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Thanks
I got your message on how to make wikipedia my homepage, I have already done it but thanks for getting back to me. --Krummy2 09:38, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Byzantine-Arab Wars
I agree with you. Its kinda hard to pin down a victory in a series of wars with its up and downs, everyone has won some and lost some. The end result was a massive amount of Byzantine land in Arab hands. Multiple Arab states hands at that towards the end. I just get peeved when someone comes along and changes it to Stalemate or Byzantine victory because that makes no sense of the before and after situation.--Tigeroo 21:42, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

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I'm not Raul
I'm not Raul but I am a mathematics student. You performed an illegal division by zero, as a and b represent the same number, by definition. --Deskana (talk) 22:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree with Deskana. Where's the -1= 0 proof you were talking about? Epbr123 00:31, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The proof he asked about on my talk page is User:Raul654/proof. You'd be surprised how few people get that. The problem with that proof is on the second-to-last step. The integral of tangent is not a value, but a set of functions. It is incorrect to subtract it from both sides, because the integral on the left hand sigh of the equals sign is not necessarily the same integral on the right hand side. Raul654 00:57, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Asalamualikum, thanks for correcting me. Actually most of the articles about byzantine arab wars i wrote when i was new on wikipedia and didn't knew much about the writing style on encyclopedia. latter when i came to know of it, then i find my self heavly busy in writing articles of classic battles like Battle of Yarmouk. now a days i am writing a new article of Caliph Uthman (644-656), when i will be free from this ( inshallah with in few days or a week) i will complete my article of conquest of Damascus (634 A.D), inshallah it will be neutral. then i will re-start looking the articles writen by me, and expand them and make them neutral.

Mohammad Adil 05:07, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

yes it mean God willing !, thanks. Mohammad Adil 05:16, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Check these new articles of Byzantine-arabs wars of early muslim conquest, hope you will like them and edit them too for making them neutral (if they are bias). Siege of Jerusalem (637), Conquest of Damascus. waiting for your comments. Mohammad Adil 10:39, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Mohammad Adil 22:10, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks !

Traditions and Encounters
Well that's a good start, but what is that? Sounds like a high school or first-year university survey class textbook. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but its nature is encyclopedic, like Wikipedia itself, and it's better to use it as a guide to find more specialized information. I definitely do not agree that it is an appropriate source for a Wikipedia article when there are so many specialized sources for the First Crusade. I've told you this before - you need to develop a more critical eye for sources, rather than just collecting any random mish-mash of conflicting information. Now, you and your textbook might be right after all, since a lot of work has been done on the origins of the First Crusade in the past few decades, and the issue of famines and bad harvests may have been debunked along with some other myths; I'll see what I can find about that. Adam Bishop 02:12, 23 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi Tourskin, I was looking up some more info, in "The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading" by Jonathan Riley-Smith. Apparently there were a few years of bad harvests and famines in the late 11th century, including 1095, the year the crusade was preached. The year after that, 1096, when the crusaders actually started to leave, the weather was better and there were good harvests. Riley-Smith also quotes Ekkehard of Aura saying that France was afflicted by famine and plague. While there definitely was a rise in population in general at the time, that doesn't mean there was never any poor weather or bad harvests. There must be more information about this somewhere, but not immediately available at my fingertips; Kenneth Setton's History of Crusades probably has a large section about it in one of the volumes. I'll keep looking if you want. Adam Bishop 23:46, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Assyrian work
I just want to know I am so amazed of your work done on Byzantine pages. So knowledgeable and organized. I was wondering if you could start putting your talent into old Assyrian related topics, like for example History of Lebanon under Assyrian rule? Keep up the good work! Chaldean 14:33, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
 * We are all the same ethnicity ;) Your articles are amongst the best on wiki. Its amazing how you turned the Assyrian Persian province from a one sentence article to something so interesting to read. Its hard to keep up with you! I will take a look at your other articles. Chaldean 04:05, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I am currently in Greece. Chaldean 04:16, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

