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[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia!

Welcome to the Wikipedia, George.Saliba! Hope you enjoy editing here and becoming a Wikipedian! Here are a few perfunctory tips to hasten your acculturation into the Wikipedia experience:

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Best of luck, George.Saliba, and have fun! Ombudsman 18:40, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lebanon Reverts

Why the reverts? Was the information added incorrect? As someone not that knowledgeable about the topic it seems strange that you reverted what seemed like it could have been accurate information with any explanation. --Ben Houston 00:57, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

My initial view of the two changes I reverted was that, aside from being quite bad grammatically, they seemed laced with POV and out of place. The references to "full-scale 'so-called' civil war" and the popularity of Bachir Gemayel seemed to reflect POV (as far as information I can find, he seems to have been much more of a polarizing figure than a uniting one). Also, The first change talks about some of the names given to the war over an eleven year period in a section titled "Beginning of the War". I didn't totally understand the second edits reference to no declaration of war between Israel and Lebanon "to date" when, to the best of my knowledge at least, Israeli troops have withdrawn from Lebanon (with the possible exception of the disputed Shebaa Farms area). At any rate, I'm going to revert my previous revert, in the hopes that any useful information that was there can be cleaned up an preserved. George Saliba 01:35, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lebanon edits

Hey there, thank you very much for your edits to the article Lebanon. I just wanted to note that you marked all your edits as minor. Minor edits should be superficial edits that you believe will be agreed upon by all editors. While I personally agree with all of your edits (and think they've been quite an improvement to the article), you should use that minor edit check box a little less often :), especially for correcting typographical errors and grammar.

I also wanted to take this opportunity to invite you to join WikiProject Lebanon. If you're interested enough in editing Lebanon-related articles, please list yourself as a member. Thanks again. LestatdeLioncourt talk 16:49, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for clarifying. I honestly wasn't sure what the difference between major and minor edits was. :) I figured major edits were adding new articles and the like. I'll try to be more accurate in the future. Also I'll definately take a look at the WikiProject. While I don't edit Lebanon-related articles exclusively, they're definately articles I try to keep an eye on. Thanks. George Saliba 23:04, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Nice Edits. I'm the guy who wrote all the stuff you deleted. So you think details of Hariri assassination such as the origins of the vehicle used for the assassination, the details of the local lebanese investigation, the reasons why the international community dismissed their findings out of hand and setup the Mehlis UN investigation... these are all irrelevant details?
You also removed mention of the main evidence in the Mehlis report used to implacate syria which relies on testimony from syrian agents "that defected" and to turn against Syria and testify against them. That's irrelevant detail? Isn't wikipedia supposed to be about detail? How can you have too much detail in an encyclopedia? Isn't that what you go to an encyclopedia for?
If you could prove that this detail is factually incorrect, then I would agree you would be right to remove it. But we both know you can't, because the source of the text is almost entirely word for word out of the Mehlis report and associated news reports. If you think it is a biased representation of the facts, fine !!! Go do some research and include some additional detail that you think give a more balanced representation of the events. But simply removing well-documented details regarding a topic is just plain censorship.
Basically you've left nothing but hear-say dribble with no factual content at all. If this is how wikipedia is going to deal with this I think you'd be better off removing all mention of the assassination all together, it would be better to have nothing there than what you've currently got. But of course you can't because this assassination marks a turning point in the history of Lebanon, it's a really major event. Is this really the best Wikipedia can do? "Yep Hariri got assassinated. Pity that. The Syrians did it. Now move along, nothing to see here!"
User:Micktion
The main article about Lebanon contains a summary about the Cedar Revolution. It should be just that—a summary. As such, I moved your text (note: moved, not deleted) to the correct location in the main article about the Cedar Revolution. It is not appropriate for a summary about the Cedar Revolution, but is entirely relevant to the main article and worth keeping. George Saliba 03:48, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use image use

