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Hello, pleased to see you find interest in my talk page. Leave me a message if you want to, but do considerate that I do not engage in POV debates on my talk page, but on the relevant talk pages of each article. The reason for that is simple: the debate is not between me and you, but concerns all eventual readers of the article. If you have a genuine question on some matter, especially one in which I am interested into, or some real news to point me out which I surely have missed, I'll be pleased by your message. Have a nice time, enjoy Wikipedia!

I Abdullah Geelah hence present you the Editor's Barnstar for editing sentences that may offend others and plus this is my first ever barnstar award to someone so your this is very special! Thanks Abdullah Geelah 15:18, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
I Abdullah Geelah hence present you the Editor's Barnstar for editing sentences that may offend others and plus this is my first ever barnstar award to someone so your this is very special! Thanks Abdullah Geelah 15:18, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar of Diligence

The Barnstar of Diligence
Thanks very much for your wonderfully comprehensive answer to my question. It is fantastic to see that you are willing to put that much time and effort into answering the most minor of queries. Congratulations. Jmac 20:42, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Welcome!

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[edit] About Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude

The Spanish death squad GAL was formed in 1983, when the PSOE party get the Spanish Government. So it was not posible to kill any one on behalf of the GAL in 1979, although it may be on behalf of the BVE, as both of them were the same: the Spanish secret services death squads

[edit] About Technocracy and Positivism

Tazmaniacs, Technocracy (the one in the article) is not related to Positivism, maybe the movements you are talking about are related to it, but not Technocracy Inc.
I didn't know about it before, but I have gotten confirmation of this from a Technocrat (i.e. an Official representative of Technocracy Inc.), and he has told me there is no Connection between the two.
Remember I told you to go ask the people at http://www.technocracy.ca/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=index about, well you didn't do that so I asked them and here is the response they gave me.
Written by Kolzene:
"Technocracy never had any relations with any European movements (although it did have communication with one I've discovered, but not this one) and it derived none of it's ideas from them, or anyone. Howard Scott has made it abundantly clear that Technocracy was created by him and the T.A., and if they got any ideas from anywhere, it was from Willard Gibbs, the chemist. Technocracy is not a philosophy, and hence has no relation whatsoever to Positivism, or any other "-ism" for that matter. It is a purely technological solution to a purely technological problem first encountered in North America, and hence designed originally for that area. It's basic concepts can be adapted to other areas with the same problem. This guy claims that "... is that they all support science & they all believe that there is no need for politicians as scientifics & engineers are sufficient to lead society." This is still politics, for it seeks to "lead society". Instead, Technocracy is merely a method of "managing machines" for the maximum benefit of society. These "scientists" of theirs may be "replacing" politicians, but only to become politicians themselves, regardless of their methodology. It is foolhardy to think that you can be scientific about subjective matters. Technocracy is not a philosophy because it does not "value" science above politics. It is simply a fact that is acknowledged that you need to use science to manage machines (and the rest of the material universe), whereas politics is only useful, on occasion, in the subjective realm of the human mind. These guys, and their movements, do not appear to make this very important distinction."
This is pretty clear cut, there is no Connection between the two and thus no Links can be made between them.
--Hibernian 22:27, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] p.m.

P.m. means pro memory (to be added). Electionworld = Wilfried (talk 14:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arbitration Request Filed

I have asked for abrbitration involving User:Intangible. See [here]. Please post any comments you desire to add. I think it makes much more sense for me to be the only other party at this stage, and and ask you for Comments only. You can consider other options later. Thanks for your support.--Cberlet 20:27, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Drieu La Rochelle

Tucker is a fierce and sophisticated critic of fascism and fascists, so I am dubious. Let me see if I can get a copy of the article.--Cberlet 15:08, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your note on my talk page

Thanks for your note on my talk page.

I posted the notice, because at that time I was under attack by 1652186. Luc Verhelst is my real name. If you google me, you'll quite fastly discover that I have (had) a web log, and I don't hide my political opinions. This is what 1652186 had done, and he used this information to undermine my position. For example, he created an article on me, because he was "of the opinion that third parties in our political discussions should be aware of professional backgrounds".

I tend to believe that if I ever get into heavy confrontational discussions again, my adversaries might very well take 165's course. Therefore, I've put it on my user page, so it can't pop up during discussions at inconvenient moments, obliging me to defend myself instead of the content I propose. This way, I can simply quote F. Mitterand : "Et alors ?". ;-) --LucVerhelst 15:24, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Intangible

Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Intangible. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Intangible/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Intangible/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, --Tony Sidaway 10:14, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Germany"

Please see Talk:Louis de Saint-Just#"Germany". Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 19:34, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mon update et mes excuses

Salut. Excuse-moi pour n'avoir plus repondu sur les requetes precedentes. Si je vois bien, le conflit sur les sacrileges n'en est pas si "brulant" que jadis. Merci beaucoup pour ton attention envers le vandalisme sur mon page: c'est la consequence de ce que j'ai contribue pendant le hiatus :)... j'ai ose parler contre l'extreme droite roumaine (une sorte de multi-task). Est-ce que tu sais ou je peut trouver une liste de consuls et d'ambassadeurs Francais dans les Principautes Danubiennes est la Roumanie? Tout ce que j'y trouve sont des notices fragmentaires. Dahn 17:51, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Merci. Le site de l'Annuaire n'a pas donne grande chose - juste un link pour l'Embassade en Roumanie, qui, pour des raisons obscures, ne liste que les derniers deux embassadeurs, et ne considere comme "histoire des relations" que des choses comme "le voivode x ait introduit le Francais dans les ecoles"... ben... tout en repetant que les relations entre la France et la Roumanie restent "privilegies" (avec nous en Irak, je le doute). Mais, encore, merci pour ca. Dahn 15:38, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Racial Policy of the Nazi's

I attached a note to your comment on the Racial policy of Nazi Germany talk page. Quite frankly the contention in question is of such a low intellectual status that it was probably best removed altogether, rather than relocated. White Guard 00:42, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Croix-de-Feu

Can you please check out the newer edits in that article? Beisde being misspelled, they look apologetic to me (I want to know whether it is proper to correct them or remove them altogether). Dahn 10:08, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Je garde la page en question et encore d'autres sur ma watchlist, mais je n'ai pas vraiment intervenu sur les articles en relation avec la France depuis longtemps maintenat (j'ai recu l'appel de ma patrie sur wikipedia :)). C'est dommage que tu n'est pas aussi present que jadis, mais compte sur moi pour les urgences - dans la mesure ou les articles-probleme sont deja sur ma liste (j'estime que la pluspart y en sont deja, mais n'esite pas a me signaller d'autres, comme tu l'ait fait pour la loi des sacrileges - meme si je n'ais pas ose intervenir de plus sur celle-ci, ne suivant pas la mediation avec beaucoup d'attention). Salut. Dahn 16:08, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Hey old friend, what do you think of this edit? Khoikhoi 09:15, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. :-) As for Dink, I think it's pretty much an established fact now that Ogün Samast was the one that shot him (and apparently just for personal reasons). Yasin Hayal incited Samast to do it (he gave him the gun as well). I don't think it's from tr:Hrant Dink Suikastı, but I could be wrong. Thanks for fixing it anyways. BTW, I created an article on İsgəndər Həmidov, so if there's anything that you feel needs to be added to it, by all means contribute. Au revoir, Khoikhoi 03:02, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your help to my new articles on Italian minor political figures and events. Bye and good work... (btw, can I ask your help in the poll to dirime this edit war at Castelseprio (see talk:Castelseprio)? I've stumbled in somebody with awful style layout, nad probably one of those guys getting stuck like children in their version of any article. ) --Attilios 09:39, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Avec mes excuses

Salut, Taz, et excuse moi por n'avoir pas repondu plus tot, mais j'ai ete plutot occupe dans des debats exasperantes (comme je l'ai dit a Attilios, ceux-ci m'ont donne moins de volonte pour prolonger mon temps sur wikipedia, car j'ai ete sujet a des allegations absurdes). Si tu a du temps, est-ce que tu peux jetter un coup d'oeil sur Talk:Vladimir Tismăneanu#Facts vs. fiction: the tags and the scandalous reasons behind them? (Peut-etre voir mes objections sur User talk:Attilios#Hi avant de consulter la page et l'article.) Je sais, l'article peut sembler obscure, mais je crois que c'est les POV-pushers ont profite de tout ca dans leur deraisonnable attaque sur moi, ma facon d'ecrire des articles, et la personne en cause (Vladimir Tismăneanu, le sujet de cet article).

