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[edit] Nazir Ahmad

Hey. Thanks for you concern and you're right that I should find a specific quote. The LA Times article says "Nazir Ahmad, a laborer in his 40s, feared the younger girls, aged 4, 8, and 12, would follow in their sister's footsteps, police officer Shahzad Gul said." quoting the police officer on the crime. I believe the other papers had the same implications. Does that sound good? gren グレン 20:26, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chung fu Tzi

Okay... here's the process. For the official version see WP:AFD#How_to_list_pages_for_deletion... but I'll try to summarize.

  1. Add "{{subst:afd}}" to the page.
  2. Click the link from the new template that says "this article's entry". On that page add:
    === [[ARTICLE NAME]] ===
    REASONS FOR DELETION NOMINATION. ~~~~
  3. Then go to WP:AFD#Current_discussions and fidn the day's date and add the name of the article you created in step 2 in brackets {{ }} to the page. It should be below a bunch of others that look similar. It should be of the form {{Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ARTICLE NAME}}

Hope that helps. If not read the instructions since the are more detailed. gren グレン 22:46, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I was about to answer your question but see that gren got there before me. I was wondering whether it was all nonsense - suggest you put it up for Afd using the above process. Dlyons493 Talk 00:10, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Iraqi elections

Did you vote in them? Unsigned comment by Wikizach

[edit] Welcome

Hi, I saw you're edit to Qiyamah. You might want to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam:The Muslim Guild. freestylefrappe 21:36, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chadian-Sudanese conflict

Redirects

When you click on Mohammed Nour and get the "(Redirected from Mohammed Nour)" message, click on the "Mohammed Nour" link there and edit the article. It's as simple as that.--Pharos 17:44, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Acknowledgement

Oh, ok, I was just assuming good faith and didn't want to discourage him. When he posts from the battlefield (or wherever he's corresponding) I'm sure we can put that back in. -- Natalinasmpf 01:31, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

How to create a temporary subpage

I notice that you temporarily replaced your user page with work in progress. There is a better way to do this without replacing your user page. Create a page User:KI/Temp where "Temp" is anything you like ("Temp" is just a suggestion). The only downside is that you can't delete this page without help from an administrator, but you can reuse it whenever you like. Andrew pmk | Talk 02:54, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Chad-Sudan war

Sorry... I didn't look into it when you had asked and... well, I can't move it without seeing consensus and since I'm not really involved too much I don't really know. Try to get consensus and everyone agreeing on the talk page or put it up at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Sorry I can't just move it now. gren グレン 04:31, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Could you show me where? I didn't see the consensus... but if you show me where I can move it. gren グレン 19:10, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I saw your message on my talk page and at Talk:Chad-Sudan_conflict. It generally isn't considered necessary to have a discussion before making the kind of edits Sherucij and I made to the article. Users here are encouraged to be bold in editing pages. Bold edits are especially normal in new articles that are still being polished up to encyclopedia quality. Please don't take offense if something you wrote was taken away! :-) It's a normal part of the Wikipedia process. --Cam 04:19, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

More about Chad-Sudan war

I saw your answer. I actually did a mistake by putting only the forces of the rebellion - I am myself working on the rebellion so I am focused on it -.Though, according to Wikipedia "military of Sudan", Sudan military is 60 000 men strong. According to the American Congress, Sudan is 110 000 men strong + 10 000 paramilitary, so 300 000 is still an overestimation.

Casualty figures

It was basic math ;) ....470 casualties divided by 23,000 troops yield 2%, and this may vary based depending on how certain the numbers are (and whether 20% of the Chadian army even exists). -- Natalinasmpf 03:35, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

UFDC

No problem with a move, glad to be of help. --Cam 22:32, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi, I saw your note in the Chad-Sudan confict edit -- note that vandalism has a specific meaning in the Wikipedia: the editor has to consciously want to lower the quality of the article for it to be vandalism. Other edits may be mistaken, wrongheaded or what-have-you, but if the editor is not consciously trying to mess up the page it's not vandalism. --Cam 22:02, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invertebrates in Australia

What is the history of the Invertebrates in Australia article? Did you copy it from another Wikipedia article? It is unusual for such a large well organized page to suddenly appear, not impossible, but unusual. Hu 05:09, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Weiping

At the time of the corruption allegations, Xilal was a provincial governor. --RobthTalk 23:50, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Here's a link that refers to the corruption as "official graft" 1, which would fall under the category of political corruption. According to this one Xilal's actions were taken during his time as mayor of Hong Kong, and involved protecting his friends and family.

