User talk:Anas Salloum/Archive 3

Re: Al-Kindi
Thanks for pointing out the transliteration in al-Kindi, I can't believe I missed that! I wasn't sure whether it was rude to change the barnstar, so when I found out it was the wrong one I figured I should leave it be :-P Alexander.Hainy 13:09, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Just wanted to say a big thankyou for all your help on the al-Kindi article, especially for correcting the typos and style errors. I think Jidan is planning to add more information on al-Kindi's scientific achievements, so after thats been written and checked I'll be putting it up for peer review, hopefully GA, if not FA status too!


 * Thanks again bro! A basket of fruit is on its way to you! Alexander.Hainy 19:48, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

My RFA
Hey, thanks so much for supporting my recent RFA. A number of editors considered that I wasn't ready for the mop yet and unfortunately the RFA did not succeed (69/26/11). There are a number of areas which I will be working on (including changing my username) in the next few months in order to allay the fears of those who opposed my election to administrator.

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Barnstar!
Thank you very much! I very much enjoy contributing here with or without barnstars, but it's nice to get one. :) --Delirium 15:39, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Al-Kindi peer review
Hi, just wanted to say thankyou for your suggestions on the peer review of al-Kindi. I have implemented a number of them in the article, and I will be looking into how to include his major accomplishments in the lead section per your recommendation.

Thanks again, keep contributing! Alexander.Hainy 16:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

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Re: Members?
Hi. Listen, I was just about to contact Syrian Wikipedians. However, if none show up as members within 48 (12:19GMT - 1/18/2007) hours, then I guess the project page must go. - Qasamaan 12:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC)


 * No it's okay. I understood what you meant. You have a nice day also :) - Qasamaan 13:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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Photo of St. George Monastery
Hello, I am Hovic from Syria. I congratulate you on the great work you are doing in improving Wikipedia articles related to Syrian archaeological and historical sites, it is a great addition to the world-wide known respected online encyclopedia.

Through my surf in wikipedia, I accidentally got to the article about St. George monastery, where I found a picture, which is taken from my album http://www.flickr.com/photos/syrialooks, or from my blog http://syrialooks.blogspot.com, without mentioning the source of photo. It would be beautiful to back-link the photo to one of it's original sites.

I wish you more of courage and enthusiasm to continue your thankful work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hovalp (talk • contribs)


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Other Castle in Syria
Hello, you are right the photo mentioned was in discussion. Thanks for the change you made. As to new articles, I suggest creating pages for Najm castle (north-east Aleppo by 120km, on banks of Euphrates), Misyaf castle (in town of Misyaf), citadel of Aleppo. If you write articles on these places, I have photos of them in my www.flickr.com/photos/200000 account or blog. Feel free to use some of them. I am continuing my journey in Syria. Soon new castles and new destinations pictures will be added. Approximately every month I go to 2-3 places, on weekends. My friend accompany me in travels. His site is http://syalp.blogspot.com.Hovic.

P.S. I am new to Wikipedia, and don't know how it works. I am not HTML or web expert, but I can use fairly some applications. For opening blogspot.com pages in banned countries, try www.inblogs.net or www.pkblogs.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hovalp (talk • contribs)


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The photos of my albums
Hello Anas, I clearly mentioned that I changed the "all rights reserved" to "some right reserved" which coincides with Creative Commons ShareAlike 2.0 (2.5), I didn't see any difference between two by the way. I even included the link of Creative Commons' site page that states my license category. Hope you enjoy your time :)

See you. Hovic 21:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Peer review of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
Hi Anas. I read the valuable feedback that you provided in the Al-Kindi peer review, and I thought I might interest you in looking at Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. I would really appreciate if you would take the time to read the article and provide your comments at the article's peer review page. Kind regards Cimm[talk] 02:14, 19 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Anas, I wanted to thank you for the valuable feedback you provided on the Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan article. After reviewing your comments together with those of other reviewers, I have updated the article. In particular, I implemented a significant reorganization of the article based on your suggestion. If you have a moment to take another look, I'd really appreciate any additional thoughts that you may have! Best of luck with your midterms - thanks again Cimm[talk] 05:29, 20 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you once again Anas. I have made more changes based on your new comments and wonderful suggestions. Kind regards Cimm[talk] 15:29, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

