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Welcome to Wikipedia, AjaxSmack! My name is Ryan, aka Acetic Acid. I noticed that you were new and haven't received any messages yet. I just wanted to see how you were doing. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it uses different formatting than other sites that use HTML and CSS. In the long run, though, you'll find that the WikiSyntax is a lot easier and faster than those other ways. Here are a few links to get you started:

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I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia. We can use all the help we can get! Have a nice day. Sincerely, Ryan 01:03, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Please do not remove factual text from articles. If the wording appears to be biased but is nonetheless factual, please instead reword it to a more neutral phrasing. More info at Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Lack_of_neutrality_as_an_excuse_to_delete and Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Rewording_a_potentially_biased_statement. Thank you. --Pascal666 04:12, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I saw a commercial on TV the other day where Donald Trump made a comment along the lines of "my hair is recognized the world over". I got curious what that meant, the article on him said nothing about his hair. Finally found on other websites that he had a comb over described with different synonyms for horrendous. I agree the sentence needs to be changed, but I would like to keep a link to comb over somewhere on Donald Trump, as that is the information I was looking for and did not find. I can't comment on the other paragraph. --Pascal666 04:27, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect. Thank you. --Pascal666 18:55, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

All sounds reasonable. In all of the cases that are a matter of naming, my main concern is that all the reasonable redirects are there and all the names are mentioned in the article. I don't really care where the article resides.

The Province of Bessarabia and Ottoman Bessarabia might as well be merged, they do seem to cover the same topic (both badly). Ottoman Bessarabia currently reads more like a dispute than an article. We might as well sort out the mess in one place rather than two. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:55, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding naming, I have a slight inclination toward Yedisan. I have usually read about this rarely-mentioned region in German (Jedisan), but in English it would be pronounced Yedisan. Edisan brings up the most Google hits, but none of them seem relevant to the region here. Olessi 17:24, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have added Names & History subheaders to the article and copyedited some of it. I tried to rephrase the mentioning of "Nogai Tartary" and "West Nogai"; please correct it if I misinterpreted your meaning. Olessi 20:17, 14 December 2005 (UTC1)

Hello LuiKhuntek! I would like to remind you to vote on moves that you have proposed, like Bugeac and Podilia. Even though you proposed the moves, that doesn't mean that administrators will automatically count you as a support vote. It is better to add your name to the support section to be sure. Have a good day! Olessi 18:31, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Huge kab like 103.138.11.13 (talk) 17:50, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am by now so tired of being assumed to be a chuavinist anti-foreign langauge Westerner every time I try to argue for less use of needlees foreign syllabaries and alphabets that I've had enough. I've removed your undue and uncivil sarcasm at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions#No hangul, please, and I'm urging you to restate your arguments in a reasoned and enlightened fashion instead of trying to engage in pure squabbling.

Peter ^Isotalo 11:02, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year! As I remember we never exchanged the data on Arabian monarchies from 'Almanach de Bruxelles' I mentioned when discussing the Aden protectorates, here they are (239kb). As it were private copies, I had made some minor changes and additional notes (even some in my native Dutch), but no changes to worry about; I'm not sure whether I also deleted some genealogical parts, unfortunately. Apparently some Word features suffer from the transfer to this medium, but that's only the presentation.

Please copy them to your PC and then IMMEDIATELY remove them from this talk page, since they may not be fit for Internet access as such. Hopefully they help you to make some more contributions in 2006.

Why are you opposing the move from Nuovo Cinema Paradiso to Nuovo cinema Paradiso? WhiteNight ^{T | @ | C} 08:59, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, sorry about that. I guess I was mistaken. --Khoikhoi 23:51, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have withdrawn this move request. I think that both Gov't and Politic pages should remain the same until the information on these pages is more developed and warrants a page split.

