User talk:Yabroq/Archive1

July 2011

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Map of List of countries by system of government

Hi Tachfin, I remarked you were able to edit maps. Therefore, may you edit this map [1] ? You would make Western Sahara white (disputed region) or gray (not following any of the systems of government in the article), and give Morocco a red color (as it recently turned into a parliamentary monarchy). It would be also be good if you removed the border between Kosovo and Serbia because Kosovo is an unrecognized country. Thanking you in advance, Zambitious (talk) 23:44, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi,

I changed WS to represent both government's types (Morocco's and SADR's), changing it to white would have it mixed with the sea. I didn't change Morocco's colors since i don't think it is in the same category as UK & Spain yet. The king still retains control over the army, although i have to admit that putting it in the same category as the UAE & Bahrein is a little misleading. I didn't change Kosovo since it exercises control over the territory it claims despite being a state with limited international recognition.

If you wish to edit maps, you can download inkscape, it's free, light and easy to use once you get the vector image logic. Regards Tachfin (talk) 13:06, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Non-free files in your user space

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A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	for this contribution Dzlinker (talk) 19:37, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Glad

Thanks a lot for those barnstars. Greatly appreciated!! (I once changed my username from S710 to S711, because I lost my password.) S711 (talk) 22:20, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

You totally deserve it and more! (the password: It happened to me too :D old account User:Moroccan_sky)

Best regards --Tachfin (talk) 00:08, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Please

Please do not vandalisme pages with false information without original sources (not imaginary). 87.217.106.39 (talk) 16:05, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

yeah, right --Tachfin (talk) 17:21, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Vote

I see you are moroccan ultra-nacionalist (because you erase all template countries and dynastys and for you all are Morocco).

I wrote you to vote in options! (almohad talk) Luciusmaximus (talk) 19:47, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Helloooooo Bokpasa!! :-D

Omar-Toons (talk) 20:18, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Ceuta and Mellila

Morocco still claims Ceuta and Melilla and the Spanish islands off the coast. It even objects when a Spainsh minister visit these places, not to mention the King of Spain.

That Morocco still claims these places whether officialy or de facto, is very much clear, it even protested when King Juan Carlos visited one of the exclves in 2007, which a country that would not claim them, certainly would not.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.213.231.22 (talk) date

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia,

As I said Morocco doesn't claim Ceuta and Mellila officially (as in before the U.N) nor has this issue ever been a source of contention between the two countries in the last decades. Morocco's government spokesman said that he considers the visit by the Spanish king as a provocation. This kind of diplomatic remarks and comments about the issue are different from Officially claiming a territory. What sources say and what the government of Morocco has done is calls for negotiations on the status of the enclaves and that is very different from saying Spain should go and transfer sovereignty to us.--Tachfin (talk) 22:56, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Acoso

Bueno, te escribo en español, porque ya que lo vas a revertir pues así lo haces con motivos, puedes decirme ¿porqué fallan tanto tus escusas para eliminar mis contribuciones?, ¿te gusta revertir la historia?Bokpasa 23:34, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't speak Spanish. --Tachfin (talk) 23:37, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Notice

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Tachfin. Thank you.OpenInfoForAll (talk) 23:44, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Template:History of Morocco

Hello,

I reverted Dzlinker's edits and gave my opinion on Template talk:History of Morocco since he edited the template without consensus.

Feel free to give your opinion about that.

Omar-Toons (talk) 23:15, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

NPOV

Please stop Userboxes don't have to be NPOV: they usually aren't. This only applies to the article namespace. Please stop. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:27, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Really? It does, read your own link. To insinuate in anyway that the flag of a disputed territory is That of SADR or Morocco, is propaganda, political advocacy/recruitment--Tachfin (talk) 14:50, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes You can have any perspective you want on your userpage with a userbox--you need to stop manipulating these. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:12, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

No, not in the case of Wikiprojects, make a userbox in your user space, or change the Project's title.

