User talk:Tariqabjotu/Archive Twenty-Four

Bombing of Guernica
Please don't forget to unprotect. The turmoil seems to have settled down and the tag craps up the page. Haber 04:47, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I removed the move protection. --  tariq abjotu  05:17, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Storm Kyrill
Sorry if I sounded direct with you, but it did strike me as quite Ameri-centric that an event effecting nearly all of Europe had been left out of the important news. I am also American though I am currently living in Germany, and in all honesty I had never heard of a European windstorm until I experienced a few here. While we do have international news, it only occurs insofar as it is important to us, and this event was not. At any rate, I respect your choice to add it even though I might not have been completely pleasant at the time. P.S. - I like your photos from D.C.: that's where I grew up! Djlayton4 14:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:ITN reversion
I don't think your reversion is correct. Reports most certainly should be in present tense (and it is), but I don't believe the same is true for conducts. Read the sentence in question and you'll see what I'm talking about. Or, compare it with the equally confusing sentence...


 * A scientist reports that the universe begins a long time ago

--  tariq abjotu  22:46, 20 January 2007 (UTC)


 * You're correct, of course; I misread the sentence. My apologies.  &mdash;David Levy 22:57, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Your semiprotection
I checked to see what was going on the Colts page, lol I found this. That was hilarious! Arjun 05:06, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks; I'm glad I gave someone a laugh. --  tariq abjotu  05:11, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


 * You succeeded very well :). Arjun 05:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


 * p.s I like the template at the top of your page displaying all of the various major world religion symbols. I find it very interesting and very refreshing. Arjun 05:13, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

CfD renaming
Hi Tariq,

I was hoping you could again assist in carrying out the moves listed here and here. Tedious, but thats what the mop is for . Cheers,  Tewfik Talk 03:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we can also rename Category:Aviation in Palestine, Category:Airlines of Palestine, Category:Sport in Palestine which I missed on the CfD, as well as Category:Elections in Palestine to match its article, Elections in the Palestinian National Authority (which I think found support on the original CfD). Thanks,  Tewfik Talk 18:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Could you let me know one way or the other on this?  Tewfik Talk 17:04, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * When I originally looked at the CfD page, I saw that the items had already been completed. For the additional ones you mentioned, I would suggest doing a CfD deletion discussion. A bot takes care of much of the category-moving stuff after the discussion is completed. --  tariq abjotu  20:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I didn't realise that a bot took care of these actions. As for renaming the others, I feel that the previous discussions and agreement between myself, Palmiro, and others is sufficient precedent (Aviation, Airlines, and Sport all fit the CfD exactly, while "Elections" found support from Palmiro on the original bloc CfD, and in any event should match its article's name). That, and I don't particularly want to go through the another multi-week CfD complete with drive-by voting, trolling, etc. Let me know either way. Cheers,  Tewfik Talk 22:44, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not going to do it; I see a couple of the articles have gone through CfDs in past, most notably Category:Elections in Palestine and Category:Sport in Palestine. --  tariq abjotu  22:52, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I linked to that CfD here. It failed because it was a bloc nomination (with confused voting), but the closing admin requested relisting separately, which I then did and in which there was then agreement with users from different sides of the spectrum. I neglected to include the first three, though it seems that they would follow the precedent. The "elections" has not had that precedent established per se, but received Palmiro's support on the original bloc CfD in addition to having a main article with a different name - I'm not trying to 'pull a fast one' on you here. Thanks in any event though. Cheers,  Tewfik Talk 23:00, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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Unlock Plutarch template
Hey, I see that the Plutarch template has been locked... could you unlock it? I need to make a change to it... as the Dion, tyrant of Syracuse wikilink is now a redirect. Needs to be fixed.-BiancaOfHell 05:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