Please do not add images marked with a fair use tag such as {{promophoto}} or {{univ-logo}} to non-main namespace pages, such as templates or userpages. Doing so violates our policies on fair use. Specifically, Wikipedia:Fair use criteria item #9. See Category:Non-free image copyright tags for all tags in the non-free images category which falls under this restriction. Twice today you added Image:University-of-Colorado-Boulder-sports-logo.png to templates ([1],[2]). The policy proscribes actions like those. If you have any questions about this, I'd be happy to answer. --Durin 19:24, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying this for me. I had no idea that the user templates weren't covered under the fair use criteria. Good job keeping an eye out. :) George Saliba 19:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict civilian casualty numbers

Thanks for reverting my change to these numbers. I completely missed the existing reference when i was editing it. I wanted to let you know that I've updated the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict article with the latest figures from the article they cite (http://www.usaid.gov/locations/asia_near_east/middle_east/pdf/061109_Lebanon_SitRep_06.pdf), which was last updated November 3, 2006. Any thoughts on replacing the Lebanon article's reference with this one, and updating the figures accordingly? On the one hand, these figures are more up to date, but on the other I'm not sure which organization has the more accurate data. Cheers. George Saliba 08:09, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah sure go ahead and update the numbers. Your source is more up-to-date and perhaps carries more authority with it than the UNDP report. LestatdeLioncourt talk 09:07, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Matn

George: A friendly hello and a courtesy note to let you know that I changed Metn back to Matn. My justification is that this is an Article about Lebanon. The Lebanese in Lebanon, and many Lebanese around the world, do not typically use Metn in English, they use Matn (North Matn, Higher Matn, etc... ). Also, AUB, a highly respected University in Lebanon uses Matn not Metn [3]. The same applies to Matn University in Jdaideh (the capital of Al Matn) [4]. Thank you. Khaled. Lcnj 05:02, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Khaled. I understand your reasoning, but I have to respectfully disagree. Metn is the more common spelling in English (google Metn Lebanon versus Matn Lebanon), and the AUB site you cited also uses Metn in more recent versions [5]. I agree that the Matn University officially uses Matn, but I can't say that this is true for all uses of Metn in general, and for all I know may be left over from the French language. I'm going to post on the Lebanon discussion page in the hopes that we can form consensus on the issue. I encourage you to join in the discussions there. Thanks. George Saliba 05:30, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lebanon and Good Articles

Hi George,

I am thoroughly impressed by your diligence and conscientiousness with respect to Lebanon. Keep up the good work!

I would like to say something about WP:GA, though. It is not impossible that the assessment could be reviewed and the GA rating delisted, based on the large number of {{fact}} tags currently on the article. [In fact, I might even have to list it for review myself -- but I would wait three weeks or so, to give you time to work. But the point is, someone — anyone — could list the article for review, at any time, even right now. With that many tags, your chances of keeping the GA rating would be less than optimal.]

For that reason, I strongly suggest that you turn your attention to fixing those. :-)

Later, --Ling.Nut 00:10, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ling, thanks for the suggestion. I'll do what I can. What's the general policy on statements marked with {{fact}} that people can't find references for for a prolonged period? Should we just leave the statements, comment them out, or do we remove them at some point? George Saliba 02:35, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
There is no general policy. :-) You might find numbers (such as population figures) from gov't sources; from any reputable source if not. You might find generalities on reputable popular news sources. You can remove a few tags (being very detailed in your edit summary about why you are removing them), but if you remove too many, it kinda looks bad. Don't forget http://scholar.google.com/
Cites/references are especially important for a controversial topic.
--Ling.Nut 05:27, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
BTW, do you have any college students or academics or other people who have access to the LexisNexis database working with you. Using the LexisNexis database for news articles, you could probably wipe out most of them, tho it would take time.
Your email isn't activated. I was gonna send an example. But see if anyone has access to it. --Ling.Nut 06:01, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Unfortunately I don't. This Google Scholars looks very promising, however. I like to use Google News for looking for recent citations, but Google Scholars should help a lot for less current event citations. Thanks for the tip! George Saliba 06:06, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Signature question for you

