User talk:FayssalF/Archive C

Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (96/2/0), so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any queries about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Again, thanks! Fir e  Fo  x  18:42, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

شكرا جزيلاً
I just wanted to thank you for your support of my RfA which finally passed! I greatly appreciate it! Ramallite (talk) 04:04, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

French
Hey, I was looking at the list of translators and I saw your name pop up... I have translated some things (I was taking some information on Fadela Amara) but I am nowhere near fluent... However, I just listed two articles for translation from French into English. They are fr:Voile islamique en France and fr:Hijab. The first is all new material and I thought might be interesting, and for the second FR has some interesting information that we don't have. Since you speak French and English and work on Islam-related articles I figured you might have an opinion or maybe want to do some of it. Thanks. gren グレン 02:59, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

I also attempted to start hisba... yet.... I failed. It's really bad what I've done but I created it (adding expert tag) because the concept seemed important. gren グレン 10:05, 13 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Sure, no pressure. I figured it was necessary to have someone who works with Islamic topics write it since it has the NPOV tag in order to help smooth it out here. Likewise, if some section of it is just pure crap then no real need to translate it.  Good luck and if I can help in some way just ask... I have a very basic understanding of French that I can combine with general knowledge on the topic and maybe be of some use. gren グレン 00:51, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Islamofascism
Hey Fayssal. They are trying to reinstate this article, so can you please take a look? Yuber(talk) 16:44, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Islamic conquest of Iran
Svest, need help at this article. I'm dealing with a stridently Iranian nationalist editor who wants to turn one section into a long essay about how all the glories of Islamic civilization were due to the Persians, Persians valiantly fought back against Arab domination, etc. etc. He insists that his version is THE TRUTH and that I am biased and ignorant for even questioning it.

If you're Sunni, you may also want to have a look at Ali ibn Abi Talib and Shia Islam, where Shi'a editors are pushing Shi'a-POV versions. Zora 21:25, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Your user page has been vanadlized.
Line 78. I'd fix it myself, but that would be poor etiquette. Tom Lillis 20:21, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Population of Africa
Hi,

Douja made a similar change to population info for Europe, so if you reverted Africa, that one should probably be rv'd too... ፈቃደ 22:57, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar


Hello Svest, the barnstar is for the contributions you have listed on your user page, not something specific. I was horrified when I say how long you had been here, how many edits you had made and yet, there were no awards. Well, I had to remedy that. !מזל טוב in Hebrew is "Mazal Tov!" I'm sure you know what that means. Izehar 23:39, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Hola guapetón! Has empezado a cuidar más a tu preciosa novia? Sitos.

If ...
... you're against the move of Islamofascism (term) to Islamofascism, I suppose you had better vote accordingly on the talk page there. I did, even though the whole thing feels distinctly rigged to me. BrandonYusufToropov 21:41, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

John Coltrane
Aloha. On October 3 you added Category:Muslim converts to John Coltrane. What source can you cite for this claim? If you can, please reply to the "Islamic Convert" section at Talk:John Coltrane. Thank you. --Viriditas 04:50, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for your prompt and informative reply. Hopefully we can add some of the information that you left on the talk page into the article. --Viriditas 01:29, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Very interesting section! Coltrane was heavily influenced by Sufism, so that should be mentioned somewhere.  Bassist Donald Garrett is quoted as recommending Sufism to Coltrane.  If you're going to mention the claim abut "Allah Supreme", then you should also describe Coltrane's recording of Om which includes the chanting of verses from the Bhagavad-Gita. --Viriditas 03:07, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I've made some major changes and removed some stuff for cleanup (Alice didn't quite fit in context, and the African religion bit needs to be clarified--but this stuff could certainly be added back, expanded, and fit in chronologically). We could use some more about the Muslim Jazz scene, perhaps more about Naima's influence, etc.  I would defintely like to seee the relationship between A Love Supreme and Islam expanded, as well as adding information about the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. There's a lot to do, so if you have any free time, jump in. --Viriditas 10:47, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Email
Hi I sent you an email. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 05:19, 4 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Lol. :) Thanks -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 05:32, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Islamof*t vote
Hi Svest. I don't really have an opinion on the "term" issue. Regards --Lee Hunter 00:57, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