FAC
Hello again Anas! I thought I would let you know that I have just nominated the Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan article as a Featured Article candidate. The feedback and encouragement from you and the other reviewers is what motivated the nomination. Thank you again for all your support! Cimm[talk] 00:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Anas - thank you for your support in pushing this article all the way to FA status! Best, Cimm[talk] 11:45, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Language
Hello Anas! How are you? I wanted to ask you, since you are Arabic language native speaker, about one language issue. We have a small edit war on As Salif tiny article on how to sort it in categorization. Should As Salif be sorted under A or under S ? Thank you very much, btw why you don't wish to be an administrator in future? - Darwinek 14:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)


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 * Thank you for clarification, my friend. Still I suppose that user would maybe revert proper sorting. He is known here for conservative (I would say nationalist) "English Wikipedia for English-language speakers" stance. Well, I am now in the middle of my exams, so I hope it will end successfully soon. :) How is your work going ? Do you have ICQ ? :) - Darwinek 16:07, 20 January 2007 (UTC)


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 * Thank you very much for that nice award and good luck with your exams ;). - Darwinek 18:12, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Saudi Arabia block
So why is my user page blocked in Saudi Arabia? KingstonJr 21:52, 20 January 2007 (UTC)


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Marmarītā
Greetings. While I do speak the language, I can't read it. But what you wrote was off by one letter; you wrote Marmarītā but its Marmarīthā in Syriac. the th part sounds like the word thinking. Chaldean 16:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Newyorkbrad's RfA
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Thanks!
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My RfA
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My RfA
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Airlines
Wa alaikum assalam, thank's very much, I do try my best with the airline articles. Jaw101ie 19:40, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Arabic translation of Milestone tool
Hey Anas Salloum, thank you very much for the translation!! I'll get it uploaded and tested as soon as possible (I'll have to implement some right-to-left switching in my scripts first), so please hang on. :) Cheers, Tangotango (talk) 14:30, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Egyptian films
Good. I would appreciate extremely yor help on Egyptian films. I am attmepting to doucment every country and am currently on A Argentina. Category:Argentine films. SeeWikiProject Films/List of films without article/List of missing Egyptian Films I haven't got around for researhcing them yet Ernst Stavro Blofeld 16:45, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


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I can see you produce work of a very high quality. if you could add as many Egyptian films as you can from that Egyptian actresses filmo. that would be terrific -less for me to add for the missing Egyptian film articles. Even if you just set up the stubs using info from imdb for any missing egyptian films it sets them up ready for development -I'm sure there are many Egyptian usrs who have a knowledge of the films. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 17:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't know if you are interested but maybe you want to join Wikiproject film. However eventually I think 10 or so new WikiProject cinemas by country, to concentrate on Cinema of each major producer. Each project would focus on adding and improving films, directors, actors, cinematographers, editors, screenwriters score musicans producers etc. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 17:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I have created the World cinema template to connect every aspect of cinema across the planet. Now I am compiling a Chronology of films by country as part of the Cinema main articles -documenting precise release dates, actors genre notability awards etc e.g List of Argentine films and List of Canadian films. When these have been set up there should be the material to turn the cinema articles by country into good lengthy articles. When I get there I'm sure I can be very useful for Egyptian film. All the best Ernst Stavro Blofeld 17:16, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Good stuff. and welcome. I'll ask my Greek-Austrian Wiki Film friend Hoverfish to welcome you officially. Yes the lists are the framework for everything. I should stick to the original foreign titles in most cases but always state the english in bold next to it in article. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 18:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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Latifa
Hello, can we add arabic links as a reference to Latifa's page? Thanks in advance PEACE & LOVE radiant guy 08:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Sira` Fi al-Mina
The perfect stub Sira` Fi al-Mina. Well done! Ernst Stavro Blofeld 20:04, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Greetings
Hi Anas, Sorirart Biro'aitak. Good job you are doing in Egyptian films! The only thing that doesn't work (in my PC at least) is the Arabic characters in the infobox. It's strange, because in the main article they appear quite ok. Not that I know any Arabic myself (the above greeting I just copied - I hope it's correct). The only word I know is "shokran". A good old friend from New Mexico has leared Arabic and travels often to Egypt. Enjoy your edits and if you need any help, ask any time. Hoverfish Talk 21:42, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh I forgot: I also know "fraula" (strawberry) because we also use it in Greek. Hoverfish Talk 21:49, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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Requests
I have two Omar Sharif Egyptian film requests both from 1960Hobi al-wahid (My Only Love) (1960) and Esha'a hob (Rumor of Love) (1960). Ernst Stavro Blofeld 19:12, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Posters
An excellent site for posters is http://www.musicman.com/mp/egyptf/egyptnthrur.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ernst Stavro Blofeld (talk • contribs)