On a different note, you may wish to participate in this more interesting debate. - Spaceriqui 22:06, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Members ALTAF JACK STYLES (talk) 08:25, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I meant that Polesie is the well established name in English usage and inventing a new name is not appropriate for wp. I'll rephrase. --_Lysy^talk 08:42, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I just wanted to leave you a note that the rules of the vote at Talk:List of German concentration camps have slightly changed since you've voted there and it's likely that you might want to reconsider your vote. --_Lysy^talk 20:32, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds great, please proceed! My original list I believe was based upon Colin Imber's "The Ottoman Empire", but I haven't kept tabs on the article and thus I cannot answer for the current version. As long as no information is lost, I believe reorganizing the article would be a really good thing. /The Phoenix 09:54, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I greatly appreciate your courtesy, and certainly would like us to make good use of those data you mention. (As I still believe there is a point in having a single 'master list' that would for example allow readers to look up the Ottoman provinces without knowing where they are, from which links should in time be provided to appropriate historical sections for each, possibly with a mini-history in telegram style (at least aquisition, status changes such as gubernatorial style, loss, mergers) I strongly feel we'ld probably do best to provide both this geographically organized list -I would then also go further to accomodate orientation by modern states and regions- and next a few 'freezes' in time as you intend, which I for one would certainly appreciate- thus we cater for various uses: browing or oversight. As I have a long watchlist and often try to use data both in a pivotal page as our case and various other ones (such as cases of units, titles...) I suspect my work on the 'master list' (any ideas for an actual section name?) will progress slowly, so I suggest you don't wait for it to create a section for case oversights, but I think our combined efforts should result in an exciting page in due time).

As I reread your message, I realize I wrote the above (now in parenthesis) as if you just meant lists, but the word chart may well stand for something far more elaborate and structured, while I'm not sure how that would look- so I wonder if it would be possible to see a sample, I may well have to reconsider the above first reaction altogether.

As I tried to save the above, an edit conflict alerted me The Phoenix just gave his okay. Indeed, as long as no data get lost we should be able to figure it out. It seems like we're on to a good thing!

P.S. May I, be the way, remind you of my request to remove the data under number five on this page, which contain the (formerly free) Almanach de Bruxelles data we talked about while editing Aden Protectorate, after copying them if f any use? I'm realy not comfortable with keeping them openly on a Wikipedia-page Fastifex 10:38, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also highly encourage revising the info at Subdivisions. I can try to expand upon it with information from Magocsi. Olessi 18:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have expressed opposition to your proposed long names for the Ottoman provinces. I dislike long names, and ones that don't fit into running text. I detest most efforts at imposing uniformity on WP, which is inconsistent. If you must force uniformity, I would prefer (of the two choices), moving Basra Province, Ottoman Empire into Basra Province, with a dab header to the Iraqi Governorate (and so on); Basra province might be better. (And what's wrong with vilayet, which seems to have been the contemporary usage in English?) Septentrionalis 21:28, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are you going to vote on your Talk:Bergen-Belsen rename request? LuiKhuntek 15:49, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message, LuiKhuntek. I thought it was likely to go against Wikipedia policy to vote for your own Requested Move, but is this not so? (Seems odd if not!)  Best wishes, David Kernow 20:40, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if it's against policy or not...

Intriguing. I realise I've always assumed it would be. But I've just left a vote there and at least one other user (Lysy) hasn't been taken aback! David Kernow 20:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please do other wikipedians a favour and start using edit summaries. Thanks, Ghirla | talk 09:46, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I was wrong about this. I thought that Sanjak of Smederevo was an earlier province that existed there before the Austrian administration (1718-1739), and that Pashaluk of Belgrade was a new province that was formed after 1739. However, I looked at some sources, so the Pashaluk of Belgrade was in fact alternative name of the Sanjak of Smederevo, but used more often in the Serbian historiography. Also, I found that the administrative seat was moved from Smederevo to Belgrade in 1521. Can you tell me to which time period refer this part of the article (which you wrote there): "Belgrade had been the center of the region under Austrian rule but was neglected under the Ottomans and Smederevo (Semendire) was the administrative center. Nevertheless, Belgrade eventually became the seat of a pasha with the title of vizier and the Sanjak began to be referred to as the Pashaluk of Belgrade, although it was still called the Sanjak of Smederevo in official documents." Does it refer to 1521 perhaps or to some other year? As for the Eyalet of Temeşvar, I think that current shorter name is better. We do not need too long names for the articles. PANONIAN (talk) 01:25, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Could you please vote again here if you want:

