User talk:Greyshark09/Archive 8

Non-disruptive editing
After you accused another editor (unjustly, in my view) of disruptive editing, reverting his work as recorded at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_December_4, please would you reinstate the categorisations of biographies where these are warranted, as requested at WP:CFDWM? – Fayenatic  L ondon 20:10, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Syrian opposition
The Syrian opposition isn't a unified group. There is the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, the Syrian National Council, and the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change, all 3 of them are rivals to each other. The Syrian Democratic Council identifies itself as Syrian and opposes the current government in Damascus, so based on this it would be considered a Syrian opposition council, just like the other 3. Editor abcdef (talk) 09:33, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Indeed Syrian opposition is not unified, but encompasses the three main groups National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, the Syrian National Council, and the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change and associated rebel factions. The Syrian Democratic Council identifies itself as Syrian, but doesn't openly call for deposition of Asad Ba'athist regime in Syria, but rather for the establishment of Federation, which may or may not include Asad. This is very different from Syrian opposition, and Syrian Democratic Council is not being identified as "opposition" in any source.GreyShark (dibra) 12:33, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Could you step in as a third-party?
A new user is making some rather extraordinary claims here. Since you were previously involved in that discussion (for the record, we disagreed), and since you are quite knowledgeable on the subject, I was wondering if you could step in and help find a solution? --Mikrobølgeovn (talk) 06:17, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, so i understand you would like me to moderate or to join discussion?GreyShark (dibra) 06:31, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * In this case, it seems like it will take more than two users to reach a consensus. You don't have to do anything. I was just thinking in case the discussion happened to interest you. Don't bother getting involved unless you want to. --Mikrobølgeovn (talk) 07:08, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Let me re-join indeed.GreyShark (dibra) 07:09, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Template:Syria topics
After your re-redirecting of Government of Syria to Syrian government (disambiguation), there is an unsolvable link to a redirect page in the template Template:Syria topics. In my opinion the only realistic solution is to revert your action.

Could you please look if there is any other solution possible to solve the link? The Banner talk 21:26, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * IMHO, that redirect was unjustified, regardless of whether it created an unsolvable link. The Kurdish regional government does not claim to be a "government of Syria," and no one looking for information about that region would search for it using this term. And the primary meaning of the term clearly is the Assad regime. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 12:22, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Mandatory Palestine
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West Bank
Hi. What's the need to have the term "rabbinic Judaism" in the infobox of West Bank? Is there any other type of Judaism today? Could you please change it to simply 'Judaism'? Thanks--Yschilov (talk) 10:05, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
 * First of all, there are other forms of Judaism - Karaite Judaism, Haymanot, Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism, as well as some novel minor sects. Second, you can fix yourself - not a big issue.GreyShark (dibra) 10:37, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Timing of Northern Mali conflict
Per this: the article says that the conflict ended in 2015. Why the discrepancy? ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:49, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Are you referring to the Wikipedia page as source?GreyShark (dibra) 16:07, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

2017 Khan Shaykhun chemical attack
This and this claim (the "at least 100 people killed" part) is not in the citation given. Please, be more careful in the future, and note that misrepresentation of reliable sources may be seen as disruptive editing. Erlbaeko (talk) 09:31, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Citation originally said 100 dead; later they revised this.GreyShark (dibra) 17:24, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok. Thanks, Erlbaeko (talk) 17:27, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

History of Belarus
Hi, please would you be so kind as to clarify your view at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_February_17 ? – Fayenatic  L ondon 18:45, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello: request for feedback on proposal for "Palestine-Israel conflict" article
I noticed you are a relatively frequent editor of that article and so..... since I am very new here to "serious" contributing on WP and so rather than just try to go and create what I propose and then submit it; I instead wish for feedback on how substantive and possibly useful what I suggest might be, here is what I am thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict#Hello.2C_new_here.2C_and_I_perceive_a_GRAVE_.28.26_not_even_mentioned_offhand.29_total-omission_of_the_possible_actual_ancient_root_of_this_conflict

