User talk:Cplakidas/Archive 27

DYK for War of Padua
valereee (talk) 00:02, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

I agree with you that 50,000 people never existed. 194.88.250.91 (talk) 17:21, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Abd al-Rahim
Hello Cplakidas. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Abd al-Rahim, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Hi Cplakidas. First of all, it goes with out saying that I defer to your knowledge of Arabic in declining this request. In my opinion, this is something that would better be taken up on the article's talk page. While the transliteration of عبد الرحيم may well more properly be Abd al-Rahim, it would appear that in English, "Abdur Rahim" is what is most commonly cited. Thank you. Shirt58 (talk) 10:19, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the brief summary the script only let me write. There are any number of people, past or present of the name Abdul (and its variant transliterations, including "Abdur" - Abdurrahman Wahid immediately springs to mind) and so on. Could you possibly take this up at Talk:Abdur Rahim? Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 11:04, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Al-Mustansir billah II Ali Shah
Hello,Cplakidas!

Please Can you help me edit this page Al-Mustansir billah II Ali Shah? Gragin (talk) 15:31, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, the article has been rewritten from scratch and moved to Al-Mustansir Billah II (Nizari imam). Cheers, Constantine  ✍  19:59, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, January 2022
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DYK for Da'ud ibn al-Adid
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Battle of the Blacks
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Busby and Colback
Hello Constantine! Long time no see. I was reading some articles and I saw that here we have Busby (military headdress) and Colback (hat). I'm not a specialist on the topic, but as far I as got, busby and colback are the same thing, with the second designation coming from French, and the French one from Turkish kalpak. The Portuguese dictionaries give this etymology for colback. Busby I still don't know yet. Any clues?--Renato de Carvalho Ferreira (talk) 21:35, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi Renato, indeed! I hope you are doing well, especially in these times. The two do indeed appear to be the same thing. I'd say busby reflects the British POV/usage, while colback (a term I had never before encountered) the French. Nevertheless if they are the same thing, they should be merged, probably under Busby (military headdress) since this is the English WP. The OED has no idea on the origin of the word, but I guess the military headdress was named after the bushy wig of the same name. Constantine  ✍  21:54, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Qadi al-Fadil
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battle of the Blacks
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Books & Bytes – Issue 48
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Issue 48, November – December 2021 
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Your GA nomination of Battle of the Blacks
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DYK for Baha al-Din Qaraqush
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St Mark's Basilica
Greetings from Venice. You were very helpful in getting the Biblioteca Marciana to FA status, and I thank you again. I currently have another FAC, St Mark's Basilica, and given your interest in Venice, I am hoping that you might have time and interest to take a look. At any rate, I hope you are well.Venicescapes (talk) 07:56, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Abu Firas al-Hamdani
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIV, February 2022
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Your GA nomination of Al-Musta'li
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Your GA nomination of Abu Firas al-Hamdani
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Your GA nomination of Al-Musta'li
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DYK for Al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab
—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Qadi al-Fadil
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Your GA nomination of Al-Musta'li
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Faux Hakim bi-Amr Allah portrait
Bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahim! :))) Hi, kali mera und hallo. I see you removed . I am fully trusting you on this, so if you could please offer some arguments there on the discussion page and place an appropriate caption under the file, this would hopefully stop the misidentification. Judging by the data there, the image is in use on literally dozens of wikis as a portrait of al-Hakim, from French to Romanian to Russian (they've got enough misinformation already) to... I don't even know what languages those are. Thank you, for this and for your help on Aman (Islam)! Btw, how did you notice the removal of my stub there? Have a great day, Arminden (talk) 10:39, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi ! I went by this, and by the fact that I have never seen this image labelled as a portrait of al-Hakim in any of the numerous books I've read on Muslim history. Constantine  ✍  16:35, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
 * To be clear, it is likely this is a high functionary, possibly even a caliph, portrayed there. I am still looking to find a source that describes this image, unfortunately the books cited in the talk page are unavailable. Constantine  ✍  16:37, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you! It's becoming a detective story. Arminden (talk) 16:54, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
 * i found something: Figure 11 and the accompanying description, saying it is a mid-10th to mid-11th fresco, thus implicitly ruling out any specific identification. I followed up the work cited, Arts of the City Victorious, which IIRC is probably the standard work on the subject of Fatimid art at the moment, and, at least from the snippets available at Google Books, it indeed does not associate the painting with any figure. Constantine  ✍  17:18, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's pretty much what was needed. I just took a quick look and found this, which is also quite explicit: maybe the figure represents a prince, but it's in a rather decorative style, "far from realistic", similar to paintings from Samarra and with "clear Persian influences". That makes a portrait unlikely, a prince is not a caliph, and it resembles art from outside the Fatimid realm. Nobody ever mentions al-Hakim. Case closed, I'd say. It is a general motif, hardly a portrait, and if it was ever meant to resemble a particular prince, he could be any among dozens or hundreds. Certainly not a good case (and not even a weak case) for establishing this image as a portrait of al-Hakim, and that's precisely what Wikipedia does: it becomes the much-copied standard for scores of other websites. I'll go ahead and remove it from all the pages it appears on by mistake. Thanks! Arminden (talk) 20:19, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Abd al-Rahim ibn Ilyas