• Talk:Timişoara Province, Ottoman Empire

PANONIAN (talk) 01:26, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I think you may be interested in checking this new article. I placed a {NPOV} tag there. --Ghirla | talk 13:27, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello LuiKhuntek! As you are a contributor who has frequently worked on central and eastern European topics, you might be interested in the recently-created noticeboard for articles concerning German-related topics. Feel free to participate with the project if you are interested! Olessi 01:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the heads-up on voting procedures on moving pages. This is actually my first time moving pages via administrator's aid, and I didn't know the procedure quite well. Deiaemeth 22:22, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You should vote on your proposed move at Talk:Baitou Mountain. Nominations are not always counted as a vote. LuiKhuntek 22:18, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but I didn't propose that page for moving. --Fibonacci 00:46, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that. Your tag appeared along with another at the nomination here: Wikipedia:Requested_moves#13_February_2006. Wasn't sure who owned it... LuiKhuntek 03:01, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for notifying me. I have now removed my signature from that nomination. --Fibonacci 03:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think you should have a look at the doings of some anti-Arab Christian activists who designed a totally inaccurate and propagandist Syriacs box, mentioning Maronites and Melkites as ethnically "Syriacs", thus non-Arabs, which I proposed for deletion here. There are non-Arab Christians in the region, be they Armenians or Assyrians, but these fanatics include Arabized Christians in their anti-Arab dreams. Pylambert 23:07, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I checked the translations and everything seems to be correct. About Gradiščanska, I have to admit I don't recall ever hearing about the region around Gradisca being reffered to as Gradiščanska in Slovenian, but then again I don't recall hearing it at all. However I did check the Enciklopedija Slovenije, and it is mentioned a couple of times, so I'm guessing the name is correct. edolen1 16:27, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for creating the article, I'm from a village that belonged to that county and it was on my to do list. I've expanded a little bit about culture, I hadn0t so much time so I think there are quite a few errors, anyway I plan to expand it more if I'll have some spare time--Klenje 13:13, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Saw your work on China rivers. Thanks for the clean-up. One thing you deleted that I have a question about is the little explanation of the different parts of Changjiang. Should'nt there be something to explain that Yangzte, Changjiang, and Jinsha are different eyt the same? Just my opinion.Mike 19:26, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• The river question... haven't noticed any discussion about the format. I just started addding to the majority format at the time... which was for many the entire Chinese name including he, shui, or jiang + River. Of course that doesn't make much sense. I'm cool with how you changed it. No use being redundant... again and again.Mike 13:28, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not sure whether we should go with the Chinese name with the Chinese word for river included, or with just the name and then river in English.Mike 01:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • I aggree... river name then "River". Do you think that since it's a list of rivers in China we should use the Chinese name and the international norm name too?Mike 01:55, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind lending your opinion to a content dispute that I am currently involved in on University of South Carolina. As you may know, USC has a strong rivalry with Clemson University. I feel that the athletics section of the article should discuss this rivalry, and I feel that this discussion should include a reference to the overall record between the two schools in various major sports. Other editors have disagreed, and feel that the record should not be mentioned. As it happens, Clemson leads in two of the discussed sports and USC leads in the third. I would appreciate it if you would consider lending your opinion on this issue on Talk:University of South Carolina. Thanks! Ëvilphoenix ^Burn! 00:41, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the clarification! -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu_Joseph |TALK} 05:08, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Ajax, I wanted to let you know that I have nominated Arlington County, Virginia as a candidate for US Collaboration of the Week. The article is in need of much help and with a little group effort, it could be brought to Featured Article status! I brought this to your attention as I have seen you have contributed to the article in the recent past. Please cast your vote with your signature at the US Collaboration of the Week page under Arlington County, Virginia. --Caponer 01:56, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, we're up and running at Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia Highways. --MPD01605 01:29, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is a move request under discussion at Talk:House of Karadjordjević Henq 09:42, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Ajax. Ive noticed by your edits to the Gibraltar page that you can transliterate arabic using the proper letters (with the dots under the T ect...)When you have the time, could you have a look at the article Arabic influence on the Spanish language and maybe give me a hand with the transliteration? Thanks alot.

Guzman.

Thanks alot for the list Ajax!

Thank you for notifying me about the voting. Adam78 19:08, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you AjaxSmack for informing me about the Names of European cities in different languages deletion proposal.--Pjetër Bogdani III 13:10, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please see my question at Talk:Budjak#Cyrillic? Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 18:39, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 02:32, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi -- I rerequested to move of "State Great Khural" to "State Great Hural" that you opposed -- just thought I should let you know in case you want to vote again. Joriki 10:34, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country)#Requested_Move_-_July_2006. Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. --Vengeful Cynic 04:19, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

move request Talk:John II Casimir of Poland

AjaxSmack, your participation is welcome in the Wikipedia:State route naming conventions poll. Please give your input as to the process by 23:59 UTC on August 8.

