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Don't worry about it. I agree he's rude for doing so, and I left him a note pointing that out, but I don't think there's any harm done in this case. I also pointed out that the copyright on email, like that on real physical mail, belongs to the sender, and the receiver has no right to republish it - there are a number of famous cases (of which you may know) in which biographers were prevented from publishing the letters of their subjects. so there is precedent from the non-electronic world on this. Noel (talk) 13:20, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for patching in the move template and mentioning it on the talk page—it totally slipped my mind. -- Milkmandan 16:38, 2005 Jan 31 (UTC)
Why did you remove the sentence I added to ELINT which relates it to stealth technology? I think it's at least as relevant as the world war 2 example you put in instead. Nvinen 04:52, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
You might want to take a gander at Talk:Battle of Spion Kop. I'm starting to think we should just get rid of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English), it's a waste of time. Noel (talk) 18:20, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Philip, I'll be away for most of this week packing up a close friend of mine and moving her across the country. (the nice guy part of me is small, but I assure you it's there somewhere) Is it possible my commentary can wait about a week? I'll be glad to participate, but packing a truck and driving 1300 miles aren't conducive this week to spending time here (and my time tonight is limited). I should be gone tomorrow, and coming back next week either late Sunday night or early Monday morning. — ExplorerCDT 03:47, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Please see User talk:UtherSRG regarding the move of Middlesex, England. Jooler 00:31, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Philip, why are you controlling the edits to Dresden? It was not a well-written article, for goodness sake. Horrible repetition, bad sentence structure, no narrative flow, poor punctuation, inconsistent spelling. I'm not blaming you for any of this, as I don't know who did most of the writing, but why defend it? Copy-editing may not seem like much, but checking punctuation and sentence structure is in fact incredibly time-consuming. I spent hours on it today, and you just reverted. Please tell me, for example: why do you want the photograph to straddle the intro and the first section? It doesn't matter, but it looks ugly, and yet you revert efforts to correct it. Also, you don't seem to have the dates of the bombing right. I may be wrong, of course, but I believe the first bombers took off at 6 pm on Feb 13. A close relative of mine was one of the pilots in the first raid, and I have his logbook, so I'm pretty sure I'm right about the date, and every source I've checked says the same thing. SlimVirgin 20:42, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
Philip, both SlimVirgin and I have had some difficulty getting our edits to "stick" to the Bombing of Dresden in World War II article. We're getting the impression that you have taken ownership of the article and intend to prevent all others from making edits without your approval. I hope that this is just a misunderstanding on our part and that you don't really intend to do this.
Please consider this message as step two in the mandated conflict resolution procedure. I'd rather work this out on your talk page than go to all the trouble and mess of creating a public "request for comment". Please offer some avenues of cooperation to SlimVirgin and me; we'd like to work with you, not against you. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 16:38, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
The Red Cross numbers should be included. They should be listed along with the other disputed people who provide their numbers of deaths in the bombing. Why not include the Red Cross? If they don´t include how they came to their estimation then that´s okay. Thus, making their numbers in dispute. I don´t see why you shouldn´t include their estimation then. It´s a dispute number just like the others.
O, sorry. I didn´t see that you had edited it already.
Sorry. I for the longest time couldn´t figure out how to post individually on these talk pages. It should really say "To post comments click on the + sign". Some places, It says "To post comments go to the bottom of the page" but there is nothing on the bottom of the page to post in.
Anyway, I have a problem with the Dresden bombing article. Why the labels if you provide a link right then. Why not say "Anti-Semitic Nazi Propoganda Minister Joseph Goebbels"? It wouldn´t make sense because there is a link right there to another page telling the reader all about Goebbels. And so you give a reader to use pre-conceived notions about people about this David Irving fellow but not about other people listed in the article. It seems odd.
