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		All Around Amazing Barnstar
		For being the sickest chick on the block ;) Much love and respect sis, Nableezy 17:43, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Shukran akhoui ... much love and respect right back at you. Tiamut^talk 18:15, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Tiamut. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Contributor copyright investigations concerning your contributions in relation to Wikipedia's copyrights policy. The listing can be found here. For some suggestions on responding, please see Responding to a CCI case. Thank you. GabrielF (talk) 08:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Re your query at CCI, the article is still there, the termplate just uses a CSS class to make it non-visible. Just view the history, and click on the diff link before the template was added to view the article.

FWIW, I don't think you've got much to worry about. I'd recommend leaving it to the copyright experts for now, and staying cool (but I know you'll do that anyway!). Regards,

--NSH001 (talk) 17:06, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation NSH001. There are places in the articles listed where I could have one a better job summarizing and synthesizing information from the available sources. Making them non-visible seems a little harsh, but I trust that things will be worked out with more eyes. Thanks for the reassurance. Its a little embarassing, that's all. I pride myself on making valuable contribs, not half ass ones, but Its possible I can when I'm short of time and running on empty. Oh well ... I'll just have go atone by making them much better. Tiamut^talk 17:20, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll make a first run at Defence (Emergency) Regulations, I have some good sources. Incidentally I discovered that I have access to an almost complete set of the Palestine Gazette (where the British administration published all laws and other official stuff). These 1945 regulations go on for about 40 pages! They could have saved a lot of paper by summarizing it as "The High Commission can do whatever the *^$!@ he wants.", which would have been more or less the same. Zero^talk 00:58, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In democracies, many pages are required for that kind of license; the essence of the legislation is hidden behind reams of text that mot people won't bother to read (see the PATRIOT act for example). Anyway, thanks for your changes there. I'm going to have my hands full the next few days and won't be around much, so I appreciate your help in resolving that one. Would have been nice if GabrielF chose to spend his time fixing the articles, rather than filing a report. No matter though, as more eyes means the possibility for more editors to improve what was there. Happy editing. Tiamut^talk 14:58, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Nissan Rilov is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Hi Tiamut,

I don't have any problem with you personally - I have disagreed with you on several occasions, but I've respected the style in which you argue for your viewpoint. I felt that the compromises reached in several cases (Faris Odeh being one) were quite good. I believe the explanation that you offered on the CCI page that you are closely following sources in order to avoid controversy. I understand the difficulty, but you do still have to follow the standard practices. The CCI process is not designed to be punitive. I AfD'd Nissan Rilov as part of the process of fixing these issues - since there appears to be only one source available, which is a personal tribute to a friend, I'm not sure how to rewrite the article. I don't want to make this a personal dispute. If you would feel more comfortable I will abstain from working any further on this issue and leave it up to others who have experience with copyright issues. GabrielF (talk) 16:54, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please could you advise as how best to get Palestinian costumes back into the encyclopedia? Do I just go into edit and re-word anything that is close to the PCA article? It does seem exceptionally petty - particularly as someone claiming ownership of the PCA material actually edited the page after your contributions... best wishes Padres Hana (talk) 16:55, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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I have uploaded a scan of a French-language interview with Nissan Rilov as requested by User:RolandR at the resource exchange. You can find a link to the scan there. Best, GabrielF (talk) 18:46, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! Grapple X (submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's Cwmhiraeth (submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's Casliber (submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.

Congratulations to Matthewedwards (submissions), whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to 12george1 (submissions), who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Wikipedia:Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from Miyagawa (submissions) show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!

It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:29, 31 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello Tiamut. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click HERE to participate. Many thanks in advance for your comments and thoughts. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 01:42, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, I was wondering if you are free and can help me by writing this missing section. Let me know and thanks in advance. -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 05:45, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the late reply. I'm on wikibreak these days o I won't be able to be of help. Good luck and happy editing. Tiamut^talk 15:11, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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May 2012

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Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's Grapple X (submissions) remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on The X-Files, but also Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's Casliber (submissions) was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's Muboshgu (submissions) coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.

65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter: File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both Matthewedwards (submissions) and Grandiose (submissions), the latter of whom has also gone on to score with File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round, Ealdgyth (submissions) earned triple points for her good articles on William the Conqueror and the Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on Western Jackdaw, now a good article, Dana Boomer (submissions) earned triple points for her work on lettuce and work by Stone (submissions) to ready antimony for good article status earned him triple points. Jarry1250 (submissions) managed to expand Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.

