User talk:Captainm

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Happy editing! — ßottesiηi ^{Tell me what's up} 22:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Continuous Vandalism[edit]

Hello there. I notice that. Blocks can't be used to punish for past actions, but to protect from further vandalism. The user, while pretty nasty, does not merit a block for now because he is likely already gone. Note that he usually vandalizes around once every two days (except on 21th, when he should have been blocked, though), so a block would not reach him (as anonymous blocking should be short. Either he just like to bother ("Let's deface Wikipedia now" and done), or he knows about our rules and games with the system. Sorry, but for now, unless he reaches a level 4 warning, a block is not really applicable. -- ReyBrujo 00:37, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Need your opinion[edit]

Please check out Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Lebanon/Assessment and post any comments you may have. LestatdeLioncourt ^talk 14:46, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wording in 2006–present Lebanese revolt[edit]

Hi Captainm. I noticed you've reverted the word "killed" to "wounded". This is a bit of a confusing point, as all the references I can find use the term "casualty", which is usually refers to someone who is killed in English, but can also mean someone who is injured. I've changed the term in the article to also use "casualty", to keep the statement as neutral and vague as the reference it cites. Cheers. — George Saliba^[talk] 22:56, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You recent rever to Talk:Free Patriotic Movement[edit]

Hi. I noticed that you reverted my dropping the importance of the Free Patriotic Movement article from a rating of mid-importance to a rating of low-importance. From WikiProject Lebanon's assessment guidelines, a rating of low indicates that a topic "is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Lebanon, but may cover topics related to Lebanon", and "few readers outside of Lebanon or that are not within the local area of the article's topic may be familiar with the subject matter." It's worth noting that a Google search for "Free Patriotic Movement" returns 60,600 results, compared to a search for "Hassan Nasrallah" that returns 748,000 results and is rated mid-importance, and compared to a search for "Samir Geagea" that returns 157,000 results and is rated low-importance. There is a disconnect here – numerically speaking, either the FPM article belongs in the low-importance category, or the Samir Geagea article belongs in the mid-importance category. Thoughts? — George^[talk] 13:13, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on user discussion page Captainm 14:56, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. I'm more worried about being consistent than what these articles are rated. I'm going to classify such articles as mid-importance as I go through them (Michael Aoun and Samir Geagea are currently both low-importance I believe). Cheers. — George^[talk] 20:58, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Rechtsgutachten betr Apostasie im Islam.jpg[edit]

Can you take a look at this and the comment on the image talk page (on its Commons talk page) and provide feedback about a better translation or possibly a complete fresh translation? Much obliged. -N 16:49, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Interwiki[edit]

Hey.. First of all thank you:) I wasn't aware of this before, so thanks for pointing that out. I thought it is simply the name of the page in a different language.

As for the Orange Room, indeed I contribute there for Lebanese Army related news and topics, but there is really no cooperation there...

The Lebanese Army threads on MP.net are growing and attracting more members and visitors, I'm glad for that.

Thank your for the advice... --Zaher1988 (talk) 08:08, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rercruiting for LAF TF[edit]

Hello I though of you when i was asked to recruit members for the LAF Task Force for WikiProject, in order to officially proceed with it. If you are interested, please add your name to the participants section.

--Zaher1988 (talk) 12:11, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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