Hi Lestat, I just started playing around with my signature, and I have a quick question for you. How do you make the date at the end of your signature small? My preferences page is unhappy when I leave an unclosed <small> tag at the end, so I'm guessing I have to put something like <small>?</small>, I'm just not sure what the ? should be. Thanks. — George Saliba [talk] 11:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

I simply sign the date manually, by adding <small>~~~~~</small>. So your signature would end up being: ~~~ <small>~~~~~</small>. LestatdeLioncourt talk 11:56, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Doh, I didn't even consider the obvious. Thanks! — George Saliba [talk] 12:10, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need your opinion

Please check out Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Lebanon/Assessment and post any comments you may have. LestatdeLioncourt talk 14:47, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

The user with IP 84.54.30.3 is filling the page with pure POV edits. I'm afraid I don't know the proper procedures to warn them, escalate, etc., but I've been reverting their edits as fast as I can, while maintaining other peoples edits. If one of you has a chance, please give them a warning on their talk page. Thanks. — George Saliba [talk] 23:17, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

There are a number of ways you can deal with vandalism. First you should go to the anon's talk page and post the appropriate vandalism warning template (see this page for more detail). Very frequent vandalism by anons can be dealt with by requesting semi-protection. It's usually expected of the editor who reverted the vandalism to post the warning templates, but many people ignore this practice. I've already warned the IP you mentioned with {{test0}}, so don't worry about that :). LestatdeLioncourt talk 13:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Awesome! Very useful link, thanks! — George Saliba [talk] 19:35, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Excuse me for being a little too nosy (and bossy), but there's one thing I forgot to mention: you should generally replace lower-order templates for the same type of vandalism with higher-order templates. For example, when you want to post {{test2}} on a vandal's talk page, you should remove the existing {{test1}} template (generally the one relating to your own article in case of vandalism to several articles) and replace it with your new one. Hope this is useful. LestatdeLioncourt talk 13:43, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Ah, thanks man. I always welcome useful suggestions. :) — George Saliba [talk] 21:40, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Sincere Thank You!...

George, buddy... You make my life soooooo easy... and make me a little lazy and not learn Wikipedia stuff as quickly as I should... like how to make those nifty reference marks... Yes I put a great effort into my edit, but I am always comforted knowing that you'd come after me and make it look nicer without changing my content as an Editor and displaying utter civility and respect... :).... A sincere "Thank You, mate" is due!... I think we should start thinking about cloning cool editors like you and that "teen" LeStat... :) Lcnj 06:30, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Hehe, no problem man, and thanks. I actually laughed when I saw you sign your edit to the Lebanon article with the ~~~~. I've come very close to doing that myself many times. :) And ya man, we could totally use more Lestat! — George Saliba [talk] 06:53, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV pushing

Hi, why do you recognize Hezbollah as pro-Syrian and pro-Iranian movement , while you don't recognize 14 March as pro-American and pro-Arabia one. Your edition[6] is unjust. "Most Shiites see Saad Hariri as a proxy of the Saudi royal family, handpicked to carry on his father's mission of transforming Lebanon into a corrupt, elitist republic with an "open for business" pro-Western foreign policy."[7]--Sa.vakilian 07:31, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Sa.vakilian, please don't misinterpret - I don't see the March 14 Alliance as not pro-American and pro-Arabian. In general, the terms that seem to be used in media are:
  • For the opposition group (Hezbollah, Amal, FPM): pro-Syrian, Iranian-backed
  • For the ruling government (March 14): anti-Syrian, pro-US, pro-Western, US-supported, Western-backed, Arab-backed, Saudi-backed - these are all fine with me.
I'm absolutely fine with you adding these to balance the article. I do not, however, agree with removing information. Please feel free to add such terms, with appropriate references and such of course. I do not believe I have any POV in this matter. — George Saliba [talk] 07:39, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
My input... I am fine with a "balance of POV's" as long as I see a "balance"... but I am seeing that George is doing all he can to bring a "balance of POV's" while vakilian is pushing ONE POV. vakilian, can you give me a civil reposnse to my question re: NPOV ? Thanks. Lcnj 00:08, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ali Ahmad Mahmoud