Je crois que la plus bonne solution pour des cas comme Adler est de trouver une autre categorie pour la situation presente - des sous-categories comme celle-la n'ont pas d'equivalent pour autres partis et sont problematiques (une cat pour les morts ne saurait que encore plus problematique). La plus bonne solution pour des "Members of..." cats, at least dans une societes non-totalitaires, est, je crois, d'inclure tous ceux qui sont et qui ont ete des membres, et de simplement dupliquer avec des autres cats pour ceux qui ont entre un autre parti ou qui ont eu d'autres ideologies. Je sais, une cat pour "neo-conservateurs" est discutable, mais peut-etre que ces personnes ont un autre element en commun qui, etant transforme en categorie, pourrait faire la difference entre jadis et maintenant evidente pour touts et toutes.

Concernant ta liste sur l'OTAN: je vais ajouter la presence en Roumanie (en cas ou elle n'est pas encore ajoute), mais je ne sais pas ou trouver le link.

Oui, tu peut remercier les Roumains pour "Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty"... J'ai envie de m'excuser pour tout ca envers tous les Europeens. Il suffit de noter que le Parti de la Grande Roumanie n'aitait pas vraiment Eurosceptique l'anne derniere, mais qu'il est devenu pour faire un bel cadeau aux autres fachos...

Je m'excuse encore, et A +. Et une tres, tres bonne anne pour toi aussi. Dahn 20:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Pas de problème! Le temps court à des vitesses variables, ici sur internet... J'ai pas encore eu le temps de regarder sérieusement Tismaneanu, même si j'y ai jeté un coup d'oeil rapide... Nul besoin de t' "excuser" pour les agissements de l'extrême droite roumaine - ou sinon, il faudrait traiter tous les Américains de pro-Bush, ce qui heureusement n'est pas le cas! A + Tazmaniacs 18:41, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Abbé Pierre

Hi. I'd like to bring your attention to the following excerpt from the article:

'"In July 1942, two fleeing Jews asked him for help. Having discovered the persecution taking place, he immediately went to learn how to make false passports. Starting in August 1942, he guided Jewish people to Switzerland".

From what book or article did this quote come from? I added the [citation needed] tage because it is an uncited quotation. As you have removed the tag, can you please tell me what is the origin of this statement? Thank you. --SigPig |SEND - OVER 17:53, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MHP

Check out this. Is it true that most of the killings were of Kurds? Khoikhoi 23:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I assume it is, but haven't got the time just now to look up some serious ref for you. But I notice that a ref was already provided, and seemed rather scholarly. Cheers! Tazmaniacs 18:39, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi.. I modified "neofascist" to "ultra-nationalist" in your latest addition to PKK for the definition of MHP. It was a technical edit, since from a political sciences view there is not a concensus on what neofascist is, and this is accentuated more in the case of Turkey since its political tradition is not completely European and therefore the fact that it is not easy to categorize Turkish ideological movements into standard European ideological systems. MHP is generally referred to as u-n by mainstream media, or sometimes simply as nationalist (on a lesser scale), so I think ultra-nationalist is better. The word "Fascist" can create confusion. Feel free to contact me if you have any more questions. Cheers! Baristarim 08:56, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

By the way, something else that came to my mind: don't you think that addition (the long paragraph) be more useful in Casualties of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict? I know that there are a couple of articles that are forking each other, but I just thought maybe it would be more pertinent there.. Or maybe both, I don't know... Baristarim 08:56, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok no worries. I think that you are right, it might need to be in both articles. Currently there is a small problem with related articles in the sense that, even though they are legitimate titles, there is some content duplication (if not forking) going on between them. As for your proposed intro, I will have a look but it seems fine at first glance. Let's wait to see what others think. Cheers! Baristarim 09:14, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Algerian Civil War

I don't know if you've watchlisted it, but your False Flag edits to Algerian Civil War were completely reverted without warning by Armon. He tends to regard any suggestion of complicity or involvement by the Algerian security forces or France as conspiracy theories, and reverts them without warning (see the page history for ample illustration). He's also the person who inserted meaningless quotes from Robert Kaplan (US Army writer) about the massacres. Armon helped drive away Mustaafa, the person who wrote almost all the article and got it to featured status. He's been blocked many times for revert warring, so be prepared to fight a revert war, because in my experience he won't discuss his actions until after a few rounds of reverts and counter reverts. I'd like to participate in editing the article, but won't do it by myself because fighting such a tenditious editor is tedious and infuriating. He effectively owns some articles in this way. With the help of another editor I'd like to counteract that though... Mostlyharmless 20:08, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. One unrelated thing that might interest you if you don't already know of it is WP:Babel, where you can mark on your userpage that you're a speaker of other languages (including French obviously) Cheers. Mostlyharmless 04:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PKK

Hi Tazmaniacs!

Yes, indeed it was long time ago! Glad to see you still are around. I have left comment at the relevant talk page. Cheers Bertilvidet 16:22, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Torture during the Algerian War, was selected for DYK!

Updated DYK query On February 17, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Torture during the Algerian War, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 00:22, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I believe another user Carabinieri (talk · contribs) nominated your article for DYK because he thought you did a fine job on it. Keep up the good work, mate. =) Nishkid64 00:38, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm glad I could help.--Carabinieri 10:02, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Asylum passport &c.

1) Ah, the asylum passport thing should probably be removed, and is a result of conflicting sources I've read saying he actually held an Italian passport but wasn't a citizen (somehow?), held a "special passport", was a full Italian citizen (which seems unlikely), or held nothing at all and wasn't a citizen.

2) I removed the comment not because I disagreed with it but because I thought it wasn't invisible. I can check the edit history again, but I thought it was a mistaken insert that was visible in the normal body of the article. If I goofed on that one, I apologize. I wasn't trying to dodge your very legitimate question.

3) Looking back, I definitely and obviously did goof on the Seldon thing. It wasn't that I was confusing him with the Rome station chief, it was that when I originally did all my research for the article, I didn't see that he had been indicted yet. It was all talk about Seldon. Either that was a later development or I just missed it.

4) I removed the speculation because I thought the way it was written it read more as editorializing than anything else, particularly as it was totally uncited (like, unfortunately, a lot of the recent edits to the article). If, like, the foreign minister of Italy was quoted somewhere as saying "This is going to fuck our shit up", that should probably go in the article. Otherwise, it's iffy. And without a source, it's just editor POV.

