User talk:Nozdref

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Nozdref! I have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on or by typing helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! User:Marek69. 19:06, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
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 * [[Image:Information.svg|25px|alt=|link=]] Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Genetic_origins_of_the_Turkish_people, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. 77.249.201.75 (talk) 12:31, 13 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Hey random, what are you blabbing about? I didn't completely remove any template or content. Nozdref (talk) 08:26, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Some tips for you!
Hi, I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)

First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the Wikipedia manual of style, which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to be written. It's not as hard to follow as it might look; quite a bit of the information there probably won't be vital for you at first.

Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: user:/Sandbox, that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.

For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers (Chzz).

Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful - citation templates which you can copy and paste into your sandbox, between tags; you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template, and you'll end up with nicely formatted inline citations :o) It all helps.  Remember to add a references section to your sandbox (make a new line, and put ==References== on it, and type  on the next line, so that you can see how your citations look as you do them. Remember to save your page often! You don't want to lose your work.

Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you. Pesky ( talk  …stalk!) 08:05, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Simple references
These require two parts;


 * a)

Chzz is 98 years old.

He likes tea.


 * b) A section called "References" with the special code " ";

Named references
Chzz was born in 1837.

Chzz lives in Footown.

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

Citation templates
You can put anything you like between, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals.

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

Something to make your life easier!
Hi there ! I've just come across one of your articles, and noticed that you had to create titles for your url links manually, or were using bare urls as references.

You might want to consider using this tool - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script on Special:MyPage/common.js, or or Special:MyPage/vector.js, then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well. Happy editing!  Pesky  ( talk  …stalk!) 08:05, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

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Hunnic Empire
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PKK conflict
Wikipedia'da ajanlar da var... Bilinçli bir Türk Düşmanlığı var. Böri (talk) 15:44, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Gerçekten hepsini öldüresim geliyor... Her yerde bu şerefsizler. Nozdref (talk) 20:55, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

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September 2012
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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard discussions involving you
Did you know that your recent block was as a result of a report by Kaz on Administrators' noticeboard/Archive239.

As soon as Kaz emerged from his block, he has started another one, which I have replied to (mentioning your name). This is at Administrators' noticeboard/Archive239.--Toddy1 (talk) 04:23, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yep I know. Funny thing is that he didn't even bother mentioning that it's him who moved part of discussion to somewhere he likes to and imposed his own title decided by himself above my comment. Instead he tried to show it as if that title was always there and I'm doing vandalism by removing the title and by moving the discussion to where it originally was located. He accuses us of what actually he is doing here like alleged sock puppetry, ad hominem attacks and "bullying", and says that only I got warned while he has been warned more than myself, acting like victim when he's far from one. Thank you for notifying me. Nozdref (talk) 21:37, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, he really should have informed you. I also don't see any vandalism, just a seriously messed up talk page. I do hope you understand that I blocked both of you because you were edit warring, and for no other reason. I don't think AN is going to be of any real help here and that perhaps this dispute should go to WP:DRN. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:47, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't really object the block since there clearly was an edit war and talk page looks complicated, but in AN seems like Kaz neither notified me nor Toddy1 whom are subjects of his accusations as he was supposed to do, so that I couldn't even respond and explain this. And in second section he created about Toddy1 he skipped notifying Toddy1 again, since as far as I see Toddy1 was notified by Evanh2008 and I was notified by Toddy1. I suspect he's intentionally doing this since it's difficult to believe he didn't see all the emphasized warnings about about notifying users who are subjects of discussions in both AN page and edit page. Nozdref (talk) 00:16, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

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Muslim conquests
Hey, Nozdref, I was wondering whether you could possibly offer your input on the recent changes - and reverts of those changes - on the Muslim conquests article. Thank you very much for your time. Torontas (talk) 22:07, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

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Opinion request
Hello colleague,

I am interested in the Middle Ages too.

I created Category:Medieval civilizations which is part of Category:Civilizations by time. The former is nominated for deletion and at the moment the vote is 2:0 in favor of deletion. I am used to deletions, but this time I am stunned. I do not believe there is no place for such a category. I believe that most people with interest in history would agree that civilizations existed in the Middle Ages. I ask people to contribute their opinion to the discussion. Regards,--Maxaxa (talk) 02:46, 1 November 2022 (UTC)