User talk:Abdul Muhib

Do you have any sources for your recent edits to the Sabbath article? Vincent Valentine 20:56, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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No- I thought it more like common knowledge, since so many people would have experienced this in different Christian groups- the point of that section is that there are some groups who believe this, and some who believe that- and I know there are quite a large number of groups who believe and teach the additions that I wrote down.

You need a reference, I've never heard the term used in that context. Find a group that believes that or keeps it as doctrine and let me know. Vincent Valentine 12:53, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Here's something. http://www.quaker.org/quest/issue-9-angell-02.htm refers to the Quaker concept (as expressed by George Fox, the founder of the Quakers) that the Sabbath is an inward attitude of rest rather than an exact time. Which is the same idea that I was trying to express- that for some groups what matters is the approach rather than a specific day- it can be any day; and for other groups, even any time period. Again, this is not to say that they are right- that section is simply listing different beliefs about this idea.

Excellent. I'll add the site as a reference. Vincent Valentine 22:09, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Christian X of Denmark and the Yellow Star[edit]

Greetings Abdul

I have posted a reply on Talk:Christian X of Denmark. You might also find this page interesting. Happy editing. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 09:43, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

request about dodos[edit]

I can't see how your changes to the Flock of Dodos page make the section any more neutral. Please discuss any changes in the talk page before you change the main article, and do not keep reverting back. Thank you. Best wishes, William2233 22:25, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The majority of people did see how the changes made it more neutral, and I'm following standard Wikipedia practice of making changes without going to Talk first. As many have pointed out on the Flock of Dodos page, your constant reversions are approaching vandalism. --Abdul Muhib (talk) 06:35, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello?[edit]

Hi,

I found your username by pure coincidence, and it happens to be the name of the teacher that taught me biology last year, and from whom I learned a lot. If you are indeed that teacher, then you will probably recognize me from my userpage. However if you are not the Abdul Muhib that I know, please accept my appologies for wasting your time.

Have a nice day,

Zouavman Le Zouave _{(Talk to me!)} 00:21, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad it was you. ^^ How have you been? From the last thing I've heard you were in Seattle (or in Washington state at least). Are your plans of living in Yemen still working? In GWA the things have changed quite a bit. The school changed the biology textbook. The field is slowly growing, and we all hope it will be good enough to host other soccer tournaments. Most of the teachers are leaving next year so we (the students) are expecting a complete change in the staff for our senior year. Hope you are not missing Morocco too much. :)

Zouavman Le Zouave _{(Talk to me!)} 18:10, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you will come to Morocco soon enough to say hi or something! What do you do in Seattle? Are you still teaching? Everything is good in Morocco, the weather finally got warmer, but there is quite a lot of rain as well. Bobby and I are going to play for the "Festival of the Arts" in a couple of days, so we're pretty excited. Have you heard of the recent discovery of an extrasolar planet whose atmosphere contains water? The planet is referred to as HD 209458 b. Did you know about it?

Zouavman Le Zouave _{(Talk to me!)} 17:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

EFI citations[edit]

Thank you for adding sources for the information you updated the other day in the Evangelical Friends International article. The only problem is that they are not setup to make it clear which pieces of information come from which source. I'm happy to fix the code so that the sources use the Wikipedia format, but I need to know where to put the reference links in, if you could offer some guidance here it would be helpful. --Ahc 04:50, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Palosaari[edit]

Abdul, are Jim Palosaari's son Jeddidiah? If you are, you have a clear conflict of interest (see WP:CONFLICT) so shoud seek guidance from other Editors when editing pages directly related to your father.

86.135.144.123 (talk) 11:27, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That is roughly my first name :-), so, yes. Thank you for alerting me to the Conflict page. I was not aware of its existence, and have now read through it, especially the pertinant areas. I believe this policy went into effect after I began the page, as have a number of other Wikipedia policies. I have endeavored always to be very neutral in my edits on the Jim Palosaari page, and tried to follow Wiki's guidelines as far as I understood them, such as when my father's ex-wife added in negative bits into the autobiography of a living person. But I will now work to double my efforts to minimize my interaction on that page, follow neutrality, and consult with other editors. Thank you.

--Abdul Muhib (talk) 03:25, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

February 2009[edit]

The recent edit you made to the page Sebastian Grace constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Renaissancee (talk) 06:57, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, it doesn't. I was removing vandalism. --Abdul Muhib (talk) 07:11, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sebastian Grace[edit]

As for one, please do not edit the actual article itself it you considered an invaluable item. As for the discussions for it to be deleted, all discussion for it to be deleted or merged into another article are discussed on the article's talk page, which has not even been created; so I am not so sure how that could have been discuss on. Even if they still continue to recreate the article, you may tag the page for a speedy deletion, but please state your reason on the talk page. I would also suggest you add the tag {{subst:afd1}} and read the following article for more informaion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:AfD_in_3_steps Renaissancee (talk) 07:16, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. The recommendation for deletion was in the History, not the Talk, but in the duplicate "Electric Insect" article; sorry I wasn't clearer on that. I followed the link you provided, but it seemed the process for recommending deletion looks to be very complicated. (I did not know how to do it before.) I'm glad that you did it instead. --Abdul Muhib (talk) 07:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. :) Renaissancee (talk) 07:34, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I put it up for AfD. —pfahlstrom (talk) 07:41, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removing 'unsourced' comments that are sourced[edit]

Hi. I just wanted to let you know I've reverted your edit to the Caduceus page. You removed part of a quotation from a book and justified it in your edit summary as "Removing loaded language without a source". The quotation is clearly sourced as a publication by an academic press (Georgetown University Press), it's recent (2006), and authored by an M.D. who is the author of several other academic books and studies (his other work includes, for example, a study in the Oxford Handbook of Bioethics). The precise page number is indicated, etc. etc. Furthermore, the whole quotation is a blockquote, clearly indicating a quotation. I can't imagine how you could miss the citation. Perhaps it is because there were not quote marks on the blockquote? FYI, per Wikipedia:Style#Quotations "Do not enclose block quotations in quotation marks". In the future, please do not remove cited, verifiable content without justification. Also, please try make sure that what you claim in your edit summary is actually true. Thanks. --Picatrix (talk) 15:50, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In the future, try to be actually polite. You are right, I made an error, because that block quote doesn't look like a block quote, because there is a picture right next to it, and the [...] looks like the common Wikipedia mark indicating that there is no source for it. It is actually quite reasonable to see this as someone adding in loaded language. Try to approach people with a little more respect when you point out their errors, especially when the error is entirely reasonable and justifiable, because in this particular case, what is a block quote doesn't look like one.

Sorry to be snappy, but I had just placed that text in an attempt to reach a compromise based on talk page wrangling and my patience for people who make edits without paying attention was at a low. Everybody misses stuff, myself included, but I think that expecting people to really look closely at something before they cut it out of an article does not seem unreasonable. Anyway, apologies for the rudeness.--Picatrix (talk) 23:44, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Actually, I did have a copyright. The procedures for uploading pics on Wikipedia are incredibly complex, and I spent a very long time reading through them to follow them. I assigned everything it asked me for, including copyrighting the picture I took. I don't have the time to spend more hours trying to follow something so Byzantine that, when you put in what is requested, it is still deleted.

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