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Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 03:28, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

"Mecca is a city in the Tihamah" is misleading because Tihamah is ill-defined. "Mecca is a city in the Hejaz" is not misleading. Thus what were you correcting here ? Materialscientist (talk) 03:40, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Hold on. Britannica has an article on Hejaz, and it says that both Mecca and Medina lie within it. Materialscientist (talk) 03:53, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

• And he is making this change in dozens of articles; other changes even made to title of books. Non-careful editing. Hmains (talk) 03:06, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

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Replacing "Hejaz" with "Tihamah"

I recently reverted your replacements of the term "Hejaz" with "Tihamah" since the sources in those articles use Hejaz, and either way they don't describe the same regions, the former broadly describing the mountainous strip of western Arabia and the latter describing a smaller area of the southern coastal Hejaz and western coastal Yemen. Could you explain your rationale? Thank you. --Al Ameer son (talk) 07:11, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Ah, I see. That maybe the historical context, but apparently it usually refers only to that southern part of the coastline while the Hejaz is defined more broadly and normally includes both Mecca and Medina, from Tabuk to the Asir mountains. The Hejaz is certainly used more often. I also think we should stick with Hejaz since that what the sources in those articles say. --Al Ameer son (talk) 07:21, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

I don't doubt what the original definition used to be or what the early Arab scholars defined Tihama and Hejaz as, but the modern definition is different than the past one and it's the modern usage that we have to apply on Wiki. --Al Ameer son (talk) 17:55, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

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Hello,

Thanks to read WP:V, WP:UNDUE, WP:FRINGE as well as WP:RS, and maybe WP:TRUTH.

So, no matter what a unique source says and what was the place called 14 centuries ago, it is widely accepted and reported by the vast majority of RS that all these topics are related to Hedjaz, not "Timamah".

Thanks for understanding.

--Omar-toons (talk) 19:21, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

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March 2013

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Barelvi. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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--Omar-toons (talk) 00:53, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

WP:RS

Thanks to read WP:RS and stop complaining as many users undo your edits : a book written in 1228 (8 centuries ago) isn't a reliable source. --Omar-toons (talk) 03:16, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

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