208?
Hi - I hazarded in my RfA that your figure of "208" was a guess - would that be about right? BD2412 T 05:07, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:COUSCOUSs.jpg
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Suitable comments
Dear Fayssal -- OK, I was angry and upset and I shouldn't have labeled it as "Sunni" vandalism -- even though it was clearly done by a Sunni. I'm just exhausted by dealing with Striver, and his attempt to turn the bio of Ali into Shi'a piety, and ALSO dealing with a rash of vandalism, seemingly both Sunni and Shi'a motivated, in various other Islam-related articles. I am getting so dang tired of dealing with POV warriors for one or another POV, and getting stuck in the middle with both sides screaming at me. Zora 01:42, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

BD2412's RFA
Although my RfA is not over yet, I figured that since so many people voted before it had been posted, I may as well start thanking people before it wraps up. It'll take me that long to thank everyone who voted anyway! Thank you for your support - even through your suspicions that this was April 1 coming early! I'll do my best as an admin to make the reality rise to the level of the dream. BD2412 T 05:05, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

My failed RFA :)
Dear FayssalF, I would like to thank you for supporting me on my RfA. Even though it failed with a with the final tally of 55/22/6, I want to thank you anyways. I don't want to be one a admin anymore until I reach 10,000 edits now that it's over with. Thanks --Jaranda wat's sup 03:29, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Islam-related Portals
Please help maintain the Islam-related portals:
 * Islam Portal
 * Sunni Islam Portal
 * Shia Islam Portal

--JuanMuslim 1m 04:25, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Middle East Portal
I've listed Mustafaa and Svest as the maintainers of the Middle East Portal at Portal. I figured since you guys are the maintainers of Algeria Portal, you would do well with the Middle East Portal as well. The Middle East Portal still needs more work. --JuanMuslim 1m 04:32, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey
Just an informal comment. I know many Moroccans (a country that really interests me a lot), and from what I am used to see, your command over English is something that comes to me as a pleasant surprise! deeptrivia (talk) 19:45, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Just to qualify my statement a bit more, I taught English to a group of students in France, some of which were Moroccans, and the Moroccans had a much better level than the rest. However, you seem to be a class apart :) Anyway, hoping to collaborate more with you in future. Cheers! deeptrivia (talk) 23:08, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Birmingham meetup
I don't know who's organising it, but it isn't me! -- Francs2000 23:37, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Help, please, with Striver and Paradoxic
Svest, I could rilly rilly use some help at Ali ibn Abi Talib and Islamic conquest of Iran. At Ali, Striver is determined to impose a Shi'a version, including refs to Shi'a magazines in the "Non-Muslim view of Ali" section. At the Islamic conquest article, I'm dealing with an Iranian nationalist named Paradoxic who believes that all the supposed achievements of the Islamic Golden Age are due to Persians, not Arabs. Just look at the talk page there -- Paradoxic says he refuses to compromise because I'm a known Hindu and hater of Iranians/Arabs/Muslims/Shi'a. If you can't help, are there any Arabs and/or Sunni who can? Zora 00:10, 12 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Re Umar -- Striver feels very strongly that Umar killed Fatima. I have found highly colored accounts of this supposed event on some Shi'a websites, so I suppose it is a common Shi'a belief. From my POV, the ordinary Shi'a seem to have a comic book view of history, with shining heroes (the Ahl-ul-Bayt) and evil villains (the Sunni). I'm reading a history of Shi'a Islam right now which describes various religious events (the passion plays, various memorial services) which are highly dramatized, designed to evoke tears and anger. I suspect that this colors Striver's view of history. (There may be Shi'a scholars with more nuanced views.) So you really shouldn't remove this from the Shi'a view section, as nutso as it may seem to you. Zora 03:10, 12 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Or did you remove it? Am I just tired and hallucinating? Should I perhaps stop and eat some dinner? Sorry if I scolded you in error. Zora 04:03, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support :-)


Hey ! Thanks for your support on my RfA. The final outcome was (57/4/3), so I am now an administrator. If you need help, have a question, or just want to chat (or if I get out of line!), please don't hesitate to let me know! Again, thanks! :D  Tom e rtalk 