If I were you, I wouldn't be accusing others of manipulating, considering your history. Avoiding such borderline personal attacks and self-righteous attitude (Me is right according to me) would be a good start for a discussion. --Tachfin (talk) 15:19, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

No I'm not right according to me: see WP:UBX. Userboxes are (in part) for POV. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:22, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Look, as per the above, usbx have restrictions read your own link. Add {{subst:user name_of_box}} or copy your prefered version into your user space. But The template being in the project's page and in template name space, as to insinuate that Western Sahara=SADR or Morocco, clearly un-acceptable political militancy (Again read your link)--Tachfin (talk) 15:40, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

TfD If you don't like these, propose them for deletion--don't keep on changing the look on userpages. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:42, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

WP:OWN, add {{subst:user name_of_box}} if you don't want it to change on your userpage.--Tachfin (talk) 15:44, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Hardly I didn't even make one of those--the alternative was made for users who want it. They can have that on their page if they want. If you think it should be userfied, then suggest that. The solution is not to change it to the version that you think is appropriate and create several redundant templates. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:48, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Those usbx are already redundant as they are, and more importantly politically charged. That wouldn't be a problem if they weren't featured on an official project page. --Tachfin (talk) 16:11, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Spain are not Morocco

I wrote you because you wrote: ¿Ronda, Seville and Ceuta are part of Moroco?Luciusmaximus (talk) 20:26, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi,

First, I did not write that. The cities you mention are certainly part of Spain today, but weren't part of it or part of the kingdom of Castile at the times mentioned in the article you edited. Hope this will clarify.

Regards, --Tachfin (talk) 20:31, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Re: Flag of Western Sahara (list of circulating currencies)

That sounds like a good idea. How does this entry look to you: Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara)? This is the same format on the list used for the Republic of China, which is commonly referred to as Taiwan. As for the currency, it seems that both the Moroccan dirham and the Sahrawi peseta are used, with the peseta being primarily a commemorative currency. Both can be listed under the same entry and a note can be made for the peseta's commemorative status. How does that sound? – Zntrip 22:32, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Looks good, just made some minor changes. See what you think of my bracketed version of the name. Sahrawi Republic, seems to be the short name and I put "Western Sahara" is parentheses. Please take a look, because I'm not sure if "Sahrawi Republic" is a commonly used name. – Zntrip 23:48, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying. I just made some grammatical changes to the note at the bottom of the article, but I did not alter the format of the entry on the list. – Zntrip 21:33, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

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Omar-Toons (talk) 10:57, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Moroccan cuisine template

Hello, I changed the colors because there are problems with access by visually impaired individuals. The color combination you chose lacks good contrast and would be hard for someone who has limited vision issues. I am going to revert to the better contrast versions for now, could you please leave it that way and work on it in its sand box until you find a better color scheme. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 07:45, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Averroes

Cordoba is currently and for several hundred years in Spain, no matter how people may long for the "vanished gardens of Cordoba." The articles on Mohammed, and especially Ibn Arabi conform to the idea of a listing for the politics of the time of the subject, annotated for the present. In retrospect, Spanish People does not seem appropriate. Tapered (talk) 00:41, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks fr/ my page talk stream. I have the greatest respect medieval Iberian Islamic culture. The 'vanished gardens' quip is fr/ a soliloquy by Emir Feisal (Alec Guinness) fr/ Lawrence of Arabia (film).— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tapered (talk • contribs) 03:01, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

You welcome! Tachfin (talk) 03:19, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Bokpasa's block evasion

Since you seem to agree that IP 79.146.52.91 is none other than User:Bokpasa once again, evading his block, you might wish to comment on a new sockpuppetry report at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bokpasa. Walrasiad (talk) 03:26, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, I responded Tachfin (talk) 05:01, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Ah. I must have missed those two IPs you mentioned. Well, he resurfaced yet again today, as you well noticed. I referred it again to the SPI. Bokpasa is now under an indefinite block. Lamentable that it has come to this. I had hoped his two week block would wisen him up, but he decided to dig his own grave instead. I fear he will continue trying his disruptive edits under new IPs until he gets bored or tired. Walrasiad (talk) 02:16, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

I agree with you, I don't think getting his account blocked bothers him. We can always hope that he will eventually lose interest... Tachfin (talk) 03:19, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:People from Sale, Morocco

A tag has been placed on Category:People from Sale, Morocco, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Duplicate category: People from Salé

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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Tachfin (talk) 09:00, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Greater Morocco map

Okay I appreciate you telling me, but there's no reason to remove it. The map on that Facebook page is similar, but this one is clearly not a copyright violation or a derivative image. For that matter, the simple fact that it was added by a blocked user is also not a reason to remove it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but these are irrelevant to the fact that this is an article on a geographic topic and it should have a map. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:09, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

OR Well, this is an entirely different tactic. You are correct that we cannot concoct maps purely based on our interpretation, but if you would like I could cite (e.g.) Hodges or the Historical Dictionary of Western Sahara. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:15, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Right Okay, what's your alternative then? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:54, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Sure Well, again, this map is consonant with (e.g.) Hodges' Roots of a Desert War. If you want me to create a virtually identical map and upload that, I can. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:13, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

proceed with this

this is a reminder, may be you didn't get the message on your wl. - Dzlinker (talk) 17:42, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

