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Happy editing! I dream of horses ^{(Contribs) (Talk)} 19:46, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Sentence wording

We seem to be having differences in grammatical judgements on this. The "and" makes it sound like the "it" at the beginning of the sentence, referring to the "name" of the previous sentence, is what was "initially named Qāhirat al-Mu'izz". But it's the "city" that was "initially named" such, a "name" cannot be "initially named", so something has to change here. This version reads fine to me, I don't see why it needs to be fixed further. If necessary, we can just split these further into simpler sentences. R Prazeres (talk) 05:50, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Doesn't really matter that much to me; your version it is. Snowstormfigorion (talk) 06:03, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

I just changed it to this to eliminate any misreading one way or another. Thanks, R Prazeres (talk) 06:06, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

R Prazeres, just a question. Can "This name was given" be changed to "The name was given"? Sorry as English is not my native tongue so some grammar is not my strongest point. Snowstormfigorion (talk) 06:34, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

No problem. Yes it's fine, I just picked "this" to make it sound slightly less repetitive, but there's no change in meaning either way. R Prazeres (talk) 07:05, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

June 2023

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Arabic music, 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 your sandbox for that. Thank you. Fragrant Peony (talk) 22:12, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

June 2023

Please stop your disruptive editing.

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154.132.162.157, please take the time to properly describe your concern. If that is ignored, we can discuss administrative options. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:30, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

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March 2024

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Marrakesh. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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July 2024

Hi, your recent edits at Abbasid Caliphate have been helpful clean-up on an important but neglected article, thank you. However, I've reverted several of your recent edits which come across as arbitrary and non-constructive. This revert makes no sense at a glance, as I pointed out in my revert, it's literally the same work of art except in higher quality. Here you deleted sourced information without a compelling justification (Zaydanids/Banu Zaydan does come up in RS, and this isn't taking up undue space). Here there was already agreement to the substance of this change on the talk page (though in fairness I should have left a new comment after the recent edits to make this clearer), it was being updated constructively by another editor, and it matches the use of these parameters in the infoboxes of developed articles like Ottoman Empire; a better option would have been to at least seek clarification on the talk page.

Added up together, these kinds of edits contrast with your wider pattern of usually positive contributions. I can only think of suggesting that you try to give more careful consideration to Wikipedia's mission of constantly improving itself and how difficult that becomes if constructive edits are reverted without a clear reason. The latter can fall into status quo stonewalling, which I know is not your intention. R Prazeres (talk) 16:37, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Concerning the first edit, I'd beg to differ; as WP:CON does make sense. As for the others, yeah, I guess I should've suggested the changes in talk prior to implementing them. Snowstormfigorion (talk) 16:55, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

No worries. I've opened a new discussion for the painting at Muhammad XII; please do clarify if you can. I've also posted a new comment at Mamluk Sultanate talk page, where I think there is still some valid uncertainty about one point, so feel free to give your input there too. Thanks, R Prazeres (talk) 16:59, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, and will do. Snowstormfigorion (talk) 17:25, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Arabic. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Selfstudier (talk) 10:47, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

September 2024

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Saadi Sultanate. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Algeria has an RfC

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Edit warring

Diff 1 Diff 2 Diff 3 Diff 4

Kindly self revert or be reported. Thank you. Selfstudier (talk) 10:24, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Likewise, kindly refrain from disrupting the consensus-building process, as per WP:NHC. If you see the reverts above as edit warring, and/or long term, discarding that they were preceded by discussion in the talk page and adhere to WP:3RR and WP:CTOP being that they are days and weeks apart, then so be it. Snowstormfigorion (talk) 10:48, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

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You were mentioned at WP:AE (not negatively). Andre🚐 23:12, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Notice of Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard discussion

An uninvolved administrator has suggested possible sanctions for your participation on the 1948 Arab–Israeli War article at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard. The thread is Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Nableezy. Barkeep49 (talk) 16:17, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Crop

Hey @Snowstormfigorion

Can you explain why you believe the crop is unnecessary in detail? It looks significantly better without the text, which is the case for almost all portrait images on Wikipedia. I would appreciate it if, next time, we could discuss changes rather than simply following my edits and reverting them. Regards Riad Salih (talk) 18:07, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Additionally, please ensure that when you revert changes, you review them carefully. You reverted 1,932 bytes of my edit without providing any explanation. Riad Salih (talk) 18:15, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Hey. Content should be changed contingent upon rationales based on policies and guidelines, not arbitrarily. The WP:UNDUE portion of the edit summary is in reference to the content added to the exile section. Also, in the future, please post such discussions on the article's talk page. Thanks. Snowstormfigorion (talk) 10:22, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

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6 month topic-ban from the Arab-Isreal conflict, broadly construed

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Vanamonde93 (talk) 15:58, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Your appeal of this sanction has been declined. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:26, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks, Barkeep49 (talk) 19:40, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

(Answering question asked at my user talk) Snowstormfigorion, this is a notification that you have been added as a party in a case that is before the arbitration committee. If you click the link, you'll find a discussion that has a place set aside for your statement. You can make an initial statement there, and if you want to reply to other people's statements or questions from the arbitration committee, you make those replies in your own section.

Participating at an arbcom case where you're a named party is an exception to the tban, but don't take this as an opportunity to complain about anyone else's behavior unless you are on extremely strong ground, which due to your inexperience with CTOPs is highly unlikely. What I would recommend is that you make a short initial statement indicating you're currently t-banned from the CTOP but offering to answer any questions. Then watch the discussion as it develops, as you may not be pinged every time you're mentioned. You can subscribe to it so you'll get notifications. Valereee (talk) 14:02, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

@Valereee: Understood, and thanks again for bearing with me as I get a hold of this. Lastly, would you mind providing any input on the second query? Snowstormfigorion (talk) 14:22, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

The second query is a violation of your tban, as I explained at my user talk. You are not allowed to discuss the topic, including other editors' reversions of your edits in the topic area. Have you read WP:TBAN and WP:BANEX? If not, you should do that right away. You may ask me or any other admin questions, here on your talk only, and only to clarify your understanding of the tban. Valereee (talk) 14:34, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

So, when you said "...where you may discuss the topic ban" only on my talk page and with an administrator, you were referring strictly to the ban itself and not the topic? If so, my bad, as I misunderstood. Snowstormfigorion (talk) 14:45, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Exactly. You can ask questions about the ban -- what it involves in generally, whether making a particular edit would violate it, whether a particular article would be considered to fall under 'broadly construed' -- things like that. Anything that helps you understand how to avoid violating it. Valereee (talk) 15:09, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks again. Snowstormfigorion (talk) 18:48, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Undid my edit with a ambiguous message

Can you clearify the reason to undid my revision in Marrakesh?

What I got is: "Undid revision 1253893612 by ITzVoko (talk) clarified in romanization".

I edited the romanization and the Arabic word mentioning the lexicon I depended on. ITzVoko (talk) 23:35, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi. The pronunciation is clarified in the romanized Arabic text, thus diacritics are unnecessary in this instance. Snowstormfigorion (talk) 09:32, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

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