User talk:Somaliwarrior

please can put more attractive or better imaages of somalis on the somali people artcile please. can you add images of these somalis ayub duad,abdi bile,mohammed farah some of theses somalis have images in there wikis pages

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re your query

No, I just updated some of the population stats for some of the towns and then got sucked into various controversies! Jameswilson (talk) 23:24, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Somalis

I'm sure you meant well, but you know how Somalis will take this. They will see it as Darods only. Qabil is why Somalia is no more, so that's the very thing we should be guarding against. Middayexpress (talk) 21:46, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Abdiqassim is the only non-Darod in the list. His lone presence, however, is not enough. We need more non-Darods up there, not fewer. I'll try and add Aden Adde, a Hawiye. He's the ideal candidate and much loved. Middayexpress (talk) 22:05, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Calm down. Siad Barre is Marehan, not Majerteen. It's Abdullahi Yusuf that's Majerteen. They're both Darod, so if one of them had to go, it's obviously Siad Barre since he isn't the current president and far too many Somalis remember him as the guy that provoked the civil war and killed his opponents across the board (remember the Isaac massacre? the Majerteen clampdown before that? the Hawiye insurgency in Mogadishu?). As for the Mad Mullah, he is an excellent choice. However, we already have a statue of Ahmed Gurey up there, and this is a page for actual Somalis, not statues. Middayexpress (talk) 22:37, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

It's not a question of having a properly collated collage or not. That's trivial. It's a question of equal representation. One of the current government's very mandates was to balance power between the various Somali clans, yet you see no problem with us showing a page that's filled with nothing but Darods? And Siad Barre is a divisive figure. I invite you to peruse Wikipedia itself and see how many times he is referred to as a dictator. Let's try not to think of ourselves here but of what Somalis at large will think and especially how they will feel. Middayexpress (talk) 22:54, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

I sincerely doubt you could have me "banned", as I am not the one who put up a collage filled with nothing but Darods and I'm also not the one that violated Wikipedia's policies on civility and personal attacks (and after clearly having been asked to calm down). I hate to break it to you but equal representation is not a crime, and a very real part of most civilized societies, which one would hope also includes Somalia. Middayexpress (talk) 23:07, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Who's Duke and what's SOL? Middayexpress (talk) 00:41, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Revert war

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Somali people. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 02:12, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

I haven't gone through the edit history but at least one of you, possibly both of you are already in violation of the three revert rule. My opinion is that you should work it out on the talk page. I don't know much about Somali clans beyond what I've read on Wikipedia, other than knowing there is some enmity between Hawiye and Darod clans. If this edit war represents some kind of attempt to come out on top, then you are hereby advised to do it some place besides Wikipedia. Thank you. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 02:20, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Consider this your final warning. I've removed the picture until the two of you can decide on something less contentious. Please use the talk page (Talk:Somali people) to figure this out. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 02:27, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

And one other thing:

Please do not attack other editors. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 02:29, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Can't really offer much advice here, though I've always found the pictures that are supposed to represent a whole ethnic group a bit strange. None of the photos represent nomads or urban Somalis though, shouldn't Mogadishu cafe photos and rural photos be used? All the photos seem to be of diaspora Somalis. --Ingoman (talk) 04:22, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Somali Air Corps

Hello! My name is Muhammad Bilal Khan, I am from Pakistan and I am an avid fan of air force related topics. My special interest is in the history of exotic African air forces. I noticed that you edited the page of Somali Air Corps several times. So I had some questions about SAC.

There are some unverified claims that apparently, there was not a single Mustang left in Somalia by the time the Italian authorities officially handed over their aircraft to the SAC, on 1 July 1960. While some claim that the Mustangs were handed over to the Somalis and were later repaired and operated by SAC. So whats the truth?

Also there are some stories of Somali MiG-17 attacking a Djibouti-operated French Breguet Atlantique in 1977. Do you know anything about it?

Any additional details/photos/whatever regarding SAC would be welcome. Thanks in advance. Badkhan (talk) 09:22, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Images

If the image is a copyright by Getty then I would assume that it's not usable. Sorry. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 13:31, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

List of universities in Somalia

Hi! You recently contributed to List of universities in Somalia. Your views would be welcomed on a discussion at Talk:List of universities in Somalia. -- Timberframe (talk) 10:33, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Mosque

I'm sorry - I did not know you were working on the page. You did not tag it mentioning that it was under construction. Furthermore, I did not remove anything from the page; it sounds like there was an edit conflict, and I'm sorry about that. But you have the right to override anything I've put there once you've been told of the edit conflict. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:31, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Sure - no worries. Consider yourself excused. :-)

If you want to work on an article in article-space like that, just put {{Underconstruction}} at the top of the page when you start. That will tell anybody looking in on it that it's still being worked on. It shouldn't stay up for more than a day or so, but that gives you some time to work on it. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 22:58, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Here's an example of the tag in use, just to show you what it looks like. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 22:59, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Help with Xeer

Hi Somaliwarrior! I'm trying to get a decent article going regarding Xeer. If you can make some suggestions on the talk page or even some edits that would be great! --A is A (talk) 13:40, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Two native languages?

Interesting! How are you a 'native' speaker of two languages as the same time? 1812ahill (talk) 21:50, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

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Somalia Peer Review

Hi there, I've asked for a peer review on the Somalia article in hopes of getting the ball rolling for improving it. I saw you are on the WikiProject Somalia page and thought you might be interested in participating? Thanks a lot, TastyCakes (talk) 16:37, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

help with transliteration

Hello! Can you help put Diyaar Ahaaw into Arabic script? Thank you so much for your help! --Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 07:05, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: British Somali Medical Association (December 24)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Umakant Bhalerao were: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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Umakant Bhalerao (talk) 07:13, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Umakant

Many thanks for the great feedback. I have made several changes to reflect the advice given, i hope it does the trick! Somaliwarrior (talk) 23:01, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: British Somali Medical Association (December 25)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by DoubleGrazing was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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