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Qadi al-Fadil
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Your GA nomination of Qarmatian invasion of Iraq
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Your GA nomination of Khalid ibn Barmak
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Your GA nomination of Khalid ibn Barmak
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Books & Bytes – Issue 49
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Issue 49, January – February 2022 
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, March 2022
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Your GA nomination of Qadi al-Fadil
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Your GA nomination of Khalid ibn Barmak
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DYK for Al-Musta'li
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Nizar ibn al-Mustansir scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 10 May 2022. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Today's featured article/May 10, 2022, or to make more comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/May 2022. I suggest that you watchlist Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:26, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Khalid ibn Barmak
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, April 2022
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Promotion of Battle of Trapani
Congratulations! - Thank you today for Nizar ibn al-Mustansir, "about a Fatimid prince who should have become imam and caliph at the death of his father, al-Mustansir, in 1094, but was thwarted by the machinations of the powerful vizier al-Afdal. Nizar led a revolt in Alexandria, but was ultimately defeated and killed. Given the close intertwining of religious and political leadership in the Fatimid-sponsored Isma'ili faith, this succession dispute also caused one of the major rifts in Isma'ilism, with the supporters of Nizar (among whom were the famous Assassins) breaking off to form the Nizari sect, against the supporters of the puppet caliph, al-Mu'stali."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:44, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Danke Dir, Gerda! A beautiful photo :) Constantine  ✍  06:59, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Gerne, - click on songs for more --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:48, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
 * today more pics, and should this woman have an article? - or only her sons? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:22, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * good question. In the current state it looks as if she is notable chiefly as the mother of her children, rather than independently. Now, as the mother of several notable persons, it might be argued that she is notable too as she had some influence on them, but there also needs to be something that gives her some agency. It is telling that at the moment, 'she' occurs only in the first section of the article, and concerns her descent and early life. She is a passive object in her own article. Even the references appear to be primarily about her children and mention her in passing. Constantine  ✍  11:46, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you, - today Melody (not by me), and more pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:02, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I like my talk today (actually mostly from 29 May - I took the title pic), enjoy the music, two related videos worth watching! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:27, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you Gerda 🙏! Constantine  ✍  20:00, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Halm's book's
Greetings, Constantine. I'd like to ask you for Heinz Halm's books Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden, Die Kalifen Von Kairo: Die Fatimiden in Aegypten, 973—1074 and Kalifen und Assassinen: Ägypten und der Vordere Orient zur Zeit der ersten Kreuzzüge 1074—1171 for writing articles in Ruwiki. Do you have them in electronic form? --Werter1995 (talk) 14:07, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi ! No, I have purchased them, and I don't think there is any complete electronic version out there. Das Reich des Mahdi has been translated into English, and there are snippets of the other two in Google Books, but that's it. But if you want specific information, I can look things up or even scan a few pages for you. Constantine  ✍  18:17, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * No, thanks. Just a one Russian millionaire decided to donate money to buy books for Russian Wikipedia articles. They are distributed to those who cannot get electronic editions. I originally ordered them, but my colleagues saw that you often use them in your articles. They asked to know if you have the books in an electronic version, then we wouldn't have to spend money and could wait for another order. But, as we suspected, they are not to be found electronically. So you really have to place an order. Thanks again! --Werter1995 (talk) 18:30, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh wow, this book donation is a very nice thing though. A bit jealous to be honest :D. A heads up, Das Reich des Mahdi may not be easy to find as it has been long out of print, I got it via ebay. Happy editing! Constantine  ✍  18:32, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I luckily found already a set of three books in one shop in my country, but they are quite expensive, so I didn't want to spend the grant initially. Thank you, and good luck with your editing! --Werter1995 (talk) 18:41, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, Constantine! We still have a problem with this book. May I ask you to scan or photograph some of the pages and send them by email? №№ 37, 38, 58—60, 176, 225, 226, 229—236. zanuda-1964@mail.ru I would be extremely grateful! If you ever need sources from my articles, I'll be happy to provide them to you. My articles. Удивленный1 (talk) 16:16, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, which volume do you need? Constantine  ✍  19:54, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 1 Volume, Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden. He wants to see the sources for the articles I've written and I can't give him any right now;) --Werter1995 (talk) 20:41, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, I've sent you a link, it will be online for about a week. Constantine  ✍  17:45, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! Удивленный1 (talk) 18:52, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Oswald Boelcke assessment
Hello, I have fixed most of the items you listed. There's still a couple of concerns unanswered, however.