I'll reply but since the discussion has now gone to archives it's unlikely to get a follow-up. I understand the sensitivity of this issue and so maybe outside opinion will help. I'm thinking of starting an RFC at Algeria. I've looked at French Wikipedia, it seems that they've have decided to keep "French Algeria" for French people and "Algeria" for the others, I'm not convinced that this is the best solution. Tachfin (talk) 03:17, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Hello

Hey Tachfin, I just wanted to let you know that I tood a look at your recently created article Al Hiwar--You did an excellent job with including references and citations. However, I think the article seems to contain a few errors the references in the article do not follow Wikipedia guidelines. There is a tutorial on formatting citations at Wikipedia:Referencing. It would be great if you could also Wikify the related article Iraqi National Dialogue Front.

And have a beautiful day! Cheers, Jipinghe (talk) 17:16, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Tifinagh

Thanks for adding the Tifinagh script to the University of Bejaia! I added the script to the French and Arabic articles WhisperToMe (talk) 21:50, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome! It differs a little from what's shown on the image, I don't know if other Tifinagh standards are used in Algeria or if it's just an error, but I couldn't find any of these characters in any of the Tifinagh keyboards. Tachfin (talk) 07:18, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Block evasion?

I saw you had reverted an edit similar to this one, calling it block evasion. After reviewing the edit history of both IPs, I believe it is the same editor. -- nsaum75 ^{!Dígame¡‎} 11:12, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Well yes it is, see [2]. Tired of this user crusading through Wikipedia Tachfin (talk) 11:29, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Marie-Leontine Tsibinda

Thank you for your input on this copyright investigation, but I have reverted your change to this article. While we welcome input from all contributors, the template blanking the article is only to be removed by an administrator or a copyright clerk. This is to ensure that content which may be published in violation of our copyright policies is not displayed during the evaluation period.

I am unable to determine from your note when you removed the template why you believe that this content is not a copyright violation. You write, "Absoluetly not a copyvio, the article is almost entirely different from the source, well save from the core information of course e.g. titles of published books", but the article does not cite a source. At the time of its creation, it listed three external links (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marie-Leontine_Tsibinda&oldid=60465442), two of which are dead. This contributor has acknowledged being careless with Wikipedia's copyright policies at this point in his career, and we know that he has directly translated sources from other languages to place them on Wikipedia.

Can you please tell me what page you believe to be the source for the article? You can reply here or at the article's talk page; I will watch both. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:46, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi,

First the page was blanked without citing which website/source it is copyviolating in the blaking template. Which is against good practice and wiki policy I believe.

In the investigation page [3] Deleting user cites this page as "a very close translation". When I checked it, I didn't find this to be the case and acted accordingly. Notice that the page has an English version too.

User reported may have acknowledged some wrongdoings that doesn't make every article he contributed to a copyvio as articles get edited hundreds of times over the years and the version we have now may be completely different from the potential original copyvios. I don't think pages can't blanked on suspicion only.

Also I'll be grateful if you're willing to explain what constitutes "a direct translation"...thanks Tachfin (talk) 22:17, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. It's actually very much in keeping with policy. This contributor is subject to a contributor copyright investigation. In cases such as this, all contributions by a given contributor can be removed presumptively, as set out in Wikipedia:Copyright violation: "If contributors have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation, it may be assumed without further evidence that all of their major contributions are copyright violations, and they may be removed indiscriminately." In this case, rather than deleting indiscriminately, the article has been blanked with the hope that contributors can either demonstrate that there is no problem (never easy, and particularly difficult in this case, as I'll explain in a minute) or offer a rewrite.

In terms of the article being completely different, thanks to Wikipedia's retention of the history of every article, we can actually easily check to see if the page is completely different - in this case, it is not. We can compare the first version ([4]) to the one prior to blanking ([5]).

A "direct translation" occurs when somebody takes a source in one language and puts it into another. Under the United States law that governs Wikipedia, this is a right reserved to the copyright holder of the original. It is also a violation of that copyright law to too closely paraphrase when using a source or translating it. Contributors are required to put content into their own words on Wikipedia, aside from brief explicitly marked quotations, unless they are using and properly sourcing public domain or compatibly licensed material. (WP:Copy-paste gives a brief introduction to our approach to previously published text.)

