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User talk:FunkMonk/Archive 1
Welcome! Hello, FunkMonk, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Thanks! FunkMonk 08:52, 9 June 2007 (UTC) Duplicate images uploadedThanks for uploading Image:Scandein0012.jpg. A machine-controlled robot account noticed that you also uploaded the same image under the name Image:Scan001dein2.jpg. The copy called Image:Scan001dein2.jpg has been marked for speedy deletion since it is redundant. If this sounds okay to you, there is no need for you to take any action. This is an automated message- you have not upset or annoyed anyone, and you do not need to respond. In the future, you may save yourself some confusion if you supply a meaningful file name and refer to 'my contributions' to remind yourself exactly which name you chose (file names are case sensitive, including the extension) so that you won't lose track of your uploads. For tips on good file naming, see Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions about this notice, or feel that the deletion is inappropriate, please contact User:Staecker, who operates the robot account. Staeckerbot 08:32, 9 June 2007 (UTC) GalleriesI have noticed that you have been adding galleries to many dinosaur articles. Please note that Wikipedia is not an image repository. Articles should generally only include images that support accompanying text. Wikimedia Commons is the place for image galleries. Regards, Mgiganteus1 05:56, 10 June 2007 (UTC) Yeah, I just realised that. I was going to add accompanying text later though, I'll do that in the non-featured articles. FunkMonk 05:57, 10 June 2007 (UTC) InvitationWould like to join us on Arabic wikipedia . We have a lack of very important articles and of serious contributors and I think that your experience on wp:en can help us a lot to make wp:ar better . Sorry for my English and if you can pass this message to any interested contributors i would be very grateful .ar:user:Omar86 Heh, I'd like to, but I'm unable to write in Arabic, so my help would be useless. I'll pass the message on though. FunkMonk 12:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC) Don't make redundant templatesWhen you need a small addition to an existing template for a closely related topic, if it can be done with optional variables there is no reason to make a new template, as it simply increases complexity. Basically the two templates share 90% of their variables so it is best to reduce maintenance effort by simply using a single template with optional variables. The fact that the name of the template is not a perfect match for all uses is not really a concern because that doesn't show up in the rendered article. —dgiestc 16:17, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, never mind, the main reason why I requested a new template is that I wasn't aware that it was "allowed" to add sections to templates (like "mythology"), which do not exist on the "mother" template. But well, if you can, case closed. FunkMonk 16:38, 19 June 2007 (UTC) Some crap
That is a screenshot and qualifies for "fair use". FunkMonk 22:39, 24 June 2007 (UTC) Seems like you removed the fair use rationale of the image. Why? FunkMonk 22:44, 24 June 2007 (UTC) cryptidGood catch, thanks for pointing that out. Until(1 == 2) 13:43, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
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I propose that the articles be merged. Therefore it is necessary for the tags to be there. It is only a proposition, as the tag says, no one says it will be merged. Please argue against me instead of simply reverting. FunkMonk 17:57, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
If an article claimed the ancient Vikings were a modern day ethnic group too, I'd delete it in seconds. FunkMonk 18:04, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
re Egyptian as modern ethnicityHello, I recently stumbled across this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptians It treats modern day Egyptians as an ethnic group, though this view would only be held by a very small minority of Coptic nationalists and similar. Egyptian obviously refers to either the ancient Egyptians or the modern day Egyptians, who are a heterogeneous national group. The users Zerida and Egyegy, who appears to be Zerida's mute sock puppet, keep reverting my proposition for merging the Egyptians article with demographics of Egypt, or simply remove the nonsense about them being an ethnic group, without ever arguing against me on the talk pages. They also keep adding "Egyptians" as an ethnic group of the Middle East, though this is preposterous. As I believe you are an admin, could you warn them or similar? Here is my arguments against them which they didn't respond to: "I'm not talking about whether modern Egyptians are related to ancient Egyptians or not, but the fact that Egyptian doesn't refer to any living ethnic group, but a nationality. Different Egyptian groups identify as Arabs, Copts, Berbers, Nubians, so on, but they are all Egyptians by nationality, which is the only thing the term can be applied to, when it comes to modern, living populations. Otherwise you could say that the Swiss, Belgians, Americans, so on, are all ethnicities, which would be absurd. You don't make an article called "Vikings" and write about modern day Scandinavian either." FunkMonk 18:09, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
