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Johann Jakob Pfeiffer
Hi there, thanks for translating this article! When you translate from the German-language wikipedia, can you please remember to add the "translated page" template to the talk page to attribute your translation? Link here: Template:Translated page. Thanks and welcome! -- asilvering (talk) 05:07, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! I will make sure to do that from now on. Evansknight (talk) 05:16, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

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Thanks again, and happy editing! Curbon7 (talk) 06:06, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
 * @Curbon7 thank you so much! I had some questions about ways I want to incorporate more info into the article, but I'm not sure who to ask. I know you editors are always busy and nobody likely has the time to hold the hand of a newbie, but I've tried to google and look for style guidance to no avail.-Evansknight (talk) 21:25, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
 * What questions do you have? Additonally, the WP:HELPDESK, WP:AFCHELPDESK, and WP:TEAHOUSE always have people on hand that are willing to offer assistance Curbon7 (talk) 01:17, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Personal life section
In many bio articles, "Personal life" is a section just before references. David notMD (talk) 18:00, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Nastaliq calligraphy for Iran-related articles
Hi there. Nastaliq is a calligraphic script, not generally used for everyday Persian. Could you please stop adding it to Iran-related articles? (Referring to your latest edits). Its WP:UNDUE weight and basically irrelevant. Thanks! - LouisAragon (talk) 02:16, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. You also reverted several other edits I made that I’m confused about. Sayf ol-Dowleh and Dowlatshah’s info boxes, for instance. Both are titles, not names, and you reverted them so that their titles were reflected and not their names, which seems not to be in line with other info boxes from various other Qajar related articles? And you reverted a capitalization back to a typo. Am I missing something? Thanks again! Evansknight (talk) 02:31, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * The "name" parameter of the infobox oughts to reflect the title of the article as far as I know, not the subject's birth name. The parameter "birth_name" is a separate infobox parameter which can be added. As for the capitalization typo, my bad, sorry, you can re-add it. - LouisAragon (talk) 15:21, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * @LouisAragon I wanted to apologize again for cluttering up those articles. I had been working on articles pacific to the Mughal empire, and the convention for Persian in those articles, following Urdu, is to render it in nastaliq, and since Mirza Ghiyas Beg was a Mughal official, I followed the convention for his article, then lost track of time and got carried away. I think I have reverted all the edits I made. Again, I just wanted to clarify, when you reverted my nastaliq edits, did you just do a blanket revert, because in several instances I also made necessary changes, which you also reverted. For example, on the Mirza Ghiyas Beg article, the Persian version of his title is written in the article as "اعتمادالسلطنه آگهی الدوله" which, as a Persian speaker, you can see is incorrect, and it should be "اعتماد الدوله". I don't know how long it's been like that, because there are seemingly dozens of online usages of this specific string of words, all of which trace back to the wikipedia article. Thanks again! - Evansknight (talk) 15:25, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

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Devanagri name for Bhartripatta
Hi, I saw that you have made some edits to the page of Bhartripatta and the page of Allata. Although I am not sure how are you able to get the Devanagri script for the names as you did in these edits. Can you provide the sources? >>> Extorc . talk ; 20:22, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello! The Hindi wikipedia page for the Gohila Dynasty lists all of the rawals with their Devanagari names. -Evansknight (talk) 20:55, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Extorc I noticed that you reverted the Devanagari on Allata back to the original. Was it listed incorrectly on the Hindi wiki? Or does the standard Hindi orthography difference from the original Sanskrit? -Evansknight (talk) 19:08, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a reliable source. I would like to see an external source stating the spelling. >>> Extorc . talk ; 19:31, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
 * That's fair. I've done some preliminary digging and so far most of the online results circle back to that list from the Hindi wikipedia. I've found a couple of instances through google books, but it's hard to search Devanagari words there, and I don't know if either of them would qualify as reliable sources. I'm going to try and see if I can find an image of the Shaktikumara inscription, or a Hindi text that describes it directly. Fingers crossed! -Evansknight (talk) 19:46, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Talking about reliable sources is one thing but how is the word spelled itself when written in Hindi by ordinary people. (I know this is not the right way, but i think this is enough for us to favor my version of the spelling until we find evidence for yours.). here, here, here all use my version of the spelling and are the top search results when you search "Rawal Allata". >>> Extorc . talk ; 20:43, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
 * And if you get hold of shaktikumar inscriptions, i would like to have a look at them as well. >>> Extorc . talk ; 20:43, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree, until we have reliable sources for the other spelling, best to use the one most commonly used in everyday writing. Also, we may not need either one, per WP:INDICSCRIPTS, it seems the preferred is not house Indic scripts in the lead section or articles as a rule, which makes sense and helps avoid confusion like this, or in articles where they might be different versions in Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Marathi, Bangali, etc... I'll keep you posted if I find an image of the inscriptions. -Evansknight (talk) 21:17, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Sure thanks. >>> Extorc . talk ; 21:20, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