But thanks for staying on top of the article. I spent all morning Saturday on it and I think I burned my brain out a little bit. Ford MF 03:55, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re:your edits

That's no problem, the idea of wikipedia is to constantly edit and improve :) the ref you removed did contain the info I cited last time I checked, but seeing as you have looked more recently I will take your word for it, cheers for the polite notice though, not many people do that :) SGGH 16:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

No worries, you are of course right, can't remember my reasons at the time I wrote the article (seems ages ago now) so can't form much of an opinion, other than that you are right with the source. Doesn't impact too badly on the article anyway, thanks again. SGGH 22:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

See Talk:Truth commission#Requested move. I have re-submitted your request because you did not follow steps 2 and 3 of the process as shown on WP:RM. --Philip Baird Shearer 11:54, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Macrohistorical battles tied to the existence of European civilisation

Thanks, for the heads up. I agree with you, so I've voted delete. If someone can convince me otherwise, I may reconsider. Khoikhoi 09:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maurice Papon

just wondering if you think your recent edit to the mentioned article is ok as regards verifiability, as surely it is your opinion that one factor is the 'most important'...? Jmac 19:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC) Ok, thanks for providing such a comprehensive answer to my query, always good to hear from experts in their fields! Jmac 20:34, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pallywood

Following the recent AfD discussion on Pallywood, I've made some changes to the article to address your concerns about original research. Please feel free to comment at Talk:Pallywood. -- ChrisO 11:04, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maybe , first asking if y read the book,then erase the written lines

Why did you erase the lines ?:

"A.Destabilization of european countries ?:("déstabilisation des Etats d'Europe Occidentale".) Some detectives,(belgian policemen),Balfroid,Bihay,Dussart made reports with mention of a possible destabilization of european countries. You may read this, in french,in a nice part of a report (written by Balfroid,Bihay,Dussart )on the first page of the book"L'enquête,20 ans de déstabilisation en Belgique",written by Hugo Gijsels. (...)

[edit] Mitrokhin Archive

We can't forget about the Mitrokhin Archive article, which is also being defaced, in my opinion. Abe Froman 22:43, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Race and intelligence

Thanks for the edits. It's nice to see someone new looking at this article! futurebird 23:35, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Craniometry

Thank you for all of the great work on this article. I often feel a little alone and it's nice to see that the world hasn't lost its mind and started believing in all of these things again. If you ever need any help, just give me a shout! futurebird 03:34, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] On Manouchian

Salut, Taz, et excuse-moi pour n'avoir repondu plus tot. I don't know if you noticed, but I was actually the original editor on the Manouchian article - translated it from fr:wiki. I am by no means an expert on these guys, and I was actually surprised that there was this much info available on Bancic (she is virtually anonymous in her native country - btw, a small monument erected in her memory in Bucharest was recently torn down, and there were several reactions that this was an improper gesture, one motivated by her being a communist and not by the fact that she died a heroic death; do you think its mention-worthy in the article?). Anyway, I also added the mention about the controversy (the part involving Mélinée Manouchian, which I could not however source). I did not know how much one could and should expand on this issue, so I left it to editors more familiar with the topic to decide about that, especially since most French references I found about related stuff did not look entirely reliable.

Interesting stuff on both racism and French far rightists. I will do my best to catch up with your work on the latter - though you are obviously more capable of expanding it then I am, not just because you're a local, but because craniometry consistently shows that French people are more intellectual than Romanians (see what I did there? ;)). I don't know if it qualifies for inclusion, but I think I remember that A. D. Xenopol authored a booklet on "race and intelligence" of much the same quality as other "theorists"; if you think that the articles will ever get that detailed, I'll see if I can pick up some stuff about that, though it is bound to have been kept in obscurity (since you do such a good job in those articles, and have obviously structured the content, I think the best way to do so is if I furnish you information and references on these things as I bump into them, and you include them in the articles as you want it, went and where you wanted). Unfortunately, for now I'm caught up in Romanian and related topics (hey, check out my work on Christian Rakovsky), so I will mostly watch from the side - it is very cool when serendipity makes us meet halfway, like in Bancic's case. Boogie down, Taz, and keep up the good work. A bientot. Dahn 14:42, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Salut encore et, s'il te plait, excuse moi pour le delai. Je ne voudrais pas sembler meprisant sur la question du racisme: c'est vraiment interessante, mais je crains n'avoir que des conaissances superficieles sur la question du fond, et quelques-unes sur des details a part.
Tu fais une observation interessante sur Xenopol. J'avais plutot pense a ses activites concernant le racisme typique (plus que etre anti-semite, le gars ait ecrit, si je me souviens bien, un "traite" sur les races - avec toutes les cliches de circonstance). Le consensus sur son "anti-alcoolisme" est qu'il a uitilse un prejuge sur le Juifs roumains, qui (puis ce que il leur etait interdit d'obtenir emploi dans la plupart des profession) aurait accapare le commerce des boissons dans la campagne. (Des recherches plus recentes infirment l'idee-meme: on a conclu que le nombre de Juifs travaillant comme debitants de boissons etait en fait insignifiant.) Xenopol croiait que "les Juifs veulait tourner les purs paysans en des accros blablabla". Mais je ne sais pas si quelqu'un a examine la connection supplementaire avec les tendences idiotes de son temps (voir Zola, absynthe, etc): ca devrait ajouter de contexte pour telles fantaisies...
Sur la question des logements nicois, je ne sais pas que dire. Si il me semble que L'Humanite ait une tendence a exagerer les choses (je pense toujours a ce qu'ils ont publie pendant la Revolution Roumaine) - d'alors, dans l'article, une residente dit que ca ne porte pas de consequence -, il est toujours troublant de voir que, pour toutes les coupes de cheveux sur les roues en '44, une France conserve toujours le Travail-Famille-Patrie. Il y a des fois que je me demande si la culture du moment ne saurait pas devenue plus permissive que jadis envers ces "valeures" - pendant que la majorite tourne indifferente, la minorite peut convincre en reciclant l'idiotisme des anees '30 sous forme populiste et sans les symboles associes.
OMG, ces deux Gladio-related articles sont vraiment penibles! Je vais les visiter bientot, Taz - just que a ce moment, si tu a qulque chose d'urgent sur eux (une dispute) a me signaller, tu peut compter pour moi pour donner mon avis sur la page de discussion. Sur Pacepa: il n'est pas vraiment "unreliable", mais on doit signaller que celles sont ces oppinions, pas des certitudes. Je crois aussi qu'il ne doit pas etre une source principale, mais rester un "cette personne ajoute que...". Comme j'habite ici, je dois dire que, si Pacepa est vraiment douteux a bien des fois, un grand nombre de ses detracteurs Roumains sont des cretins (comme le General Pleşiţă, un des grands tortionnaires du regime communiste, qui est mediatise par des groups louches de la ex-Securitate et de l'extreme droite pour defendre l'image de Ceauşescu comme "un leader plus national que communiste" - une union qui peut sembler paradoxale, mais qui suit deja une tradition).
Je crois avoir entendu ce que tu a volut dire avec le WikiCharts link, mais, au moment que je l'ait clique, 383 etait quelqu chose sur les X-Men (maintenant, quand j'ecrit ca, c'est "Academy Award for Best Picture").
Je vais aussi suivre ton conseil et ajouter l'info sur Olga, ici et sur la page de frwiki. Merci encore. Dahn 00:41, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
J'ai oublie de te demander: est-ce que tu sais a peut-etre que fait reference le mot "Democatholique"? I cannot seem to find any reference to it, but I bumped into it in a Romanian text I was quoting in the article on Gândirea, and it seemed to refer to something specific, and was probably taken word-by-word from something obscure in French. I tentatively linked the term to Christian Democracy, but I'm not 100% sure if it was meant like that. Thanks. Boogie down. Dahn 17:44, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you.

  • Thank you for your useful contributions to Landmark Education. Smee 22:34, 12 March 2007 (UTC).
    • You may also want to take a look at related articles:

Yours, Smee 03:28, 14 March 2007 (UTC).

