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A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	For Template:Superstitions. Bearian (talk) 20:56, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar time

		The India Barnstar of National Merit
		Hey, working hard I see. You deserve this.PhnomPencil (talk) 02:14, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help!

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	For tireless and constant efforts improving articles of all forms, in particular on the Bahá'í Faith, which has dramatically increased their quality on all fronts, I award this barnstar. Thank you for your invaluable efforts! Peter Deer (talk) 19:58, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

The Original Barnstar

For continously creating new pages for Baha'i topics (especially Hands of the Cause) Jeff3000 18:18, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Baha'i pictures

Hi Wiki-uk, thanks for putting up so many Baha'i pictures. -- Jeff3000 13:45, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rohru people

Hi, thats a nice image of Rohru people. Did you click it yourself? Rohru is quite remotely located. (I belong to the state) -- Lost^(talk) 05:25, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Superstitions of India

For editing in the article of Superstitions of India --

Abhijeet Safai (talk) 12:16, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Superstitions

Hey! Basically, you're one of the few people who has taken articles on superstitions I have written about (on this account or All Hail the Muffin) and helped integrate them into a more encyclopedia-friendly version. For this I love you, stranger. Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome and its ilk are oft-overlooked incidents of cultural important, so that you for taking the time to assist!

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 21:00, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Humor and wit characters

Nice one! Thank you for adding Onufry Zagłoba to it :) --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:37, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Editing

formatting

Since you're using a lot of refs and I just cleaned up some of the Baha'i Faith by country article, I want to mention that you should try using the {{harvnb|last|year|p=}} template inside refs whenever possible. It cuts down enormously on the clutter. When you do that, make sure the citation is in the references. There are plenty of examples on the main Baha'i Faith article.

Good work on all the stuff you're doing. Cuñado ☼ - Talk 06:36, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Noted. Wiki-uk (talk) 06:59, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

since we're talking about the country article, a couple thoughts; one is why re-add the cat? It messes with the logic of the page and it's in the See Also section now; and what do you think about this. Smkolins (talk) 01:47, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it's just the way I'm thinking of it but the country article doesn't fit the list of countries per se, it could be in Category:Bahá'í history? As for the other ref - I just found it and will review.Smkolins (talk) 21:36, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I would agree with putting both Statistics and Country articles in their own category and that under history, but perhaps others should chime in.Smkolins (talk) 13:40, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Primary sources

Hello Wiki-uk. Great work on the new article, but be wary of using primary sources such as Abdu'l-Baha's writings as sources. Articles should be based on secondary and tertiary sources. So I would recommend removing or replacing any statements referenced by primary sources. Regards, -- Jeff3000 (talk) 12:23, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

MobileReference publications

While trying to track down who it was who added citations to MobileReference's Travel Goa to various Wikipedia articles, I noticed that you have made a tremendous number of contributions to articles on Asia and the Middle East. Congratulations on all your fine work.

Unfortunately, MobileReference's Travel Goa is a fork of Wikipedia—as are many of its other publications—and hence is disqualified by Wikipedia's policy on verifiability from serving as a reference that can be cited in Wikipedia articles. I am letting you know this because you seem have been responsible for citing it in a few articles. I have now removed all citations to it that I have been able to find. If you know of any others I'd appreciate it if you'd remove those as well (or, alternatively, let me know and Ill do it myself). Thanks.
David Wilson (talk · cont) 12:39, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Progressive revelation (Bahá'í) into Muhammad in the Bahá'í Faith. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. --Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:31, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ruhi Institute

Just a note I've gathered references for advancing the article at Talk:Ruhi_Institute#resources.--Smkolins (talk) 10:35, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I"m working on a re-write at User:Smkolins/Sandbox2 if you want to chime in… --Smkolins (talk) 20:44, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Other

