperator 00:27, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Kaine pic

I meant of him giving the actual response. A screenshot should be allowable in this instance. There has to be somewhere we could get one from. Maybe one of the news services? --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 23:35, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm... I'll keep looking and get back to you if I find something useful. Thanks! --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 23:47, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Democratic response to 2006 State of the Union address

Posssibly, if the Wikisource discussion exists on other articles, a Wikipedia-wide discussion can be held about it. ςפקιДИτς ☺ ☻ 05:50, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

XYZ Affair links

Thanks for writing to me about the XYZ Affair links.

I suppose you are writing of the couple of links to years and a link to month. According to the Wikipedia style manual and associated discussion, such links are not necessary or even desired. I did not touch any of the links that included Month and Day as such links are wanted for date formatting purposes. Hmains 05:01, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Islam

Pre-Islamic Arabia it is

If you prefer that title, I'm OK with using it. We can always move the article if others disagree. Zora 01:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Qiyamah

You reverted an anonymous IP address on Qiyamah and you listed your edit summary as "rvv". He/she was clearly making a case for the reason why the previous version was better. It clearly was not "vandalism". If you had a problem with his version of why you thought yours was better, you could have reverted and said See talk and brought up your contention there. Pepsidrinka 04:27, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

The influence of Sabbatainism (Sabbatai Zevi) and Hurufizm (Ali Al-Allah) on Bektashism

You can get some references by googling Sabbatai Bektashi, eg http://www.kheper.net/topics/Kabbalah/Zevi_and_Bektashi.htm http://www.donmeh-west.com/re-evaluation.shtml http://www.sunnirazvi.org/forum/read.php?f=15&i=3&t=3 Although soemone is removing the links from the Bektashi page for some reason... I think they are also removing links to Hurufizm. There are ongoing debates about whether Hurufizm is an Islamic or pagan or atheist discipline and so I think soem Bektashia maybe eager to distance Bektashism from either Sabbatainism or Hurufizm. Paki.tv 23:39, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

OK, Thanx 4 the tips - see Talk:Bektashi and Talk:Hurufism for developments of this debate Paki.tv 09:47, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Babyfacered

If he vandalizes again I will block him. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 21:25, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Qiyamah

Qiyamah means the end of the world. How could it have already happened? And which Muslim scholars say it has already happened? --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 17:02, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

There are signs that point to the coming of Qiyamah not the start and the duration of the day of judgement as 50,000 years means that it will appear to be 50,000 years. So Qiyamah itself is the actual Day of the Resurrection and not presently happening. I am interested in a source for this translation of it. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 17:47, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

I meant that the signs you mentioned refer to the coming of Qiyamah not the start. The 50,000 years means that it will appear to be 50,000 years. So Qiyamah itself is something that hasn't happened yet. And using present tense makes it very confusing even if it is manual of style. Also I was just interested in a source for a translation that says it is presently happening. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 18:00, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Okay. The 50,000 years would perhaps refer to the immenseness of it as I thought and not the length. Do you still think that the article seems clear in the present tense? --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 18:15, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes we can. I still think the article seems very confusing in the present tense especially since the Qur'an does make it clear that it will happen and only "the signs" leading to it have started. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 18:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes it needs a small cleanup. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 18:27, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Zayd ibn Ali

A bunch of the text on Zayd ibn Ali is from al-islam.org. It's neither a neutral site nor is it a free site as far as I can tell. That's why I removed it. I can't see why it shouldn't be removed again. It might be cited and paraphrased... but not how it is now. gren グレン ^? 21:01, 29 January 2006 (UTC

for some reason you have accused me of vandalizing "islam and other religions": I have not, I looked at the wikipedia definition of vandalism and attempting to make an articile more accurate IS NOT vandlaism. there were several misstatements of facts which I corrected, I further added some fact which are FACTS whether you like them or not - before you repeat your scrurilous charges tell me which facts I have added are untrue, you can't, you just don't like them: you don't own the article, Wikipedia is the cumulative effort of all readers, like any attempted dictator you respond to correction with an attempt to censor - this isn't Saudi Arabia, you don't run things, the truth is the truth, live with it.