  • You may be interested to know that the information you had added to the intro has now been removed, again. Smee 10:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Thank you (II)

WikiThanks

Thanks for your contributions on surveillance, especially for creating Category:Surveillance scandals. -- Petri Krohn 02:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] You RAOK

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For your civility and goodwill, and 12,000 + good faith contributions to the project. Thank you. Smee 17:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Feel free to post to your user page and/or leave on the talk page as you see fit. Yours, Smee 17:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] DYK

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[edit] DYK

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[edit] Paladin group

hi! thanks to have translated the french Paladin group page. I've written the most of it. I am very interested by this period (60's, 70's) and cold war, mercenary and so on... Do you know one of these men called Jean Kay? He has worked for Paladin Group. I am looking for most information about him. Thanks. (French site:Vegetarien75) Vegetarian75 08:22, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Italian school

Thanks for your note. I published the original review from which the section is taken - see the "Holy Trinity" link in the article. --Ian Pitchford 15:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

The references with page number only would be to Gibson and you would need to check the source there. Ferri's remark isn't from his Criminal Sociology - at least not the versions available online. --Ian Pitchford 16:51, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Americas Watch

Unfortunately, I don't know a thing about Americas Watch.

Eclectek C T 19:39, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] On your path

Salut. Je tiens a m'excuser pour le delai: j'ai ete bombarde par des multiples problemes ici, et j'ai du m'occuper de tant de choses en "real life"; de plus, l'ordinnateur de chez moi est foutu. Merci pour to edit sur Constantin Mille: je ne suis pourtant pas sur si ca restarait comme ca (don't get me wrong, c'est ce que j'aurais dis moi-meme sur l'affaire Dreyfus, mais peut-etre ca touch sur le NPOV - je vais pas le changer, mais je crois que quelq'un va le faire...).

D'abord, sur Culianu. My point was actually in reference to something in the source: there was actually speculation that he was killed by the Securitate and their neofascist collaborators abroad. Given our common interests, I also thought this would interest you in the long run. Unfortunately, these issues still pop up in contemporary Romania... as you say, it is a sad world we're heading for.

I do not know that much about Zetkin; she was probably a reasonable woman, and I dig the holiday, but I am not that far left myself. Well, I did know about the international day and its source (if that is what you were pointing at), but that is only becaue they publicized it in communist times.

Truly great work with those articles, Taz. I'm still mainly exploring stuff relating to the 1910s in Romania (see Take Ionescu), so I can only applaud from the side. Btw, your explanations on the "democatholic" issue are very helpful; just to explore all possibilities, is there a slight chance that they could also refer to the ideological bridging attempted by Georges Valois?

On "fichage", the only term I can think of is "filing" (as in "keeping files on"). I am not however sure of legal terminologies, and of how this should relate to other uses of the same term.

Come to think of it: who's it going to be for you - Segolene? (I allow myself to bet you're not going to vote for Sarkozy...) Dahn 16:25, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Environmental criminology

I haven't read up on the subject and only have impressions from what's been going on locally, so I can't recommend any must-reads on the topic. A local website (in Vancouver) that looks like a good place to start is the Design Centre for CPTED, although some of the site is still under construction. A google search for "environmental design" seems to turn up quite a few useful hits. One issue that came up that I found interesting was that prostitutes objected to installing brighter lighting in red-light areas because it was less flattering and therefore bad for business.

On a somewhat related note, I saw your Polizeiwissenschaft article. At some point I'd like to see some of these ideas pulled together, perhaps in a "history of police" article, or maybe police power, which is currently a bit of a hodgepodge. I'd also like to separate "law enforcement" out of the police article (i.e., specifics about police agencies), and tease some more of the conceptual stuff. A good read on the subject is Mark Neocleous, The Fabrication of Social Order: A Critical Theory of Police Power. He goes through the history of the "police" concept, particularly in the transition from feudalism to capitalism, and argues that the earlier conceptions of police are more germane than conventional wisdom suggests. Anyway, hope this helps. bobanny 17:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I'll check out that interview when I get a chance. I know very little about Israel, but have been curious how domestic security consciousness has shaped it's development. (Also, coming from Canada, I believe the RCMP helped establish policing there, but I only saw that mentioned in passing somewhere). Thinking about this stuff is reminding me of a "modern city" history grad course I took. 2 good books from that were Patrick Joyce, The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City (basically governmentality and urban planning), and David Harvey, Paris: The Capital of Modernity (more of a marxist historical-geography, deals a lot with Baron Haussmann's work). So much to read, so little time. bobanny 18:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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[edit] Wikipedia:Words to avoid

Please explain this reversion. -- nae'blis 18:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] French presidential election, 2007

You repeatedly insert POV statements into the article. You're fully entitled to use Internet to attack M. Sarkozy if you wish to, but please don't use Wikipedia to do so. Claiming that his policies are repressive is nothing but POV, and it doesn't get more credible by inserting sources that don't support the claim, as you have done. Do you speak French? If yes, please read through the two articles yourself. If no, then why use sources you don't understand. And even if you would have an article claiming M. Sarkozy is repressive, that's not enough to claim that he really is - just that one journalist thinks so. There are French newspapers ranging from the far-right to the far-left, and you can easily find all sorts of statements on the presidential candidates. If you want to claim that one newspaper find Sarkozy's policies repressive, write that and insert the source. But stop writing that his policies are repressive as if it was a commonly accepted fact. It's not, and your making yourself guilty of POV. Dusis 19:01, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Rettig Report

I do not understand why you reverted all the changes I had made to the article. It is wrong to state that the 2.279 victims of political violence in Chile during the Pinochet regime "dissapeared". The Rettig Report says that less than a 1.000 (of those 2.279) actually "dissapeared". The rest were killed in combat either by the intelligence services of by the leftists terrorists and their bodies are accounted for. Please clarify whether you understand this and why you are unwilling to allow for the correction of this misleading statement. Veritatis splendor • 19:33, 1 May 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Love them sources :)

If you sourced that statement, then my deletion did a lot of good. I'm more than happy you found a book to support that claim. In the future, you should add citations as soon as possible so situations like this can be avoided.

All in all, I find the article on Ante Gotovina remarkably well written. -- Xompanthy 16:17, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your Hebe de Bonafini edit

hey, i just wanted to say that i don't think it was appropriate to delete the part of her article that cited her citation about 9/11. i thought it was really malicious and biased to do that, so i put it there again, since i think it's an important thing to about her biography, especially compared to her much less polemic citation about the pope, that you didn't delete. (Rafaelm 20:56, 9 May 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Racism by country

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[edit] Frank Songo'o

I didn't edit this page as you seem to claim, I realise IP addresses do change and this is obviously what happened but as the editor is clearly changing his IP address, whether intentionally or not, there is little point in making the warning. Also I realise this sort of warning could be avoided by making a wikipedia account but I don't want to as I see it as a waste of time. This is because i do not wish to regularly edit wikipedia pages or indeed ever edit them although I understand it to be some peoples sole 'hobby'.

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[edit] Operation Condor

A user deleted part of the artcle because of a copyright violation. If you follow the given link, you'll see that the text has ben copied form an external article, what is a copyright violation. If you wish, try re-writing the paragraph so it doesn't compromise the Wikipedia. Thanks, --Mariano(t/c) 16:40, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, I would have also deleted it, since I didn't have time to re-write it. After all, the guy did say why it was being deleted. Good wiking, --Mariano(t/c) 17:16, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Nazism

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[edit] reverts

Why don't you seek administrator help. That is probably far more efficient then these reverts you are making now to my edits! Intangible2.0 19:02, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I do not recall removing any sources. I did replace one in Operation Condor, by an academic source from someone who had actually studied the terror archives. See WP:GTL for reasons why I purged some of the See Also sections. Intangible2.0 19:11, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Gladio. For example, Abdullah Çatlı, which states that he has been seen with Chiaie. Do you know where this information comes from? It comes from Francesco Pazienza (whose article I just created). Interestingly, reports also say that it was Oral Çelik who met Chiaie (and not Çatlı). I don't mind saying that in the article. The Monde Diplomatique article is opinion, and should be treated as such (see talk page). Intangible2.0 19:34, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Freedom of press by country

