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thanks for your advise

hey toody you know the change you made to battle of karbala was right and thanks for your advise--User talk:2.223.73.253 17:08, 18 January 2014

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February 2014

Hey Toody1,the change you made to Battle of Karbala was wrong and please correct it. The change you have to made is that "Banu Hashim" was on Victory — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prime.asim (talk • contribs) 10:44, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

The edit you keep making was this one. As always you get your facts wrong.--Toddy1 (talk) 11:31, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Krymchak and/or Karaylar

By the way have you heard of Simon Szyszman, who wrote a book with a similar title: Das Karaertum: Lehre und Geschichte (Der Osten), which you can buy on Amazon? This is where our friend User:‎Неполканов is useful. He understands some of the literature, and the motivations of those who wrote it. I doubt is anything Szyszman wrote is to be taken as anything more than a reliable source as to what Szyszman thought or wanted other people to think.--Toddy1 (talk) 19:04, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

About Szyszman inventions you can read Mikhail Kizilov's "The Arrival of the Karaites (Karaims) to Poland and Lithuania: A Survey of Sources and Critical Analysis of Existing Theories". It is amazing that this chemist was and still is widely cited by Lithuanian and some Russian professional historians. I wrote a new article about that in Russian wikipedia about Crimean Karaites history "militarization" .I have a dream to translate it to English, By the way may be you have access to Gustav Peringer's "Epistola de karaitis Lithuaniae"? Szysman's claims that Peringer described Karaites as warriors nations. are widely cited by many Karaite and Lithuanaian authors. I have failed to find the original Gustav Peringer's test at the web. Неполканов (talk) 21:19, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for that. I am sorry but I do not have access to Gustav Peringer's "Epistola de karaitis Lithuaniae".--Toddy1 (talk) 22:33, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Hello Неполканов. I already thanked you for the other article you posted today at the Seraya Szapzal talk page, which I have downloaded and read very carefully. I have now downloaded this one (Kizilov's) and will read very carefully as well. Soon, after I finish digesting these two very good reliable sources, I will be posting some thoughts on the Crimean Karaites talk page. I have also looked at your Russian "militarization" article and it looks very interesting. With some time in the future I may be able to offer you some help in translating it. Thank you very much again for sharing your knowledge and expertise of the subject here, and for posting these new excellent reliable sources. Be well and regards, warshy ^(¥¥) 23:39, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Arbitration

Arbitration, what is it? Are your talking about his Request for mediation? I am not sure what happens if I agree or disagree. What would happen if I agree/disagree? This is not about a "dispute" but rather his inappropriate behavior. I don't want this discussion to be closed because he is still continuing. AcidSnow (talk) 20:55, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, my understanding is that for most purposes in common English, "arbitration" means much the same thing as "mediation". However, Wikipedia uses the word to mean something else. I meant "mediation".

If the problem is his/her inappropriate behaviour on Wikipedia, then I would recommend not agreeing to a request for mediation.

If the problem is a content issue, then solutions such getting someone to mediate or arbitrate are a potential answer. "The mediation process is unsuitable for complaints about the behaviour of other editors". (Wikipedia:Mediation)

If you are refusing mediation, on the grounds that the problem is behaviour - then please could you make this clear at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive828#User:Khabboos.--Toddy1 (talk) 21:22, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, I have said no. As you can see here, he has no desire to discuss his continues inappropriate behavior and even denied the discussions existence. AcidSnow (talk) 00:10, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Ok, what do I do know? This user now has continued to forum shop with a new mediation? AcidSnow (talk) 18:40, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

The best thing for you to do now is to do nothing about the issue of Khabboos on ANI/mediation/arbcom, at least for a few days. Other people will deal with it, or not deal with it, as the case may be. If there is a request for you to do something - then take your time about doing it.--Toddy1 (talk) 19:46, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

As you can see he has no desire to talk as he is now trying to get me banned off Wikipedia. What do I do besides defend myself? AcidSnow (talk) 17:50, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

BLP

"citation showing that Schwartz is an intolerant bigot" is violation of WP:BLP. Please be more careful in future.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:27, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Describing a religious group as "Syphilis" is precisely that.--Toddy1 (talk) 22:24, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

I should add that I am editing Wikipedia in a hotel far from home, in a country that has laws against hate crimes. If I were to post a citation to Schwartz's statement in a way that indicated approval of it, I could be liable to arrest. My understanding is that what Schwartz says amounts to a hate crime here. This is a good thing. People who make those kinds of statements belong in prison for the duration.--Toddy1 (talk) 22:40, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Kiev in English

Have a look: Adam Taylor (2014-01-24). "Is It Time For The West To Stop Calling It 'Kiev' And Start Calling It 'Kyiv'?". Business Insider. Retrieved 2014-02-13. --Perohanych (talk) 14:22, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

