User contributions for Bigdaddy1204

2 August 2020

• 20:0820:08, 2 August 2020 diff hist +428 User talk:EurekaLott →File:Hicham Idelcaid.jpg: new section

25 March 2020

• 13:5813:58, 25 March 2020 diff hist −45 m Decline of the Byzantine Empire →Increasing reliance on mercenaries: fixing a few mistaken verbs.
• 13:3813:38, 25 March 2020 diff hist −39 m Decline of the Byzantine Empire It's been 12 years since that tag was added, during which time the article has changed beyond all recognition. I think we can safely remove it now. Thanks

28 May 2019

• 17:1317:13, 28 May 2019 diff hist +1 m Decline of the Byzantine Empire →Loss of control over revenue: fixed broken link
• 17:1217:12, 28 May 2019 diff hist −315 m Decline of the Byzantine Empire Adding source and details on the Genoese economic concessions from the Byzantine empire
• 16:4816:48, 28 May 2019 diff hist +82 m Decline of the Byzantine Empire →The failed Union of the Churches: correction - 13th century
• 16:4216:42, 28 May 2019 diff hist +3,125 Decline of the Byzantine Empire →The failed Union of the Churches: adding more detail on the Church Union, from the Wikipedia article on Michael VIII. This is one of the most important factors in the decline, and it wasn't even mentioned. Scandalous!
• 16:3416:34, 28 May 2019 diff hist +103 m Decline of the Byzantine Empire Adding in a link to other articles on the Byzantine army, and resizing the picture as well as updating the text
• 16:2916:29, 28 May 2019 diff hist +129 m Decline of the Byzantine Empire Adding picture of John VI Kantakouzenos, reflecting the text on the Byzantine civil war
• 16:2216:22, 28 May 2019 diff hist −4,412 Decline of the Byzantine Empire Major re-structuring and re-write, as well as much more focus on causes rather than just repeating facts. People want to know WHY the empire declined, not just a rehash of the main Byzantine Empire page. Furthermore, irrelevant details about the WRE cut. This article is about Byzantium, not the WRE
• 14:4814:48, 28 May 2019 diff hist +151 m Decline of the Byzantine Empire →Historical events: a couple of inappropriate references to Islam changed. Islam is not a "threat", that's Islamophobic nonsense. The article should say "Arab states" or similar.
• 13:1513:15, 28 May 2019 diff hist −1,422 Decline of the Byzantine Empire →Timeframes: This section is just a complete mess. It needs a re-write to make it easier to read and understand. Also, Gibbon is largely irrelevant and should not be the first thing readers see. That belongs in a discussion about historiography, not here
• 12:3312:33, 28 May 2019 diff hist +181 m Decline of the Byzantine Empire Clarifying the point about when the decline really began by reference to modern scholarship, especially Angold
• 12:2912:29, 28 May 2019 diff hist +2 m Decline of the Byzantine Empire Tidying up paragraph spacing
• 12:2712:27, 28 May 2019 diff hist −60 Decline of the Byzantine Empire This is not the place to get bogged down in a terminological discussion about the empire's name. Also, this summary did a poor job of summarising the key events, with much irrelevant information and some important details left out

21 June 2018

• 15:3215:32, 21 June 2018 diff hist −34 Extremism →Definitions: by whom? Saying Hamas is "often viewed as evil" is ridiculously one sided and absurd. They were democratically elected. Far too much Islamophobic bias and bigotry in this article. Shameful.
• 15:2215:22, 21 June 2018 diff hist −5,016 User talk:Bigdaddy1204 No edit summary
• 15:2015:20, 21 June 2018 diff hist −12,327 User talk:Bigdaddy1204 No edit summary
• 15:1615:16, 21 June 2018 diff hist −96,558 User talk:Bigdaddy1204 No edit summary
• 15:0015:00, 21 June 2018 diff hist +289 m Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty adding source. Someone will have to help me tidy up this reference as I have no idea how to fix the error and the help page is completely baffling. Thanks
• 14:4614:46, 21 June 2018 diff hist +79 m Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty The conquests were prompted more by refugees fleeing the Mongols, the prospect of new land and wealth, as well as Islamic zeal. Religion alone does not explain the conquests, nor was it the primary driving factor.

