User talk:LDH

Greetings
I have seen you have been doing a lot of work on articles concerned with Islam. I thought I would introduce myself. I've been doing a lot of work on the articles about the Guantanamo captives, and related issues.

I get the occasional challenge that my contributions are POV or "anti-American". When I get this kind of challenge, I ask my correspondent to be specific about what raised their concern. Usually they can't cite a specific passage.

If you work on the same articles as I do, and do your best to comply with NPOV, you may find yourself getting the same kind of challenge. If you do, and you would like to talk about it, don't hesitate to leave me a note on my talk page.

Cheers! — Geo Swan 19:48, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm trying to complete the list of foreign Mujahideen commanders fighting in Chechnya. Today I will probably add Muhannad (al-Urduni's successor), unfortunately there is little known about him so it will most likely be a very short article. If you find the al-Urduni video maybe you can add it to the external links. Greetings! ForrestSjap 07:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Abu Ayyub al-Masri edits
Hi there. I confess that I do not know very much about the subject of this article, and so I do not feel qualified to weight in on any editorial debate at this point. My best advice would be to continue making changes to the article that are well-sourced and verifiable. If there is a point of contention with another editor, then make sure you explain your edits clearly in your edit summaries to avoid confusion, and describe the reasoning for your edits in some detail on the article's talk page. The idea is to reach a consensus with the other editor(s), on what should be included in the article. If any other users are being directly disruptive, feel free to let me know, but at this point I don't see that happening. Cheers. --PeruvianLlama(spit) 12:46, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Ansar al-Islam
Hi, thanks for keeping a lookout for copyvio. In cases of long-running pages, clear copyvio is most likely the result of a recent edit. I have simply reverted some recent anon edits rather than deleting the article. Thanks, BanyanTree 10:43, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject:Terrorism
Greetings,

I was hoping I could get some input from you, about the proposed mergerof WikiProject Terrorism and counter-terrorism with Wikiproject:Terrorism. It seems there's a lot of overlap between the two projects, and if we spent a few days merging the lists of articles, sharing ideas and collaborating on improving the same articles which both projects are focused on improving...we could really make some headway. Whether you're in favour, or against, the idea of a merger - I'd appreciate some feedback regardless. Much thanks. Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 21:42, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Photograph of Abu al-Walid
Thanks for the tip! I might be able to use it some time! ForrestSjap 21:31, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

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style issues
Hello. You'll notice in one of your new articles, I changed this:
 * If we let q=1,
 * If we let q=1,

to this:
 * If we let q = 1,
 * If we let q = 1,

In non-TeX mathematical notation, variables should be in italics, but digits, punctuation, etc. should not, and a space should precede and follow "=", "+", etc. This matches TeX style. See Manual of Style (mathematics). Michael Hardy (talk) 18:53, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Quadratic reciprocity
Your article on the Landsberg–Schaar relation says that a special case of it is a Gauss sum, and that QR can be deduced from it. QR can be proved using Gauss sums; is the proof using the LH identity something else?

Virginia-American (talk) 19:42, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Seen you clean up a few terrorism-related articles this week, much thanks Sherurcij (speaker for the dead) 06:19, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for going over Group ring, it's much appreciated. Ben (talk) 12:03, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

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