I think we may be on different pages on how we're defining political corruption. The articles we have that I've been disambiguating between are political corruption, police corruption, corporate crime, corruption (philosophical concept), and a couple of unrelated ones. Out of those options, political corruption best covers any sort of action taken by a politician.

That said, I couldn't find the specific allegations that Weiping made, and in their absence there's no way to be sure that I'm linking to the right thing. If it goes back to just corruption, though, it'll point to a disambig page, which we try to avoid. I probably should have been more careful about changing a current events page like that, but I was hurrying up to finish all this disambiguation and didn't even notice. If you want me to change it back, I will.

Wow, I just wrote a whole lot about something really insignificant. --RobthTalk 00:10, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Monotheism article and God#Names

Hi. I noticed that you had listed some under-representation of views on your page. I should point out that Monotheism and (to a lesser extent) God pages now have some representation of the views of the Bahá'í Faith on them. -- Christian Edward Gruber 20:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

On God, the Baha'i Views are only expressed in the "Names of God" section. I'll try to add them in. W.R.T. Monotheism, I go back and forth on the question of seperating POV with sub-headings, vs. a nicely written narrative. Oh well. I think the monotheism changes are fine, regardless. Thanks -- Christian Edward Gruber 21:46, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFA-related

Thank you!
Thanks for supporting me on my Rfa, KI! I appreciate your trust. The puppy is now an Admin (final tally 58/7/2) Please let me know if there is anything I can ever do to assist you. KillerChihuahua?!? 17:39, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
My RfA

I don't have a fancy layout like other new admins, but I just want to thank you for your support at my RfA. It passed 48/3/1, so I have officially been promoted. I hope I won't let you down. If I'm not doing something properly, please tell me. Aecis Mr. Mojo risin' 21:01, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Possible sockpuppets

Thanks but no thanks. If I request another CheckUser people will hate me even more, which I don't want. — Moe ε 21:56, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Moe Epsilon's RfA

Thank you for informing me about this. That is no way for an admin to act. Next time I see myself asking the question "How can this person not already be an admin?" I'll check to see why. Keep up the good work and have a nice day! Dustimagic *\o/* (talk/contribs) *\o/* 23:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm really sorry to hear he's left wikipedia, it's wikipedia's loss. Thanks for bringing this to my attention Pete.Hurd 23:51, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
RFA Consensus

It does say on RFA the threshold for consensus here is roughly 75–80 percent support, meaning that 75-80% of voters have to support the nomination. I can't really think of any clearer way to put it. -- Francs2000 23:49, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

All the votes that say "support" are added up and compared to all the votes that say anything else be it oppose or neutral. I would point you to Wikipedia:Consensus for more information but that doesn't explain it too well. I would suggest though that that would be a better place to try and explain it than on the RfA page, where it's something that most editors would already know from other parts of Wikipedia and would just clutter the page. -- Francs2000 00:22, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Nominate [regarding my suggestion of nominating Cunyado or Jeff3000]

Can't. 1. I'm not the most popular admin of wikipedia so haveing me nominate a person is not a great way to increase their chances. 2.I'm on record as saying that I think only self noms should be allowed.Geni 02:18, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cote D'Ivoire

Hey...thanks for the message - I'll check those articles out :) I'd really appreciate if you were to add in anything you knew about the situation or any information or whatever, since I don't actually know a great deal about it. There's so little information about those parts of Africa and so we basically only know what the media tells us, the real situation is probably much more complicated. Thanks for making the disambiguation page, btw, it's great :) XYaAsehShalomX 22:46, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

No thats perfectly fine...:) - i'll try and do it right now but i cant guarantee i wont make a stuff up...im not really sure how to do redirects XYaAsehShalomX

[edit] Please help me

This vandal Anonymous Editor has blocked me for no reason! You must help now! Or else I am stranded! عزل

[edit] Jeish al mansoura

Thanks again for sorting out the structure and stuff on some of the articles I've been working on ... I appreciate it. :) Btw, are jeish al mansoura or whatever, an african organisation that spread to Iraq? because I was a bit confused as to why it was classified as an "africa-related stub"...**sigh** XYaAsehShalomX :)

No problem! :) XYaAsehShalomX 17:10, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zayd ibn Ali

A bunch of the text on Zayd ibn Ali is from al-islam.org. It's neither a neutral site nor is it a free site as far as I can tell. That's why I removed it. I can't see why it shouldn't be removed again. It might be cited and paraphrased... but not how it is now. gren グレン ? 21:01, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] State of the Union addresses-related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:George_W._Bush%27s_2006_State_of_the_Union_Address

So I guess that's a "no

[edit] A Western Sahara-related vote

===>Here Make your voice heard. Vote or die. And all that. -Justin (koavf), talk 20:28, 19 February 2006 (UTC)