George. If you are sure his father is Ali, then your reasoning is correct. However, many Lebanese sources (as well as the news in Arabic) refer to him as Ali Ahmad Mahmoud. Take a look at [8] and [9]. Unless you are sure his father is Ali and his name is Ahmad Ali Mahmoud, I would go with how the Lebanese call him. They know best... I will let you make the final call unless I have better info in the future... Either way, may her rest in peace... What a waste of valuable human life... Lcnj 16:16, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Lcnj. Indeed, what a waste. I'm not 100% sure on his fathers name, but the Associated Press reported[10] his name as Ali: "Mahmoud‘s father, Ali, said he initially had thought of revenge, but backed down after a visit by envoys of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah and his ally, Parliament Speaker and leader of the Shiite Amal Movement Nabih Berri, who said vengeance would only play into the hands of those trying to divide Lebanon." — George Saliba [talk] 23:16, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey thanks

Hey thanks for that George, you're a champion. It looks pretty good on my Jieh page. I'm wondering if you know how to integrate a video into a wikipedia page? Is it possible you think? Prince Cadmus II 10:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Hey Cadmus, no problem. If you're able to get some coordinate locations on the Jieh page the infobox I added is capable of doing some basic mapping (see Bteghrine as an example).
I'm not sure how to integrate a video, although I think it's possible. You should take a look at Media and the video policy. Hope that helps. — George Saliba [talk] 10:46, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lebanon calls

Hey! I thought you might want to participate in the disucssion at Lebanon's talk page over the edits made by Jaakobou that you reverted. Cheers! —LestatdeLioncourt 17:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I've added my thoughts to the ongoing discussion. — George Saliba [talk] 23:44, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jaakobou

Of course, George. Do be careful; violating the 3RR rule could get you blocked. I've requested page protection while we resolve the dispute. —LestatdeLioncourt 13:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that's what I'm hoping. I'll take a look at what's taking place at the talk page right now. —LestatdeLioncourt 07:48, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm wondering about requesting unprotection. We've given Jaakobou the chance. It's been two days and he hasn't posted any comment. Wait more or unprotect? —LestatdeLioncourt 20:33, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re

Hi! #Using the numbers repeatedly is redundant, confusing, and can be misleading. I'm sure most users can add three and five in their heads to count to eight. It would also help cut down on the length a bit.

Yes, but the idea is 1) to separate the two sub-incidents, and 2) the words in parantheses just says what they did (that they killed 5, for example), and the last part says that the killed were Israeli soldiers. It says what Hezbollah did, and ends with what Israel lost. I think it should be okay to understand.

#It is incorrect grammatically to use numerals that small in a sentence. 3 should be three, 5 should be five, etc.

The casus belli is not a sentence, and in most cases it is not a formal sentence in other articles. It is more on a point-by-point basis.

#I believe the shelling should be listed before the raid, as those are the order they occurred in. This is significant as the shelling was a diversion for the raid. They were both cross-border, so I'm not sure why you take issue with switching the order.

I kept shelling in front, I switched the cross-border part. "Cross-border" is usually accompanied with "raid". It seems the other way might infer that Hezbollah was across the border as they were shelling. The important thing to note is that they were shelling Israel.

#Using the parentheses throughout is confusing, and doesn't really achieve anything more than listing the numbers outright would.

How is: Hezbollah shelling of Israel and cross-border raid killing three IDF soldiers and kidnapping two others, and shooting at IDF rescue force killing five more.

That ok? Let me know. Thanks. --Shamir1 03:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Shamir1. This looks much better. I'm quite happy with your revised sentence grammatically. — George Saliba [talk] 06:49, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How did you make your page?

Your page is soooooooo cool. How did you do the whole "about me" thing? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by I m dude2002 (talk • contribs) 05:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC).

