User talk:Sa.vakilian/Archive3

I spy...
seems to know an awful lot about editing for a beginner. Somehow seems familiar, especially the use of archaic-sounding English. I'll ask Khoikhoi about it too. The Behnam 05:25, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The issue has been managed. The Behnam 06:10, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I am also seeking to manage to more minor User:Wiki2Go. The Behnam 08:11, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Your message about Vital articles
Thanks much, I wasn't aware of that effort. While I'm getting my thoughts together, I copied your message to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism. I hope you don't mind. Cheers. ←Humus sapiens ну? 09:36, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for the barnstar. We need as much help on Wiki Central Asia as we can possibly think of. The project is in disarray. Your help is appreciated!cs 18:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Sure. How do you want me to help? KlakSonnKeep it to yourself 18:46, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry I can not read Persian. Tried and failed few years ago. I am a big fan of Kiorastami and Panahi though.
 * Assessment page. I am not wiki-literate enough to understand all these rank producing categories, tables etc. Thanks anyway, any help is appreciated. cs 18:54, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I believe {WikiProject Central Asia} template has a problem. It does not produce empty rating lines. I might be wrong though. cs 19:51, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. I see it works now. Your participation significantly improved two project areas, deletion sorting, and assessment. And duly noted. Best regards.cs 05:53, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Vital articles and VA tagging
I think the two are pretty much the same. But from what I remember the VA tagging list is from an older list of vital articles, and isn't automatically updated. I noted that you proposed these additions first, and that's probably the best way to go. Exactly when the tagging list is updated is something I'm probably too new to be able to really address, though. User:Walkerma is much better experienced in these matters, and I think he's probably the one to contact regarding points like that. John Carter 19:49, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

You are welcome to add this template to your userpage. A category has been created as well. KlakSonnKeep it to yourself 03:46, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Of course not, I didn't even add it to my userpage. The template might meet some opposition, and I hope you would be able to assist me in resisting to it. KlakSonnKeep it to yourself 04:07, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Then if you need any help in Hezbollah articles, let me know. KlakSonnKeep it to yourself 05:07, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

300 Edits
As the Lead is still in Discussion, its seen as tendentious editing to edit in a change which hasn't met with consensus as of yet. I do think that your proposed lead statement is worth discussing, and maybe even implementing, so I've moved the proposed lead over to the Discussion page under a new header showing both the prior paragraph and your proposed changes. That way, the otehr editors can weigh in. This reduces edit warring and charges of pov-pushing in the article and in the Discussion area. I did not alter your edits one bit in transferring them over (wouldn't want to make a mistake as I did with the archive), and I wanted to point out that the term you substituted 'highly crystallized' should in fact be 'highly stylized' - unless you were moving in a different direction altogether. I also did not address the sentence fragment that the edit left behind. If it gets implemented, you might want to address that. Talk to you soon, -Arcayne 06:47, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Btw, that is an awesome consensus flow chart. Where did you get that? I hope you don't mind, but I've added that to my own Talk page - it's very nifty :) Arcayne 06:49, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Your messages on my talk page
I appreciate your efforts, thinking you can resolve disputes by posting threatening comments in Persian on my talk page. However I just wanted to suggest that you stop taking it personally, if we can't resolve it, perhaps we can ask for a third opinion or other dispute resolutions. However meanwhile I would appreciate it if you refrained from automatically reverting my tags and edits, until we have a solution. Maybe Assume good faith and Resolving disputes would make a good read --Rayis 10:33, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

300
Hello, I notice you've placed a POV check template on the article 300 (film). I feel it's inappropriate, and have opened a thread on talk here, where I would invite you to offer your justification for its use. Best, --Javits2000 11:06, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey, you said that you see two POV going on. I would be interested in hearing what you think the two POV are. You can reply to my Talk page if you wish. Arcayne 13:00, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Mahdi merge proposal
Sa, let's wait until there have been more comments until the tag is removed. If people don't agree with the idea, then I can understand and support that, but let's give it a chance to develop consensus. Elijahmeeks 18:33, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Mahdi Revert
(Also posted on my user page) You disagreed with every change that I made?? That seems rather heavy-handed, as I explained my position on the talk page. I'd prefer if we could figure this out, rather than just perform blanket reverts. Please revert the page back and make changes or explain to me with particular sections that you disagree with. Elijahmeeks 18:39, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

One more standing issue
sorry to bother you again :( But since you gave a hand...I was browsing through Central Asia categories. I noticed that when we rate articles now, it puts them on pages like [Category: Stub class Central Asia articles], (pages not created yet).. At the same time there are already categories here with sortings like [Category:Stub class Central Asia-related articles].  How do we resolve this issue? thanks and best regards —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cs (talk • contribs) 20:17, 2 April 2007 (UTC).

