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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, Alphax ^τεχ 05:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Replaceable fair use Image:Moroder.jpg[edit]

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Re:Blanco[edit]

In your comments about former president Blanco, I think you might be mistaken the terminaology. "Drug czar" is sometimes used as a term in the US for an official who has overall responsibiliy for narcotics policy. Not the same as a "drug kingpin" a major dealer, in the sense you seem to have taken it. Just FYI--Dudeman5685 (talk) 15:13, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, regarding your contribution[1] to State of Palestine. You said that the use of "partially" is "bias-inducing weasel word". Do you have a neutral alternative, to reflect that its not recognized by everyone, without building walls of references both ways.--Mor2 (talk) 02:35, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I have: That term is precisely NO TERM AT ALL. Case in point: For example, a nation's elected president, according to your insistent redefinition, will almost always be "partially recognized" (since he/she never actually receives a 100% of "recognition" of the voters). Thus, almost every leader will have to be called "partially elected president" or "partially recognized president", which is absurd, insulting and unhear of.

The recognition of the UN, as most voting bodies in the whole wide world, is not required to be unanimous (100%) in order to the remove the "partially" label, nor people right's to self determination is NOT required to be unanimous and in good terms with the whole planet; otherwise, 189 nation's of the world would have to redefine themselves as "partially" recognized. Absurb in every sense, unless you're pursuing a bias-inducing agenda which I firmly believe. Israel, in particular has never been universally recognized, but you don't feel like stamping a "partially ok" label to that nation. Am I right?

Recognized is recognized. Adding "partially" is just cherry-picking and the very definition of BIAS INDUCING. So it was duly removed.

Flurry (talk) 23:39, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Top secret[edit]

I have reverted your redirection of Top secret based on the number of incoming links, which indicate that this link has developed stable expectations. Please feel free to initiate a discussion at WP:RfD if you wish to obtain community consensus on a change to this redirect. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:30, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

On further review, I believe that the problem is not that "Top secret" redirects to an article that is particular to the United States, but that the article Classified information needs to be globalized. The article already has information about practices in a number of different countries, but the lede and early parts do not reflect the breadth of this scope. bd2412 T 17:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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