User talk:Al Ameer son/Archive 8

On the Battle of Ismailia
Ahlan Ameer! I wanna thank you once again for your note, and ask you a small question.

How ready do you think that article is ready for an A-Class review? I've never done one before, and I'm considering making this my first. If you have any experience will that I'd appreciate it a lot! --Sherif9282 (talk) 11:45, 24 April 2011 (UTC)


 * You're right about the sources. It's my main concern actually (I feel the fact that the article's mainly based on an Arabic language source will raise issues). Unfortunately, I can't find other sources for the moment; in literatures on the war it's like those 'forgotten battles'. On the other hand, I noticed I hadn't not used O'Balance at all. I've added a few citations to him now, and I'll see if I can get anymore sources.
 * As for the wikilinks, I'm not sure I can add more information about them than what's already in this article. But if you find any sources about any them, go ahead and I'll try to contribute with whatever I can. Thank you for your help! --Sherif9282 (talk) 11:10, 25 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I've nominated the article for ACR. Any help along the way I would certainly be grateful for. Wish me luck! --Sherif9282 (talk) 15:36, 1 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot for trying. I didn't expect there to be much information on them. Your copy-edits are fine, keep them going wherever you see them to be needed. Thanks again! --Sherif9282 (talk) 10:57, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Vittorio Arrigoni
Excellent edits overall, but I have two questions: Why do you object to the subdivision of responses inside the Palestinian sub section of the article? Why don't you write about the following pursue yourself? Another not related question if I may - your overall contributions to wikipedia is quite impressive, did you study Arab history academically or are you just interested in the subject? M. Scribe (talk) 20:45, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Following your comment I've decided to start writign about the pursue after the perpetrators.M. Scribe (talk) 21:00, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Because there would be too many subdivisions which in this case I see as unnecessary. The other factions don't really have lengthy reactions and combined they form only a small passage in the article. This of course is not a major issue. As for Hamas' raid, I would've started it if no one else had, but I'm tied up this week. Glad you're taking the initiative though ;) Thank you very much for your compliments. I'm highly interested in my people's history, but my editing here isn't directly related to my academic pursuits. --Al Ameer son (talk) 23:02, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Either way you're very good. M. Scribe (talk) 23:18, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Abu Ali Iyad
The article Abu Ali Iyad you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Abu Ali Iyad for comments about the article. Well done! Harrison49 (talk) 22:23, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you! --Al Ameer son (talk) 22:58, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXI, March 2011
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Conversion of Hagia Sophia into a Mosque
Hallo Al Ameer

I have a question about Islam: the main historical sources tell that the church of Hagia Sophia was converted into a Mosque at the same day of the Conquest of Constantinople upon desire of Sultan Mehmed through a prayer of one of his Ulama. This I wrote on the article (and referenced it), until another user came, started a (big) discussion and canceled my statement, pretending that this is not true, and that the church was not converted into a mosque but - at least at that moment - only used as a mosque. I would like to ask you (or other users which you know and are versed in Islamic history and customs) whether the procedure used by Mehmed was (is) correct (I would have liked to ask Mehmed II, but unfortunately he is not around anymore, and maybe it is better so :-)). Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 09:17, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * hallo Al Ameer,


 * thanks! No, the two situations are completely different. Hagia Sophia was converted into a Mosque just after the conquest of Constantinople. What I would like to know is whether the reciting of a prayer is a sufficient condition or not for the Muslim religion in order to change the state of a building into that of a Mosque. This is exactly what the contemporary tell us about the way of converting this building. Apparently I need to find an Ulama who writes on Wikipedia... :-) Thanks anyway, Alex2006 (talk) 05:08, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Reviewer
Could you please support me here: Requests_for_permissions/Reviewer.

