Steven Russell

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Much thanks!

Just wanted to drop a word of appreciate for your work on Abderraouf Jdey, I learned more about him myself, reading your great improvements :) Sherurcij ^{(talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject)} 04:50, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Heads up

I got a message from someone said your interesd in the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Well... I have updated the page to make it look "cooler". Also I started a Wikipedia:WikiProject FBI for FBI related items. -- Shane ^{(talk/contrib)} 05:27, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Bin Laden family

Whoa, thanks for catching that missing chunk! I thought it was strangely abbreviated (of course there are still a bunch of names missing). --Dhartung | Talk 20:19, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Jelazee and Jalozai

Could they be the same camp? Maybe. It hadn't occured to me. With Arabic names I have found that similarly spelled names can be transliterations of different individuals, and wildly different transliterations can map to a single individual. Who would have guessed that "Hassan" and "Ahcene" were the same name?

Do you speak Pashtun? I don't I don't know if the same transliteration problem happens with Pashtun.

Rather then merging the two article now, why don't we just put a note on the two articles, saying we don't know if they describe the same place. I don't see any overlap between the two. I'll go and re-read the transcripts of my guys, to see if they mention any of the details in your article. If they do, or if we find more information later, sure, let's merge them.

Cheers! -- Geo Swan 22:33, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

San Francisco Bay Area Geology

Greetings: Thanks for your edit to include historic earthquakes on the Hayward Fault. I have been considering that WP should have two articles, Geology of the San Francisco Bay Area and Seismology of the San Francisco Bay Area. The latter could then include the bayside soil conditions, BART effects, etc., that apply to both the San Andreas Hayward, and other faults in the region, with individual fault articles being significantly reduced. Do you have any interest in or knowlege to contribute to such an effort? - Leonard G. 17:20, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Danny's contest

Greetings. Great work on referencing the Waleed al-Shehri article! Do you know about Wikipedia:Danny's contest? It's for improving unreferenced articles. The prize is $100 worth of Amazon stuff. Just thought you might be interested. All the best, – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 12:27, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Master List Redesign

Maybe we should look into a redesign for the master FBI most wanted list. Shane ^{(talk/contrib)} 21:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Gadahn

Not sure if you know much about Adam Gadahn or not but I notice you made some recent edits to that article. I am just wondering, if you do know about him, could you clarify the middle section where it keeps talking about Gadahn's past without stating which Gadahn is meant (ie him or his father)? If this is beyond your scope feel free to ignore this message. - Abscissa 18:53, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for all the effort on Sacramento Northern Railway

I've been noticing you putting in a lot of useful edits there. Good work. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 21:20, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

re: You deleted Pete Escovedo

Please restore Pete Escovedo, as a Percussionist stub.

He is a world-famous Afro-Latin American Musician, bioloigal Father of Nicole Ritchie and brother to Sheila Escovedo aka Sheila E and father of Alejandro Escovedo a Mexican-American musician. Brother of Coke Escovedo, born Thomas Escovedo, a percussionist who played with Carlos Santana in the seventies. Pete Escovedo was also a percussionist with Santana. See List of Austin City Limits performers [1] Steven Russell 20:39, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

There's nothing much to restore. It was a one-liner about possibly being the biological father of Nicole Richie. It sounds like this person is notable, so if you'd like to create an article about him, go ahead. Cheers, Fang Aili ^talk 20:56, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Beto and the Fairlanes

I don't understand why you created a page for this band with the wrong name, and reverted my edit correcting the mistake on the ACL Festival page. Please look at the band's home page, read the history section, and note the name of all their albums. They clearly prefer "and the" to "y los". Moreover, Google lists 19,000 hits for 'Beto and the Fairlanes' and only 834 hits for 'Beto y los Fairlanes' (and most of those hits are redirects to the correct name). Since the band has occasionally been referred to by both names, a mention of that fact is appropriate for the article, but clearly the weight of evidence shows that the article should be titled with the name the band has chosen. TheMindsEye 19:10, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello TheMindsEye, I did not revert your edit, as you say. I simply restored the wikilink, to the existing page, for the same group. The "y Los" name dates back to the original name for the group. Although in hindsight I agree with your first reversion of the name to "and the" on the Festival page, since that is how they appeared at that venue. Whichever way the band's article is named (y Los vs. and the) is a matter of preference, of course, but my own personal preferences is that original names take precedence, for article titles. But my only major concern is that a wikilink should be maintained to the band's page, and I think only a singular article should be used for the multiple incarnations of the band/bands over time, since it is essentially the same group, if I am not mistaken. Cheers.Steven Russell 19:25, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

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• You're right, that was a bad call. I have restored the page. android79 01:30, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Wished to thank you for great work!

Thanks for your work on Your Black Muslim Bakery! it looks great! Regards--Hourick 23:57, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the positive feedback!Steven Russell 00:03, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

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heads-up

You uploaded Image:Alyacoub1.jpg.

I uploaded Image:Ibrahim Salih Mohammed al-Yacoub 1.jpg

They are the same image, different names. Someone nominated the version I uploaded for deletion. I thought they should have nominated your version for deletion, since mine has the source URL, and the subject's correct name. No offense.

I raised my concern with the nominator's judgment at Common's village pump. Someone told me to feel free to take the {{dupe}} tag off my version and put it on your version. And I have done this.

I did the same with:

• Image:Alyacoub2.jpg and Image:Ibrahim Salih Mohammed al-Yacoub 2.jpg
• Image:Elhoorie.jpg‎ and Image:Ali Saed bin Ali el-Hoorie 1.jpg‎

I uploaded a bunch of images from the "Rewards for Justice Program" site. Do you see any other overlaps between what I uploaded and what you uploaded?

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 19:40, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Mohammed Khan

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Proposed deletion of Riyadh Shikawi

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The attempt to find more reliable sources has failed. The merge proposal has been on the page now for ages. No signs of interest or explanations are given on both talk pages. This article here is solely base on the primary source and the fact that this name was on the FBI list for a while. For me it looks 99 % sure that it is Abdul Rahim al-Sharqawi and in this case i do not think there is much to merge. Abdul Rahim al-Sharqawi has already a section about the rendition, maybe just the fact that he was on the FBI list and then delete and redirect. If we speak about two different individuals. Then this one should be deleted because it fails WP:BIO notability and my attempt to find more reliable secondary sources have failed.

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Duplicate Yemeni terrorism suspects

The pages that you created for the Yemeni terrorism suspects Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli, Mustafa al-Ansari, Samir Abduh Sa'id al-Maktawi, Abdulrab Muhammad Muhammad Ali al-Sayfi, Abu Nasr al-Tunisi, Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari and Abdullah Al-Rimi are largely duplicates of each other. It doesn't seem an efficient way to use a wiki, so I shall be trying to tidy them up a bit. Batternut (talk) 15:35, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

likewise the Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli, Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi and Omar Ahmad Omar al-Hubishi pages. Batternut (talk) 23:29, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

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