Hi I m dude2002, I'm glad you like it. The code makes use of the userboxtop and userboxbottom templates. If you go to my talk page, and click the "edit this page" tab at the top, it will show you the code I'm using. Hope that helps. — George Saliba [talk] 09:22, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Where is there a list of all the user categories? I m dude2002 04:54, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
There's a decent collection in the Gallery section of WP:UBX. — George Saliba [talk] 05:28, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Honest mistake

Sorry, it was an honest mistake. It was based on the earlier edit, I forgot to remove it. As you can see, I have let it go anyway. Thanks. --Shamir1 07:48, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A small request

Hello George. I am sorry if I'm being too intrusive, but could I please have your email address? If you do give it to me, you should delete it right after you save the page, to avoid spam. I will find it in the page history. —LestatdeLioncourt 15:20, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unprotecting Lebanon

I asked Jaakobou to continue the discussion going on at Lebanon's talk page. He said that he has exams coming up and that he won't be able to contribute much to the discussion, so I proposed unprotecting the article until he is able to fully participate, provided that he and you agree not to make any edits regarding the disputed issues. Is that OK with you? —LestatdeLioncourt 15:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cas number

Hi, I have not reverted your edit but let me explain why I changed it before to over 1,200 people killed. I added the lowest figure of each which gave me (if I remember correctly) 1,197. Then, we have foreign citizens to consider (some may have been dual), but in either case it would probably be "over 1,200" as stated before. Also, keep in mind that the 1,191 death toll is from the Higher Relief Council source as you can see. The Lebanese government source is 1,123 (including unidentified victims), and the Associated Press is 1,035. Thanks. --Shamir1 02:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I noticed that just before you told me! I thought it would be better to write just the government sources in the boxes and put the others below, but now that I see that, you can change it. Also, I emailed the Lebanese Ministry of Health but it was sent back to me. I sent it to the only English-speaking address it seemed, but it does not work. It is also hard to find the info on their site because of their format--all pages have the same url. My Arabic is not strong enough to contact them on their other addresses, anyway you can? Thanks, and I do appreciate your effort. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shamir1 (talk • contribs) 01:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Lebanon conflict

Hi again! The news reports are news reports are probably based on other sources (most likely the HRC). As much as I would love to know correctly how many of each were killed, I have also read too many articles (online and in print) that explicitly talk about the impossibility of determining an actual civilian number. That does not make any difference anyway. The point is that it would be a claim (a worthy claim) that most victims were civilians since it contradicts with other sources. For example, let's take the Lebanese sources who say that Hezbollah had buried over 700 guerrillas and have many more to go. The lowest possible number for that claim would be 701, which is the majority if compared to the highest possible 1,191 (HRC estimate). Estimates from the IDF and the UN would have it close to half or possibly over.

Please understand that I am not refuting these claims, but just stating that we cannot present those points as facts. I am still gathering more information on those number issues.

Somewhat off-topic, I am deeply saddened by the fighting in Beirut recently, I dont know if youve seen the news.

Thanks, and I appreciate your dedication to the article. --Shamir1 05:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

It is hard to determine and its a difficult subject. Undoubtably, many civilians were killed, and no one is eliminating the possibility of whether they were a majority of victims. Those articles are based on reports, which would be based on each government, and they news stories, not investigations. They also, however, do not distinguish how many civilians killed or even the approximate portion. The IDF estimate is an important factor. An estimate of 600 Hezbollahs could be the majority. This is all a possibility and an important issue, and is not far from the UN official's estimate (which was also made in the light of somewhat lower estimates). It wouldn't be fair to say that one's claim is less worthy when they are both possibly equally as important. If the numbers of Israeli civilians contradicted with another group's findings or by another authority, that would also run into a NPOV dispute.
Thanks for being cooperative. --Shamir1 22:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2006-present Lebanese revolt

Thank you for your advice, however it is quite clear that Israel's armed forces surpasses that of Hizbullah

                  M.B.G
I don't disagree specifically, but when you make such claims you need to cite references that agree. Also, the revert was more about your claim that "all" sectors of Lebanon thought more highly of Hezbollah, as this just isn't true. — George Saliba [talk] 10:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I am sorry george i must of looked at a wrong source.

