User talk:Bodybagger

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Contents 1 August 2007 2 Oprah Winfrey 3 Signing 4 National means of technical verification

[edit] August 2007

Please remember to mark your edits, as you did to Fahrenheit 9/11 as minor when (and only when) they genuinely are minor edits (see Wikipedia:Minor edit). Marking a major change as a minor one (and vice versa) is considered poor etiquette. The rule of thumb is that only an edit that consists solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearranging of text without modifying content should be flagged as a 'minor edit.' Thank you. THF 08:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

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Sandahl 05:34, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oprah Winfrey

I'm sorry that you feel that way. I've explained my concerns on that article's talk page.

As for the CIA editing Wikipedia, I don't personally have a problem with that provided that they adhere to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. I'm not prepared to assume bad faith simply because they're the CIA. Jakew 11:15, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Signing

About Sandahl's comment above, the welcome message always has the signing reminder, even if you haven't forgten.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:36, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] National means of technical verification

I'd question if the marked change was minor. The list there dealt with four countries. If there was any special case, it was North Korea, because it is abrogating its NPT signature. The others are essentially the same, because, for their reasons of state, not to ratify the NPT. Since I wrote that section, it was intended as a simple list, not wikilinked, of countries with known or assumed nuclear weapons capability.

To change the Israel reference to a Wikilink makes it stand out of the list, for no apparent reason having to do with the subject of the list or even the article. There are lists of "country X and weapons of mass destruction" for the other three, and I saw no particular information added by wikilinking to all four of their nuclear programs. For pure consistency, it would make sense to wikilink all or none; there's nothing special about Israel in this context.

Putting in that wikilink is drawing emphasis to Israel in what is intended to be a technical and policy article. I personally detest Israel's policy of "deliberate ambiguity", but it was not an issue relevant to the article. As a result, I reverted the wikilink for Israel.

Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 02:30, 15 April 2008 (UTC)