Regards, Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 22:58, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What is this [1], Ajax? "Currently"? Were you not careful when you were writing this into the article, or you have had bad intentions?
I hope you weren't careful enough. Kubura 23:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure 箍 = 塊 in Taiwanese? I think 箍 means something else. [2] --Chochopk 05:23, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Per Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style, currency unit should use local form, e.g. Chinese wen, not Chinese cash. If you have any concern, please discuss at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numismatics. --Chochopk 07:52, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your point. But this is rather an old topic. I think the style guide implies transliterating into Latin alphabets if the local language is not. If you still have concern, please go to the numismatic discuss page. --Chochopk 08:20, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello :) I noticed that in this edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khwarezm&diff=32488817&oldid=32341386 you changed Kuali to Guali. Could you put in the authentic original Chinese characters for this transliteration and a source on the same article please? Many thanks.

You are a god!

I did what I could. I turned it into one box, instead of five small boxes. Here's what you need to do though: find a way to make a separation (such as a blank space or black line) between the various 'end' and 'beginning' sections, so that it doesn't look so overwhelming. The shields need to be changed, too, but I can work on this if you'll take care of cleaning up the article in general. --MPD01605 (T / C) 06:42, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for creating the article! I'll try to add some info from the German wiki in the future. Olessi 05:18, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You have my answer here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Križevci_(former_county) The move of the names was discussed and the reasons are explained there. PANONIAN (talk) 18:27, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In Arabic, "jama'" means "mosque" or "the place where people gather". It most likely refers to the Old Central Mosque not the city itself, as older natives simply call it "the jama'" or "the mosque" (according to the Wikipedia entry). However, there's no mention for this in the link you showed me. That article mentioned some of the famous mosques in Nizwa like "the famous jama' of Nizwa" and "jama' sa'al". If you'd like me to translate that article, drop me a line. ~MK (talk) 05:00, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for spamming your talk page, but since you had contributed in the past to the WP:NC(GN) proposal, which is currently ready for a wider consultation, I thought you might want to give it another look now and, hopefully, suggest some final improvements. Thanks. --Lysy^talk 22:56, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I fully intend to see restored the minimal details you deleted on individual states. A list of Arabic names without any details makes about as much sence as a laundy list in Martian (except to those who already know). Fastifex 23:23, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just curious, but where did you find references regarding the unincorporated towns? I live in the Hampton Roads/Tidewater area (Chesapeake for the last two years), and I cannot find any references to these being unincorporated towns. All real estate deeds, maps, etc etc ad infinitum refer to the city proper (Chesapeake vice Great Bridge, Virginia Beach vice Kempsville). Locals refer to the area by community name, owing back to the days prior to city incorporation, but that is for historical reference and community pride vice any legal entity. Even the wikipedia entry for Great Bridge lists it as a community. I wanted to touch base with you first before I remove those entries.

Supersquid 23:40, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

By definition, unincorporated towns are not legal entities. None of the other towns on the list are legal entities either. You are correct that they are communities and as Wikipedia notes, a town is a "a residential community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands." It's just that the word community is extremely vague ("a group of people who interact and share certain things as a group") and the word town narrows the scope of the list to populated places that are not in the incorporated places lists at List of towns in Virginia and List of cities in Virginia. - AjaxSmack 23:58, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Ehhh that seems like a really slippery slope... if it isn't a city or incorporated town, then it's an unincorporated town, is what I take from that. Heh, then that list is woefully incomplete, because it leaves out places like Pungo, Blackwater, Uniontown, Back Bay, North Landing, Centerville... and these are just the places around where I live :-)

But I disagree that they're towns. They may have been (I know Pungo was) but in 1963 the entire county of Princess Anne was consolidated as the Independent City of Virginia Beach. In fact, if you read further down on the definition of town, in Virginia it states

In Virginia, a town is an incorporated municipality similar to a city (though with a smaller required minimum population), but while cities are by Virginia law independent of counties, towns are contained within a county.

By that definition, since Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Newport News, Hampton, and Portsmouth are all independent cities with no corresponding county, the communities in the list are not unincorporated and therefore shouldn't be on the list.

Supersquid 00:26, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The passage you cite above refers to incorporated towns, i.e. those on the List of towns in Virginia. You're right that the list is woefully incomplete. That's why there's a Template:Virginia-stub tag at the bottom. The solution is to add Pungo, Blackwater, Whaleyville, etc. to the list. Otherwise, by your reasoning, the entire list should be deleted because none of the places on it are incorporated. (If you're worried about the list becoming too long, note the dearth of editing activity since its creation. If it does become a problem, the line "list of important population centers" is a green light to cull.) - AjaxSmack 00:40, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

I dunno... I say that Yorktown is a perfect example to what I feel truly merits definition of an unincorporated town. Small population, no independent municipal government (ie no mayor, no city police) in a specific county (in this case, York County). Whaleyville has actually been incorporated into the Independent City of Suffolk, which does have it's own police force, it's own mayor, etc etc. Check out Census-designated place.