Salam. Dear George, I think we have agreed with moving timeline from Lebanon article to 2006-present Lebanese revolt and put a summary there.--Sa.vakilian 05:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lebanon RfC

Just so you know, I felt that your interpretation of NPOV, i.e. "Civilian and militant death totals are a matter of some debate - see [[link to section of article where discussion takes place]]" would be the least biased/POV link for the infobox. Although it may then be difficult to write a consensus NPOV section in the article explaining this.

Good luck with it; if you need anything else just drop me a line. Jem 09:15, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your Mediation Cabal case

Good evening (GMT time); I have accepted the above case - requested by you - on behalf of the Mediation Cabal. I am prepared to commence mediation as soon as possible. I would like to start by enquiring if you wish for mediation to be conducted at the Mediation Cabal subpage, or on the article talk page.

Any further questions can be directed at my talkpage where I will happily answer, so long as it does not compromise my neutrality.

Kind regards,
Anthonycfc [T • C] 22:16, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Verifying the references

Salam Alaykum

Could you please help us in Talk:Hezbollah#Verifying the references ?--Sa.vakilian 03:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] sheba

it is cool now. I edited since the Golan 9at least now) is not "In Syria". It was captured in 67 by Israel but there rae those who claim it should remain part of Israel . Zeq 13:36, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shamir1

Good morning (GMT time); I've posted an update at my talk page which I think will be of some interest to you.

Regards,
Anthonycfc [T • C] 03:14, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Smskk

Take a look at that user's page. Notice any similarities to yours? Looking through the history reinforces this thought.

I'm a little concerned about this (I think it's trolling), especially because that user vandalized Walid Jumblatt. --N Shar 03:11, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lebanon debate

Hey George, I just wanted to apologize for not contributing to your debate at the Lebanon article. I am just too tired. I want to let you know that you have my full support in any decision you make there. Thanks. —LestatdeLioncourt 14:22, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Done

I have semi-protected your page. Cheers, ~ Arjun 14:37, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shebba farms

Sorry for not being around. the current "between Lebanon and the Golan Heights" is reasonable to me. thanks. Amoruso 00:46, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] We need your help

Hi, How are you?

Please come and help us to finish verification of Hezbollah references.talk:Hezbollah#Verifying the references--Sa.vakilian 16:16, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I think we can co-work on the lead and intro of Hezbollah. I think you're more NPOV than me in this case, although I try not to be affected by my tendency toward Hezbollah.
I've removed all of the references which don't exist anymore. I put {{check}} after the case which I found too biased. I want to know your idea in this case. Maybe some of the references are irrelevant. --Sa.vakilian 10:27, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Um... what do you think?

Hello GS: I want to ask about you Lcnj. He is behaving very bizarrely with me lately. I don't know him in person although now he knows my name, my old address in Lebanon and my old cell phone number (the new owner told me he called and threatened--we keep in touch in order to see if I still get any phone calls from friends who don't know that I left Lebanon) Anyway, I thought you should know him more because you worked with him on Lebanon related articles. Is he always like this (ownership issues, "winner gets to right history" approach, and rude to new comers)... or is just that my initial (J) just excites him so much that it brings out his bitter side? :-) Please erase this comment from here when you read it and answer me by emailing me on my talk page. Kindly advise on how I should deal with such a type. Thanks George! --Jixavius @ 22:44, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Jixavius: WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?????? - Enough LIES, CONDESENDING REMARKS (my initial (J) just excites him so much that it brings out his bitter side? :-) ), FALSE accusations and personal attacks... You are repeatedly violating Personal attack. This is your LAST WARNING to cease and desist. Worldedixor 22:55, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
See what i mean? :s --Jixavius @ 09:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm going out of town for the weekend. Hopefully the two of you can work out your differences. I'll try to catch up when I get back. — George Saliba [talk] 00:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion

Salam. Do you have a template for political parties of Lebanon, which shows their political and religious tendencies.--Sa.vakilian 03:47, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't, but it's not a bad idea (if one doesn't exist). I may look into creating one when I get back from vacation this weekend. — George Saliba [talk] 00:26, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jihad

Hello George ;-) Can I please have your help and support in the vote on the article about Jihad? Thanks GS! --Jixavius @ 01:21, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lebanon map

Loved the new map you added :)... I just have a couple of suggestions: 1) Crop out everything beyond the Lebanese border, so you just have Lebanon by itself. 2) Give the Lebanese border some shading (black fading out to white, against the white background). I think this way the map would look even better. Sorry for dumping all the work on you :), but I've been incredibly busy lately. Toodles. —LestatdeLioncourt 19:30, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] i would recommend the word"hello" at the begining

hello,

what changes that i have made on Lebanon page?!!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.150.8.67 (talk) 10:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Talk:2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict#Mediation_Location

You are agreed the above dispute is resolved? anthonycfc [talk] 00:25, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Award

An Award
Thanks for your attempts to keep articles NPOV.--Sa.vakilian 16:39, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] And another

The Original Barnstar
For your civility in the Mediation Cabal case, WP:MEDCABAL/Israel-Lebanon conflict, and for helping to solve an important dispute efficiently and sucessfully - and making my Mediation easier :) - I, Anthony, award George.Saliba the Original Barnstar. Well done!
Kind regards,
anthonycfc [talk]
Awarded: 17:36, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Israel-Lebanon conflict

Nice work on the separate casualties section. Much better than the old way we had it. Great idea. Iorek85 01:15, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Also a good idea, but I think it would be easier just to rename the 'attacks on civilians' section to 'war crimes allegations'. The problem being the contentious use of the word 'war crimes', and the various debates around what constitutes a war crime. (Nothing, if you accept all the legalese and defences by both sides...). I wouldn't add it as a new section, mainly because I'm worried about the length of the article. Perhaps just 'controversy'? Iorek85 02:45, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kaftoun

Hi, Thank you for editing the Kaftoun page. Regards, faresjm —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.36.32.45 (talk) 12:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] You had it coming

The Template Barnstar
For your wonderful work on Template:Lebanon_Labelled_Map. Blew me away! —LestatdeLioncourt 14:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nomination as a good article

Salam. I think Hezbollah has reached to good article criteria and I want to nominate it. Please write your idea in talk:Hezbollah#Good article nomination--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 06:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Bot tagging

Hi Reedy. Your bot tagged Beirut as part of WikiProject Israel. Beirut is, of course, the captial of Lebanon, not Israel, so I assume this was just a mistagging. — George Saliba [talk] 20:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I am just automatically tagging all pages in categories/subcategories of Israel. So there may be a few that are in-appropriate. If this is the case, feel free to remove them. So yeah, its a mis-tagging (as the bot is just doing it manually), sorry for the inconvience. Thanks, Reedy Boy 20:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Anthony cfc#Question about WP:RFCU

Good evening (GMT time); hope you're well! I've replied to your post regarding WP:RFCU; a link to the post is available in this comment's headline.

Kind regards,
anthony[cfc] 17:58, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Walid Jumblatt

Please stop editing the Walid Jumblatt article as it is considered vandalism, if you continue to do so. Thank you —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Smskk (talk • contribs) 01:42, February 9, 2007.

[edit] Walid Jumblat

Hello, this is Walid Jumblatt's cousin. I am editing his page based on factual information. He is actually Israeli. You do not know what you are talking about. Now stop "fixing" his page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 136.159.112.152 (talk) 21:20, February 9, 2007

[edit] Photos from Almanar

Salam. We've used 2 photos from Almanar in Hezbollah article comprising Image:Raad-image1.jpg and Image:Nasrallah on al-Manar television.jpg. These may cause some problems during GA reviewing. Can you please add "Fair use rationale for Hezbollah" to them like Image:Gladiator ver1.jpg, Image:Bbconescotlandidentnew.jpg or Image:Foxnewsalert.png.--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 02:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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