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[edit] Foreign relations of Vichy France

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[edit] Office of Public Safety

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[edit] Proposal

Hi, Taz. Just noticed your subcategorizing for the PS. I allowed myself to do some corrections: I removed the "socialists" cat from the party at and returned it to the members cat, and moved chairmen as a subcat of members - may I ask you that, when you add people to the chairmen cat, you remove them from the members cat (since, through the cat tree, they're already in there)? Aslo: shouldn't the name be "chairpersons"? Dahn 15:43, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Taz, I still think they shouldn't be in both: "members" is just one level apart, and all chairmen are, by definition, members (plus, the cat stands out in the members cat, whereas individual members do not).
Oh, lucky you, you got rain over there :). We're roasting at around 40%, and I'm hating it. But I have a feeling rains are coming our way, so, yes, I'll do my best to follow your advice. Thank you for your kind words. I have to say: sorry for not catching up on stuff, but it seems I have retreated to an ivory tower where I mainly sort out Romanian-themed articles. Nonetheless, I have to ask: do your wide-ranging interests perchance include French symbolists? Articles in that series leave a lot to be desired, and I even pondered staring a "wiki project symbolism" (mainly because I was expanding articles on some Romanian symbolists, and am still considering an article on "Symbolism in Romania"). Let me know your thoughts. Dahn 16:02, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Luis Posada Carriles

I have noticed that you removed my POV tag from the word "terrorist" in this article. While you might feel the word terrorist is appropriate (even though WP:Words to avoid says not to use it), are you claiming that there is no dispute over its use? Because I dispute it and so do some other people. What the tag means is that some people disagree over whether it belongs there. Perhaps you are unaware that the tag means this, it does not mean that the word is right or wrong, it means that there is a disagreement over it. Since there is in fact a disagreement over it, can we agree that it is ok for me to put it back? Thank you. Fanra 03:38, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ethiopiques

Hi, are you saying that the Ethiopiques series existed in the 1970s, or are you referring to the original vinyl records (e.g. on Amha Records, Phillips etc.)? I've personally never heard that Ethiopiques existed in the 1970s (which doesn't mean it isn't true). The re-issues are mentioned in the following paragraph (in "Overview" section). Note that not all of the Ethiopiques CDs are re-issues, some are new recordings. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:46, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree, we're working toward the same end. But the way it was worded, made it seem as though they were originally called Ethiopiques Volume Two etc. back in the 1970s. This isn't the case, and I don't think it's what you meant. I think I had the text divided into sections because of the placement of the table of contents. Instead, I've removed the ToC, and moved some text from the second paragraph to the first. See what you think about it. I think ultimately it would be nice to have separate articles about the individual releases, where we can go into more detail about the original Ethiopian releases etc. As for my favorite, lately I've been listening to 15 (Jump to Addis) a lot. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:55, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Révolution nationale

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[edit] Re: Image:National Front.jpg

I'll restore the image if you can toss me a use rationale to include in the image description page, as required by our non-free content rules - or give me a reason why the image is public domain. Or you can reupload it yourself as long as you provide the rationale. (ESkog)(Talk) 15:32, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Not a problem. Thanks for your civility. (ESkog)(Talk) 15:42, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Progressive Era

I agree that most of Fourth Party System should be merged; and if possible, NPOV'd in the process. There is a new discussion as Talk:Progressive Era#Merger. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 16:39, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lebensuwertes

Agree completely. Perhaps "culminated" is a better term. ←Humus sapiens ну? 00:33, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bayrou fake centre-right

"bayrou center-left?" yes he is, how could you deny this? center right is "nouveau centre" part of the ump, bayrou's "modem" is center left even though he claims he is "central center" which doesn't makes sense, he just isn't. each french political observers agree on that. he argued he will not vote for the right wing candidate and dealt with the left wing socialist candidate, from which side he's it? he is center left, there's no doubt about this, he led an anti-sarkozy campaign and sided the socialists. french center right in its traditional way is nouveau centre, modem is an ufo. vice french president, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, UDF founder (the UDF party was named after the title of his book) and leader sided sarkozy in the 2007 campaign not bayrou. bayrou is a fake and an arrivist, according to post-elections polls most of his voters supported socialist royal against right wing candidate sarkozy, bayrou is an unusual centre right candidate... Paris By Night 10:37, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Marcel Detienne

Hi. I noticed you moved Marcel Detienne to Marcel Détienne. I know that the French version of Wikipedia lists him under this name. However, I own many of his works, and all list the author as Detienne rather than Détienne. Furthermore, he is referred to as Detienne at his web page at Johns Hopkins, here. Perhaps you have specific knowledge that his name nevertheless really is Détienne. If not, however, then I think it would be preferable to move the article back to Marcel Detienne, as this conforms to the usage he himself seems to prefer. Thanks. BCST2001 13:09, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Belgian stay-behind network

Thanks for the encouragement. I'll try to stick to Dutch&French sources & the parliamentary report to ensure extra corroboration/sources. Material you think is relevant for the Belgian branch is always welcome... cheers, maarten 01:01, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I was looking for a way to indicate that, thanks. maarten 20:10, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Jaulin

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[edit] 3RR

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Deleting whole paragraphs without discussions is no way to proceed on Wikipedia. Please discuss your concerns on the relevant talk page. Tazmaniacs 16:14, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
How lucky you are that an anonymous user just made edits to which you would surely agree! Tazmaniacs 16:23, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HIV trial in Libya

I deleted the text you added to this article becuase the first reference (Molly Moore in the Washington Post) did not support the statement made. Some folks feel that there was a huge payout for the nurses, several knowledgable ones are quoted as saying that they were nothing more than a grain of sand in the eye of much larger deals, (my own knowledge is that far, far more massive events were in play), the answer may be in the middle, but for now we have to go with the knowledgeable quotes. Feel free to re-add with a more pertinent cite. Simesa 23:04, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Alright, you want to persist? I put my reply in the article's discussion page, and I'll be happy to file an RfC. Simesa 01:57, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merger proposed: Liberty Law → Young Plan

It has been proposed to merge the content of Liberty Law into Young Plan. Since you have previously edited one of these articles, I thought you might be interested. You're welcome to participate in the discussion if you like. --B. Wolterding 14:38, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The gauche and me being gauche :)

HI, Taz! I beg your pardon over my extreme tardiness, as well as for not keeping in touch for so long. Since we last talked, your country elected Putin a new drinking companion (in fact, since we last talked, jokes about Sarkozy and Putin have grown stale, but I just had to say it). :D

I'm afraid you caught me at a bad time: I am in the middle of another project, and I kept making promises I could not keep (it is a habit I tried in vain to control). But the article you mention is indeed fascinating, and I really want to contribute to it in the future. I'm afraid I have obvious limitations in dealing with such a wide subject, but I'll do my best to fill in all gaps I notice. About the foreign connections: that is indeed something I have looked into (remember Constantin Mille?), but are you sure such details could be expanded upon in there? And to what measure? I submit myself to you in this respect, and, as the resident expert, you'll be in a position to review all my suggestions and, if you should see it fit, trim and rephrase all my additions.

In any case, I have barely managed to look over the text, and I have a few suggestions. First of all, it needs some copyediting, but nothing urgent. You may also want to consider slowly but surely replacing linking mentions of "left-wing", "the Left" etc in France-related articles to the new one - since I'm guessing that is where the info points/should point. There are a lot of such articles (I remember that, when I was editing more stuff related to France, I was always puzzled about "where to link" the concept - there were so many mentions of it, and such little material available! - so I generally opted for [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]]; this was prolly not a bad idea at the time, but it is outdated). This is just a suggestion, which could be applied in the more developed articles - the stubs and lesser articles are bound to remain chaotic until developed further, so there is no urgency with them.

It seems that, per where this project is going, the article will have to cite sources. So that may be something to look into, and I'm willing to help with what I can.

