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March 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Father Of Mediterranean Music has been reverted.

Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \byoutube\.com (links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mgo9aajigk, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o-u83msnpa). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections.

If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 17:15, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Father Of Mediterranean Music do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.  

Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \byoutube\.com (links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mgo9aajigk, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o-u83msnpa). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections.

If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 17:30, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Duplicate articles.

Wikipedia has one article per topic; see WP:Content forking. Please merge appropriate information from your article Father Of Mediterranean Music into Amr Diab so that your article can be removed (or it can be turned into a redirect leading to the Amr Diab article). —Largo Plazo (talk) 19:55, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Father Of Mediterranean Music, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. I have patiently explained to you why you can't keep another article about a person separate from the article that already existed. See WP:Content forking. The title is irrelevant. The man's name is "Amr Diab", so that is the correct title for the one article about him. I have encouraged you to add any useful material you might have to that article—and I don't mean by just copying it wholesale into the middle, as you did, but in an appropriate manner. Evidently someone else got frustrated before I did with your insistence on keeping you own article, and turned it into a redirect. I strongly suggest you leave it as it is, and that if you want to add the material you had, make appropriate edits to the Amr Diab article. —Largo Plazo (talk) 23:38, 26 March 2009 (UTC) —Largo Plazo (talk) 23:38, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Now that you've replaced the text again, I need to emphasize to you that Wikipedia does not exist so that you can"confirm titles". I explained to you why you may not have a separate article about the same person. I am going to have to take further action. —Largo Plazo (talk) 23:53, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Amr Diab Bahrain.jpg

File Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading File:Amr Diab Bahrain.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. — neuro^{(talk)(review)} 17:19, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

License tagging for File:Amr Diab Jennifer Lopez.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Amr Diab Jennifer Lopez.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information; to add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia.

For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 19:05, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Amr Diab Jennifer Lopez.jpg

File Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading File:Amr Diab Jennifer Lopez.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. — neuro^{(talk)(review)} 20:56, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

internet links

Please remove internet links inside text and put them to external links part, check how other persons page has been written. Thanks--Musamies (talk) 19:14, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

But before doing that, please read the guidelines about external links and Wikipedia not being a repository of links. —Largo Plazo (talk) 19:29, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

please read

WP:EL and talk in discussion page are the link accepted, thanks--Musamies (talk) 18:14, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

PDF files

PDF files are not generally useful in Wikipedia. If you are attempting to use them to cite a source, you should instead cite that source explicitly, rather than including a file. Such files which have no incoming external links are routinely deleted. (ESkog)^(Talk) 17:20, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Amr_Diab_Session.jpg

File Copyright problem

Thanks for uploading File:Amr_Diab_Session.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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Replaceable fair use Image:Amrdiab2009.jpg

Replaceable fair use

Thanks for uploading Image:Amrdiab2009.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:

1. Go to the media description page and edit it to add {{di-replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original replaceable fair use template.
2. On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

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File copyright problem with File:Amr diab session1.jpg

File Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading File:Amr diab session1.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. ZooFari 00:34, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mediterranean fathers‎

The article Mediterranean fathers‎ has been proposed for deletion. The proposed-deletion notice added to the article should explain why.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.Copana2002 (talk) 17:36, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Amr Diab In Fairmont.jpg

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Proposed deletion of Mohamed Hilal

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Orphaned non-free media (File:Egyptian General Intelligence Service (GIS) headquarters in Hadaeq Al Qubbah.jpg)

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Orphaned non-free media (File:Egyptian General Intelligence Service (GIS) headquarters in Hadaeq Al Qubbah.jpg)

Thanks for uploading File:Egyptian General Intelligence Service (GIS) headquarters in Hadaeq Al Qubbah.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Nomination of Rosamund Lesley for deletion

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Nomination of Interigence for deletion

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