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Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following images:

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{PD-self}} if you wish to release your own work to the public domain, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. Peter O. (Talk, automation script) 06:53, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Same as above for Image:FedereAO05.jpg. -- user:zanimum

Reply from user:Zaheen :

The Lara images were created by me and I have made them free under GFDL. Image:FedereAO05.jpg is an AFP photo published on the internet. I believe it constitutes fair use because

the purpose and character of the use is for nonprofit encyclopediac purposes;
the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work is not diminished since it was published to view freely on the internet.

Hi Zaheen,

I noticed the rather impressive video clips/animated gifs you added to the Roger Federer page. I wondered where you got them from, and what the copyright status was of those images? You can put information about the source and copyright on the Image: pages, eg. Image:Fedslice.gif. thanks, Matthewmayer

Fedslice.gif is taken from the internet and I am not sure of its copyright status. Since it's not used in any page, I have added it for potential deletion. - Zaheen

Image Tagging Image:HumayunAzad.jpg

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Hermann Osthoff

Did you intend to create this page with only a interwiki link? TimBentley (talk) 00:45, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's no longer empty, although it's not very good. TimBentley (talk) 04:18, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your account is not blocked. Please provide the message you receive when trying to edit. Shell ^babelfish 10:40, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hindi-Urdu grammar

Assalamalaikum Zaheen. I noticed that you placed a merge tag on the Hindi-Urdu grammar article. However, the decision has already been made that Hindi-Urdu grammar will be the final article. (see discussion). Hindustānī (Hindī-Urdū) grammar will be deleted after the addition of the Perso-Arabic script to Hindi-Urdu grammar has been completed. Most of the additions have already been made. If you know the Perso-Arabic script, you are more than welcome to finish the additions. Thanks for you help! It is very much appreciated Khuda hafiz. Anupam^Talk 21:57, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Brian Lara

Hi. I noticed that the tremendously interesting 4 graphs section of his article is 2+ years out of date. (There's also a typo in the first of them, "if" instead of "of"). Did you do them? --Dweller 09:10, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Writing system (Bengali language)

Hi, could you answer a query on your addition to this article over at its talk page. Thanks. → AA ^{(talk • contribs)} — 19:21, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

bn "Must Read"

But in that case, why is the line "Must read of contributors" in English, instead of Bengali? If it's a must-read for Bengali readers, wouldn't that shut out ones who don't know English? --Golbez 05:26, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are quibbling on semantics. Every educated Bengali, who is a potential contributor to the Bengali wikipedia, is intimately acquainted with both Bengali and English, to the point where he knows what "must-read for contributors" means. Due to its colonial legacy and recent international status as the lingua franca, English is the de facto second language in both Bangladesh and India (where majority of the potential Bengali wikipedia contributors come from), and it is taught to children from a very early age. So, no, there wouldn't be any "shutting out" that you seem to be worried about. Besides, the same "must read" content is prominently featured on the main page itself, as a module, in Bengali. --Zaheen 05:42, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe I am squabbling, but it just seems to make sense to me to have a notice to read something, and the actual something, in the same language. --Golbez 02:57, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Generally, yes, that makes sense. But as I explained, it is perfectly fine and natural in this case, since a potential educated Bengali contributor to the Bengali wikipedia would understand the message in either languages. I would hazard a guess that other than some extremely nitpicky individual, hardly anyone would complain about it and would just move along with the flow. --Zaheen 21:22, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Or, an American who went to the site, saw a must-read note in English, and found it went somewhere he couldn't read. :) Not everyone who journeys over to bn speaks or understands Bengali, I thought maybe it was leading to the English embassy there or some sort. Anyway, thank you for your responses. --Golbez 21:38, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No probs. I used to like to discuss about these things. For some reason I don't anymore. Forgive me if I came across a little crass. --Zaheen 21:58, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About Indo-Iranian languages template

First of all, I believe that there should be a separate Indo-Aryan template. The current Indo-Iranian one is becoming too huge.

Secondly, I've seen that you've added a lot of languages under "dialects" and similar headings. As far as Hindi and Urdu are concerned, it is all a complex debate. For example, you've not kept Bhojpuri as a dialect of Hindi because it is an Eastern I-A, and not acceptable to linguists. But then how can Dakhni, which is Southern be a dialect of Urdu? Even if it is, then why not of Hindi? So it seems that you are partly giving importance to linguistics and partly to sociological aspects. We need to get to a consistent solution. Maquahuitl^talk! 15:36, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have no problem with having a separate template for I-A.

