User talk:Maha Odeh

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Contents 1 Welcome 2 Wikiproject Iraq 3 Birthplace of Imam Ahmad 3.1 Ahmad ibn Hanbal 4 WP:NPA 5 Arab Wiki project 6 Arab article 7 The newest WikiProject 8 Announcement 9 Please use edit summaries 10 double {{OR}} over at Mihrab 11 Egyptian Arabic 12 Attempts to reduce the Arabic language status 13 So we speak 22 languages? 14 Hi=) 15 Tagging 16 List of Arabic Names (Old Version) 17 Muslim Feminist? 18 Souk references 19 post a hot picture of urself 20 School leaving age

[edit] Welcome

Hello, Maha Odeh, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Wikiproject Iraq

Welcome to wikipedia. I saw your grerat edits to Mansour District. Thanks! If you are interested in getting involved in Wikipedia:WikiProject Iraq that might be a good fit for you. Also, I could use some help cleaning upList_of_neighborhoods_and_districts_in_Baghdad. Peace, MPS 14:02, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Birthplace of Imam Ahmad

Salam 'alaikum sister, I was wondering if we could get some citation for the birthplace of Imam Ahmad. I have some biographies of him but they are not with me right now so I am not sure exactly where he was born. MezzoMezzo 15:05, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ahmad ibn Hanbal

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. --Vonones 06:05, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. --Vonones 06:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:NPA

Regarding the last paragraph of this comment [1], please be respectful and mind theWP:NPA policy, comment on the content of the articles, not the other editors. --Mardavich 06:13, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Some sources say that his mother became pregnant in Merv, but gave birth in Baghdad. There are also a few sources that say he was of "Arab background", while other sources call him of "Persian background". For the sake of NPOV, and in order to compromise, we could report both versions in a neutral manner, I'll re-write the section tomorrow.--Mardavich 06:27, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Arab Wiki project

Are you interested ... Sign up then! [2] --Aziz1005 03:32, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Arab article

As I did read this article, it contains a lot of unusual information, propagandistic views and weasel words in the article Arab. I therefore would like to get a group with me who are able to rewrite this article in a best way to get best results. Anyone who want to join our team add your name below in the Arab Talk page. Please note that after the team has gathered, we will place "under-progress" tag. Irqirq 14:50, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Maha. You can just add your name and country of origin only if you wish. There are some people who oppose the forming of the team, We need as much people as possible to make any major changes thanks for your concern about the major problem we deal with in the Arab article Irqirq 07:24, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The newest WikiProject

[edit] Please use edit summaries

Hello. Please be courteous to other editors and use edit summaries when updating articles. The Mathbot tool shows your usage of edit summaries to be extremely low:

Edit summary usage for Maha Odeh: 10% for major edits and 40% for minor edits. Based on the last 116 major and 5 minor edits in the article namespace.

Using edit summaries helps other editors quickly understand your edits, which is especially useful when you make changes to articles that are on others' watchlists. Thanks and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 17:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] double {{OR}} over at Mihrab

Your comments on Talk:Mihrab suggest that you have the expertise to address the OR issues noted on the talk page. Even if not, your input would certainly be useful. Thanks. -- Fullstop 23:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Maha for your the work you put into digging up that material. I have incorporated your material into a rewrite of what was evidently mostly made up by someone. It would however be great if you could insert <ref></ref> citations at the appropriate points in the article. -- Fullstop 17:58, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Egyptian Arabic

Egyptian Arabic (Maṣrī مصري) is an Arabic dialect.

• The only language to branch out of Arabic is Maltese. Can you please help me organize these articles?.

Arabic dialect has to be clearly added in the infobox an openning sentence so it dont get confused as a language!--Skatewalk 03:07, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Attempts to reduce the Arabic language status

A user known for his/her Anti-Arab agenda made it his/her mission to claim that all Arabic dialects are independent languages, starting with Egyptian Arabic dialect. Egyptian Arabic (Maṣrī مصري) is an Arabic dialect. has to be clearly emphasized in the Egyptian Arabic article

• The only language to branch out of Arabic is Maltese. Can you please help me organize these articles?.

Arabic dialect has to be clearly added in the infobox an openning sentence so it dont get confused as a language!--Skatewalk 20:35, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] So we speak 22 languages?

Can you please help Zerida (and her sock-puppets) understand that Egyptian Arabic is a dialect, I think she is already taking it personal! (Egyptian Arabic)I mean once they declare every dialect a Language I will have a beautiful resume with 22 languages on it, but as of now unfortunately the constituition of Egypt and every Arab nation only recognizes one Arabic language as the only Arabic language!--Skatewalk 18:05, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi=)

Hello Maha, I see you are an Iraqi :) , could you please help edit this article [3]? and [4]?, It seems it really a alot of work, thanks in advance. Nick10000 07:30, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Well actually its not my WIki. Some groups are trying make a complete ethnic group wiki. Well don't worry, everything is in a positive way, nothing racism. Its goal is to just make different ethnic groups to know each other better. I hope this help. Thanks Nick10000 08:02, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging

About this [5] - Just put an article-wide one at the top if there is a problem. Also, be sure to bring up your objections at the talk page, or else the tags will soon be removed without solving whatever problem. Regards, The Behnam 14:54, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Arabic Names (Old Version)

I just noticed what had happened to the Arabic name list, and from the discussion page it looked like you were a major contributor to the old, and far better, version. Since you don't allow for contact by e-mail, I figured I'd ask through this venue: Do you happen to have any of the material you contributed to the old version of the article lying around on your hard drive? If so, I'd much appreciate it if you could send it to me via email, just follow the link to my user page, etc. And even if you don't have any of the material left, please let me know that as well.

--Dsprag 00:49, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Muslim Feminist?

How can you be both? Reading some text, I found the following...

Sura (4:11) [6] - "The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females"

Sura (2:228)[7] - "and the men are a degree above them [women]"

Sura (24:31)[8] - Women are to lower their gaze around men, so they do not look them in the eye.

Sura 2:282 [9] - A woman's testimony is worth only half that of a man's in court.

Sura (24:13) [10] - Proving rape requires 4 male witnesses "Why did they not bring four witnesses of it? But as they have not brought witnesses they are liars before Allah."

I realize I may sound vile or horribly condescending. But the more I read the more difficult it seems to be a real feminist Muslim. I only know one side of this issue, can you explain the other? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phfor (talk • contribs) 04:32, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Souk references

Could you please add your sources to the text you added to souk? --Busy Stubber (talk) 15:11, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] post a hot picture of urself

WE ALL LOVE NASTY ARAB BABES! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fff33f3 (talk • contribs) 00:35, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] School leaving age

Hi I see you're from Iraq and Palestine and can speak english. I am trying to improve the article School leaving age. There is no data for Iraq or Palestine on here. I don't suppose you could tell me the school leaving age and employment age in Iraq and Palestine, thanks. --Bsrboy 14:48, 23 March 2008 (UTC)