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I suggest a new template for articles that have outdated information or that need to be updated to current events, etc..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This article or section is out of date, and is requested to be updated.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)

Brain Teasers/Trivia:

Hi, I'm just posting a friendly notice stating that I have got Brain Teasers/Trivia on my user page that you're welcome to have a go at. Will post new questions one day after they have been answered. Thanks... Spawn Man 04:43, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Ottoman Empire

Thanks for your interest in the Ottoman Empire, page.--tommiks 15:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I do understand from your {cleanup} tag, that you are highly involved into this topic, but please remember that there is a size limit on the pages, and the short paragraphs that you think very unsatisfactory are there for the shake of helping the other people to guide to the sub-pages. 600 years needs more than one paragraph right --tommiks 15:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm sure, you will be working on the sub-pages. Such as the one you mentioned, the structure of state that is not being satisfactory. If you do not have any objection, I will delete the {cleanup} tag, as if this form of short summary is satisfactory as long as the sub-pages (such as state) is developed more. We will change these short paragraphs to reflect the sub-page that you will develop. HOW about that --tommiks 15:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I was hoping that you would add more into the topic, but even if you can spare a small time to fix couple problems, that would be nice. Most of the people who show real interest into these pages are turkish native speakers. Just being realistic, without an good details page these paragrafs are doomed to change. Also even though the empire dissolved nearly a century ago, you would be surprized how much hatered people have for it. That would be another reason your changes would not last long as without more detailed backing to those paragraphs there is no way to keep them as they are.--tommiks 15:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

FireFox RFA

Yodakii

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Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (96/2/0), so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any queries about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Again, thanks!

FireFox 18:58, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you so much for your support of my RfA, I greatly appreciate it. And by the way, I haven't forgotten about the flag issue on the Palestinian page, I think it's worth replacing it with a composite of a number of Palestinian images (either famous faces or other) - maybe 4-5 pics in all. I hope I can find some legal pics to use. Thanks again! Ramallite ^(talk) 04:00, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Very much for your kind support of my adminship. I'll do my best to live up to your and my other supporters' expectations. If you have any comments or concerns on my actions as an administrator, please let me know. Thank you! — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 14:44, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

non-Arab Middle East Christians

I think you should have a look at the doings of some anti-Arab Christian activists who designed a totally inaccurate and propagandist Syriacs box, mentioning Maronites and Melkites as ethnically "Syriacs", thus non-Arabs, which I proposed for deletion here. There are non-Arab Christians in the region, be they Armenians or Assyrians, but these fanatics include Arabized Christians in their anti-Arab dreams. Pylambert 23:07, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

記事作成の依頼

はじめまして、Hattoです。俺は日本在住の日本人なのですが、アラビア語が解らないのでYodakiiさんにお願いがあります。Yodakiiさんがアラビア語を母語とし、英語や日本語も流暢に話せるということでぜひともアラビア語で記事の新規作成をお願いしたいのですがよろしいですか？日本の芸能人の記事です。--Hatto 15:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Translation request

Hello, I saw that you are a native speaker of Arabic, so I would like to ask you if you could take a look at 2003 invasion of Iraq and Iraq War. There is a featured article in Arabic which we would like to know how it could be used the English one which is of course dominated by people who have either been there as soldiers or have their knowledge from western media. Someone also asked if the section about "related propaganda and phrases" could be amplified with information about the Iraqi side. Maybe there are also people who took photos in Iraq at the Arabic version? Nameme 16:25, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Article on Al-

Hi. I wonder if you wouldn't mind taking a look at the article above, and expanding it further, or especially adding any sources appropriate for our English Wikipedia. I've already built it from a one-sentence stub using the sum total of my knowledge on the subject. Specifically, someone raised questions about the etymology of Semitic definite articles that I just couldn't answer. While the answer has now been provided by another editor, it and many other of the technical statements in the article need references to back them up. So I'm trying to recruit other Wikipedians with Arabic/linguistic expertise, such as yourself. Thanks very much! -Fsotrain09 17:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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