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== 7/20/2007 9copyright-edit1.rtf "Zerida" == Ancient Egypt the same as modern Egypt? (and/or Zerida)For what it's worth, FunkMonk, I agree that modern Egypt can not be the same ethnic group as modern egypt; though, modern Egypt may be an ethnic group of its own. Let's look at Ancient Egypt for a moment, or Egyptiacs, as they are now referred to. We can find in Webster's Third New International Dictionary a famous quaote of a famous writer/editor about Egyptiacs. Quote: "Egyptiac: of or relating to ancient Egypt<Egyptiac society....bacame extinct in the 5th century of the Christian era --- A.J. Toynbee>. Now, as for "Zerida", she has interuppted and "vandalized" posts which I too have made. I made edit to a page and she totally deleted (:destroyed) the edit/post and then took the nerve to self-create my "UserTalk:FadingPaint" page to tell me she had "vandalized" my edit by accusing me of "vandalism", wherein my edit was merely mis-placed. There is no excuse for her self-appointed haughtiness and "delusions of grandeur". Sincerely, FadingPaint 16:22, 20 July 2007 (UTC) Removal of Sabra and Shatila imageI have explained on the talk page why I removed the image from the List of massacres. Please discuss there before restoring the image. Thanks! --Knulclunk 22:50, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Ancient ArabsHi FunkMonk, I am looking forward for your contributions to the Ancient Arabs article as of now it is still under heavy vandal activity (Assyrianist user), he keeps merging the article into PreIslamic Arabia, because he thinks the Arabs didnt exist in the ancient era!. Anyways, if you have time pull the article out of the merge and see by yourself, it has a long talk page attached to it.--Skatewalk 12:57, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Your edit warring and vandalism of sourced info
Egyptian peopleI have made some statements why Egyptian people article should be deleted, you may support this cause [[1]] Balu2000 18:00, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Regarding the Arab articleHi FunkMonk, I am satrting to accept tha (Al-Andalus) version, except for the part where it says 500,000 Bedouins are the Arab minority in Egypt! instead it should be left alone like the rest of the other countries. I tried reasoning with Lanternix but we seemed to have a communication problem and I am going to stick to the official version, for the articles sake! So we can focus on fixing the rest of the article.--Skatewalk 21:46, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Isn't created yet, I'll see how many people are interested first! FunkMonk 22:18, 20 August 2007 (UTC) 9 people so far--Skatewalk 20:55, 22 August 2007 (UTC) Arab articleAs I did read this article, it contains a lot of unusual information, propagandistic views and weasel words in the article Arab. I therefore would like to get a group with me who are able to rewrite this article in a best way to get best results. Anyone who want to join our team add your name below in the Arab Talk page. Please note that after the team has gathered, we will place "under-progress" tag. Irqirq 14:45, 23 August 2007 (UTC) Update on the ARab wiki project?We have 10 members so far, let me know what we do next = )--Skatewalk 23:36, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Arab wiki project is nice? Tell me what you want on it, I will do it. All credit goes to you for doing this, because you were the first person to bring this idea. Also the team I didnt join it because I feel its going to hurt the normal article editing. BTW I am American born, my parents are Arab Christians from Lebanon our roots go back to known Arab tribes in Yemen. I been to most the Arab world because of my fathers work. You can look up most my edit history it is neutral Arabian tribes edits. So I dont want you to confuse me with the Anti-Arab Copts or Assyrians! I am an ethnic Arab and I associate myself with the Arabs no matter the religion or nationality. I dont like the whole flag posting thing, since anybody could claim a fake identity and try to wipeout the article. And I never recognized these nationalities anyways.
Arab ProjectI think you've gotten enough members to start the project. If you want any help in setting up the project page, let me know. Alternately, you could find the page of a project you like and substitute in the appropriate info. In any event, though, it looks like the project has a very good chance of being a success once it's started. Good luck! John Carter 15:56, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
Announcement Hi, and welcome to the newly started Arab world WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the Arab World. The project birthday would be celebrated every August 24. A few features that you might find helpful:
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask User:FayssalF for the time being, or any experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around!
Proto Semitic vs Proto Afro-Asiatic
Maronites are not AssyrianElias has some serious issues, next thing he will start claiming my dad was Assyrian! I am tired of talking to him, The Maronites are a religious group not a race; Arabs, Arameans, Phoenicians and Some Franks...belwo is a list out of the (Lebanese Encyclopaedia):
Modern Syria is Greater Syria minus Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Parts of Southern Turkey and Western Iraq. --Skatewalk 16:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC) The Maronite populationHi FunkMonk, I saw you add 15Million with a source, but the info box says 3 million? I am not doubting the numbers, since many Maronites were singles and married other Non-Maronites adding to the population.
