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Asteralee, celebrating the season early is something I can get behind! Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to you too, thank you for the well wishes :D --Ferien (talk) 21:26, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Syrian literature is modern fiction written or orally performed in Arabic by writers from Syria since the independence of the Syrian Arab Republic in 1946. It is part of the historically and geographically wider Arabic literature. The modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel as well as the Palestinian autonomous areas only came into being in the mid-20th century. Therefore, Syrian literature has since been referred to by literary scholarship as the national literature of the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as the works created in Arabic by Syrian writers in the diaspora. This literature has been influenced by the country's political history, the literature of other Arabic-speaking countries and, especially in its early days, by French literature.

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The Mars ocean theory states that nearly a third of the surface of Mars was covered by an ocean of liquid water early in the planet's geologic history. This primordial ocean, dubbed Paleo-Ocean or Oceanus Borealis (/oʊˈsiːənəs ˌbɒriˈælɪs/ oh-SEE-ə-nəs BORR-ee-AL-iss), would have filled the basin Vastitas Borealis in the northern hemisphere, a region that lies 4–5 km (2.5–3 miles) below the mean planetary elevation, at a time period of approximately 4.1–3.8 billion years ago. Evidence for this ocean includes geographic features resembling ancient shorelines, and the chemical properties of the Martian soil and atmosphere

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I have tagged Quick Delegation for Giffari Naufal Arisma Putra For advertisement but some new editor is removing the tag manually every time.

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  Done, sorry, I didn't see your talk page message or the post on AN. I just saw it in recent changes and went and deleted it. --Ferien2 (talk) 11:07, 19 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

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BZPN, thank you and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for you too! All the best, :D --Ferien (talk) 22:10, 19 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
You're welcome, and thank you too :). Best regards, BZPN (talk) 06:30, 20 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

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In August 2023, major floods occurred in large part of Slovenia and neighbouring areas of Austria and Croatia due to heavy rain. Amongst others, the level of rivers Sava, Mur and Drava was exceptionally high. Several settlements and transport links in Slovene Littoral, Upper Carniola and Slovenian Carinthia were flooded. Due to the amount of rain, the streams in Idrija, Cerkno and Škofja Loka Hills overflowed.

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Im back anything new? Cactus🌵 spiky 11:36, 27 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi Cactusisme, I've been mostly away for the past few weeks as well, so can't really think of too much you've missed. There's been part of a discussion on AI and obviously a new RfA that you've already voted on, I can't think of much beyond that at the moment. Hope you've had a great festive period and best wishes for 2025! :) --Ferien (talk) 10:25, 28 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks!!! Cactus🌵 spiky 23:14, 29 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I’ve completed fixing the days of the year articles. Apologies for any inconvenience caused during the process, and thank you for your understanding. Best regards, BZPN (talk) 18:21, 29 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

(talk page stalker) @BZPN: As I mentioned on your talk page, the fixes weren't quite right. We might be better starting again from the beginning. -- Auntof6 (talk) 03:49, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

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The Uganda Railways Corporation (URC) is the parastatal railway of Uganda. It was formed after the breakup of the East African Railways Corporation (EARC) in 1977 when it took over the Ugandan part of the East African railways.

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Hi Ferien, First off thanks so much for making me aware of the edit history, I can now see this has been edit warred to death since 2015 and unfortunately I had no idea of this until now otherwise I would've queried it on Simple Talk instead,