Ali Sina
I just checked out the Ali Sina page...so far as I know I was never involved on that page before. I started trying to get the hang of it but it seems to have a thick history full of elaborate revert wars, protections, and so on...so since I'm not familiar with any of it, I may not be the best person to rush in and help! But I appreciate your making contact...if I have been involved in that article in the past, and am now forgetting (very possible!), please refresh my memory. Thanks! Babajobu 23:49, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Moroccan Arabic
Salut Fayssal, je ne suis pas peu fier :) de mes modifications dans Moroccan Arabic un sujet qui me tient particulièrement à coeur, j'ai fait appel aux concepts linguistiques adéquats (Dialect, Diglossia, Vernacular, etc, jettes y un coup d'oeil et essayes de corriger éventuellement les erreurs de style, j'ai l'ambition de faire de cette entrée un modèle pour les autres dialectes arabe
 * Merci pour ta réponse. Au sujet du terme prestige je dirais qu'il faut le voir comme un terme technique, il caractérise les langues parlées ou dialectes par rapport aux langues académiques, l'arabe marocain n'est pas une exception le manque de prestige s'entend par rapport à l'arabe classique ou l'arabe standard considerées comme les langues acdémiques. Si tu as pu lire la référence au portugais brésilien tu verras qu c'est exactement la même problématique. C'est l'aspect disglosie a été souligné par William Marçais.--Khalid hassani 18:18, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza elections
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new collaboration project
You'd you be interested in participating in a new Collaboration project that aims at translating good and featured articles in the French Wikipedia to English (much like the Spanish Translation of the Week)? I'm trying to see if there's enough users interested in this project before creating it. Thank you. CG 17:44, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your positive response about this new collaboration. An ongoing discussion is held here. Feel free to participate. CG 20:14, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

The Black List
I think that you should be informed that you are on the Black List. I wouldn't worry or anything if I were you, just conceal any personal information he doesn't have about you. No need to make things easy for banned users. Izehar (talk) 18:35, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

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Adminship
Hi, I've been thinking of nominating you to be an administrator. If I did, would you accept? Izehar (talk) 13:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * All right - I'll set the wheels in motion. Izehar (talk) 19:35, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * All right Svest, you've been nominated: Requests for adminship/FayssalF. Please follow the instructions at Requests for adminship/nominate. If you want me to change my description of you or anything, please tell me. Izehar (talk) 19:53, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Svest, don't forget to answer the three questions at the bottom of your RfA page. Izehar (talk) 20:55, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
'''Thanks for voting on my RfA! The final result was (36/1/1), so I'm now an administrator! Merci Beaucoup. :)'''Shanel 19:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Culture of Morocco
Hi Svest! Isn't there also a Marrakech film festival (or is it another name for Mediterranean Film festival)? Would love to see more info on that! deeptrivia (talk) 23:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Another bit. Regarding List of movies shot in Morocco, I saw an excellent movie titled Ali Zaoua, which is entirely shot in Casablanca, and which is missing on the page. By the way, I highly recommend this movie to you. Later :) deeptrivia (talk) 00:16, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Sure, I'll be willing to contribute! Here's a list of movies to begin with: Thanks! deeptrivia (talk) 00:32, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Please take a look: Nabil Ayouch. Thanks deeptrivia (talk) 01:07, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

A question
What is the convention regarding Arabic transliteration on Wikipedia? Is "7abibi" allowed, or should it be "Habibi"? If it's the latter, can you give me some rules that I can follow to change from numbers to letters? I added discography for Samira Said, but it's all in the number convention. Thanks. deeptrivia (talk) 03:46, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

World Citizen userbox, User world
Hi, I noticed the message saying you're a World Citizen, I would like to invite you to add User world to your user page if you wish to proclaim it in a more effective way, and this template will also add you automatically to the Wikipedians with World Citizenship category. :) --Mistress Selina Kyle 23:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

World citizen
Glad you liked it :D new to wikipedia and finding it interesting however going to sleep (so offline) now

just changed my user page too a bit :) --Mistress Selina Kyle 01:55, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

administrator badge
i'm new, just put it on there to be cheeky/see what the reaction would be and if I would be told to "IMMEDIATELY TAKE DOWN THE BADGE AT ONCE" or whatever :) not sure of the rules about it, if it's "illegal" I'll take it down hehe... --Mistress Selina Kyle 02:21, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

User_talk:Mistress Selina Kyle
User_talk:Mistress Selina Kyle - replied. User:Sean Black already rudely removed it

Congrats on your adminship
Congratulations on becoming an admin. IN response to never seeing, well... Wikipedia's a big place. :)

