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[edit] Propaganda films

I think we are getting a little too specific about the categories. I think Category:Nazi world War II propaganda films is a little redundant, we could just put the Nazi propaganda link there. Same with the Japanese cat.--Dudeman5685 23:12, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merging Offshoring and Offshore Outsourcing

Had you bothered to look, this discussion has already taken place under Talk:Offshore_outsourcing. Please do not put up that request again. Vicissidude 22:57, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

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Good eye on list of terrorist incidents -- I was just thinking more detail should be added there. -戴&#30505sv 08:08, Sep 11, 2003 (UTC) -

Please see: Talk:Communist and post-Communist Albania regarding pyramid schemes. --Dori 14:02, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC)


Hi there! When moving pages, please use the special link in the sidebar rather than cut & paste content -- it moves the page's history too. -- Tarquin 17:35, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

  • I'd already tried this and it was rejected.
That might have been because you were moving it to an already-existing name. Michael Hardy 01:09, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

In re Ginzburg-Landau theory, please note that the title phrase should be highlighted at its first appearance, like this. (Someone corrected this after you wrote the article.) Michael Hardy 01:10, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your question re:Brest-Litovsk (though something in my head is saying the borders differ), but I thought I'd suggest that posting the question at Wikipedia:Reference desk might get you an answer....we do marginally well at covering quesitons posted there, especially clear ones like yours. Jwrosenzweig 18:41, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Zero-byte image

Hello; I just deleted an image you uploaded back in June 2003, because it was zero bytes. It was Image:Al-Aqsa.jpg, and had the caption The Al-Aqsa Mosque (**NOT** the Dome of the Rock). It's quite possible you already re-uploaded it or know about the upload error, but I thought I'd let you know just in case. --Delirium 09:39, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

--- Thanks for assisting me with the Italian Social Republic page--Plato 12:30, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)


Great work on Italian Socal Republic page, help me with the bio's of all ministers.--Plato 03:27, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

You don't need to create redirects for plurals - [[Satellite state]]s shows up as Satellite states - so it works :) Dysprosia 10:03, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Ahem, sorry for the "Islamism" (me brasilian. me not speak eengleesh good...) Jorge Stolfi 09:35, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Star and crescent in Islam

[edit] First reaction

As for the symbol, Muslims worship Allah (God), therefor they reject any kind of idol worshipping. We believe that Christians believe in the cross to be a symbol of their God, or the so claimed Son of God. They seek blessing and protection from this cross. Muslims seek protection and blessing only from Allah, that is why we do not have an Islamic symbol as the Christians’ cross. Some Muslims have invented the symbol of a crescent to counter the cross, but this is not authentic and it is considered as an innovation in Islam.

http://63.175.194.25/index.php?ln=eng&ds=qa&lv=browse&QR=4526&dgn=4 A. 09:59, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Second reply

  • First point: why should it be an issue that the site is following the Salafi methodology?
  • Second point: why is it considered to be an 'hardline' methodology?
  • Third point: I can't speak french.
  • Last point: You could use the flag of Saudi-Arabia or the text contained in it.

A. 17:10, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] License

Hi, could you tell me the license of Image:Trianonhungary.png ? Thanks in advance Tipiac 15:40, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] I am anti-Islamist

The reason I edited your changes to that islamophobia "article" was because the section you wrote was essentially a pro-Islamist diatribe full of half-truths, lies, exaggerations, distortions, etc. It is the classic propaganda technique, put a tiny morsel of truth, and then heap lies upon lies upon lies on top of it to achieve an end. Joseph Goebbels would be proud of you, I'm sure.

My friend, you are an Islamist. Your edit was so pro-Islamist that it screamed out to be deleted, or at least edited. Of course, you've probably reverted the article or something now, and those goddamn Islamist-stooges over there won't care one way or the other as long as the POV is unabashedly pro-Islamist. Do what you want, I won't be back to that article, it is infested with Islamists and their "useful idiots".

