User:Toddy1/Archive 1

hi. When I saw your message to me, I was confused. Then I checked what you were talking about in that article. I can't believe it. That was TOTALLY accidental. OMG. It's incredible. My apologies. I only wanted to do a MODEST edit and modification of one sentence. I can't believe that I accidentally removed all that stuff! I looked at the edit differences, in your restore edit. I'm not sure what happened the other night. I guarantee you that that was 1000% un-intentional. My guess is that I accidentally hightlighted all that stuff by mistake, and it got removed inadvertently, not sure. Sorry about that. That was not deliberate. But I will restore the minor edit that I tried to do the other night. But don't worry, that massive weird accidental thing will never happen again. It never has before. Just one of those things. Sorry...thanks. Gabby Merger (talk) 16:47, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I once accidentally blanked some guy's user page by accident. It is easily done.--Toddy1 (talk) 16:49, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Wikipedian,

I am Marina. I am writing to you in order to clarify my fears. One of the users have been reverting my edits on Western Europe, as well as other European-related issues. I noticed, that his or her page is full of talk page entries related just to that. Would you mind to stay in touch with me? I read about vandalism on Wikipedia and I fear this is one of these cases... I hope, of course that I am wrong but... the evidence seems to suggest otherwise. By evidence I mean Arcilla's talk page as well as entry, and the fact that rather than move a critical comment from user page to a talk page, it was simply reverted. --Martina Moreau (talk) 22:32, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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I had provided the literary source for this which was Al-Tabari's 9th Century epic biography of Muawiyah I. Technically, Muawiyah was the 2nd Caliph. Uthman bin al-Affan was ALSO of the Umayyad clan and a close kinsman of Abu Sufyan (Muawiyah's biological father). Even though, the concept of the Rashidun Khulafa (Counselor or Rightly Guided Successors) was instituted by the Abbasid caliphs Harun al-Rashid and his son Mamun al-Rashid. The Abbasids labelled the first four standard Islamic caliphs as Rashidun (Counselors or Rightly Guided). Uthman falls under this category as well, but technically he was the very first Caliph of Islam of the House of Umayyah. Muawiyah was the one who actually established the Umayyad Dynasty, which was a HEREDITARY dynasty of Caliphs which were no longer ELECTED by the Islamic Shura (Council). Uthman was appointed as successor (caliph) by Umar but this appointment was not based upon genealogical inheritance. So from that perspective, Muawiyah was the one who ESTABLISHED the Umayyad Dynasty as a hereditary dynasty, to keep it within the House of Umayyah. Similar to Abu Al-Abbas, who founded the Abbasid Caliphate, but it was his brother and immediate successor Al-Mansur who was the one who ESTABLISHED the Abbasid Dynasty. It was Al-Mansur who founded the Abbasid capital city of Baghdad. When I stated that Muawiyah was technically the second Umayyad caliph, that is a fact, just as the following statement that he was the one who really ESTABLISHED the Umayyad Dynasty. Maybe it should be re-phrased as that Muawiyah was technically the 2nd Umayyad Caliph, but the one who really established the Umayyad Dynasty. You see, Muawiyah violated the term and condition of his being handed over the Caliphate by Hasan ibn Ali, which was that he cannot appoint his offspring as Caliph on his own accord, without the approval of the Islamic Shura (Council). Just before Muawiyah passed away, during the days his health was deteriorating, Muawiyah issued his wasihat (will) that his son Yazid become Caliph with or without the approval of the Islamic Shura (Council). It was this violation of policy, which caused the Civil War when Yazid took the seat of Caliph (further aggravated by Yazid's un-Islamic, hedonistic lifestyle). Yazid's mother was an Arab Christian who encouraged him to adopt many customs that were Christian (among of which was drinking wine). One of Yazid's best childhood friends was a Syrian Christian named John of Damascus (Yuhannah al-Dimashqi). Flagrantedelicto (talk) 13:30, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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забыть его, мне понравилась ваша новая править на этой странице. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DJ-Joker16 (talk • contribs) 19:28, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you look at User:Toddy1 you will see that I used tables to improve the layout. Why not experiment with tables on User:DJ-Joker16?--Toddy1 (talk) 20:21, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for changing the page on Porta Nigra. I understand how to do that now. and also, I am going to New Trier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DJ-Joker16 (talk • contribs) 23:32, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I give you my american treat. Thanks for being very supportive to me. You are a truly unique wikipedia member. I congratulate you. Bravo! Bravo! Haberneroboy16 (talk) 23:36, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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