I have a question?Email me.. --Skatewalk 16:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC) Request for deletionHi, could you please delete this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_Knigts_militia&redirect=no I misspelled the name... FunkMonk 17:55, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
NamePlease stop referring to Muntuwandi as "Mutu." It's incredibly immature to intentionally refer to someone by a nickname they've made it clear they dislike. Picaroon (t) 21:12, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Improving the Egyptian articleI added it to the Arab world project, it needs to be fixed so we can clearly mention the non Arab minority in Egypt (the Copts) and the Arabized and Ethnic Arab muslims. The article is a mess now, plenty of Afrocentric and Anti-Arab trolling.--Skatewalk 04:17, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Self identified ArabsHi FunkMonk,
Slightly related, I have some anthropological plates of different Middle Easterners, here are some Greek Orthodox men: [3] Some Nusayris: [4] Some Muslims [5] Some Bedouins: [6] And some Samaritans: [7] I have plenty of others, but those ones are cool. FunkMonk 17:41, 10 September 2007 (UTC) Egyptian ArabicEgyptian Arabic (Maṣrī مصري) is an Arabic dialect.
Arabic dialect has to be clearly added in the infobox an openning sentence so it dont get confused as a language!--Skatewalk 03:05, 10 September 2007 (UTC) Attempts to reduce the Arabic language statusA user known for his/her Anti-Arab agenda made it his/her mission to claim that all Arabic dialects are independent languages, starting with Egyptian Arabic dialect. Egyptian Arabic (Maṣrī مصري) is an Arabic dialect. has to be clearly emphasized in the Egyptian Arabic article
Arabic dialect has to be clearly added in the infobox an openning sentence so it dont get confused as a language!--Skatewalk 20:35, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
OK I am it biased when it come to Lebanese, my brother tells his freinds he is Phoenician! I identify with the Phoenicians and Arabs (I admit it unrealistic, but its legendary). The truth is that Aramean replaced Phoenician longtime ago. Phoenician ceased to exist even before the arrival of the Qahtani tribes. The Coasts are heavily populated by Arabs 3rd century Ad, 9th century, 13th century, Ottoman period all had waves of Arabs settle the Phoenician coasts, this is the Phoenician lands. The Mountains inner region spoke Aramean (they came from Syria).--Skatewalk 21:08, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
The problem with the Aramiac identity s that it was hijaked by certain groups after the 6th century BC. I am from the coasts so I still reserve my right to identify as Phoenician (unrealistic, but they lived in my area...its an emotional identification) and Arab, after all the Phoenicians are most likely an Amorite extraction that got seduced by the sea. However, Maronites lived in the mountains and came from Syria so I am not sure how they are related to the phoenicians. Aram means mountains in semitic.--Skatewalk 21:34, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
"Various sources claim that their rites include remnants of Phoenician sacrificial rituals, that they claim that women have no souls and that they drink wine (possibly a form of communion)."[8] "far more serious is the Alawite doctrine's affinity with Phoenician paganism—and also with Christianity."[9] "But researchers who have studied the group say they drink wine in some ceremonies, incorporate elements of Phoenician paganism, and hold that Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, is a divine."[10] I don't know if I can include that in the Alawi article, because it seems too far out! FunkMonk 21:42, 11 September 2007 (UTC) The Alawi article needs to be expanded, most this claims are known to muslims. The Alawis are too far out thats why they were persecuted by the Ottomans. You wil not find any references, so you should explain that the alwaites practiced their faith in (Batiniya)seceret faith, fearing the persecuction of the Ottomans. The Amorites had a huge migration into the Levant, most scholars ignore the Amorites, because they failed to establish a powerful empire in the Levant (they eventually ruled the Old Babylonian empire, Hammurabi one of them). This applies to most Levantine cultures. (except maybe the Ummayid Muslims, who established the lone Empire ruling from the Levant, but that didnt last long? and the power center shifted to Mesopotamia again!!) The land has to do alot with this, the Geography of the Levant = ( --Skatewalk 21:56, 11 September 2007 (UTC) User:Skatewalk and User:FunkMonk: disruption and canvassing[THIS LINK] Could I ask someone to review User:Skatewalk and User:FunkMonk's conduct? Skatewalk has been cross-posting on various users' talk pages for days to encourage them to engage in revert wars on several articles, lastly asking them to deal with a user "known for his/her Anti-Arab agenda" [11]. He is also fond of soapboxing on article talk pages, for which I left him two not-a-forum warnings, which he deletes then posts on my talk page instead. FunkMonk is the user who frequently responds to his calls [12]. Please review our contribution histories. — Zerida 20:56, 11 September 2007 (UTC) I posted on members of the Arab world wiki project, because you are trolling Arabic language pages and claiming dialects as languages!
