User talk:Vagueman

Welcome

Hi Vagueman, and welcome to Wikipedia and to WP:Egypt.

To answer your question:

This guide should provide you with everything you need to know about editing: Wikipedia:How to edit a page

If you're going to add something to the Yom Kippur War article (or to any other article for that matter), be aware that this particularly is a featured article, so any addition you make will be removed unless you back up the information you added with inline citations of reliable sources (see:Wikipedia:Citing sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources). I understand your sources are online. In that case take a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources#Links and ID numbers.

This should get you started. I'm sorry if it's a lot of reading, but its important that you familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's guidelines. If another user challenges your additions to an article, discuss the matter on the article's talk page, and try to stay out of edit wars.

Unfortunately, the Yom Kippur War article is protected because of almost regular acts of vandalism by anonymous users. Once your account reaches a certain minimum age (approximately 5+ days) and mimimum number of edits (around 15) you can edit it. It shouldn't be too difficult to reach those milestones.

If you like, you can give me those sources and I'll see what I can add. However I encourage you to do this yourself.

By the way, I'm curious; how did you know I was interested in the Yom Kippur War?

Happy editing! :) --Sherif9282 (talk) 21:22, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... Interesting. The Soviet and American estimates are indeed in Hasan el-Badri's book, and they are in the Yom Kippur War article as such. Let me know of anything else that's interesting in that source. I'll add it soon enough (but can you give tell me what's the title?). As for your questions:

1- The Mansourah air battle is mentioned several times in the Wikipedia, as in the article about the Egyptian Air Force, all based on the acig site. I can't tell you why it hasn't been written yet. Personally I wanted to create the article, but I am waiting until I got a book entitled Pheonix Over the Nile, which is supposed to contain details of the air battle. However, this doesn't mean you can't go ahead yourself and create the article.

2- The problem with photographs is the copyright (remember Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, so any photographs added to Wikipedia must be in the public domain). Probably all photographs of the war are copyrighted so far. --Sherif9282 (talk) 07:22, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, how do you auto translate? --Sherif9282 (talk) 07:32, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is no problem with adding the Arab estimates. It's just that when you add them, you will need to cite a source, and when citing the source you will have to mention the title of your source. As for you photographs, (100s of photos! Must be a great collection) you can only know their copyright if you know their source (ie: the website you got them from, it should include information concerning the copyright). Photographs from forums are not accepted however. As for the Mansoura air battle, I've finished writing it. I mainly used the acig website, and another book which has some information relating to the battle in general. I'm going to add it here in the Wikipedia, and maybe you can add information from your own source. --Sherif9282 (talk) 07:14, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not at all Vagueman. I'm glad to answer your questions. I myself am going through exams right now, but I hope to join you in the revolution during the summer as well (when I acquire a massive number of books).

That book you have, is it by Simon Dunstan (The Yom Kippur War, 1973)? Obviously whichever book you have it is probably copyrighted. But I think you can upload one or two pictures at most, under a fair use license. To get an idea of what an image under a fair use license is, take a look at this picture in the Ofira Air Battle. I think its possible to upload images to the Yom Kippur War article or elsewhere under this license. You should include this template in the image's summary: Template:Non-free use rationale#note-portion, just like the one in the Ofira Air Battle picture. Take a look here to see what you should include in the template:Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline.

If the book you have is the one made by Simon Dunstan, a portion of it is available at Google books here, so you might want to get the picture from the google link rather than scan.

Very sorry for all the reading I'm throwing on you. Cheers. --Sherif9282 (talk) 17:35, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

By the way. I've completed the El Mansoura Air Battle. As you will note, the battle is entirely dependent on the acig website. If you can, try to add some references from that book you have. Thanks. --Sherif9282 (talk) 06:30, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've added your source to the article. What does it say about Israeli losses? --Sherif9282 08:50, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the sources. I've added them for the article, including David Nicolle's book. Anyway, I'd encourage you to contribute to the article yourself with your sources.

By the way, what have you decided on doing with those photographs you have? --Sherif9282 (talk) 09:27, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vagueman, thanks alot for all your help. The article made it to the main page through Did you Know. You can see the DYK template on my talk page. --Sherif9282 (talk) 12:28, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back. I guess we can use that picture. There's already one of Golda Meir, so a picture of Sadat would be a good addition to the article. --Sherif9282 (talk) 05:32, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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