Thanks. Wilbysuffolk  talk  10:00, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Request for adminstrator assistance
Hello Al Ameer, we have a situation at Qur'an that would greatly benefit from your assistance with protocols. A few weeks ago, some editors at Qur'an opened a poll to move the page to Quran, a non-standard spelling mostly restricted to blogs and low-quality sources, claiming falsely that the apostrophe forces undue respect for the Qur'an, despite "Qur'an" being overwhelmingly preferred by modern scholarship with plenty of evidence that "Qur'an" is the modern accepted spelling, e.g. here. The only support for their position was that there are more raw Google hits for "Quran" than "Qur'an". This was found to be due to artifacts: including the inability to place apostrophes in URLs, misspellings, and some low-quality sources such as blogs written by people unfamiliar with the Qur'an. A number of the editors who voted in the poll had not contributed at all to the pages on the Qur'an and did not know the standard spelling, so they were persuaded by number of Google hits. Specialists on the Qur'an typically edit subsidiary pages, rather than the main Qur'an page, and many of these editors, including myself, were not aware of the vote. After a 9-4 vote, editors incorrectly claimed consensus and moved the page to "Quran", but worse, one editor, Quigley, attempted to cascade this vote to other pages by replacing all instances of "Qur'an" on Wikipedia with "Quran". This drew me to the Qur'an page where I initiated conversation about the incorrectness of the name change. After showing plenty of evidence, one of the original voters changed his vote, and plenty of other editors, some also drawn to the page by the cascading effect, voted to restore the page to "Qur'an". Currently a majority of editors support restoring the page to "Qur'an". Even considering both votes, a majority of editors prefer "Qur'an", showing that there was no consensus to move the page to "Quran". Three editors however: Kauffner, Quigley, and William M. Connolley have not been persuaded, and are posting numerous combative edits, attempting to invalidate the new poll and to prevent the page from being restored to "Qur'an". They have not given good reason and all three have posted comments to the effect of "Qur'an" forcing undo respect for the Qur'an, which is an entirely invalid argument ignoring modern scholarship and modern usage. I believe we would benefit greatly from administrator oversight to build consensus, especially by an administrator, such as yourself, with experience on related topics and a history of high-quality scholarship and fairness. Respectfully, Abdullajh (talk) 23:22, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Homs
, regarding this partial revert at Homs, there actually was an attempt on my part to engage in a discourse on the Discussion page. If you could elaborate on the reason for your revert there, that'd be great. The UNRWA page the article links to doesn't give a date for when the Haifa-Acre refugees fled their towns. In the interest of avoiding carrying over any possible bias from the UNRWA page, I think that best would be either to quote the source directly or embrace your proposal of "present-day Israel." But leaving the article the way it is (and the way it was prior to the sock's intervention and the edit warring) raises POV/historical inaccuracy issues.—Biosketch (talk) 13:17, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXII, April 2011
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Formatting Help
Hi Al Ameer son. Would you happen to know how to fix the formatting problem on this page? Thanks. -asad (talk) 23:56, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Shukran! It probably would have taken me a long time figure that out. -asad (talk) 21:30, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Abdullah Rimawi
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Anabta
Hi Al Ameer son, please see my reply on User:RazanXnour's talk page. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asad112 (talk • contribs) 22:00, 31 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Hey. Can you take a look at User:Tiamut/Bayt Nuba when you have a chance? Do you know how to make the template field on "Causes" have an option reading "Israeli forces" rather than "Yishuv forces"?  T i a m u t talk 14:33, 3 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi, We don't want to change the meaning of "E" from Yishuv to Israeli in general. The 1947-8 cases should remain Yishuv as some were pre-Israel.  Our problem is that we don't want to use "Yishuv" for the 1967 timeframe.  Would it be easy to create a new letter like "I" to expand to "Expulsion by Israeli forces" while keeping "E" to mean "Expulsion by Yishuv forces"?  Thanks.  Zerotalk 05:04, 4 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks Al Ameer son, but I guess I wasn't clear that what we need is a new parameter for that field so that we can use either Yishuv (for pre-1948) and Israeli (for post-1948).  T i a m u t talk 07:07, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much.  T i a m u t talk 17:31, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Back to Anabta for a minute folks ;-). Al Ameer son (and this is also open to anybody), would you mind taking a look at this page and see if there are changes that should be made before I update the Anabta entry? Thanks. -asad (talk) 21:21, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXIII, May 2011
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Help with new article
Hello! I just wrote an article on Abd al-Malik ibn Salih, and seeing as you wrote on his brother Al-Fadl ibn Salih, I thought you'd like to have a look. If you can point me to any sources that I could use to expand the article further (esp. on his life before 789), I'd be grateful! Cheers, Constantine  ✍  18:05, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

The lion of Egyptian revolution (Qasr al-Nil Bridge).jpg
I was wondering if you could give you opinion on the picture nomination to be a featured picture. -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 08:09, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Umayyad Mosque
Marhaba Amir. I'm terribly sorry for the radio silence. Yesterday, by mere luck, I wandered into the Umayyad Mosque. What beautiful work you've done. Truly! Thank you. Yazan (talk) 21:38, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
 * No, I meant wiki. I haven't been home since the whole thing started. I'm hoping to ease myself back into Wiki after next week. I just need to be really careful not to get sucked into editing the Syrian revolution page. Looking at the discussions there, I remembered what a heartless bitch the word RS is. ;) Inshallah, by this time next year we'll have turned the page on another dictator, I just hope this happens before our dear exiled opposition melts the economy down. This country deserves better than these manayek, I swear. Yazan (talk) 11:27, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Re: Battle of Ismailia passed A-class
Ameer! I'm terribly sorry for being so late! Exams are draining me and all my time!

