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Help needed

Can you please take a look at this incident. Your help would be much appreciated. Thanks Watchdogb (talk) 13:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Arabic scripts

Thanks so much for adding those Arabic scripts! We (WP Arab World) were just trying to think of as many users who are able to provide them. --Al Ameer son (talk) 04:32, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Regarding Suspected_sock_puppets/Klaksonn

Hi. There might be a new related case of suspected sockpuppetry. I'm not sure what Klaksonn case was about, so if You have some knowledge about situation, please comment at . Cheers.M0RD00R (talk) 20:48, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

If you can help me

Hello, I am new here. Your page is lovely, can you teach me how to make one like yours? Sincerely, Akiro. Akiro H (talk) 00:37, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I will wait until you come back :). I really hope to work with you in the future. Best regards, Akiro. Akiro H (talk) 12:44, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

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Saw you were involved in this. Can it be closed. Is there actions still to be taken? — Rlevse • Talk • 13:42, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd check with FayssalF, as he was doing most of the work. As far as I'm concerned though, yes it can be closed. --Elonka 15:01, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

((pasted from Elonka's page))... — Rlevse • Talk • 15:04, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Arab Medals

im not sure if i informed you of this before or not, but i have created a couple of Medals for the Arab world project... i think we really need Arab medals, since all other projects have their own created Medals, and we have none...

one last thing, what is the policy for giving people medals?? i mean, can anyone just grant people Medals that have been created?? how does this thing work, why, when, how and on what should i give people medals?

• File:AL Medals2.PNG
• File:AL-Chief Medal.PNG

what do ou think?? you can fix them if you wish.. cheers

--Arab League User (talk) 16:29, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Excellent work. Is there a way to remove the black background from the second medal? There's no policy but introducing it to WP:ARAB is common practice. You may need to discuss it on the project's talk page there with other participants. Awarding medals have to be announced there. -- FayssalF - 18:03, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Jajouka→ Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka

Dear Sevest can yopu take your protect off this page so it's name can be moved to the original title. There was faulty logic and histrionics at work when the page was originally cahnged to the name of the controversial re-issue. The original title was the title intended by the producer Brian Jones and the artist. Opiumjones 23 (talk) 08:22, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

OM/FT2/KL

leaves us all confused. Please help to clarify. Is FT2 correct or is KL correct or is there some as-yet-unexdplained magic which allows them both to be correct? William M. Connolley (talk) 08:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

You are marked as active. Although I don't see any contribs by you over the weekend, or even recently... I urge you to get active. I see no reason for any arbitrator to be engaged in anything at all other than getting this matter resolved. Routine sock blocks, discussions of names of users, and the like should be, in my view, left to others or deferred. Your highest priority, each and every one of you, ought to be talking through this and coming to a resolution. Please. I posted this first at FT2's page and FT2 indicated he is waiting on responses... the longer this festers the worse it is for everyone... ++Lar: t/c 15:51, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Research about military history and its coordinators

There is an ongoing research about military history and its coordinators. I thought you might be interested. The result will be published by the project.

Greetings Wandalstouring (talk) 20:41, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice Wandalstouring. I am already in contact with the researcher. -- FayssalF - 18:17, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Image:Brest last days smirnov.jpg

Salam brother,

Do you think fair use tag is acceptable for this picture?--Seyyed(t-c) 14:45, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Quackwatch

Hi Fayssal, how are you doing?

Following an Arbcom debate and in view of the message at the top of the talk page, is it just me, or are some "pro-skeptical" editors being very tiresome and difficult to respond to. On A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism I've had similar problems with edits that I see as barely controversial at all. User:Science Apologist really knows how to wind me up. If you could just take a quick look and suggest ways forward, give me some feedback on my own editing, all that, I'd be really grateful. Itsmejudith (talk) 16:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Request for recusal

FYI:

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Martintg (talk) 11:31, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Martin. Please see my response there. Thanks. -- FayssalF - 17:58, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Request

Hi FayssaIF, a user has violated WP:NPA by claiming that an article is in violation of NPOV because I edited the article and claims that the article is becoming a propaganda blog. This is a very serious allegation and hinders my ability to contribute to the article. Your comment is needed at WP:SLR. The article is in question is Tamil Eelam and it is believed to be one of the main aspiration of the current civil war in sri lanka and as such is a part of SLDR (thought this article was not tagged because it was overlooked). Watchdogb (talk) 14:30, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

It's now been over 24 hours and there has not been a single evidence given to support these allegations against me. Can you please take some steps so that I can be left to contribute rather than be attacked ? Please and Thanks Watchdogb (talk) 00:51, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU, Status, and you!