User Talk:DM123 02:24, 14 Feb 2005
Thanks for Deneys Reitz and Maritz Rebellion! Both are actually topics I haven't come across (and all my books don't really mention the rebellion...), so it was interesting. Dewet 13:51, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Will have a look at it soon, think I've got some Materials regarding this one. -- Renier Maritz 09:43, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for catching and fixing my mistake with the USAAF/USAF difference. I wasn't thinking at the time. :) Pacobob 04:57, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
You asked about my edits. My main concern was to make it grammatical. I did include the link to an external page (Army Air Forces in World War II), which confirmed some of the things in the article. Actually, I wanted to edit the 2nd to last paragrah, the one that taks about the war crimes aspect of this. The structure of that parapgraph is really bad. It is a very scatter-shot paragraph and should be re-written, but it defeated me at the time. I did not want to step on anyone's toes. There are really good sources, on the web, about the "total war" aspect of this. There is information from the trials of the submariners that could be cited or put into another article and cited that way. Just fyi. I do not have strong feelings about the edits. Do what you will. I was just trying to fix the structure of some of the language. RayKiddy 16:55, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hello Philip.
We've recently started up a Military Collaboration of the week. If you'd like to contribute, you're more then welcome. Oberiko 13:49, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Philip, are you really unable to see the difference between a fact and an argument? You equated the truth value of the proposition "the Thames flows through London" with the truth value of the following:
This implies that those allied commanders who ordered the action and the airmen who carried it out should have been tried as war criminals. As no Axis personnel were tried at the post-war Nuremberg Trials for participating in the decisions on, or execution of, assault by aerial bombardment on defended enemy territory, there is no legal precedent available to indicate that these actions constituted a war crime.
Please tell me: do you really mean it when you say you see no difference? Please help me out with this, as I am utterly bewildered. SlimVirgin 22:44, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
Philip, I am appealing to you once again to work with us, not against us. I admit to being quite shocked by your behavior over the last week. You have fought every change to Dresden, regardless of whether the change was an improvement or not, even down to reverting the insertion of "blockquote".
You have altered the talk pages, ignored requests for references, reinserted unsourced sections, restored grammatical errors.
You're now behaving in the same way with my edits at the MoS.
I have appealed to you on the Talk page and by e-mail. You ignored my e-mail and passed my name to an editor friend of yours, who posted it on a talk page, and posted it again after I removed it.
This is beginning to look like harassment. Ed appears to be serious about moving toward dispute resolution, which will be time-consuming for us all. I asked on Feb 12 to be allowed to redo my copy edit of Dresden that you reverted, and I still haven't been able to advance beyond one section; and I shouldn't have to ask to be "allowed" in the first place. Please allow others to edit that page. I assure you that I am not trying to introduce a POV.
I am asking only that any controversial or significant passages be clearly sourced, and that no personal opinion be inserted. I will not object to any edit that is relevant and for which a clear citation is given, regardless of the POV. SlimVirgin 02:00, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
If you mean the second Churchill memo, what I've been asking you is the relevance of repeating it. I promise you, I have no objection at all to it being included if it actually shows something, but there was so little difference between the first and what you're calling final memo. What exactly are the differences and what do you feel they show/or what has anyone else said they show? Rather than just giving the author's name, what does the author say, and can you quote him? If a quote could go in the article, I'd have no problem with it, believe me. I'm not POV pushing here; just reference pushing. SlimVirgin 09:16, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
Hi, you might want to wander over to WP:RM and vote on "Rastafarianism → Rastafari" - once again, there is a move afoot to do strange things to article titles because some people are offended (on totally unsupportable grounds). Noel (talk) 18:45, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Because the temporary bombardment treaty was used by the Greco-German arbitration tribunal (1927-1930) that bombardment from the air was to be treated as land bombardment, and because both treaties relevant passages are virtually identical, it is a distinction without a difference. Stirling Newberry
In most sensible military scholarship the position is taken that Dresden was not, per se, a war crime, but that a continuation of those policies after the extent of damage became known might well have been. Of course, we won't know, since not long there afterwards, the plug was pulled on such attacks, the directive coming from the very top.
