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[edit] Welcome

Hello Orionist! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing!  Netsnipe  ►  05:36, 6 November 2006 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Useful templates • Categories • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Tools • User scripts

[edit] Rif Dimashq

Hi. Alright fine, there's no need to rush things, we can take our time. I, too, am a little busy this week. I created this page for our work. It is in my watchlist, for now let's collect some references, I will try to look for references and sources and if you're free do the same. Whenever enough is available and the time is right, we can allot the parts to work on. Thanks again. You know where to find me if you need anything. All the best my friend. :) ↔ ANAS - Talk 12:47, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Orionist. Thank you for the additions, especially the flickr site, I didn't know about the CC licensed images search, quite useful. I will continue to look for more sources. If you haven't already, you can add the page and its talk to your watchlist. Have a great day! ↔ ANAS - Talk 13:56, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Sultan Al-Atrash

Bonjour :) Merci pour ton commentaire, j'ai mis ton article en liste de suivi. Puisque tu es en train de rédiger un article sur la révolution syrienne, n'hésite pas à prendre des infos sur cette page, fr:Révolution syrienne (l'article n'est pas encore fini). Je prépare aussi un article sur le mandat français en Syrie en page utilisateur, ça peut peut-être t'intéresser fr:Utilisateur:Shaolin128/Mandat français en Syrie. --Shaolin128 18:43, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Good job, but..

Very useful Orionist. Cheers on the good job. But, it seems it's a bit of an intricate issue. According to Wikipedia policy, if an image is in the public domain in a country, but not in the United States, it can't be used (and vice versa). So even if an image is in the public domain in Syria, it should abide with the law in the United States, as explained here and in the first line here. Too bad though, Syrian law was much more, uh, undemanding; damn! :D

However, if Syria has not signed a copyright treaty with the United States, it should be OK to use these images as images in the public domain. But, obviously, this is not so; according to this, Syria does have a treaty with the United States. "50 years after the author's death", which if I may add, is not only hard to confirm, but it's quite difficult to find such images.

About the rest of the country laws and that template, well, pretty much the same case. Food for thought, what do you think? ← ANAS ^Talk? 21:14, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Syria

For now, you can add {{User WP Syria}} to your user page to add a userbox and yourself to the category of participants. I've already spent almost ten hours creating and designing WikiProject Syria. I will report back when I'm done from designing the principal elements of WP:SY. Regards, Anas ^talk? 16:42, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome back!

Hey, Orionist. It's good to see you're back in action. Welcome back! Concerning certain articles of Syrian cities, if these have been classified as cities then they are cities, officially (albeit being too small to logically be ones). This information is from the CBSSYR (Central Bureau of Statistics of Syria) and other governorate official websites. Although they are missing a few, you can find these cities in list of cities in Syria. Looking forward to your contributions. —Anas ^talk? 12:51, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I guess you're right there. In CBSSYR, governorate administrative divisions include either villages (قريات) or cities (مدن). I agree with your proposal; "X is a small city" it is. You may modify any of these articles as you see fit. See you around! —Anas ^talk? 14:17, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguating UAE emirates and capitals

At several of the talk pages for the individual Emirates of the UAE, queries or proposals have been put forth for having separate articles for the emirates and their eponymous capitals (e.g. here and here. As of now, two of the emirates have been disambiguated from their capitals: Abu Dhabi (emirate) / Abu Dhabi and Ajmān / Ajmān (city). If you are interested in discussing a comprehensive approach to the issue, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Western Asia#Disambiguating UAE emirates and capitals. — AjaxSmack 19:06, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Dubai

I noticed that you have contributed to several articles about Dubai. If you are interested, a WikiProject Dubai is currently being proposed here. Feel free to add your name if you would like to participate. Thank you. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 21:57, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

A temporary page has been created at User:Raime/WikiProject Dubai. You can go directly there to add your name, if you would like to be a member. Also, feel free to expand and improve the page. Thank you. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 06:37, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Welcome!

Welcome to WikiProject Dubai, a collaborative effort which aims to create, expand, and maintain articles that relate to the emirate of Dubai. Please feel free to contact any project member if you have any questions. Thanks for joining!

-- Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 02:51, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

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