User talk:Bofors40

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Welcome!

Hello Bofors40, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! --X66.41.169.244 11:49, 16 December 2005 (UTC)


Bofors, this is Hauser (whom you contacted about the Steve Maharey page). Let me explain my reasoning for the edits: firstly, the text was not neutral (indeed, one of the users who wrote the 'controversy' section vandalised my page simply for trying to keep the Steve Maharey page NPOV) and secondly, it did not fit Wikipedia criteria in terms of article quality (which would have been obvious to anyone visiting the page). The text was ridiculous, and the quotes did not warrant a mention in a serious encyclpedia like the Wikipedia. Maharey's role in the case may warrant a mention (in my opinion it wasn't exactly a major point in his career), but it does not need to be ridiculously biased nor defamatory. Cheers, Hauser 22:41, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Timor/Sparrow Force

Hi, in reply to your emails, thanks for your contributions, which are welcomed by me. I don't have a direct connection to these subjects; awareness of them is relatively high here in Western Australia, thanks to the origins and the postwar prominence of many 2/2nd Ind Coy members.

I was interested to hear of your interviews with Timor veterans from both sides. Are you planning a book or something similar? Grant65 | Talk 19:42, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I look forward to seeing the footage. Ray Aitken was the headmaster of a school at which my Mum taught and another one which a good friend of mine attended. He seems to have made a profound impression on everyone who met him and on many more who (like me) didn't. It says something that he was more famous as a naturalist and teacher, than for his military career, by the time he died. Grant65 | Talk 12:16, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bofors40 plea for productivity

Precicely what are you talking about? Where do you base your oppinion about my productivity and what brought that to you attention? --Mecanismo | Talk 00:09, 22 December 2005 (UTC)


I see that you don't have much experience in wikipedia. When changing messages through wikipedia, please keep your replies inside the discussion topic. It makes it easier to follow. Also please supply a clear link to your talk page. It isn't practical to go to the address and type the user_talk:nickname thing.

First of all, I'm not obligated to explain any of my actions to anyone and therefore I would appreciate that you didn't use that tone in this conversation. I don't have any problem explaining any of my contributions but as I believe you can understand, no one is forced to do favours to someone if that person isn't polite. Second, I fail to understand how marking an article as a stub can be seen as anti-productive. After all, an article marked as a stub is an invitation sent to every wikipedian to dedicate some attention to that article and expand it. Therefore, why do you believe that marking an article as a stub isn't "productive"?

P.S.: if you wish to reply, please do so inside the current conversation. It is a PitA to keep the discussion page clean and I would appreciate that the exchange of ideas didn't played against that --Mecanismo | Talk 00:40, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:C79LAABtyRA.jpg

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