User talk:Giandrea

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[edit] List of territories by population revert war

If the revert war continues I will protect the article from editing so that the issue has to be sorted out on the talk page. --Nick Boalch ?!? 11:48, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Giandrea, please explaine why you "think" the EU is relevent for population statistics and other organizations are not.--Tombombadil 11:18, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My path

Cool. Thanks for letting me know. Since the idea comes from User:Cool Cat originally it might be nice to notify him (and give credit to him - and me maybe - somewhere on the Template:Life path, just to keep it in line with the GFDL). Thanks for coming up with the idea. Guettarda 18:25, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Nope, no useful suggestions. I'm not a coder by nature, and I certainly am not the person to get things to look pretty. I just steal and modify (and sometimes in so doing, learn a little wiki-markup). Guettarda 18:37, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-Euro

I am anti Euro because I believe that the UK needs the flexibility of having its own currency given its vastly different economy from the rest of Europe. Hope that suffices!! Astrotrain 21:42, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Well said

I'd just like to tell you that your comment left on Erdemsenol's page was very well said. I wish all the Muslims could understand this. We're not anti-Islam at all.. we just don't want them to impose their fundamentalist values upon us. Thanks :) EuroSong 16:34, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:List of countries by area

Oh sure no problem. I am agreeable to the avoidance of the word "Country" since it is so contentious, and once it us used, I am perfectly fine with any kind of territory listed. ;)--Huaiwei 04:30, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] EU

I see you are a Mac OS X user, as am I. Can't fault you there! Anyway, the EU is neither a territory, nor is it a country. Look up the definition of country or territory, it doesn't work. I only changed the name of the article because I thought it more accurately reflected it's contents. I have editted out all territories before but the concensus was against it, and people ended up putting them back in. If it were up to me, only places accepted as sovereign states would be listed. Now that you have pointed it out, I don't think the EU should be listed in Territories by Population either. I had just never editted this article before. But I'll keep my hands off it for now, because it wouldn't be right to go in and delete it just because you pointed it out. (By Malnova, 18 February 2006)

Hi again. You have left messages on the Countries by area article saying you think there should be an EU listing, and no one expressed their enthusiasm about it. And others besides me have deleted the EU many times. This would seem to me to be a concensus. You have to draw the line somewhere. You said yourself, the EU is a supranational entity. Why not make a supranational entity article and link it to this one? Malnova 13:03, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

ehm, you are the one that is trying to lay claim to some kind of "conscensus". It is pretty obvious from the comments in your User and the comments in Territories by Population that there is not a concensus at all. And how exactly have you come to the understanding that there "is a concensus on Wikipedia that EU type entities should be listed is such lists"? Your adding the EU without a concensus or any kind of confirmation is no different from my taking it off.

and to what revert war are you referring? If you are referring to the occasional reverts by someone called Cantus, it certainly has nothing to do with the EU and just about everyone who contributes to "by area" reverts Cantus when they see he has once again sent us back to his one man version of how things should be. But maybe that's not what you are referring to...

I have read the Consensus article as per your suggestion and the neutral POV point is telling. You have stated more than once that you and 450 million other EU citizens (as their duly appointed representative) would want the EU in the list. Is this a neutral point of view?

My heart rate has not changed thruout our furtive little exchange, I assure you. I can see your point, I just don't think it is a valid enough one, I am sorry you don't see mine. I really wouldn't mind the EU so much, and it having a parliment with clear powers is a point. But if we let it slip in there then all sorts of other entities start slipping in (as others have mentioned here) and then you have a list that is near meaningless. Malnova 13:45, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mediation

Hi, I'm your friendly cabal mediator! :) I've asked Malnova to comment on the mediation page, then we can get started building consensus. - FrancisTyers 10:32, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox solution

I'd just like to say thank, thank, thank, THANK YOU for your solution to the sudden Userbox alingment problem. I come onto Wiki today and BAM! All my boxes have piled up again. My coding skills aren't really that great, so about as much as I understand is copy+paste what somebody with a good page has and yours should follow example. Anyways, adding your fix has got my page back to what it was looking like before, so thanks very much for posting it on the Userbox page. Cybertooth85 16:55, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of countries by population

Hi there, I notice that earlier you had a conversation with Malnova about including the EU in country lists. At the list of countries by population the same argument appears to be going on now, if you still have an opinion on the matter.. TastyCakes 02:41, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fuil libh is liom é

Hey. I've no problem trying to translate the above. Translating it literally it means 'blood with you(plural) and me with it', at an educated guess it could mean your blood is mine, either saying that the speaker and the person being spoken to share a blood bond, or else the speaker wants the person's blood, i.e. wants to kill him. Sorry I can't be of more help, if you go to the Irish wikipedia at ga.wikipedia.org and ask on the main page, there'll definitely be a few people who can translate it properly for you. And by the way, English isn't a Celtic language, it's Germanic. Good luck - Dalta 22:29, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Just saying hi and well met. --Tomtom9041 01:56, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] European Union

I understand that Romania and Bulgaria have joined the European Union. I fixed up the link - check it out. The population of the EU is about 492m or so including Romania & Bulgaria according to the EU Website - which lists populations for EU-25 and EU-27 in the table, for all the years up until 2006. I trust you'll be able to take care of it having seen the table. Cheers. jkm 19:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of countries

Can you point me to the consensus? Joelito (talk) 03:02, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism warning

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to List of countries by military expenditures, you will be blocked from editing. Daniel Chiswick 22:55, 30 March 2007 (UTC) (please stop)

The above comment is a result of an edit war from the party who appears to be on the losing end of consensus per the article's talk page. --Auto(talk / contribs) 02:49, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] list of countries by military expenditures

Please take care of the article until I get back from holiday. I may edit a little from the hotel, but im not sure. Don't let them remove the EU until the discussion is over. Best regards, Eurocopter tigre 10:49, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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