User talk:Ja 62

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Hi, I hope you don't mind that I listed your article Arms shipments from Czechoslovakia to Israel 1947-1949 at Portal:Israel/New article announcements. You are welcome to join. ←Humus sapiens ^ну? 11:24, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Userbox

The part of WP:USER that the userbox violates is this section;

• Polemical statements:

“ libelling people on userpages is a bad idea, and in fact, using userpages to attack people or campaign for or against anything or anyone is a bad idea ”

- Jimbo Wales

Particularly Jimbo's statement, which states that campaigning for anything is a bad idea. Please note however, that this is just my opinion that the userbox fails this. Embargo's editing of your userpage was not vandalism as he was acting in good faith, thats why I commented on his talkpage RyanPostlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 18:35, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I apologise for what you considered as vandalism. I was merely enforcing what I recently heard were wikipedia rules. Please be more respectable and polite when addressing me or anyone else in the future. Embargo 00:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

maybe oif interest

Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2007-02-19_Inayat_Bunglawala Zeq 08:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair Use image on User page

Wikipedia WP:FU#FUC9 is that Fair Use images can only be used in articles that discuss the subject of the image. Under the user page policy, I have removed the image of Pooh from your user page. ~ BigrTex 03:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

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Czechoslovakian

It may seem inaccurate to you, but "Czechoslovakian" is the usual adjective in English, since the usual form in English for countries ending in "-ia" is "country name+n" (e.g. Romanian, Bolivian, Australian), although "Czechoslovak" is also used. See:

Czechoslovak

/chekkslovak/ (also Czechoslovakian)

• noun a person from the former country of Czechoslovakia, now divided between the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

• adjective relating to the former country of Czechoslovakia.

Compact Oxford English Dictionary

and

czechoslovakian

adjective

1. of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language;"The Czech border"; "Czechoslovak nationalists"; "The Czechoslovakian population" [syn: Czech]

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

dictionary.com

See also Czechoslovak military units on Eastern front. Regards, Grant | Talk 01:44, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Czechoslovak is more formal and therefore more correct form -e.g. official name of Czechoslovakia in English (long form) was Czechoslovak republic, mos notably it was during rule of communists - Czechoslovak socialist republic:(. I can't say that Czechoslovak is the only correct form, but it's the better one.--ja_62 10:38, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

I know what you're saying. I felt the same way when I was in Prague and saw movie posters with "Nicole Kidmanova" on them ;-) Grant | Talk 12:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade

Nice edits. A couple of questions since you seem to be well informed about the Czech brigade. 1) A few years ago, I saw an article on the internet that discussed the brigade. One issue the article brought up stated that there were some internal conflicts in the brigade that persisted into 1944 (I seem to recall it had something to with communists or some kind of conflicting political loyalties), and that these conflicts were known by the British, and led to the permanent use of the brigade in the siege role at Dunkirk rather than employing it further to the east. I can't locate this information anymore and wonder if you have ever heard about this. 2) It was recently noted by a few editors of the Military History Project that Wikipedia does not have a good article on the Czech forces in the east led by General Svoboda. Have you considered authoring such an article? I could probably put up a basic start-class article on this topic, but as you are in the Czech Republic, you likely have access to much more information than I can find. Thanks--W. B. Wilson (talk) 12:31, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't think I'm particularly well informed, I've just made some minor explanations. For your questions -* 1) There was some level of (communist inspired) political tension amongst the enlisted men in Czechoslovak army units in UK, but its prime was in 1940/1941, or between fall of France and German invasion of USSR. The solution was quite easy, men particularly reluctant to Czechoslovak authorities were tranferred to Pioneer Corps Labour Companies, others gradually calmed down. In 1944, ratio of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia members to brigade strength was 239 communists to circa 4.500 men in the brigade. (On the other hand - some officers of the brigade (insignificant in number as well as in political influence) regarded Czechoslovak exile government in UK as too pro-Soviet and vaguely considered to make up some committee under US patronage, to which committe loaylty of the Brigade should be switch, but this option never reached any phase of serious possibility)

I don't think that above mentioned number by itself provides any definitive data for level of communist activity in the brigade - and I may look up for some sources - but probably it's not likely to consider Communist threat as rationale for employing the Brigade as besieging troops only. Much more likely is the simple fact that in 1944 there was no prospect - or Czechoslovak ministry of defence did not see any - to raise casualty replacements for brigade in any significant numbers (in fact it took some toil to find enough men to fulfill table requirements for armoured brigade group just prior to shipping of brigade to France), therefore the brigade was considered to be able only to perform combat rôle in some low-intensity combats area, as besieging of Dunkerk was to be.