About Dakhni, I went by the description on its page, which says "Dakhni, also known as Dakkhani, Deccani (Urdu: دکنی), is a dialect of the Urdu language, was spoken in the Deccan region of southern India, centered on the cities of Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Chennai." --Zaheen (talk) 00:07, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just checked up on Ethnologue, and it classifies Dakhni as a dialect of Urdu here. --Zaheen (talk) 00:13, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is as much of a dialect of Urdu as of Hindi. Several web references would call it as "Dakhini Hindi". I suggest that the better way would be to give importance to linguistics and not to sociological aspects of language in India, just like you've done for Bhojpuri and others. Maquahuitl^talk! 07:51, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Ethnologue is not just a web reference, it is the de facto standard linguistic reference (on the web and in print) when it comes to classification of languages. If they have classified Dakhni as a dialect of Urdu and Bhojpuri as a separate Eastern I-A language, I am not going to make up my own classifications on top of that. Can you point me to other credible web references that consider Dakhni a dialect of Hindi?--Zaheen (talk) 18:54, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnologue is surely a good reference, but by and large wikipedia has not blindly followed any single source but consulted several analyses and treatments of a particular case, especially when it comes to complex language-dialect debates like this. Search for DakhiniHindi and Urdu, you'll get references of both since the only reason that it could be associated with Urdu is because of its association with Muslims in South India and the usage of Perso-Arabic script. But otherwise, people have treated it as related to both(even though the "both",i.e. Hindi and Urdu themselves might be different in a funny way).

My suggestion is- just mention Dakhini or for that matter any other language, as such, in this template in order to avoid slight biased-ness. If a language or dialect is considered associated to another, we can mention that in the relevant personal template of that language. Maquahuitl^talk! 20:11, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The usage of Perso-Arabic script puts Dakhni in a similar class with Urdu and instantly differentiates it from Hindi, which is written in Devanagari script. We both know that Urdu and Hindi are syntactically almost the same language. The main difference between Hindi and Urdu (or some regional variety of Urdu like Dakhni) is that Urdu is written in the Perso-Arabic script and regularly uses many words of Persian and Arabic origin. I don't know what specific criteria Ethnologue used to determine that Dakhni is a dialect of Urdu, but it seems ok to me. The term dialect does not denote inferiority, if that's what you are worried about. A dialect basically means a regional variety. What is the Urdu language in North India and in Pakistan has a counterpart in South India called Dakhni, which is based mostly around Hyderabad. But it is also true that between Urdu and Dakhni, Urdu at present is clearly the more prominent literary language of the two, and it has official status in a sovereign country. So it makes sense to consider Dakhni as a dialect of Urdu.

I tried to trace the history of both Dakhni and Urdu and it seems their histories are tied together. I found the following links interesting:

They all seem to indicate that Dakhni evolved earlier than Urdu in South India as some kind of a literary language (a proto-Urdu language if you will), but then when Aurangazeb conquered the South, Urdu gained prominence with its association with Delhi, the administrative center of the Mughal empire. Many Dakhni poets and writers at the time switched over to Urdu as it had more prestige in the North-dominated India, Dakhni gradually lost it status as a premier literary language and is now considered a dialect, a spoken regional variety of Urdu. I have found many links, including Ethnologue and Encyclopedia Britannica, that consider Dakhni a dialect of Urdu.

As for your suggestion of treating all dialects as separate languages, what is the basis of doing so? --Zaheen (talk) 00:34, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I don't know how you define 'dialect' at the first place. My first motivation was that Dakhani belongs to Southern I-A, while Khariboli belongs to Central I-A. Anyway, even after that, I think that giving the names of languages and then their "dialects" within brackets(it's there for Bengali also) makes the template a little less crisp. The details about some dialects being different belongs to the personal templates of the those individual languages. It's not just about Hindi or Urdu- for example, Chittagongian and Sylheti might be fringe dialects in Bengali, but it comes to me only after I come within the domain of Bengali. Therefore, it is well and good to mention them in the template for Bengali, but mentioning them in the Indo-Iranian template itself is unwanted detail(well in my eyes it is perhaps).

