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[edit] Miskito

Hello Arcarius. I have noticed that you've deleted the infobox template from the Miskito article. Please leave infoboxes intact, they were put there for a prupose. Thanks & welcome. //Big Adamsky 10:59, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Why is it that about a third of your edits are reverting to Fastifex? AnonMoos 03:39, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Wagshum

Hi Arcarius -- do you think that this redirect needs a category link? Or was think just a momentary slip? -- llywrch 19:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques

The assertion that Jerusalem is the "third holiest-site in Islam" is one of those little catchphrases which commonly gets repeated in many journalistic introductions to various aspects of the middle east situation, but unfortunately this simplistic phrase papers over a somewhat complex and diverse historical reality. Including the simplistic catchphrase in the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques article will inevitably introduce inaccuracy, unless there's an accompanying detailed explanation of disproportionate length. And there's simply no need to raise this problematic issue at all within that article (which is not about Jerusalem). AnonMoos 14:02, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links in Hazing

Please do not continually restore the links to the article (here, here and here). There are clear guidelines regarding external links. It is becomes increasingly difficult to assume good faith in the face of unsupported reversion. Please make appropriate edits summaries, or discuss it in the articles talk page - Tiswas(t) 09:40, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] French Flanders

The term is county. The term used by the articles County of Flanders and County of Artois is county. The term in the article should be county. Stop changing it.

As for the map, is it really helpful? Unless you already have a fair knowledge of the Nord department, it appears as little more than a grey blob with a yellow blob hi-lighted. Really, there's no point when two maps on the page already show the position of French Flanders on a larger scale.CharlesMartel 14:54, 28 June 2007 (UTC)CharlesMartel

[edit] Catholic article

I've tagged Pneumatomachi as copywright -it appears to be a clean sweep from that webiste. PLease rewrite it in your own words. Surely this text is not public domain ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you?" Contribs 10:10, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Read its discussion page (where you should have raised your objection in the first place): the CE IS public domain, forever!

[edit] Wikilinks

Hi,

If you are going to put in a wikilink, you should check the link to ensure it is directly to an article - your addition of peduncy to underwear led to a double-redirect, which is not useful for readers. Also, for readability you are better off to use a common term rather than a latin one, even if there is a wikilink. I've corrected the term to 'modesty' with a direct link to a sub-section on the modesty page. WLU 15:19, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Primate and Gniezno

Is there any reason why You again add irrevelant German name to Gniezno? Gniezno was under Grman control in 1793-1806, in years 1815-1849 was in authonomic Grand Duchy of Poznań with Polish ang German as official languages. In 1918 it retunrs to reborn Poland. Gniezno was seat of first polish archbishop since 1000. During German rule over 90% catholics were Poles (compare Kulturkampf). In modern history there was only one German archbiushop on this seat, only for 4 years (1886-1890). For rest of this time archbishops of Gniezno (and since 1821 of Poznań and Gniezno, due to personal union dissolved in 1946) used, against Prussian and later German autority title of Primates of Poland. Radomil talk 20:38, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

  • The entire Catholic church east of Germany was the product of intense missionary activity from there, in the case of the Ordensstaat (later Baltic republics roughly) long under specific state form, elsewhere as in Poland Slavic rule continued. Besides, in most anguages nbody has a clue what the Polish or other Slavic names stand for, they generally base their version on the German (and/or the Latin).

Not at all. Polish Duke, Mieszko I, to avoid this situation (dependency odf Polish church from German chirarchy), in 966 married Bohemian princess Dubrawka and started christianization of Poland "taking baptizm" from Czechs. Due this movement, first missionary bishop of Poland, Jordan was dependent only to pope. Also other countries in region tried to avoid Germ,an "missionars" that mean conquer like in case of Polabian Slavs. In later period main "missionary" German institution was Teutonic Order. Lithania trying to avoid Teutonic attacks made alliance with Poland. Lithuanian Grand Duke, Jagiełło, convert to christianity and married Polish queen Jadwiga Anjou. So in Baltic region Poland baptized in 966 with help of Bohemian church, and Lithuania in 1386 taking baptizm from Poland. Radomil talk 08:52, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Josef Fessler

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[edit] Supreme Leader

Hi there. I've reverted your reversion in Head of State, because the Iranian Constitution states that the Supreme Leader is the maximum political authority (i.e., Head of State). Do you have any references otherwise? --Damifb 18:03, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

  • That is NOT contradictory, nor relevant: in most democracies the Head of Goverment is the highst political authority, e.g. the Prime Minister in the Westminster model (not the constitutional Monarch or ceremnial President who is HoS), the HoS is only the poltical chief if he is elected (as in the US presidential system) and/or himself Head of Government (an 'executive president'), while in Iran neither applies to the Supreme Leader, who is a third person, with another, atypical, more ideological type of mandate. Arcarius 22:53, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Boy (disambiguation)

