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October 2007 edit

  Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page Crusades worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Y4kk 08:57, 12 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Your recent edits edit

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Nomads and Crusaders edit

Interestingly, I was reading some of that book in the library today... However, your citation format was wrong. Use [1] to end one. You'll have to find out for yourselve how to cite previous notes; I can't explain it. Furhtermore, I didn't read that section over very well, but it is probably not a good idea to just plop down one scholar's conclusions as if they were dogma. Srnec 01:34, 16 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Articles on 'Islamic' inventions edit

Hello, I saw you were engaged at one time about the sense or nonsense of the article series which has been created in recent times. Now the issue is up again. Please see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Timeline of modern Muslim scientists and engineers [[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Inventions_in_the_modern_Islamic_world] Regards Gun Powder Ma (talk) 11:39, 21 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Western culture edit

Hi. I looked at the material you removed, which as you state was inaccurate. This material is properly sourced and explained in the history section of Europe, particularly the role of isolated monasteries in Scotland and Ireland during the Dark Ages and the role of islamic scholarship. Might it not be possible to produce a short version of this with sources to replace the material you removed? It is true that Renaissance scholars scoured monastic and islamic libraries to recover the "lost" knowledge of antiquity. Cheers, Mathsci (talk) 09:42, 13 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

  1. ^ to begin a citation and