User talk:Zimriel

=First Comments=

Welcome!

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Your welcome
Hi. No one "controls" Wikipedia articles, so feel free to be bold in editing as many articles as you are interested in! Most especially in the area of Near Eastern ancient history, we need more good editors who have knowledge of this subject. I haven't had time as of late to read up further on the history of Nestorians in Khuzestan (often neglected in the major texts), so please expand this area further if you are interested. As a side note, you may want to organize and format the data (which you have greatly expanded) in Basra and Kufa into sections with relevant headers. I'll try to do this myself if you don't have time (or as often happens, someone else will get to it!). At any rate, welcome again, and I hope you decide to stay here and contribute further. Take care, SouthernComfort 2 July 2005 23:30 (UTC)

=Bronze Age=

Sapinuwa
Your new article Sapinuwa is more extensive, so I only added the category Archaeological sites in Turkey. Maybe a separate subcategory called Hittite sites in Turkey or the like could be created within this? --JFK 10:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Hayasa
Thanks for your insightful contirbutions to the Hayasa-Azzi article. Cheers.--Eupator 14:38, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

3000 BP
Dear Sir or Madam, For volcanic eruptions, some scientists date such events using the term 3000 BP or 2900 BP. What does 3000 BP mean--is it 3,000 years ago (ie. 1000 BC) or 3000 BC? How about 2900 BP. I'm referring to the Hekla III event.
 * PS: Is it certain now that the Hekla III eruption has been redated to 1000 BC (I think) and not 1159 BC--they seem more distant. I did not know of this new research. I hope it is from a reliable source and not a fringe one. From the sources you gave in, they seem bona fide and reliable. Thank you, --Leoboudv (talk) 22:44, 7 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I am not a vulcanologist. I am however able to sniff out bunk, and its stench exudes from any article which claims a specific year for a given Bronze Age event (possible exception granted to Mursili's Eclipse). Looking into Hekla III, I found a dispute between Baker and Dugmore, both peer-reviewed scientists (so I'm not willing to declare either of them as "fringe"). As far as I know their tiff hasn't been resolved, although Icelandic scholars seem to favour Dugmore.


 * I will say that anyone who puts Hekla III into an article about Rameses III at this time is fringe. --Zimriel (talk) 17:47, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

=Late Antiquity=

Chronicle of Ireland
Great stuff, thanks! Dppowell 20:14, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

= WikiProject France = Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the France WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) STTW (talk)  13:57, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Procolophonoid or Procolophonid
Hello Zimriel, Thank you for your efforts on improving wikipedia articles. Please, read the note I left on the Procolophonoid talk page. Thank you ArthurWeasley 21:58, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
You'll probably be glad to know that I'm in the process of uploading to the Commons lots of photos I recently made in this museum in Ankara, while touring through Turkey Commons:Category:Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. I'm planning to add (on a later date) some additional text in the WP, based on the book "The Hattian and Hittite Civilizations" by the famous Turkish archaeologist Ekrem Akurgal that I bought in that museum. This book contains very detailed first-hand information about those civilizations, based on a whole life of research. I'm not an archaeologist and I hope that you'll watch my future contributions with eagle eyes. JoJan 19:26, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[[Image:Flag of France.svg|45px]] WikiProject Newsletter n°1
Bonjour and welcome to the first WikiProject France newsletter!! It should become a monthly special of our project, but until the next issue, here are some points to consider for the month:
 * In an effort to determine the active members from the inactive, all members are asked to simply sign on my special userpage.
 * I have slightly rearranged and updated the Project page, putting all the featured lists in collapsible tables. This unclutteres the page and you only have to see them if you want to. Give your feelings at the talk page.
 * I have made a Wikipedia advert for our project, Image:Qxz-ad108.gif, what do you think? Personally I feel the words need improving ...
 * There are still map problems at Template:French commune - any help at resolving them would be greatly appreciated.
 * What about starting a monthly drive? We currently have no Featured Portals (except for the Basque Portal which really isn't French any way), so how about improving Portal:France??? I don't know what's exactly wrong but the criteria can be seen at Featured portal criteria.

It doesn't seem like a lot, so I hope we will still have enough problems for nexts months issue. Salut till the next issue, Chris DHDR (17:22, 10 November 2007 (UTC)).

WikiProject France newsletter
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 * [[Image:Crystal_128_desktop.png|22px]] The project has recently experienced a complete redesign. The Outreach department has also undergone a major expansion, and this newsletter is the result of that.
 * The review department is currently under development, with several new proposals underway. Internal peer review had begun on the page of the project's Review Department. The department currently provides a centralized platform off all currently open reviews throughout the project (Featured Articles, Peer Reviews, Good Articles, Articles for Deletion, Categories for Discussion, etc.)
 * A new task force has been introduced: the Paris task force. Any users interested in contributing to the taskforce can join on the project page.
 * There is a current discussion about merging the French Communes WikiProject into ours. This communes project will be organised as a task force.

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Notifications
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 * Several new user has joined the project this last month: Jordan Timothy James Busson, Djwilms and Mcewan. Welcome! Please come stop by the talk page to join in our discussions.
 * Lazulilasher has been awarded the French Barnstar of National Merit for his contributions to this project. Congratulations!
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Thanks for your contributions to the project, Jor  dan  Contribs  17:22, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Book of Tang
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Book of Tang, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process&#32; because of the following concern:
 * The article has only been edited twice in two years and has no references.

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=Islam=

Re: al-Hasan al-Basri
Hey, I replied to your comments over there. There are no hard feelings, though my views on the structure of the section differ a bit. There really isn't any significance to this comment though I find that a polite introduction helps things run more smoothly. Let's just work this out as fast as possible. MezzoMezzo (talk) 03:45, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Isho`yahb II
You did actually spend some time comparing the two versions of the Ishoyahb II article, yes? --Zimriel (talk) 03:11, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Dear Zimriel (talk),

Sorry if I was hasty. I seem to have done the same thing as you, and inadvertently taken out stuff that could usefully have stayed in (especially the material from Guidi's Chronicle). Let me revisit your earlier edit, and take another look at it. I don't agree with all you say, and I don't think we need to labour the point at such length, but I do agree with you that we need to cast doubt on the authenticity of these so-called 'treaties' between the Christians and the Muslims. I am familiar with Chase Robinson's book, and although he is not always right, he is right on that point.

Give me a couple of days, and I will try to come up with a suitable form of words.

Djwilms (talk) 05:56, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

75 Ceti
Hello! I'm a user from Russian wiki. I write article about star 75 Ceti. And I've found that you added information about Chinese asterism in English version of the article. I tried to read the Chinese site following the link that you added (using Google translator). But there was nothing about 75 Ceti. Could you find me a passage where the star is written about. Sorry for my poor English. -- Marhorr (talk) 20:42, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Ahmadiyya Tafsir
Please Discuss:

Template talk:Tafsir --User:Sirius86 User talk:Sirius86 22:10, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Sapinuwa
Oh, you're very welcome! Thanks for reaching out; it's always nice to hear that people aren't upset about edits one's made. :-) The bigger problem is less how you cited things (which can always be tidied a little) than link rot, which is an internet-wide problem. You wouldn't happen to remember what "Focus on Ortakoy" referred to by any chance, would you? Q·L·1968 ☿ 21:13, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Disambiguation link on Lycurgus
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Gray wolf, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Lycurgus. Such links are almost always unintended, ... DPL bot (talk) 09:54, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * In this case, I was linking to the name and not to any specific person with that name. So this was not unintended. --Zimriel (talk) 22:38, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:09, 7 November 2016 (UTC)