Let's talk about this before things get out of hand. The format for disambiguation pages is detailed at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). The first sentence on the page is discussed under Linking to a primary topic. Boy (disambiguation) is a dab page with a parenthetical (disambiguation) clarifier, so virtually no one will be coming there to find information on Boy. The introductory sentence should be kept as simple as possible, like the example for School in the section cited above; it's not necessary to cover any shades of meaning. The second sentence "Boy may also refer to:" is covered by the section Introductory line: "It is not necessary to repeat all the possible variations of capitalization or punctuation: "AU may refer to" is preferable over "AU, au, Au or A-U may refer to". Is there any reason you wish to depart from this format for this particular dab page? --ShelfSkewed Talk 05:29, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Obviously there is. The restrictive definition to young human male is simply wrong, not a matter of 'shades', and the use of the plural and its weird alternate don't qualify as mere spelling variations Arcarius 05:55, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
What is "wrong" about "young male human"? That is the primary meaning of the term; most other uses are derived meanings, colloquialisms or slang. And the plurals are just spelling variations--What else would you call them?--and similar variations are treated on other dab pages without listing them all the top.--ShelfSkewed Talk 06:11, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Re: Listing the variants at the top. I changed my mind--you were right, I was wrong. Took me long enough, eh? I hereby proffer my wrist for slapping. --ShelfSkewed Talk 14:38, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Photo you re-added

Hi Arcarius, I re-removed the wrestler's buttocks photo you re-added without comment or discussion to Buttocks, per the discussion on the article's talk page. If you wish to include the photo, please include a rationale that addresses the reasons for inclusion in the article. Thanks, ~Eliz81(C) 15:47, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

  • I see no actual reason in the 'discussion', just negative preferences I don't share, and abhorr deletionism in principle. Arcarius 05:56, 18 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Redirect of Transpadine

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[edit] Boy

Today you added again (for the eight time: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]) the image of the branded fraternity guys to the article Boy, and it also was removed yet again (not by me this time). Given the comments at Talk:Boy#Fraternity image and the continued removal of the image from the article, there clearly is no consensus to include that particular image in this article, so I kindly ask you to stop adding it there. --Reinoutr (talk) 14:49, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2BE

You added "2BE' (pronounced like "two be") is a Belgian television channel owned by the commercial broadcasting company Vlaamse Media Maatschappij (English: Flemish Media Corporation), which also owns radio channels and its parent channel vtm- it's not uncommon for programs to be passed on from one sister channel to the other, especially for reruns." to 2BE (TV channel). I can understand that you added the part about the radio/television channels, but it's not uncommon for programs to be passed on from one sister channel to the other, especially for reruns is simply irrelevant. Please stop re-adding that to the article. And what's up with which the original abbreviation stood for, yet in Dutch also the pronunciation of K2;? Kan je dat eens uitleggen in het Nederlands? Ik denk dat we dit beter kunnen verwoorden. --Pdedecker (talk) 19:50, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

(Reply in Dutch, as requested)

  • Voor een Engelstalige (ons publiek hier) is Ka2 betekenisloos, in het Nederlands een homofoon van K2, dat voor de anderstalige eerder een berg in de Himalaya is. Vermits channel geheel anders begint dan kanaal, zijn beide versies zonder uitleg onbegrijpelijk voor de anglofoon.
Waarom is het belangrijk dat K2 en Ka2 homofonen zijn? Hun naam is toch nooit K2 geweest? --Pdedecker (talk) 12:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Precies omdat de uitzendrechten bij VMM berusten, worden programma's gemaakt of gekocht voor één TV-zender en naar believen doorgegeven (soms enkel voor herhalingen, soms botweg bij een nieuwe programmering) naar het zusterkanaal, waar ze wellicht anders nooit zouden komen. Dit is niet irrelevent, maar een essentiëel gegeven in de programmeerpolitiek, en een fameuze beperking op de met bombarie voorgewende 'identiteit' van zenders. Stop dus met deze informatie te verwijderen, of jij ze relevant vindt doet niets terzake. Arcarius (talk) 06:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Het is toch ook normaal dat één en Canvas, VT4 en VIJFtv, ITV1-4, BBC One-Four enzovoort programma's uitwisselen? Dit wordt toch overal gedaan? Als jij het zo belangrijk vindt... Enfin, ik heb het intussen een beetje herschreven, kijk eens na of je dit aanvaardbaar vindt. --Pdedecker (talk) 12:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)