anon user

Yes I know and the stuff he is doing is really not neutral. If he does it again he probably will be blocked. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 03:15, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Divine law

Thank you. --Striver 03:23, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Afd

Thanks for the information, i appreciate it. --Striver 04:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: WP:POINT

Thanks for your opinon. I did thought about this, which is why I preferred to leave a note on his talkpage instead. A few editors may actually want him blocked (see WP:AN/I for related) on the very basis of WP:POINT, but I'd rather give him the benefit of the doubt. Best regards, Mailer Diablo 02:08, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Muslim World

I have moved Islamic World back to Muslim World because, firstly its the more used name 6,820,000 Google Hits for "Muslim World". compared with 3,190,000 Google hits for "Islamic World" - But Secondly, and more importantly, Islamic implies an adherence to islam, which not all Muslims follow, and which most Muslim states do not follow. For example, It is Islamic to wear hijab, but many Muslim Women do not. It is Islamic to grow a Beard, but many MuslimMen do not do so. I could go on. The point is, Muslims are a people, Islam is a religon, Muslim is the more accurate term. --Irishpunktom\^talk 01:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Thats a false Comparrison, A person who adheres the religion of Judaism is Jewish, and to say that Israel (the Concept, not the nation) is the "jewish World" is fine.. A person who adheres to the religion of Islam is Muslim, and, likewise, "Muslim World" is correct. --Irishpunktom\^talk 10:46, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, because Someone who adheres to the Jewish religion is generally referred to as Jewish. Someone who adhere to the religion of Islam is generally referred to as Muslim. You would only say someone was islamic if they were somewhat especially pious. --Irishpunktom\^talk 19:14, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Abrahamic Texts classification

I have problems with the classification of Ars_Goetia and The_Lesser_Key_of_Solomon as Abrahamic texts. They simply do not fit any areas of the definition of the classification you gave. I have outlined the reasons I disagree with the classification here. Talk:Ars_Goetia but the same reasoning also goes for the Lesser Key page. Please respond either at Talk:Ars_Goetia or at the discussion section of my own page.User_talk:Chaoscrowley --Chaoscrowley 14:27, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism

I wasn't sure myself whether this was a party, militia, or both etc. But to be honest it was really just the easy way out as the category already exists. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 23:13, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

George Mason v. Florida

I don't think that the current events is someplace for an up to the second report on the basketball game. Perhaps after the game is over, the results might be posted there, but I know when I looked at it, the score was within 2 points, not 10. It's just pretty much impossible to keep it accurate with the score changing so rapidly. Thanks for the message. Chuck 01:28, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Commonwealth of Independent States

My GAWD! They sure molested the article on the Commonwealth of Independent States! Very perceptive; good work!

Cheers, The Minister of War ^(Peace) 21:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Carolyn Meinel

Wandering around the web I came across attrition.org and, before reading further whatever they might have had to say about Carolyn Meinel, came to Carolyn Meinel. Strange, but in looking for some background on that person I found attacks on other people, back over at attrition.org. Would you reconsider your edits at Carolyn Meinel, perhaps shortening the whole bit about attacks against her to just the essentials, whatever those might be? As I mentioned on the talk page, I had the same reaction as the other person, when reading the article. Huh? Thanks, Shenme 13:10, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

charities accused of ties to terrorism

You moved [[charities accused of ties to terrorism]] to [[charities with ties to terrorism]].

I think your move was an abuse of the be bold advice.

24 minutes later another contributor changed the article back to its original name. Between the two of you the article's talk page was lost. I think we should hold you responsible. I think, if you thought the article should be renamed you should have voiced this suggestion on the talk page first, and let other contributors comment.

In future, please show more respect for the work other contributors have made. -- Geo Swan 13:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)