Timeline of the Iranian revolution
Salam Sa.vakilian,

I'm back to work at the timeline. I'll try to get some footnoes in. --Leroy65X 19:50, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Eurocentreism
Ba doroud, I didn't get it clearly, What shall I do exactly? (pick two of Persian/Iranian contributions from the list?) Best wishes. Amir85 04:47, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Dude I don't know what to say, however I see in the list a lot of good potential candidates, so I'd say whatever you pick would definitely fit in. Amir85 00:46, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

let me put it this way
check this page I rated Talk:Demographics_of_Kazakhstan. There are two red categories at the bottom of the page: These pages are uncreated. But we already have a Category:Start Class Central Asia-related articles which is under the Category:Central Asia articles by quality page where the rating should put the Demographics of Kazakhstan page. My rating did not put the page under the existing category page. Do you see what I mean. That is the case for stub, and other categories too. regards.cs 09:02, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Request
Salaam. Is it possible for you to address Talk:Iran? I think that you probably have information relevant to that matter. Thanks. The Behnam 00:31, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Fatimah
Salaam. Can you help me with the Fatimah article? A user insists Fatimah had three other sisters and keeps asking for sources proving that it was Abu Bakr and Umar who killed her. Can you provide sources? See Talk:Fatimah KlakSonnTalk 01:49, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Dispute resolution
Salam Tariq. How are you.

I have problem with a guy. Please read Talk:Timeline of Iranian revolution. I explained more this discussion in Persian :User talk:Rayis and this is his answer: User talk:Sa.vakilian. He claimed that I threated him but I just said I'll revert his tag whenever he put. Because it's not reasonable. However I'm ready for every Dispute resolution which you propose.-- Sa.vakilian(t-c) 14:09, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I would suggest using Mediation Cabal. --  tariq abjotu  02:19, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Iranian Revolution
Salam. Thanks for letting me know. I have left a response there. BTW I don't think the article on Iranian Revolution should only use American sources. That is a huge mistake. American authors mostly have a flawed view of the revolution, and only focus on the Khomeini camp, when in fact Shariati was the most popular among the educated Islamists, and the nationalists being most popular among the middle-classes and the Communists among workers, especially in the north. The Khomeini cult was mostly popular among the rural folk of central Iran and the villages of Azarbaijan who were under clerical influence. Unfortunately I have no books on the revolution on hand at the moment. BTW, do you have information about Nasser Pourpirar? This guy is really something else. Khorshid 03:48, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

User:Sa.vakilian/Some usable templates
Hi, I noticed you have this page of templates User:Sa.vakilian/Some usable templates which is a good idea to have a resource of your frequently used templates, but by adding them to that page, it puts the page in categories. The reason I saw it was because I was clearing out the candidates for speedy deletion and your page was in there. If you want you can just link the template with the double square brackets or you could use example template. That will appear as example template (obviously with a link to the template, not some blank page). Thanks for your time. James086 Talk &#124; Email 09:29, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, I did find sources, and many books including Nahj el Balagha narrate how Abu Bakr and Omar killed her. Also, all Shi'a scholars agree that Fatima was the Prophet's only daughter. Thanks anyway. KlakSonnTalk 14:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Watch this You're the first Shi'a I've encountered who doesn't know the story of Fatimah's death. KlakSonnTalk 18:22, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Umar participated directly in the death of Fatimah, and acted on the orders of Abu Bakr. KlakSonnTalk 18:24, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: Tags
I actually don't know a whole lot about copyright stuff, sorry. Try asking Jkelly instead, I'm sure he would know the answer. Khoikhoi 19:07, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism
Salam. Kayfa anta ya akhi?

Unfortunately 1 or 2 guys vandalizes Hezbollah:[]. What should we do?-- Sa.vakilian(t-c) 02:49, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Salam sa.vakilian. I am fine, thanks :)
 * Wiki alf blocked indef the 2 vandals . If that happens again, just revert w/o caring about the 3RR. Remember, the three revert rule says don't revert any page more than three times within a period of 24 hours. This is understood not to include reverting cases of clear vandalism (as in this case). Also, always notify cases at Administrator intervention against vandalism for prompt action by admins. --  FayssalF  -  Wiki me up ®  10:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

300 lead
Hello, in the past you've participated in the conversation about the lead of 300 (film. At present we've gathered six options from the past week's discussion. I wonder if you'ld mind having a look and weighing in as to which would be acceptable, and which preferable. Thanks, --Javits2000 12:54, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

MEK

 * Salam Sa, Sorry, I haven't heard or read anything (I remember) about this person or his execution. Maybe some other editor does. --Leroy65X 14:27, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Core topics, Vital articles, and the 1.0 project
Hi, sorry I took a few days, I've been very busy. The 1.0 team needs to do several tasks in order to achieve the goal of producing good offline releases:
 * Selecting articles for the next release version - currently Version 0.7. This is probably our main task, and you sign up as a member of the review team to do this. We will soon have a bot helping us.
 * Maintaining a network of WikiProjects (and the related bot) that provides us with article assessments. Support and guide the projects in this work, in conjunction with WP:COUNCIL.
 * Locating areas where our coverage is weak, and making sure we cover those areas in our releases (perhaps by helping with new WikiProjects, and article assessments).
 * Producing a list (or lists) of "must have" articles we consider essential for all releases, and improving these up to A-Class.

Your question mainly relates to "must have" collections of articles - the last item on the list - so I'll focus my answer on that. The only such collection organized by the 1.0 team is the Core Topics collection. VAs and WP:CONCISE are autonomous pages set up by individuals - so anything you do at WP:VA will not affect anything else. These collections should really coalesce around specific pages, but there has been a little forking at times. There are basically three levels: The Core Topics collaboration is where people work together to improve one of the core topic articles. We have now managed to get most of the core topics past "Start-Class" to at least B, this has been very useful.
 * 1) Core topics (top 150 or so) + Core topics supplement (another 200 or so)
 * 2) Vital articles (top 1000 or so) + expanded Vital articles set (top 1000 + perhaps 500 more).  It appears that Core topics - 1,000 is some kind of fork of that, but that page is less active.
 * 3) WP:CONCISE (top 10,000 or so).

