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1 Sarah Shahi
2 Copyright laws in Greece
3 Wikinews
4 Wiki + UTF8
5 World War II US Forces
6 Venizelos
7 URGENT POLL
8 Alexander the Great inventor of the Cyrillic alphabet
9 al-Mahdi Army
10 Missing movement
11 Move

[edit] Sarah Shahi

Yes, she is 100% legitimate in regards to being the great-great-granddaughter of Ahmad Shah Qajar. Given her choice of careers, I think he's most likely rolling in his grave! ;) It's interesting though, how the Qajars were one of the most religiously hardline and despotic (and politically incompetent towards the end) of dynasties, and yet their modern descendants, even in Iran, are very much social 'libertines.' But that's another story. SouthernComfort 04:51, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You know what, according to this link and several others, she is the great-great-granddaughter of Fath Ali Shah. I had thought Ahmad Shah myself, but if Mirza II is her father, then this line of descent is through Ahmad Shah. But the problem is that there are quite a number of Qajar descendants living in the southwestern United States. It's further complicated by her last name which may not be her birth name or the name of her immediate family, i.e. taken in order to distance the family name from her occupation. IMHO, the Qajar aspect is not in dispute (there are so many Qajar descendants living here that if it wasn't true, they would have protested by now, and it's something well accepted), but Mirza II may not be her father. If he's married, or was married, to a Spanish woman, and if we could find that out, then that would be helpful. I'm going to ask around about this. SouthernComfort 06:32, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright laws in Greece

enjoy :D Project2501a 21:40, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

sigh* You can do whatever you want to with any pics in greece. there is, virtually, NO copyright law in greece. that means that ANY photo can be copied, even the military ones. so, go ahead, have a field trip with them :)

In fact copyright laws do exist in greece. The problem is that for example it is virtually impossible to determine the licencing scheme of eg images found on greek webpages, it is never mentioned unless it is about photos shot recently or trademarks. The photos posted in the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 for which you contacted me are photos I found after googling and where I got them from there was no mentioning on their copyright status. (In fact the pistures come from extreme right wing junta-supporting websites :P ) So regarding to your question wheather the "conform to Wikipedia's copyright policy?" I can only answer that I don't know :) And most probably the sources I used don't know either....

Summary: copyright issues on greek images are most usually ambiguous...

Michalis Famelis 2 July 2005 12:12 (UTC)

hence, non-functional (at best) Project2501a 2 July 2005 12:50 (UTC)

[edit] Wikinews

Zereshk would probably be the one to ask about this, as he's over there right now. You could also check IRNA [http:/www.irna.com/en] and IRIB [1]] for the regime party line. Family members with whom I have spoken with recently all state that things are pretty hectic over there right now. If you can understand Persian, Radio Farda is an excellent source [2], though I don't think they've added any recent news about this to the English section yet. I'll be calling again later tonight so I'll try to give you what details I am able to ascertain.

By the way, if you have knowledge of the subject, your input on Talk:Ethnic politics of Khuzestan would be appreciated. SouthernComfort 22:08, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki + UTF8

hey :) you might not twant to use greek in the summary field, cuz the current version of wiki is not UTF-8 friendly :) Project2501a 21:08, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

also, imho, List of Greek military bases should be a redirect to [[Category: Greek military bases]]. Easier to maintain. Project2501a 21:10, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I think i just pulled a boo-boo with Eleusis Project2501a 21:15, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] World War II US Forces

I think the place you should start is with the WWII US definitions of Theaters ETO, MTO, PTO and CBI (see also. Taking the ETO as an example you have to differenciate between SHAEF an operational command and ETOUSA which was an adminstative command (much more boring but still essential). It gets much more complicated in other theaters (particularly in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II because the CBI was not an operational theater and to quote Slim:

Stilwell, however bitterly resisted it... To watch Stilwell, when hard pressed, shift his opposition from one of the several strong-points he held by virtue of his numerous Allied, American and Chinese offices, to another was a lesson in mobile offensive-defence.

Good luck. Philip Baird Shearer 23:19, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

P.S. there are already articles on U.S. Army Forces in the Middle East (USAFIME) and Egypt-Libya Campaign Philip Baird Shearer

[edit] Venizelos

Nope, man, none whatsoever. they just have the same name. sorry it took me to long to reply. Project2501a 11:16, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] URGENT POLL

There is a poll in the talk page of Macedonian Slavs article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonian_Slavs#The_poll

Some people are lobbying for changing the article's name to Macedonian without any qualifier. As it seems, a number of these people come from the Macedonian/Macedonian Slav wikipedia project. It seemed only fair to attract the attention of people possibly from the other side of the story. I hope that this message is of interest to you, if not please accept my apologies. Dstork 02:35, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)Newcomer 05:45, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alexander the Great inventor of the Cyrillic alphabet

Hahahaha :). Where did you find that site? I am actually a Macedonian myself, but I do laugh on nationalistic stupidity from either side. --FlavrSavr 09:01, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] al-Mahdi Army

Hi, Jp. I know very little about this group, but you are correct that Jaish al-Mahdi is the proper Arabic ('jaish' is an Arabic word, after all). In news reports, I've always heard "Jaish al-Mahdi" (or al-Mahdi Army) but never "Jaish-e-Mahdi." But like I said, I know very little about this group other than what I've heard from the news. Zereshk might be able to better help you in this area. I would find it very curious if the group actually refers to themselves as "Jaish-e-Mahdi," but there is a Pakistani Islamist group called "Jaish-e-Mohammad" [3], so who knows. SouthernComfort 01:10, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)