717 map
Hi, thanks for the note on my talk page & sorry for the delay in responding; I've been away for a while. But to be honest I'm not sure what the "link" is you're referring to. If you could clarify a bit I'll help out as best as I can. --Javits2000 18:29, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Great, have just sent the scans. Let me know if they don't come through; the files are kinda big. Best, --Javits2000 11:31, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Assyria (Persian province)
Hi Tourskin. You are off to such a great start on the article Assyria (Persian province) that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. The Main Page gets about 4,000,000 hits per day and appearing on the Main Page may help bring publicity and assistance to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created and if you haven't already done so, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. If you do nominate the article for DYK, please cross out the article name on the "Good" articles proposed by bot list. Also, don't forget to keep checking back at Did you know suggestions for comments regarding your nomination. Again, great job on the article. --  Jreferee  (Talk) 01:35, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Byzantine Empire
The chapter you added to Byzantine Empire is full of typos. Check it please (also, use commas sometimes: ie, the phrase "Unlike its predecessor the Roman Empire which was etc", should be written "Unlike its predecessor, the Roman Empire, which was etc"). Thanks, and good work. --Attilios 07:50, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Byzantium under the Palaiologoi
I think it would be a good idea to integrate the art material under the main article, for now. As it is an article on 'Byzantium' generally at that time, it doesn't just have to talk about political events; it's perfectly ok to talk about the cultural side of things too. It's true that I did create an article about the 12th century Byzantine civilisation, but that was because I needed a place for a large amount of detail on economics, urbanisation and trade too, which I couldn't fit into the main Byzantine Empire article at the time. Anyway, good work with the article; I'm glad you've been able to improve wikipedia's previously poor coverage of the Palaiologoi and later empire in general! Bigdaddy1204 16:55, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Picture for Assyrian People infobox
Hi there,

Please consult the talk page on Wikiproject Assyria, where I proposed to have a vote on who to include in the Assyrian people infobox. As you may already be aware, there is a bit of disagreement between myself and EliasAlucard as to who to include, and he recently changed the picture without consulting anybody. So if you could check out the page and perhaps provide some input as to how we can do this vote (if it is a good idea at all). We need to set some guidelines, because people such as EliasAlucard are making major edits without discussing them in the talk page first.

Thanks, and take care.

Šarukinu 23:30, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Do you know what these names mean?
I left a message a while back on Talk:Aramaic language but nobody answered. I see on your userpage that you understand Aramaic. Well, let me get right to the point; I was wondering about the meaning of these angel names since nobody thinks that their Latin in origin. The names are Mursiel and Baviel. If you could let me know on my talk page I'd be much appreciated. Thanks. þ 23:35, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

-- Yeah, actually their from old occult texts. So that may be why you saw it in Latin texts. But if you could ask them; like I said, I'd be much appreciative. þ 23:46, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Maps
I saw that you had made some cool maps based on my previous maps on the Byzantine Empire (for instance Image:Byzantium550.png). Please note that I've released the maps under the GFDL, not PD. Could you please change this? And please make a link to the original map you've used when creating your maps. Also it would be cool if you would upload the maps to Commons so that other language Wikipedias could use them. But still, keep up the good work! -- Jniemenmaa 10:06, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Shlama
Shlama amokh aziza, thanks for the greeting. I'm glad that you mentioned it, I think soon we should collaborate on some articles :) For example the Assyrian people article is getting very out of hand, too many people making edits without taking it up in the talk page... it's horrible. haha. Take care for now khon! -- Šarukinu 04:13, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * hahah yeah, everybody uses different English spelling... just goes to show you that the English alphabet isn't compatible with our language ;) lol bkhazinokh khouny. posh bshena. -- Šarukinu 12:56, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi
Hi, Thank you very much (: same to you brother Nochi 15:51, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello
Yes, I read your message on my discussion page. I have nothing agains't you, and I certainly would like to know why the Portuguese version of the article has been selected as featured article. Regards, --Kurt Leyman 05:19, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject coordinator selection
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Assyrian Army
Thanks for your note. Please don't be offended by the tags, they are simply meant to draw attention to matters which need to be addressed on the article. Usually it is recommended to start a page by creating a redlink in an existing article and creating it from there, so the undefined tag is always relevant; while an article category is also usually one of the first things done. Therefore I am in the habit of tagging if these things are missing. (I'm a new page patroller - see WP:NPP.) In no way do I mean to imply that you haven't done a lot of great work on the article; obviously you've been working hard on it. Just fix the issues and remove the tags! For that matter, the tags also bring the matter to the attention to people who like to categorize and those who like to fix orphans, so they should only bring more participation. Good luck. --Evil1987 22:46, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Neo-Assyrian Empire
Ahuno, I need your help to make this a kick ass article. Thanks. &mdash; EliasAlucard|Talk 13:17 09Aug, 2007 (UTC)