--B Sveen, November 30, 2004, Anno Domini (in the year of Our Lord)

How can I be an Islamist when I'm not even Muslim?! Anyway, in the first paragraph I was mainly concerned with toning down language. I also mentioned how the Crusades were a reaction to the initial Islamic conquests. It only makes sense to call my edits here biased if you are equate the defence of Israel with the defence of the West itself.
About the paragraph I added suggesting that Islam could be destroyed only by genocide (and which you distorted in one of your own edits) - can you name any countries where de-Islamization by forced conversion (as opposed to ethnic cleansing or genocide) has been successful? I know of none...

[edit] Trianon

Hi there, could I have whatever materials you used to create the Trianon image of Hungary's break-up? I would like to improve upon it If I may. Nicholas 16:18, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Image licensing

Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:Draka42.png and Image:Draka48.png. I notice they currently don't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know their copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release each under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you.

If you uploaded other images, please clarify copyright for them as well, otherwise the images will eventually be deleted.

Thanks, Denni☯ 01:39, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

[edit] Islamophobia

I really like your version of the Islamophobia-article and just reverted the article back to that version. I'll make a few (mostly minor) changes today and tomorrow. Let's discuss them in the Islamophobia talk page if there is anything you disagree to. 207.44.192.52

Please notice that I removed some text in the "Islamophobia and Racism". The claim that Muslims can't be converted and Islam can only destroyed through genocide is simply not true. In the Philippines millions of Muslims was converted to Christianity by the Spanish, and today millions of Iranians and Algerians are leaving Islam. Another fact is that well-known anti-islamists like Ali Sina believe that Islam can and will be defeated through Muslims leaving Islam. 207.44.192.52
I would describe Ali Sina as "Anti-Muslim" not "Anti-Islamist". I define "Islamism" as "support for Sharia" so an "anti-Islamist" is someone who supports secular laws in Muslim countries, such as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. GCarty 18:03, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Trianonhungary.png

You claim that this map comes from a non-copyrighted source. What is the source? Thuresson 2 July 2005 00:52 (UTC)

[edit] Mount Erebus disaster

Please don't cut and paste to move pages. It messes up the page history. You should ask for admin assistance if you have difficulties. -- FP <talk><edits> 09:01, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

I used cut and paste because the redirect at Air New Zealand Flight 901 had a past edit history, making a conventional move impossible. GCarty 15:00, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
In that case, you should have asked for admin help. It is very important to keep the page history intact (as you have already been told). In any case, I asked SlimVirgin for help, and the histories have been merged. Best wishes -- FP <talk><edits> 02:59, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adhan in Turkey

Hi, I saw the section you wrote there and I was just wondering if you could source it, if you do this it will make it easier for others to verify what you have written is correct and lessens the chance that it will be removed. gren 12:58, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

http://www.islamonline.net/English/ArtCulture/2004/01/article01.shtml GCarty 13:03, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Interlingua

Good idea, there. Thanks from me (a diehard interlinguist)! Almafeta 13:39, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi there! Yes I did look at Interlingua some time ago, but I felt too much temptation to indroduce a full Romance grammar! I had my own inter-Romanic experiment once - the obligatory Lord's Prayer follows in my lashed-up language. What do you think?
Nostro padre que é en le cielo
Santificado seja tu nome.
Venga tu Reino.
Faga-se tu voluntat,
Assí en la terra como en le cielo.
Nostro pan quotidano,
Da-nos hoji e pardona-nos nostras débitas,
assí como nós pardonamos a nostros debitores.
E no nos laixes cader en la tentation,
Ma libera-nos de mal. Amen.
The other point is using vocabulary at odds with Romance practice - such as using attaccos rather than attentatos to refer to terrorist attacks, or to use the horribly laboured charpa de capite (seen on INTERLNG) rather than pannello de collo or even hijab (which seems international enough to me). One addition to the vocabulary I'd like to introduce - can I call a puppet government "un governamento fantoche"? (FR/ES/PT fantoche, IT fantoccio) GCarty 14:22, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
Two questions re your own inter-Romance tongue: what does the x (laixes) mean?
It's pronounced "lashes" - the orthography is Catalan-inspired. It's a subjuctive of "to let" (cf. French tu laisses, Italian lasci) GCarty 16:15, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
My own tastes find it odd, because of the the way that the possessive adjective nostro sounds, but that's me.
And what do the accents mean -- stress change, or sound change?
Accents function as in Spanish. GCarty 16:15, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
Also note that Interlingua didn't intend to be purely Romantic, although I sometimes replace Interlingua's verb rules with a faux-Romantic set to make it sound like an obscure European tongue.
Finally, regarding "fantoche": French uses fantoche, but Spanish uses títere -- if the interwiki links on puppet state are correct. For now, I'd keep it, but add the {{parola-non-official}} template to the top of the article. Almafeta 15:11, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
"Títere" is more common, but "Fantoche" is sometimes used too, at least if a Google search is anything to go by. GCarty 16:15, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
Also, feel free to get your own account there! Almafeta 15:15, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Friendly suggestions