In cases like these, as I said, it can be particularly difficult to verify that content has not been copied, since the contributor does have a history of misusing sources in other languages and since we are not currently able to identify and access the sources he used. It's not uncommon in such cases for us to remove the content that he placed and to retain material placed by others. We should be able to keep publication lists, etc., but frankly what concerns me the most is the section on idealism. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 23:03, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I know all about the U.S law :D but you didn't clearly define what constitutes a "direct translation"; depending on how each one of us understands a given language and link it to English in their heads the understanding of direct translations can differ significantly form one person to another. Suspicion isn't enough and I think you know that, otherwise articles wouldn't be checked manually. Even the English version of the page, I linked to above, doesn't translate the French one directly. The article contains two or three copy/pasted sentences which are only common usage, i.e. there aren't a hundred ways to say where a person was born and what degree they obtained. Rephrasing or removing relevant passages should be fine. Also, deleting is only for extreme cases as mentioned in the policy otherwise Wikipedia wouldn't have more than 100 articles if anybody's contributions suspected of copyvio were deleted preemptively.

Additionally, as you personally wrote the section you quoted above from the policy about "presumptive deletion of material" see diff here, I have good reasons not take it as very credible.

In any case, I'll do the tedious job of re-phrasing, where possible, and restore the article. That takes effort and time which preemptive blanking based on suspicion does not. Tachfin (talk) 23:54, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

If you're interested in salvaging the article, you're very welcome to do the work. In terms of the diff you provide, you may want to look more carefully at it, including the content prior to my edit, which includes the following "If contributors have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation, it may be assumed without further evidence that all of their major contributions are copyright violations, and they may be removed indiscriminately." :) I did indeed put that content in policy, per consensus, but several years prior. I am heavily involved in drafting most of our copyright related policies (and pretty familiar with them), as I have been heavily using my administrator tools to work copyright for several years now. However, my involvement in drafting policy doesn't make it any less policy, and if you wish policy to change you will need to follow procedure for changing policy. This contributor is the subject of a WP:CCI, a community approved process, and as such he is regarded as an extreme case. I don't see any value in arguing with you about the finer point of translation. I've got other things to do. I'll just check back on the article in another week, unless another administrator does so first. If you've drafted a new version, and it does not contain any text that is problematic, I'll be happy to use it to replace what that contributor wrote. Otherwise, I imagine the article will be stubbed. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:32, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

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If I'm welcome to rewrite the article why did you fully protect it? I didn't do anything yet and was going to completely reword it so it becomes completely different from its previous version...I believe you're a sane enough person not to use your admin tools improperly on this, I don't want to report you for admin abuse.

Me too I've other things to do other than rewriting an article I absolutely don't care about, I proposed to do the rework it as a gesture of good will and this how I'm rewarded. Totally uncollaborative...--Tachfin (talk) 13:41, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

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North Africa map

Hey mate, I'm here to explain myself! ;) I'm glad you brought it up actually. I found it odd that you removed all of the countries except for one. I knew that there isn't a primary geographic definition for the region, so I put some back based off satellite images and climatic maps (which are practically identical in definition, see here/here) — included the major Saharan countries but not the Sahelian ones. The way I did it was lazy though, because it's still random and politicised by sticking to borders. It'd be better to just show what the surface shows, without the borders. Nightw 14:24, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

I was going to leave a note about the list of sovereign states discussion, but since you commented I'm assuming you're following it? Nightw 12:45, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Response

See here Your comments are inappropriate and should stop. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:11, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Maslamah Ibn Ahmad al-Majriti

according to the notes in the english translation of the Şā'id ibn Ahmad Andalusī (the reference i added to the article), "In general, it may be assumed that the magical and chemical works attributed to al-Majriti are spurious, especially since ibn Şā'id does not refer to them in Tabaqāt." And it's true that Şā'id doesn't mention them. Anyway, i thought it was worth noting.— alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 20:54, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

oh, p.s. thanks for giving a transliteration of his daughter's likely name. i was having trouble with that.— alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 21:22, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Algeria

why did you delete the part about the Arab spring in the Algeria article? Is their a law says i can post it to the lead??? Bahrain voice (talk) 12:41, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Moroccan

Please see Talk:Moroccan#disambiguation. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 13:39, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Well, right back at you - my reasonable and detailed arguments have so far failed to make any impression on you for reasons you have yet to explain. The apparent consensus on the English Wikipedia is to have these terms as disambiguation pages and I see no reason to avoid this consensus. In fact, all I can see is that you seem to be exhibiting a case of WP:OWN on it - please don't do that. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 16:41, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

I've used my admin tools - how? I clicked the rollback button once? And you're now threatening me? Seriously? :) --Joy [shallot] (talk) 16:44, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Former members of the Polisario Front

Category:Former members of the Polisario Front, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:16, 5 November 2011 (UTC)