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Contents 1 BookwormUK 2 Black Stone 3 God vs Allah 4 Hadith 5 Suhuf-i-Ibrahim article edit 6 Thanks 7 Metre Poetry 8 The Eotvos effect 9 AfD 10 Re: Indian relativity 11 CH 12 Types of hajj

[edit] BookwormUK

Thanks for the heads up. I'll be monitoring her closely now. If someone openly espouses bigoted opinions (e.g. that Islam is "the world's most hated religion" and Muslims are "brainwashed"), I don't think they have long for wikipedia anyway. Hopefully. Deuterium 11:08, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Black Stone

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits are considered vandalism, and if you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. Thank you. BookwormUK 17:51, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] God vs Allah

Because of your previous activity with regard to your topic, I thought I'd let you know that there is a poll going on at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Islam-related articles)/God vs Allah. It'd be great if you could vote. Thanks! Starwarp2k2 04:09, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I made the same U-Turn, hehe. Starwarp2k2 12:25, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hadith

Im just happy to see people joining the projects :) --Striver 10:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suhuf-i-Ibrahim article edit

Hi, MPatel/MathPhys. Can you please give reasons / what bases you use to justify not including the Latter Day Saints issue [1]? Moreover, do you want to continue this cabal case since there is nobody to take up the other side of the case? Jsw663 18:23, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for recategorising Maulana, Andhe ki laathi. I was struggling to think where it should go. Also, there is still some religious terminology that I didn't know so couldn't link to or explain in English. I was trying to help clear the wikification backlog and came up against my ignorance of Islam. Itsmejudith 22:23, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Metre Poetry

Hi there, I wish I had seen your comment earlier. I also wanted to know the difference when I edited that part about the etymology of "Qur'an". I meant to say the meter in poetry. In Arabic it is called "wazn" and the literal translation of "wazn" is "weight".

For example in arabic you would say that "place" and "grace" have the same "wazn" because they have the same # of letters and also sound similar. Having known that, do you think it should be Meter(music) or meter(poetry) Thank you for your input.Marwan123 05:00, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

• I also think it is Meter(poetry). All I wanted to prove by adding that part about the meter of the word "Quran" is to show that this word is actually derived from an Arabic root rather than being derived from a syriac origin. This is very clear to me as an Arabic speaker. Unfortunately some people, who are obviously not linguists, still think that the part about Quran being syriac in origin should remain. This theory is more than 100 years old and has almost no supporters among real linguists yet its taking half of the etymology section. Marwan123 20:41, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Eotvos effect

I copy and paste from User Talk:Cleonis :

[...] By the way, I didn't realise that there was an article on the Eötvös effect - thanks! MP (talk) 12:18, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Just to be sure: are you referring to the Eötvös effect or the 'Eötvös experiment'?
The article that I wrote about the Eötvös effect is unrelated to GTR, in the sense that the Eötvös effect is general physics, it applies equally in newtonian dynamics and GTR; no distinction. The Eötvös experiement of course tested the equivalence of inertial and gravitational mass.

What is interesting about the Eötvös effect is that it is closely related to the Coriolis effect as taken into account in meteorology. On my own website the Eötvös effect article is the opening article of an assembly of four articles. 1) the Eötvös effect 2) rotational-vibrational coupling 3) Inertial oscillations (the inertial oscillations that are taken into account in oceanography and meteorology) 4) Comparison of inertial oscillations and ballistics. --Cleonis | Talk 16:45, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD

Hello. Could you please follow the procedure described at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#How to list pages for deletion when nominating a page for deletion? The article won't be deleted otherwise, unless a poor soul fixes it up, like I did for Indian relativity. Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 02:08, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Indian relativity

M - Thank for the head's-up on that article. In response, I have put Aryabhata's relativity principle up for deletion also. The creator of that article has failed to make any case for me that the article should exist, and the resposne to the AfD of Indian relativity has given me hope that I get this one removed also. --EMS | Talk 15:31, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CH

M -

Chris Hillman has been trying to contact you. I tried forwarding some e-mail from him to you. Have you received it? All that I can tell you is that Chris wants to talk to you. --EMS | Talk 06:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Types of hajj

Dear MP, the problem with the section that I deleted was that it was so terse, and presumed such an acquaintance with Arabic, the various madhabs, etc., that I found it impenetrable. If I found it hard going (and I'm somewhere more informed about Islam than the usual encyclopedia user, thought I'm certainly no scholar) I don't think a regular user could make head or tail of it. If you want to restore that information, you're going to have to unpack it. Similarly the hajj undertaken for others. That deserves a section, and perhaps some examples. If you just say that it exists, blam, then that info is going to float over readers' heads.

I recall several accounts of vicarious hajj in accounts of 18th and 19th century Indian life. The wealthy, aged, and feeble would do the hajj this way, as it was the only way that they could. But is it so common now? I should think that with jet travel, vicarious hajj would have disappeared. If there are any stats available on the numbers of such pilgrims each year, that would certainly help. Zora 06:12, 11 December 2006 (UTC)