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Hello, Maha Odeh, and welcome to Misplaced Pages. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Wikiproject Iraq

Welcome to wikipedia. I saw your grerat edits to Mansour District. Thanks! If you are interested in getting involved in Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Iraq that might be a good fit for you. Also, I could use some help cleaning upList_of_neighborhoods_and_districts_in_Baghdad. Peace, MPS 14:02, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Birthplace of Imam Ahmad

Salam 'alaikum sister, I was wondering if we could get some citation for the birthplace of Imam Ahmad. I have some biographies of him but they are not with me right now so I am not sure exactly where he was born. MezzoMezzo 15:05, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Ahmad ibn Hanbal

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. --Vonones 06:05, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. --Vonones 06:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

WP:NPA

Regarding the last paragraph of this comment , please be respectful and mind theWP:NPA policy, comment on the content of the articles, not the other editors. --Mardavich 06:13, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Some sources say that his mother became pregnant in Merv, but gave birth in Baghdad. There are also a few sources that say he was of "Arab background", while other sources call him of "Persian background". For the sake of NPOV, and in order to compromise, we could report both versions in a neutral manner, I'll re-write the section tomorrow.--Mardavich 06:27, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Arab Wiki project

Are you interested ... Sign up then! --Aziz1005 03:32, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Arab article

As I did read this article, it contains a lot of unusual information, propagandistic views and weasel words in the article Arab. I therefore would like to get a group with me who are able to rewrite this article in a best way to get best results. Anyone who want to join our team add your name below in the Arab Talk page. Please note that after the team has gathered, we will place "under-progress" tag. Irqirq 14:50, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Maha. You can just add your name and country of origin only if you wish. There are some people who oppose the forming of the team, We need as much people as possible to make any major changes thanks for your concern about the major problem we deal with in the Arab article Irqirq 07:24, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

The newest WikiProject

Hi, and welcome to the newly started Arab world WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Misplaced Pages's coverage of topics related to the Arab World.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask User:FayssalF for the time being, or any experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around!

Please use edit summaries

Hello. Please be courteous to other editors and use edit summaries when updating articles. The Mathbot tool shows your usage of edit summaries to be extremely low:

Edit summary usage for Maha Odeh: 10% for major edits and 40% for minor edits. Based on the last 116 major and 5 minor edits in the article namespace.

Using edit summaries helps other editors quickly understand your edits, which is especially useful when you make changes to articles that are on others' watchlists. Thanks and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 17:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

double {{OR}} over at Mihrab

Your comments on Talk:Mihrab suggest that you have the expertise to address the OR issues noted on the talk page. Even if not, your input would certainly be useful. Thanks. -- Fullstop 23:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Maha for your the work you put into digging up that material. I have incorporated your material into a rewrite of what was evidently mostly made up by someone. It would however be great if you could insert <ref></ref> citations at the appropriate points in the article. -- Fullstop 17:58, 6 September 2007 (UTC)