Hi GCarty, I would just like to remind you to always leave an edit summary when making changes to articles. It really helps your fellow editors and only takes a few seconds.

The problem is that when I am changing categories for dozens of articles those "few seconds" add up! Are there any programs for changing categories in articles en masse, so that I don't omit edit summaries for "fast-fingered freddie" reasons? GCarty 19:15, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

I would also like to suggest that the minor edit tag might not be appropriate when you are deleting and adding categories in the article. It is really intended for minor changes such as fixing a spelling mistake. Best wishes -- FP <talk><edits> 02:30, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Campaignbox Balkans Campaign

Is there a way to work it into the Battle of Crete battlebox?

[edit] Redirect was in error

The redirect you made on the talk:Neo-fascism to talk:Neo-Nazism page wrecked a discussion page that was active. Please do not redirect again. The two pages are not identicial.

yeah you fucking idiot!

[edit] Moving pages

I would have assumed that you would know better than to move pages via cut-n-paste, as you did at Talk:Van (road vehicle). Noel (talk) 05:39, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moving pages, part 2

Hi. Can you have a look at my comment at Talk:British European Airways Flight 548. I don't think the move of the page is doing anyone any favours - so I propose we move it back unless you can justify it. (Even typing its title above proved troublesome, having to rely on memory) Graham 10:05, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

Calling a category "Communist dictators" is obviously a violation of our NPOV rules. Please try to keep your sentiments in check when naming categories in future. Homey 15:32, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the extinction fix on the Leptictidium page. After doing so many of those, I was bound to slip up at least once.

--aremisasling 18:23, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dinosaur cat

I noticed you've put Category:Dinosaurs into Category:Prehistoric animals. This seems redundant to me because it's already in Category:Prehistoric reptiles, which is itself in Category:Prehistoric animals. If there's some pressing reason why it needs to be in both the parent and child cat then let me know (should probably note it on the Talk page actually), otherwise it seems pointless. Soo 16:18, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Some people regard dinosaurs as reptiles, while others regard them as a unique class of animals, with both reptilian and avian characteristics. I put Category:Dinosaurs into both Category:Prehistoric animals and Category:Prehistoric reptiles in order to accommodate both these viewpoints. GCarty 17:20, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Executed secret agent Doihara

I'd reverted your edit [1] Doihara was executed but not as or because of being secret agent. Please try to use categories only for most important things/features and check whether they really apply. TIA Pavel Vozenilek 00:41, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CFD redirects

