User talk:68.175.88.20

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User 68.175.88.20, shame on you for arbitrarily making changes contrary to others, while refusing to discuss an issue.→ R Young {yakłtalk} 15:33, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

You have been blocked in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for violating policy against Excessive reverts. To contest this block, please reply here on your talk page by adding the text {{unblock}} along with the reason you believe the block is unjustified, or email the blocking administrator or any administrator from this list.
Note to sysops: Unblocking yourself should almost never be done. If you disagree with the block, contact another administrator. Petros471 19:34, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

{{unblock}} Did not revert three times within a 24-hour period.

Perhaps not. However, even if you didn't technically violate the revert policy, you have violated the principle behind it, which is that repeatedly enforcing *YOUR* view of how the contents of the page should appear when others clearly disagree, is pointless, and needs to be discussed. Since being unblocked, you have just continued your behaviour, without discussion, and I will request blocks again in the future. I will leave it to the administrators to decide exactly how to apply the policy.--Rye1967 01:43, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

NOTE: Counting three "World War I ERA" veterans as actual World War I veterans is shamefully dishonest. This list is not an accounting of "World War I ERA" veterans -- it is a list of Waolrd War I veterans, period. A World War I veteran is someone who serve in the armed forces during World War I, a conflict which ended with an armistice on November 11, 1918. A man who enlisted in 1919 did not serve in World War I. What's more, since he enlisted after the war was over, he did not even enlist with the intention of serving in the war. "World War I ERA" veterans do not receive a World War I pension from the Department of Veterans Affairs; no one, except a few cranks on this board, considers them to be the equivalent of World War I veterans. No other nation on this list includes "World War I ERA veterans" on their rolls; why should they be included on the U.S. list? It comes across as an embarrassing attempt to pad our numbers. If the purpose of this page is to keep an ACCURATE census of living World War I veterans worldwide -- and that's what I thought it was, anyway -- then these three men should be removed from the list permanently. If not, then heck, let's put Merlyn Krueger back up there, too. Hey, he SAID he was a World War I veteran, didn't he?


Mr Anonymous,

First of all...the three we are discussing are at least 103 years old...would you like to tell them to their face.

Second...you are wrong...the Treaty of Versailles was not signed until 1919. There was instability and the war continued in Russia, and Germany's government was in turmoil. US soldiers were needed to keep the peace. I suppose the US war in Iraq ended May 1 2003 with 'Mission Accomplished'. NOT. You simply don't understand that a war EFFORT is exactly that. Many of the so-called 'veterans' were working typewriters, driving delivery trucks, etc. These three could have seen more action than that...such as Julio Ereneta, picking up mines. Since the peace treaty wasn't signed until 1919, it is arguable that the war ended in 1919. At the very least, these men were recruited to replace those sent to war...if there had been no WWI, they would likely have never joined.

Moreoever, we see veterans like Moses Hardy, recruited in 1918, returned to the US in 1919. In fact most WWI veterans did NOT return in 1918, they returned in 1919. Finally, this list is intended to include possible WWI veterans; did we really verify the Polish claims? We can throw out a case like Merlyn Kreuger because, one, he is 89 not 103 and two, he never served at Fort Dix as he claimed. These three, however, DID serve, and were called on to serve by the US gov't due to WWI. Thus, at least SOME people would include them as WWI veterans. It's not for you alone to decide. I think a disclaimer is already balancing it out.→ R Young {yakłtalk} 09:30, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

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