Pharos

Pharos is: * The name of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, as well the island off the Egyptian coast at the port of Alexandria on which the lighthouse was erected. * The etymological origin of the word lighthouse in many Romance languages, such as French (phare), Italian (faro) and Spanish (faro) * The ancient name for the island of Hvar in the Adriatic off the Dalmatian coast of modern Croatia, as well as the name of the original Greek colony, and it's capital city (modern Stari Grad, Croatia). It was the stronghold of Demetrius of Pharos. * A column near Constantinople

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October 29, 2004 - February 17, 2005 |} == How's that ... === ... for timing. I think I did the nominating steps in reverse order. The text on fac:bicycle should be there now. User:Sfahey 02:31, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) == Queens neighborhoods == There has been much discussion over the naming conventions of NYC neighborhoods, or neighorhoods in general, on Wikipedia. Personally, I prefer "Neighborhood, Borough, New York" but that's mainly because most city neighborhoods are disambiguated "Neighborhood, City" (and Queens is not technically a city in its own right). However, I moved the Flushing article because Flushing, New York is not really correct (or consistent), even if that is the correct "postal address." User:Darkcore 04:09, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==My signature== I apologize for the problem. I found where I goofed up the HTML font code, so my signature should work now. My Firefox browser ignored the error, so everything looked fine to me. You are the first person who has complained, although I've been using the new signature for about a week, so I'm curious which web browser and skin you are using. I won't have time to track down my signatures tonight, but I will try to do that tomorrow. User:BlankVerse User talk:BlankVerse 08:42, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==Categories== Hi Pharos, I saw you moved Wilhelm Reich out of Category:Jews, saying the category isn't for Jewish individuals. How do I list Reich in the list of Jews or list of Jews by country subcategories? I thought the way to do it was to list him under Category:Jews, but I'm unsure how the category system works. Best, User:SlimVirgin 22:15, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC) :I suppose the point of the categories is to help people find articles they don't know exist. You have to know that List of Jews exists to find it. I wonder if you could discuss this on the categories page, because I don't know enough about it to advise, but there are people who may prefer to leave these names in the category. User:SlimVirgin 22:30, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC) ==Zanzibar== Hi! Nice work with Zanzibar, cheers! User:Matt Crypto 18:45, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Notenglish == Please, please, please, if you add the "notenglish" tag to an article, also make a note at Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English. Not doing that is just like adding the VFD tag and not making a note on WP:VFD. -- User:Jmabel | User talk:Jmabel 08:14, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC) == Burundi Civil War == You voted for Burundi Civil War, this week's Wikipedia:CSB Collaboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a Wikipedia:Featured_articles-Wikipedia:What is a featured article article. - User:BanyanTreeUser:BanyanTreeUser talk:BanyanTree 20:36, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC) == New York Books == Thanks for updating that. What is the next stage? Just incomplete? How many more books till then? ==Blocking policy== Hi Pharos, I was wondering why you created Wikipedia:Blocking policy can be a drastic and unexpected change and a talk page for it, then redirected them. It's not as though anyone would type that title in by accident. ;-) Just curious. User:SlimVirgin 01:45, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC) :Yes, vandalism is very annoying. What was the IP address that was doing it? User:SlimVirgin 02:31, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC) == Thank you for pointing out my mistake == Thank you for pointing out that I put my vote under the wrong heading. I really did intend to vote for you, and I wish you luck. All the best. User:Davidcannon 10:59, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Talk:Human== Hi Pharos, I've written up a compromise suggestion for the introduction of Human, which editors are looking at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Human#Compromise_suggestion here]. A couple of editors said they preferred your first sentence, so I've included that too (as the first sentence). It would be helpful if you could take a look and see whether you think it needs anything else, as your input was very valuable. Best, User:SlimVirgin 03:49, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC) ==:Image:Taiwan-icon.PNG== You seem to have mistyped when you intended . I have turned this into the effect you intended, but only you can change it to the correct template. --User:Henrygb 11:58, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Vandalism == Much thanks for your reversion of vandalism to my user talk page. :-) User:Blankfaze 01:33, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Congratulations! == Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an Wikipedia:Administrators. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the Wikipedia:administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- User:Cecropia | User talk:Cecropia 03:13, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC) :Hey, congratulations Pharos! You deserve it. User:SlimVirgin 03:23, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC) == Ooops == A new user posted a message to me, but instead of signing it with tildes, he produced his User name manually — and got it wrong. Instead of signing User:OlivierSeres he signed OlivierSeres; without paying close enough attention, I went to the page, and added then removed a full stop in order to stop his name coming up as a red link. Only then did I notice that I'd in fact created a useless page. Could you delete it for me with your new mutant powers? Thanks in advance, and sorry to be such a pain. User:Mel Etitis (Μελ_Ετητης)">User talk:Mel Etitis 22:53, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Analogous Movements== You changed links in the See also section of Liberal movements within Islam. I don't think I agree with you that the analogy you draw is accurate. The one you replaced might have been wrong, too; but that's neither here nor there. The article presents more of a general "lay of the land" about liberalism in the Islamic context, not one specific movement like Liberal theology and Reform Judaism. The analogy to, say Reform Judaism, would be the Progressive Islamic movement congealing in North America right now; or the movement that Sayed Ahmad Khan set in motion--both of which fall under the rubric of that article.User:IFaqeer—User:IFaqeer User talk:IFaqeer 23:46, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC) ==Thank you!== Hi Pharos, thank you so much for supporting me in my adminship nomination. The vote closed tonight, then suddenly all these new buttons appeared! I really appreciate your support and your kind comments, and I look forward to working with you. Best, User:SlimVirgin 04:18, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC) ==EastEnders characters== Please don't edit the EastEnders category stuff for a moment: I'm trying to create this category in such a way that it will (correctly) be a child category of both :Category:EastEnders and :Category:Soap opera characters -- User:Karada 19:42, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==General Slocum== Please see my reply at Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion/List of General Slocum victims --brian0918">User:Brian0918™">User talk:Brian0918 22:28, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC) == 66.154.184.34 == Please don't blank comments on anon talk pages. It is helpful to administrators to see the history of complaints about a particular IP address. User:Gamaliel 20:27, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==:Image:Jalal Talabani.jpg== Enlarging images a little bit is ok - maybe up to about 12-13%. I did it up to ~30%, which was a bit much, and the result was a bit fuzzy. The unsharp filter did fairly well, but was a bit too contrasty. I figured it would be good enough until someone changed it or did it better. -User:StevertigoUser_talk:Stevertigo 20:32, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC) Pointless, cheezy aethetics. -User:StevertigoUser_talk:Stevertigo 21:03, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Canal images == Hello, I was wondering if there was any reason why you reverted my changes to the layout of the images on the Gowanus Canal page. I moved the images since they were sitting on top of text, which is what happens when the images don't have enough space. I also think its a poor design to have images sitting across section bars, especially when there is a lot of space without images as there is in this article. : Hey there. I actually like the layout better when the aerial picture is directly under the map. Also, there is no problem where either of the pictures are overlapping any of the text from my browser. Anyway, I think the Gowanus Canal article has enough pictures and any more might be too cluttering. Thanks for your help. --User:Howrealisreal 03:10, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Christianity Template == I added "Reformation" as a movement because, though it is not a modern movement, the Wikipedia page for it does say, "The Protestant Reformation was a movement which emerged in the 16th century (although out of earlier roots) as a series of attempts to reform the Church in Western Europe." Certainly, the Reformation was a movement with lasting significance for the church. Is the list only for recent movements? --User:Flex 17:46, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Allah == Hey, nice job on the Allah page. Looks a lot better now. User:Mr100percent 04:06, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) == :Category:Aviation in New York City == You may have missed the discussion, but the consensus was for anything smaller state/province, a list was better as it is hard to truly figure out the limits for some of these small categories. As a result of that discussion, a previous category, Airports of New York City was deleted and a list List of airports in the New York City area was created to allow explaination. Per that, I have listed this category on cfd. User:Burgundavia 00:10, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC) *I guess I misread the discussion. I understood it to mean that the category and all others like it were dead, to be replaced by a list. I still think that the list is a better option that a category. User:Burgundavia 00:34, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC) **I understand, but what about those airports in New Jersey that also serve New York. This is reason why a category is a bad idea. User:Burgundavia 00:49, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC) == :Template:NYC-stub == Hi Pharos - you wrote: ''I've changed the wording to, I