User talk:Ciphers/Archives/2009

Hello Ciphers
I'm terribly sorry for writing in English, I'm at uni at the moment and no Arabic. Anyways, thank you for your kind words, and sorry for the late reply, it's been a long month of procrastination. I see you have learned some Kanjis, so you're someway or another connected to Japan! But, for the life of me I can't seem to place who you might be!

As for Arabic Wikipedia. I don't mean to be a cynic, but I have no energy for editing on ar-wiki, it takes a lot of patience, resilience and unfortunately, I have neither. I recognize the great need for quality arabic content on the web (and I am active in that field in other projects), but Arabic Wikipedia is not something I can do. I've seen some of the discussions on it, and I am not willing to go through that.

I am content (for now) to just populate¥ing the English wikipedia with articles on Syria and Arab-related issues (which is in great need). Yazan (talk) 06:49, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * You are just making it even harder! You wouldn't be one of 2006 Monbushos? I remember Haytham has an MSc. in electrical engineering? That was the only time I was in Kansai a couple of years back! Anyways, I will try to contribute more to ar-wiki, maybe mostly starting stubs based on the english ones. But here's a counter offer, me and User:Al Ameer son have been working on the Hims article to get it to GA status, and any contribution and help would be great, shu ra2yak? ;) Yazan (talk) 08:01, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ahlain Haytham pasha! Glad you're joining us. The plan is to promote main Syria's high importance articles (Hims, Aleppo, Damascus, Umayyad Mosque, etc.) to GA-status, unfortunately the only one active in SY-wikiproject is me, User:Al Ameer son has offered to help, which is great because he's done a lot of work on promoting palestine-related articles to GA and featured. Yazan (talk) 08:29, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That's a deal, I'm always up for interwiki effort! :) Yazan (talk) 08:33, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Photos?
Marhaba Ciphers Pasha. I had this weird urge today to start a lot of Starts on Madrasas in Syria. These five are from Aleppo:
 * Al-Uthmaniyah Madrasa
 * Al-Zahiriyah Madrasa
 * Al-Sultaniyah Madrasa
 * Al-Firdaws Madrasa
 * Khusruwiyah Mosque

And they are all missing precious photos! Do you have any? or do you know anywhere I can get fair use photos? friends? :) Yazan (talk) 18:33, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

unblocking of Arabic Wikipedia
Hi Ciphers. You wrote that Arabic wikipedia was unblocked on December 13, 2008 whereas Bassem said that it was unblocked on February 13, 2009. So, Which date is correct? --Osm agha (talk) 18:21, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * :( Yazan (talk) 10:33, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Hims
Congrats, Hims is the first Syrian city to be promoted to GA-Status! The review went without a single glitch! :) Yazan (talk) 03:24, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Photo-consistency
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Photo-consistency, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Wikipedia is not a dictionary, no indication that this unreferenced article could be expanded much beyond a definition

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. RadioFan (talk) 11:34, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

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Tagging files on commons
Hello Ciphers, you have tagged images for deletion because the are on commons, but we have been ending up with double file:

'''This page may meet Wikipedia’s criteria for speedy deletion. This picture/multimedia file is available in the same format, and in the same or better quality/resolution on Wikimedia Commons as file:File:Bon Jovi 1.jpg, and satisfies certain additional conditions. See CSD F8.'''

This may be a twinkle bug, which I put in as twinkle bug number 330 Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:54, 4 October 2009 (UTC)


 * hi. i could not understand how csd a file would double it? anywat, i will keep an eye on the twinkle bug. best --Ciphers (talk) 06:13, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

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Category talk:Landforms of Singapore
Just a quick comment. Before you tag something for deletion can you take a look at the history to see if it's been vandalised. Thanks. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 09:47, 4 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I have to second this. I just got a test warning because you tagged Talk:A Different Drum for speedy deletion after it was vandalized. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 16:07, 4 October 2009 (UTC)


 * sure! I had better check the history of the page. thanks for your comment. best --Ciphers (talk) 06:09, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

ok i agree with your request for speedy deletion. Jonathanvarunbenjamin (talk) 13:24, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

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Re:rollback request
Hi Ciphers. I've granted you rollback rights per WP:AGF, as, I believe that you can be trusted to use this tool correctly. Looking through your contributions, it seems like you have learned from the block and have had a clean track record since then.

Remember that rollback is only intended for reverting vandalism, and not good-faith edits. For information on rollback, see New admin school/Rollback and Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks. -  F ASTILY  (T ALK ) 19:50, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Ciphers (talk) 04:43, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

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wtf
dude wtf i never uploaded that file

--125.212.210.234 (talk) 14:33, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Speedy tag on File talk:ABC pict.png
Hi Ciphers. I removed your speedy deletion tag from File talk:ABC pict.png. I don't see that the content was nonsense: it was a reasonable comment on the file associated with the talk page (though I have no idea if it was true or not). Besides, there's no real need to delete a talk page even if it does contain just nonsense - it could just be blanked. Cheers, Olaf Davis (talk) 12:11, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Olaf. Glad to hear your comment. i checked the page, and you were right about the content of the comment. In fact i agree with you that there is no real need for deleting a talk page even if it does contain just nonsense, however i use twinkel for csd now, and i find it a very convenient way to csd pages, warn users at the same time, and eventually have an admin check my review of the page. If there is a way to blank the page and warn the user in one shot please let me know. Best --Ciphers (talk) 06:14, 23 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm not aware of any such feature, but I've only used Twinkle for deletion tagging and never really investigated its other facilities. In cases of obvious vandalism you could probably use Huggle, but I don't know if it also has a 'that comment wasn't very relevant, see WP:Talk' feature. Good luck looking! Olaf Davis (talk) 09:25, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Maal
Could you please explain why the Redir? Is there a meaning to the word that I am unaware of. If there is, it should be explained in the target article. Exit2DOS • Ctrl • Alt • Del 08:35, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi. it was created by mistake of the script i used the other day. I will csd it! thanks. --Ciphers (talk) 09:21, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

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rollback of good-faith edit
You rolled back the latest edit for Broomfield_Event_Center when the removal of links was in good faith. Did you bother to check the links to see that they were in fact defunct before you rolled back? 24.8.88.192 (talk) 13:54, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The revert was because all templates and categories at the end of the article was removed. If some links should be removed, please dont remove anything irrelevant to them. best --Ciphers (talk) 02:26, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * So what would I do in this case where all (both) of the links are no longer working? 72.54.98.226 (talk) 14:29, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * You could remove only the dead links (with "External links" section header if no more links are in the section) without removing any categories or templates, while indicating your action in the WP:Edit summary. You may refer to External links for further details. best --Ciphers (talk) 04:55, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

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