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	Dear MaronitePride, thank you for all of your contributions to Misplaced Pages, especially your recent creation of Kurds in Australia, which I patrolled. Keep up the good work! You are making a difference here! With regards, Anupam 01:42, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

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Please read the bit about closeparaphrase carefully. You could have quoted the Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East, saying "According to the Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East, "the Lebanese...." Dougweller (talk) 21:49, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll make use of your suggestion for "According to the Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East, "the Lebanese....". Thanks again and have a good day. MaronitePride (talk) 02:11, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Edits on Lebanese Druze

You kept making edits saying that Lebanese Druze are Muslims without any citations and ignoring the ones that I provided showing that Druze are not Muslims.

Your most recent edit doesn't even make sense.

"fasting during the month of Ramadan and making a pilgrimage to Mecca. Thus, they are not regarded by Muslims as Islamic. Thus, they are not regarded by Muslims as Islamic"

Druze do not fast during Ramadan or do Hajj. Yet you then changed the opening statement to say that Druze are Muslims which is contradictory. Who regards Druze as Muslims? The citations I provided clearly stated that Druze are not Muslims. Majority of Muslims do not consider Druze to be Muslims and the majority of Druze do not consider themselves to be Muslims.

--HamzaWahabi (talk) 17:39, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes you are right the Lebanese constitution does regard Druze to be Muslims. Though Druze have tried to get it recognized as separate and it failed under other periods. Israeli Druze however were able to get recognition as a separate community. https://books.google.com/books?id=Qo-ZswqtGG4C&pg=PA90&dq=Druze+israel+separate+1957&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T1ZXVamuEsOjsAXxiIGwBg&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Druzes%20were%20recognized%20as%20a%20seperate&f=false

However most Muslims Sunni and Shias do not consider Druze to be Muslims https://books.google.com/books?id=w2rc0RI7EqYC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=Druze+are+not+muslim&source=bl&ots=grRrOhbC8D&sig=ZhJPwyBYRlUAzv6qbltxUBFvtQo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7FdXVbiQBcu9sAXAjIGoBg&ved=0CCAQ6AEwATgU#v=onepage&q=Sunnis%20and%20Shia%20alike%20regard&f=false

Many Islamic scholars have stated Druze are not Muslims throughout history https://books.google.com/books?id=xcPwGmYwCKUC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=Druze+not+muslim+Majallat+al-Buhooth+al-Islamiyyah&source=bl&ots=MUhqe082-d&sig=P0IZ4WJNS0-BWk9PnJkZBE9x0xw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UFhXVfiCFciosAW1yYCoBg&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Majallat%20al-Buhooth%20al-Islamiyyah&f=false

My source reads the following: "The Druze do not:- practice recitation of the creed, reciting prayers five times a day, wed to multiple wives, fasting during the month of Ramadan and making a pilgrimage to Mecca. Thus, they are not regarded by Muslims as Islamic." Druze DO NOT fast during ramadan or do hajj. You excluded the beginning of the of the sentence.

--HamzaWahabi (talk) 10:50, 16 May 2015 (UTC

Category:Kurdish geography

Hello - I have a question regarding Category:Kurdish geography, which you created recently: Were you aware that there was already a Category:Geography of Kurdistan? Do we really need two separate categories that seem to cover the same subject area? Is there a compelling reason not to merge the new category into the older one? (which also uses the standard naming convention for geography sub-cats). Regards, Cgingold (talk) 04:28, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. I suspected as much, but wanted to be sure about it before proceeding. Thanks for your reply. :) Cgingold (talk) 10:13, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Assyrians/Arameans

Having looked back at your talk page history I can tell you're familiar with the topic of the ethnic identity of Syriac Christians. Furthermore, I've noticed you have recently altered various articles and created several categories that suggest a pro-Aramean identity bias. This leads me of course to your talk page as I would like to discuss this with you rather than simply undo your edits so to prevent any future disagreements.

Misplaced Pages maintains that Assyrian people is to cover all those who identify as Aramean, Assyrian, Chaldean, Syriac or Syrian. Therefore, your edits that suggest a modern Aramean people rather than regional identity is contrary to what is commonly accepted and hindering efforts to organise Misplaced Pages. I hope that we can solve this issue and prevent any further POV edits. Mugsalot (talk) 16:34, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

In solving an issue, it is far easier to discuss than to simply edit war. If you were to look at the Assyrian people article you would see that Aramean identity is part of the wider Assyrian people, and much like for self-identified Syriac people, I am hoping to move all those who are ethnically Assyrian under the one Assyrian category. This method prevents argument over whether anyone or anything relevent is Assyrian, Chaldean, Aramean or Syriac. Mugsalot (talk) 20:24, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Did you really read my reply? MaronitePride (talk) 20:26, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Hey

Hi, I'm Elias I'm trying to be more active after a long wiki-hibernation. I've seen that you're active on some of my watchlist pages; I feel the need for an editing partner or someone to put me back on tracks. If you need assistance with some Lebanon related article please let me know cos I don't know where and how to restart editing. Where do you live? -Elias Z 04:42, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes, we could work together on some articles if the need arose. MaronitePride (talk) 23:13, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Syriac was your idea

https://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Assyrian_people#Requested_move_5_July_2015 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sr 76 (talk • contribs) 18:13, 9 July 2015 (UTC) @MaronitePride:why aren't you voting?Sr 76 (talk) 20:05, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

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Ttranslation

@MaronitePride: Do they say anything about their self-designation (Syriacs, Arameans) and what do they call their language (Syriac, Aramaic? The documentations are both in Arabic. Please write also down what the Arabs call them and their language in Arabic with Latin letters plus translation into English. Thanks in advance.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSS0BPNqASY
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YkJO7EPfMI (What does she mean with Suriani?)

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Hello, Brother

Thanks for help, to create the Yazidis pages

August von Bebelstein (talk) 22:06, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

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Flag in infoboxes

I see that you reverted my removal of the flags in the infobox at Kurds in Turkey. Please read the guideline about flags in infoboxes. Regards! --T*U (talk) 08:08, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

September 2015

Please stop your disruptive editing, as you did at Yazidi language. Your edits have been reverted or removed.

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Do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively may result in your being blocked from editing. Your edits on Yazidi language are plenty disruptive. Drmies (talk) 23:19, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Your addition to Kurds in Iran has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Misplaced Pages without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Misplaced Pages:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Misplaced Pages. For legal reasons, Misplaced Pages cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Misplaced Pages takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. See Misplaced Pages:Copying within Misplaced Pages. You can't just lift stuff from one article and drop it into another. Drmies (talk) 23:26, 1 September 2015 (UTC)