User talk:Dogtag
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If you want to move an article to a new location, please use the "Move page" function, not copy-and-pasting the contents to the new location. Only with the Move the editing history is preserved. I have undone the copy-and-paste move you did with Yom Kippur War - if you think it really needs to be move you can also ask at Wikipedia:Requested moves. 15:54, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I have no strong opinion about where the article should be located, the only reason why I undid your changes was to preserve the editing history. I don't know what is the generally accepted term for that war for english, in Germany it is commonly known as Yom-Kippur war. andy 15:58, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I hate Nazis same as you, but here we write a encyclopedia which is intended to be neutral, see Wikipedia:NPOV. Thus your statement in Hate, even though I agree with it, does not belong here. andy 16:08, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Article naming conventions
Wikipedia naming conventions indicate that common names should be used. Six-Day War is by far the most common English name for the 1967 war. Britannaca refers to both "The Six-Day war" and "The Yom Kippur war". And finally, "Suez War" gets 11,300 Google hits vs 282 for "1956 Arab-Israel war". Jayjg (talk) 16:22, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- The problem with categories is that the only allow alphabetical listing; nothing can be done about that. Articles on the topic give the timeline. As for "Yom Kippur war", that is the English name for the war, not the Israeli name. Israelis give it a Hebrew name. And "Yom Kippur war" is 5 times as popular as the next most popular name for the war, the "October War". I'm sure in other Wikipedias (like the Arabic one) it has other names, based on whatever terms are most commonly used in those languages. Jayjg (talk) 17:03, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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- Regarding categories, the purpose of categories is not to provided chronological summaries of topics, so your complaint that they do not do so is moot. As well, as I've explained before, Wikipedia policy says that articles should use common names. In English, the common name is the "Yom Kippur war"; that gets 106,000 Google hits, vs. 9,440 for "1973 Arab-Israeli war". Please stop trying to inject politics into a matter of common English usage and Wikipedia policy. Jayjg (talk) 18:52, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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- Regarding "Suez Crisis" vs. "1956 War", you are incorrect about that; the former gets 62,100 Google hits, over 5 times as many as the next most popular "1956 War" (which gets 11,300 hits). As well, as I've explained many times before, Wikipedia convention is to use the most common English name. If you want to get the naming convention changed, you'll have to try to work out a new policy and get everyone to agree to it. In the meantime please follow Wikipedia policy, and please do not bother to re-hash your philosophy and re-make the same arguments when they contradict both common English usage and Wikipedia policy. Jayjg (talk) 21:04, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] What is it?
You've been banned, Alberuni. Go break out the other sockpuppets, cause if you edit-war with this one again I'm banning it. Jayjg (talk) 02:22, 13 May 2005 (UTC) Wow, you're so familiar with Wikipedia procedure for a guy with a dozen edits. You fool no-one. Jayjg (talk) 02:30, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