One problem we have had is that the person who was keeping the Core Topics pages organized has moved on to other things outside Wikipedia, and no one has been willing to take over her job since she left. I pretty much have my hands full with Version 0.5 and WP:WVWP, so I can't really do much, though I have been keeping the Collaboration going as this has been moderately active. The various Core Topics lists were all produced manually, and copied over into different formats. Probably what we need is to remove the manual lists and rely on the Bot lists. We already have all of the main Core list tagged, and these are read by the WP1.0 bot, though we are updating the template used for that.

I think we probably need to do the following in the next three months:
 * Get all Core Topics, Core Topic Supplements, and perhaps Vital articles (short & long forms) using the bot, then use those lists for the Core topics at least.
 * Get the above using the new template.
 * Then delete the existing Core Topics manual lists and replace these with lists automatically generated by the bot - these would stay more up to date.
 * Get someone to coordinate and maintain the Core Topics project.
 * Produce a navigational template for the Core Topics project, including VA, CONCISE, etc. similar to the one I did for WVWP.

Maybe you'd be interested in working on this part of the project - the "must have" lists? Or, if you signed on for the review team, would you prefer to be reviewing articles for the next release? Please let me know. I hope I have clarified things for you, and not merely added to your confusion! The 1.0 project has many, many corners to it! Thanks for helping out, Walkerma 14:49, 5 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Probably the best thing is to focus on that one issue for now. If you like it, maybe we can persuade you to coordinate WP:CORE for us? :) To change the VA list, you will have to negotiate with the main people who are active on the page, these have generally been User:dv82matt and User:Silence, and reach a consensus with them.  Remember that everyone brings their own bias and opinion - for example, I think we should have about 150 countries listed at VA (partly as a way of making the list less Eurocentric), but Silence has vigorously argued for only 50 or less.  Do you have lots of biographies, or concepts, or subject areas like Computer science?  Where's the balance?  You seem to include a lot of biographies, but dv82matt and myself have argued that we should limit these to make room for subjects and places.  I would argue, for example, that if you want to include Avicenna you need to include Uzbekistan first.


 * If you scroll up the page, you can see my suggestion for determining notability with less bias, by using the number of interwiki links. Thus, if something is truly notable around the world, people in every language would have an article on it.  (Uzbekistan has 87, Avicenna 39 - the latter is a pretty high interwiki score for a biography article).  (Incidentally, I've seen Avicenna's statue in Bukhara, hence my choice).  Sometimes our favourite person doesn't get a high rating - I think Belisarius deserves more fame, for example - but we just have to accept that our opinions aren't universally held.  The interwiki links are relatively objective, I think. Good luck, Walkerma 15:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Images
In re your question -- Image:Rumi concert nazeri.gif seems fine. The other three, Image:Higherself.jpg, Image:Rdance.jpg and Image:Tavern1.jpg need to make a Fair use claim or be deleted, as we do not accpet "non-commercial" or "educational use only" content here. Jkelly 19:13, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Shamkhani
Salam, do you have any information about Ali Shamkhani? The article was claiming that he was a Revolutionary Guards commander beginning in 1978??? That makes no sense since Islamic Republic only arrived after the breakout of war, dorost? Khorshid 01:39, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Template:Iran-United Kingdom relations
Wow, just wanted to say, good job! :) --Rayis 16:00, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Deletion Islamic Party Jamiat of Afghanistan
An article you created or have made significant contributions to is being considered for deletion. You may contribute to this discussion here.Edivorce 16:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Criticism of Islam
Agha you want to see anti-Islamic bigotry --- have a look at Criticism of Islam. Any criticism of the article's bias and prejudice against Muslims is quickly tossed away (see Talk:Criticism of Islam). Compare this article with Antisemitism and Criticism of Judaism. Double standard or what? Its disgusting that Wikipedia is being used to promote this anti-Muslim hatred. Pat Robertson, Bat Ye'or, etc are bigots, yet they are labelled as "critics"! This is like labelling Adolf Hitler and David Duke as critics of Judaism. Khorshid 11:28, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Ali Khamenei
Some guy keeps adding a very lengthy and non-neutral collection of testimonies from different religious people about Khamenei. What do you think should be done? The Behnam 16:34, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * He keeps adding this . I got rid of it, but the guy re-added it, and now Agha Nader has removed it again. I don't think it is appropriate for the article, and Nader suspects that it may be plagiarized. The Behnam 18:24, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The Behnam 18:39, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Enni Asefon li va lakom
Salam. I'm really ashamed that we recognized ourselves as Muslims. I put a comment in Talk:Avicenna. Please go and think about it. We are deserved to be governed by non-Muslims. -- Sa.vakilian(t-c) 13:17, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I become hopeless of Muslims in wikipedia. You can find that there's just 3 FA article and any GA one(WikiProject Islam/Assessment). While all of these scholars like Avicenna, Rumi, etc are Muslims while they may Arab, Turk, Persian, Indian, etc.-- Sa.vakilian(t-c) 13:40, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know what's wrong w/ WikiProject Islam but there are more than 60 active members. --  FayssalF  - Wiki me up ®  14:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes there are numerous active members but such discussions waste our energy. And you can find numerous discussions like this. Our style of working isn't constructive. Just pay attention to WikiProject Islam-- Sa.vakilian(t-c) 15:04, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I am pretty aware of the fact that the way and manner of working isn't constructive but try first to involve people you believe they can do better by requesting that from them. Try to contact people on that list and see if they can move forward. --  FayssalF  - Wiki me up ®  15:11, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Do you speak Farsi?
I ask because there are a number of terms in the filmography of the Googoosh article that could use some translation. If you don't, could you recommend someone who does? Any help would be appreciated, as I would like to make sure the article is accurate and well-written. :) - Arcayne  (cast a spell)  16:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Need a third opinion
Hi.