Yes I now realize the word "grave" is too much. Tell me what you think. Thank you for time and attention. Sinsearach (talk) 15:36, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Zealots (Judea) into Jacob and Simon uprising. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g.,. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted copied template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was moved, attribution is not required. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:40, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the point - will take a note. Anyways, the background section is already directing to main Zealots (Judea) page, where the paragraph was taken from, so taking some material from there is wikilinked.GreyShark (dibra) 16:42, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

I see by your edits to 2012–13 escalation of the Syrian Civil War that you are still not adding the required attribution, as required under the terms of the CC-by-SA license. Please have a look at as an example of how it is done. I also added attribution templates to the talk pages of each article. Please have a look at them so you know how to do it in the future. Please leave a message on my talk page if you still don't understand what to do or why we have to do it. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:12, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

I see by your edit to Berber separatism in North Africa you are still not adding the required attribution, as required under the terms of the CC-by-SA license. Copying from one article another without providing the required attribution is a copyright violation. Please begin fulfilling this mandatory legal requirement, or you risk being blocked from editing. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:21, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
 * You are right, i've somehow missed this... Promise to pay attention.GreyShark (dibra) 06:24, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Here we go .GreyShark (dibra) 07:15, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

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A kitten for you!
Just getting started on wikipedia and came across your profile as I'm interested in much of the same stuff you are.

Catpitch (talk) 17:06, 1 August 2017 (UTC) 
 * Thank you Catpitch.GreyShark (dibra) 08:46, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Category:630s in the Rashidun Caliphate has been nominated for discussion
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A cupcake for you!

 * Thank you Laurel Lodged. I will soon nominate more anachronistic categories for discussion.GreyShark (dibra) 08:45, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

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Syrian Arab Republic (1961-70)
Hi We have Iraqi Republic (1958–68), so I think we should create that article. What is your opinion ? --Panam2014 (talk) 14:10, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Panam2014 Iraqi Republic existed in between the abolishment of the Hashemite dynasty in 1958 and the rise of the Iraqi Ba'athist authoritarian rule in 1968. In the Syrian Republic case there was no abolishment of the monarchy, but rather transform from Mandatory rule to independence in 1945/6 and it existed until the takeover of the Ba'ath in 1963 (with brief period of United Arab Republic union with Egypt between 1958-61). Hence the Syrian Republic (1945–63) should be the case. See the split proposal for Syrian Republic (1930–58) in this regard. GreyShark (dibra) 05:10, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, good idea for the pre Ba'athist republic. But like to Romanian People's Republic/Socialist Republic of Romania, who changed it name, we should write that Syrian Republic have been renamed Syrian Arab Republic in 1961. --Panam2014 (talk) 11:30, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Good point, it hence makes us to distinct five periods in Syrian Republic history: Mandatory Syrian Republic (1930-45), Syrian Republic (1945-58), United Arab Republic (1958-61), Syrian Arab Republic (1961-63) and finally Ba'athist Syria (1963-present). It doesn't make much sense to create an entre article on 61-63 period, since except official name change it was not much different in terms of governance and territory from the Syrian Republic (1945-58) and actually Syria and Egypt were pretty much distinct republics during their 1958-61 nominal union as UAR, so it is most suitable to consider 1945-63 period as continuous, changed only with the rise of Ba'athists in 1963.GreyShark (dibra) 05:36, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

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Possible Autopatrolled / Referencing
Hi Greyshark09. With the number of articles (plus cats and redirects) you create, you'd be a candidate for WP:AUTOPATROLLED, which would help with the reduction of the backlog at new page patrol. However, a few recent article creations have left bare URLs (eg, at Two-state solution (Cyprus), South Lebanon security belt administration, or Capital punishment in the Gaza Strip). Would you please consider committing to consistently using a fuller citation style (whether via Template:cite or manually, ref WP:CITE), and if so then applying at Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled for the bit. Would you please also consider turning on "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" at Special:Preferences. Thanks, ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 04:01, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Will check this out later on. Thanks for the notice.GreyShark (dibra) 21:09, 24 December 2017 (UTC)