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Tibet

Check the definition of Central Asia and East Asia,and check the South Asia,Tibet is either seen as Central Asia and East Asia.But never South Asia--Ksyrie 19:02, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Zeta Gundam

Why are you moving the page again? please see WP:GUNDAM talk page to see what we have discussed and what the consensus is. I am not moving the page back for now, please move it back if you agree to the discussion and if not, feel free to discuss it further there. The renaming is making the page more difficult to find even for fans. MythSearchertalk 15:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Atlas

You might be interested in joining the WikiProject Atlas at commons:Commons:WikiProject Atlas. Electionworld Talk? 08:01, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Jackson

What does AJ stand for? It was added to his name at the start of the article. Israell 11:26, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can

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Hi,

I have noticed your editions on Indian martial arts, Varma Kalai, Dravidian martial arts and Indian Malaysian amongst other topics. We have just recently formed the WikiProject Dravidian Civilizations. This project will cover most every aspect on the Dravidian civilizations of South Asia. If you are interested in joining, please go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dravidian civilizations and post your name in the members section. Regards. Wiki Raja 06:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

chat2007

There is an informal discussion and a straw poll at Talk:Indo-Aryan migration/chat2007. Your input would be beneficial. --RF 08:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kurów on Bengal Wikipedia

Could you please write a stub http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w - just a few sentences based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w or HI wiki? Only 2-5 sentences enough. Please.

PS. Article about Kurów is already on 133 languages. Pietras1988 21:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Centralized video game navbox discussion

You previously expressed a strongly-stated opinion about a video game navbox or all video game navboxes in general, or perhaps I clicked on your talk page by mistake. Whichever it is, you are invited to offer your opinion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#Navboxes III: Son of Navboxes. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 07:26, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suddenly...

Partition of India is in FAC! Will you take the opportunity, and help it attain the FA status? Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 14:32, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have my most sincere apology

I am truly sorry for my mistake. I should have known that a person of your stature would not commit such an error. Thank you for correcting me in this matter. Writtenright 03:28, 14 March 2007 (UTC)Writtenright[reply]

RfAr

An arbitration case has been filed against me. Could you please take a look into it? . If you could find time to recount your impression of the contributions I've made to the martial arts related projects then I would be very grateful. Many regards,

Freedom skies| talk  10:21, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Freedom skies

Hello,

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Asian Latin American

Thank you for your edits. However, some of the countries on the list are not Latin American countries, as Latin America is made up of the countries in this hemisphere where a Latin language predominates. But the information you added pertaining to these countries is most welcome. SamEV 05:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Right you are that Belize and Guadaloupe speak Romance languages, in the latter's case as primary language. But the problem is that they're not considered part of Latin America usually. If we include them it looks like we're trying to make some sort of political statement that we're in fact not trying to make at all. Remember the title "Asian Latin American". SamEV 05:12, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Steccchini on Xerxes' army

Herodotos reports that the King of Persia, after he had brought his army from Asia to Europe on two pontoon bridges thrown across the sea at the Hellespont, proceeded to a muster of the army and the navy at Doriskos, near the present Graeco-Turkish frontier. Herodotos uses the narrative of this muster in order to list and describe in detail all the contingents that composed this army drawn from 46 nationalities (VII 59-88). The infantry would have been counted by letting the men pack completely a precinct that could hold 10,000 men; since the precinct was filled 170 times, the infantry would have consisted of 1,700,000 soldiers (VII 60). This counting by units of 10,000 is mentioned also by Aischylos (line 981). Herodotos reckons that since for each combatant there was at least one non-combatant campfollower or supply man, the total of the army on foot must have been about 3,400,000 men. But since other Greek sources estimate the effectives of the Persian army around 700,000 or 800,000 soldiers, Herodotos must have been guilty of error: the figure of 1,700,000 must have included the non-combatants. Herodotos estimates that the cavalry amounted to about 80,000 horsemen plus 20,000 men mounted on camels or chariots (VI 84). Later the Persian forces were joined by men provided by the European allies in an amount that Herodotos guesses might have been 300,000 (VIII 85).