Your knowledge of German language and history has been a great help in improving the article. I anticipate any further input.Georgejdorner (talk) 21:54, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * you're welcome, it was a nice read. I've replied in the assessment thread, only a few outstanding issues remaining and I'll be happy to support. Cheers, Constantine  ✍  11:34, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, again, Other than the request for German language templates, I believe I have dealt with your concerns. I'll do the templates later; while they are cut-and-paste, they are going to take a while. You may want to wait a few days until they are done.

Again, I would like to thank you for errors corrected, comments made, and education dispensed.Georgejdorner (talk) 22:51, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
 * no worries. Ping me when you're done, I will look it over and likely pass it then. Cheers, Constantine  ✍  16:11, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I am not sure I am inserting the lang templates correctly. Could you please take a look at those I have done so far?Georgejdorner (talk) 23:15, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Ready for assessment finale.Georgejdorner (talk) 03:38, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * So...one more time.Georgejdorner (talk) 21:18, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Greetings Cplakidas
I have included a list for some articles that still have no pages. Hence, I would like to ask if you can please have a look at it and help to turn all the reds to blues if possible. Regards. Alas2022 (talk) 20:19, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks, much appreciated! Constantine  ✍  19:48, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Qarmatian invasion of Iraq
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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently Special:ListUsers/patroller New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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The Bugle: Issue CXCIII, May 2022
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DYK for Qarmatian invasion of Iraq
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 50
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Issue 50, March – April 2022 
 * New library partner - SPIE
 * 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway

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G-Aerosports
Hello and thank you for your contributions, especially covering Greek topics. I would like to ask you to check (if you could) the article G-Aerosports, regarding a Greek arircraft maker. There seems to be a "strange" effort for its deletion, so I would like to request your contribution on the deletion discussion page. Sincerely, thank you in advance Skartsis (talk) 06:13, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Siege of Taormina (902)
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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.
 * Backlog status

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.
 * Backlog drive

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
 * TIP – New school articles

There is a new template available,, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
 * Misc

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.