14 April 2018

• 21:2721:27, 14 April 2018 diff hist +21 Decline of the Byzantine Empire It wasn't the crusades as such that halted Islamic expansion, it was the fragmentation and civil war in the Islamic world at the time which did so. Furthermore, only the first crusade benefited the Byzantine empire, while the second and third crusades were treated as a serious threat to the state. The third crusade was actively opposed by Byzantine troops. Finally, the decline wasn't continuous from 1071 onwards and the Komnenians restored stability for the best part of a century from 1081 to... Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

3 June 2017

• 19:2219:22, 3 June 2017 diff hist +34 m Berney Arms railway station No edit summary Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 19:1919:19, 3 June 2017 diff hist +22 Berney Arms railway station It looks like the Berney Arms has reopened as I can see multiple people leaving reviews on Google having stayed there in the past week and several more in recent months. It seems to have reopened since June 2016 as a hotel and restaurant Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

27 October 2016

• 21:5321:53, 27 October 2016 diff hist +468 Islamic music →Permissibility of music: adding a source referring to the hadith of Bukhari, one of the top sources of hadith in Islam
• 21:3321:33, 27 October 2016 diff hist +581 m Islamic music →Permissibility of music: adding source
• 21:1721:17, 27 October 2016 diff hist +340 Islamic music →Permissibility of music: adding source on Al Ghazali
• 21:0521:05, 27 October 2016 diff hist +95 m Islamic music →Permissibility of music: adding source directly from the Quran. You can't get a more authoritative source about Islam than that.
• 20:5820:58, 27 October 2016 diff hist +25 m Islamic music →Permissibility of music: editing for clarity
• 20:5620:56, 27 October 2016 diff hist +702 Islamic music →Permissibility of music: adding source and mentioning what the Quran says about musical instruments
• 20:4220:42, 27 October 2016 diff hist +206 m Islamic music →Permissibility of music: adding source
• 20:3820:38, 27 October 2016 diff hist +635 Islamic music →Permissibility of music: adding information about Grand Ayatollah Khamenei's position on the permissibility of music in Islam
• 20:2320:23, 27 October 2016 diff hist +131 m Islamic music →Permissibility of music: Correcting sources - the sources were the wrong way round. Added new source, and fFixed.
• 20:1820:18, 27 October 2016 diff hist +373 Islamic music →Permissibility of music: This is inaccurate. In fact, al-Ghazali specifically said that music is permitted. Since there is no source for this assertion, I am removing it and replacing it with properly sourced material, as per Wikipedia guidelines

19 August 2016

• 14:4514:45, 19 August 2016 diff hist +5 m Extremism This article was not neutral. Picking out two Muslim organisations as extreme while not mentioning Israel is unbalanced and violates Wikipedia's own policy concerning neutral point of view

17 May 2016

• 09:1209:12, 17 May 2016 diff hist −3 m Empire of Nicaea →Aftermath
• 09:1109:11, 17 May 2016 diff hist −1 Empire of Nicaea →=Aftermath
• 09:1109:11, 17 May 2016 diff hist +1,706 Empire of Nicaea →History

4 May 2016

• 18:1018:10, 4 May 2016 diff hist −185 Monreale Unfortunately I regret that I have to remove this photo. Although It was added in good faith, for family personal reasons I can't allow it to be used. As the author, I regretfully withdraw this photo from the article.

3 May 2016

• 23:2023:20, 3 May 2016 diff hist +185 Monreale No edit summary

10 September 2015

• 16:2816:28, 10 September 2015 diff hist −15 Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop →Please help! Byzantine history map
• 16:2816:28, 10 September 2015 diff hist +34 Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop →Please help! Byzantine history map
• 16:2616:26, 10 September 2015 diff hist −162 Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop →Please help! Byzantine history map
• 16:2316:23, 10 September 2015 diff hist +1,005 Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop →Please help! Byzantine history map: new section
• 16:0816:08, 10 September 2015 diff hist +502 Talk:Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty →The map is inaccurate - it needs to be updated
• 16:0516:05, 10 September 2015 diff hist +630 N File:Byzantium 1263 historical.jpg Uploading a self-made file using File Upload Wizard current
• 15:4415:44, 10 September 2015 diff hist −355 Talk:Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty →The map is inaccurate - it needs to be updated
• 15:4215:42, 10 September 2015 diff hist +293 Talk:Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty →The map is inaccurate - it needs to be updated
• 15:4015:40, 10 September 2015 diff hist +979 Talk:Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty →The map is inaccurate - it needs to be updated: new section

7 September 2015

• 14:0414:04, 7 September 2015 diff hist −2 Decline of the Byzantine Empire →The arrival of the Seljuks: actually the last territory fell in 1338, when Chrysopolis was occupied by the Turks. Old Philadelphia held out, but it was a tiny city-state surrounded by Turkish emirates and was to all intents and purposes independent