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==WikiProject France==
==WikiProject France==
Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject France|France WikiProject]] and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) [[User:SlaveToTheWage|STTW]] <font color="green">[[User_talk:SlaveToTheWage|(talk)]]</font> 15:59, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject France|France WikiProject]] and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) [[User:SlaveToTheWage|STTW]] <font color="green">[[User_talk:SlaveToTheWage|(talk)]]</font> 15:59, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

== Personal attacks and harassment by Baltic gang ==

I see that you too have been harassed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Occupied_territories_of_Baltic_States&diff=prev&oldid=90156758 "ethnofacist"] POV pushers. I do not think any argument or logic will convince them, but try to hang on :-) -- [[User:Petri Krohn|Petri Krohn]] 00:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

'''P.S.''' In fact [[User:roobit]] states his POV even better at [[Edward Lucas]]'s blog: [http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:hotUs7yHcrYJ:edwardlucas.blogspot.com/2006/12/estonia-and-amnesty.html+ethnofascist+estonia&hl=fi&gl=fi&ct=clnk&cd=1] -- [[User:Petri Krohn|Petri Krohn]] 00:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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what;s ur problem?

Do u want to block me again? why are u rv ing it back? Can u explain. What consensus are you talking about? DO you know that you are atually deleting my sources.Sosomk 22:58, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

African military history task force

there is a new task force. I wanted to ask you if you could a template for us (just to get started). Thanks Wandalstouring 15:33, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I wanted to say icon. these little funny pictures. Wandalstouring 21:25, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Vandalism???

Before accusing me of vandalism, please note that the Red Army invasion of Georgia cannot be merged with the entry which redirects back to the article. Thanks, --Kober 19:13, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Should we also rename Invasion of Poland (1939), Invasion of Yugoslavia, Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran and 2003 invasion of Iraq? Red Army invasion of Georgia is the name most frequently used in scholarly literature and I've provided dozens of sources for that. Invasion is invasion: It either happened or not. My sources say it happened and use exactly the word "invasion" to describe the event. If you have some sources claiming otherwise, please provide. See Talk:Red Army invasion of Georgia for more details. --Kober 19:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You have a point, but I think that one should explain his/her reasoning when tagging the article. This sort of edit summary cannot be considered a valid argument, but rather a personal attack upon the author of the article. The article and its title are well-referenced, but still not so easily acceptable to some users who, unfortunately, still believe in Soviet-era myths about the "workers revolution in Georgia" and "brotherly aid provided by the Peasants and Workers Red Army." Best, --Kober 20:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. Please also note POV and OR content of the Russian-Georgian war article and its pro-Georgian emphasis. Despite being Georgian, I would recommend to have it deleted. Thanks, Kober 20:48, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stuff

Hi, Some time ago you put a {{POV}} tag to this article Occupation of Bessarabia by the Soviet Union, but you did not say anything about your reasons in the talk page. By now the article has seen some more clean-up from several good-faith users. Could, you, please, read the article again in the near future, and post your objections in the talk page. Thank you. :Dc76 06:45, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]


If I am not misteken, you were one of the people that held on to the Moldovan census of 2004 and the Ukrainain census of 2001 as if your own life was at stake. You wanted to keep official data in the censa and you did not allow for users to state alternate sources and views (i.e. that Moldovans are in fact Romanians), exactly because you wanted to "cite census data only". We both know that is NOT the real reason but anyways...NOW you come to the Romanians article and claim that census data do not have to be used since they too have mistakes? This is a double-standard! Either we all agree (as a wiki. community) that census data will not be primary sources when estimating the population numbers or we all agree that they do - which is exactly the situation right now. But please do not push one POV in some articles and totally different norms and requirements in others.Dapiks 22:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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There's a query for you: Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#Russia Child Soldiers. --Ghirla -трёп- 15:47, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

sib-wiki vote

I hereby confirm that this vote, this subsequent addenum and all other comments are mine. -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 01:19, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Meta voting confirmation

This vote was made by me without logging in, I'm confirming that it's mine. Remigiu 18:47, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. military Eastern Front maps

Hi Grafikm, I am trying to update the Soviet Fronts by listing the armies assigned to them at various times, and one of the readily available sources seems to be the brilliant US Army Eastern Front maps. Is there a central list of them somewhere? Cheers Buckshot06 08:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Ru-sib ? anon IO ,

Privet, [1]. Mais je ne suis pas encore convaincu à 100%. Il se disait belge, mais je ne vois rien de belge sur ses pages. Pas de contributions a l' article sur la Belgique, pe. Est-ce qu'il y a un moyen de vérifier sans éveiller? Catégorie: utilisateur belge? Je ne vois pas non plus. Poka, --Pan Gerwazy 13:00, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

third opinion needed...