Rangoli - your additions in July

I translated everything from the Hindi Wikipedia --Anirudh Emani 15:45, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And your very welcome to spare my edit without actually reverting it like it was once done before. --Anirudh Emani 15:54, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tabla Taskforce

Hi Wiki-uk. I've proposed a Wiki Tabla taskforce to help clean up the tabla related pages and construct those that are missing. Your participation would be much appreciated. You can see the proposal at this link. Simon Ives ^{(talk | contribs)} 00:42, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My side project

I've had a side project underway for some time. Well, it's finally cleared and I could use some more. Could you take a look at the project, and if you see something worth contributing please do so. MARussellPESE (talk) 03:40, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mulla Husayn

Allah-u-Abha! I was wondering if I could get some help expanding the Mulla Husayn page. I've worked on it a bit but about half the article was basically just copied and pasted without citation from the glossary of the Iqan. I only really have three books which go into any depth on Mulla Husayn himself (God Passes By, The Dawn-breakers, and Release The Sun, which tend to rely on the same stories anyway) I was wondering if you possibly had access to more diverse sources? Thanks in advance. Peter Deer (talk) 13:39, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent article - job well done!

Hello! I was doing New Page Patrol and I came upon your article Teachings of the Báb. I just wanted to take a moment to commend you on your very fine work -- I was highly impressed with the article and came away from it learning something of value. Thanks for expanding the depth and scope of Wikipedia's Baha'i-related content. Ecoleetage (talk) 12:57, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but the credit goes to User:RHStockman, who put it on the article on the Báb in April 2007. I had the feeling it is too much text for that article, so I moved it to Teachings of the Báb today. Hope this is fine. Wiki-uk (talk) 13:09, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is more than fine -- it is excellent. Thanks, again! Ecoleetage (talk) 13:52, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

`Abdu'l-Bahá's journeys to the West

Still lots to do but it's been suggested to go ahead and post it so more hands can easily access to improve. Smkolins (talk) 21:26, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Garden of Ridván

I'm thinking of submitting Garden of Ridván, Baghdad to DYK, since it's undergone a five-fold expansion since your first edit on April 21st—from 888 characters to around 4742 characters currently. However, around 790 characters were copied from the Ridván article, so we're missing around 489 characters to make it a true fivefold expansion (DYK rules state that text copied from other articles doesn't count for eligibility). I was thinking of writing a little more about the establishment of the Baghdad Royal Hospital and Baghdad Medical City on the site in the 20th century, but I can't find much in English about that. There seems to be one PDF in Arabic about the history of Iraqi hospitals, but I can't read Arabic and it doesn't copy & paste into Google Translate properly. Anything else you can think of to expand the article just a little bit further? --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 16:16, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No longer thinking BTW—I've done it ;) We're still about ~200 chars short so anything you could come up with would probably put us over the edge. --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 19:24, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just throwing out ideas - a small section on prophetic understanding of the 1863 proclamation - for example:

1,290 Days
In "Some Answered Questions" (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1984), pages 43-44, Abdu'l-Baha interprets the prophecy concerning the 1,290 days in the following terms:
The beginning of this lunar reckoning is from the day of the proclamation of the prophethood of Muhammad in the country of Hijaz; and that was three years after His mission, because in the beginning the prophethood of Muhammad was kept secret, and no one knew it save Khadijah and Ibn Nawfal. After three years it was announced. And Baha'u'llah, in the year 1290 from the proclamation of the mission of Muhammad, caused His manifestation to be known.
Note that the Master indicates that, in this instance, time is measured by the "lunar" calendar. Since the proclamation of the mission of Muhammad took place ten years prior to the Hegira, i.e., His flight from Mecca to Medina, from which date the Muslim calendar begins, the year 1290 from the proclamation of the mission of Muhammad was the year 1280 of the Hegira, or 1863-64 A.D.
There are references to 1,290 days in "God Passes By", on pages 110 and 151. In these passages, Shoghi Effendi confirms that the Declaration of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad, which occurred in 1863 (1280 A.H.), represents the fulfilment of the 1,290 days.

