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[edit] Contact

I sent you an email from my alternate email account. Halibutt 18:01, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Just in case you didn't get it: I must have missed your letter. Could you send it again to my alternate email account at gmail.com? Halibutt 12:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please check your WP:NA entry

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Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 03:54, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need your help

I have created Cretan/Spartan connection. I think it is very valuable for understanding the matrix of ancient Greece and connections. The article may have some original content--Would you please check it out and vote to "Make as an external link". Thanks.WHEELER 01:41, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

Please see Talk:U.S. 93rd Infantry Division, I assume that is what you meant. If I've got it wrong then please fix my mistake --Philip Baird Shearer 18:15, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:POLMIL

Hi there! You might want to know that the good ol' Wikipedia:WikiProject Polish Army has been restarted, this time as WP:POLMIL, a part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history. As the main tasks of the previous WikiProject have been fulfilled (both Polish-Bolshevik and Polish Defensive wars are now featured), we might want to start yet another quest for some holy grail. Any ideas?

BTW, your BabelBox states you're an armchair general. What's your poison? Halibutt 14:40, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter, Issue I

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - March 2006
Project news An independent military history peer review has been created for the benefit of the project. A number of articles have already been reviewed, receiving significantly more feedback within the project than they did on the generic peer review page. The project's Collaboration of the Fortnight got off to a great start with Ferdinand Foch and is now focusing on the military history of Spain. Two new task forces—dealing with warfare during classical antiquity and the Middle Ages—have been created. An effort to build a catalogue of high-quality maps for use in military history articles is now underway. The newly-formed translation department is looking for volunteers to help with translating featured articles from other-language Wikipedias.	From the Coordinators Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Military history WikiProject's newsletter! We hope that this new format will help members—especially those who may be unable to keep up with some of the rapid developments that tend to occur—find new groups and programs within the project that they may wish to participate in. Please consider this inital issue to be a prototype; as always, any comments and suggestions are quite welcome, and will help us improve the newsletter in the coming months. Kirill Lokshin, Lead Coordinator
Current proposals Proposed guidelines for categories of military people are currently being discussed. A number of issues have already been resolved, but the proposed scheme is still in draft form and further input would be very welcome.

delivered by Loopy ^e 04:58, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military history Collaboration of the Fortnight

You supported American Revolutionary War, which has been selected as the Military history WikiProject's new Collaboration of the Fortnight. Please help improve this article to featured article standards. Kirill Lokshin 23:30, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Iran

I did some major extension to Portal:Iran. What do you think ? Contents, background and border colors and other stuff ? Amir85 15:09, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Iran portal

Thanks man for initiating that portal. Khosh Amadid means Welcome, "Khosh" in here means "well, nice" and "amadid" is the plural form of "come". Best wishes ! Amir85 18:13, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Oberstleutnant boeselager.jpg

[edit] Military history Collaboration of the Fortnight

You supported Greek War of Independence, which has been selected as the Military history WikiProject's new Collaboration of the Fortnight. Please help improve this article to featured article standards. Kirill Lokshin 22:41, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grand Union Flag

A while back on Talk:Flag of the United States, you asked for someone to create an image of the Grand Union. After one botched attempt and one half-way attempt, I have managed to create an image of this flag. See the linked article for the details. - Thanks, Hoshie | 04:42, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Demarxeioargou.jpg

Hello - thank you for providing images to the wikimedia commons. Please keep in mind that images uploaded to the commons should be useful to all users of wikimedia projects - this is possible only if the images can be found by other people. To allow others to find the images you uploaded here, the images should be in some place that can be found by navigating the category structure. This means that you should either place the images on topic pages (galleries) or put the images directly into a category, or do both. To find good categories for your images, the CommonSense tool may help. You can find a convenient overview of your uploaded files here: Gallery

The important point is that the images should be placed in the general structure somewhere. There is a large number of completely unsorted images on the commons right now. If you would like to help to place some of those images where they can be found, please do! Thank you. -- gildemax 15:46, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Psycharis

I don't have access to sources right now but as far as i know: pontic greek was spoken on the coast of Asia Minor. Accross the sea, there is the greek community of Mariupol which speak a rather different dialect, don't know exactly if it's related to pontic. But Odessa was a major port and the greek community there (e.g. the founders of Filiki Etairia) was diaspora, just like Trieste and Alexandria, not native like Mariupol and Turkey. I assume the Psycharis family was speaking more or less standard modern greek.

There is family information in "To taxidi mou", his main manifesto, I'll perhaps be able to add this in a couple of months. Mavros 23:52, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] recent addition at Camelid

Would you mind looking at this edit and salvaging anything worthwhile from it? I'm tempted to just remove it to TALK until (a) someone who -> (b) knows something about the subject matter can make heads or tails of it. If your knowledge of camelids is insufficient, I'm hoping you'll know someone who knows more about them to whom you can forward this information. Thanks, Tomer^talk 23:23, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it sounds remotely scientific, but very... "odd" :-p I crossposted the request to Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals. Hopefully one of its very few members will find the request and know enough about the subject to clean it up. Tomer^talk 05:05, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, it was making me more and more confused every time I tried to figure it out, so I removed it to the TALK page. Tomer^talk 23:30, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

• Hi! I jumped in here, and fixed that up some. That particular text was almost certainly a hoax, IMHO. I left a warning on the originators IP address (talk), but he'd only made three other edits, and all three were vandalisms. Best regards, FrankB 09:27, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Differences in Persian

They are both correct. However, as you know, a lot of vocabulary has been imported into Persian language from Arabic in the course of 14 centuries. So there are a lot of cases where one encounters cases of duplicity, where one encounters an originally Persian word as well as an originally Arabic word meaning the same thing in Persian.