Take a look at: Talk:Quds_Force. I want your opinion on that article, as my tags about neutrality and factuality of this article is being reverted. I believe the removal of the tags is the editor's POV pushing, as he/she has tried to "retaliate" by doing the same on a well-sourced article: US raid on Iranian liaison office in Arbil. I appreciate if you help regarding the NPOVing the article. Thanks.--Gerash77 21:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Hezbollah
Salamat. I just want to discuss the Heabollah Article that is on Wikipedia... Isn't it bullshit? I was hoping we could rally a bunch of people to create something unbiased. working on your Hezbollah political activities page is a start. I have started on it. Please respond. Ahmadhusseini 23:42, 10 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Guys We are being drained!!!! Why can't we keep a page that is unbiased in the terms of Hezbollah. All these "people" who don't know shit about the group are writing all this crap that they get from blogs and shit. Please guys, why are you soooooooo dead, I'm ashamed of the lack of effort that is draining us and creating false images of us.Ahmadhusseini 23:52, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

George...
No worries. I've tried to summarize the section the dispute seems to be over. Hopefully both sides find it acceptable, but who knows. :) Cheers. — George Saliba[ talk ] 07:31, 11 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Your edit looks good. I was about to change the word "claims" also. What do you think of using the word "asserts" instead of "announced"? Assert is defined as "to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true." — George Saliba[ talk ] 07:41, 11 April 2007 (UTC)


 * The term "declared" wouldn't be bad either. "Announced" is usually used when talking to an audience – you announce the winner of a contest to your radio listeners, you announce a new product, etc. — George Saliba[ talk ] 07:47, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

I've tried to clean up the sentences you mention a bit – please take a look. Basically, I've changed the "some newspapers" to cite the Daily Star specifically, since that's what the article says originally published it, but to state "Others" broadly, since the paragraph also talks about some historian. Let me know if you have ideas to improve it further, or be bold and have at it yourself. :) — George Saliba[ talk ] 07:56, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Since the dispute about the quotations is mentioned in the next sentence, I'm not sure that the tags are necessary. However, if there is a different quote of the same speech, or the matter is highly disputed (again, I haven't reviewed this in any great detail), then the quotation may not belong at all. I'm guessing this is not the case, but again, I haven't really looked into it. Cheers. — George Saliba[ talk ] 08:12, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanx for the help friend, You don't have to worry about "problems with this guy", I'm fair with my contributions, but Lebanese=short temper, which I can control, the reasons why I don't respond to you when you speak Farsi is because I don't speak the language. Thank you for the help once again, I have added you as my addopter, and I hope I learn many things from you.


 * look guys I don't have a problem with you guys editing my stuff, but that guy changed it completely and ex. said that the Hezbollah quote is after the converance in Tehran, Which is completely not the case here, and has no relation between the 2 conferances.Ahmad Husseini 20:50, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Daryush homayoun
By adding the 's, I just thought we can make it a stronger and more referenced "article", I didn't mean that I don't necessarily need the proof for myself --Rayis 14:04, 12 April 2007 (UTC)


 * That could be my mis understanding of Arbayeen, that article suggests it's a shia festival 40 days after a specific holy event. Now being Iranian I am not completely unaware that unofficially 40 days after anyone's death is acknowledged but I never thought it's that notable and certainly not notable on such scale, if it was sourced that it was hailed so highly then I wouldn't have a problem with it, but it had the tag for a month and nothing was provided. So those are the reasons why I removed it. --Rayis 14:20, 12 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Cool. God bless you. --Rayis 14:29, 12 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Khahesh daram. Just out of curiosity, mitoni behem begi che sali oon ketabe daryoosh homayoon neveshteh shodeh bood? mamnoon. --Rayis 16:22, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Iranian Revolution Timeline
I see you and Rayis are editing a lot. Just be careful of 3RR. The Behnam 14:15, 12 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Salam Sa.vakilian, Just put some cites and a quote in the Rev Timeline. --Leroy65X 16:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Medal for Busch
Salam Sa.vakilian, "We want to invite G.W.Busch to Iran and give him a medal of honor. ..." Well I thnik it is a fine idea which I fully support ... on one condition: that Busch stay in your fine country and not come back ... and that Cheney go with him ... and many other Republicans as well. I am told Busch is an expert oil man, perhaps he can assist in Iranian oil production. :-) --Leroy65X 17:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

