User:Koopinator

Long live Wikipedia, and long live its editors. My 9001st edit.

Thought of the day
A collection of memorable quotes or thoughts I have stumbled upon or come up with.


 * "He who has conquered is not conqueror, Unless the conquered one confesses it." - Quintus Ennius
 * "I shall either find a way or make one." - Hannibal
 * "Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things, and drowns them in the depths of obscurity, no matter if they be quite unworthy of mention, or most noteworthy and important, and thus, as the tragedian says, "he brings from the darkness all things to the birth, and all things born envelops in the night."  But  ''' the tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and to some extent checks its irresistible flow, and, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over, it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion." - Anna Komnene
 * "Stories are much tidier than real life. Stories have neat, happy endings, but all you ever really get is unfinished business." -For the Emperor (written by Sandy Mitchell)
 * "Such is the unity of all history that anyone who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web." - Frederick Pollock
 * "History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes." - Mark Twain
 * "Nightmares never last, mom. One day you wake up and they're gone." - Trunks, Dragon Ball Z (voiced by Eric Vale)
 * "What does it mean to be a man? To live. To adapt.  To survive.  To overcome.  To teach the next generation.  To die knowing your children succeed you." - YouTube commenter
 * Dying for your country is overrated, dying for your family is where it's at.
 * Take cold showers, it'll do you good.
 * Since suicide is more common than homicide, the best self-defence we can provide civilians is to disarm them.
 * "Every heartbeat is a reminder of the body's silent symphony, where every organ is an instrument playing its part, unappreciated until one goes out of tune." - /u/WrathoFstealtH
 * "Life is what you do while you're waiting to die." - Fred Ebb
 * "Each of us is a candle. A single flame in the dark, every moment a vibrant rebellion against the void. Because we are made to burn out, it makes our shining all the more brilliant." - YouTube commenter
 * The internet is such an incredibly large place, yet it has no distance so it isn't.
 * "Analysis shows that there is no significant difference in how rational the Flat Earth sample viewed themselves and how the national sample viewed themselves."
 * "Being alone on the toilet is proof that you'll always be alone when shit goes down" - Origin unclear
 * Life is so ephemeral... maybe that's the beauty of it. Carpe Diem.
 * In the early 22nd century, we will be allowed to put Template:Deceased on old, inactive accounts per WP:BDP

My favourite articles

 * Third Silesian War
 * Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard
 * Third Servile War
 * Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
 * Fall of Constantinople
 * List of last stands
 * List of political self-immolations
 * Clever Hans
 * List of non-standard dates
 * List of last words
 * Non-human electoral candidates

Humour

 * User:Jorge Stolfi/Templates that I sorely miss
 * User:Herostratus/Biographies of dead persons
 * User:Cmadler/Elephant (wikipedia article) (Wikipedia article)
 * User:Giraffedata/comprised of - A gigantic essay on why you shouldn't say "Comprised of". Not intended to be humourous, but it is to me.

Disturbing stuff

 * Soap made from human corpses
 * "Autassassinophilia is a paraphilia in which a person is sexually aroused by the risk of being killed. The fetish may overlap with some other fetishes that risk one's life, such as those involving drowning or choking."
 * Mass suicides in 1945 Nazi Germany
 * Beheading video
 * Dehumanization
 * Human zoo
 * Ota Benga

Military conflicts

 * Bukharan Revolution
 * Khivan Revolution
 * Yemeni–Ottoman conflicts
 * 1906 Mesopotamia uprising
 * Zaraniq rebellion
 * War of the Generals
 * 1911 Paraguayan Civil War
 * Khost rebellion (1912)
 * Khost rebellion (1856–1857)
 * 1961 revolt in Somalia
 * 🇹🇷 Nestorian rebellion
 * Urtatagai conflict
 * Kuwaiti–Rashidi war
 * 🇹🇷 Beytussebab rebellion
 * Shinwari rebellion
 * Kuhistan rebellion (July 1930)
 * Kuhistan rebellion (February–April 1930)
 * 2002–2003 conflict in the Pool Department
 * 1945 Hazara Rebellion
 * Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1945
 * 1949 Hazara Rebellion
 * Urtatagai conflict (1913)
 * 1931 Saudi–Yemeni border skirimish
 * Najran conflict
 * Bitlis uprising
 * Hamawand rebellion
 * 1944–1945 Insurgency in Balochistan
 * Ecuadorian Civil War of 1912–1914
 * Turkoman Revolt of 1912–1913
 * Revolt of Salar-al-Daulah
 * 🇲🇬 1904–1905 uprising in Madagascar
 * Kurdish rebellions during World War I
 * Ottoman invasion of Persia (1906)
 * Bitlis uprising (1907)
 * Turkoman Revolt of 1915
 * Muscat rebellion
 * Persian tribal uprisings of 1929
 * Mahsud Waziri blockade
 * Wad Hubaba Revolt
 * Zaraniq rebellion (1925–1929)
 * Waziristan campaign (1921–1924)
 * Ghilzai rebellion
 * Mohmand Expedition of 1908
 * Operations against the Mahsuds (1917)
 * 1944 Kivu uprising

