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Dome of the Rock

Dear Malik Shabazz you maybe thinking why i allways keep changing Dome of the rock's page the dome of the rock and Noble Sanctuary are one of the holiest place for the muslims and it's just not fair to name this place Temple Mount You alredy know what this place means to 2 billions muslims , now the people who allowed to pray in Noble Sanctuary are just the muslims — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronniesudani (talk • contribs) 18:43, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

You already have been advised to discuss your proposed changes at Talk:Dome of the Rock. Please stop edit-warring or you will be blocked again. — Malik Shabazz /Stalk 19:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Seal of Rwanda

Hi Malik,

I notice you deleted the File:Seal of Rwanda.svg, which I uploaded yesterday to replace a file of dubious copyright status on Commons. I have initiated a discussion at Talk:Rwanda#Seal of Rwanda to try to resolve this issue. If you have a spare moment and could indicate why you think the image is legitimately licensed at Commons, I would be grateful. Thanks  — Amakuru (talk) 11:50, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

On second thoughts, I have moved this discussion to commons:File talk:Coat of arms of Rwanda.svg, which seems a more appropriate place for it.  — Amakuru (talk) 11:58, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
I don't know much about the copyright status of national flags and coats of arms. If you'd like, I can restore the en.wiki file I deleted. Let me know. — Malik Shabazz /Stalk 16:45, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Considering Amakura hasn't given any valid reasons to question the license of the file on Commons, until such time as he does, there is no need to restore his file here with the claim of fair use. The emblem has been on Commons for 4 years, and has never been questioned before, including by Admin Zscout370, an expert on copyright matters on Commons. Fry1989 22:23, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi again Malik, As Fry1989 says, I have resolved this issue now - and there will be no need to restore the Fair Use version. This was due to my misunderstanding (and the misunderstanding of the user I mentioned at FAC) of the Copyright status of coats of arms. Thanks for your assistance.  — Amakuru (talk) 08:22, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Jake Brennan

Hello Malik

I was just wondering if you could give me more advice on this because I'm still kind of confused. The sources that I have are meeting the specific guidelines stated in the rules about making pages about a living person/musician. The thing is with Parker Posey. I referenced here because Mr.Brennan scored the music to her next film that is to be released in the spring of 2012 (Sunny Side Up). Even if this is the case should I not reference her? Also regarding The Boston Music awards, Mr. Brennan has been producing the event for a couple of years now. The Boston Music awards already has a page set up so I made a direct link from his page to the current page for the Boston Music Awards, would it have been better if I found a news paper article instead for a source? Same thing with Cast Iron Hike Mr. Brennan was a front man for that band and it is his creative work. Instead of sourcing a link to the current Cast Iron Hike page should I find an article?

if you could help me understanding this process it would be much appreciated. thank you


(Jgeorge41 (talk) 19:28, 14 February 2012 (UTC)) Jamal

Hi Jamal. In order to be "notable"—that is, in order to qualify for an encyclopedia article—Mr. Brennan must be "the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable and are independent from the musician himself" (WP:MUSICBIO). If reliable sources have written about Mr. Brennan and he qualifies for an encyclopedia article, then it is appropriate to link to the Misplaced Pages articles for Parker Posey, the Boston Music Awards, and Cast Iron Hike. But if nobody has written about Mr. Brennan, a news article about the Boston Music Awards doesn't help to establish that Mr. Brennan is notable, even though he produces the event. I hope that helps. — Malik Shabazz /Stalk 19:45, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

All I Ask For Anymore

"Ask For" is a phrasal verb, so For should be capitalized. MUSTARD says, Capitalize a short preposition if and only if it is the first or last word of the title; part of a phrasal verb (e.g., "Call Off the Search", "Give Up the Ghost"); or the first word in a compound preposition (e.g., "Time Out of Mind", "Get Off of My Cloud")." Compare Turn On the Radio — "turn on" is a phrasal verb, so "On" is (properly) capitalized there. Ten Pound Hammer • 21:42, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry. I'll move the article as requested. — Malik Shabazz /Stalk 21:46, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Main page appearance: W. E. B. Du Bois

