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Nomination of Ronald Schiller for deletion edit

 

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Nomination of Turkish lobby in the United States for deletion edit

 

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Nomination of Accusations of Arab Apartheid for deletion edit

 

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Please do not delete other contributors' additions simply because you disagree with them as you did here. That is not acceptable conduct. If there is any further disruption of this AfD I will report it to the administrators' noticeboard for action. You may find yourself being blocked as a result. Prioryman (talk) 15:20, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
Note that Prioryman was attaching irrelevant material to a debate in order to obfuscate the issue and illegitimately influence the outcome of the debate.I.Casaubon (talk) 15:22, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
I understand that you disagree with my view that the previous discussions are relevant, but please do not simply delete what I have posted because you disagree with it, and please assume good faith about my motives. An AfD cannot be obfuscated or "illegitimately influenced" by linking it to previous clearly related discussions; if anything, it sheds light on the situation, as it shows how Wikipedia has dealt with similar issues in the past. Prioryman (talk) 15:38, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
Just to add, it's absolutely fine to set out your objections, as you've now done. Deletion of contributions is bad, but you have every right to state your disagreement publicly. Prioryman (talk) 15:51, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
I was not deleting any comments. I was deleting a red herring, a box of unrelated articles with superficially similar titles that you posted at the top of the page in an effort to make it look as though an article similar to this had been previously created and deleted.
Hi I - a thought: perhaps rework the article into something about 'discrimination in arab countries' and you can bring in the aparthied quotes from khaled and dershowitz, etc. Soosim (talk) 06:59, 29 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Kamel Riahi, citing sources edit

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Anti-semitism edit

hi i. - i just edited four pages relating to Anti-semitism, and all four were reverted - take a look and let me know what you think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Arab_world and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Palestinian_territories and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_antisemitism - certainly it belongs in 'new' and has relevance to the others, no? thanks. Soosim (talk) 07:39, 4 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

More info edit

“Islam is the world's largest practitioner of both religious and gender apartheid..” Source: Israel: And the Palestinian Nightmare, Ze'ev Shemer (2010) p. 158 Miraflores808 (talk) 20:31, 4 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Sorry. edit

In Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Economic history of the Arab world, I was under the impression most of it came from bits in [[Economic history of the Muslims, not realising you had wrote those bits for that article. My apologies.

IT might be worth seeking to merge your article with Islamic economics in the world, but I see no need to do so right away; develop the new article first, then, if there's still significant overlap, it may be possible to make one really, really good article from two good ones. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:15, 7 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Saeeid Shahabi edit

 

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This article lacked sufficient references and information for Notability reasons. See Wikipedia:Notability_(people)--Whiteguru (talk) 11:33, 8 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
I didn't delete the page. If you want it back up, I suggest you contact the admin who deleted it.--Whiteguru (talk) 11:44, 8 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
Click the link for the page and you will identify that admin.--Whiteguru (talk) 11:54, 8 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
If you get the page restored, you may wish to place the {{newpage}} template to give you some breathing space.--Whiteguru (talk) 11:56, 8 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
I have restored the page to User:I.Casaubon/Saeeid Shahabi so that you can get the text about the significance and references in there, then you can move it back to being an article. The template said not for living people so I did not attach it. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:39, 8 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Apartheid in Bahrain edit

 

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Thank you for your help and recent additions on 2011 Imbaba Church Attacks :) --Fire Green Horse (talk) 14:48, 8 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Jonathan Stephen edit

I think we should go ahead and do a deletion review on article. There was no consensus and yet it was deleted. It's interesting that the deleter totally forgot to mention the BEC, FIEC, or Affinity, which I argue are some of the strongest arguments and which wikipedia doesn't have the greatest policy on. Fountainviewkid 4:29, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Apartheid in Bahrain edit

OK --BoogaLouie (talk) 18:06, 10 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

I have deleted Bahrain and the apartheid analogy per WP:CSD#G4, as a recreation of previously deleted content at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apartheid in Bahrain and Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 April 27. That you would recreate this content under a different title within little more than a month after the DRV is inexcusable. I am also posting a notice at WP:ANI regarding this and your other edits on this topic recently. postdlf (talk) 00:14, 11 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

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hi, i added some references. turns out he has a pulitzer prize. however, if you want things to stay around, you need to do a google search and provide some references. 98.163.75.189 (talk) 16:23, 4 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

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