Cheers, and à bientôt! Dahn 00:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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Hi Tazmaniacs. This article is really interesting, especially with the unbelievable hook. This was kindly nominated by Carbinieri. Do feel free to self nominate in future. Happy editing, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:35, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On September 11, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Eugenio Berríos, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks again Taz, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:12, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Dictator Novel

Updated DYK query On 26 August 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Dictator Novel, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 13:53, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of military dictatorships in Latin America films

Hi there,

Could you please go to Talk:List of military dictatorships in Latin America films? Thanks! Evenfiel 03:02, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Could you go to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 September 1 and answer to my topic? Thanks!Evenfiel 23:39, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Strong state?

Hi, regarding your edit to Anarchism and nationalism, I actually think you got it right on an earlier edit. The vague "right-wing" and "left-wing" labels have never struck me as very meaningful. We ought to be saying something more, and "strong state" fits the context if you look at how the next sentence follows on. Actually the shift away from liberal nationalism in the later 19th century was precisely towards a strong state model a la Bismarck. You objected that "far-right" nationalists can be anti-state and subversive, and I agree with you, but doesn't that generally mean that in fact they are opposing what they see as a weak, liberal state in the cause of setting up an even stronger one? I'm not trying to be a pain in the ass here, just aiming for the most accurate descriptions we can manage and hoping I don't get myself a reputation for nit-picking. Gnostrat 17:30, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I just thought to interject, in light of your comments above and the fact that I could not find the pertinent comments (if any) on the talk page of the article you have linked to, regarding the possibility of concieving of a Far Right capable of an anti-statist or 'subversive' line without favouring a stronger state form (Fascism as traditionally concieved). Whether directly relevent to the article in question or not, certainly one could argue that sections of the modern right appear to exhibit just this quality, with good examples being offered by sections of the survivalist right in The United States; another might be that of the Unabomber, a case where the term 'Anarchist' actually has (most would agree inappropriately) been applied. LSmok3 (talk) 22:35, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

A better place to continue this discussion would be on the article's talk page where everyone can participate. Tazmaniacs would no doubt prefer this; I hadn't noticed the policy statement at the top of the page when I made my earlier posting. So I hope neither of you will object if I copy this section over to Talk: Anarchism and nationalism and we can carry on there. Gnostrat (talk) 19:48, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits to Colony Collapse Disorder

Hi. Some of the edits you've made to Colony Collapse Disorder have been fine, but there is what appears to be an over-reliance on secondary sources, rather than primary literature. You seem to have a fondness for that one popular press article in Le Monde, in particular. Rewriting the entire article on the basis of some popular press pieces that do not agree with much of what the scientific community is saying is not really appropriate - especially when some of the statements you claim to be quoting are absolute nonsense, like the statement about "80% of flowering plants" being pollinated by honey bees. 80% of flowering plants are pollinated by BEES - 12,000 other species of bees - and NOT by Apis mellifera. 35% of the human diet is NOT from honey bee-pollinated crops, though it might be true if one considers all insect-pollinated crops (including non-bee pollinators) - if you wish to make such a dramatic statement, then, as part of responsible editing, you should try to find a SCIENTIFIC citation to support the claim. I strongly suspect this reporter failed to understand that there is more than one crop-pollinating insect in the world. Also, the insertion, throughout the text, of references to "Gaucho" are totally inappropriate given that no one has demonstarted that imidacloprid has anything at all to do with CCD, or even confirmed that CCD has occurred anywhere other than the US so far. There is a very big difference between beekeepers reporting dead colonies, and CONFIRMING that the colonies have died in a manner consistent with CCD. Popular press reporters are not authoritative or reliable sources on this matter, and it is one thing to report what they are saying, and another to structure the article as if it were accepted as fact. I would politely request that if you cannot find peer-reviewed scientific works to back these edits up, that you not place such emphasis on these secondary sources, which are ALSO potentially biased (the French beekeeping community has an open bias against imidacloprid, and against GMO) - if you feel it is necessary to include biased sources, then proper editorial policy is to explain the potential bias in order to establish proper context for the statements. Dyanega 18:09, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Atocha Massacre

Sorry Tazmaniacs, I was removing any Category:Spain I Term, Category: Spain II Term, ... and similar that the new user created. That must have been added at the same time and it is indeed relevant. Thanks, --Asteriontalk 07:36, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dlimi

Hi Tazmaniacs. That was a very good job. -- FayssalF - Wiki me up® 17:11, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Don't hesitate in calling me up if you need help somewhere... I don't know if you've also edited the Algerian Civil War entry, and I haven't taken the trouble to work much on this one, but I know that it also needs a lot of work, and that one editor was especially tiresome... It would also be nice to work out the Years of lead (Morocco) article, along with Human rights in Morocco — by the way, you wouldn't have anything concerning Charles Pasqua's relations with Hassan II?... Salam'alek! Tazmaniacs 18:23, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
The Andalusian classical music and related articles also need work... Tazmaniacs 18:25, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi again TZMC. Thanks.
Algerian Civil War. I don't remember editing it before but i am using it at Portal:Military history of Africa as it is a FA-Class. Well, if you check the diff between the FA version of Sept. 26, 2005 and the latest edition, you'll see that it got even better (more details added) though i believe it needs a revision.
Years of Lead and HR in Morocco. I worked at HR article and i believe it is not enough. We can work on it if you want. The good thing about the article is that it is at least well organized. Years of lead definitely needs more work and i'd be ready anytime.
Pascua-Hassan II. Well, many Moroccans have heard about H II's alleged implications in narcotics but no further details about these allegations are known. I personally heard about Pasqua's multiple scandals (narcotics included) but never heard about any business connection between the 2 men. I've just googled it now and found nothing interesting except these two links. -- FayssalF - Wiki me up® 20:35, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] French Resistance

You made a little mistake on that revert : [1] :D I removed the comment !

NicDumZ ~ 19:28, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wilhelm Stieber was a traitor ?

Hi, In your article of Wilhelm Stieber, you claim that "he worked in reality for the Tsar's Ochrana." I wonder if you could tell me on what grounds you base this. In most of the spy books I've read which include Stieber there is no mention of him being a traitor to Germany. Thanks.--Marktreut 17:30, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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[edit] Blocked

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Contacting the blocking admin. -- lucasbfr talk 21:00, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Precisions: I made three reverts ([2], [3],[4], and did thus not violate 3RR. Following these three reverts of unsourced and most surprising information, I just added a "verify citation" when User:Puark made a Google Book search to support his claims [5]. User:Rama then thought that Puark's source did not assert what he was saying, and reverted him, to which Puark immediately replicated by another revert. It should be underlined that both Rama and I are here since a while, and it is easy to understand our surprise when a new user (User:Puark), out of nowhere, start claiming National Front members were Resistants. Finally, after having waited for some time for the matter to calm down, and following Puark insisting edits, I made some fact-checking, and cleaned-up both pages edited by Puark - Roger Holeindre and Jean-Marie Le Pen (see [6], [7], [8] (my reverts), Rama's revert, and finally my edit after having well checked the source- taking especially into account the sources he cited for his edits. I think the edit-war is resolved now in any cases. Thanks Tazmaniacs 20:54, 14 September 2007 (UTC)}}
PS: Note that Puark only started providing sources for the assertion that Holeindre was a former Resistant after having reverted both Rama and us, and nowhere talked with us. I put a 3RR template to warn him, but he did not heed anything and, instead of checking in a library the source (what I did), he just made a Google search... Tazmaniacs 21:06, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

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Request reason: "I made three reverts, and did thus not violated 3RR. Furthermore, User:Rama has also reverted User:Puark who, out of nowhere, start claiming National Front members were Resistants. Finally, following Puark insisting edits, I made some fact-checking, and cleaned-up both pages edited by Puark - Roger Holeindre and Jean-Marie Le Pen - taking especially into account the sources he cited for his edits. I think the edit-war is resolved now in any cases. Thanks Tazmaniacs 20:54, 14 September 2007 (UTC)"

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[edit] International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam

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-- Both articles were kindly nominated for inclusion by User:PFHLai. :) GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 13:43, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents Discussion

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[edit] Salvador Allende

Have you had a look at the external links section? There are links to propagandistic essays and WP:OR "analysis", ads for books, but precious little that actually adds much to the understanding of the topic and a good deal that runs afoul of WP:EL. --Rrburke(talk) 14:13, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re your question at Jayjg's talk page

Re the question you posted at User talk:Jayjg#Verifying source (Yad Vashem): I would just like to mention that User:Jayjg has not edited Wikipedia since Aug. 4. --Coppertwig 16:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I replied at my talk page. --Coppertwig 21:32, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings!

