User talk:Abdullah Geelah/Archive9

Re: BARNSATRS
Have I? If so, it's not intentional. =\ I generally find people during the normal course of my editing, check them out a bit, and see if they seem unrecognized. The appearance of a "trade" isn't something I'd really like to engender, so I apologize if that's the impresssion I've managed to give off. Luna Santin 20:46, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Edit summary
When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this: The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 14:12, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

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Whis key   Rebel  lion  20:25, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Happy day
'''Morning, Abdullah. It's a beautiful sun shiny day!''' Whis  key   Rebel  lion  11:08, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Laas Gaa'l
I looked around for images, but didn't see anything. It could be tricky finding a free image for a subject like that; I don't know where exactly I'd start looking. --RobthTalk 18:12, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Somaliland shilling
Do you wish to add Arabic to the Somaliland shilling infobox, but don't know how? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 21:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

yeah... thanks for the barnstar, sarcasm of course.

Arabic inquiry
Hi Abdullah, the Arabic inter-wiki link at Mail appears to lead to a disambiguation page. Could you check it please? Thanks! - GilliamJF 12:19, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Well done. Thanks.  GilliamJF 00:47, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

A greeting
Assalamo 'alikom. I'm just happy with your work..keep it up. Also I would like you to help me start helping you...if you need co-operation about certain articles. :). --TheEgyptian 07:31, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Islamic architecture
Hi Abdullah, I noticed you had originally nominated Islamic architecture for the monthly WP:ARCH improvement drive, but then withdrew it. I really like the article and I've now got some books and so will be able to help with some of the referencing. We could list it for the improvement drive if you like (we seem to have run out of suggestions for some reason). Would that be ok with you? How did the peer review go - have you made any of the suggested changes yet? Take care--Mcginnly | Natter 15:12, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

PS. I'm pretty sure your name in the Welsh language would be the same as in english.

Regional Arch template
Hi Abdullah - I'd moved the regional arch template to the bottom of the article - I don't think you'd noticed so when you put it back it was in twice! No matter. The reason I did that was because 1. The top of the page needed some re-organisation with the formatting and layout, but I usually do this when all of the text of the article has been finished and we're all happy with it. I'm not sure that we are there yet so I moved the template to the bottom of the page for now so it doesn't get in the way. I find that template a bit awkard to use to be honest - It's fine as long as you don't want pictures in your article as well - I've proposed re-formatting it so that it's a page width wide - which will hopefully make it easier to fit on pages - very much like the Islamic art template that's already there. I'll write and reference some more tonight, Take care. --Mcginnly | Natter 11:59, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Islamic architecture
Hi, I'm trying to clean up some of the existing references - I think you added 3-4 references on the 5-6th September that have the form  but there's no original reference information - would you let me know what the source is supposed to be for these references so we can fix it - many thanks? --Mcginnly | Natter 19:00, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * No worries - I found it through a bit of detective work - it's from the Mosque article - I think we probably need to add to this section and then summarise - 1300+ years of architecture will be quite long enough as it is without large cunks of text from other articles - what do you think? --Mcginnly | Natter 19:11, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

I new there was something I'd forgotten - I've compiled a list of buildings that my first source claims are significant in the development of islamic architecture - quite a few of the buildings don't seem to have articles at the moment - but I'm aware that the translation of the names might be incorrect and they will almost all be known as something different now - do you know what they might be called or if we have articles on them? --Mcginnly | Natter 19:17, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Taj Mahal
Yes it was me - check the history - I think I made an edit summary - why do you think it is irrelevant? I'll explain my thinking:- It is probably the most recognisable example of Islamic architecture in the world, when the general reader arrivals at the page he can read the lead which will summarise what the article is about and see a picture that will sum up most of the elements of islamic architecture in what is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful buildings in the world - the elements of the picture are referred to in the text, Minarets, Dome, Iwan, proportion and exquisite geometrical decoration - and it's a good photograph. It's a good image for the lead - in contrast, the image of the Sultan Ahmed mosque offers little - perhaps it could be used to demonstrate the difference between Squinch and Pendentive solutions to the dome problem, but other than that I'm struggling to see it's relevance. I welcome the opportunity to collaborate on this - so your thoughts are very welcome - Have you read the talk page? - I've assembled a chronological list of the major developments in islamic architecture according to one source I have - I have another two to get through and I'll complete the referencing on the talk page before I start adding it to the main body text. On another note i think the "Architecture of mosques and buildings in Muslim countries" section needs pruning quite a bit - we already have an article on mosques, there's no point in repeating it here. Anyway I'd welcome your thoughts. Kind regards, --Mcginnly | Natter 00:41, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Image talk:Brainsik-bluemosqueinside1.jpg
I saw that you just added the Architecture SI template to Image talk:Brainsik-bluemosqueinside1.jpg. I couldn't help but notice that no such image has been uploaded to wikipedia. Did you by any chance add the template to the wrong talk page? A ecis  I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive. 19:48, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * My mistake, the image has been uploaded. Please consider the previous message not sent. A  ecis  I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive. 23:43, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Early Mosques
I'm trying to fathom the first few mosques - dates, islamic tradition, archaeologoy etc. a number of sites cite the Quba Mosque as being the first mosque - this site however says the prophet mosque is the first - They seem to be talking about the same building but the pictures seem to be of different buildings - can you clarify any of this? --Mcginnly | Natter 12:55, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

PS - you didn't answer my questions regarding a better image for the first paragraph - I'm not fixed on the Taj Mahal - but it does sum a lot up - perhaps we can compromise on one of the other images from the article or talk page? --Mcginnly | Natter 12:55, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Eid
Have a good Eid today Abdullah, perhaps we can discuss an alternative first image, when you return. Take care. Salaam. --Mcginnly | Natter 13:07, 23 October 2006 (UTC)