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saddam
no offense, but if you look at the after of your edit, it looks pretty screwed up. Change the titles themselves, one by one and not one large (and slightly strange) revert. Also, i strongly feel that the image caption is perfectly encyclopedic the way i have it. This is a new year, and i really don't want to fight. Happy New Year. dposse 05:24, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Then how exactly did we get two "youth" sections after your revert? How was half of the infomation missing from the article? It may be my tired eyes, but that's what i saw. I'll make your edits, although i'd feel more comfortable if we discussed it on the talk page first. dposse 05:38, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, i did your edits. Anything else? dposse 05:45, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

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Sourced
Would you be kind enough to inform me what you mean by reverting my link to the arms to Iraq page? In your motivation you insist that it is unsourced, which would seem to be wrong since it I've linked to the page where the quotation comes from. I'm also interested in what periods you want me to divide the figures in? As a tentative suggestion I could calculate the values for the periods 1973-1979, 1980-1982, 1983-1988. Prezen 21:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

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 * The image was mistakenly deleted I have restored it, but please provide the rationale ASAP Alex Bakharev 05:23, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I already added the rationale as well as I could. Please revise if necessary. Also, the image has been submitted for deletion as some here have nothing better to do, I guess. You may want to express your opinion at the IfD vote. --Irpen 07:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Redirecting Death Toll of Communism
If you are going to redirect this article, could you at least redirect it to a page that deals specifically with the death toll of communism, instead of the generic criticisms of communism page?

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please help ...
With a comment here: and also, if you know some good classic sources, if you can provide any to the paragraph in question here, at the bottom:. Thanks, Slrubenstein  |  Talk 14:20, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Ivory Coast move
Since you participated in previous discussions on Ivory Coast, you might be interested in the requested move at Talk:C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire. —  AjaxSmack     08:43, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:POINT violation report
Thank you 172, I'll have a look. --Guinnog 02:55, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I've warned the user you had an issue with. I have also reverted the article to the way it was before their latest posts. Please let me know if you need any further help. Best wishes, --Guinnog 03:15, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: WP:POINT on socialism
Ditto! I think EnglishEfternamn is beginning to get the idea that editors are not going to tolerate his nonsense. If he continues to cause disruptions, however, I agree that he will have to be blocked, and it looks like Guinnog will take care of that if necessary. By the way, your explanation of recent events was wonderfully precise and accurate&mdash;and the compliment is much appreciated. :-) -- WGee 04:55, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Per, I think you meant to file a new rfcu request. I reverted your change, as you made it to the wrong page. -Patstuarttalk 05:12, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Omali Yeshitela
Nice copy-edits. --Uncle Ed 17:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Hussein RFC
Thank you for restoring the Rfc section. I will be closing it in a few days anyway, and it can be archived after that. Caper13 23:45, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Communism
Hi 172, thanks for your note. I don't wish to get re-involved with anything to do with communism at Wikipedia - the task of dealing with the CPW is hopeless under the current structure. That's why as soon as Larry Sanger's new project Citizendium gets going, I will probably leave Wikipedia altogether. Sadly, you will not be able to follow me there since editors are required to edit under their real names. Adam 05:26, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Saddam Hussein image
Hello,

no problem about your image, as far as I'm concerned. I had been trying for two days to find a suitable image for Saddam Hussein (I even included the one you used), only to be continually reverted and told about the rules of "free/fair use/whatever images". I had found a public domain image, but your is admittedly better, so if you're positive that it fits the wikipedia rules, no problem for me. I was just trying to replace the "bearded Saddam" picture, which I found unsuitable for the top box. I'll probably post mine somewhere else on the article. :) Max Thayer 07:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Template: Communism
You deleted "Juche" on the grounds that you don't know for any major encyclopedia or sourcebook which uses that term in its entry on Communism. Do "Left communism", "Council communism" and "Anarchist communism" satisfy that criteria? -- Vision Thing -- 19:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, there should be clear criteria for inclusion. If "Juche" is excluded those three should be excluded too, or the template becomes too unbalanced. -- Vision Thing -- 12:07, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * According to this, it did have some international influence. -- Vision Thing -- 12:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Not a sockpuppet
I was reviewing my prior edits, and noticed that you had deleted my vote on Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_30 because you claimed I was a sockpuppet, yet you couldn't even have the decency to alert me on my Talk page or ask me who I am and why I made my vote. Where is it written that I must make edits to Wikipedia every day to not be a sockpuppet? At least have the decency to give people a chance to defend themselves. Sachmet 18:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Regimes and forms of government
Hi 172. Indeed I am interested in the subject of semidemocratic regimes and democratic transitions. I must confess, however, that I'm layman on these issues; my field of study at university was economics (though I did do a course on Political systems of the Third World, which focussed mostly on Islamic countries though). Still, if you can recommend some lecture, I would be very glad. Luis rib 00:06, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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EnglishEfternamn and WP:POINT
Hi 172. I finally got around to reporting EnglishEfternamn to the administrators' noticeboard. Feel free to add evidence of his disruptions at the Soviet Union article if you have the time. -- WGee 01:22, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


 * No problem. I just finished my exams and have more time on my hands.  By the way, this is a joke: they're just being deliberately ignorant. -- WGee 17:38, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks! And bravo to Pschemp for having the common sense to block this pest. -- WGee 19:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Neoliberalism
Bravo! Thanks for cutting through the bullshit. Apparently more moderate reverts, which I have tried a few times, did not help - Now we need to look out for re-reverts -- there's a lot of nutjobs out there ... --Thorsen 07:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