So we speak 22 languages?Can you please help Zerida (and her sock-puppets) understand that Egyptian Arabic is a dialect (because now she is claiming that its a language!), I think she is already taking it personal! (Egyptian Arabic)I mean once they declare every dialect a Language I will have a beautiful resume with 22 languages on it, but as of now unfortunately the constituition of Egypt and every Arab nation only recognizes one Arabic language as the only Arabic language!--Skatewalk 18:09, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
HelloHello, I just talked with skatewalk and was asking him for help on this article [13] He did recomended you :) , I wish you could help a little thanks. Nick10000 19:35, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Descriptions of different types found in the Mid East from that sites: ORIENTALID Middle-Eastern/Central Asiatic Europid type, comprising the southern Arabid and northeastern Iranid varieties (in the typology of von Eickstedt). In some systems it is synomymous with Arabid. Carleton Coon, and others with him, considered all these types to be Mediterranids. ARABID Southern Orientalid type, primarily associated with Semitic-speaking populations of the Middle East, and typified by the Bedouin of Oman. Lundman distinguished a Syrid subvariety. IRANID (Irano-Afghan (Coon)) The relatively tall, dolicho-mesocephalic, long-faced, high-headed and hook-nosed type prevalent in Iran, Afghanistan and adjacent territories. In the typology of von Eickstedt, it is an Orientalid subtype, which thereby relates it to the Arabid. Others regard it as an "East-Mediterranid"-Arabid blend, but the Iranid is morhologically more similar to Mediterranids and even Nordids (cf. Corded type) than to Arabids. ARMENID (Assyroid (Deniker); vorderasiatischer Typus ("Hither-Asiatic type", Günther)) Mostly brunet, large-headed Taurid type, first carefully described by von Luschan (as Armenoid). It resembles the European Dinarid, with the main exceptions of greater absolute facial dimensions and a larger nose. Armenids are prevalent among Armenians, and common throughout the Middle East, where they blend with Arabids to produce an easily recognizable Middle Eastern phenotype (cf. Assyrid). According to Coon, the Armenid (Armenoid, in his typology) type is the result of dinaricization of Iranids (Irano-Afghans, in his typology). Cf. Anatolid, Caucasid. ASSYRID Mostly Armenoid blend with Arabid, of moderate stature and rather heavy build. MEDITERRANID (Westisch ("Western", Günther)) A para-family of mostly brunet Europid types, all more or less dolichocephalic, orthognathous, meso- to leptorrhine, narrow-faced, fine-boned, and of medium head size. Mediterranids can be short-, medium- or tall-statured. The Mediterranid family, by no means a tightly knit group, subsumes the majority of peoples living in a belt running west to east from the Iberian peninsula and southern Italy, and throughout North Africa and the Black Sea area. Some anthropologists include Orientalids and even Indids in this already sprawling category. Some generally recognized Mediterranid types are Atlanto-Mediterranid, Gracile-Mediterranid and Pontid. The term is also used more specifically to refer to the Gracile-Mediterranid variety. EAST-MEDITERRANID Refers to the Mediterranid varieties, including Pontid, which are indigenous to the eastern Mediterranean areas. The term has also been applied to a larger selection of eastern European and Central Asian brunet dolichocephalic types, including Orientalids. ANATOLID (Anadolid) Mostly Armenoid blend with Mediterranid (mainly the old Cappadocid strain) which constitutes the prevalent racial type among the Turks (of Turkey). Anatolids are usually finer-featured, more leptomorphic and somewhat longer-headed than Armenids proper. CAPPADOCID A Mediterranid variety, prevalent in Asia Minor and adjacent areas in prehistoric times; nowadays it has largely blended with Armenoids (this blend is known as Anatolid). FunkMonk 14:53, 16 September 2007 (UTC) Racy photos & Phoenicia/ZertidaThe Sarmatian guy looks scary. I know now why the race people keep chasing you, I like those photos though. I am one of those who lost fait in the race/mideast, because you can find big racial variation just by looking at my own cousins! We are not as pure as your Nordic people. (no one invaded them, so the race remained isolated. Some areas in the mideast were overran by every race. SO you have to be a patient person to deal with that) , thats why I sent Nick your way = ). I added Phoenicia within the Arab world project, because its within the Arab world. And there was already some rubbish posts claiming the Phoenicians came from Africa! When the Britannica people clearly say that the Canannites are an Amorite extract. And the Amorites came from Arabia, mixed with the people of the levant. The ancient Arabians had no Negroid presence at all! (the modern South Arabians look darker, because of the Ethiopian invasion and later big slave Omani trade. This happenned after the 4th century AD).
--Skatewalk 05:34, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
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