• 2)I don't think I have enough information on Czechoslovak units on the Eastern front present time, as well as not enough endurance to find them for the Wikipedia article. My prefered involvement in Wikipedia editing is just to make some corrections to existing articles, since I don't feel I have enough time to write articles on my own. If you write some stub article on the topic, just notice me, and I'd attempt to make some corrections, and provide details - approximately as I made today to 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade - but generally, when Czechoslovak wartime army units are poorly covered by Wikipedia, I still personally prefer Czechoslovak 11th Infantry Battalion article (which deserves, as I see it far more details than today's scope is) - for which purpose I wasn't able to find enough time since end of July, 2007. --ja_62 (talk) 16:20, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments. The manpower dilemma sounds as good a reason as any for the Dunkirk mission. --W. B. Wilson (talk) 16:29, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for catching the error in the play referrence. You know I used to have an IQ of 6,000 but after 3 million years I sometimes even forget what I just said. You know I used to have an IQ of 6,000...Xenovatis (talk) 04:54, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

It's OK. P.S.: IQ of 6,000 ? - still the same IQ as 6000 PE teachers :-)).--ja_62 (talk) 08:11, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Strategic Bombing of World War II

Please stop reverting. You have discovered an interesting fact about a German plane bombing Paris, and I have tried to insert it into the article as best as possible; however, this article is not about the bombing of World War I and the point of the paragraph was to highlight britain's familiarity with being bombed. The only reason the bombing of Germany is mentioned is because it would not be fair to jump right into England's experience under bombs without noting that they, in fact, were involved in the practice, too...and actually before the Germans started bombing London. As for the one person being killed detail, and four wounded (five bombs!) I think these are interesting details and I was interested in providing these details in the footnote because not everyone can read french, and I think it is also necessary to note because it shows the evolution of bombing - from this to nagasaki some 30 years later. It is quite unbelievable.

Sure, I inserted facts about German raid of 30 August 1914. When you'd like to show British familiarity

with bombing, you may simple add fact about Zeppelin raids (and possibly later Gotha bombers raids too), without mentioning previous air attack on German instllations, which makes legitimate to insert information about previous German attack, with reference. For the rest of your editing - see what reference format is correct for Wikipedia, and then STOP calling my attempts to help improve the article vandalism. Thanks--ja_62 (talk) 12:55, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I have removed the Paris and Trier references, leaving only what this paragraph seems to be most about: Britain's psychological state after being bombed. Still, if we are going to talk about the Zeppelins bombing Britain, it is not fair to cast the British as only victims, so I have inserted the bit about its use of aerial attacks in its colonies as well as its attacks on German infrastructure directly after the war broke out.--Npovshark (talk) 12:50, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

It's also unfair to show British as initiators of bombing, which is the thing you are attempting to.--ja_62 (talk) 12:59, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I am now glad that you seemingly finally stopped your attempts to change the article in favour of your biased opinion of the cases and course of strategic bombing in WWII.--ja_62 (talk) 13:37, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Abkhazia does fit into the category of a "puppet state", even though it is not lanlocked and as dependent on Russia as South Ossetia.

Abkhazia does fit into the category of a "puppet state", even though it is not lanlocked and as dependent on Russia as South Ossetia. Abkhazia has declared independence but its ability to maintain independence is solely based on Russian troops deployed on Georgian territory and Russian aid and nor is it internationally recognized by the United Nations and according to the United Nations criteria. Does this not qualify it as a "puppet state", just like South Ossetia?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.254.107.149 (talk • contribs)

I'm not interested in the subject matter, and I've only changed article on the Puppet state to the last consensus version because of IP:81.213.200.133's apparent lack of explanation and references for his change, previous deletion, and poor spelling in edit. It would be more useful if you'd present your case on the article talk page. --ja_62 (talk) 21:19, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Woody Allen

Why did you remove my recent edit to this article? Faethon Ghost (talk) 16:28, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Because of defamatory content related to Woody Allen, completely inappropriate when dealing with such accusation. --ja_62 (talk) 16:42, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

M26 article copyright violation

Thanks for pointing this out. I did not input this section, only moved it around when somebody randomly posted it under the heading ZEBRA MISSION. I explain this in the Discussion section.

I am all for deleting this section anyway. Please do delete it if you feel so inclined, otherwise I will do so after a few more weeks of leaving it out there for public comment, to see if it is worthy of permanent inclusion.

DarthRad (talk) 23:27, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

As for the message about edits - yeah, you are absolutely right. I should use the preview section. But the multiple revisions has more to do with the way I think and write. I think every time that I'm done revising the article, as soon as I send it off, the perfectionist in me wants to re-read it again and I find another annoying thing to make it better.

DarthRad (talk) 23:34, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

German warships and port installations

Rather than edit-war with you on this point, I thought I would post this on your page. I have proposed "in northwestern Germany" because I think it is important to note that Britain did not do much of anything to stop Germany on the eastern front. As the article stands, this point has not been adequately clarified. Isn't it kind of late in Czech? Best regards.--Runner631 (talk) 23:27, 13 January 2010 (UTC)