I'm not worried overly about the length of the list... and it's hard to determine what is considered admissible in a "list of important population centers." I figured if we went with the definition of actual Census Designated Places (aka unincorporated towns) then we keep the list accurate. Let's move this to the article's discussion page (where it should be... don't mean to clutter your user talk page lol), and maybe we can get some other user's inputs on this and make it worthy of Wikipedia.

Supersquid 01:05, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think it means Land of the English. Beled (بلد) means country or land. But I'm not so sure about the meaning of Ingris. Some people, especially in Arabia, (informally) call the English people Ingris instead of Inglis (إنجليز). But I searched this on Google and didn't find much results. ~MK (talk) 13:35, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think "de-piped pig link" was one of my better edit summaries. Ben-w 22:20, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate your advising me that Skåneland, once again, is up for renaming discusson. Somewhere in the history we've lost the last debate, but I've resurrected some of the material. Skål - Williamborg (Bill) 05:20, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm changing it to the State Route style in accordance with WP:USSH. --NE2 23:44, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The plan (if the move vote passes, as it looks like it will) is to split the 'Passing' section from Pass to become the disambig page for 'Passing'. That covers 'Overtaking'. --AliceJMarkham 23:28, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the plan changed ever so slightly. I ended up reverting the split of 'Passing' from Pass and redirecting 'Passing' to 'Pass'. A couple of us got very enthusiastic about cleaning up the rather cluttered 'Pass' page. Much tidier all round if you ask me. :) --AliceJMarkham 07:59, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Most of the those maps are not very old. They show Al-Ahsa as an Imara (principality) before the unification of Saudi Arabia. Al-Ahsa and most of the current main regions of Saudi Arabia were seperate in the past (19th and early 20th centuries). However, if you look at this older map [3], you'll notice the (yellow) region I was talking about.

"Bahrain up until 1521 comprised the bigger region of Ahsa, Qatif (both are now the eastern province of Saudi Arabia) as well as Awal (now Bahrain Islands). The region stretched from what is now Kuwait to Oman. This was Iqlim Al-Bahrain (Province of Bahrain). In 1521, the Portuguese separated Awal (now Bahrain) from the rest and since then the name of Bahrain specifically referred to today’s Bahrain." from [4].

"In early Islamic history, the name Bahrain applied loosely to the area embracing the oases of Hasa and Qatif on the eastern coast of Arabia as well as to the archipelago lying just a few miles offshore. Later the name came to be restricted to the islands." from [5] (also read more of that article and you'll find out how Al-Ahsa became a part of Saudi Arabia).

"In 287/900, the Qarmatians acquired control of Hajar, the seat of the Abbasid governor. The Abbasid caliph Mutadid (d. 289/902) sent an army of 2000 men against them, but were defeated. In 290/903, Hajar was finally subdued after a long siege laid by Abu Sa'id. He established his headquarters at al-Ahsa (or al-Lahsa), which became the capital of the Jannabid rule of the Qarmatians of Bahrain in 314/926." from [6].

See also: [7]. —MK (talk) 15:39, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I totally agree with you, but I think that using two different spellings (for Al-Ahsa/Hasa) isn't correct. However, both of them are acceptable transliterations, and both of them are used (in the past and at the moment). There's only one way to write the word in Arabic (الأحساء), but the pronunciation varies from a dialect to another. In formal Arabic, it's pronounced Al-Ahsa'. However, people there (in Al-Ahsa) call it El-Hasa. So I think it's better that Wikipedia sticks with one of them.

Al-Ahsa is the plural of Hessi (حسي), which means the rocky ground that is covered by a sandy layer, which stores rainwater. It was called Al-Ahsa because it had many of those grounds. Previously, it was called Hajr wal-Bahrain (هجر والبحرين), and then Ahsa' bani Sa'ad (أحساء بني سعد). Between 500 B.C. and 300 A.D., the principality of Al-Jarha (إمارة الجرهاء) existed on its lands. This was taken from [8].

As a side note, I'd like to tell you that I visited Al-Ahsa more than once last year. I noticed that InterContinental, which was probably the best hotel there, called their branch Al-Ahsa in English (see [9]). But still, many other sources call it Al-Hasa or whatever else. For example, Google translates it to Hassa, which is also an acceptable transliteration. If you search for it using Google, you'll find a variety of transliterations (google:الأحساء).