from [1] but it's probably the letter from the research dept could be used directly. Say something like Baha'i authorities have linked this event with the "1290 days" prophecy from.... Specifically that the dates are calculated, in typical Baha'i fashion, across religions.... something like that. There might also be a line or so about Mormon prophecies - need a better source but consider [2] as a starting point(the bit about wearing red dyed garments.) Smkolins (talk) 11:51, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, not a bad idea, although that facet of the Ridván festival is probably best covered in Ridván; it doesn't have as much to do with the physical garden itself, but with the events of Ridván. What I've tried to do with the Garden article is to have it focus on the physical garden. I deliberately didn't add much more about the Ridván festival to avoid duplication with the other article. Maybe consider adding a section on the 1290 days to Ridván, perhaps as a subsection to "Significance"? Myself, I've been thinking of adding a section to that one about the festival as it's celebrated in the world today and historically, including references to the election of institutions during the period, and so on.

By the way, the Garden article as it stands has just passed DYK (!! goes so fast nowadays), which means we can take a little breath before continuing if we'd like ;) --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 13:39, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, the DYK for Garden of Ridván, Baghdad will go up on the main page on April 29th, to coincide with the 9th day of Ridván. Good work again! --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 19:07, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderful news - congrats! :-) Smkolins (talk) 22:05, 25 April 2011 (UTC)\[reply]

DYK for Garden of Ridván, Baghdad

On 29 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Garden of Ridván, Baghdad, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the festival of Ridván, the "King of Festivals" of the Bahá'í Faith, celebrates events that took place in a garden in Baghdad (pictured) almost 150 years ago? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Rajamandala

Rajamandala consists mainly of a cut-and-paste of your addition to Mandala (political model); please see its talk page; as well as Talk:Mandala_(political_model)#Southeast_Asian_political_model and subsequent posts. --Pawyilee (talk) 16:01, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

World Religion Day

Thanks for your initiative on World Religion Day! I replied to your message on my talk page, but basically, no problems at all using the phrasing in my sandbox. I took a quick look at the article, and it looks good. One nice thing would be to include {{Infobox holiday}} in the article, with dates for this year and next year and any other pertinent info. What do you think? --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 23:15, 13 January 2015 (UTC) Also, I hope you're considering adding this to DYK. If so, let me know if you need any help with that. --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 02:18, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of World Religion Day

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Nomination of Comparison of the founders of religious traditions for deletion

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Rogan printing

Thanks for adding the image of the Tree of life to Rogan painting. I have trimmed the image and enhanced the colors a bit to focus on the painting rather than the frame. My intention was to ask you before replacing the image on Rogan painting - I didn't realize that this would happen automatically. If you have any objection to the altered version, I will be happy to remove it from Wikimedia Commons. Leschnei (talk) 13:51, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, thanks! Wiki-uk (talk) 06:24, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Work on a replacement Lua article

see User:Smkolins/Sandbox9 Smkolins (talk) 16:45, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Rettich" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Rettich. Since you had some involvement with the Rettich redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Plantdrew (talk) 03:42, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution

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You duplicated an image of mine and made changes including removing all my caption links. Why, please?

On May 30, you duplicated an image of mine - File:Inuksuit in Auyuittuq, Nunavut.jpg - and suggested or made a name change, plus removing all my caption links - the links, of course could be used by Wikipedia readers to get to related pages easily. What were your reasons, please? BrettA343 (talk) 02:21, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Wiki-uk (talk) 07:24, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, no, things are not entirely "OK", thanks for hoping... I mentioned 4 things which you haven't yet addressed, all more important than the image's description changes you made, IMO:

1. You duplicated my file, thus complicating things for me... Why, please?

2. You changed and now deleted the image's caption... Why, please?

3. Your initial changes to the caption deleted all links and made it longer... Why, please?

4. Why did you change the image's description, please?

It seems to me that all these changes are at best non-constructive and more likely destructive (as was deleting my initial post on your talk page, which I can no longer refer to, before things were resolved). I can't claim to read your mind and would like to know WHY these changes were made to my image, please. To what benefit, from your perspective? I like my captions to have as much information as linked possible while taking minimal space and usually work hard to attain that. BrettA343 (talk) 14:35, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I have restored your initial post above, and have undone the changes that I made to the image page for File:Inuksuit in Auyuittuq, Nunavut.jpg.

