User talk:H2ppyme

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[edit] Estonians in the Soviet Army

These men died to impose Soviet rule on Estonia, they were not fighting for Estonia. --Woogie10w 18:23, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Say, do you have data on the Baltic partisans that were fighting against the Germans & the Soviets. They should be in the Baltic nations military box--Woogie10w 19:03, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
The problem is that we have to be consistant. These men were in the Red Army, not the Estonian Army. The Americans had foriegners in its Army but they were US soldiers not Estonians Germans or Mexicans. I knew a German citizen who was a US in the B-17 crews of WW2 he was an American soldier not German--Woogie10w 20:43, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

The Red Army was a single entity, its casualties should be with the USSR. The readers of the table will see total Red Army losses in the USSR total. When the readers bore down to the footnotes of Estonia and the USSR they will see that x number of Estonians were in the Red Army total. This makes sense because readers will be able compare the Red Army losses to other nations. The article as its stands now does the job of listing total Red Army losses and giving the readers the details by Soviet Republic in the footnotes.--Woogie10w 21:00, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

In my opinion it would be an insult to include Red Army deaths with Estonia. The footnotes tell the readers that Estonians were in Red Army Casualties--Woogie10w 21:27, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Do you have any data on the Estonian, Lithunian and Latvaian partisan casualties? I do know many Estonians were deported after the war to the Gulags. Some fled to the west, my dentist as a child 45 years ago was one these Estonians. She escaped on a small boat to Sweden.--Woogie10w 21:54, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
The footnote for Estonia now has a link to the Wikipedia article on Estonia in World War II.--Woogie10w 22:10, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
I added total deaths of the Baltic states from 1940-53 to the footnotes of WW2 casualties. I have many reference works with data on world conflicts. If you ever need data please don't hesitate to send me a request.--Woogie10w 02:32, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
The guy who did the chart is your neighbor from SwedenUser:Dna-webmaster--Woogie10w 12:41, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Image: ww2 deaths by country

Hi, H2ppyme, and thanks for your post on my talk page regarding the Image:WorldWarII-DeathsByCountry-Barchart.png! I thought I might as well explain in more detail why the chart looks like it does. Regarding your concerns about Estonia being "left out", I'm sorry, but I think you are thinking about this in the wrong way: The issue is about pure statistics and layout considerations, not about which countries were what and why. If you study the chart you will see that it is designed so that the casualty numbers are sorted; the numbers (green/red) are ascending within the Allies from Latvia to the Soviet Union, and then descending within the Axis from Germany to Italy. Why? Well, the idea was to make the largest casualty numbers (Soviet Union and Germany) "meet" eachother in the chart. Due to the fact that a line has to drawn somewhere on how many countries to list, it just happens that when you sort according to total casualty numbers, the chart will include Latvia & Lithuania and not Estonia. If we decide to add more countries, the next one would be Ethiopia and then Netherlands, Philippines, Austria etc, and Estonia would be far down the list, in between Canada and Australia. To verify this, go to World War II casualties and sort the column "Total deaths" by clicking the arrow button in the heading. My regards, --Dna-Dennis (talk) 21:51, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, H2ppyme! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 00:07, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Invite

Century Tower

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Florida, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of University of Florida. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! ~~~~

 
Jccort (talk) 03:11, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thule

It shouldn't be mentioned because none of your sources are verifiable or academic sources. Its some claim on your part for what reason I don't know. How do we what those books say. The claim seems to be very against the grain of the rest of the article. The one source that I read you give is a blog - not a good source. It also says off handedly 'some people say the isle of Thule'. I could just make up a blog saying Japan could be Thule - it doesn't make it right. Unless you provide a proper source with some historical merit I am going to continue to remove it. Wikipedia is all about verifiability. I am just doing my job as an editor. You do yours and give a proper source. Remove the other sources too. They mean nothing.WikipÉire ♣ 19:13, 7 May 2008 (UTC)