User talk:Dontbesogullible

Welcome![edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Dontbesogullible! I am AFriedman and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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AFriedman (talk) 16:22, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Turkish related articles[edit]

I see you've been making some good edits to a number of articles about Turkish subjects. You may want to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Turkey and/or Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottoman Empire, which are places where people who would like to improve articles about these areas can discuss them and coordinate their efforts. There are WikiProjects about many other subjects, too. --AFriedman (talk) 16:24, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Osmanli-7-filo-dublin1847a.jpg[edit]

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November 2010[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Bulgar dili[edit]

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Szekely[edit]

HI

Please discuss on the talk page Talk:Székely#Requested_move rather than edit warring over the page moves.

Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 00:06, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Székelys vs Székely[edit]

The usual plural form is Székelys. The plural form without the desinence -s, is also used, but more rarely:

-"the szekelys were" has 189 results on google books

-"the szekely were" has only 26 results on google books

-"the szekelys have" has 26 results on google books

-"the szekely have" has only 2 results on google books (Iaaasi (talk) 08:45, 7 March 2011 (UTC))[reply]

Request[edit]

Hello, I've seen your add at Szekely article and I'd like to ask you which is the source of the statement "The 16th century from the end of the remaining flags and uniforms show that the Szekler people used the sky-blue-gold-silver and red and black flags". Any text must be supported by a reliable source WP:RS (Iaaasi (talk) 11:58, 23 March 2011 (UTC))[reply]

Reply[edit]

Hello iaasi, I got it from the SZEKELY FLAG page in Hungarian language: Székely zászló

http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sz%C3%A9kely_z%C3%A1szl%C3%B3

it is the first paragraph: The 16th század végéről fennmaradt zászlók és egyenruhák tanúsága szerint, a székelység által használt az arany-égszinkék-ezüst, valamint a vörös és fekete a kimondottan székely szimbólumszínek.

There are two reliable sources that shows that information.

I am sorry, but I see no reference for the text "The 16th century from the end of the remaining flags and uniforms show that the Szekler people used the sky-blue-gold-silver and red and black flags" (hu.wikipedia can not be considered a source for en.wikipedia) (Iaaasi (talk) 20:07, 24 March 2011 (UTC))[reply]

March 2011[edit]

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Kazakhstan[edit]

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A kitten for you![edit]

This is a kitten :)

Dontbesogullible (talk) 14:18, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the kitten.

Possibly unfree File:Gokturkcoin2.jpg[edit]

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December 2011[edit]

Your addition to Khazars has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Jayjg ^(talk) 14:28, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Specifically, with this addition you copied material directly from http://www.khazaria.com/khazar-history.html . Have you copied other material directly from that article or others? Jayjg ^(talk) 14:29, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I got the information from that page. Did I make a mistake by not adding the REF tag? I forgot to add the ref tags. Can I add the information again by adding the ref tags?(talk)

If you copy information from a source you must put it in quotation marks - but that should be a last resort. Is there other material that has been copied word-for-word in the article? Jayjg ^(talk) 15:42, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are no others. By the way, can I paraphrase the sententes and add the information again this time by including the REF tag?

You can paraphrase it, but are you sure you actually wrote everything else? How about this:

Islamic armies conquered Persia, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Armenia, part of Azerbaijan and surrounded the Byzantine heartland (present-day Turkey) in a pincer movement which extended from the Mediterranean to the Caucasus and the southern shores of the Caspian. This was the time when the long series of wars called Khazar-Arab wars began. These wars eventually saw the Arabs defeated at every advance with the death of thousands of Arab soldiers including their commander, Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rabiah, and the Arab armies in complete disarray. The Arab armies' inability to traverse the Caucasus made it logistically impossible for them to besiege the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. Coupled with the military barrier presented by the Khazars themselves, this prevented Europe from more direct and intensive assaults by the forces of Islam, arguably keeping it from falling to the Muslim armies.

You wrote that on your own? Jayjg ^(talk) 01:00, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I got it from Arthur Koestler's Thirteenth Tribe, but I changed some words, for example in the book it says "the Muslims had conquered Persia, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and surrounded the Byzantine heartland in a deadly semi-circle" and I said "Islamic armies conquered Persia, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Armenia, part of Azerbaijan and surrounded the Byzantine heartland (present-day Turkey) in a pincer movement"... Is this still considered as violation? I will paraphrase the words from now on when I add information from books.

There are a lot of problems with this. To begin with, Koestler is not a WP:RS on the subject. Second, you haven't cited him. Third, you may be doing what is known as "close paraphrasing" - see Wikipedia:Plagiarism. Please review your contributions to ensure that sources are reliable, and properly cited and paraphrased. Jayjg ^(talk) 17:31, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the information. I will check them.

Another editor just removed all this material from the lede, because it had also been copied word-for-word from khazaria.com, I assume by you. I thought you were going to clean this up. Have you even attempted to do so? Jayjg ^(talk) 05:36, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I will check it again.

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