...
I wasn't talking like that to George, I was just talking in general, and you can drop that know because I haven't talked like that recently. I added you as an adopter, so what are you supposed to do. Check out my contributions to Hezbollah's charity fund thye Islamic Resistance Support Organization.Ahmad Husseini 18:22, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * dude, you still havn't explained the whole "adoption" process.Ahmad Husseini 20:20, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Al-Manar
Salam brother Sa.vakilian, I am really sorry for late responding. I was on holiday abroad therefore I could not get online regularly to do your request.... sorry :(--Aziz1005 21:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Of course yes.Where can I find these sentences or words?--Aziz1005 12:36, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not really sure but I think You can make an extension to your Userpage and then make the soapbox on it!--Aziz1005 12:44, 13 April 2007 (UTC)


 * The link User:Sa.vakilian/Language Practices is not working!Yea It is Ok to practice.
 * About Iran and Persia the two names were confusing me, thanks for the explanation. The explanation is partly similar to the Arab definition.


 * Finally I totally agree with you about Muslim related articles. these discussions are really wasting time and effort but this is wikipedia :( you can find all types of people--Aziz1005 13:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Banu Qurayza
Hi Sa.Vakilian,

I am not entirely sure that the article is NPOV. A couple of editors were working on this: Itaqallah, Beit Or, Str1977, myself, Proa, etc etc. The previous version was written by Zora. I think all of us have contributed to it. --Aminz 23:08, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Hezbollah Foreign Relations
Thank you for your note. Your comment sounds very reasonable and I agree on that. Nevertheless, I think that the sentence "But United States intelligence officials speculate there has been contact between Hezbollah and low-level al-Qaeda figures who fled Afghanistan for Lebanon" in the main entry about Hezbollah should be expanded with "although this hypothesis has been questioned (footnote with reference to Hersh)". Is this a valid solution? Thank you again and keep up your amazing work. FrancescoMazzucotelli 00:28, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

hezbollah article 'what does it mean'
geoff's addition was simply to emphasise the majority view... rather than a minority of 6 countries. the minority opinion is shown as well as the other side... i will not revert your editorialising content, but I will wait for geoff's opinion on the matter.


 * show me where Russian and EU state Hezbollah as terrorist... if you were so concerned with accuracy you would have just removed the appropriate countries. but you removed the whole thing which is just editorialising Rm uk 08:29, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

hezbollah funding
Salam savakilian,

cite aded about the 10s of millions of USD --Leroy65X 15:49, 19 April 2007 (UTC) ''Supporters maintain the main source of its income comes from donations by Muslims. Do you have any source for this claim?--''


 * I was trying to summarize the two claims. The article already says Lebanese Shi’ites often make zakat contributions directly after prayers, and an additional donation in a Hezbollah donation box. then surely this is the main source of its income comes from donations by Muslims. Do you know who says this? Are these not supporters of Hezbollah, if hnot Hezbollah itself? --Leroy65X 16:24, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

translation
Sorry I haven't been replying I have been busy at work.

I hope you don't mind if I defer from translating text about issues I don't know enough about, such as Mostafa Chamran, Abbas Doran, Mehdi Bakeri Hamid Bakeri (I assume you didn't want me to change the poem itself which looks like it was taken verbatim from a published source)

PPS What is the template that some want to delete?

Salam --Leroy65X 15:49, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Al Manar
Salam... yea its good and all but somethings I would change, read my post on the discussion page.Ahmad Husseini 22:08, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Sav, can just make some edits on my own, or do I have to discuss it first? Ahmad Husseini 02:58, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yo Sav, how do you like my major reconstruction to the IRSO (Hezb charity fund) page? Ahmad Husseini 17:57, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean Archive? What do you want me to do?Ahmad Husseini 15:32, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Hello, first thanks for all the work on the al-manar article, second i'm sorry i could not do my share of the work as i lost my internet connection at home for the last two weeks. I'm going to review what you have said and then try and get the article up to GA status per your thoughts, thanks again. Hypnosadist 01:27, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Wa 3alaikom al Salam, wa rahmat to'Llah wa barakatoh,
 * Hey thats kinda of a big step, so you want me to read that article? and find out how to do it? Ahmad Husseini 20:05, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Salamat, What are you talking about? I read the instructions but you want me to do what? there already is an index. Ahmad Husseini 00:33, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Hezbollah: Yes I agree, but I still think we should keep the info, and I'm having trouble understanding the task you want me to do with the archives, I would like it, if you can further explain or if you can walk me through my first time doing this task, to me it looks like we have a chronological archive index on the Talk:Hezbollah page. Ahmad Husseini 19:03, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * And you want that done to the Talk page of Hezbollah?Ahmad Husseini 19:10, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

template of Ruhollah Khomeini
''Salam. What's your idea about this template? Do you agree on the deletion.''


 * I confess I do not know enough about the template, or wiki templates in general, being a newby. What are the pros and cons? --Leroy65X 16:27, 19 April 2007 (UTC)


 * OK, template deletion OK with me. (Although I am writing a long section on his Political thought and legacy long enough to be another article. --Leroy65X 16:56, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Your Persian comment
Azizam, be to goftam ke be farsi harchi khasti benefisi, be hamoon englisi benevis, say kon in akharin dafat bashe, khob? afarin. --Rayis 16:36, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

What GA and FAs? we have like 3 FAs last time I checked and not many GAs. Anyway please stop removing that quote, first of all, the whole section is dependant on it and it is not exactly controversial. Iranian women say they are classed as second hand citizens while they are at risk of going to prison, what do you expect a feminist human rights advocate to describe their situation like? It is all fine in the context, and I don't appreciate your constant reverts. I didn't remove your contributions which made it less POV, you should appreciate mine --Rayis 16:45, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

"..At the beginning I tried to do so but somebody removed other POV and pushed his own POV."