Hobi al-wahid
Good. I set up a quick stub for Hobi al-wahid the poster enticed me sorry!- However I see what you mean about imdb not being a very good source for Egyptian film- very poor actually. Trusting to Omar Sahrif's filmography it was 1960 not 1961 as imdb suggests? If you could add the plot and arabic details when you have finished your current task and any other genre categories that would be great Ernst Stavro Blofeld 11:56, 2 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Is it. It is 1961 then? its just other sites state 1960 including Omar Sherif's filmography so something is not right. I think I'll leave the Egyptian films to you as I am not familiar with arabic wording anyway!! Keep up the good work -I have seen some of your good poetry articles too Ernst Stavro Blofeld 12:07, 2 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes that was why I went against imdb and stated 1960 it seemed more evidence for this. Looks a good filmErnst Stavro Blofeld 12:16, 2 February 2007 (UTC)


 * congrats. Hey I wasn't that wrong though! Ernst Stavro Blofeld 13:23, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Stubs
I have stubbed Amina Rizk a red link on the Doaa 1959 film. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 16:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm also missing the birth/death dates of Mimi Chakib maybe there is an arabic site mentioning it -her name was in several films Ernst Stavro Blofeld 16:46, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Al-Mahdi Scouts
Thank you again for the translation help! Can you also tell what the scroll on the emblem itself says? Thank you so much! Chris 12:49, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Please, if you can reference it somehow, move the page to include Imam. All references I have seen in English or German do not mention it as part of the name, but if you can source it, I would rather have it at the name they use. Thanks again, Chris 13:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks, I knew I should have learned to read (sheepish grin). I just yesterday got a better logo for the Scouts of Syria, my brain is fried. :) Chris 13:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Sira` Fi al-Wadi, selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions!  Nish kid 64  22:23, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

My RfA
Hey Anas Salloum,

I just would like to thank you for your support in my recent request for adminship, which passed with a final tally of 54/13/11. I appreciate the trust expressed by members of the community, and will do my best to uphold it.

Naturally, I am still becoming accustomed to using the new tools, so if you have suggestions or feedback, or need anything please let me know. - Gilliam 20:57, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I am glad, too
Hi my dear Anas, I was not here in the last 3 weeks because I am a university student and as you know the term exams were in January. I am now back. Many things changed for better during my short absence. Faten Hamama was awarded GA status. (Congratulations.) You joined WikiProject Egypt (Welcome with us.) Portal:Egypt was created. The donation banner was finally removed. Thank you for asking about me. See you. --Meno25 04:04, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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Arabic translation of Milestone tool
Hey Anas, sorry for the late reply, I was been busy with some other things outside Wikipedia. I've finally uploaded your Arabic translation of the Milestone tool--it's now available at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/milestone.php?lang=ar, or via the language selector dropdown menu. I made various fixes to both the tool itself and the template script to support right-to-left languages, so hopefully it looks all right :) If any part of it looks strange at all, please feel free to tell me, and I'll do my best to fix it.