First off, thank you very much! Your support and help really encouraged me to start a review, and I'm really grateful! I think I might give it a try at getting it to FA status, or perhaps work on getting another article to A-class, probably the Chinese Farm article. I'll decide hopefully as soon as I'm done with my exams.

And, thanks for reading my blog, I appreciate your feedback! The Arab Spring has helped enlighten people somewhat but we've still a long way to go before there's a respectable level of awareness. Turkey is indeed the finest model available and I hope we reach something along similar lines. Right now the biggest obstacle to, any kind of change really, is how the army's handling the situation and running the country. We've gotten into some heavy clashes with police yesterday, because they're still following the same mentality and brutality, and every street movement or political demand is treated as a security problem. For all that has been achieved, change is still a long way to come... --Sherif9282 (talk) 04:42, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Al-Aqsa Mosque
The article Al-Aqsa Mosque you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Al-Aqsa Mosque for things which need to be addressed. Pyrotec (talk) 20:49, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Help on a Particular Wiki
Hi, As-salaamu 'Alaikum,

I was wondering if it would be possible that you could assist me with editing a Wiki I've been working on. I'm not very literate in terms of Wiki editing and I thought it would be useful to ask an Admin. The issue I'm experiencing is that whenever I seem to edit the article it refuses to accept the changes, and reverts back to a previous version, after the browser cache is cleared.

The Article: Shams Al-ma'arif

Any help would be sincerely appreciated. --Huss4in (talk) 17:26, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you tremendously. --Huss4in (talk) 00:45, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXIV, June 2011
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Human rights violations under Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
I was wondering if you can help with the "Virginity testing" section? It needs expanding. All the source you need have been added to the section so finding info will not be a problem. Please let me know if you can help. Thanks in advance -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 11:15, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Kamal Abbas.jpg
I was wondering if you could give you opinion on the picture nomination to be a featured picture. -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 15:27, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Lajjun copyright problem
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The Bugle: Issue LXV, July 2011
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Hussein Salem
I was wondering if you can expand the article? Sources have been in added to the Further reading section. -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 00:33, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks brother. Amazing work. I found Part 1, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 as you requested. Also got this from Hossam el-Hamalawy. Let me know if you need anything else and please keep me updated on the progress of the article :-) Im so happy for Libya and cant wait for Yemen, Bahrain and Syria to be liberated as well -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 05:24, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * BTW, I think the article once more complete could be in the DYK section. So once you feel that you are done editing it, nominate it. -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 03:40, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Merge of Amka and Amqa
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The Bugle: Issue LXVI, August 2011
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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Sumayriyya cemetary.JPG


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The Bugle: Issue LXVII, September 2011
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Zaki al-Arsuzi
Thanks for copyediting, and fixing, my sometimes very bad grammar. Question, should sentence that start with al-Arsuzi be lower case? His name is lower case, wouldn't it be grammatically wrong to upper case a lower case name? Even so, thanks. --TIAYN (talk) 19:42, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I must say, there still doesn't seem to be much activity on Arab nationalist or Arab political articles in general. When I first took at look at the ba'athism article (look) it was pure crap. It still has major problems, but at least its readable. My focus, for the time being, is not Arab nationalism, but more specific to ba'athism... Its nice to see another editor working on Arab nationalist related articles too; I must say, cudos for you're work on the Gamal Abdel Nasser page. My plan, for the time being at least, is to expand and nominate the Hafez al-Assad, Saddam Hussein and Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr to GA-status.... When it comes to copyediting al-Arsuzi, the only thing that is important is that you're better than me; which you've proven, so you may not be great a copyeditor, you are improving it. --TIAYN (talk) 20:53, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Shemouniyeh & Wadi Sallah
Thanks for correcting me on this one. I had copied an Israeli template by accident. Whoops! Hopefully there aren't any problems with the wording in the articles, which don't mention Isreal at all. Hope you enjoy having some culture that belongs to our mutual ancestors in the Heavy Neolithic. Kind Regards, Paul Bedson  ❉ talk ❉ 21:54, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Bani Na'im
The article Bani Na'im you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Bani Na'im for comments about the article. Well done! There is a backlog of articles waiting for review, why not help out and review a nominated article yourself? Please note the licensing change for future reference. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 14:20, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXIX, November 2011
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