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Image:Photo 135.jpg

They want to delete the oven again Opiumjones 23 (talk) 01:01, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

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Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan

There seems to be a block on name change or perhaps it is only happening to me? ] is whet comes up when I try to change it to the original and correct title "Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka" Can you let me know what the problem is. I requested unprotect on the correct page but they said it was unprotected . Is there some error in the code?.Opiumjones 23 (talk) 22:43, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

GreenEcho

Thanks for letting me know. I have nothing to add there. It does remind me of the theory of another admin (I hope I am quoting him correctly), that sockpuppetteers should be blocked indef (though I know that view is outside the mainstream). My study of GreenEcho's contribution history suggested to me that he would be spending most of his remaining career at ANI. Though I probably lean toward a strict response to editors that I sense to be POV-warriors. I perceived mostly wiki-lawyering in his response to you, rather than a sincere desire to reform, or an admission that anything had been wrong before. During the edit war that I checked out, the people on the other side of GreenEcho appeared sincerely cooperative, but he was just beating his drum. (Though I have no idea who was right on the underlying issues). EdJohnston (talk) 22:04, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey -- sorry I wasn't online for the critical period of this. I was following the discussion though. I am concerned about the WP:SOCK policy page after this discussion. I feel strongly that this business about legitimate alternate accounts to keep areas separate needs some firm guidance from the policy, and there should be a low absolute maximum (say, 3 or 4) of accounts actually specified somewhere there. The idea that this guy has that he can have, basically, one account per article is simply wrong. Yes, he's segregating areas but the sheer number of them, and the lack of any good reason to segregate (say) Lebanese from Pakistan editing makes this an illegitimate use. But there could be an issue with the policy because it doesn't make this clear. It might also be worth saying in the policy that the use of segregation needs to be explainable and justifiable... in other words, more than just "the rules say I can do it." Mangojuice 14:02, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Bedford

Here is the myspace link you were looking for. 161.11.120.59 (talk) 18:19, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Bedford. Could you please add it to your case so other members of the ArbCom can see it? Thanks in advance. -- FayssalF - 18:22, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm actually not Bedford. I am an interested party that, due to fear of retaliation from him, wishes to keep my username out of this. 161.11.120.59 (talk) 18:26, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

No worries. We are aware of the privacy issues and therefore we are here to make sure eveyone is safe but "fearing retaliation from " is a bit exaggerated. -- FayssalF - 19:54, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Not at all. I've had a couple of issues in the past where I've disagreed with one of his contributions. Instead of agreeing to disagree, he went and dissected my contributions. While I am an interested party in dealing with him, I really do feel that anonymity is necessary when doing anything that involves him. 161.11.120.59 (talk) 20:56, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. All we hope is to have a cool place where everyone enjoys a great time editing while sharing their knowledge/research/work. But since you feel uncomfortable with expressing your views at ease (something which hurts), then I'd have no reason not to accept your input. I'd already accepted it of course. Anyway, my advice... for you and Bedford alike, be relaxed :)

IP

Hi - I understand from your comment here that you've linked 74.94.99.17 (talk) with a named account and are concerned about a violation of WP:SOCK. Since this IP has been active in the disputes surrounding the Obama pages (largely in a flame-fanning and commenting-at-AN/I manner), I just wanted to ask if you could follow up to ensure this is resolved appropriately (I assume you do not want to disclose the named account due to privacy issues at this time). There are already plenty of socks, suspicious IP's, and SPA's contributing to the dispute. Thanks for looking into it. MastCell  18:25, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

You got it right MastCell. And that has been my clear message, not only to the particular IP and its owner but to all users using IPs on that topic (in theory I'd mean everywhere). And yes, I'll be keeping an eye. -- FayssalF - 19:07, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Thanks for looking into it. MastCell  19:12, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Enforcing Neutrality

I was hoping you could give me a hand... Enforcing Neutrality, formerly GreenEcho, is giving me grief. He's started up again with following my edits and reverting them, most recently by reverting vandalism (!) on depictions of the Imaams. Naahid بنت الغلان 02:46, 29 July 2008 (UTC)