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Damn you
I was just about to uncascade that protection too. :P Viridae Talk 04:50, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually
I was just trying to find out how cascading protection worked and I figured why not my own userspace. I guess I broke a few things :o -- Tawker 05:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Template:Football in England table cells
FYI, I've removed your cascading protection on Template:Football in England table cells. Seems no longer needed. ,. --Ligulem 13:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I'm quite happy for the new expiration feature that will allow me to just set a 24-hour expiration on templates transcluded into today's featured articles. That wasn't around at that time though. --  tariq abjotu  15:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * No problem. I was just a bit puzzled what to do with the cascading protection left on that template (the template itself had cascade protection set). I'm still not yet 100% sure I've understood all the new nifty protection features in all their glory.... :-). Does a cascade protection expire as well? I need to do some research.... --Ligulem 16:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow. Yeah. The cascade protection expires as well. Everything fine. Sorry for disturbing :-) --Ligulem 17:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Please re-protect the article
Please re-protect the article Religious significance of Jerusalem. Talks are underway. Infact we have plans to fiel a mediation. We were jsut waiting for users fro the Rfc I posted. Unprotecting may create another edit-war.Bless sins
 * If edit-warring returns, the article can be re-protected or the offending parties warned / blocked for violating the three-revert rule. --  tariq abjotu  23:03, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Politics of Khuzestan
There is an attempt by two political editors to remove entire sections from this article without comment. The edit war is accompanied by various offensive accusations against me and another editor: Nazi, anti-Iranian, insane, promoters of genocide, separatist, racist, Baathist, Saddam supporter, propagandist:   If there is to be any solutions to the editorial disputes on this article and other articles related to Al-Ahwaz (Khuzestan), there need to be great admin attention. I have filed a request for comment, but I can see from previous requests that little is done. I have also agreed to mediation, but this offer was turned down by another editor in dispute.--الأهواز &#124; Hamid &#124; Ahwaz 18:23, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Battle of Khaybar
Could you look at this edit by an otherwise disruptive new editor? I have no idea of the facts, but it seems wrong. Agathoclea 09:04, 28 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I can't help you out either; I don't know myself whether it's correct or not. --  tariq abjotu  18:38, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Jerusalem RfC
My comment had nothing to do with the previous one... I checked the articles on several other capital cities, and they all start with "CITY NAME is the capital of COUNTRY NAME". No need to change this format for Jerusalem. I have clarified my comment on the talk page. Blueboar 18:37, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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ATHF/Devices
Can you add a Wiki link toward the top so people kind find them easier? I added that Wiki link at the top (was going to take it down later this evening). - SVRTVDude 22:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't think it's necessary; there's a link in the table of contents. --  tariq abjotu  22:30, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


 * It maybe, cause some people are lazy and don't want to scroll for a link and since this is a current event (continuing to break), it should be put up at the top til, let's say 9pm EST. - SVRTVDude 22:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Protection necessary?
Is it really necessary to protect Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace purely because it will be Today's Featured Article tomorrow? Or did I miss the memo saying that it was standard procedure to protect an article that will be Today's Featured Article? The Filmaker 23:00, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


 * The article has only been move-protected so that no one can move the article. There is absolutely no need for an article to be moved during the twenty-four hours it is featured at Today's Featured Article. I've been move-protecting the featured article for several weeks now, but note what happened when I forgot to move-protect one. --  tariq abjotu  23:06, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I miss construed. My bad. The Filmaker 23:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Disputed ITN item
Actually, Blnguyen was apparently referring to the totallydisputed template on the article. --  tariq abjotu  02:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Yep, I was just self-reverting. —David Levy 02:49, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

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Chicago Bears
Was there really a point to removing the tag from the Chicago Bears article? The article will likely be renominated for protection regardless of the outcome of Super Bowl XLI (Roughly before the game's 4th quarter) ;-) --  ShadowJester07  ►Talk  03:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. --  tariq abjotu  03:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Anthony cfc at simple.wikipedia
Good evening; we've not met before, so first off I'm very pleased to meet you. Secondly, I'd like to request your blessing at the above page - I've used your infobox (I'm calling it a glance box) on my userpage at simple.wikipedia (I've attributed it at User:Anthony cfc/Glance Box) and I don't want to continue using it if it's not to your preference.