... on this. See here as well as this fellow's earlier talk. TIA, --Irpen 21:22, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removing tags

Even if you disagree with its application, you cannot simply remove the "replaceable fair use" tag, anymore than you can remove an AfD tag. It's considered vandalism. Please continue to dispute it on the talk page by all means, but leave the tag be. Thanks. —Chowbok 21:33, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Chowbok RfC

I have begun RfC procedures for User:Chowbok. Since you've had previous disputes with him about image uploads, maybe you'd like to add your commentary? [2] TheQuandry 03:50, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Tout d'abord, bonjour de la partie francophone de wikipedia, comme je suis pas sûr que tu traînes chez nous je te laisse une petite bafouille, ici. J'aurais besoin que tu renseignes au moins sur en:, la source pour quatre photos, à savoir :

En effet, celles-ci ont été copiées sur fr:, suite à la traduction de ton article sur la bataille de Smolensk. J'essaye de vider notre catégorie de domaine public URSS, et d'envoyer les photos sur commons, mais sans source, c'est le casse-pipe assuré. À l'occasion, jettes aussi, un oeil à http://victory.rusarchives.ru/, il ont une galerie assez intéressante, avec le nom des auteurs, mais j'arrive pas à deviner, si c'est libre de droits ;). Merci d'avance. fr:User:Bilou

Werbowy.jpg

hi i tried too refrase the clame on fair use for the picture.Our goal is that the image stayes,were ever the image will apear in the article or how sily the arguments might hear.Please can you trie to brign more editors in the discussion,this is not about one photo but how we can bypass the deletionist in the future--Pixel ;-) 14:08, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Image:Teresa wong.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Teresa wong.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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Your input is requested

Your input would be appreciated at this Request for Comments. Kelly Martin (talk) 15:32, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. maybe you know russian? i wanted to know if this star exist today in the russian army. although it's written in the article that it was a soviet synbol i think that it is exist up to this day (i saw it on Igor Sergeyev, former defense minister). so if you can check in the russian wikipedia or you already know. thanks Superzohar 13:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter

Time for another Novels newsletter issue "December 2006" if you can manage it please. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 11:44, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Project news
  • The project Scope has been slightly expanded to include the shorter narrative prose fiction of Novelettes and Short stories.
  • Due to the diligance of many editors we now have more than 5000 articles tagged as part of the project.
  • Keeping the Novels announcements page up to date and fresh is in need of a volunteer who can keep an eye on it and keep it's content fresh and lively. Please let us know if you are able to help with this. It doesn't involve much, but it needs to be looked at regularly.
Member news
  • The project has currently 178 members, 9 joined & 1 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of November 2006.
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From the Members

Welcome to the seventh issue of the Novels WikiProject's newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.

We would encourage all members to get more envolved and if you are wondering what with, please ask.

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Auto list news
  • Plenty of work has been done on articles included in the "auto lists" in the last couple of months. Particluarly so for the NovelsInCompleteInfobox list, which is constantly being worked on by a number of editors and most of those missing "genre" entries and quite a number with missing "ISBN" entires have been dealt with. A re-run of this list is due soon, courtesy of user Eagle.
Collaboration of the Month
Current debates
  • A new policy proposal has been started and the various points are to be seen at Wikipedia:Speedy deletion criterion for unsourced articles, please take a look at these and comment. This is a vital subject and all editors should consider the implications. These are NOT active yet, but could have wide reaching consequences. Please contribute your views.
  • We have a project structure that allows for the formation of special interest task forces (al la "WP:MILHIST".) This was mentioned last month and a few have indicated interest. This is useful for identifying groups of Novels editors who have a common interest. (i.e. Science fiction novels, Crime Novels, Children's novels, Classic literature, Russian novels etc.) Would there be interest out there in setting one or more of these up. Comments please to the General Forum. Currently I am considering starting with "Crime Novels" and "Russian Novels" to see what can be achieved.
Newsletter challenge

Last months Lawrence Durrell's novel Clea challenge was met by Hurrah (talk · contribs), who was "very" quick off the mark. As with the previous months it is now a very small stub in need of "loving care".

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Please see this

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:KPbIC --Kuban Cossack 00:58, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]


The Da Vinci Award

To Grafikm fr for his dedicated service to the Military History project and for building Grafikbot which has made our lives easier, I, R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine), do hereby award this token of recognition. Given this 11th day of December 2006

Well deserved, my friend:)--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 12:21, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Grafikm_fr's personal vendetta/WP:IUP

You said on my talk page: "Renata, this is at best a disgusting personal attack. As for Oden, his behaviour was criticized by several other users (including your servant), so making it sound like Ghirla's crusade is at best inadequate. As for Ghirla himself, well, at least he's creating content, not taking fun in destroying it in the name of grand yet hollow principles like "free content" and "yeah sure, you can take a free pic of this star, just ask her"."