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Friedrich Pfeiffer
Hi thanks for creating this article. When we translate or borrow from other language wikis it’s a requirement to acknowledge the source. The best way to do this is to include it in your edit summary (e.g. “translated from de.wiki”) and there’s also a translation template you can add to the talk page. I’ve added it for you. Happy editing and please leave a message on my talk page if you need any help Mccapra (talk) 23:03, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! I know that and I should have remembered. Evansknight (talk) 23:32, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * I am aware of that. I copied and pasted information from the sources I'm using to remind myself of what the sources are there for until I work out the prose for the article itself. it's a draft, so it didn't occur to me that this would be a problem. Would it be better to move it to a userspace draft instead to avoid this kind of mixup? Evansknight (talk) 14:17, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry but copyright material is not allowed anywhere on Wikipedia, not even in drafts, sandboxes, or talk pages. If you need to save such material, I suggest you use an external editor such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs. — Diannaa (talk) 14:22, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
 * duly noted. thank you. Evansknight (talk) 14:23, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
 * If your draft contains other such copypastes, I would appreciate it if you would remove them. Thanks. — Diannaa (talk) 14:24, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
 * thanks. I will. Evansknight (talk) 14:29, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Yusuf Adil Shah

 * Salma Ahmed Farooqui, A Comprehensive History of Medieval India: From Twelfth to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, (Dorling Kindersley, 2011), 174; "Yusuf Adil Khan of Turkish descent was the son of king Agha Murad of Turkey." --Kansas Bear (talk) 21:43, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, I somehow missed that and noticed it right after I made the edit, and was literally about to revert it when you wrote me. However, I want to know what HER source is for that assertion, because 1. I have never seen such an assertion made in any Turkish sources, 2. King Agha Murad of Turkey is an insane way to refer to Murad II in a supposedly academic text, and 3. that sentence, along with pretty much every page of the book I was able to access through google, is so rife with grammatical and punctuation errors that I can't believe anyone would take it seriously as a reliable source. Evansknight (talk) 21:47, 15 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Yeah, unfortunately if it is not present, rest assured some Turk nationalist will restore it ranting how I or some other editor is suppressing this information cause "they hate Turks"!
 * Perhaps a trip to RSN would resolve the issue? --Kansas Bear (talk) 21:53, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Afifa Karam
Hi Evansknight. You added a reference for "Badawī 2015" to Afifa Karam, but a cite for "Badawī 2001" (Afīfa Karam: Ḥayātuhā wa-a‘māluhā). Should the reference be 2001 as well, or is this a separate work? -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 15:25, 6 July 2023 (UTC)


 * No, that was my mistake. I have corrected it. Thanks for pointing it out! Evansknight (talk) 15:31, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Adolf von Deines
Hello, I would like to notify you that there is a broken reference in Adolf von Deines, which is related to your recent changes to the article. The problem is that there is no citation in the bibliography with von Priesdorff as author and with 1919 as year. Janhrach (talk) 18:27, 19 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you! Evansknight (talk) 18:31, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * You are welcome. Janhrach (talk) 18:32, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

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