think, make it more useful— linking to the WikiProject rather than the "main" Wikipedia article. What's the point of more links to New York City anyway; maybe this should be a general practice with stub notices?'' :I don't think there's a standard practice, but quite a few stub templates link to both the article and the project (have a look at to see what I mean). I'd agree that with a lot of stub categories the subject of the category is well-enough known not to need a link, though. User:Grutness|^{User_talk:Grutness} 07:06, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Resubmit == Hey. Just wondering if you think I should resubmit Gowanus Canal for featured status. Any ideas? --User:Howrealisreal 21:51, 4 May 2005 (UTC) == The word Allah is a proper noun, not a contraction, has no feminine == User:Oxy2Hydro I would like to apologise for editing the article with such sudden actions. I dont think any of you are Arabic Scholars, nore do you reference Arabic Scholars or Arabic Lexicons and Dictionaries to support your article that the name Allah is not a personal name of G-d in the Arabic language. Your error is that you stated: "Allah (Arabic aḷḷāhu الله) is traditionally used by Muslims as the Arabic word for "God" ('''not "God's personal name",''' but the equivalent of the Hebrew word El as opposed to the Tetragrammaton)" This is wrong, and was changed from its correct perspective before we made our edit. The proper name of God in the Arabic language is "Allah" which is a personal name of God in the Arabic language. In such a statement you failed to show what the proper name ie personal name in Arabic there is to refer to God among Arabic speaking Jews Christians and Muslims. I will start with Arabic Lexicons and Scholars: ***" الله{alllaah}, [written with the disjunctive alif الله, meaning God, i.e. the only true god,] accord. to the most correct opinions respecting it, which are twenty in number, (K,) or more than thirty, (MF,) is a proper name, (Msb, K,) applied to the Being who exists necessarily, by Himself, comprising all the attributes of perfection; (TA;) a proper name denoting the true god, comprising all the excellent divine names; a unity comprising all the essence of existing things; (Ibn-El�Arabee, TA;) the ال being inseparable from it: (Msb: ) not derived..... ***"Edward William Lane, Arabic Lexicon ***"Allah - It is the proper noun applied to the Supreme Being, who is the sole possesor of all perfect attributes, who is free from all defects and who exist necessarily by Himself. It is not a common noun. All Divine attributes mentioned in the Quran are qualities of the proper name Allah. No other language has a distinctive name for the Divine Being. The names found in other languages are either attributive or descriptive and can be used in the plural form, but the word Allah is never used for any other thing, being or deity. It is never used as a qualifying word. Sibwaih and Khalil say, Since "Al" in the begining of the word Allah is inseperable from it so it is a simple substantive, not derived from any word. The word Allah is not a contraction of al-ilah, as some people tend to believe, but quite a different word. ***"The Dictionary of the Holy Qur�an, 1st edition, Abdul Mannan Omar The Above quote is by Edward Lane a Christian Classical Arabic Scholar the last by a Muslims Scholar in which both Quote other supreme Arabic authorities. Further more there is no Arabic Lexicon or Dictionary that supports to the contrary of the word Allah not being a personal name or proper noune. The Wiki entry on the word should be change to : "Allah (Arabic aḷḷāhu الله) is traditionally used by Muslims as the proper name of God in the Arabic language." Also we have supplied ample proof that the word is not a contraction of the two Arabic words "al-ilah" which is even supported by the two leading Arabic authorites above. Please see other proof provided in discussion of the Article. Another problem in your Article is that its states that "Allat" is the femine of "Allah". This is a blunt contradiction in the article. You cannot support that the word is a contraction of "al-ilah" then on the other hand support that the word "Allat" is the feminine of the word "Allah". Because, in you supported contraction theory "Allat" would also have to be a contraction whereas the feminine of "al-ilah" is "al-ilahat" and if you apply the same contraction theory to "al-ilahat" you will get "Allahat",not "Allat", to be the feminine if the word "Allah" is suppose to be a contraction of "al-ilah" We have given you the proof please correct the Wiki article. The word "Allah" is the proper name of God in the Arabic language, which has no feminine and is not a contraction. (User:Oxy2Hydro 22:31, 23 May 2005 (UTC)) == :Image:EconNaziPropaganda.png == I'm rather perplexed at your taking this off of IFD as "not an orphan". The whole point is that it is unencyclopedic because the text has been deliberately garbled, not that it is an orphan. The only two editors to speak on this were myself, being the nominator, and the uploader, who agreed with its deletion. Perhaps you simply misread the disussion. Thanks.--User:Pharos 01:44, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC) :Since images can't be undeleted, I'm quite cautious about deleting them. I agree that the image is nearly worthless. But the people who edit Nazism should be making that decision, not me. I suggest that you remove it from the article, and relist it on WP:IFD. That way editors watching Nazism will notice the image's removal, and will have a week to express any objection. User:Dbenbenn | User talk:Dbenbenn 01:53, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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