User talk:Sir192

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[edit] The pain of the inscrutably removed ˤayn

Is there some reason you took out the ˤayns in Šāfiˤī and replaced them with glottal stops (alifs)? Seems silly to have it spelled wrong, especially when the ˤayns are so readily available. em zilch 22:39, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please add categories!

Hi! I see you are creating a lot of stubs on towns in Chechnya. That's good, but will you please add at least two categories to all these articles: [[Category:Chechnya]] and [[Category:Cities and towns in Russia]]. It is of great importance. Thank you. --Anthony Ivanoff 19:06, 20 February 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Masjid_Shajarah.jpg

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[edit] Arabic

Hello,

My name is Chris Brennan. I'm in the process of trying to learn Arabic right now and I'm looking for someone that can maybe give me some advice based on their own experience in learning the language. Right now the only book that I have is Awde & Samano's The Arabic Alphabet, and I'm currently looking around for a decent textbook that I can use for self study, but I seem to be getting mixed reviews for almost every book that I'm looking at and I'm not sure what would be the best choice for what I would like to do. My original intent was to learn Classical Arabic, but I'm starting to realize that resources on learning Classical Arabic are much more scarce and it would make the process much more difficult to start there. So then I was thinking that perhaps I could start with Modern Standard Arabic and then once I had a decent grasp of that it wouldn't be such a big leap to get to Classical Arabic. I'm unsure as to how divergent MSA is from Classical Arabic though, so I'm not sure if that is a viable route to go, and I'm still not sure which text book to go with. Do you have any advice? I would really appreciate it. --Chris Brennan 08:16, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hamid Algar

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[edit] link to bosnian

Hello, when you want to link to the article about something Bosnian, please do not link to Bosnian, as that is a disambiguation page (which nothing should be linked to). Instead link to the one of the options found on that page such as Bosnia (region) or Bosnia and Herzegovina by writing out [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian]]. Regards, Jeff3000 22:51, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anthony Joseph Zerilli

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[edit] Saddeka Arebi

I see you added Saddeka Arebi to the List of University of California, Berkeley faculty. This is list is for notable faculty, is Prof. Arebi notable? Perhaps she should be added to the Category:University_of_California,_Berkeley_faculty instead? I question the notability of Prof. Arebi, usually to be notable a person needs to have some sort of published biography or at least a biographical article. The reference "New Voices for Women in the Middle East, Ragai N. Makar University of Utah" mentions Prof. Arebi, but is not biographical. Cxbrx 03:02, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Sirte logo.jpg

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[edit] Did you know...

Updated DYK query On 12 September 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Agriculture in Libya, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Allen3 talk 15:14, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sirte Basin

Hi. I've nominated Sirte Basin, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on September 12, where you can improve it if you see fit. Thanks, MeegsC | Talk 11:46, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On September 17, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sirte basin, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Well done Sir192. We hardly ever have any stuff from Libya so feel free to keep on self nominating. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:44, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use disputed for Image:CERTVLOGO.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Mobarakeh logo.jpg

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[edit] A second nom. Did you know that

[edit] Did you know

Updated DYK query On 27 September 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Arabian Cement Co., which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Allen3 talk 11:00, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to join projects related to the Energy Portal

Hi, Sharef. You made some great contributions on energy related issues. I thought you might like to be aware of the opportunity to contribute to the energy portal. If you are able to help and wish to show your support (and to automatically add yourself to the list of Wikipedians plugged into the Energy Portal), you might also like to paste one of these user boxes onto your user page (according to your colour preference!):

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Turner logo.gif)

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[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Al-Ibrahim_Mosque.jpg

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[edit] Image source problem with Image:AlexRudaj.jpg

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[edit] Image:Al-Ibrahim_Mosque.jpg listed for deletion

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