User talk:Kessale

Welcome!

Hello, Kessale, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Al Ameer son (talk) 00:41, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Majdal Yaba

Thanks for your note, and I´m delighted to be of help. You are from Majdal Yaba? Actually, that article needs to be updated; lots and lots of old sources have come online in the last 2-3 years; I´ve put a few of the sources on the talk-page. And I find the Petersen-book extremely useful and informative. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 19:54, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

I´m sorry, but I´m not that very good at technical issues. In other words, I have no idea as to help with the time-line. Perhaps someone at the "help"-desk can help? As for pictures: I also thought of copying the pictures from Finn, p130, and ARP, p.340, as they are so old that the copyright has expired. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 19:49, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

ok, I have taken a (quick!) look at the time-line here:[1]. It is very impressive, but my first objection was the same as I see someone else has commented on: namely, you seem to put Antipatris (earlier: Ras al Ain) in the same box as Majdal Yaba. When you add the 1579 CE stuff..that is from Antipatris. Now, Pal.Rem has a site on Antipatris/Ras al Ain, see [2]. Some of the stuff you added should go there. Also; I´ve uploaded the relevant part of Pierre Jacotin´s map to commons, see [3]. Ok, that was just a start. Oh; and I am so accustomed to editing on wp, where every single little tidbit of Palestinian history which you add has to be impeccably sourced...that I do miss the detailed sources, or footnotes. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:00, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

About the 1799 stuff; I´ve done far too little on that. I started collecting sources here. And I just got the book I *think* Khalidi refers to, namely "Herold, Christopher (1962), Bonaparte in Egypt". Now, Ch. Herold uses a *lot* of old sources, which have now come online. One source is the French version of Jean-Pierre Doguereau, 1904......One of these days I´ll try to sit down and collect them all. Oh, and the three main articles here (Siege of Jaffa, 3 to 7 March, Siege of Acre (1799), 20 March - 21 May, Battle of Mount Tabor, April 16)...are all in a rather miserable state, methinks. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 00:35, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I can see that Majdal Yaba had vast areas of land. This whole region is bit hazy when it comes to "what goes where" wrt to history. I have been trying to find all "depopulated" villages listed by Benny Morris (in his 2004 book), see my User:Huldra/Morris-list. Now, Morris lists two "Majdal Yaba"s. See discussions here. In addition, he list "Ras al Ein", which Khalidi writes became deserted in the 1920s. And in addition to that, we have Al-Mirr, where Khalidi writes that some of what is referred to as "Antipatris", is actually Al-Mirr! (See foot-notes in Al-Mirr-article). I will not claim that I have a clear picture here ;), Cheers, Huldra (talk) 15:11, 16 May 2010 (UTC) PS; may I ask you; if you upload pictures of these villages to Pal.rem; could you please also upload them to commons?

I would have to scan the pages and send them to you; I´ll see what I can do one day. Alas, I´m not sure it would help; as Morris is not very specific wrt where he plots the villages. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 19:46, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

That map follows Khalidi, it looks like; with 418 villages. Here, on en.wp, we also follow Khalidi in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Palestinian_Arab_villages_depopulated_during_the_1948_Palestine_War. However, my problem is to get Morris´s 392 villages to relate to the 418 villages of Khalidi.. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:37, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Gaza flotilla raid edits

Take a peek at this: Talk:Gaza_flotilla_raid#Some_questionable_past_edits --Kslotte (talk) 14:54, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Re: Coordinates

Hi Kessale! Thanks for letting me know about this. Apparently they changed the formatting of Google links and my rudimentary tool does not know how to read them now. I will fix this when I have time. Cheers, Ynhockey ^(Talk) 20:00, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

King Saul & The River

I am sorry,but I do not know anything about this issue. However, User David1212 saw the question, and replied here, Cheers, Huldra (talk) 15:48, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Re: Rosh Ha Ayn Railway

Hi Kessale,

The railway from Lod to Rosh HaAyin was part of the original coastal railway, and there was never a Jaffa to Rosh HaAyin railway (except through Lod). Are you referring to anything specific? —Ynhockey ^(Talk) 02:45, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Yeah that's the coastal railway. It was built by the Germans for Ottoman military needs in World War I. Paul Cotterell talked about it in depth in The Railways of Palestine and Israel. Thanks for the link to your blog. —Ynhockey ^(Talk) 16:04, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

RE:Jamma'in Banu Qudama Origins

Ahlan Kessale, I've responded at Talk:Jamma'in. --Al Ameer son (talk) 05:33, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:59, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jamela Alindogan

The article Jamela Alindogan has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

There are source confirming Alindogan is a journalist who works for Al Jazeera. It is easy to find material she has written. There is a lack of independent reliable sources providing coverage of her. Fails WP:N and WP:BIO due to no significant coverage by reliable independent sources.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Gab4gab (talk) 16:56, 19 August 2019 (UTC)