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Move of Geber to Jābir ibn Hayyān

Many thanks for your support of my requested move of Geber to Jābir ibn Hayyān. The move has now happened and I've done a bit of patching up of links and some of the content of the Jābir ibn Hayyān article. I'll not be able to do much more to it (or to the pseudo-Geber article) for a week or so, but I'll give it at least a decent wash and rinse when I can.

All the best. –Syncategoremata (talk) 23:28, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Preferences over the use of {{vn}}

I've noticed you've been adding {{vn}} to a lot of articles (absolutely correctly). Quite often this is where someone in particular has taken material from a source and added a priority claim; that is, the article only says that so-and-so did such-and-such but the wikipedia article adds the unfounded claim that they were the first to do so.

I have just been removing this sort of unwarranted extrapolation, mostly by simply deleting the priority claim. Do you think it is better to add {{vn}} to these articles instead? I've paused removing such claims for the moment, in case what you are doing is a better way of dealing with this.

All the best. –Syncategoremata (talk) 00:52, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

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Misuse of sources

Hi. Check out here and here. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 22:31, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

RFC discussion of User:Jagged 85

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Sorry for the delay but I've been meaning to thank you for signing the closing summary to this RfC/U. I'm glad that it is now behind us and I hope we never have to go through something like that again.

All the best. –Syncategoremata (talk) 21:49, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi I have some concerns about your recent edit to the Sharia article

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Thank You

Hi,

Thank you for finding Sharia and National Law in Muslim Countries. Sorry I dinged you the other day, I was totally in reactive mode. You helped me make my first "big" edit. I remember what you told me: be bold. Must have been a few months ago. Seems like a hundred years ago to me now.

Regards, Aquib (talk) 02:48, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

al-Khazini and gravity

I noticed you just tagged for verification the claims about al-Khazini and gravity in the Aristotelian physics article. The claims there are just as they are given in that article (including the silly comment about gravitational potential energy). What it does not bother to mention is that Aristotle also thought that the weight of a body varies depending on its distance from the centre of the Earth and that it was a commonplace of Hellenistic and later Greek philosophy: did the weight vary with distance? did it increase? did it decrease? does an object have any weight in its natural place? Of course, the cited article doesn't bother to mention this (and reads as if they aren't even aware of the past history of the question) but I think the claim should be either removed or thoroughly contextualised. There are some other problems with that particular source chapter (which I can't remember off the top of my head) and it's on my list to investigate. It's just not quite at the top of that list, yet.
And, I'm glad to be able to say: welcome back.
All the best. –Syncategoremata (talk) 22:19, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Banu Musa

Hello. Yes, I think I´m going to fast. In an effort to revert the work of Jagged85 I started to delete all these supposed inventions. But I think you´re right. I´ll put them again saying that they were descriptions of earlier mechanical devices already known since antiquity. All the best--Knight1993 (talk) 17:23, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Greco-Arabic, etc.

Hi,

I spoke too strongly. There are a few uses of the hyphenated terms you mention, but (checking Google scholar) academic usage overwhelming favors the non-hyphenated forms:

• "greco-islamic science": Results 1 - 8 of 8
• "greco-arabic science": Results 1 - 10 of about 45
• "arabic science": Results 1 - 10 of about 2,000
• "islamic science": Results 1 - 10 of about 3,490

SteveMcCluskey (talk) 02:14, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

You're right, there are some good sources that use the term and they'd slipped my mind (a senior moment). Nonetheless, it is a minority term and I'm a bit hypersensitive to what David Pingree called Hellenophilia in the history of science. --SteveMcCluskey (talk) 20:59, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit conflict at Jābir ibn Hayyān

My apologies for getting into an edit conflict with you at Jābir ibn Hayyān. For some reason I didn't notice that you had only just made your previous edit: I'll make sure to leave more time to elapse in future before editing.
My attention was caught by the {{Vn}} tag you had added, which happened to be about an article I had been reading earlier this week. It's not a very good source for that claim and probably the claim should just be deleted or just moved to a new historical section in the Equivalent (chemistry) article, as it is so vague.
All the best. –Syncategoremata (talk) 11:58, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Please don't wait for me. I am really slow. I think we need an outline and a to do list.J8079s (talk) 17:05, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Jagged cleanup

I noticed your recent editing on an article I watch. Excellent work! However, I would like to suggest that you try to put a link to, say, the RFC talk page in at least one of your edit summaries when cleaning an article. Perhaps append "see ]" to your "failed verification" summary, so it would read "failed verification, see WT:Requests for comment/Jagged 85". That might help when editors look at the article history in a week, or in six months: they will see the background to this unusual case. Johnuniq (talk) 05:05, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

will doJ8079s (talk) 05:14, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. After a bit more thought, I have put a proposal at WT:Requests for comment/Jagged 85#Simple link for edit summary. Johnuniq (talk) 07:31, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi, regarding this edit to Lens (optics): can you explain or give me a link to somewhere where the specific problem with this reference or Jagged's claims is discussed? My concern is that Alhazen is important enough that he probably needs to be mentioned, but I don't have enough information to construct a replacement for the text you deleted. In any event, your edit introduced a problem: Alhazen and his book are mentioned again further down in the section. Since you deleted the introduction of this material, the subsequent mention of them is unclear.--Srleffler (talk) 17:18, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

The deletion of unsourced claims seems appropriate to me; I've made editorial changes to clarify the mentions of Alhazen and his book of optics. --SteveMcCluskey (talk) 13:22, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Steve I think we need a outline on whats wrong with "Alhazen" and the "book of Optics". The edit in question here is typical "Jagged", that is a good source misrepresented, and an original theory.J8079s (talk) 00:35, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm not on top of this, having only scanned the RFC comments and not the evidence, so I will simply point out this revert, and say that I quickly did a WP:CHECKUSER and I am pretty confident that it is just a random revert by an anon. John Vandenberg 08:09, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Please see the summary I have put at WT:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/Cleanup. Johnuniq (talk) 08:28, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Update

I noticed your recent edits (good!), but you used braces ({{...}}) in your edit summary instead of square brackets (]). Also, there is now a better shortcut to use. An edit summary should include "see ]" (copy the text that you see between the quotes from this talk page). If you look at the history of this talk page you will see how it looks because I included it in my edit summary. Johnuniq (talk) 23:36, 2 September 2010 (UTC)