Examples:

"Ism", although used frequently in Persian, is an originally Arabic word.

"Nam", used just as frequent, is fully Persian in origin.

"Kabir", used extensively in Persian" is Arabic in origin.

"Bozorg", used just as extensively, is Persian in origin.

Cases like these are very common in Persian.

However,

During the past 10 years, the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (which is considered by Persian speakers as the highest authority in Persian linguistic matters) has been advocating and encouraging the use of fully Persian forms, instead of the Arabic counterparts.

Therefore in all official circles, newspapers, etc, especially in the academic environment, the Persian forms are encouraged to be used. The elite, all scholars, and even presidents, usually abide by this rule. They try to minimize Arabic word usage in their speech.

The reason that the Arabic forms refuse to go away however, is that they have a very flexible structure.

For example, in the case of "Kabir" that you mentioned, it (like all Arabic names) comes from a root, in this case: ka- ba- ra (k-b-r). This root can take many forms depending on usage (i.e. it can become a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, etc). Hence the words: "kabir" (Great), "akbar" (Greatest), "takbir" (to make Great), "kubra" (feminine of akbar), etc. all come from this root, all revolving around the meaning "great".

Persian doesnt have the flexibility of the Arabic root words. In this respect Persian is quite similar to English, and Arabic is more similar to Russian or Latin perhaps.

So both are correct. However, a real good Persian speaker always uses the full Persian words when possible, like "Bozorg", and "Nam".--Zereshk 05:44, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi! See: User_talk:Jpbrenna#recent_addition_at_Camelid  :)

• We need to talk Military History and chess some day!FrankB 09:29, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue II

The April 2006 issue of the project newsletter is now out. You may read this issue or change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you by following the link. Thanks. Kirill Lokshin 18:44, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Persian language

Great man, thanks for making such template, will look into it. By the way I was checking your page, man you bear half of the world or better to say all of Europe. Cool ! Amir85 07:57, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: your querry from 1st March

I haven't used YIM for few months and I just got your querry (' block all or part of the edit history of a page from being viewed by anyone other than a sysop'). Is it still relevant?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 02:40, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I know it is possible, but I don't know how, exactly. I'd recommend you ask this on WP:ANI, without specyfing which page - you can do it in email while corresponding with sb more familiar with the subject who answers your querry there.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 15:24, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] M-G

Hello there, it's been ages since we last met here in Wikipedia. Anyway, I spent the best time of my last three wiki-weeks expanding the article on the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Apparently the place is my own Lam Dong for me as both my grandpa and great-grandpa spent there their entire WWII. Anyway, the article is almost ready to be nominated a FAC, but could still benefit from some comments from an uninformed reader. Got some 10 minutes to spare? :) //Halibutt 09:49, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

When it comes to my grandpa (never met him, he died some years before I was born; you could check a stub on him :) ), he never spoke too much of his time in the camp, neither to his wife nor to his children. However, from what I know there was some luck in that he was one of the first people to be sent to Mauthausen-Gusen. He was arrested in late 1939 and then sent to Mauthausen together with his father. This made some of the Germans feel some sort of a respect to them in the later years, as they were both able to survive so much. And in the last years of their stay there, my grandpa (15 when arrested, 20 when liberated...) became some sort of a prominent prisoner, as he was given better job as a long-time inmate. This allowed him to survive - and even help his father who also did survive the ordeal.

Anyway, as I said he never spoke too much of the camp, perhaps only in the Mauthausen-Gusen Club. However, he continued to be a heavy smoker (a boy-scout before the camp) and his favourite food were potatoes. All family could eat anything, while my grandpa preferred bread and potatoes. I can't even imagine living with such scars... //Halibutt 22:11, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I can't remember much on the excavation site and, to be precise, there wasn't much in the books either. As far as I remember one of the high-ranking SS-men of Gusen was an afficionado of archaeology. He supervised the construction of the Mauthausen-Gusen-quarries railway. During that work the inmates have discovered a lot of pre-historic findings which were then put on exhibition somewhere. Grzesiuk recalled that the guy was responsible for one of three or four situations during his entire stay in M-G when he was very, very close to being killed. In short, during one of the stages of construction him and his group were ordered to dig a wide ditch for the tracks to pass through some small hill. They were trying to work with their eyes, but the archaeologist was always near as he predicted that there might be something interesting inside of that hill. The prisoners got angry as the work was hard (and Grzesiuk in his book describes himself as a person to try to survive at all cost - and not to work for the Germans at all). When they finally discovered something (some stones, pottery and such), Grzesiuk started pissing on the findings - and that's when the SS-man came. He beat him almost to death.

Anyway, I don't really know if the guy was related to the later excavation at the Spielberg Castle (not the one in Brno), but it's possible. As to Spielberg, it's not really well-described in the books I have as it was considered a point of no return by most of the prisoners. At Gusen or Mauthausen you had always a chance to find some less-nasty job - or to evade work for some time. At those excavations there was no such possibility - and people were worked to death in short time. Especially that they were kept in the most primitive conditions, even by concentration camp standards.

I'll try to read up more on what were they actually excavating there - and for whom. //Halibutt 02:27, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue III - May 2006

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[edit] Albert René

Which are the weasel words in the section you tagged on France-Albert René? I wrote the article and didn't find a single one. —Sesel 00:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military history Collaboration of the Fortnight

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