Nice to hear from you, Tazmaniacs! I appreciate your curiousity. You look like a very active Wikipedian. I will gladly review the Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial and universal jurisdiction entries. I don't know how much expertise I can offer, though.

Peace! Walshga 01:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Thanks

Thanks Tazzie, it's always refreshing to be shaken out of one's intellectual complacencies. Il Manifesto did have one, Giuliana Sgrena, but after her kidnapping, and the tragic killing of the heroic agent who twice saved her life, Calipari, by an American soldier, the editorial board decided to cancel their policy. Newspapers use Iraqi stringers mainly. Regards Nishidani 06:38, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
G'day again,Tassie. Thanks for the links. I'll keep an eye on her work. I wouldn't be too hard on the embassies. Kidnapping reporters was a profitable business. The tragic thing is, we knew everything that would happen long before the war itself. Most of the disaster was forseeable down to small details. Reporters can give us scant details. I think they function best there in correcting the endless disinformatsia put out by those who conduct the war. I.e. they do best in reporting to us on how what we read in the mainstream press is calibrated for local political effect, and has little to do with Iraq or elsewhere. Finest regards, Nishidani 13:17, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Negri Page

Hi there. I put a note on my own talk page in response to you, hoping you might read it. It just contains a few notes regarding the doc in question, plus a query or two. Read it when you have time, and thanks (again) for your help. LSmok3 20:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dictators

In addition to that note on Dictators, I added this afternoon this, if you still have resisters to the obvious:-

p.s.Niall Ferguson,Lawrence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institute, defines the following as 'fascist dictators', Franco, Hitler, Horthy, Mussolini, Ante Pavelic, Josef Tiso (under category Catholics) The War of the World:History's Age of Hatred2006 p.245 Other dictators in the book are royal ones, Ahmed Bey Zogu, King Alexander of Bulgaria, the Regent Paul in in Yugoslavia. Then General Ioannis Metaxas in Greece, King Carol of Romania, Antanas Smetona in Lithuania, Konstantin Pa"ts in Estonia, Prime Minister Karlis Ulmanis in Latvia, Pilsudski in Poland, Primo de Rivera, Antonio de Oliviera Salazar in Portugal, Dollfuss briefly and Schuschnigg in Austria (implicitly) ibid. pp.229-230 Best Regards Nishidani 13:19, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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[edit] Gelli and Gladio

Thanks for significantly re-editing the Licio Gelli article. Excellent work, in particular the references. That was badly needed. However, I have some doubts about the alleged links between Gelli and Gladio. I made a slight change in the text, see Talk:Licio Gelli. - Mafia Expert 19:33, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Worker's struggle

On the worker's struggle talk page, you ensure that sources are easy to find to source the section you added. On the talk page I point some sentences that should be proved by a neutral source or removed. Regards OscarHippe 13:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Ivan Illich

Hello Tazmaniacs. I made a slight modification of your added reference to André Gorz, moving it to a new paragraph. Do you have the exact reference for the Gorz review of Tools for Conviviality? It would be useful to add it as a footnote.Redeyed Treefrog 10:04, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the additional reference, even though I was looking for something else. I'd still like to find the Gorz review of Tools for Conviviality (in either English or French), but I doubt that it is on-line. - Redeyed Treefrog 17:12, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] October 2007

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Eugenics. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Gscshoyru 22:31, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Both of you need to stop edit warring on all the articles you're warring on, now. No more edits. Just discuss until you deal with whatever you're arguing about, ok? Gscshoyru 23:16, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Scientific racism. Please be careful when editing pages and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. You can remove the stuff that isn't sourced -- but not the stuff that is, ok? And what you're doing is not respectable either, and just because he's temp-blocked doesn't really give you the right to undo what you were arguing about. I mean it does, but it's hardly honorable. Gscshoyru 16:38, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your templates treating me like a new-comer, but what I'm doing is hardly vandalism. It is a content dispute, and the fact that it is "sourced" does not mean that it is not original research. Tazmaniacs 18:58, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
I didn't call it vandalism. I called it removal of sourced content. And unless you can explain why the sources aren't good, you shouldn't remove the content. Gscshoyru 19:44, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible sock puppet

You should consider doing a check user on User:AtomsGive at Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser to see if this is a sock puppet of User:EliasAlucard. Personally, I'm surprised you don't get more support for your position. Primary sources, particularly problematic ones, aren't allowed. Why can't EliasAlucard find a proper secondary source for this item? Just a thought. SmallRepair 01:50, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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[edit] Affiche Rouge

Nice work rewriting the page! Your effort has given me the enthusiasm to copy-edit the translation and rewrite it for English speakers. Apollo 17:07, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copy edits

Thanks for the message. Writing on these race-related articles is always difficult because editors can easily read all sorts of hidden agendas into edits. I've tried to move the stuff in the Nordic article to a place where it flows better. On Max Muller in the Aryan race article, this is a more complex problem, because when he - and many other 19th C writers - use the word race it's often not clear when they mean some sort of biological entity and when they simply mean something like 'peoples' or 'ethnic groups'. I think MM clarified that he meant the latter as soon as he could. More than any other 19th C writer on this topic he is absolutely clear that linguistic lineage is not the same as biological group. Paul B 19:09, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

What you say about Virchow is interesting. I don't know much about the debates over craniometry at the time, apart from Sergi's rejection of the cephalic index. Do you know any useful literature on the subject? Paul B 19:13, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
I have access to Coon's 1939 version of the Races of Europe, though not to Ripley's original 1899 version - at least not until next month when I will next be visiting the British Library in London. I will look at it then. Paul B 20:40, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Genocide denial

See Talk:Genocide denial#Article for deletion You might like to put in your 2 pennies worth. --Philip Baird Shearer 22:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Could you please explain more fully?

Could you please explain more fully this removal of references?

For the last several years, up until recently, I was doing something counter to our references policies. I was removing links that went dead. Then in a discussion in WP:AN/I, or one of the other related fora about references, someone explained that it was counter to policy to remove links that went dead. I looked it up, and my reading of policy confirmed what the administrator wrote.

What I found was that WP:VER does not require that references have to be available online. I think this pertains to your exicision of these references. Of course if you havd other concerns about them -- beyond their unavailability online, that is a different matter.

Do you think they could have been moved to the "External links" section?

Cheers! Geo Swan 14:54, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your reply.

Good catch on Alexis Debat.

Cheers! Geo Swan 18:24, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reporters Without Borders

I've been following your additions to Reporters Without Borders, and they've been first class. It doesn't surprise me that RSF doesn't want this information out there, and considering that they're marketing themselves as a human rights group they're right to want to cover it all up.

Robert Menard's interview on France Culture is a step too far. I've included on the page the full translation of Menard's interview:

“ The Pakistani police kidnap families, listen to me, families of the kidnappers and torture these families of those kidnappers in order to obtain information.

