User talk:Groucho

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[edit] Copyrights, etc.

Your article Infernal machine reads like it is probably a copy from a book or journal, especially the use of Harvard-style citations without the presence of a list of references. I hope you understand that Wikipedia cannot take material for which someone else holds the copyright and has not granted us rights. If it is your own work, great, and just say so (and if you had previously published it elsewhere, please say where). Similarly, if it came from a public domain source, that source should still be acknowledged. If not, let me know (by responding here) so that I can remove the current article as a copyright violation, and you can rewrite this in your own words and with explicit acknowledgement of your source. Thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:11, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

This article is part of my own book Napoleon Against Himself: A Psychobiography published by Pitchstone in 2007. --Groucho (talk) 11:23, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] jabotinsky

Kh may be a fine transliteration from the Russian but it is NOT the accepted spelling - please revert your changes, including those of the images, which have been effectively deleted by the change. There is not a single book, organization or road sign in English that uses that spelling.--Gilabrand (talk) 17:52, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Nevertheless, Zhabotinsky is the correct transliteration of his name. --Groucho (talk) 11:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jabotinsky

Please do not make changes like this. I assume you did a search and replace to "correct" his name, but in using such a method you broke every image link, several of the external links and every one of the interwiki links. This seriously damaged the article and the project in general.

Plus, as noted above, your change was illegitimate anyway. Jabotinsky is the common spelling. Regards, пﮟოьεԻ 57 19:18, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and you forgot to fix any of the double redirects that you created when you moved the article. This is also frowned upon. пﮟოьεԻ 57 19:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

You may wish to see my reply to Gilabrand above. --Groucho (talk) 11:26, 4 March 2008 (UTC)