Oh yeh and regarding such comments, Doroogh din nemikhad ke? I never removed your POV, It was you who reverted my contributions automatically because it didn't match your POV, again and again. Be ensaf. --Rayis 18:27, 19 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah I removed what I felt was irrelevant and kept the rest and added more, but you completely reverted everything I put there, so if anyone was removing anyone else's contributions without any care it was you --Rayis 18:47, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Iran's 'gender apartheid'
Hi. I've restored the section using real sources and notable opinions like Akbar Ganji's. Now I suggest that instead of removing the section again you find opposing opinions to balance these severe allegations. I imagine that you'd have a better job locating these than I as they are probably in Iranian newspapers or similar sources. Thanks. The Behnam 17:22, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes it was just a start. I really ought to do other things right now so I shouldn't spend too much time here.  However I will be able to do more work on things in general in a few days.  Thanks for your help.  The Behnam 17:30, 19 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I wrote a version for the section too. --Leroy65X 19:58, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Hezbollah Archiver
MAN!!! I NEED HELP. I DON'T UNDERSTAND What to Do, please review what I did, and tell me if I did anything productive. Ahmad Husseini 19:47, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Sav I need help. please check out my talk page and look at the bottom 3rr rule. Ahmad Husseini 23:47, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Sav, when you get this please analyse the threats from JayJG. Ahmad Husseini 00:33, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Khomeini Political thought and legacy
No I have not read those links. My ideas was to take theological issues I found in english language books and sort of compile them in a section or even an article. I know khomeini was known for his poetry and mystical ideas and these were somewhat controversial. On the details of this issue I am ignorant. But of course Khomeini is famous ourside of Iran not for mysticiasm but for his political ideas. Perhaps I'm out of my depth. --Leroy65X 20:02, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Khomeini was also very involved in less philosophical, more temporal issues. I wanted to make a distinction between velayat-e faqih and issues like Divorce, votes for women and the legality of music, shich I figured were more worldly. Of course to some extent everything is religious. --Leroy65X 20:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Do you want to go ahead and create a separate article called Khomeini political thought and legacy? We could take the sandbox text and you can write about the issues you feel I don't know enough about and haven't written enough about. We could have sections like Thought on mysticism Thought on governance Thought on other political issues.

If you're worried the article is still a little rough or incomplete we could hold off and not put a link to it on the Khomeini article. Tell me what you think. --Leroy65X 14:51, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean "wrathful work" ? --Leroy65X 16:19, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

List of Shi'a scholars, clerics, Marjas, etc
Hi. If you mean a new category, then yes, that would work out well. There is already an article List of Shi'a Muslim scholars of Islam which tries to do that.--Gerash77 17:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Salam, and thanks for the message. I prefer to have the Shi'a and Sunni scholars separated, but i have nothing against merging all Shi'a into one and and all Sunni into the another. At the same time, we do need to duplicate their name in categories that reflect what they were scholars in, and that is the justification for the many categories. take a closer look and see if you really feel them to be redundant. Also, do remember that most scholars are not included in their appropriate categories, and it might be easier to see the justification for the categories ones they are populated. What's your idea? --Striver - talk 23:26, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

kidnapped vs. capturing
What happens on a different article has nothing to do with the Hezbollah article. See my comments there. Jayjg (talk) 21:02, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Ya sav, aamail ma3roof, rooh 3alla'l'safha, and put your comments there, the "source" comes from the Israeli ministry of FR, and tht is a partisan source aand that is OBVIOUS. We shouldn't be second guessing this thing. Ahmad Husseini 22:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Except, as I pointed out to you, the source was the BBC. I've added more several more sources, like Associated Press, The Globe and Mail, etc. Jayjg (talk) 22:53, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry Sav, i didn't know there was a rule forbidding 3 reverts, I apologize, I tried to take it to the discussion page, but it was always reverted by the other group. I just wanted to keep it in the original form. Ahmad Husseini 03:34, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Ya Sav, Leish raja3ta illa Jayjg? Why the revert? Ahmad Husseini 03:40, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Salam
What about the Mega-Bomb claim, read my post of why it isn't credible and why its just balogne... Ahmad Husseini 03:49, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Sign what? the Concensus? I already did, first one. Are you gonna sign it? Ahmad Husseini 03:53, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Hey what happended to George, have you seen him post at diffrent articles? Haven't heard from hi for a while, Probably busy. Ahmad Husseini 03:53, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Hey Sav, You know those User tags, that people put on their page? How can someone make those? Ahmad Husseini 02:47, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Haha, didn't know that, thanks, I'll take out the "abducted" one. Ahmad Husseini 02:54, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Hezbollah
Sorry, but right now, it looks like the edit war will go right back into full swing if the article is unprotected. Hopefully some consensus can be reached quickly so that protection need not last long. Of course, if you still disagree, you may request unprotection at WP:RFPP. Seraphimblade Talk to me 09:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Semi-protection would be inappropriate here, as some anonymous editors have been involved in the dispute and edit war. Were the article to be semi-protected, that would effectively favor the registered editors. That would be unacceptable. As I stated, hopefully you can reach consensus quickly, but I don't see a whole lot of activity on the talk page since I saw it last. I'll make sure to check back. Seraphimblade Talk to me 09:31, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Salamat, I made User boxes
Ahmad Husseini
 * Yea, I already added my self manually. Ahmad Husseini 21:06, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

