User talk:Rsloch

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[edit] Australian Wikipedians Noticeboard

Hello Rsloch. I think you're Australian, so come on down here to keep up to date with the Australian related stuff on wikipedia. Thanks.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 02:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British, Company, Europeans, Mughals

Hi Rsloch. I, as you can probably see :-), disagree with your wholesale changes of Company to British, etc. etc. Since the Company was British, and derived its authority to govern India from various acts of the British parliament, I think it can safely be characterized as being British. Similarly, substituting Europeans for British is not correct for two reasons: First, the rebellion was solely directed at the British; Second, the term Europeans is often colloquially used in exclusion of the British. Using Europeans would be definitely very odd. Finally, the Mughal empire was more than 350 years old, had inter-married extensively, and had not remaining ties with Central Asia or Afghanistan. If, at the time of the rebellion, they could be called foreigners, then almost all of us Americans, Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians, Australians, etc. are even more 'foreign' today than the Mughals were during the time of the rebellion! If you feel that at specific places 'Company' is better than British, then that is a different thing, but a wholesale change is not correct. Thanks!--Swans and ducks (talk) 14:44, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Let's put it like this. To me it's quite clear that, at least at the time of the rebellion, the Mughals were almost wholly Indian in nature. About the rest, the British/Company and British/European, I agree that there is less clarity. If you want to make your changes without the Mughal as foreigner reference, go ahead and we'll see what happens with others. Thanks for your response and for not making the edits without discussion! --Swans and ducks (talk) 17:08, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Indian Rebellion of 1857

User:124.124.0.1 Reverts.

I think we were reverting the mentioned user edits at the same time, and i ended up actually reverting yours. I have amended this, and apologies for the error.--Rockybiggs (talk) 10:31, 12 June 2008 (UTC)