Talk:International Gendarmerie

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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 17, 2011.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Dutch Major Lodewijk Thomson, second-in-command of the International Gendarmerie in Albania, was probably killed by an Italian sniper on 15 June 1914, in a peasant rebel attack on Durrës?

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allegiance[edit]

Template:Infobox_military_unit defines allegiance on the following way:

allegiance – optional – used to indicate the allegiance of units which are not part of the regular armed forces of a sovereign state; can usually be omitted otherwise.

The International Gendarmerie was part of the regular armed forces of a sovereign state (The Principality of Albania) and according to above instructions we should omit this field.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 10:39, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Who resigned[edit]

The article says the following: he Netherlands' War Minister initially chose Major Lodewijk Thomson to head the Gendarmerie, but resigned first allowing the new Minister to appoint Colonel Willem De Veer, placing Thomson as his second-in-command on October 20, 1913. Does that mean that Thomson resigned or the Minister resigned? Can you please reword better? --Doktor Plumbi (talk) 19:39, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Whole cabinet together with Minister resigned. The War Minister Hendrikus Colijn contacted his friend, Major Lodewijk Thomson (1869-1914), a well-known political and military figure of the age, and inquired if he would be interested. ..Before his appointment as head of the Dutch mission to Albania could be finalized, however, the cabinet resigned, and the new War Minister Bosboom decided that other potential candidates for the post needed to be considered... Feel free to reword according to it. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 19:54, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good, thanks, made change.--Doktor Plumbi (talk) 15:08, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Pasha"[edit]

Can the author of this article please fix the calling of the "Pasha"? Pasha is not a second name, but a title, given to Esad Toptani. You may either call him Esad Pasha, or Toptani, but not "Pasha", or if you really have to, call him "the Pasha".--Doktor Plumbi (talk) 19:42, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are numerous people and articles about them which have Pasha in their names. There are hundreds of Pashas on wikipedia. I suppose that in case of Essad Pasha, title pasha is “used to form the unambiguous name by which the subject is clearly best known”--Antidiskriminator (talk) 20:02, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, then either you call him "The Pasha", or "the Albanian Pasha" to better specify, or you call him by his name, because "Pasha" is just a title, and in English, when you call someone by a title, you ought to define the word. I noticed that usually you don't do that, but the read is not easy. If you want me to, I'll correct those, but I have full faith that you may do it yourself.--Doktor Plumbi (talk) 15:10, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sources on English say Essad Pasha.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 16:19, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, fixed. --Doktor Plumbi (talk) 16:45, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]