However, if you think I am being unnecessary fussy, then this will be my last post on this issue. :)Maquahuitl^talk! 11:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More on Dakhni as a dialect of Urdu

The Indo-Aryan Languages (2003) edited by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain has a chapter on Urdu, written by Ruth Laila Schimdt, a linguist of the language. Here's the relevant excerpt (from p. 289) in which she claims Dakhni as a dialect of Urdu (emphasis mine):

“

Under the Delhi Sultanate (AD 1211 to 1504), the Zaban-e-Dehlavi or Khari Boli was carried throughout most of India with the Muslim army and their attached Hindu traders, as well as by Sufi mystics and preachers, establishing it as a lingua franca. In AD 1327, Panjabi-influenced Khari Boli was transplanted to the south of India along with the migration of the inhabitants of Delhi to Aurangabad in the Deccan, at the order of Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq. In the fifteenth century it became a literary language, known as Dakhani, Hindavi, Hindi, or Dehlavi in the Deccan kingdoms of Golkunda and Bijapur. Aside from a few specifically Panjabi features, Dakhani is an archaic form of Urdu showing strong affinities to the modern spoken form of Urdu of the artisans of Old Delhi, which is also known as Karkhandari Urdu. Both Karkhandari Urdu and Old Dakhani show a number of phonological and grammatical similarities which have disappeared from modern Urdu and Hindi.

Dakhani is a distinct dialect of Urdu, not at present used for literary purposes...

”

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Translation of article on Klaus Ebner

Hello. Thank you for the Bengali translation of the Ebner article. I added some information about the books and links. Maybe you could have a look at it and translate the English titles of it. Thank you. Irina Walter --Irina Walter (talk) 16:57, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistencies

Good idea. The section looks good so far, and I'll keep an eye on it and add to it as I think of material. --SameerKhan (talk) 13:04, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I responded on my talk page. --SameerKhan (talk) 15:52, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Since you are pretty much active here. Will be glad if we see you working there as well. Tanvir 07:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Take your time, but come back. We need experienced and tireless user like you. Tanvir 13:25, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Trying.... and I think I will. Tanvir 12:18, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Please note that *to you* they seemed like non-issues.

It's plain that you think you own the page. As evidenced by your instant reverts of edits you admit you cannot actually fault, you simply thought there was nothing wrong with the last one. Tough luck, the page does not belong to you. I thought there was something wrong with it and my view counts for as much as yours. I note that your revert includes restoring a maliciously named link. Do you think we didn't notice the link to liberalism article with the link being the word "illiberalism". Your restoration of this misleading link is evidence of your bad faith.

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It would also be nice to know the data source, was this from Wisden? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 09:45, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Style questions

It's unfortunate that a simple style question can create a pretty toxic "discussion". I'm not totally innocent of some "pre-emptive snark" myself and it's the times that it might have turned someone off that I try to re-evaluate. I hope the experience at the Cougar page won't discourage further style editing from you, but be prepared for more of the same sometimes. Primergrey (talk) 14:31, 6 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Primergrey:, it's ok. Thanks for the nice words. Appreciate it. Zaheen (talk) 17:37, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm not sure why you are adding this incomplete template to so many articles? It is filled with dab links. How is this going to assist readers with navigation? Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:04, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Magnolia677, I did add the footer to a small fraction of articles contained in it. As you might have noticed in the history of the template, I am in the process of fixing the disambiguation links. It’s a work in progress. Thanks for your constructive and supportive message. --Zaheen (talk) 17:17, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't you move the template to draft until it is complete? Magnolia677 (talk) 17:57, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Magnolia677, I have fixed all the dab links.--Zaheen (talk) 18:58, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Your template is useful even though it isn't on any articles right now. However, I am not sure if it is the right time to be making it since my RfC and a number of relevant TfDs are open. --Catchpoke (talk) 21:49, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Bsherr, thanks.--Zaheen (talk) 11:44, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Diannaa, thanks for the catch. It was lazy of me. I will reword the information using my own words. --Zaheen (talk) 20:11, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Diannaa, I rewrote the bit. I hope it's ok this time around.--Zaheen (talk) 07:31, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The new version looks okay. Thanks for taking the time to do that.— Diannaa (talk) 12:56, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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census 2011