An article on the WikiCup in the Wikimedia Blog, "Improving Wikipedia with friendly competition", was posted at the end of April. This may be of interest to those who are signed up to this newsletter, as well as serving as another way to draw attention to our project. Also, we would again like to thank Jarry1250 (submissions) and Stone (submissions), for continued help behind the scenes. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:23, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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hello Tiamut,

I notice your sandbox musha' page. I have been looking at British land administration in Palestine and thought you might be interested in a essay I found:

Nadan, Amos. “Colonial Misunderstanding of an Efficient Peasant Institution: Land Settlement and Mushāʿ Tenure in Mandate Palestine, 1921-47.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 46, no. 3 (January 1, 2003): 320–354.

Nadan makes a convincing argument that:

quote from pp. 320-321

There is an accepted scholarly wisdom regarding the musha' (communal land) in Mandate Palestine: that it was an archaic system, an obstacle to investment that blocked any chance of development.' This attitude was inherited from the British officials who argued that "under this system.... no one [had] any inducement to improve his land."...But this study of the musha' contradicts that wisdom. It shows that the musha' was an efficient, dynamic economic institution that facilitated investment. Consequently, there was no need for land reform. Moreover, the reform proved destructive to the economy of the fallāḥ‎īn (Arab agriculturists, of whom the vast majority were peasants, singular:fallāh) as it nullifiedt he advantages inherent in the system, and facilitated the transfer of lands from Arabs to Jews.

pp. 327

Ernest M. Dowson, who designed the land settlement programme in Palestine, admitted that the British obligation to the Jews accelerated the need for a new order in land registration.

pp.337

...It can be concluded, therefore, that there is no evidence to support the claim of inefficiency. Rather, the musha' was an efficient, though informal, institution, path-dependent but not in a negative, outdated manner.

Hope this helps.

Yours ever, Czar Brodie (talk) 13:36, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for this interesting info. I'm on a bit of a wikibreak these days. Please feel free to edit that page and move it into mainspace yourself. If its not something you get around to before I get back to editing, I'll try to do it myself. Much appreciated though. Take care, Tiamut^talk 15:10, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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We're halfway through round 3 (or the quarter finals, if you prefer) and things are running smoothly. We're seeing very high scoring; as of the time of writing, the top 16 all have over 90 points. This has already proved to be more competative than this time last year- in 2011, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 was the lowest qualifying score. People have also upped their game slightly from last round, which is to be expected as we approach the end of the competition. Leading Pool A is Cwmhiraeth (submissions), whose points have mostly come from a large number of did you knows on marine biology. Pool B's leader, Grapple X (submissions), is for the first time not our highest scorer at the time of newsletter publication, but his good articles on The X-Files and Millenium keep him in second place overall. Miyagawa (submissions) leads Pool C, our quietest pool, with content in a variety of areas on a variety of topics. Pool D is led by Casliber (submissions), our current overall leader. Nearly half of Casliber's points come from his triple-scored Western Jackdaw, which is now a featured article.

This round has seen an unusually high number of featured lists, with nearly one in five remaining participants claiming one, and one user, Muboshgu (submissions), claiming two. Miyagawa's featured list, 1936 Summer Olympics medal table, was even awarded double points. By comparison, good article reviews seem to be playing a smaller part, and featured topics portals remain two content-types still unutilised in this competition. Other than that, there isn't much to say! Things are coming along smoothly. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:47, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

for the barnstar! It's greatly appreciated - was helpful motivation as I was finishing the mind numbing task of organising a huge list of hundreds of names! Oncenawhile (talk) 18:53, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

User:Tiamut, these two edits at Az-Zakariyya violated WP:1RR and you need to revert one of them. Also, visitors to your Talk page should not have to have political soapboxing be the first thing they see when they wanna leave you a message. You should relocate anything like that to your User page proper.—Biosketch (talk) 19:39, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a self-RV ought to solve the first problem. As for the second issue, Biosketch's point is completely meritless and thusly can be ignored. -asad (talk) 20:03, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, a self-revert will solve the first problem. The second issue is governed by the behavioral guideline at WP:TALK:

The purpose of a Wikipedia talk page...is to provide space for editors to discuss changes to its associated article or project page. Article talk pages should not be used by editors as platforms for their personal views on a subject.

When pages in other namespaces are used for discussion and communication between users, the same norms will usually also apply.

Seems pretty clear. Asad, persuading an editor to ignore a sincere appeal left on their Talk page is neither helpful nor mature.—Biosketch (talk) 20:23, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]