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Happy New Year! :D --B20180 (talk) 09:08, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

...for your contribution to the article Fido (dog)! Chrisrus (talk) 05:33, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure, though the magic of the AutoWiki Browser did the heavy lifting! -- Khazar (talk) 05:34, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

... for and the improvements to several articles I care about, so pleased to see your name on my watchlist again, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:52, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good to see you, too! =) Khazar (talk) 07:57, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Please don't change the format of the date pages as you have done here without first discussing the change to consensus at WT:DAYS. The date articles all have a consistent format and any change should be discussed. Making a random change to one article creates a lot of work for other editors in reverting the change. If you have any questions, please ask. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 01:41, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mufka, sorry to have caused any hassle; I didn't mean to reformat the page, and actually can't see any significant difference between the previous page and my revision, save the corrected typo. For my future reference, can you be more specific about what the error was here? Your later edit doesn't seem to have had anything to do with mine, which in any case could have been undone with the click of a button through the history menu, no? Cheers, -- Khazar (talk) 02:15, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You made an amazing amount of changes to only have a 1 char size diff. Just thought it was funny :) Gaijin42 (talk) 19:24, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed! Thanks for pointing that one out to me. -- Khazar (talk) 19:28, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Thanks for the cleanup of Connor (Angel). I know fictional articles might not be your area of interest nor are you a copyeditor per say, but since you took time to did a [typo fix] of the article, I was wondering if you could maybe do a minor copyedit of the article for prose too? I'm trying to do so myself but since I've worked on the article too closely, its difficult to pinpoints flaws now and it needs a fresh pairs of eyes. I would understand if you decline tho', just thought I'd ask. September88 (talk) 20:14, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure! But I'll have to pass on the copyediting--normally that's something I'd be glad to do, but that's actually on my list of shows to watch... I'd hate to spoil it beyond the individual sentences I looked at already. =) -- Khazar (talk) 20:19, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Aw, but good to know that you plan on watching the show! September88 (talk) 20:22, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I saw Min Ko Naing's photo is tagged for its replaceability. Indeed, there are some free images here. Perhaps, a screenshot from this photo may be appropriate? SWH ^talk 04:22, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Soewinhan, you're terrific. I looked at that very photo set before but must have clicked on only the ones without MKN himself--my fault for not being more thorough. I'll try to crop that one and upload it later tonight--right now I'm up into my elbows in sources on Doan Viet Hoat. Cheers! -- Khazar (talk) 04:26, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, Khazar! Just wanted to let you know that I've nominated your recent article, UAE Five, for DYK. Cheers! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 06:34, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Wilhelmina. I actually used to be quite active on DYK, but backed off when the climate got rather heated for a while. I've no objection to you nominating it, though, and I'll be proud to see it on the front page if it makes it. Cheers, Khazar (talk) 06:49, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Great! I've also nominated Freedom Neruda, BTW. Let's hope they both get in!!! :P Wilhelmina Will (talk) 03:12, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

	Rare and enlightening
	Thank you for raising awareness for Human Rights and those who suffer fighting for them, people who deserve attention and serve as models! On the day when you achieved your goal, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:18, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much, Gerda, for noticing my minor milestone! -- Khazar (talk) 13:40, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Khazar,

Thanks for debugging "my" article. As you may have noted, English is not my first language and it is impossible for me to get an idea of my English proficiency. I read the article and perfectly understand all of it, but I guess that (more than) sometimes I don't meet the Wikipedia's lowest standards. On the other hand, I choose the theme of the article because it is very simple: ships sailed bound for, sunk or were captured. In order to improve my English, I would like to ask you some questions about form of the article:

• is it legible?, can you understand the text overall? is it easy to understand?
• did you find repeated or striking grammatical errors in the text?
• can you guess which is my first language from the text (and not from the theme)?, sounds it like Spanglish?
• do the article observes the rules of Wikipedia? neutral? complete? referenced?, at least, does it seem to observe the rules?
• would you say that the vocabulary is appropiated for the theme?

I would appreciate your answers in your talk page. Thanks in advance, --Best regards, Keysanger (what?) 12:52, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Post Script: Your link To leave me a message click here leads to Anna's talk page.

Ha! You know, I've had that up for more than a year without anyone pointing that out to me... thanks. As for the article, I'd be happy to help, but you'll need to give me a link to the individual article; I often edit several hundred articles a week with the Automated Wiki Browser, including a lot of naval ones. -- Khazar (talk) 13:46, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Khazar, I think you should nominate the Communist Labour Party (Syria) and the Tuhama Mahmoud Ma’rouf to DYK (maybe in the same hook). They more than fulfill the criteria. Yazan (talk) 17:34, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the thought, but ever since getting caught up in some DYK drama last summer, I've been trying to steer clear and concentrate on pure content creation. If you wanted to nominate them, of course, I'd have no objections; you've written as much of the CLP article at this point as I have, I think, so feel free to list yourself as co-creator. Up to you, but in either case, I've been glad to bump into you while working on these! Cheers, Khazar (talk) 19:37, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was off-wiki when the whole bruhaha broke out last summer, and I only read about it last month. It's a shame really, DYK used to be a friendly place, now all I see on the talkpage are people fishing for mistakes to prove a point. At any rate, my main concern has been/is promoting Syria-related articles to main page, because it's a terribly under-covered subject.

The Labour party has been on my to-do list for many years now, so I'm extremely grateful for your creating it. It evokes some terrible memories of the 80s and 90s, but at least it was a time when the left was still a force to be reckoned with in Syria, and they still had the moral clarity to say "no" to an oppressor's face. One member of the CLP was Yasser Makhlouf, he is Assad Sr.'s nephew and Bashar's cousin. He spent twenty years in jail, and refused offers to release him unless all other members were also freed.

Anyway, it's been a pleasure bumping into yourself as well. If you need any help with Arabic sources in the future, drop me a message. Cheers! Yazan (talk) 03:23, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Yazan--I'll be sure to take you up on that! Khazar (talk) 12:06, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Try DYK now, it's a friendly place again, and - more important - a place to make facts known. I personally collect the ones related Germany, and today see a hymn writer, Bach's cantata on his hymn and the friend to whose memory I dedicated it, again: try it, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:00, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Yay, you're back! Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:53, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's good to hear, Gerda--I'll give a shot again next time I've got an article and maybe just stay clear of T:TDYK. And Crisco, good to see you too! Khazar (talk) 12:06, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio text and images, removing wikilinks, changing 'mean sea level' to 'main sea level', really a large number of problematic edits which all need examining. I may have to take this to ANI. Dougweller (talk) 17:55, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your call... I honestly haven't been following his actions since my initial greet/warn. From a glance at his user talk, it does look problematic. -- Khazar (talk) 19:39, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks. Dougweller (talk) 06:06, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]