২০১১ সালের জনশুমারি অনুযায়ী গাজীপুর সিটির জনসংখ্যা ১,১৯৯,২৩৫ জন। আপনি সেখানে ২১৩,৫০৫ জন যেটা ইন্ডিয়ার (Ghazipur) এর জনসংখ্যা দেন কেন? ভুল তথ্য যোগ করে আবার সোর্স লিংক দেন? তাওফিকুল ইসলাম মাহফুজ (talk) 00:55, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello তাওফিকুল ইসলাম মাহফুজ, since this is the English wikipedia, please write in English for communication so that everyone else can understand. To answer your question, I am quite sure that I have added the correct population number for Gazipur from the source given, i.e. the 2011 Bangladesh census. All the populations for cities in Bangladesh are taken from the same page (page XI or page 13 of the pdf file in question) of the source pdf. There has been no mistake as far as I am concerned. It is clearly written in the table of cities in that page that according to the census in 2011, the population of Gazipur (item number 16) is 213061. Thanks for asking. --Zaheen (talk) 12:07, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In page 69 of the report (page 85 of the pdf file- Population Housing Census 2011), it is clearly mentioned under the entry Gazipur that: The total population of the city is 213061 of which 111307 are males and 101754 are females with a density of 4511 persons per sq.km." - --Zaheen (talk) 12:25, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I challenged you. When the census is taken in 2021, you can see the population of Gazipur City. Then if Gazipur City is not at number 3, tell me later. You seem to know that Tangi, Konabari, Safipur became part of Gazipur City after becoming Gazipur City Corporation in 2013. So as of 2011, including those places, the population of Gazipur City is 1199235 people. তাওফিকুল ইসলাম মাহফুজ (talk) 18:08, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

তাওফিকুল ইসলাম মাহফুজ, the 2011 census numbers clearly say that Gazipur did not have 1199235 inhabitants in 2011, but 213061. It is in the census pdf. I gave you the source pdf and the pages to look at. It is your job to read and understand those pages. If you say the Gazipur city has absorbed other towns like Tongi, Konabari and Safipur in 2013 and therefore has a bigger population since then, then you and I have to provide link for that, and then we have to provide link for the 1100235 number as well (by the way, where did you get that number?). But then, if we do that for Gazipur, using 2013 numbers, then the population numbers for other cities in the table also have to be updated to at least 2013. This is too complicated. Remember, this is not a competition about which city is the 1st, 2nd or 3rd biggest city in Bangladesh. We want reliable population numbers for all cities during the same year. In this case, the most reliable resource is the 2011 census and the most reliable numbers for all the cities are from the year 2011, not 2013 or later. --Zaheen (talk) 19:16, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

তাওফিকুল ইসলাম মাহফুজ, I have researched a little and have found that GCC has about 1.1 million voters (during the 2018 election) and about 2.5 million residents (according to the GCC website; year unknown). So I agree with you that Gazipur numbers must be updated (the ranking is not important, correct population numbers at 2011 are more important, the ranking will follow naturally). Is there a way to find the approximate population of Gazipur in 2011 by adding the populations of Tongi, Konabari, Safipur and Gazipur in 2011? Are there other towns inside GCC? Please help me in this regard. Thanks. --Zaheen (talk) 19:32, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know that 85% of the country's garment industry is located in Gazipur? After Dhaka and Chittagong, Gazipur has the most industry in Bangladesh. People from all over Bangladesh come to Gazipur for work. After the formation of the city corporation in 2013, its population was 2.5 million. Source link: http://gcc.gov.bd/site/page/0f4394e7-0406-422e-9e43-f2ec6455ecb9/- Now it stands at over 4 million. In 2011 only Joydebpur part of the population which is more than 2 lakh. You are also right that if the population of Gazipur City is given according to 2013, the rest of the cities will also have to be given according to 2013. There is no need for so much. Whether it is the 2021 census, then you can see the actual population of Gazipur City. তাওফিকুল ইসলাম মাহফুজ (talk) 03:20, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.wikiwand.com/bn/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%96%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%80_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BC_%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE তাওফিকুল ইসলাম মাহফুজ (talk) 03:32, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

তাওফিকুল ইসলাম মাহফুজ: Yes, I am aware of the huge growth of Gazipur in the last 10 years. Let's wait for the next census so that we can update all the population numbers with reliable and synchronized data. Thanks for the conversation. --Zaheen (talk) 16:14, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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SDNONE