A useful, if somewhat out of date book for the present changes that have taken place in light of on going changes in light of Yugoslavia and Rwanda is Charles Rousseau, Le droit des conflits armés Stirling Newberry 02:09, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
20 to 9 on the straw poll as of one minute before the end (at least, since I never figured out UTC). There was a proposal in discussion about transclusion...are we able to try something like that? Chiefly because, if I have to start darting around to talk pages (even if they are linked to from RM), I'm just going to get frustrated and stop contributing to RMs. — ExplorerCDT 17:40, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Someone started Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Instantnood. May be of interest considering our discussion. — ExplorerCDT 17:44, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, yes. I've tidied it up a bit (I hope that you're happy with the results). Incidentally, it was pleasant to be able to pass on a snippet of information that I'd learned from the article to the Pembroke College, Oxford bursar — John Church. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 21:41, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
As of Yesterday the format for WP:RM#Notices has changed. So I have reformatted you entry of Golgo 13 (video game). Please check it over and make sure I've done it correctly. As there is no talk page entry yet I'm not sure if you need to add the move template or not. Usually one ought to do so and also add the comment as to why you want to move it or if you think it is controversial then layout a straw poll as suggested at WP:RM#How to format a straw poll. I hope this helps PBS 15:55, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Your straw poll format is too formal and cumbersome. It discourages discussion in favor of voting. While that may be helpful in cut and dry yes/no decisions, for something like Requested moves, other solutions could present themselves. Remember, don't vote on everything. -- Netoholic @ 16:51, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC)
I copied these comments to Wikipedia talk:Requested moves#What form should the discussion on the talk page take PBS
Category:Requested moves I put move-notes in some pages, but no admin moves. How is it working, or should I wait longer? e.g. Template talk:Argentine provinces already 12 days marked for move thx Tobias Conradi 23:32, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I just ran across this, which might interest you. I though about calling in for the monograph, but I haven't yet - maybe I'll get around to it. Noel (talk) 05:17, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Philip, I noted that you have been reclassifying the Levellers and Diggers articles, so can I prevail upon you to further classify - Diggers (True Levellers) - since this will then be a correct definition? Lilburne was an Agitator and shunned the term Leveller. His enemies smeared him with that term and so he referred to his own followers as "Levellers so-called". There is a big difference here. Lilburne's genealogy and his ideology went forward into the Jefferson line and ended up in the US Bill of Rights. This is well documented and I am in the process of recording that documentation for Wikipedia. Lilburne stood for individualism and for individual freeborn rights (he was called "Freeborn John".) On the other hand, Winstanley reached into the Book of Acts for Christian communism - hence levellers=communism. The Digger aspect only got tagged on to one faction of Winstanley's True Levellers (the term he used), when a band plonked themselves on public land, claimed it for their own (as a group) and began to dig it up to plant crops, hence the tag of "Diggers" by their enemies. But Winstanley's people were first of all True Levellers by both philosophy and religion and then secondarily, a faction of them became branded as "Diggers" by enemies - because not all of Winstanley's people were digging up the land. However, with all that said and done, a compromise could be reached by amending to the suggested title above: Diggers (True Levellers). Thank you. MPLX/MH 17:01, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I created a page called 'The Lady of shallot' whereas it SHOULD be called 'The Lady of Shallot' with a capital S, but i cant move it, it wont let me as it cant tell the difference between the two.
How do I do this?
Text moved to Talk:Diggers (Levellers)#A Declaration by the Diggers of Wellingborough - 1650
Hi, may I make a suggestion? Earlier today, you archived Talk:Unlawful combatant [1], which is always a good idea when such pages get too long. However, if you copy & paste the text into the new archive file rather than move the entire page, then the archive file won't show up in users' watchlists as it does now. See also: Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page. Viajero 14:57, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi, could you please leave my comment there alone? I voted and commented on the Talk: page of the article; I placed the comment on WP:RM to bring attention to the principle at play in what would (to most people) be a backwater. Noel (talk) 13:45, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your input on the above, and I have followed your suggestions.
