User talk:Sibahi

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1 Translation request
2 Hello Dear Sibahi
3 WikiProject Saudi Arabia
4 Image copyright problem with Image:NIZAR_KABBANI.gif
5 Greetings
6 Egyptian Arabic
7 Very, very sorry
8 New article you may want to edit

[edit] Translation request

Hello, I saw that you are a native speaker of Arabic, so I would like to ask you if you could take a look at 2003 invasion of Iraq and Iraq War. There is a featured article in Arabic which we would like to know how it could be used the English one which is of course dominated by people who have either been there as soldiers or have their knowledge from western media. Someone also asked if the section about "related propaganda and phrases" could be amplified with information about the Iraqi side. Maybe there are also people who took photos in Iraq at the Arabic version? Nameme 16:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello Dear Sibahi

My Name is Salem Sibahi from Alex, Are you fro Egypt?

No. I am not. :-) --Sibahi_(talk) 11:38, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Saudi Arabia

Hey there, you are invited to join us at the Saudi Arabia WikiProject, which you can help us at and expand Saudi atrticles if you want. Thank you, Salam --Muhaidib 18:11, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:NIZAR_KABBANI.gif

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[edit] Greetings

If you get a chance, can you please see the discussion page for the Nizar Qabbani article? Thanks! --Jrastro 02:30, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Egyptian Arabic

Please, do not remove category Egyptian Arabic/Masri from WP:Babel again, as it is in fact considered vandalism. I already deleted the inclusion on the Non-ISO list. Egyptian Arabic is assigned an ISO number [1]). Read the article on Egyptian Arabic for more information — Zerida 09:30, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Egyptian Arabic is not a real language. It is merely a dialect of Arabic and all Arabs can understand easily. It doesn't matter to me what http://www.ethnologue.com says; they don't know what they are talking about. Even the government of Egypt and Egyptians doesn't consider the dialect a real language! --Sibahi_talk 09:39, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

To repeat: please, read the article on Egyptian Arabic to see the discussion regarding the status of the vernacular. It may not "matter" to you but that is merely your POV which does not necessarily agree with the opinion of others. Also, you cannot include an ISO-recognized language with an assigned number on a non-ISO page regardless of how you personally feel about the issue. It simply doesn't make sense. I'm going to ask for administrative intervention if you don't stop removing content from Wikipedia pages. — Zerida 09:58, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

If you insist. Whatever, the page Wikipedia:Userboxes/Non-ISO Languages is refernced to in the Wikiproject Userboxes Tamplate the it is Non-ISO Languages and Dialects. You say that it is an ISO Language and its place is the Babel page. (And by the way, the ISO code is arz, not ma. Don't you think you should change this too?) To most Arabs and Egyptains, it is merely a dialect of Arabic (like Scottish English is a dialect of English), hence its place should be in the dialects section. So, what prevents it from being in both places, thus satisfying the NPOV policy.? (A side note, would you mind telling me how to use the popups to revert and edit?) --Sibahi_talk 10:30, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

The template is referring to both non-ISO languages and dialects (ie. non-ISO languages and non-ISO dialects). Wikipedia:Userboxes/Non-ISO Languages specifically states: "This page here are for the spinoffs on actual Babel boxes but aren't actual ISO language sets." Therefore, by definition, Egyptian Arabic does not belong there. The analogy with Scottish English doesn't apply because it is not recognized by Ethnologue at all (it only lists English). However, do not confuse Scottish English with Scots which is regarded as a language by linguists and recognized as such by the British government (WP:Babel Scots). Scots is more analogous to Masri/Egyptian Arabic empirically.

As regards the language codes, WP:Babel does not follow ISO codes which are made up of three letters, whereas Wikipedia conventionally uses two except when a code is already in use. To enable popups, go to WP:POPUP for instructions. It's a helpful tool--please, do not use it for edit warring. Thank you. — Zerida 11:12, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Very, very sorry

Sorry to bother you with an article which IMHO should have been deleted (AfD failed) and which was only created due to the Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy.

But anyway, may you have a look at Talk:Aslim_Taslam#What's_missing?

Pjacobi 22:03, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New article you may want to edit

Greetings Sibahi , I found you through Category:Wikipedians in Saudi Arabia. I've started a new article about Saudi Arabia's first feature film: Keif al-hal?. I invite you to contribute to it if such an article might interest you. Thanks. :-) (→Netscott) 17:30, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

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