User talk:Rob1bureau

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Contents 1 Good add to the US Special Forces page 2 French units 3 Re: French units whose names are in French 4 I have made people in the discussion of the page about the Battle of Mogadishu (1993)that you vandalized my edits that were giving the wiki story about the battle some long overdue balance and told for the first time part of the Somali story???

[edit] Good add to the US Special Forces page

My compliments. FYI, there have been a lot of anti-military people making changes on US military pages. If someone (especially someone without a user name) makes a change, but doesn't justify it, feel free to revert it, mark it as a revert and tell them to put it on the talk page. BTW your English is fine (heck, upgrade yourself to an en-3). BQZip01 15:36, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

As I stated before, you really should attempt a dialogue with someone before repeatedly reverting their changes (either on their user talk page or the talk page of the article.

I didn't see anything warranting a tag of vandalism there. Perhaps some misguided edits, but nothing falling under WP:Vandalism. Right now, most of that page is completely unreferenced (at least with inline citations). It would be EXTREMELY useful to add references for these and expand up on the subject. This would give future vandals a far more difficult time adding frivolous fluff ("I can add what I want. Nothing is referenced on this page anyway" versus "Well I'd like to add XYZ, but other edits are being deleted because they are unreferenced, so maybe I'll just pass.").

Additionally, getting someone blocked for vandalism is not all that difficult, but you have to warn them appropriately and then report it. To simplify typing and to use something that isn't TOO offensive, I recommend placing one of the warning tags on their talk page. If that doesn't work, report them to the appropriate noticeboard.

Have a good night/day! — BQZip01 — ^talk 03:30, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] French units

I will move the 1er Régiment Parachutiste d'Infanterie de Marine back to its english name because this happens to be the english wikipedia. See the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history guidlines: Naming conventions: Military units and formations. Carl Logan 17:40, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't know, I have just tried to follow that guidline when I have created articles, those you mention aren't my work. The best alternative maybe to ask the Lead Coordinator of WikiProject Military history, Kirill Lokshin. Carl Logan 17:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: French units whose names are in French

Unless there's some unusual reason to make an exception (i.e. the French names are always used unchanged in English-language literature), then they should indeed be translated. (The French name should, of course, be given prominently in the article text, e.g. "Research, Assistance, Intervention, Deterrence (French: Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion)". Kirill Lokshin 13:01, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I have made people in the discussion of the page about the Battle of Mogadishu (1993)that you vandalized my edits that were giving the wiki story about the battle some long overdue balance and told for the first time part of the Somali story???

I will keep restoring my work and make people aware in the discussion page of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu of John Wayne-types like you.