TonyClarke 00:34, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hey there. I'd appreciate it if you could do me a favour by looking at Talk:British Columbia Liberal Party at both voting and making a decision. It would be inappropriate for me to make the decision after Spinboy ( talk · contribs) has tried to take me to arbitration about the move. There are actually two move discussions: the first one which caused the argument and then a second WP:RM to go back to the (wrong, imo) name.
No problem if you've not got the time. Cheers, violet/riga (t) 14:55, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Please reconsider your case regarding move/merge. New material Presented. -- Cool Cat My Talk 22:46, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I'm not as sure about the page move now as I was when I cast my vote. It's really a difficult issue. I had a look at the naming convention talk page... what a mess! But it's quite interesting! My current standpoint is: If an English name exits and is commonly used, it should be used in the title and thoughout the text. Like Zurich. If not, non-Latin scripts should be romanized, but diacritical marks should be kept. Now, in the case of Ubeda, the question is: does an English name exist? I think it does - most English websites about Ubeda use Ubeda. But is it "commonly used"? It is definitely a majority spelling - but on a tiny scale. Ubeda is a small city, unknown to most people - most English native speakers who know the city probably know the spelling Úbeda. I doubt that the same can be said for Zürich. Taking this into consideration, Zürich should be moved to Zurich, but as for Ubeda, both Ubeda and Úbeda are acceptable as page titles. Nobbie 17:06, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
If you want it merged and redirected, you can do that yourself, and you don't even need a VfD vote for it. Simply copy/paste the content of Karl (if any) into Helmuth, and replace the text of Karl with "#redirect [[Helmuth Weidling]]". HTH! Radiant _* 12:56, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know about this. I don't know if I voted the way that you'd expected (or hoped?); I was torn, in fact, because I think that there are good arguments on both sides. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 09:58, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
And I thank you, too, for letting me know about the vote. I think that there is a difference between "English name" and "anglicised name" and that "Zurich" is an example of the first, hence my vote to move (back) to "Zurich". -- pne 15:09, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thx for notifying me Tobias Conradi (Talk) 10:25, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What did you get me into? Dpbsmith (talk) 18:07, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC) Seriously, a) thanks and b) my own view is that we should use the most common name (not the native name, "correct" name, "official" name, "right" name, "modern" name, etc. etc.). However, I don't really see the harm in making an exception for the special case where the names differ only in diacritical marks, and I do feel that the current policy pages do not resolve this question, and I don't see why there couldn't be a nice clear policy statement one way or the other. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:07, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Actually WP:RM is on my watchlist. A less antisocial alternative to spamming some thirty user talk pages (as you appear to have done), also one that is less likely to get you accused of trying to stack a vote, is to place a notice on the hot topic watchlist. By the way, I will now have to refrain from posting on that discussion now, because there would be a suspicion that you had influenced my decision if I did so. -- Tony Sidaway| Talk 10:33, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I'm sure you meant well, but it's probably not a great idea to spam people's talk pages. — Matt Crypto 19:00, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Have you had any trouble with this user? He seems to be on a drive to get en.wikipedia.org to change the way it uses the names of towns from Polish to German, if they were in that part of Germany lost to Poland after WWI&WWII. He looks to be a POV warrior of the very nastiest kind. User:Jesusfreund tells me that some German right-extermists may have moved their activities to the english edition after getting frustrated with the german edition...--- Charles Stewart 12:01, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the note, although I had already spotted the move in my watchlist. I wont be removing my oppose vote from the proposal to move Public Broadcasting Service to PBS because I don't see it as now pointless or redundant - to me it makes it clear that I don't support that move, rather than being ambivilent towards it or supporting it as a second choice if my first choice didn't reach consensus. Thryduulf 21:27, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hi there! Thanks for pointing that out. Yours, R adiant _* 17:31, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
Hello! I just wanted to point out that "Liancourt Rocks" probably isn't the common English name -- it's hardly used outside of Wikipedia and its mirrors. Check out the discussion on Talk:Liancourt Rocks. -- Xiaopo ℑ 16:20, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I can see how a country may be effected, but in what way are they affected? PBS 01:26, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Maybe we can seek a second opinion? Space Cadet 04:34, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)