1. I can't find where you see a duplicate image, unless you are referring to File:Inuksuit in Auyuittuq Park.jpg, both files look similar and were uploaded by you on 28 November 2019 around 06:00 a.m. I checked Commons category:Inuksuit in Nunavut and can't find anything else, but maybe I am overlooking something. Please let me know where I can find a link to a duplicate if this is not what you are referring to.

2. There are wikilinks in the image caption, but as far as I understand, the links don't work in that field, readers can't click on them, not in the web version and also not in the mobile app. Please correct me if I am wrong, maybe I never realized that it works, I have actually never seen links in this field.

3 and 4. By changing e.g. W:Akshayak Pass into Akshayak Pass, the link still sends the reader to Wikipedia, but the reader will not see the initial "W:" which refers to Wikipedia. See also Help:Piped link on Meta Wiki. Please let me know if I misinterpret anything here too.

I have undone all the changes that I made to the image page, and leave it to you to keep it as it is or not. Apologies for the inconvenience. Wiki-uk (talk) 16:46, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Re: 2: This is also why I had deleted the image caption. If the links don't work there, but you want the readers to be able to use the links, then in my view it is better not to have use the image caption, but use only the description, which does appear in the mobile app when the image caption is not filled. On the other hand, please consider the information stated on Commons:File_captions#FAQ. Wiki-uk (talk) 09:20, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Another consideration that came to mind: One of the reasons why I add image captions is that many images don't have a description and/or caption, or have a very long description. When these images are used on Wikipedia pages or other projects, and readers click on the image, there is no description what the image represents. When a page has many images and a lot of text, e.g. pages about painters, writers, philosophers etc., but the reader doesn't not have the time or does not take the effort to read the whole text, he/she can swipe through the images on that page and get a more complete view about the subject in a short time (art works, timelines etc.). So I usually start from such a page, where the reader already has got an idea about the context. This is of course different when a reader/viewer finds a picture somewhere through a search engine on Commons or elsewhere, and has no idea about the context. Wiki-uk (talk) 12:09, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the delay @Wiki-uk:, I'd completed this and was about to send it when I lost it all because my 'net went down, so now I'm doing things first in a text editor :-). First, if you'll recall, I didn't ask you to undo everything, I merely asked "What were your reasons, please?". Now you've finally given me those, so thank you. Re the previous Points:

1. You have my apologies - I noticed the duplication of that photo at the same time I discovered your changes and I put 2 and 2 together and got 5 ;-(. I thought it must have been you and I was wrong. So now I'll delete one of them.

2. Thank you for pointing out Commons:File_captions#FAQ and what I find fascinating is that both it and you appear wrong to me. I've been linking text in captions ever since I arrived (and testing them to make sure they work), for 2 reasons:

On the web with my laptop, a simple mouseover on the linked word in a caption yields a pop-up with the infobox photo and the article's opening text up right away. This allows a reader to quickly see the text and a picture of the item, along with the full article's title, which I often avoid to save space in caption text, without spending the extra mouse-click and associated time to bring up the actual article, which may well be enough.
On an iPhone or iPad, the above doesn't work, but on all 3, a mouse-click or a tap on the caption text brings up the article's page.

