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Category:Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations has been nominated for deletion

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alright thank you. MaliMail (talk) 23:48, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

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Category:Member states of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations has been nominated for deletion

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October 2023

Your edit to Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 14:05, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

okay thank you MaliMail (talk) 15:05, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

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Image about International reactions to the October 2023 Gaza–Israel conflict

Do you know why Antarctica is covered in blue? Horizon Sunset (talk) 16:14, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

because it is territory administered by states condemning Hamas

--- MaliMail (talk) 16:28, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Second Cold War infobox

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Nomination of Micronesia–Ukraine relations for deletion

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LibStar (talk) 22:46, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Nicaragua–Syria relations for deletion

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LibStar (talk) 23:03, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Bilateral articles

You have created a few in recent weeks but I noticed you create them as a WP:STUB and walk away and create others. Your efforts may be better spent improving the ones you started rather than creating new ones. Some of the ones you created I believe are random combinations and non notable. Thanks. LibStar (talk) 22:29, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

which ones?

-- MaliMail (talk) 22:44, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

The 2 mentioned above + Central African Republic–Ukraine relations and Malawi–Ukraine relations. LibStar (talk) 23:00, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

those are some of the older ones. the others I make are a bit longer. like bahrain-syria, Belarus-Myanmar, etc

-- MaliMail (talk) 23:06, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

You've also added uncited information which I have removed [1], [2] and [3]. Please do not add uncited material to articles. Thanks. LibStar (talk) 01:04, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

oh because all of that was from the articles above MaliMail (talk) 01:13, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for adding citations. Please note how cite when using a source several times as per Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Repeated_citations. LibStar (talk) 01:18, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

you are welcome. are those articles okay? MaliMail (talk) 01:19, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Citations

From Bahrain–Syria relations, how can these citations be retrieved from before you created the article on 2 November?

"BILATERAL RELATIONS". mofa.gov.bh. Archived from the original on 5 May 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
"Syrian leader receives credentials from Bahrain ambassador". Associated Press. 19 June 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
"Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia Pull Ambassadors From Syria". The Huffington Post. 8 August 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
"Bahraini killed in Syria fight, government warns citizens | News , Middle East". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2014-03-12.

LibStar (talk) 23:03, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

You didn't reply to above. But also a similar issue for Central African Republic–Russia relations you just created. Why are there citations from before you created the article like Retrieved 20 June 2022? LibStar (talk) 22:19, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

because the articles were cited then. MaliMail (talk) 22:52, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

No, but you only retrieved them recently. LibStar (talk) 23:02, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Federated States of Micronesia–Ukraine relations

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Nicaragua–Syria relations

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Central African Republic–Ukraine relations

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Please update File:Legal status of transgender people Map.png

Hello, thank you for making File:Legal status of transgender people Map.png used in the page Legal status of transgender people. However, it seems the map is out of date. The talk page mentions that Egypt has legalised gender change. The Falklands / Malvinas are marked as 'illegal', even though the rest of the UK is 'legal'. Also, the category 'legal in theory, defacto illegal' in the map is a bit confusing. Of the five countries in this category, China and Jordan should be pink (legal after surgery) and Tajikistan should be white (unknown) according to other information on the page. Please take a look at these issues and update the map as needed. Thank you! --Jose Mathew (talk) 17:30, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

it says illegal on Egypt on the page LGBT rights by country or territory

but thank you, will do if I have the time.

-- MaliMail (talk) 17:59, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Edit warring at Hamas over Israel being an ally

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• Initial insertion by MaliMail: [4] (23:03, 21 October 2023) (no edit summary)
• Removal by Dovidroth: [5] with the edit summary Unsupported. Too big of a stretch. There's no indication Hamas was Israel's ally back then, even if they got some help to counter Fatah. See also WP:EXCEPTIONAL (05:02, 23 October 2023).
• Re-insertion by MaliMail: [6] with the edit summary it is supported on the source (13:27, 23 October 2023).
• Removal by Skitash: [7] with the edit summary This took place before Hamas existed. It belongs in Muhama al-Islamiya. (20:28, 17 November 2023).
• Re-insertion by MaliMail: [8] without any edit summary (20:46, 19 November 2023).

--Orgullomoore (talk) 19:40, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

okay I won't edit that MaliMail (talk) 02:07, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

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Girth Summit _(blether) 09:24, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

question

@Girth Summit why are pages like Sudan-Ukraine relations deleted? that is not a vandalism page. I'll leave otherwise. but why are these things deleted? MaliMail (talk) 13:24, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

WP:G5. Girth Summit _(blether) 13:25, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

thank you. can those be appealed though? it ruined certain pages now that those are deleted?

-- MaliMail (talk) 13:27, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

You would first have to make a successful appeal of the block on your original account. The chances of such an appeal being successful in the near term are nil - see WP:SO. Girth Summit _(blether) 16:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Mm. Creating a new account to continue doing the same stuff is not going to help your case if you ever do apply for unblock from your original account. I have implimented a 3X community ban - any future unblock request will have to undergo community review. I wish you well, but I ask that you take up a different hobby. Girth Summit _(blether) 20:02, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Cambodia–Ukraine relations

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