Paterimon
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Dear Wikipedia Administrator,
I am done with my first contribution to Wikipedia. Please have a look at it and let me know if it may be posted. Any remarks or directives regarding this first attempt and/or future contributions would be gfreatly appreciated.
Sinerely
Paterimon
- Hello Paterimon, Welcome to Wikipedia! I see you have made many useful contributions and want to thank you for that :). Administrators or any other users do not need to approve good faith proper edits made to the encyclopedia, that's what it is for, from the help of contributors Wikipedia is made possible. I suggest you continue your nice contributions and after some time request and Wikipedia:Editor review for having a review on your contributions from other users. And also for simple kinds of help requests you do not need to use the {{Admin help}} template, just use {{Help me}} and you will get the same help that you need. Thanks, I hope you enjoy contributing here and being a Wikipedian :) Happy Editing!
. TheGeneralUser (talk) 22:49, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
List of Christian terms in Arabic
editIt's really best to add new separate words as distinct entries, instead of trying to shoehorn them into existing entries with أو ... -- AnonMoos (talk) 15:18, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your time, your willingness to help and your feedback. all greatly appreciated. (----) Paterimon
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Thank you, Wikipedian Friend, for your time and your patience.
I love to learn and hope to be a good pupil -:)
Paterimon
Talkback
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Message added 20:11, 17 June 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Hi, sorry but I had to revert your changes to the article Jesus. The addition of Arabic terms is a good thought, but you might want to achieve consensus by discussion on the talk page first. My main reason for the revert, though, was the fact that many wikilinks were broken by the addition of extra characters. Wikilinks depend on the word in brackets matching the title of the article which is linked. Elizium23 (talk) 13:04, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, Wikipedian Friend, for your remarks.
I am a new contributor and have to learn a lot. -:)
I acted in good faith and apologize for any inconvenience.
Paterimon
Thank you, Wekepidian Friend, for your clarification and recommendation. I greatly appreciate your comment.
As you know, I am a new contributer and likely to commit ( always in perfect good faith -:) a lot of blunders before learning how to move around in the immense world of WP.
Thank you for bearing with me!
I'll put your remark in practice immediately.
Paterimon.
The use of Arabic and the correction of names
editPlease don't correct names in links with out looking to see if the link will still work. For example at Sudan you changed the name of the national anthem from Nahnu Jund Allah Jund Al-watan to Nahnu Jundu-l-Laahi Jundu-l-Watani. As you can see the first one is a blue link and the reader can click on it and go read about the anthem but the second is red and leads nowhere.
Second, can you please stop adding Arabic in the body of the article. This is the English language Wikipeida and there is no need to translate multiple words like that. For example giving the Arabic name of Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai is a good idea but the general adding of Arabic like this is not useful. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 14:47, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, Wekepidian Friend, for your clarification and recommendation. I greatly appreciate your comment.
As you know, I am a new contributer and likely to commit ( always in perfect good faith -:) a lot of blunders before learning how to move around in the immense world of WP.
Thank you for bearing with me!
I'll put your remark in practice immediately.
Paterimon.
- Thanks. I moved your comment down so that anybody can see you are replying to me. By the way if you use four ~~~~ it will automatically sign your name for you and provide a link to your user pages. Have fun. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 16:35, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
June 2012
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Please stop making test edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Template:User FRS. It is considered vandalism, which, under Wikipedia policy, can lead to a loss of editing privileges. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Elizium23 (talk) 17:59, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
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July 1, 2012
Thank you, Elizium23, for your feedback.
This time I was very much upset to read that the corrections I HAVE MADE IN GOOD FAITH are considered VANDALISM.
All my proposed changes were about obvious grammatical mistakes or poor style (such as redundancies or the use of vernacular expressions in a text that is supposed to be written in MSA, i.e. Modern Standard Arabic). Not only the content was never affected, but it became more elegantly expressed.
Moreover, in a note left on the discussion page of the Arabic article regarding LEBANON, I clearly said that the corrected paragraphs SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS A SPECIMEN of what I can do to IMPROVE the article. I submitted the changes to the WP's authorized editors asking them to evaluate my version and let me know WHETHER I MAY CONTINUE OR NOT.
Is this VANDALISM?
Paterimon
- I appreciate that you made this edit in good faith, and in my edit summary I did acknowledge your good faith, but I used a warning template which uses the vandalism verbiage, so I have stricken it due to inaccuracy. But you must realize that the edit I am referring to was unconstructive and incorrect, and disruptive as it is a template transcluded by 96 user pages. I suspect that you were attempting to add yourself to the FRS service, but this is the wrong way to do it. You should also realize that the vast majority of your edits, in which you are adding Arabic terms in Arabic script to English articles on the English Wikipedia, and "correcting" Arabic-language terms so that the links no longer work, are unwanted and disruptive. You have been informed of this several times before, you have been consistently reverted, and you have responded warmly with promises to change your behavior, and yet you persist in the same type of editing. To you I would suggest to slow down a bit, investigate the possibility of joining WikiProjects that match your interest, and post on a page such as Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arab world to discuss your proposed edits and gain consensus for doing what you want to do, before you go out and do it. It is certainly permissible on Wikipedia to be bold and make constructive edits without discussion, but when you find yourself reverted and warned, you should realize that your opinion is not supported by consensus, and you should attempt to work it out with other concerned editors in a collegial, cooperative manner. Thank you for your interest in Wikipedia; I hope you can stay here and contribute and improve the site. Elizium23 (talk) 01:17, 2 July 2012 (UTC)