If you go to 'Canadian Rockies' and check out my infobox photo, you'll find 5 links in the caption text - try them out with mouseover and clicks - if they don't work like I'm saying, please get back to me. They work well for me and my brother. And note that I have about 10 links in the same photo's description - the mouseover works differently there (it shows the article's full title in a box), and the mouse-clicks work.

3. One of my problems was that - if I'm not mistaken - you changed the caption's Baffin Is. to Baffin Island and I like using abbreviations in the caption to try and keep it to 1, 2 or (at most) 3 full lines. And again, a mouseover usually gets you the full article's name.

4. I'm aware of the 'W:' problem and where I had that, you have my apologies once again. I've been meaning to post something related to this at the Teahouse.

Re your P.S., but the links DO work there, in the caption, or please let me know. Re your additional paragraph, I was puzzled why you deleted my caption, so why you add then seems somewhat irrelevant. Anyway, thanks for your responses - I've learned some things. BrettA343 (talk) 17:45, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for your replies. I am still checking your comments on different devices, it will take a bit of time. Wiki-uk (talk) 16:22, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Infobox book" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Proposed deletion of List of chapters in Moby-Dick

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Nomination of Lawh-i-Tibb for deletion

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RFC

You may be interested in the RFC at Talk:Criticism of the Baháʼí Faith#RFC. Cuñado ☼ - Talk 18:21, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Baha'i World Centre consolidation

I think you'd be interested in the conversation here: Talk:Baháʼí World Centre#Consolidation of pages. Cuñado ☼ - Talk 21:45, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Theophany

I found your recent edit to the Theophany less than helpful. Rather than discuss the "Manifestation of God" concept in a rehash of the main article Manifestation of God (Baháʼí Faith), it would be useful to directly tie it to the concept of theophany, rather than just by implication. --Bejnar (talk) 23:27, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

: You are right, apologies. I made some edits and restored and integrated most of the previous content. Please let me know is it is okay now. Wiki-uk (talk) 17:33, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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"Cerealia" painting

Hi, Wiki-uk. Sorry to remove the painting, but it really has nothing to do with the Cerealia festival. More likely, it shows an imagined Floralia, or a May festival (apparently) to judge by the seasonal blossoms in evidence; this is what the Getty foundation experts think. I removed the same picture a couple of months ago; unfortunately we've nothing on Cerialia, though I suppose we could use an image of Ceres instead, to relieve the textual bareness. Haploidavey (talk) 18:35, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for your help. You are right of course, I only discovered these details after adding the image, apologies. Do you think File:Ceres of Mérida (cropped).jpg would be acceptable? Wiki-uk (talk) 19:19, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think it might (one can't guarantee these things) as it was probably a witness to quite a few Cerealias (literary sources disappoint, regarding this festival). Nothing to apologise for. Regards, Haploidavey (talk) 04:04, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I am working through African lutes for an article that I am creating on the English-language Wikipedia. I am contacting you to see what you know about an image File:Diffa Niger Griot DSC 0177.jpg. On [3 October 2021] you made a change to the caption, indicating the musician is playing a Komsa. I think you are right (based on the research I am doing for my article.) Can you tell me anything about what led you to put that name on the instrument. Everyone else seems to want to call it a Xalam (which is another class of instrument altogether). Anything you know or even guess would be helpful for me trying to sort out this image. The original has disappeared from Flickr. Jacqke (talk) 00:11, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jacqke Hi, I have no knowledge about this topic. I just copied the caption from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griot, where someone else had put this caption. I see now that it is also used on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xalam, where the caption is as follows: "A Hausa Griot playing the gurmi (a Hausa variant of the xalam with a spherical body) in Diffa, Niger". Please feel free to make the corrections on places where it gives the wrong information, or otherwise let me know if you want me to do that. Wiki-uk (talk) 05:05, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I lost your reply, could you please post again? Wiki-uk (talk) 05:13, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for letting me know. I'll take care of getting the captions and placement of the image consistent. Best wishesJacqke (talk) 10:39, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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