User talk:Kafziel

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[edit] cubicle farm

Hi, Kafziel. It seems your "cubicle farm" image is gone. I'll be back in the office monday, and we have copious cubicle farms (I call them "seas"). Would you like me to take a picture and upload it? ... aa:talk 09:16, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

My goodness. I just read your "rules." I've never quite put it that bluntly, but of course you're 100% correct. ... aa:talk 09:22, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
I wonder what happened to the picture? Surely it wasn't a fair use image... with all the photographers on Wikipedia, I'm sure you and I aren't the only ones with cubicles. Weird. Well, I would take one myself but I work from home and I don't know when I'll be in the office again. So if you want to, that's cool. Don't trouble yourself, though - it doesn't look like any other pages used that image and I can always link to a more basic one.
Glad you liked the rules. Maybe someday things will change enough here to make it possible to get rid of some of them. Kafziel Talk 15:03, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hi Kafziel

hey! thank you for kind message and for the info...hoping to hear you again —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Slashnomur (talk • contribs) 13:02, 3 December 2006 (UTC).

You're welcome! Feel free to let me know if you ever need any help. Kafziel Talk 15:03, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

Hi, please can you consider translating the Noahide Laws article into arabic at some point in the future, its been a serious project in the wikiproject:judaims for a while and generates allot of good traffic. I hope to clean it up soon. Thanks. Chavatshimshon 18:08, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Yowza. That is one big article. I might be able to get at least a stub started on the Arabic Wikipedia, but I don't know enough about the subject to be very comprehensive. I'll see what I can do. Kafziel Talk 18:19, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
I could help with clarifying anything (even tho I am not sure why Chavatshimshon is asking for this...) - crz crztalk 01:29, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jackal

I think the movie shall be at J (film) and the The J shall point to the movie with a standard caveat on the movie article: The Jackal redirects here. For other uses, see J (d). - crz crztalk 01:29, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Cool. I'll go ahead and make the changes then. Thanks! Kafziel Talk 01:34, 5 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Thierry Henry

Hey Kafziel i am the Thierry Henry guy, yep people make mistakes i failed to notice that DOB. HOWEVER i wasn't so pigheaded as to revert back to obvious vandalism!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.31.13.45 (talk • contribs).

Most people who revert vandalism aren't familiar with the subject. They review the recent changes page to see what has been done in the last few seconds and then do their best to set it straight. Lots of people have more than one middle name, so it might not be obvious to someone not familiar with Thierry Henry. But if we waited for experts to fix each article, Wikipedia would be overrun with vandalism.
Trying to fix vandalism is a pretty thankless job. Keep in mind that he's not being paid for it; he's volunteering his own free time to try to maintain the articles. Everyone is entitled to an honest mistake now and then. We're all on the same team. Kafziel Talk 16:32, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Heroes

I already put a proposed deletion on the article, but it wouldn't take effect for five days and it can be disputed. If you're considering merging, you may want to add a merge tag and say what you plan to do on the talk page. --Milo H Minderbinder 19:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't do prod. But I did add a merge tag and started a discussion on the original list, so please weigh in there. If the merge doesn't happen, I'll nominate it for AfD. Thanks! Kafziel Talk 20:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Personal attack intervention

I have left a note on User talk:67.110.68.99 - and if the name calling continues I will block him. Additionally, I would advise just to leave comments like this one there - even with his "I told you so" attitude - you were right and the other editors will know that - they know our standards for building an excellent encyclopedia. I guess I mean - don't let stuff like that bother you. As you said, the addition of information needs to be referenced, I suggest referencing the tv show's website, notable summary sites, etc. --Trödel 20:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

The civility warning I gave him wasn't for the "I told you so" post on the Heroes talk page (which, unless he was sockpuppetting, wasn't even originally written by that user). The incivility was on his own talk page and his abusive edit summaries in other places. His edit history is ridiculously abusive. By comparison, I actually didn't think the "told you so" thing was especially bad. Anyway, he's blocked now. Kafziel Talk 20:19, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
PS - This ought to help his case. :) Kafziel Talk 20:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Yeah - insulting while asking to be unblocked is not very wise. Anyway - I denied the unblock request. --Trödel 21:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi Again

RE the translation of Noahide Laws, can I make the task easier by writing up a summary/stub in english since to make the task of reading up on its details easier for you? Ta. FrummerThanThou 23:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Your note warmed my heart. Thanks. – Quadell (talk) (random) 02:48, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

From your page, it looks as if you've made many positive contributions to Wikipedia. Keep up the good work in that regard. My reply to your comment is on the above's talk page. Thanks. Tvccs 03:24, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Image:Hiker.gif

Thanks for uploading Image:Hiker.gif. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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[edit] Congratulations!

Good work, I know it's hard. riana_dzasta 02:01, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Ha ha, thanks! It's been a couple of weeks, and it hasn't been too bad. The only thing I miss is a smoke with my coffee. There's something truly sublime about a cup of coffee and a cigarette. But life goes on. Kafziel Talk 06:13, 9 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Image:Spirit of the American Doughboy.gif

Thanks for uploading Image:Spirit of the American Doughboy.gif. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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[edit] Safiyya bint Huyayy

As an Arabic linguist, your input on this article would be appreciated. There is currently a discussion going on with a few admins involved. The point of contention is whether she should be described as a concubine of Mohammad or not. Someone there wishes to propose that she she should be called a ma malakat aymanukum, which in my opinion is not right since there is no source of her being called that, and he story depicted in the very article says quite clearly she was a [[[concubine]].—The preceding unsigned comment was added by FrummerThanThou (talk • contribs).

That's a pretty contentious issue; the exact definiton of the term is debated not just on Wikipedia but by other scholars as well. "Concubine" does bring with it some connotations of bias; translating ma malakat aymanukum as concubine is seen by some as a holdover from the cultural misunderstandings of the colonial era. It's hard to say who's right. Generally I'm against politically correct reinterpretations, but in this case it may be more a case of a communication gap that was filled with a less-than-adequate word. I don't think I'd have anything constructive to add there; I'm not an expert in etymology. Kafziel Talk 15:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Veteran politicians

In reply to your CfD statement that "most" veteran politicians would be duplicated by "American politicians", I have provided evidence that only 25-31% of either house of Congress is made up of veterans. Crockspot 18:58, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I replied while you were writing this. Kafziel Talk 19:02, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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