This is a note to let the main editors of W. E. B. Du Bois know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on February 23, 2012. You can view the TFA blurb at Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/February 23, 2012. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 (talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions at Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:

W. E. B. Du Bois in 1918

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was an American civil rights activist, author, and editor. After graduating from Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois, one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks. Racism was the main target of Du Bois's polemics, and he strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment. He was a proponent of Pan-Africanism and helped organize efforts to free African colonies from European powers. Du Bois wrote several seminal essays and treatises, and published many influential pieces in his role as editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis. He was an ardent peace activist and advocated for nuclear disarmament. The United States' Civil Rights Act, embodying many of the reforms for which Du Bois had campaigned his entire life, was enacted one year after his death. (more...)

UcuchaBot (talk) 23:03, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 February 2012

Edit war on anarchism article

Hello. I came here since I have appreciated your presence in the anarchism article as far as reverting vandalism and highly questionable additions or deletions. As you are aware User:Byelf2007 has been very active in trying to make important changes on the introduction and in the general format of that article, and in a lot of times in long consensus of more than a year long. It just happened that as I was explaining my reversions of some things he tried to add and delete and change, he was already changing more things. And so as to help stop this edit war I am suggesting this user to try to present his proposals first in Talk section for discussion (as I have done before for smaller simpler changes) and while I was writing this there he was already making more changes and reverting things. Any suggestions?--Eduen (talk) 09:37, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Palestinian people paragraph deletion

Under the German people article. It says: "Germany had a substantial Jewish population. Only a few thousand people of Jewish origin remained in Germany after the Holocaust"

Thus it should also be said that upon the Islamic conquest of modern day Israel/Palestine the area had a Jewish majority. After the conquest and massacres such as the Safed Plunder. 1660 Destruction of Tiberias, etc. etc. Israel/Palestine's indigenous Jewish population (Old Yishuv) was down to only a few thousand people by the advent of Zionism.

If this cannot be included in the Palestinian people section, then why is an identical historical fact included in the German people section?

DionysosElysees (talk) 06:21, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Dispute Resolution Necessary

After viewing the "Palestine", "Palestinian people", and History of the Palestinian people" articles it seems that you have an agenda of white washing all these pages of any reference to the genocides carried out by the Muslim Arabs upon the indigenous pre-Zionist Jewish population so I believe Dispute Resolution is the only answer, right?

DionysosElysees (talk) 06:57, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Your Role As a Misplaced Pages Editor

Hello Malik. I am a frequent user and occasional contributor who's curious about the edit war you took part in as reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education here. I don't mean to criticize your behavior and the boundaries you crossed in your slavish adherence to a policy, but I truly don't understand how you could've perceived your actions as unbiased. It seems that you were attempting to preserve a biased narrative that had incorrectly become accepted as true in the face of primary evidence that flatly disproved the notion. The behavior both you and the user Gwen Gale exhibited was frankly autocratic and against the spirit of reliable open-source writing that Misplaced Pages is supposed to stand for. The fact that you were so presumptuous as to say that "As individual editors, we're not in the business of weighing claims, just reporting what reliable sources write" as justification when you yourself were opposing him and the primary evidence he was citing as not reliable is appallingly close to the censorship of facts that don't support the standardized opinion on pages like Israel and Cuba that Misplaced Pages is gaining notoriety for. If you, like many Misplaced Pages editors, purport to defend the open nature of Misplaced Pages while flagrantly oppressing editors who bring verifiable evidence that doesn't jive with the mainstream opinion, I believe it is paramount to engage in true discussion with editors on the policies you enforce and how you decide upon them instead of simple-minded recounting of rules and aggressively wrong-minded hypothetical examples. This article presents a great opportunity for the Misplaced Pages community to take a long hard look at the way its own standards may be manipulated or misinterpreted with the best of intentions. All I'm presenting here is my reaction based on the most widely available sources; although apparently by Misplaced Pages standards that would be enough, I wish to go beyond and read your minority perspective on your actions and form an opinion based on a fair weighing of primary perspectives rather than those whose sources speak for their causes the loudest.