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 * Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
 * If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.
 * If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
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Erwin Böhme
Hello,

You probably recall Oswald Boelcke's best friend from your A Class review on Boelcke. I have just nominated Erwin Böhme for A Class, and I believe this prior experience would be invaluable in improving the Erwin Böhme article. I find your editing tips most helpful. And you did seem to enjoy reviewing Boelcke.Georgejdorner (talk) 21:53, 9 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Alas, Boelcke's FAN just tanked for lack of reviewers, and Böhme's ACR looks headed the same way. Can you please bring your erudition to bear on the ACR of tragic Erwin Böhme?Georgejdorner (talk) 21:11, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXCVI, July 2022
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Greek MPs 1869–1872


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Hellenic parliament resulting from the 1869 election
According to the registry, which is the source that's used in most of these articles about Greek MPs, the parliament that resulted from the 1869 election was in session from 1869 to 1871. It dissolved in December 1871, and there were new elections in January 1872. --Antondimak (talk) 07:35, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Category:Historians of the Byzantine Empire
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The Bugle: Issue CXCVII, August 2022
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Hi Cplakidas--I just ran into Mese (Constantinople). If you happen to have those sources laying around, could you add footnotes for them? Thanks! Drmies (talk) 21:29, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * No problem! Not at present, the article seems very well formed. Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  02:33, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

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Reichswehr
"Reichswehr", like "Wehrmacht" (but not "Reichsheer" or "Reichsmarine"), has long since been adopted from the German as an English word. It's in every online dictionary I checked -- and in my 1987 10 kg Webster's Unabridged -- so I don't think it's correct to be putting it into the lang template in the Reichswehr article (especially since it occurs 113 times...). GHStPaulMN (talk) 21:54, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, noted :). Constantine  ✍  12:53, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Category:Al-Jarjara& has been nominated for merging
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Thank you today for the article, introduced (in 2020): "The Battle of the Defile was one of the largest and most important battles of the late Umayyad period. Along with the Battle of Marj Ardabil a few months earlier (and arguably the Battle of Tours a year later), it marked the end of Umayyad expansion. The casualties suffered also helped undermine the Umayyad regime, increasing disaffection in Khurasan and removing many of the regime's most loyal forces from the metropolitan regions to the frontier, thus paving the way for the Abbasid Revolution. We are also fortunate to have one of the most complete accounts of a battle preserved in al-Tabari, and we can reconstruct events with more detail than usual for the period."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:03, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Nasafi
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Category:Banu Abi& has been nominated for merging
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The Bugle: Issue CXCVIII, October 2022
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Years of the 18th century in Greece