I am a huge fan of soccer (or football), mostly playing it. Unfortunately, I don't follow soccer clubs too much, since they don't receive too much coverage here in Texas. However, I happen to have a Manchester United and Brazilian flag here in my room. :) Ronaldinho and Ronaldo are a couple of my favorite players, with my favorite being Pele, of course. I'm not particularly interested in Africa, that article was actually for the Missing Encarta articles page, which I'm trying to reduce. Thanks for your interest. Ciao. Gflores Talk 04:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Arab Gulf states?
If you can really figure out how that differs from "Persian Gulf states" then that is good. If you want the cat to have a healthy life, then please get the cat "Arab Gulf states" and "Persian Gulf Arab states" to have the same name. Rename one or the other so that the names match. And then make it either the parent cat or subcat of "Persian Gulf states", if that makes sense. Otherwise, why bother confusing people with this hair-splitting? -- Fplay 05:33, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Lisp and Forth in .NET
That's OK. I hope you don't mind my editing your comments for chronological clarity :-) Mark Hurd 06:04, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Categories in texts
Good point on the WS-history talk page, I (think) I did what you told me. I have a question though... you're an administrator (congratulations!), so I guess you know this. I have created the category "Sahrawi tribes", but I can't link it from pages.
 * Here, for example, I try:
 * Category:Sahrawi tribes
 * ..and nothing shows.

I think it would be very useful in the Western Sahara demographics page, for example, but how to do it? Arre 21:03, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Ah, now I saw how you did it (with a ":"). I'll just do that. Good luck with the admin thing, then! Arre 21:23, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, I could. But it's really one single chapter (human rights), and its not overly long, so I believe it would be better to treat it as a single unit. Also, if I start removing parts, then there would probably be complaints about information missing about Moroccan abuse/Polisario abuse (whichever part is removed). I wrote a shorter piece on HR some months back, but it was deleted by User: Daryou just before the page was locked. We both agreed that there should be something on human rights, though, and I promised to add paragraphs on the Tindouf refugees. Now, I don't think Daryou is still here (about a month ago, he put a "totally disputed" tag on several pages and then vanished), but my point is that the issue had been discussed. Also, its been there for several days without any complaints (and its quite visible, so people interested in the issue would have noticed). My conclusion: I'm not sure its the best way in this case - but if you insist, no problem.


 * If you feel strongly about this, you might also want to check out Sahrawi and Lebanese Civil War, where I made long edits similar to the one on WS History.
 * I'm practically the only one editing the Sahrawi page, but Daryou had issues with some thing, so we ended up having a two-person mammoth debate. In the end we agreed on practically everything, and then he left. So I kept those things we agreed on, and expanded the rest, reorganized the headings etc.
 * On the LCW page, there's been several edits since, and no-one has complained so far. I've been expanding bit by bit since, to fill out the whole article, which was in quite poor shape. Presently, I'm a bit focused on Lebanese party pages ... almost all of them are awfully biased and rarely link correctly to each other.


 * To sum up, I appreciate what you're saying, and I will not do similar length edits in the future. But I'm not sure all of these need to be redone piece-by-piece because of that, now.Arre 15:43, 19 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Good idea, let me know. I guess by now I must have started the majority of those articles anyway. Just finished the Tropas Nómadas :-) Arre 18:19, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

malo's RfA
FayssalF, thanks for your support on my RFA. I was rather suprised at the overwhelming support I received. Thank you for your confidence in me. I hope that I'll live up to your expectations in the future as well. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 06:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

email
well, i would ... if i could only find your email :-) Arre 02:07, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

hullo
Do you think you could have a look at Administrators' noticeboard and comment please, maybes? She seemed quite a good wikipedian other than this so I would like to get to the bottom of it and see if she's in fact been abusing wikipedia or not... I think it may well be that she just has friends that use wikipedia in the same places and such - after all, User:Taxwoman/articles shows she has a lot of friends (see pictures at bottom) ..--Mistress Selina Kyle 02:45, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
Hey FayssalF! Thanks for your support on my RfA. The final outcome was an unanimous (45/0/0), so I am now an administrator. If you need help, or have a question, please don't hesitate to let me know! Again, thanks! :D --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€  03:39, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
I would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Guettarda 18:48, 22 December 2005 (UTC)