SHIA PAGE
I contributed some on that talk page, but don't understand the part with the quran?? What are we voting for (in that section)? and please explain your comment about Ayatollah, Qom, Najaf, on that page, i didn't quite understand your point. Ahmad Husseini 19:27, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words!
Thanks for your kind words, I'm quite excited about being able to contribute to the world's understanding of so many things, including Islam and Shi'asm. I have joined the Wikipedia's Islam task force, in particular the Shia one. Thanks for all the great information, too! And, how would I get introduced to the other active Muslim Wikipedians? --Enzuru 22:25, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Islamic Revival
Salam Sav, did some idiomatic rewriting. --Leroy65X 17:10, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

History wikiproject in persian wikipedia
Hi. I just wanted to tell you that I started a History project in persian wikipedia and would like you to attend to it. I am waiting for your comments. --Yoosef 18:36, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Hezbollah
The article Hezbollah you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. It hasn't failed because it's basically a good article, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Hezbollah for things needed to be addressed. LordHarris 18:49, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Hezbollah
The article Hezbollah you nominated as a good article has passed, see Talk:Hezbollah for eventual comments about the article. Good luck in future nominations. LordHarris 12:36, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Great job!
Nice work on Islamic revival! I am not sure who those two guys are. Keep on the good work! Sina Kardar 13:37, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
You're the most deserving of all for an award for your work on the Hezbollah article. Great job! — George Saliba [ talk  ] 07:25, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Another image
Congratulations on the barnstar Sa.vakilian!

I like the orignial image better but if its not copyrighted I guess the second will have to do. Also thank you for the head's up on the

We should spinoff some of the sections of the Iranian Revolution into separate articles soon. I'm too busy right now. Salam --Leroy65X 18:09, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Allah Ma3ak ya Akhi
Enjoy your break, thanks for the info... Ahmad Husseini 21:52, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations!
Congratulations on your barnstar! Enjoy your break!
 * نه من از جهت ویرایش‌هایم نگرانی ندارم از جهت برخی نوشتارها نگرانم(مثل بهاییت،یا شبیه این که حساسیت‌زا است) که با این گفته شما رفع شد تشکر راستی تلفن خودتان و نشانی محل را هم بدهید خوشحال می‌شوم در ضمن برای آماده سازی غرفه (اصلا غرفه‌ای در کار است؟؟) کمک نمی‌خواهید<<؟؟--فرزاد خلیفه ۰۸:۱۲، ۱۵ مه ۲۰۰۷ (UTC)بنده که هویتم فاش است گرامی--فرزاد خلیفه ۰۸:۱۴، ۱۵ مه ۲۰۰۷ (UTC)

برای امروز و فردا
برای امروز و فردا بجز پنج شنبه که در خدمت هستم کمک دیگری نمی‌خواهید یا روزهای بعد؟؟؟--فرزاد خلیفه ۱۰:۰۹، ۱۵ مه ۲۰۰۷ (UTC) به آوردید که؟؟ --213.207.253.237 10:54, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the words of Ibn Qayim
Salamun alaykom. We have a discussion regarding the correct translation and the actual meaning of something written by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. We might need an opinion from some native arabic speakers in order to reach consensus. If this caught your interest, feel free to join our discussion at Talk:Hadith of Sabra reporting on the prohibition of Mut'ah. Thank you. Hamid-Masri 11:32, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Assalam Alaykom too and enjoy your break. --Leroy65X 15:26, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Plans_for_military_attacks_against_Iran
The article listed above which you contributed to is up for deletion. --70.51.234.169 23:02, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:Chemical weapon1.jpg
An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Chemical weapon1.jpg, has been listed at Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. Please go to its page for more information if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Francis Tyers · 10:59, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:Chemical weapon2.jpg
An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Chemical weapon2.jpg, has been listed at Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. Please go to its page for more information if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Francis Tyers · 10:59, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Could you please point me to where it gives written permission in English that the images are under the GFDL. Then they should be uploaded to commons:. - Francis Tyers · 14:50, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Could you please get another permission in English sa.vakilian? I understood what it says in Persian but that was me and not other users. That would be helpful. -- FayssalF  - Wiki me up®  16:19, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

new image
Sorry I'm unable to upload that new image of the book cover. Too busy and too ignorant of copyright ins and outs --Leroy65X 17:22, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Award

 * Thanks to you as well. Much appreciated. -- FayssalF  - Wiki me up®  03:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

My Barnstar
I am honoured and I thank you for your hard work. In recognition of the collaboration that must have gone into Islam, and realising I have had no contact with the WP:ISLAM crowd since October, but having since a marked improvement in their presentation and in some articles, I pledge to approach such matters with an open and neutral attitude from now on. I no longer consider my past experiences with the Muslim Guild, associated editors, or Islamic articles to be relevant at all to the situation today. I hope the community spirit that produced the Islam FA may produce many, many more Islamic FAs. Certainly in today's world neutral, factual, easily accessible information is needed about Islam than ever before. I hope WP:ISLAM will continue to provide it. DevAlt 15:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

