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Recent edit to Ahmad ibn Hanbal

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you removed some content from Ahmad ibn Hanbal without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 02:16, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

December 2016

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Aṭlas (talk) 04:28, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

January 2017

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Elisha, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. – Fayenatic London 13:54, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

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Good work on Ahmad bin Hanbal

Megalodon, your changes were bold but in the end I think you've really improved that article. Biographies on Muslim religious figures are often quite threadbare and there's been a noticeable improvement.
I do have one suggestion. I noticed that the link between Ibn Hanbal and Wahhabism is briefly explored in the lead. A whole section could possible be based on further exploration of that. I'm making the suggestion as my time on Wikipedia is short these days, so I'm not sure how much I could actually help. Seriously though, you made that article worth reading. MezzoMezzo (talk) 03:41, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Dear Megalodon, I found a source when creating Ibn Abi Shaybah that may interest you. Check out the reference section; there's an English translation of Ibn al-Jawzi's Manaqib al-Imam Ahmad (there appears to be another version available as well). MezzoMezzo (talk) 04:39, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Saint infobox

Hi-- I'm happy to see the nice work you've done on multiple articles. I have concerns about your use of the saint infobox, though. The biggest one is that the terms "saint" and "venerated" (as contrasted with "honored") don't seem to reflect RSs. There's some established usage of these terms for Sufi saints, but I don't recall coming across them in academic discussion of figures like ibn Hanbal or Umar. Also, "venerated" can be used as a synonym of "honored", and I don't see evidence that it's not the sense being used in this case. This needs sourcing, particularly given the current religious controversies surrounding veneration of saints. A lesser concern is that the saint infobox seems to be mostly redundant with the Islamic scholar infobox, unlike the mostly non-overlapping saint and philosopher infoboxes one sees, say for Thomas Aquinas. Eperoton (talk) 05:15, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your thoughtful response. We can keep the discussion on your talk page. What I'm saying is that infoboxes fall under WP:V as much as the rest of the article. It sounds like you have interesting and not widely known information about "veneration proper" of these figures. It needs to be sourced, and I think it would be helpful to flesh it out in its own section. I'm not convinced that we need an infobox with largely duplicate details for this, but this is not a major concern of mine. Eperoton (talk) 15:50, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

The Islamic prophet Muhammad

Hi - would you please make sure that your references to Muhammad conform to MOS:ISLAM? Thanks. I've fixed your edit at Shem. Doug Weller talk 11:05, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Lazarus of Bethany

I'm looking for people who have an interest in this topic. My pastor, for the past two Sundays, has stated in her sermon that the raising of Lazarus was the event that finally led those who wanted Jesus crucified to desire taking action against him. I've never heard this. I need to find out where she got it from, but it's not in the Wikipedia article. If this is true, it should be.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:28, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

A proposal for collaboration

Hello,

I saw some of your contributions, some of your talk page archives, and some other discussions you made in articles talk pages, and I saw your willingness to improve many articles. However I believe that I can help you do that by using a platform that better tracks progress (but not only that). We can thus start compiling documents which are needed for an article (like a small bibliography), find other relevant articles that are related and for which we can make additions, set some goals and parts that need change, read those sources while taking notes (that platform provides a great way to keep progress and to set milestones, so that we can make for example 100 pages of this book and this paper due for this milestone 19 May 2017), and then start merging changes and fine-tuning things... There's more to it so I was just mentioning only the very basic stuff!

Here's a link, https://github.com/seblafrite/wp/issues (make an account there and add a comment so that I can add you there)

For what it's worth, I'm fluent in both English and Arabic.

Looking forward to cooperating with you!

Yours faithfully, --177.87.112.218 (talk) 20:46, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

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