My talk page is not a forum for your personal vendettas, do not use Wikipedia for your own personal agenda, instead try to find a way to assume good faith and to contribute in a positive way.
As concerns your attitude regarding Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, such a statement gives cause for concern, and compels a need to review your contributions in greater detail in order to ensure that any material you have contributed (like Image:Teresa wong.jpg) is not in violation of policy. --Oden 18:03, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Clarification: it has come to my attention that the review of an editor's contributions can be regarded by some as stalking. I would like to dispell this miconception.
Regarding "scrutiny of contributions", if a editor posted a comment stating that he disagrees with WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:NPOV or any of Wikipedia's other policies, that editor's contributions would certainly be subject to review. Why should WP:IUP and WP:FUC, which are also policies, be regarded in a different manner?
This is not only in relation to your comments, I am genuinely curious on why many editors feel that the image policy should be interpreted differently (more leniently) than any other of Wikipedia's policies? --Oden 17:06, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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You wrote to me earlier, "Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Joan of Arc. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. -- Grafikm_fr (AutoGRAF) 20:30, 4 May 2006 (UTC)"...I never did this (and I doubt anyone else from this IP address did so either)...I realize the consequences of vandalizing wikipedia entries, and I am not willing to take the risk of vandalizing. I appreciate your attempt to do good, but don't blame me...

You might be interested in this

User: An account reported me for claiming he was a sockpuppet, and goes on to mention your name as well. [3] TheQuandry 17:28, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Newsletter delivery: I need this for WikiProject Louisville

I don't know if you consider requests for use of your very fine Grafikbot, but I'm thinking I would like to do ad-hoc (less frequently than monthly) newsletters for WikiProject Louisville. Do you think your bot is well-suited for this, or would it make more sense to roll my own? Any advice would be very appreciated. (I very much envy what the Military History Project is doing, including their newsletter!) Stevie is the man! TalkWork 20:43, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merry XMAS

Here is a 'real' gift - a nice template for your awards! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  22:19, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Ready here; please do the honors. Thanks! ;-) Kirill Lokshin 16:31, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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On disappointment

Having people leave, or get blocked, or banned, doesn't help with writing an encyclopedia. Leave that kind of stuff to Ghirla's IRC fairies. There are plenty of editors who never would be missed, including the fairies one and all, but Halibutt isn't one of them. Yes, he could be more agreeable, more civil, less suspicious, et cetera, et cetera, but so could many of Wikipedia's more productive editors. I'm extremely sad to see Ghirla on a "break", that goes without saying. I'm not much happier to see the arbcom involved. However, one of the complaints about Ghirlaphobia was the use of "forum shopping", i.e. running off to PAIN/AN/ANI at the least provocation. That's more or less what we see here. If M.K. disagrees with my comments, xe can tell me so. All the best for 2007, Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:59, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy New Year! (Ukrainian: З Новим Роком!, Russian: С Новым Годом!). I wish you in 2007 to be spared of the real life troubles so that you will continue to care about Wikipedia. We will all make it a better encyclopedia! I also wish things here run smoothly enough to have our involvement in Wikipedia space at minimum, so that we can spend more time at Main. --Irpen

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Image:Adzhimushkay Memorial.jpg

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  • Welcome to a new calendar year (for most of us!)
  • During this year we have seen huge a growth in the number of editors contributing to the project and a massive increase in the number of articles linked to the project. We have managed to raise the quality of significant numbers of articles. But with this ever changing beast that is wikipedia there is no room of complacency and there is a mountain of editing work still to do. The member project space has developed and the latest developments are more Outreach options for your use and the establishment of the first "Task Force" for special interest areas within the overall purview of the project.
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Welcome to the eighth issue of the Novels WikiProject's newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.

We would encourage all members to get more envolved and if you are wondering what with, please ask.

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Last months paranoid fiction challenge was met by the surreal chess playing, manga reading user Breed Zona (talk · contribs) with an accurate stub.

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Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the France WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) STTW (talk) 15:59, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Personal attacks and harassment by Baltic gang

I see that you too have been harassed by the "ethnofacist" POV pushers. I do not think any argument or logic will convince them, but try to hang on :-) -- Petri Krohn 00:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. In fact User:roobit states his POV even better at Edward Lucas's blog: [4] -- Petri Krohn 00:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]