User talk:Gergis

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Sphinx

Hi Gergis - why are you undoing my changes please? I specifically moved the inferences of the dating to the end, to separate the scientific evidence from the subjective deductions. Please clarifyWdford (talk) 14:39, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Thanks for the edits in Pashalik of Shkodra. Could you please see if you can make the links of the sources readable online? Thank you for your help! --_Sulmues^{Let's talk} 14:59, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Legitimate question. A citation such as this is much more helpful. Again thanks for your edits.--_Sulmues^{Let's talk} 12:41, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Another thing: Per this agreement we have decided to take off the titles of bey and pasha from the Albanians in Wikipedia, so I accordingly made some changes. Please feel free to bring your thoughts there, I'd be delighted to know your thoughts. --_Sulmues^{Let's talk} 14:27, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Queen Sabika bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa

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Talk:Thinis/GA1

I have reviewed the Thinis article which you submitted for a GAN. I have placed the nomination on hold due to a few issues. You can see the review checklist and my comments at the Good Article talk page for the article. I think over all the article is certainly moving in the right direction and could easily gain Good Article status with a few changes. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! TimonyCrickets (talk) 14:19, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Institutions of the Arab League

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Talk:Thinis/GA2

Hi Gergis. I have reviewed the Thinis article which you submitted for a GAN; and I regard the article as mostly compliant with WP:WIAGA appart from the WP:Lead, The review is now On Hold. I will award GA-status if the lead is improved. Pyrotec (talk) 11:27, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Changes made to lead section, per your comments. Hope this works. gergis (talk) 12:34, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yes it worked. I edited your new lead a bit, but the article is now a GA. Pyrotec (talk) 20:03, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Flag icon identifying summit host

As you may recall, the edit history of Template:Infobox summit includes your name. This causes me to guess that you may be willing to help resolve a small problem.

According to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (icons)#Avoid flag icons in infoboxes, the construction of this template is slightly flawed. In the resulting infoboxes, identification of the host country mirrors {{flagicon}}.

Despite MOS conventions, is there a arguable reason why host country flags should be incorporated in the infoboxes of summits? Can it be said to aid in navigation in the same way that {{flagicon}} is useful in the tables at G8 and G-20 major economies?

Please share your thoughts at Template talk:Infobox summit. IMO, this should be a non-issue; but I did notice that it was the subject of an edit war at BRICS.

If consensus develops for removing the flag, I don't understand how to modify the template. --Tenmei (talk) 15:11, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of William de Brantingham

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Talk:Great Sphinx of Giza

You might want to comment here as some of your edits have been ascribed to me (for no reason at all that I can see other than the editor doesn't like me) and attacked. Dougweller (talk) 06:16, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

article

i see you fixed up my contribution last time...can you help me expand on the stub article al ahbash? it seems to lack NPOV Baboon43 (talk) 00:34, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Now used in the Al-Ahram Weekly infobox -- thanks. gergis (talk) 16:00, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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