and

In my opinion, the King decided to double the normal table of organization of the Persian army, which was 300,000 infantry and 50,000 cavalry, plus about one non-combatant for each combatant. This would explain the figures of Herodotos and the figures provided by other Greek writers. The apparent contradictions noticed by Gobineau between the titles of the Persian officers and the number of men under their command would be resolved. In the case of the cavalry, the Persians did not succeed in filling up the intended strength, so that they brought to Greece 20,000 men mounted on camels and on chariots whose usefulness in that land was most dubious. The mobilization of the Persian army from Thrakia to Arabia and from India to Egypt was such a complex operation that of necessity it had to take a certain bureaucratic rigidity.

from [1] Ikokki 10:08, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See Talk:Greco-Persian Wars#Steccchini on Xerxes' army for my response to your message. Jagged 85 05:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sylheti userbox

Hi, I noticed that you had a custom Userbox for Sylheti. I've suggested a standard format in the Sylheti language talk page. The changes are the language code is syl (ISO639-3) (Sylheti doesn't have a 2 character code) and the category is syl-N instead of bn-N. If there are sufficient entries, then we can create the category also and maybe create a template.

Aktar Ahmed, 09:34, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vital articles

Hi, I'm working on WP:VA to improve. This page does have a problem with being Eurocentric. I found that you have participated in Science and technology in ancient India. Please tell us your idea and add the most notable persons or events:Wikipedia Talk:Vital articles#Eurocentreism. Please invite other knowledgeable wikipedians If you are busy.--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 13:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References on Heliocentrism

Hi Jagged,

I've noticed that your recent edits on Heliocentrism don't give specific page references on the footnotes. I realize that the earlier references in that article do not cite specific pages, but Wikipedia practice now requires full citations, including page numbers, whenever possible.

I encourage you to be more precise in your citations so we can bring Heliocentrism up to encyclopedic standards. Thanks. --SteveMcCluskey 19:43, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Take a look at this, do you agree with the change of format? Should Upperbound ancient numbers like 5 million be listed in the info-box? If so, then why aren't the lowerbound modern estimates listed? By the way, enable your e-mail address please. --Mardavich 17:44, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re

What do you think of this new change? Kampouris as a source doesn't appear to conform with WP:RS, the source is not in English, and doesn't seem neutral or notable.--Mardavich 19:06, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hi, and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the project coordinators, or any experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Carom 00:05, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Military history project podcast on the Battle of Thermopylae

We are trying to develop offline publications at our publication departement. Currently one of our projects is a podcast(less work than a wikireader) on the Battle of Thermopylae. The editor concerned with the task would like to have some more information on the Persian preparations(here) and you were one of the main editors of the concerning article (+I liked your work). This is our podcaster: ShakespeareFan00 (please answer on his talk page). Once again: Welcome Wandalstouring 08:28, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jagged. Would you agree to restore the article to what I regard as the last most "stable" version [2]? That was the version agreed by us two some time ago. I find that it was better and more neutral than the current one in many aspects. Most edits made inbetween were abundant. What do you say? It may be a good status quo before you and ikkoki reach an agreement in Talk. Cheers. Miskin 01:04, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In addition, I agree with you that only nonpartisan sources should be preferred. However I do agree with Ikkoki that lower numbers are given undue weigh, even by Kelly who doesn't seem to specialise on the numbers topic (it's not the focus of his paper). Would you agree to fix a consensus range at 100K-300K? This is more along the lines of mainstream historical references, while it does pay respect to Kelly's claims. What do you think? Miskin 01:25, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just read your answer. I guess we could use this as a status quo version and add to it the disputed paragraph on very large and very low figures. Miskin 01:30, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Battle of the Persian Gate

Hi Jagged, just one question regarding the aformentioned article/battle. Which source did you find citing only 48 hours (2 days) of fighting. This source I found does claim, like the original author of the Wiki article that it was 48 days. Just look near the end of the article I have listed. Hope to hear from you on this. Thanks.--Arsenous Commodore 04:27, 21 April 2007 (UTC) http://www.iranian.ws/cgi-bin/iran_news/exec/view.cgi/13/9026[reply]