GAC backlog elimination drive
This form message is being sent to you either due to your membership with WikiProject Good Articles and/or your inclusion on the Good article candidates/List of reviewers. A new drive has been started requesting that all members review at least one article (or more, if you wish!) within the next two weeks at GAC to help in removing the large backlog. This message is being sent to all members, and even members who have been recently reviewing articles. There are almost 130 members in this project and about 180 articles that currently need to be reviewed. If each member helps to review just one or two articles, the majority of the backlog will be cleared. Since the potential amount of reviewers may significantly increase, please make sure to add :GAReview underneath the article you are reviewing to ensure that only one person is reviewing each article. Additionally, the GA criteria may have been modified since your last review, so look over the criteria again to help you to determine if a candidate is GA-worthy. If you have any questions about this drive or the review process, leave a message on the GAC talk page. --Nehrams2020 00:43, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

HDI
as-salam alaika Sa, Enoying the heat? :-) Just added a sentence on HDI in Iranian revolution. Maybe we should put something like it in History of the Islamic Republic of Iran --Leroy65X 20:18, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

American politicians instigating Iranians to resist against America
Salam, Sa, Your message is being heard in America ... whether it's being heard by people in power is another question unfortunately.

This is from a political magazine in Washington DC USA:
 * (from: "Keep Away." (cover story) by Secor, Laura1 The New Republic; 4/23/2007,


 * The case for doing nothing 


 * It was twilight for the reform era, with President Mohammed Khatami in his ineffectual final year and a hard-line resurgence taking shape on the horizon, when I visited the Tehran office of a civil society activist named Amir. A slender, clean-shaven man in his early thirties, Amir was a networker of sorts; he spoke perfect English and sent out flurries of petitions when Iranian journalists or activists were imprisoned. He also sat on the boards of five reformist nongovernmental organizations.


 * Amir seemed nervous the day I met him. Although he hadn't been harassed himself, several of his friends had been called into the intelligence ministry and questioned about his activities. Lately, an endless stream of new cases seemed to flow across his desk--women's rights activists, bloggers, young people spirited away to unknown prisons. The charges were always the same: treason, in the form of participation in a U.S. plot to overthrow the Iranian government.


 * The reform era, Amir explained to me, may not have accomplished all Iranians had hoped it would in terms of structural political change. But it had opened a space that had not existed before. Khatami had made it possible for some 37,000 nongovernmental organizations to take root, addressing a panoply of social issues and human rights concerns at a granular level. In time, Amir insisted, even when the political space for reform had closed, this civil society could quietly grow, becoming a powerful force for change.


 * But there was a problem. The government had become convinced that the United States planned to finance and train these activists to overthrow the Islamic Republic, much as it had done in Serbia and elsewhere. In leaked intelligence reports Amir had seen, the regime had meticulously documented its case: "They quote the American Enterprise Institute and Michael Ledeen, as well as the statements of President Bush about civil society," he told me. On the basis of such evidence, the regime was pursuing an aggressive campaign against nongovernmental organizations as well as individual activists and journalists it named as part of a "spider's web" woven by the CIA.


 * Amir implored me to bring the message back to the U.S. government and think tanks to please stop expressing solidarity with Iranian dissidents. He said that, to his knowledge, all offers of U.S. funding, however tempting, had been refused as too dangerous and compromising. "If the link is not there, why do this?" he demanded. "We have no relations with the United States. We are not receiving money." .... --Leroy65X 15:20, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

hello
hi seyyed, I`m in your wait if you have any work that I could do it. be happy--Gordafarid 12:43, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I mean that if u want watching any article, I do it. also, introduce me the useful templates that I can use in the articles for better contribution. I come here newly and don`t recognize en.wiki as well as fa.wiki. thanks,--Gordafarid 06:09, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Two images listed on Possibly unfree images
Hi, I closed the discussion as on WP:PUI and regarding Image talk:Chemical weapon2.jpg and Image talk:Chemical weapon1.jpg. I think the licensing and information is enough as it is. Nevertheless, I read that you wrote the site another e-mail. If you have a response, please add it the image's page. Garion96 (talk) 11:31, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

The overwhelming majority of Shi'as believe Fatima was the only daughter. You thinking or knowing otherwise is of no importance. Part of the edits I reverted was your bad english. Also, allow me to say that Iranians are not exactly the right reference on Shi'a-related issues. My edits are well sourced, yours are poorly sourced. Maybe you should do constructive editing instead of imposing a minority opinion. KlakSonnTalk 17:29, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Shia-Sunni relations
Hi Sa.Vakilian,

I am not sure if my school work would allow me to spend much time there. Hopefully we will fix it soon. --Aminz 06:58, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Re:
Actually, all major Shi'a sites are based in Iraq, not Iran. Or, at least the respectable ones. All my edits are sourced, and are the opinion of the majority of Shi'as regardless of what you have learned. Umar crushed Fatima. Fatima, according to Shi'as, was the only daughter. No need to further argue. KlakSonnTalk 11:05, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Political thought and legacy of Khomeini
Salam Savakilian, Just put up the Political thought and legacy article after making a lot of changes in the andbox version. See what you think. --Leroy65X