Hi Zaheen, thanks for reverting several unnecessary short descriptions back to "none".
I have had problems on several articles with different editors repeatedly removing "none" and adding an unnecessary description - thinking that they are helping. I have, therefore, been adding hidden text  after the SD and this has significantly reduced (I won't say totally stopped) the number of re-additions.
Just a suggestion - take it or leave it. Best wishes - Arjayay (talk) 12:59, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Arjayay, it sounds like a reasonable suggestion to me. I was trying to be consistent with SDNONE as far as individual disease history and SDNONE made sense in this case. I will use your hidden note in the future. Thanks. --Zaheen (talk) 17:58, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See also WP:SDFORMAT more generally. Your adventure film shortdesc of Film genre about dangerous and challenging journeys and explorations in exotic settings. was much longer than is recommended, and shouldn't have included the closing punctuation. --Belbury (talk) 17:03, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Belbury, thanks. In my understanding of the article, adventure films are typically a hero's positive quest in an exotic setting. Would that be ok for a SD in terms of length and reflection of the content? --Zaheen (talk) 18:44, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's okay for length but it's not that reflective. It would read oddly to have a short description that was much more confident about defining the genre than the first paragraph felt able to. Perhaps the lead in general needs more work first. Belbury (talk) 19:03, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References for Outline

Hi @Zaheen, nice job on Outline of infectious disease concepts. Unfortunately it is unsourced at the moment. Would you mind adding citations when you get a chance (per WP:SOURCELIST)? I have tagged it for the moment. Thanks, --Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 20:49, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Classicwiki, thank you for the heads up. I have just added many inline citations and will add more in the coming days. --Zaheen (talk) 01:23, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding to the Engineering template

Just because there is some vague mention of engineering in the article does not make it a real topic. I have reverted some of your additions since they were not relevant, as well as some older ones that were also not relevant. Ldm1954 (talk) 17:23, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Ldm1954, thank you for the message. I am sure you have very good reasons for reverting what you reverted. But I having trouble understanding your reasoning as you stated above. If the articles I added to the template are on wikipedia and they have engineering in their actual names, then in your opinion they are either "vague" or not "real" engineering disciplines. Is that what you are saying? Then why are those imposter disciplines being hosted on wikipedia? Could you please explain? Or am I not allowed to add anything without your permission? Do I have to run it by you every time ? Or can I be bold and go ahead anyway? --Zaheen (talk) 17:36, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did not see this earlier comment. To respond specifically, just because they have "engineering" in the name or vaguely mentioned does not make them real topics. One I have left (for the moment) is Explosives engineering. I may very well do an AfD on this, as it is very marginal in terms of which universities consider this a real subject.

But I didn't add explosives engineering, so why mention it here? --Zaheen (talk) 18:25, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Add, but please check beyond just the name. Ldm1954 (talk) 18:14, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

~~:::I have checked. Why is that important? --Zaheen (talk) 18:25, 18 August 2024 (UTC)~~[reply]

I have also noticed that you have not removed some of my additions with Engineering in them. So I guess you agree with some of my inclusions at least. But at the same time, you are asking me to stop adding any more. Are you impying that you don’t trust my additions? Are you not assuming good faith on my part, giving me the benefit of the doubt? ~~I have also seen some subjective commentary like "more corrosion", implying that you consider good faith additions to be "corroding". Is this good wiki etiquette?~~ --Zaheen (talk) 17:48, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have not removed all of them. What I did was based upon both my prior academic experience as an engineering Prof, and from reading the articles removed any which only vaguely mention engineering. I am not sure what your expertise is, it can be difficult to know what in science is real versus not, and what is really only political spin. (Scientists spin a lot.)

The "more corrosion" must have been a typo for "move corrosion". Ldm1954 (talk) 18:08, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have also noticed that you have not removed all of them. But the ones that are mine that you did remove (you removed some that I didn't add as well and I have nothing to say about those atm)... well, I have questions about those particular removals. I have no doubt you are an eminent expert in your field. But I have an engineering degree as well. Your reasoning behind those removal seems to be the assertion (could very well be valid) that these are "dubious", "irrelevant", "vague", "polito-scientific spin" and finally an argument from authority from your academic experience. And then you ask me to flat out stop, in my talk page, no discussion. Forgive me if I am not entirely convinced. --Zaheen (talk) 18:20, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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