User talk:Hovalp

Welcome, Hovalp!

Hello, Hovalp, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm Anas, one of the many editors here at Wikipedia. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links you might find helpful:

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Saint George's Monastery[edit]

Good morning Hovic or should I say Ṣabaḥ al-Khayr or maybe Voghdzuyin (I take it you're of Armenian heritage)? OK, enough bragging and showing off my language skills. Thanks a lot for your encouraging words and comments. I am sorry for not attributing the images to you.

I visited your Flickr account, but I was surprised to find that access to images was recently blocked by the CITC, just another step backwards in here. I tried checking your blog, and both images linked from Flickr and blogspot were blocked, meh! I can credit the images to your blog if you would kindly tell me exactly which images are those taken from your blog.

On a side note, you did release them under the Creative Commons licenses, right? If you didn't, it would be really helpful if you share your photos and allow usage for the public under the CC license, preferably Sharealike. You can clarify that in your blog and Flickr. ← ANAS ^Talk? 08:18, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. I don't understand why you have cleared my talk page of your message. It's perfectly normal; I'm restoring it for archival reasons if you don't mind. Anyways, I was able to find out which image it was through some craftiness and Google image search. I believe it was Image:St-georges1.jpg. Correct me if I'm wrong. I have attributed it to your blog. By the way, I spend my summer in Aleppo, where part of my family live, in the Suleimaniyah part of the city. Love that place. :-) Drop a message if you need my help and have a great day Hovic. ← ANAS ^Talk? 08:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Other castles[edit]

Thanks for your suggestions. I will try writing about these historical sites. What stands in my way is that, unfortunately, Syrian history and information in general is not well-published on the internet, which makes it very difficult for me to research these subjects. The libraries are not easy to reach in Riyadh, where I'm living currently.

Concerning the pictures in your blog, it would be of great help if you clearly state that you release your images under the Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike 2.5 license in your blog. This will allow others, including me, to legally use these images in third-party sites, like here, as long as you are fully attributed (credited) for these images.

The mirror sites worked for the images that were uploaded on the blog, thanks! What a great collection you got there! I've always believed that Syria's places, nature, and historical sites are incredibly under appreciated. It's a shame that I can't browse through your photos since I'm on dial-up. Internet service is pathetic in here.

Wikipedia is not difficult to use. You don't really need HTML skills to edit here, it's fairly simple. Wikipedia has very few Syrian editors. You seem like you know a lot about Syrian places. Perhaps you can help in expanding List of cities in Syria and the like. By the way, you can, should actually, sign your comments and messages using four tildes - ~~~~ or by using the signature button in the edit panel, which will leave your signature and date. Cheers! ← ANAS ^Talk? 14:26, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Images..[edit]

That should do it. Thanks a lot! That will definitely be a great help. Much appreciated, thanks again Hovic. Good luck with your travels and happy editing. :-) ← ANAS ^Talk? 11:32, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Syria[edit]

File:COA of Syria.svg

Hi, Hovalp. If you're interested, I would like to invite you to join the list of members for WikiProject Syria. I am hoping to launch this WikiProject if enough dedicated members are willing to contribute. Our main aim from this project is to help improve and maintain Syria-related articles. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me them on my talk page. Thank you! - Anas ^Talk? 22:52, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, great. I think you'll be a great help with your images. :-) See you around. - Anas ^Talk? 13:23, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hovic, thanks for joining WP:SY. We're happy to see a new member in our ranks. You may add the WikiProject participants' userbox (using the template "{{User WP Syria}}") to join the category of the participants and identify yourself as a member. Leave me a message if you need any directions or assistance. Regards, Anas ^talk? 22:01, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Affected[edit]

Y	Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s): Autoblock of 213.178.224.167 lifted. Request handled by: -- lucasbfr ^{ho ho ho} 00:06, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Aleika.jpg[edit]

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Request for unblock[edit]

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Hovic (talk) 17:18, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to have the autoblock on his/her IP address lifted has been DECLINED.

Hovalp (block log • contribs • deleted contribs • creation log • unblock)
213.178.224.167 (block log • contribs • deleted contribs • ipblocklist • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • unblock)
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Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "AntiCabalChiky". The reason given for AntiCabalChiky's block is: "Abusing sock puppet accounts".

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Decline reason:

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Please contact the unblock-en mailing list from your ISP-issued email address regarding this request. Thank you, Can't sleep, clown will eat me 21:50, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Your ArbCom Vote[edit]

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help![edit]

Hello, I don't know who I should speak to about this important matter. The Golan article has been taking over by Israelis and they have removed everything mentioning an occupation and changed it to "disputed" They have also removed the "the neutrality of this article is disputed" that was on top of the article while it is written in a completely pro-Israeli way. Please do something about this! —Preceding unsigned comment added by SwedishArab (talk • contribs) 19:55, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Please stay safe[edit]

With all the news going on in Syria now, I hope you are safe. Victor Grigas (talk) 07:42, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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