I'm sure you're well-intended, but changing the focus of the article from the Arabic-English dictionary to the Arabic-German dictionary is a drastic change. Please discuss on the article talk page... 00:21, 11 December 2024 (UTC) AnonMoos (talk) 00:21, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As I've explained elsewhere, and can go on about in boring detail, ever since the stupid Wikipedia Dec. 2019 encryption protocol upgrade, to able to edit or view Wikipedia at all from my home computer, I have to use an indirect method which involves a non-fully-Unicode-compliant tool. I couldn't even really see your signature that way, and so didn't know to try to avoid changing it (which I can sometimes do by putting my comments in a separate subsection, then later deleting the section header). Notice that I also didn't include the German diacritics? AnonMoos (talk) 00:50, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the thing -- date-only section headers are sometimes OK on user talk pages, but on article talk pages, headers which give some idea as to what is being discussed in that section are greatly preferred. That means that your date-only section header on the article talk page is a pure empty vacuum, and whenever I edit the page, I'll always fill in its content-free nothingness, on the principle that something is better than nothing, and as a courtesy to a third-party who might come along, among other reasons. If you don't like the content I added, then maybe substitute your own content, but don't restore the void of nullity that is the date-only header, because that might look to other people a lot like edit-warring for a rather stupid purpose. Also, you have some special rights over section titles on your user talk page, but that's simply not the case on an article talk page. By general principles, a more informative header would generally be preferred over a less informative header (in the case of a dispute), and posting the first comment in a section gives you NO special rights whatsoever over the section title (as I explained before, section headers are unsigned, and not usually considered part of user comments). AnonMoos (talk) 07:18, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I have added an unsigned template to your post, you could replace it with your own signature if you wanted.

I am not an admin, but I think it would help admins and other page watchers if you named and linked the editor you are reporting. Also the core of this seems to be a content dispute so you may be told to continue with dispute resolution, e.g. the third opinion request. TSventon (talk) 15:47, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

xxxa 130.105.185.4 (talk) 14:47, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, إيان

The page Palestine (region) states that the Arabic name is فِلَسْطِينَ and transliterates this as Filasṭīn.

Isn't "فِلَسْطِينَ" = filastina?

The Arabic and it's transliteration don't seem to match to me, just asking you about it as you're an Arabic speaker.

Thank you, IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 17:57, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey IOHANNVSVERVS, in فصحى (Standard Arabic), the final vowel/case ending depends on the ʾIʿrab (noun declension). The فَتْحَة fatḥah (-a) currently there designates an accusative mood, usually for when the word is the object of a preposition.

There are other vocalizations of فلسطين depending on dialect, but in Standard Arabic it's فِلَسْطِيْن. I'll fix it. إيان (talk) 18:14, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

شكرا - IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 18:29, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You have twice removed the year "1885" from Zionism that I added. While the two edits are slightly different, in both cases you removed the addition of 1885, arguably, two reverts, violating the 1RR sanction on this article. Andre🚐 01:57, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you want to keep "an 1890 article in the 1885 periodical"? إيان (talk) 01:59, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the periodical started in 1885. You said it makes no sense, I do not see why. Andre🚐 02:01, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Would you say "a 2025 article in the 1851 periodical" to describe an article in The New York Times? It's bizarre wording. Just say "a periodical founded / established in x" if you need to. But it's unnecessary bloat for a section on the terminology of Zionism anyway. إيان (talk) 02:07, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's relevant because it's very early in the history of the periodical and related to the early activities in the time period. And also, it's still a 1RR violation. I would accept "article in the periodical established/founded in," though. Andre🚐 02:12, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can see if anyone else thinks it's necessary to include on the talk page. إيان (talk) 02:57, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WP:1RR is a bright line rule, so I'm inviting you to revert your own edit. Andre🚐 05:56, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I invite you to seek consensus on the talk page. إيان (talk) 06:12, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. Andre🚐 07:59, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn since nobody ever notified you of the CTOPs sanctions. Have done so below. [05:58, 5 January 2025 (UTC)]

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