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Thanks

Thanks for the great edits in the history section of Morocco. Really great job!MassNssen (talk) 17:01, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Tobby72, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Marriage. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Brazil

Hello, Tobby! Good morning! Or at least, I hope it's morning where you live! Anyway, the article Brazil is blocked due to a dispute over a content. I would like to know if you would be interested in giving your opinion to end it once and for all. In case you do not know much about the subject, I could explain it better to you. This is the link. All help is needed. Thank your very much and kind regards, --Lecen (talk) 11:38, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

D.R.

Thank you Tobby, for [1]. SamEV (talk) 16:57, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vote needed

Votes are needed on the Thomas Jefferson talk page, (1st section) Gwillhickers (talk) 02:23, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Cleaning up award
Thanks for helping out at WP:Jagged 85 cleanup. It's tedious work, but your efforts are worth it. SmartSE (talk) 00:30, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

From wikiproject medicine. WP:MED --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:49, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Current/Past Members of the Beatles

There is a straw poll taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc (talk) 00:49, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Nixon talk page notice

I have added a section on the talk page for the article Richard Nixon titled "Section deleted on 13 December 2012." Please share your thoughts on the talk page. Thanks. Mitchumch (talk) 18:10, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Some bubble tea for you!

Thanks for helping improve the Asian American article. Perhaps you maybe interested in WP:WPAA, whose scope is improving articles about Asian Americans? RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:01, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
I hereby award this barnstar to editor Tobby72 for quality work improving a wide range of articles, and especially for adding well chosen pics! FeydHuxtable (talk) 17:55, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Cleanup

Hello, Tobby72.

You are invited to join WikiProject Cleanup, a WikiProject and resource for Wikipedia cleanup listings, information and discussion.
To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 17:00, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

May 2013

Information icon Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made to Lousiana: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. Hi, thanks to add warnings on the vandal's Talk page whenever you revert, that normally helps to track the number of vandalous edits before ARV. Regards, kashmiri TALK 14:07, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Photographer's Barnstar
Thank you for adding images to the Mexican Drug War article. It looks a lot better now! ComputerJA (talk) 02:23, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You must stop damaging the article about a country as wonderful as Colombia with these images.

The article about Colombia is in the process of a best editing, this article is being improved gradually by true connoisseurs about Colombia, for example more than 70% of Colombians has never seen a guerrilla fighter in his life. The Colombian do not want the image of a criminal like Pablo Escobar appears in the article about the country.

If you want to see images of a criminal like Pablo Escobar and the murderous guerrilla you can search these images on the web. --Theryx7 (talk) 05:48, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have edited this article for months with the help of true connoisseurs of the country, although the article needs several improvements, but now you're ruining all the hours of work on this article. Please do not destroy the work of many people who have been improving the article about Colombia. --Theryx7 (talk) 05:48, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If again you add these images surely I and my group of collaborators will return to remove these images. Please I don't want an edit war. --Theryx7 (talk) 09:24, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not a tourist brochure; the FARC guerrilla and drug cartel wars were international news and shouldn't be whitewashed. Tobby72 (talk) 11:38, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Images @ Nicolás Maduro

Please discuss at talk page and get a consensus for use before re-inserting. LGA talkedits 09:27, 21 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

November 2013

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Human sacrifice

Thuggee is not a Human sacrifice, nor Sati is any Human sacrifice, sati was done by the women for escaping from the islamic invaders, who used to rape women. And Thuggee cult only loot people, steal, and then kill, it wouldn't sacrifice itself, stop reverting. Discuss, before reverting, if you have any reason. Bladesmulti (talk) 11:39, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedian in community notice

Dear Tobby72

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If you have any questions about the above, please contact isla on isla [at] wikiafrica [dot] net : Isla Haddow (talk)