Please don't use hard redirects in categories. There is a bug in the mediawiki software which causes these to work incorrectly. There is more information about this at Wikipedia:Categorization#Redirected_categories If a soft direct is necessary, use {{Category redirect|target category}}. Most times, though, if you are working on the cleanup section of WP:CFD, the soft directs are there so a bot will move the articles, so nothing needs to be done. --Kbdank71 15:41, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Tours

whatever your faith, please do not vandalize the name of Emir Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi Abd al Rahman, or remove his name from the list of dead -- his life was sufficiently important in history that he deserved to be mentioned in the list of those killed. Your edits are ill-informed, hopefully you don't know better. If you do edit, please leave an explanation. Otherwise, as in this one, it is simply reverted. old windy bear 21:50, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I assume that you are not aware of the conventions for battleboxes - a dagger (†) beside a commander's name indicates he was killed in the battle. GCarty 08:30, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
no problem, however, you should have left a message in discussion, and his name still belongs in the causalty lists, as he was quite renowned in history -- most users do not know that the dagger indicates death in battle, and the information in the battlebox shows them at once that a significant personality of the times was killed. I had removed the dagger again, till i came here and read why, i then restored it, but left the Emir's name in the losses - which is also appropriate. I have been working on these articles for a year. I welcome any help, but don't know what someone is doing - like with the dagger - if they don't tell me, which is why I suggested leaving a note in discussion on any article when such is done. Cheers!old windy bear 09:53, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

GCarty I understood and agreed with your edit this morning returning the category to the proper place, since Tours took place during the great period of Islamic expansion, during their wars of conquest. But Carty, please, leave a note in discussion so that the guy whose edit you changed understands why! I started to do so, but decided instead to come back here, and ask you to. Your edit was historically correct, but people generally on these history articles explain such an edit, so the other party understands. You were correct on the dagger -- I did not know (Palmdogg is the battle and campaign box king; i compile the lists! -- but now that I do, all is well). But please, for the sake of avoiding editing wars, leave the guy an explanation on the discussion page? It also establishs that you know what you are doing, which you obviously do. This is not being smart with you, but an honest request to leave an explanation so the person who thought -- because Tours was a victory for the Chirstian forces opposing the Islamic Conquest, that it was not a part of the wars in that era -- understands that they were wrong. Thanks! old windy bear 17:10, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

GCarty Carty, you have still not explained your revert of an edit a user made in good faith, not understanding the nature of the battlebox, or why the person who thought -- because Tours was a victory for the Chirstian forces opposing the Islamic Conquest, that it was not a part of the wars in that era -- understands that they were wrong. If you don't start leaving an explanation, one that is sourced, your edits will be reverted. In this case, I happen to agree with you. But wikipedia rules dictate that when you revert - as you did with this -that you leave an explanation in the discussion area, so the person understands the logic of the revert, or leave such in the revert itself. You did neither. Please post it, or I will revert yours, and let the military project coordinator decide the matter. You are simply acting without any respect towards users editing in good faith. Please leave explanations!old windy bear 18:46, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

GCarty 1) the Battle of Tours is generally regarded as the turning point of the Muslim invasions of Western Europe, but it is not the end of them, as you would know if you studied the life of Charles Martel, or the Islamic Conquests -- invading forces were turned back again at River Berre and Narbonne by Charles Martel in 736-7; 2) the Muslim conquering presence in western Europe did not fully end until the retaking of the City of Narbonne by Charle's son, Pippin the Short. I reinstated the explanation placed at the Battle of Tours. if you feel this is wrong, feel free to discuss it on the explanation page, or talk to user:Kirill the project coordinator for the Military Project. In any event, your history was incorrect that Tours signaled the end of Muslim invasions of Europe, though western historians, and Muslim historians of that era, regarded it as the "turning point" of said invasions.old windy bear 15:08, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please check your WP:NA entry

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[edit] Corporate-jet conservative

I so wish you would delete that. The article is total POV-bait. Besides, it's not at all an established term, and may even be a good AfD target if it's not that widely used. Finally, Conason is plain wrong. Statistics from the last U.S. election showed (I don't have a source) that people with net worths of $ 1 to 10 M voted about 2:1 for Bush, and people with net worths of $ 10 M + voted about 2:1 for Kerry. I realize that "limousine liberal" has a big juicy article, but that is an established term and can't be glossed over. I probably won't nominate your article for AfD, and certainly will not do it until you've had a chance to substantially expand it, but I fervently wish you volunteered to delete the article for the above reasons. - the.crazy.russian (T) (C) (E) 19:55, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I've decided that it's worthwhile as an entry in List of political epithets, but not as an article in its own right (Will Beback nominated it for deletion). Is this a reasonable compromise? GCarty 09:18, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Aspergian Wikipedians

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[edit] al Ghurabaa=Takfiri, source?

