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Dear Nick D, I don't readily know how to reply to private messages. There are absolutely no ideological issues at stake, I am simply trying to clairify a small detail which confused me when I first read the Kindertransport page. What is motivating the people who are trying to change it. I haven't edit-warred. Why not tell people who revert my edits without discussion that they are 'edit-warring' I have complained that I am being harassed, from the timing it looks like a conspiracy by some contributors to the Holocaust Denial talk page. Mann Jess has got on my tail and is changing everything sometimes quite inconsistently. I have complained to someone who was a very high level administrator last time I dealt with them and sided with them. What are you saying to Mann Jess, Squiddy and William H who to my mind made threatening noises against me a week or so ago, see talk page Holocaust Denial? I my view the tone of that article is a disgrace to Wikipedia and the treatment I am receiving since speaking out against is to me highly revealing. If you are going to intervene I should be interested to see what you are saying to those users. I think they are a mob and Wikipedia needs to get a grip on them for the sake of its reputation. I am glad of the quote immediately below this. Sorry if this is in the wrong place - I can't work out where to put it, please move it. Hardicanute (talk) 11:50, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be – or to be indistinguishable from – self-righteous sixteen year olds possessing infinite amounts of free time
— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

"Bugger this," whispered Dane. "Ferretists versus racists. This is not the end of the world."
— China Miéville, Kraken

"I never thought I should live to grow blasé about the sound of gunfire, but so I have."
— George Orwell, Diary, 16 November 1940

"What if I take my problem to the United Nations?"
— PJ Harvey, The Words That Maketh Murder

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Battle of Tarakan (1945)
German attacks on Nauru
Bombing of Kure (July 1945) (if I can ever find enough sources)
Australia in the War of 1939–1945
AP-3C Orion
Convoy TM-1 (see: User:Nick-D/Drafts2)
Various RAAF flying squadrons (see User:Nick-D/RAAF_sqns)
Australian Army in World War II
Japanese submarine operations off Australia in 1943 - maybe
B-24 Liberator in Australian service
Battle of Arawe rewrite
List of Japanese auxiliary cruiser commerce raiders
Air raids on Japan
Sheila Mary McClemans - Director of the WRANS for much of World War II
Civil Constructional Corps
Western Australian emergency of March 1944
Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II
Military history of Australia during the Indonesia–Malaysia Confrontation
John Hines (Australian soldier)
Bombardment of Cherbourg
Australian occupation of British Borneo and the Netherlands East Indies - see User:Nick-D/Drafts7
South China Sea raid - see User:Nick-D/Drafts9
Attack on Kure (March 1945) - User:Nick-D/Drafts8
Operation Kita
Operation Tan No. 2 - maybe
Attack on Yokosuka
Zoo City
Peter Raw - User:Nick-D/Drafts3

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+Dear Nick D,  I don't readily know how to reply to private messages.  There are absolutely no ideological issues at stake, I am simply trying to clairify a small detail which confused me when I first read the Kindertransport page. What is motivating the people who are trying to change it.  I haven't edit-warred. Why not tell people who revert my edits without discussion that they are 'edit-warring'  I have complained that I am being harassed, from the timing it looks like a conspiracy by some contributors to the Holocaust Denial talk page.  Mann Jess has got on my tail and is changing everything sometimes quite inconsistently.  I have complained to someone who was a very high level administrator last time I dealt with them and sided with them.  What are you saying to Mann Jess, Squiddy and William H who to my mind made threatening noises against me a week or so ago, see talk page Holocaust Denial? I my view the tone of that article is a disgrace to Wikipedia and the treatment I am receiving since speaking out against is to me highly revealing.     If you are going to intervene I should be interested to see what you are saying to those users.  I think they are a mob and Wikipedia needs to get a grip on them for the sake of its reputation. I am glad of the quote immediately below this. Sorry if this is in the wrong place - I can't work out where to put it, please move it.  [[User:Hardicanute|Hardicanute]] ([[User talk:Hardicanute|talk]]) 11:50, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
 {{Quote|''Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be – or to be indistinguishable from – self-righteous sixteen year olds possessing infinite amounts of free time''|Neal Stephenson|[[Cryptonomicon|''Cryptonomicon'']]}}
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