1. Irrespective of whether you are right or wrong, if you want to make a controversial move, you need to use the correct process. This means that there needs to be consensus. I personally find it annoying that Wikipedia chooses to spell Dnepropetrovsk with an "i", even though there is no "i" in the correct spelling. But I have to live with it, because Wikipedia has lots of "Ukrainian nationalists" from Canada and USA, and they insist on it. As there is no consensus for a change to the correct spelling of Dnepropetrovsk, we all have to put up with this alien mispelling of the city name.
2. There have been many discussions of the spelling of Kiev on Wikipedia - see Talk:Kiev. There is a even a sub-page of that page dealing with it.
3. Have you considered editing French Wikipedia, and trying to change fr:Allemagne to fr:Deutchland? You could also try to change fr:Angleterre to fr:England. In fact, the French language has its own names for almost everywhere. As you do not seem to consider it acceptable for the English language to have its own names for things...--Toddy1 (talk) 19:07, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Arbitration enforcement request

Hi Toddy1, just letting you know that I've mentioned you in this arbitration enforcement request. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:44, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Please can I have an apology for the unfair accusation that you made about me.--Toddy1 (talk) 08:54, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Its true, he was not edit warring. AcidSnow (talk) 14:08, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Ukraine - Simplified historical map of Ukraine

Hi, Toddy, sorry to hurt your feelings. I can see that you are in Dnepropetrovsk now. I am in London and I know that the map will help someone who knows nothing of Ukraine to learn more about it. I am not anti-Ukrainian nor I am pro-Russian since I left Russia myself in 1989 and I live in London for many years now. Are you coming to Wikimania? I hope to see you there!

Тоди! Простите меня, пожалуйста! У меня душа болит за Украину. У меня и родные и знакомые украинцы, есть и такие, которые русский совсем не знают! Я сделала эту карту для своего мужа, он про Украину ничего не знает, а так он хотя бы что-то понял. Ну, конечно же я не политик! Я жена, мама и бабушка и ещё у меня есть кот. Конечно же, я мало сама знаю, но у меня есть знакомый, он в Охфорде историю России преподаёт, так мы и с ним эту карту обсуждали. Она правильная! Мне всё равно как земля называется: Украина, Россия, Монголия, Польша, это для меня всё равно! Лишь бы люди жили там и не ругались! Даже и всё равно на каком языке говорить. Но чтобы говорить, а не ругаться! Я здесь бываю чаще https://www.facebook.com/russian.natasha.brown Там же вы и найдёте, что этот преподаватель истории говорит об этой карте. Моих друзей, которые сейчас в Украине, тоже там найдёте, за кого они, я не знаю, но знаю, что они сейчас разделились. Больно всё это! Берегите себя и ваших родных! Простите, что не часто бываю здесь, я никак не могу понять, как же по-правильному Википедию редактировать! Natkabrown (talk) 22:49, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you.

You have a point of view. You may not realise that it is a point of view. You may believe that it is just common sense. But it is a point of view. Other people have a different point of view. Wikipedia has a neutral point of view policy. Where there are differences of point of view, Wikipedia tries to explain the differences between mainstream points of view using reliable sources.

The point of view in your map is one I find very shocking. I am not the only one to be shocked by it.

If you want to post propaganda, your Facebook page is a good place for it. Wikipedia is not.--Toddy1 (talk) 00:32, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

C 8м Марта!

Доброе утро! Я же переделала всю карту. Убрала все фото, оставила только года! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Simplified_historical_map_of_Ukrainian_borders_1654-2014.jpg Ну где там пропаганда? Пропаганда чего? There are only years on the map now. They are correct. If it is a propaganda, then what's a point of it? I can't get it. It's true map. Truth can't be a propaganda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natkabrown (talk • contribs) 08:55, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

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Donetsk City

Hey, I just started that, I don't think you can so quickly conclude its not notable. Its quite a large center. Can you tell me who owns it? BTW, can you tell me the most popular newspapers in Donetsk? I may look at them for sources, but we don't have any articles on Donetsk newspapers so far.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 19:45, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

I could not remember, so I asked a friend - she says try Донецкий вестник, вечерний донецкб, новости донецка, вечерний донецк, новости донецка, еженедельник панорама .--Toddy1 (talk) 14:26, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Lwow

Change it all to Lemberg or Lvov as a compromise in this impass. 85.202.39.81 (talk) 12:07, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

User:Toddy1/sandbox

I have deleted your sandbox page in your userspace as requested. — JamesR (talk) 15:01, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks--Toddy1 (talk) 15:08, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Sock Puppetry

Khabboos has continued his use of sock puppetry with this IP, 180.215.49.251. He edits the same pages, uses the same editing style, and uses the exact same edit summary's. What do I do about this, as he was warned about it by you and me, but he specifically removed it off his archive. AcidSnow (talk) 15:23, 15 March 2014 (UTC)