Awaiting your response, Anthony cfc  [ T &bull; C] 23:39, 4 February 2007 (UTC)


 * No, I don't mind. --  tariq abjotu  16:34, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

ITN
I realized that as soon as I had hit "save page". Actually, since today's featured article is so short, I'd be OK with removing another item from ITN (probably Guinea), but I suppose that the long DYK helps balance the page. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 04:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello
I noticed you unblocked mardavich when the other admin blocked him, im surprised the other admin didn't even warn adil he has locked several pages with his edit warring, some of them also use anons to revert, another cause of edit warring, please see this article Qazakh i clarified who the historian was he reverted it and atabek, one of many new supporters and rising unusually supporters of adil, Aivazovsky already reverted adil when the material was referenced please look into this, and the conflicts mostly are Armenian and Azeri articles and get the Neutral perspective mostly from users like us not atabek no offense to them. Nareklm 23:56, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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Infobox Weather
Hi Tariqabjotu, I seen what you were trying to do over at Infobox Weather a little while ago and why you didn't use it at Jerusalem's article. I thought that I would let you know that I have been planning to revamp that Infobox in the future with changes such as making the year column optional and automatic unit conversion. When I get it done I'll let you know a place it on the Jerusalem page. &mdash;MJCdetroit 04:26, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, the template is in some serious need of organization, but I just do not have the time at the moment. I didn't have yearly averages available and was trying to make that column optional. However, I had trouble doing that, and since I wanted to change the font sizes, lighten the color for the high temperature, add line breaks, among other things, I decided to just make my own version of the template (the differences between the codes for the template and the Jerusalem version are quite noticeable). --  tariq abjotu  04:36, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Discussion moved to MJCdetroit's talk page.14:14, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Admin promotions
As you did this graph, I wonder if you might consider making a graph on admin promotions, perhaps with bars for the monthly promotions and a line for the 6-month rolling average (data is here in the 1st and last columns). We had a recent thread (again) on that issue here. Cheers, NoSeptember  18:27, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * How about Image:Admin-monthly.png? --  tariq abjotu  23:44, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The graph shows just what I wanted. I'll be sure to work it into the next discussion involving trends at WT:RFA unless you beat me to it :). Cheers, NoSeptember  00:17, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Premiered at noticeboard instead :). NoSeptember  22:46, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Adminship
About 3 months have passed since the failure of my last RfA, and I was wondering about nominating myself again. I've done the following to address your previous concerns: Do you think this is enough to give me a chance at RfA, and would you be prepared to support it? Walton monarchist89 18:23, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * More than tripled my number of edits (I now have over 2,000, which I realise is still on the low side for an admin candidate, but it should give me a fighting chance).
 * Regular recentchange patrolling to demonstrate my commitment to vandal fighting. I'm also fairly conscientious about warning vandals using the template, and have reported some vandals to AIV.
 * Regular participation in AfDs, which has given me more understanding of deletion policy.
 * I haven't been hanging around RfA too much recently. However, I would suggest waiting a bit longer because, regardless of the !vote I might offer, I doubt you'd be able to pass. Editcountitis can be overlooked by some, but not by most. --  tariq abjotu  18:51, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your advice. I really don't want to have to wait until April - what sort of number of mainspace edits would you be looking for overall? I can spend more time on Wikipedia if I have to. It would be helpful if you could say what, in your view, the minimum acceptable number of mainspace and/or overall edits is; then I can work towards reaching that number. But I just want to know how close I am. Walton monarchist89 16:20, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Robert Spencer
Hi Tariqabjotu,

Thought it might be interesting: .

It is written by Professor Carl Ernst, William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Cheers, --Aminz 23:15, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Shortcut
Yeah, that was brought to my attention by Picaroon on IRC after I had created it. There were 6 items up at the RfD, and it appears only DYK was kept (thank god!). Would it too much of a hassle to keep ITN, too? I'd rather not have to go through the trouble of typing it out all the time.  Nish kid 64  00:57, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree that the deletions of T:ITN and T:ITNT were unnecessary (although there still exists WP:ITN and WP:ITNT). It's not like we're running low on server space... --  tariq abjotu  01:07, 10 February 2007 (UTC)


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