You'll notice that some strings--most noticably the "Welcome" heading--are still in English. This is because these strings are stored in a separate "general" language file. I've attached the English version below; if at all possible, can I ask you to translate these into Arabic as well please?

$lang['gen_error'] = 'Error'; $lang['gen_db-connect-error'] = 'Could not connect to database server (Zedler may be down); Error was: '; $lang['gen_db-select-error'] = 'Could not select database (The database you selected may be non-existent); Error was: '; $lang['gen_welcome'] = 'Welcome'; $lang['gen_invalid_dbname'] = 'Patently invalid database name';

$lang['gen_nonexistent_wiki'] = 'The project you selected is either non-existent or is not replicated to the toolserver.'; $lang['gen_query_failed'] = 'The SQL query failed with the following error: '; $lang['gen_query_failed_badrowcount'] = 'The SQL query did not return the correct number of rows.';

(Zedler is the name of the database server that stores the toolserver's data.)

Thank you! - Tangotango (talk) 11:56, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! There's no need to hurry, so please do it when you have time :) About transliterating "Zedler" or leaving it as-is; either is fine, but I don't know how names like that are usually handled in Arabic, so I'm sure you can pass better judgement on that. As it's a network name, it might be better to leave it in Latin. Cheers, and good luck on your exam!! - Tangotango (talk) 12:19, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much :) I've uploaded the general language file, so the whole interface should be in Arabic now. If you notice anything strange, drop me a line and I'll do my best to fix it. Cheers, Tangotango (talk) 15:52, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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Maw`ed Ma` al-Sa`adah voice recording
Hi Anas,

I've added to the article Maw`ed Ma` al-Sa`adah a voice recording of the title. The voice is my own. Since i'm not a native Arabic speaker, i'd appreciate it if you listened to it and gave me your opinion. If you give me your OK, i'll go on and add voice recordings in Arabic to other articles.

Thanks, :) Itayb 10:13, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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 * I'm very flattered that you've asked me to replace your recording of Faten Hamama with mine. Wow! I've been studying Classical Arabic for only six months now, but i really enjoy speaking it, because it's like a workout for the tongue. I also enjoy figuring out the tashkil according to the grammatical case. Anyhow, before i add more recordings, there are two issues i'd like you to help me resolve, please.


 * How should i upload the voice files? The recording uploading guidelines give instructions about how to upload a voice recording of a complete article, but how do i upload a voice recording for just a small fragment? How did you upload your recording of Faten Hamama?


 * Should i pronounce Arabic words with full tashkil, like i did in Maw'ed Ma' al-Sa'adah (maw3idun ma3a ssa3aadati) or should i be less uptight (maw3id ma3a ssa3aada)? Specifically, when you hear the title of this movie pronounced in the Arabic media, how is it pronounced? Itayb 13:33, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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 * Hurra! A barnstar! Thank you very much. It means a lot to me, since lately i was kicked out of the Hebrew Wikipedia. :(
 * Please note, that i've added a voice recording to all the articles of Books, Films and TV Series mentioned in User:Anas Salloum/Articles with the following exceptions:
 * Al-Manzel Raqam 13. Reason: The English transcription reads "Al-Manzel Raqam Talata`sh", but i've learned that the number 13 is pronounced: "thalaatha 3ashrata" or "thalaathata 3ashara", so i wasn't sure how to read it.
 * Dayman Ma`ak. Reason: the film poster reads دايما معاك, but the article reads دائما معاك, so i wasn't sure how to read it.
 * Maw`ed Ma` al-Hayat. Reason: the name of the film is spelled موعد مع الحياة‎. The way i've been taught, a Ta-Marbuta is not procounced unless it's vowel-marked, so i wasn't sure how to read it.
 * One more thing: i think the article Nahwa al-Majd has a mistake: the arabic name reads: نحو الجد, but i think there's missing a م in the second word. I didn't correct it, though.
 * I sometime ought to rent a movie with Ms. Hamama, now that i know all the names of her movies by heart...
 * Itayb 20:53, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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 * Um, yeah.. the image has a source. :) - Anas Talk? 12:07, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

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