On thuggee

"at any rate, their religious creed and practices as worshipers of Kālī, the Hindu goddess of destruction, showed no influence of Islām." is obvious copy paste from britannica. William Rubinstein is a popular historian, since the claimed quotation cannot be found anywhere else, neither this book can be accessed, it should not be added. Bladesmulti (talk) 03:39, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote:[2] According to the Encyclopædia Britannica: "Hindus appear to have been associated with them at an early period; at any rate, their religious creed and practices as worshipers of Kālī, the Hindu goddess of destruction, showed no influence of Islām."[1]
Although quoting involves copying of another's work without permission, it is generally considered one of the uses permitted under fair use as per WP:QUOTE.
http://books.google.com/books?id=nMMAk4VwLLwC&pg=PA82 is accessible.
"Although the thugs traced their origin to seven Muslim tribes, Hindus appear to have been associated with them at an early period." is obvious copy paste from britannica. -- Tobby72 (talk) 20:12, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

http://books.google.com/books?id=nMMAk4VwLLwC&pg=PA82&redir_esc=y is not accessible. Whatever is copied from Britannica is not copvio at first, but what you are adding now is a copyvio, that you are exactly copypasting the same, just stop edit warring if you can't contribute anymore about it. I haven't totally reverted this time, but kept it out from copyvio and using same reference for 1 million figure. Bladesmulti (talk) 03:21, 8 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

World War II

Hi Toby, I've just reverted your addition of several extra images to this article. The article already has lots of images and looks a bit over-crowded in my opinion, and it's customary to discuss significant changes such as this on the talk page first given the high profile of the article. I'd suggest that while there's scope to swap some new images in, increasing the total number at this point probably isn't justified. But other editors might have different views from me! I hope that this is OK. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 01:14, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Recent edits regarding Poles/Slavs

Hey, I've noticed you are editing a few articles and making several new sections in talk pages regarding Nazis and Slavs. The reason a lot of your edits are being reverted is because they are already covered in the article or are not necessary to add into an article.

For example:

"The Nazis because of this declared Slavs to be untermenschen (subhumans)." is what is in the article but you wanted to edit "The Nazi ideology defined ethnic Poles as "sub-humans"." when Poles are Slavs and this is already mentioned in the article.

I do apologise for removing all of your edit regarding the role of sex and gender and have added it back in but tweaked it more accurately whilst using the source you did use.

This is nothing personal against you mate but we both are trying to achieve accurate reliable Wikipedia articles and overlapping stuff is not the way to go about it. If you want to discuss Nazis/Slavs discussion then we can on the relative talk pages. Once again, I have nothing against you. :)!--Windows66 (talk) 12:07, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On ROsinsky image, Impalement...

Believe me, I've searched all Internet to find some verification that this is an actual story from the 20th century (as main editor, I've been extremely restictive on adding 20th-21th century material), but I haven't found a single source of any "Captain Rosinsky". That's why I've previously deleted the image, but I won't get into an edit war with you, but I would be EXTREMELY grateful if you find an additional source which enhances the probability of it being real from being just, for example, a fake image, or a still photo from a movie. I know your edit is in good faith, but in contrast of MOST stories on Impalement, that of Captain Rosinsky has precious few additional verifications to it.Arildnordby (talk) 22:08, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

To make my point specific: You are not the only editor wanting this image within Impalement, just the most recent. I have RESIGNED from deleting it, I'm not going to remove it, but YET, I will be grateful if you can find some independent evidence about it depicting a REAL event.Arildnordby (talk) 22:29, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I researched a bit and found this: [3] -- Tobby72 (talk) 23:01, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot!!! That ref is sufficiently notable to be included which I have done in the caption text of image at Impalement. I am really grateful for this!Arildnordby (talk) 17:04, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WW II

Hello, if you have time please take a look at my edit from 09:54, 9 February 2014‎. I added a short paragraph on Nazi atrocities during the German Invasion, and added a picture of a civilian execution in the USSR invasion section. This edit was quickly reverted and labeled "Edit Warring". I was also asked to proved references… and when I agreed to do so, Nick-D dropped a label of "undue weight". I hate to say this, but I have a feeling the admin is trying to restrict some of this info being published on the page. Please advise. --Factor01 (talk) 11:29, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Factor01, discuss points, compromise, and try to reach consensus. WP:Consensus. There's WP:dispute resolution venues where you can try to get help. I understand your frustration regarding this issue. -- Tobby72 (talk) 12:04, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

help

some user keeps removing the fact that Eugène Terre'Blanche was the founder of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) adding unreliable new sources and claming he was a founding member of Herstigte Nasionale Party althought we just joined it as a member and was an candidate of a local elections 46.45.142.226 (talk) 15:37, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica - Thug (Indian Bandit)
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