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Encyclopaedia Islamica Online
Hi Constantine! Don't you have access to Encyclopaedia Islamica Online via the Wikipedia library? We as a whole Russian Wikipedia cannot access the BRILL website... Werter1995 (talk) 11:56, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi I have access via the University of Vienna. Ping me if you need something. Constantine   ✍  16:34, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * , I created the same article on Russian Wikipedia as you did on English Wikipedia, Ibn Shirzad. To finish this article I need an article from Enciclopaedia Islamica. Url. Thank. Werter1995 (talk) 19:45, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * By the way, I found a pdf version of Halm's latest book, Kalifen und Assassinen: Ägypten und der Vordere Orient zur Zeit der ersten Kreuzzüge 1074—1171, which I asked you about at the time. I can send it to you if any of your colleagues need it. Werter1995 (talk) 20:36, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Will write up the article in English with the Islamica article, which is fairly comprehensive. If you have a pdf of Halm's book, I'd gladly have it; I have a physical copy, but it is a pain to carry around :D Constantine  ✍  17:52, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * , email me via wikimail, it won't let me attach the pdf file. I will also have The Buwayhid dynasty of Baghdad by Mafizullah Kabir (see Mu'izz_al-Dawla) in a couple of days. I can send it to you if you don't have it. Werter1995 (talk) 18:01, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅. Werter1995 (talk) 18:18, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. Constantine  ✍  18:19, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Pan-Arab colors, Fatimid Dynasty
Thanks for your edits to the flag families article and for the additional sources. The one you linked regarding white as the color of the Fatimid dynasty did not clearly disprove the other sources, and there are many more claiming green was the color. I tried but was unable to find a secondary source that proved white, and not green, was the color of the dynasty. I've made some changes to the article to reflect this, but kept your source. Happy to discuss further, but if you disagree with this decision perhaps we should move it to the article's talk page so others can weigh in. Thanks again for your contribution. <b style="font-family:Trebuchet MS"><b style="background-color:#07d;color:#FFF"> Not A </b><b style="background-color:#FFF;color:#07d"> Witty Fish </b></b> 15:18, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi I have added some additional sources. In short, this is a fairly common (and commonly repeated) misconception, which is puzzling because the  contemporary historical sources are unanimous that the Fatimids, like most Alids, used white as their color. This has been debated at Talk:Fatimid Caliphate as well. AFAIK, from some 19th-century sources I encountered a while back, this association of green with the Fatimids began sometime in the late Ottoman period. Constantine   ✍  21:20, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Iraklis Mitsopoulos
your excuse for removing information that someone attended the same institution as other famous people is not notable, unless they had a connection because of it. Plus other corrections (e.g. Aigio is not in Patras) and cleanup
 * Tzim78 (talk) 17:00, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi ! I understand it is a laborious effort, but it is not relevant to the person in question. People being at the same institution at the same time is coincidence; it only become relevant if they interacted. To take a somewhat extreme example, there is the well-known trivia that Hitler, Freud, Trotsky, and Tito were all in Vienna at about the same time. Apart from this being mildly ironic, so what? They did not know or influence one another at the time. On Mitsopoulos or any other scientist specifically, if a famous scientist was their teacher, or they were/became friends while at the same university, then this is WP:NOTABLE. Anything else is not. This is simply the way encyclopedia articles are written.
 * More importantly, there is a policy in place, WP:No original research, which prohibits us, as editors, from adding material that we have researched ourselves or draw or imply our own conclusions. What you are doing is precisely that. If a WP:Reliable source mentions other scientists in an article about a scientist, then someone else, i.e. a qualified, peer-reviewed expert scholar, has judged these relationships to be important. A Wikipedia editor however cannot decide on their inclusion simply as 'a nice thing to have', because their inclusion implies a relationship, and that is original research. Constantine  ✍  17:12, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Understood! Tzim78 (talk) 17:23, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXCIX, November 2022
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Happy Kalends of January
Thank you ! For you and your loved ones likewise a happy and rewarding new year! Constantine  ✍  17:50, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Cplakidas!
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 * Thank you, likewise the best wishes for the new year to you and your loved ones! Constantine  ✍  18:17, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
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 * Not at all, thanks for sending them :) Constantine  ✍  18:22, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

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Ibn al-Ash'ath scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 27 February 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Today's featured article/February 27, 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/February 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:14, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 201, January 2023
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New Source on Ionian Island Units
Hi. I found an open access article by Nicholas Charles Pappas from 2021 which offers a lot of details on the Greek Legion (Septinsular Republic) and bits and pieces on the Albanian Regiment (France) and the 1st Regiment Greek Light Infantry. I added it to each article's further reading section. I am focused on other content right now so I thought you might be interested in taking a look. Catlemur (talk) 18:57, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, that looks interesting. Unfortunately also out of my focus currently, but will get around to it eventually :). Constantine  ✍  07:43, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Husayn ibn Numayr in Marj Rahit
Does the source not mention the presence of Husayn ibn Numayr at the Battle of Marj Rahit (684)? Thanks A154 (talk) 07:03, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi not that I know of. Al-Tabari for example mentions his presence in the debates about the nomination of a new caliph, but nothing of his participation in the battle. Constantine   ✍  07:42, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

hi too. Maybe use another source. Perhaps the premier sources have been translated. The source in question could be something like Al Kamil fi al Tarikh by Ibn al-Athir or Ansab al ashraf by al Baladhuri. Given that Bani Kinda participated in the battle and one of their leaders, Malik ibn Hubayra was also present, it is not known whether Husayn actually participated or whether he chose neutral. A154 (talk) 00:59, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