To sum up, I don't think that using two different spellings for this region here is an accurate thing. This happens to almost all Arabic names, even the most famous ones. The reason is that usually there's no one official/general way to write Arabic words in English. Personally, I think that Al-Ahsa is the closest spelling to the formal Arabic pronunciation, but I don't consider other spellings wrong. Are you sure of that Al-Hasa/Al-Ahsa refered to two different regions in English? Because I believe that's incorrect. —MK (talk) 13:25, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I noticed you warned Lorenzino about a new proposal of moving Lombard (lnguistics) page back to its natural title of Lombard language. Many thanks! Anyway, since this vote is still open, I kindly ask you oppose to the original move of Lombard language to Lombard (lnguistics). Sorry for not watching enough. Please, let's keep in touch. Bests, --10caart 11:19, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, would you mind checking out the Partium article to see if it's neutral now? It's gone through a lot of changes since you last edited it. Thanks, Khoikhoi 05:47, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I totally forgot to vote. Thanks for pointing it out. - TheMightyQuill 05:05, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(1) Have you noticed your talk page is a virginia stub? (2) Re any changing or shifting issues in the Indonesia project - it potentially sets a precedent for the whole WP Indonesia project - so please take this opportunity to look at the project as a whole - or place a comment on the Talk page of the project ratrher than an isloated article. Best wishes SatuSuro 11:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the comments on the two (that we have found so far) regarding the change proposals, thanks SatuSuro 12:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• You can find the districts of Kenya here: [10]
• Here are the zones of the Somali region of Ethiopia:[11]
• Here are the districts (woredas) of the Somali region of Ethiopia: [12]
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Thanks a lot for the headsup. I'll do what's necessary.Cameron Nedland 04:03, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Please join us! Chris 07:54, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello - I'm contacting you because of your involvement with using English instead of foreign terms in articles. A few are trying to "Anglicise" French terms in Wiki articles according to current guidelines but there is some resistance (eg/: "Région => Region"; "Département => Departement"). Your input would be appreciated here page. Thankyou. --Bob 16:05, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey AjaxSmack,

You moved a proposal to move because you said you opposed, yet you didn't leave a comment as to why. Mind elobarating more on the issue?

cheers JackSparrow Ninja 02:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

After five days with no discussion, this RM could use a simple endorsement. Gene Nygaard 06:14, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The page "Palatinate of the Rhine" has been moved to "Palatinate (region)". Navou ^banter / _{review me} 23:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The page "Barbarism (grammar)" has been moved to "Barbarism (linguistics)". Navou ^banter / _{review me} 23:10, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please check for redirects if you get a chance. Best regards, Navou ^banter / _{review me} 23:16, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done, but I think there are some double (and triple) redirects left that I don't have time to chase down; please fix when you get a chance. Thanks. Opabinia regalis 23:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that Markusseup, John k, you and me are in favour of changing the name into Trentino-Alto Adige. Do we need to start another survey? --Checco 09:49, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... I don't think it's a bug. Maybe, there was an interwiki conflict? Now, I disabled interwiki removal function in bot. Thans for reporting a bug. - VasilievVV 06:11, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On 10 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mongolian barbecue, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

I love Mongolian barbecue and I had no idea about this, but it totally makes sense because I remember it being really popular in Taiwan among my cousins. --howcheng {chat} 18:51, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AjaxSmack, very unfortunately, Mongolian Barbecue was not invented in Taiwan and it's a Japanese cuisine, "Jingisukan" (transliteration of Genghis Khan) invented around 1920s This name appears in a cookbook by 1926 with a first specialty restaurant by 1936. There is already the article on this in Japanese wikipedia [16] and thus I'm going to propose that either this article be moved to Jingisukan or completely rewritten from scratch. Also, the claim that Mongolian soldiers used their shield to cook meat is a fanciful tale invented after dish became popular. Shields that Mongolian troops had used were usually wood and covered with animal skins and thus impossible. --Revth 05:52, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, could you participate in a new poll for Dokdo? The candidates include Liancourt Rocks, Takeshima, and the new Takeshima/Dokdo variations suggested by user:Macgruder. I'm informing you because you voted on the last poll. Thanks. (Wikimachine 18:56, 21 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Hi AjaxSmack. There is ongoing discussion at the ANI where your name appeared. It is due to your restoration of a merge tag here. As per the ANI discussion, could you please try to leave a comment at the article page whenever you tag or restore {merge}. Thanks on advance. -- FayssalF - <