Something for you

I hereby award you the WikiChevrons for your outstanding work on medieval warfare in the Middle East. Kirill Lokshin 23:50, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Taxila

It was a university; I have provided some sources and more will come in good time. For the time being I'm watchlisting the article and will check in on the discussions.
Regards, Freedom skies| talk  12:39, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Last stand

I noticed your edits on Last stand, if you want to cite the lowest possible range (an estimate which has no other supporting sources), then I will simply add the highest possible range as well. Regards.--NeroDrusus 21:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Freedom skies

This case is now closed and the results have been published at the link above.

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XIV (April 2007)

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Muslim antecedents of anthropology

Thank you for your contribution on Muslim antecedents of anthropology in the History of anthropology page. However, it is not clear from your contribution what exactly these medieval Muslim scholars did that constitutes an antecedent to modern anthropology. A number of earlier scholars wrote about other peoples. For example, Herodotus (484 BCE–ca. 425 BCE) is sometimes called the "father of anthropology" as well as the "father of history", as the first writer in the Western tradition to attempt a comparative description of various peoples and their customs; similarly, the Roman historian Tacitus (ca. 56 – ca. 117 CE) is our source for knowledge of the customs and social organization of many peoples of northwestern Europe, and has matched up well with the archaeological record. I suspect there are likely similar scholars in medieval or ancient China, India, Japan, etc. It would be interesting to know more about the Muslim scholars you cite, if you can expand the current entry, and whether their writings had any sort of historical connection with modern anthropology. If they have not had any particular connection to modern anthropology, then perhaps it would be more appropriate to put them in a section or separate article along the lines of "Comparative studies of culture in the pre-modern period". On the other hand, if they have contributed to or have been taken up by anthropologists or sociologists in the modern Muslim world, perhaps you could add a new section on "Anthropology in the Muslim World" or something along those lines.

I am also a bit concerned at present that the tone is rather uncritical. The first article cited, for instance, is commentary by an anthropological historian, in the context of discussing whether an objective anthropology is compatible with Islam, and citing these two medieval Muslim scholars as evidence that it is possible to practice comparative study of cultures without compromising one's faith in Islam or one's objectivity. Fine and good, but for this section to frame the material adequately really requires far more treatment than is currently present. I am going to edit it a bit to frame it somewhat, but it would be good if Jagged 85 or some other interested party followed up with Akbar's later book to address some of these issues. I will copy this on the talk section of the History of anthropology page. Mccajor 20:23, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on Islamic Science

Congratulations on the major effort to improve the article on Islamic Science; it now tells us much more about the achievements of Islamic scholars than it did six months ago.

When I first looked at the article it was highly oriented toward the "Islamic Science" movement -- which (as I understand it) maintains that there is one proper Muslim approach to science. At that time I proposed -- and implemented -- a split into two articles: one on Islamic Science and the other on the History of science in the Islamic World.

Thanks to your work, the Islamic Science article is now much more solid as a historical presentation of science in the Islamic World. If your changes survive future edits, I would not object to looking a few months down the line at a merger of the two articles to undo the split.

Would you please take a look at these two articles and see how they relate and how they should relate to the Islam and History of Science wikiprojects. I'd welcome your comments. --SteveMcCluskey 14:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For all your hard work with the Last stand article, I, Sharkface217, hereby award you this barnstar. Good job! S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 19:11, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]


You're quite welcome. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 03:24, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jagged

Since you've been involved on many articles with User:Miskin, can you give an input here? --AlexanderPar 19:02, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mathematics CotW

Hey Jagged, I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--Cronholm144 22:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indian Mathematics

I noticed that you had added some references to the page. I am in the process of starting a major revision of the page, which I had originally planned to do much earlier (after an RfC in March). I hope you'll have some time to help with the revision, or at least to give feedback and criticism. Regards, Fowler&fowler«Talk» 01:04, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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