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Greek Military Veterinary Terms
I want to write an article about the Hellenic Army Veterinary Service but I am confused about how I am supposed to translate Greek ranks like επικτηνίατρος into English. Any ideas? Aside from that I think bringing the Greek front of the First Balkan War to Good Topic status is achievable, especially if we get some people from Greek WP to participate. Cheers. Catlemur (talk) 18:13, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi ! επικτηνίατρος would be Major of the Veterinary Corps, as English does not have specific titles for the different corps/services (unlike German, where I think we got this from). On the Balkan Wars, I will be glad to help. The quality of the topic and its articles is generally low... I have, as you know, the abridged Greek army history, which is amazingly detailed even so. Constantine  ✍  18:55, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * A local library was gifted a lot of the official Greek army history books recently. For the Balkan Wars they have all the tomes except for the first one which covers the Macedonian front operations during the first war. But they have both the abridged tome and the medical services one (which has Greek army casualty estimates for each battle). Unfortunately they do not loan books so I have to bring my laptop there and I have a weird work schedule so that will slow the whole process down. Right now there are 13 articles about battles on the Greek front. 5 are Good articles and I nominated Battle of Sorovich and Battle of Driskos at GAN as well. I don't know if there are more battles to be written about like the Battle of Gribovo, or they should just be mentioned in passing.--Catlemur (talk) 19:48, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I definitely think that there are some battles of some importance still missing, such as Gribovo, Elassona, Ostrovo, the early attempts to capture Ioannina, just off the top of my head. I also want to add more info on the naval aspect of the war somewhere, and some more neglected events like the Icarian Revolution or the capture of Samos could also get a proper treatment. Constantine  ✍  21:31, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Speaking of Greek terms, what would be the appropriate translation for "τάγμα των μετόπισθεν"?--Catlemur (talk) 03:48, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
 * a direct translation would be 'rear areas battalion', but depending on context, it could be something like 'rear area protection/security battalion', 'support battalion', or 'depot/replacement battalion' (for regimental depots). Constantine  ✍  07:38, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

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Category:Chinese Central Asia has been nominated for renaming
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A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you both, and . TBH it was quite a bit more in-depth than a 'regular' GA review, but I think it was a good thing for all of us, and for the article. I am looking forward to your next articles on Shia figures! Constantine   ✍  16:10, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 202, February 2023
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You Can Get Much Further with a Kind Word and a...
Hi @Cplakidas, I don't think there was any need for the comment "correcting complete shambles about the location of this station" -- ✠ Emperor of Byzantium ✠  (talk)  01:57, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

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RFC on Byzantine Empire text
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Your GA nomination of Al-Adid
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DYK for Battle of Chios (1912)
-- RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Promotion of Sayf al-Dawla
Congratulations! Thank you today also for Ibn al-Ash'ath, "about an Arab aristocrat who led one of the largest rebellions against the Umayyad Caliphate in the early 700s. His story is essentially the story of the Iraqi Arabs under the Umayyads, and especially during the governorship of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf." - and a DYK also! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:10, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you Gerda! I hope you are well and enjoy the articles :). Cheers, Constantine  ✍  16:32, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Check out my talk about wellness, - yes, I enjoy the articles. Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:09, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
 * today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:08, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Category:Buildings of Justinian I
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Your GA nomination of Daoud ibn al-Adid
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DYK for Nicholas Orsini
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