Could I ask though why are we using a blue icon over an orange one ?,

My only reasoning for changing it was that it basically confused me with Level 1 warnings as they're blue too, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 22:09, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Sorry just checked the talkpage - I don't suppose you know where this discussion took place do you?, I'm just curious as to why blue over orange, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 22:12, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hi Davey2010, the most recent discussion on the issue was at Wikipedia:Simple talk/Archive 148#Changing colors in warn templates, in which there was a consensus to keep as blue. There have probably been some discussions before that as Chenzw mentions on that page, I don't have the link to those on-hand. I'm going to add a comment to make the fact this has been discussed clearer, as it's not linked in the edit history either and people understandably think, enwiki is orange, why not simplewiki if we follow. Funnily enough, enwiki also had blue up until just 2013 so it's perhaps not a long-term thing as some (at least me!) might think. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 22:13, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hiya, Ah okay that's interesting thank you, I had no idea it was blue on enwiki up until 2013 either, Reading that discussion it certainly makes a lot more sense now and tbh I kinda agree with their logic - If it doesn't need changing then why change it?, Of course for myself and others it's preference but no one's actually offered a good reason to change it other than "because en uses it" which was my excuse too, It makes much more sense now,
Thank you for adding the hidden comment, fwiw had that been there prior to my change I obviously wouldn't have changed it so I apologise for my unintentional edit warring, Thank you for being cool about it and for helping me better understand why :), Have a great day/evening, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 22:24, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

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From 1942 to 1949, Canada forcibly relocated and incarcerated over 22,000 Japanese Canadians—comprising over 90% of the total Japanese Canadian population—from British Columbia in the name of "national security". The majority were Canadian citizens by birth and were targeted based on their ancestry. This decision followed the events of the Japanese Empire's war in the Pacific against the Western Allies, such as the invasion of Hong Kong, the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the Fall of Singapore which led to the Canadian declaration of war on Japan during World War II. Similar to the actions taken against Japanese Americans in neighbouring United States, this forced relocation subjected many Japanese Canadians to government-enforced curfews and interrogations, job and property losses, and forced repatriation to Japan

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Christmas seals are adhesive labels that are similar in appearance to postage stamps that are sold then affixed to mail during the Christmas season to raise funds and awareness for charitable programs. Christmas seals have become particularly associated with lung diseases such as tuberculosis, and with child welfare in general. They were first issued in Denmark beginning in 1904, with Sweden and Iceland following with issues that same year. Thereafter the use of Christmas seals proved to be popular and spread quickly around the world, with 130 countries producing their own issues.

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The 2010 Nahorno karabakh war were a series of exchanges of gunfire that took place on February 18 on the line of contact dividing Azerbaijani and the Karabakh Armenian military forces. Azerbaijan accused the Armenian forces of firing on the Azerbaijani positions near Tap Qaraqoyunlu, Qızıloba, Qapanlı, Yusifcanlı and Cavahirli villages, as well as in uplands of Agdam Rayon with small arms fire including snipers. As a result, three Azerbaijani soldiers were killed and one wounded.

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Jinnah's Birthday, officially Quaid-e-Azam Day and sometimes known as Quaid Day, is a public holiday in Pakistan observed annually on 25 December to celebrate the birthday of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, known as Quaid-i-Azam ("Great Leader"). A major holiday, commemorations for Jinnah began during his lifetime in 1942, and have continued ever since. The event is primarily observed by the government and the citizens of the country where the national flag is hoisted at major architectural structures such as private and public buildings, particularly at the top of Quaid-e-Azam House in Karachi.

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The French conquest of Corsica was a successful expedition by French forces of the Kingdom of France under Comte de Vaux, against Corsican forces under Pasquale Paoli of the Corsican Republic. The expedition was launched in May 1768, in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War.

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On 11 May 1812, at about 5:15 pm, Spencer Perceval, the prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham, a Liverpool merchant with a grievance against the government. Bellingham was detained; four days after the murder, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. He was hanged at Newgate Prison on 18 May, one week after the assassination and one month before the start of the War of 1812. Perceval remains the sole British prime minister to have been assassinated.

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A constitutional referendum was held in Madagascar on 17 November 2010, in which voters approved a proposal for the state's fourth Constitution. The Malagasy people were asked to answer "Yes" or "No" to the proposed new constitution, which was considered to help consolidate Andry Rajoelina's grip on power. At the time of the referendum, Rajoelina headed the governing Highest Transitional Authority (HAT), an interim junta established following the military-backed coup d'état against then President Marc Ravalomanana in March 2009.

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