Greetings, can you provide a source for the above information that you've just added to Islamist extremist demonstration outside Danish Embassy in London? If not your addition would sooner be considered an example of original research. Netscott 10:33, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Executed spy

[2]: I removed the category. Doihara was found guilty on many charges but no one was related to spying (which also happened decades before). Pavel Vozenilek 19:35, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ambiguity

Please see my comments at Talk:List of Muslim reformers. Thanks. --Dweller 10:11, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Minaret of Freedom Institute

Since you have edited this article, you may want to look at the discussion on this deletion nomination. At the moment it certainly does not look like the article will be deleted, but there are serious issues with content that looks pretty much copied from their website, which causes copyright issues. Some reworking of the article might be in order. Fan1967 23:22, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I have added a reference to the copied content. --GCarty 07:59, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Category

First, please sign your messages; secondly, this category is both your POV and original research and the claim tha some of them are "indisputable" is entirely ridiculous. Pecher Talk 10:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] They've killed the List of famous failures in science and engineering! You Bastards!!

Mmx1 is taking the fight that I have over the F-14 and F-111 to the failure page, and he has nominated them for deletion. The wiki-thugs are all voting to delete the page. Mmx1 has reversed the F-14 page to state that it is not, and has never been designed as a maneuverable air superiority fighter, and is not accepting any contrary citations up to and including a F-14 test pilot, Janes Defence, and Aviation Week. He is apparently taking revenge against other pages. Please go to the deletion page and tell the administrators what is going on. Look at the patterns of MMx. He regular accuses others of gross misinformation and summarily reverts most edits as a self-appointed judge of all truth, but in fact should not be allowed this leeway. --matador300 11:03, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Anti-Islam activists

Greetings GCarty, Although I don't see that you've done so previously, I wanted to give you a friendly note to suggest not adding the likes of Ayaan Hirsi Ali to this category. Anyone who does is very likely to encounter resistance in regards to the whole category. Cheers. Netscott 14:48, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I believe I understand why you've been encountering resistance to your utilization of this category and it is due to what seems to be a blanket utilization of it. There are those who are anti-Islam activists like Ali Sina but then there are those who are anti-Islamist (or ism) activists like Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Might I suggest making Category:Anti-Islamism activists? or Category:Anti-Islamist activists? Cheers. (→Netscott) 18:58, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
I'd prefer Category:Secularists of Muslim descent. --GCarty 15:23, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Maybe Category:Secularists of Muslim heritage or Category:Secularists of Muslim lineage as there is no Muslim ethnicity/race. (→Netscott) 12:51, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
OK, Category:Secularists of Muslim heritage it should be... --GCarty 13:28, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of famous failures in science and engineering

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[edit] Reconquista

Hi GCarty, regarding this edit, I would say that it was not only the Umayyad who respected Jews and Mozarabic Christians, but also the Abbadid of Seville (this is the only Taifa kingdom I'm familiar with). Regards, E Asterion u talking to me? 23:36, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - I forgot the taifa kingdoms! --GCarty 07:24, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Matt Giwer

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[edit] American propaganda film cats

I agree that the category needed to be split up, but may I suggest some modifications in the new arrangement?

First I think that the Right and Left cats should include domestic as well as foreign policy, as the two can become very intertwined, as late experience has shown, and the terms "anti-communist" and "anti-fascist" doesn't adequeatly cover the respective foreign outlooks. Would an anti-Vietnam war film, for instance, really belong under the anti-fascist cat, or a left wing cat for that matter?