They are going to obtain information. They will arrive too late to save Daniel. Do you know how his throat was cut and under what conditions…?

Where do we stop? Shall we accept this logic that consists of… since we could do it in some cases, ‘you kidnap, we kidnap; you mistreat, we mistreat; you torture, we torture …?

What justifies…? Perhaps in order to free somebody, can we go there? It is a real question.

That is real life, it is that, what François just said: we are no longer in ideas, it is war, we are no longer dealing with principals. I don’t what to think. Because this happens to Marianne Pearl, I’m not saying, I’m not saying that they made a mistake because she thought that it was appropriate to do it, that it was necessary to do that, that her husband had to be saved, she was pregnant… for the sake of the baby that was going to be born, everything was permitted.

And it was absolutely necessary to save him and if it was necessary to attack a certain number of people, they had to attack a certain number of people, physically attack them, you understand, threatening them and torturing them, even though we might have to kill some.

I don’t know, I am lost. Because sometimes I don’t know where you have to stop, where you have to put on the brakes. What is acceptable and what is unacceptable? And at the same time, for the families of those that were kidnapped, because many times they are the people we talk to first, in Reporters without Borders; legitimately, I, if my daughter were kidnapped there would be no limit, I tell you, I tell you, there would be no limit on torture.

 ”

The translation's from Global Research: [9] Reporters without Borders, follows in Washington’s steps and legitimizes torture, Global Research, September 21, 2007

I'd be grateful for any assistance you could provide in making sure its kept there and isn't censored. With thanks,

If I was a carpenter 17:24, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for link to article, interesting to know that Menard is getting to be famous... I try to keep an eye on it, but can't spend my time on Wikipedia either... Best thing to do is to keep your account, put it on your watch list, and if you have any problem, let me know. Cheers, and any links to interesting articles are welcome (links alone will do the job :) Tazmaniacs 22:21, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, I actually can spend a lot of time on wikipedia, and am going to be watching the Reporters without borders page. Already someone's trying to cut much of the quote on the grounds of 'simplicity'.

If I was a carpenter 13:44, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Heinz Barth

Late answer to [10]: this was said in an newspaper article cited in the text. The newspaper in turn cited a Czech historian. I put the places here because the article originally mentioned Lidice which is not true (Lidice is widely known, the others are not, easy to make mistake). Pavel Vozenilek 17:13, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First International Syndicalist Congress

Hi Taz,

Since you wrote the article about the anarchist congress in Amsterdam, I though you might also be interested in the article about the syndicalist one in London in 1913.--Carabinieri 01:15, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Tasmaniacs

Did you know about this? Dahn 12:52, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Augusto Pinochet

Hello Taz. If there was a hell, I'd wish Pinochet was buring in agony (as he'd be there); it was laughable & pathetic when the Chilean courts would cancel his trial everytime he faked an illness. Anyways, about the inclusion of Dictator - Wikipedia frowns on using that term; so unless you can prove 'Dictator' is/was a constitutional office (example President, King, Emperor etc), please don't include it in the opening paragraph. If you persist? your actions may eventually be viewed as disruptive editing; give it a thought OK. GoodDay (talk) 16:23, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Do what you want - the main thing for me is that Pinochet is dead. GoodDay (talk) 18:27, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anarchism taskforce

Hi Taz, you might be interested in this new taskforce for anarchist topics.--Carabinieri (talk) 12:57, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Attentat

Why do you keep redirecting attentat to bomb instead of propaganda of the deed? Clearly the content of propaganda of the deed is much more closely related to the idea of attentat than the content of the bomb article. Kaldari (talk) 01:03, 17 December 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] HNY

Oh my, we have a lot of catching up to do. For now, let me just slip in a belated but sincere Happy New Year. Dahn (talk) 23:38, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Good to hear from you, and, indeed, Xin Nian Kuai Le! I have just slipped out of my own hiatus, motivated in part by the flu (as well as by frustration over some facho edits on Romanian-related articles). But now I'm back! Dahn (talk) 16:48, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ni Putes, Ni Soumises

You're quite right, and it seems I was totally wrong. Relata refero (talk) 14:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:May 68

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[edit] Abstention

I edited some statistics that (I think) you added to Abstention. I was concerned because some of the numbers look innaccurate. I have put my reasoning and calculations on the discussion page. I hope that section can be corrected. 198.96.36.131 (talk) 16:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CFD

Hi. I've tagged Category:Collaborationists for deletion. --Soman (talk) 08:41, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I hope you don't take any offense in the cfd nomination, I reckon that the category was created in good faith, I came across it when I noted several pages on my watchlist being tagged for Category:Stalinist collaborators, which raised some question-marks on how the category can be misused. The term 'Nazi collaborators' is somewhat well-defined in current Western historical debate, but if one for NPOV would label Italian partisans as 'Allied collaborators' then the category showns its problematic side. --Soman (talk) 08:47, 15 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] =Escondida

Hi Tazmaniacs, I followed that strike at Escondida quite closely and I really do not remember the Escondida workers officially calling for renationalisation. It was Arturo Martinez of CUT that brought the subject up part way through the strike. The strike was for money and reasonably so. I therefore put in a longish description of the strike to bring you comment into perspective. There is certainly a widespread feeling that Chile's copper belongs to Chile and that the mines all ought to be effectively part of Codelco but neither Codelco or Chile in general could find a fraction of the money needed to bring all these foreign owned companies to production and although they may be exporting big dividends at the moment, don't forget the hard times of a few years ago and the taxes and working costs that are spent in Chile now. Sorry, I am rambling, but I am automatically wary of any comment from anu web site with a political slant. They usually have an axe to grind,Mafestel (talk) 17:32, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Trial of the Thirty

Hi Tazmaniacs, as an answer to your question, I found the main material in a book in Swedish by an author named Gauffin - who wrote a biography on Ivan Aguéli (the Swedish anarchist/painter/Sufi) in 1940-1941. As you seem know more about this trial, are there any pictures from this trial anywhere?

Ivan Aguéli was picked up with Chatel, since he had offered Chatel to stay at his apartment. Actually when I checked my sources (Gauffin, volume one, page 180, written in 1940 in Swedish), it states that 22 of the guys were freed, amongst them Aguéli, Chatel, Fénéon etc etc, so what I had though was a sentence of a prison term from the date he was picked up in April 1894-August 1894, was not a sentence but just a detention. Thanks for your comment, and helping clearing this up. I have amended the comments. That makes sense, otherwise Aguéli would have spent the next 20 years of his life doing hard labour... Just for your info, Chatel and Aguéli clebrated their acquittal, with a big party at the house of Marie Huot... I can almost picture that...

Do you have any pictures of the trial?

Kind regards, Faridshahi79 (talk) 12:25, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for CIA contributions

I'm glad you were able to expand on that French-US situation, which, if it weren't so serious, probably would make a great comedy. The only question would be if the Inspector Clouiseau character would be French, American, or both.

If you are interested, I'm participating in a discussion, hosted by Folantin, on trying to reduce POV edit wars. As part of this, I've done a first draft of an essay about extracting useful information from POV sources -- sometimes, they are the only ones available.

Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 16:58, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Muhammad al-Durrah page Locked

Muhammad_al-Durrah page is now locked until consensus can be achieved that he was killed dead, and that to believe differently is to adhere to a conspiracy theory. Further, to argue the point is "advocacy or propaganda and refusing to comply with the neutral point of view requirement to fairly represent the weight of authority for each viewpoint and not give undue weight to views held by a relatively small minority of commentators. This is a clear violation of the principles set out in a previous Arbitration Committee ruling." This statement by an involved administrator can be found here: [11] More discussion can be found here at the Conspiracy Theory Noticeboard: [12] I bring it to your attention in relation to a comment you once made on the Charles Enderlin page. Tundrabuggy (talk) 19:45, 7 June 2008 (UTC)