Battles and offensives

 * 🇱🇾 Battle of Derna (2018–19)
 * 🇱🇾 Siege of Derna
 * 🇱🇾 Gulf of Sidra Offensive (2018)
 * 🇪🇷 Battle of Adal
 * 🇪🇷 Battle of Omal
 * 🇪🇷 Agordat Operation
 * 🇪🇷 Battle of Halhal
 * 🇪🇷 Battle of Telay
 * 🇪🇷 Battle of Ansaba
 * 🇪🇷 Battle of Togoruba
 * 🇱🇾 Battle of Saddada Castle
 * 🇱🇾 Battle of Traghan
 * 🇱🇾 2019 Southern Libya offensive
 * 🇱🇾 2019 Western Libya offensive
 * 🇱🇧 Battle of Sidon (1991)
 * 🇮🇶 Siege of Najaf (1918)
 * 1915 uprising in Karbala
 * 1916 uprising in Hilla

Countries and territories

 * Sheikhdom of al-Hawra
 * Sheikhdom of al-`Irqa
 * Sultanate of Tarim
 * Emirate of Afghanistan (1929)
 * Principality of Najran
 * Beda Sultanate
 * Na'wah (Upper Yafa)
 * Juban (Upper Yafa)
 * Rubeaten
 * Kurdish state

Locations

 * 🇸🇦 Ad-Dilam
 * 🇸🇦 Al Bukayriyah
 * 🇸🇦 Tarafiyah
 * 🇮🇶 Al-Khodar, Iraq
 * 🇾🇪 Irqa
 * 🇵🇰 China, Pakistan
 * 🇦🇫 Almara

Organizations

 * 🇱🇾 Ajdabiya Revolutionaries Shura Council (2015 – 2016)
 * 🇱🇾 Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya (2016 – present)
 * 🇱🇾 Petroleum Facilities Guard (2012 – present)
 * 🇱🇾 Derna Protection Force (2018 – 2019)
 * 🇱🇾 Ihya Libya (2017 – present)
 * 🇩🇪 Afghan-German Trading Company (1923 – present)
 * Saqqawists (1924 – 1931)

People

 * 🇱🇾 Ateyah Al-Shaari, Libyan rebel leader (fl. 2018)
 * Ali Ahmad Khan, Afghan politician (1883 – 1929)
 * Abd-al Karim, Afghan monarch (1897 – 1927)
 * Jehandad Khan, Afghan monarch (d. 1914)
 * 🇮🇶 Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Iraqi rebel leader (1976 – 2022)
 * Mazrak Zadran, Afghan chieftain (fl. 1940s)
 * Shahswar, Afghan politician (fl. 1940s)
 * Salemai, Afghan monarch (fl. 1940s)
 * 🇦🇫 Amanul Mulk, Afghan politician (d. 2011)
 * Babrak Khan, Afghan chieftain (d. 1925)
 * Abdur Rahim Khan, Afghan governor of Herat (b. 1886)
 * Amanat Lewana, Afghan politician (fl. 1940s)
 * Mudbir al-Far'un, Arab chieftain (d. 1918)
 * Purdil Khan, Afghan Saqqawist leader (d. 1930)
 * Sayyid Husayn, Afghan Saqqawist leader (d. 1929)
 * 🇬🇧 William Marshall, British army officer (1889 – 1918) (RIP)
 * Muhammad Umar Babrakzai, Afghan chieftain and jurist (fl. 1960/70s – present)

Tribes

 * Kabul Khel
 * Ahl Haydara Mansur
 * Ngāti Huarere

Misc

 * Battle of Derna (disambiguation)
 * Palermo Conference
 * 1956 riots in Iraq
 * Dacom (disambiguation)
 * Amanullah loyalism
 * Template:Babrak Khan family tree
 * 1931 Afghan parliamentary election
 * Ottoman declaration of Jihad
 * Anthony Adverse (novel)

Silliness

 * Goku vs. Superman (RIP)

Pages i have significantly expanded

 * Khost rebellion
 * Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)
 * Bazar Valley campaign (with Public Domain text)
 * List of wars: 1900–1944 (>50% authorship since 16 December 2019)
 * Saad Akbar Babrak
 * Al-Busi
 * Gau Cologne-Aachen

Todo list

 * Haitan Civil War
 * Explain the loya jirga during the Khost rebellion in more detail
 * Timelines for all Yemeni sheikhdoms
 * 1944–1945 Insurgency in Balochistan
 * Occupation of Northern Persia (1916-191.)
 * Afghanistan in World War II
 * Find the following books:
 * Near & Middle East Titles: Records of the Kurds: Territory, Revolt and Nationalism, 1831-1979 (Specifically Volumes 4 onwards)
 * Power in the periphery: The Hamidiye Light Cavalry and the struggle over Ottoman Kurdistan : 1890-1914

Date-specific redirects
I have noticed that a few days are apparently important enough to warrant their own redirect. I'll update this list as i find more:


 * December 7, 1941
 * 6 June 1944
 * August 6, 1945
 * 11 September 2001
 * 21 December 2012
 * 13 November 2015
 * October 7, 2023

Reading list
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[https://www.worldcat.org/title/iran-political-diaries-1881-1965-volume-3-1906-1907/oclc/37757360 Iran : political diaries, 1881-1965. Volume 3, 1906-1907]