This is what I propose

  • WWII films (a fairly distinct genre)
  • General Left and right wing films
  • Vietnam era films (both anti and pro, left and right. The two are not mutually exclusive.)
  • Drug and social hygiege films
  • anti-communist

What do you think?--Dudeman5685 20:02, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Almost no Americans were outright pro-communist or pro-fascist, so I'd reserve the labels "anti-communist" and "anti-fascist" for relatively non-partisan films. As for Vietnam, either have a specific category, or create a new category for anti-war films (also including films opposing other wars, such as Why We Fight (2005 film)), while putting the pro-war films in the "anti-communist" category. GCarty 21:09, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Terrorism in country categories

I saw you created the Terrorism in France category a while back. A new user is upset by the use of the word terrorism and is removing categories from pages at random. I would appreciate it if you would take a look at, and consider reverting the user's edits to, East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Grey Wolves, and Kurdistan Workers Party. Thanks, KazakhPol 02:42, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can

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[edit] Category talk:Airliner crashes caused by design or manufacturing errors

Maybe u want to contribute there? --Homer Landskirty 14:54, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] AfD Progressive Bloggers

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I have no real connection with that article – all I did was recategorize it. --GCarty 09:48, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD Blogging Tories

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I have no real connection with that article – all I did was recategorize it. --GCarty 09:48, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of political flops

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[edit] List of military disasters

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[edit] List of political flops

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[edit] Notability of Al-Muhajabah

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[edit] List of designated terrorist organizations

I've put a proposal at Talk:List of designated terrorist organizations to improve the page. Your input is appreciated. CG 22:27, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect of Anti-Christian

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[edit] Help requested with template

I'm trying to create a spinoff template based on Template:Infobox civilian attack - see Template:Infobox military attack. I want to change a few of the fields, notably "Perpetrator(s)" to "Instigator(s)" and "Suspected perpetrator(s)" to "Conflict". However, I can't get it to work properly and I don't know enough about the template syntax to fix it. Could you please help? -- ChrisO 22:51, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

On the "Instigator" field, you had three opening curly brackets but only two closing. I've fixed it. --GCarty 10:22, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rashidun and Abbasid Caliphates

The Rashidun and Abbasid Caliphates both ruled all of Azerbaijan. The Abbasids also controlled Iberia and Septimania (southern France.) They both covered three continents. See the transcontinental country discussion. Heff01 02:41, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

In fact the Abbasids never controlled Iberia and Septimania - those lands became the nucleus of the Umayyad rump state. The point about Azerbaijan still holds though. --GCarty 08:39, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Would you be interested in joining the Wikipedia Crime Project?

I have seen that you like to contribute to serial killer articles I am trying to organize a task force on this subject under Wikipedia:WikiProject Criminal Biography. If you would be interested in joining contact me. Thanks, Jmm6f488 19:52, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Timeline 191

Why did you merge the character articles?--SGCommand (talk • contribs) 13:32, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

I didn't, MK2 did. --GCarty 16:13, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Flags of insurgent organizations

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[edit] October 2007

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to Boeing 747SP. Thank you. MBK004 13:57, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Propaganda phrases

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[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Libertarian weblogs

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[edit] PCF far-left? No!

Please don't move the French Communist Party to far-left anymore. Firstly, it's not even far-left anymore for a variety of regions. Please don't touch the template based on your opinions. If you don't know about French politics, don't touch it. --Petrovic-Njegos (talk) 15:52, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that, but could you please explain why a communist party is not considered far-left? --GCarty (talk) 18:34, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
For ideological reasons, it's Eurocommunist. It's not trotskyst. And anyways, the French far-left refers to trots, anti-liberals etc. But mostly for technical reasons. It co-operates a lot with the PS or Greenies. Most of their MPs were elected without PS candidates opposing them, their lists in regional elections (if they run one) always rallies the Socialists if they're at 10%. --Petrovic-Njegos (talk) 21:25, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
If "far-left" in the French context means "Trotskyist", might it not be a good idea to make this explicit in the table? --GCarty (talk) 10:42, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Astroturf groups

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[edit] AfD nomination of Neo-Stalinism

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[edit] Image source problem with Image:Navastolosa.jpg

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[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Pro-Japanese collaborators

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[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Creationism2

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