Kurt Leyman
I see you have run foul of our resident troublemaker. Don't waste your time trying to reason with this guy, he almost never responds on talk pages and is prone to simply deleting large swathes of comment written by others that he disagrees with. He arbitrarily changes facts, introduces factoids and sometimes quite subtly changes text to alter the overall tone of an article that has come to his attention (even to the point that over a period of time he changes the meaning by 180 degrees). In particular he likes to minimise anything bad that might be said about the Axis during WWII, and downplay anything positive about the Allies. He does not use logic or reason, rarely if ever puts a comment on a talk page before making a controversial edit and relies on very dubious sources when he bothers to quote them at all. In all, don't beat your head on this guy, you won't win. Nick Thorne talk  12:39, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Assyrian Army Article
Shlamalokh khon. I just want to say great work on the new article Assyrian Army! It's well organized, and well-sourced. I have one possible edit I want to show you, let me know what you think:

I would like to change the intro paragraph from this: The Assyrian Empire arises in the early 2nd millennium B.C. succeeding the Akkadian Empire of the late 3rd millennium B.C. Assyria did not become a powerful military state until the Neo-Assyrian Empire came about in the late 10th to late 7th Century B.C. . This article deals with the forces of the Assyrians in the above described times. ...to this: ''The Assyrian Empire originated in the early 2nd millennium B.C. succeeding the Akkadian Empire of the late 3rd millennium B.C. Assyria did not become a powerful military state until the early 1st millenium BC, when Ashurnasirpal II's conquests reasserted Assyria's hegemony in the Near East, nor was it a true empire until the reforms of Tiglath-Pileser III in the mid-8th century BC. This article deals with the forces of the Assyrians in the above described times.''

Let me know what you think. Posh bhsena. -- Šarukinu 16:04, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Cite template
Just an advice, when you cite sources using the cite template, do it like this: and when you want to reuse it, just add and by the way, make sure to always ad it after dots and colons; it looks more neat like that. You know, style. &mdash; EliasAlucard|Talk 08:27 11 Aug, 2007 (UTC)

Background
Shlomo Tourskin,

Thanks for your message. Let people think what they want to think. As you can see, I contribute to Wikipedia mostly on the topic of the Syriacs. My background is not of any relevance, I believe. You can be sure of one thing though: I am not an "Assyrian". --Benne ['bɛnə] (talk) 09:18, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Infobox
Shlama khon and let me first say thank you so much for your work. You have given WikiProject Assyria a boust that needed it very bad. As for your question, do you mean [like this]? Chaldean 21:41, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
 * so now we can link it to the Battle of Arrapha rather than the city itself. - Sorry I'm confused. I did that with this edit, so now all we gotta do is actually create the article. As for the age, please give me your email ;) Chaldean 01:59, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Great, started the article. Check your email. Chaldean 02:24, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Yea, I'm getting different info from different sources as well. Do whatever you think is best. Chaldean 02:56, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Crackdown
You gotta play that. It's awesome. Sharru Kinnu III 18:10, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It's like Grand Theft Auto but futuristic. You can develop your powers which include: driving, agility, strength, explosives, and shooting. When you're skills develop fully you can pick up cars and throw them at gangsters and leap buildings like you're spiderman sans the web shots. Sharru Kinnu III 12:46, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

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History of Lebanon under Assyrian rule
Great job on that one. I wonder, do you perhaps have some sources to cite on this article: History of Lebanon under Babylonian rule? &mdash; EliasAlucard|Talk 18:37 21 Aug, 2007 (UTC)