83.229.21.4
No problem. Since it's an open proxy, it can be used any anyone. However I noticed it's been used by on January 1, so he could be responsible for some of the other edits as well. See also: Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of SummerThunder. The IP was blocked due to ST's block evasion (also see SummerThunder's block log, you'll notice that Samuel Blanning block him indef). The person who stalked you could be him, as he's stalked me before as well. Khoikhoi 16:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

User:RJII
I was not aware of the ArbCom decision. When I took a look, it appeared that the account was blocked solely because it was a shared account. Based on this, I unblocked All Male Action. It appears that this was the initial block but that the ArbCom decision later modified this. My apologies, thanks to everyone who spoke up. --Yamla 18:45, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Template
I just looked over the template, and yikes what a freaking mess. I dont know how much help I could be coming in so late, but I will see if I have anything useful to contribute. Later. Torturous Devastating Cudgel 15:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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The disputed sentence
Hi. About your edit on Socialism, I don't understand why "direct—exercised" and "indirect—exercised" are being used as verbs. Please also note that since there's a disagreement about the paragraphs, it's best not to mark such edits as minor. Xiner (talk, email) 02:49, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

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Capitalism and Scott refs
In the history of the article Capitalism you assert the importance of references to Scott. " 09:31, 16 February 2007 172 (Talk | contribs) (rv nonsense by RJII/ICWT. The removal of the citation of Scott on grounds that there is no page number borders on vandalism. The source is an Oxford dictionary. Entries are alphabetical.)" Could you make the "(Scott 2005)" notations into reflist footnotes indicating what article in A Dictionary of Sociology is being referenced? For example, "(Scott 2005)" occurs in the sentence: "Mercantilism was a system of trade for profit, although commodities were still largely produced by non-capitalist production methods (Scott 2005)." Is the reference to the article on "Mercantilism", or "production methods" or "non-capitalist production methods"? I am making the request so that notes in the article are uniform and of maximum utility, regardless of the level of understanding of the user. --Bejnar 17:10, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Scott refs
I also note that Scott is a tertiary reference source. Tertiary sources are fine for some material, and I do regard Scott as essentially reliable, but would some of the citations that are currently to Scott be better, i.e. more useful, if they were to a secondary source instead? --Bejnar 17:10, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

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Image:Brezhnev.jpg
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Meditation
If you are interested in meditation please say so. -- Vision Thing -- 12:54, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

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List of dictators, again
I thought you might be interested to see that there's some rumblings at Talk:List of dictators that the page should be resurrected. The good point has been made that the deletion that occurred a couple of months ago took place without any actual consensus to delete. Nonetheless, I think resurrection would be a bad idea. Anyway, just thought you'd be interested. john k 20:25, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Another possible sockpuppet
I have recently noticed the activities of User:Billy Ego. He claims to be a fascist, but follows the same editing pattern of claiming that fascism is socialist that has been characteristic of RJII in the past. Significantly, he quotes libertarian sources to support his arguments. He also resurrected a long-dead userbox that no new user could possibly have known about. -- Nikodemos 02:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * What is the procedure for exposing a sockpuppet, other than a request for checkuser? I'm afraid I have no experience with this sort of thing, but you have exposed several RJII socks before, so I would greatly appreciate your help. Billy Ego is using some of RJII's well-known intimidation and harassment tactics to avoid discussion of his edits. -- Nikodemos 01:25, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Just to let you know
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Featured article review/History of Poland (1945–1989)
Since you voted during FAC and you are familiar with the region/period, perhaps you'd like to comment and/or help improve the article?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:52, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

The Party (politics)
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Brezhnev Doctrine
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Why?
> why do you say this picture is irrelevant? It was included in a section untitled "Criticism of and opposition to Mugabe" so it's not irrelevant to show a demonstration against him. It's totally neutral to show a demonstration. It would have been irrelevant if it was written something like "fair demonstration against Mugabe's crimes" under it but it wasn't. Moreover, there aren't many pictures in this article so I think such a picture was welcomed. So I am asking you better arguments/explanations before I ask other people's opinion. Regards. --Two Wings (jraf ) 16:44, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Saddam Screenshot
I don't understand why you deleted the MSNBC screenshot of the day Saddam was hanged. Your comment that it was "amateurish" gives me the impression it was faked/photoshopped. This was most certainly not the case... I have grabbed several screenshots of that day; I can replace wit another if you'd like. Screenshots are OK to use in Wikipedia, are they not?

Rafael Correa
I'm grateful for some of the changes you made on the article, however, I think some of the deletions were not necessary. I started a discussion on the talk page, and would greatly appreciate your input. Thanks, Sjmcfarland 19:56, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

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Cold War
While your edits to the refs were good, I dispute your removal of the 1st/2nd/3rd World map and Continuing implications... section. The first presents an instructive overview of terms that were common in Cold War debates. The second also contains very useful summary information (Roy's data) that if poorly written about can be improved, not blanked. 63.98.135.196 15:35, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

1993 Russian constitutional crisis
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Allegations of Israeli apartheid
I have started a deletion debate on a topic which might interest you. See: Articles for deletion/Allegations of Israeli apartheid (fifth nomination).-- Z leitzen (talk)  17:56, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

TFD of Template:PD-Old regime Iraq
I have TFD'd as I believe it takes a wrong-headed approach to copyright and may be frankly inaccurate. Kotepho 09:07, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Cold War
If you find something in the text disagreeable could you delete whatever it is you don't like instead of reverting to much earlier edits. The two times you've done this you've also reverted my working the parenthetical citations into footnotes, and that took some time. Thanks. SpiderMMB 02:42, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Time of Troubles
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Russian-Circassian War
Hey, I noticed your interests on your user page and wondered if you would be interested in taking a look at the above article? It's main problem is a lack of printed sources, but I have solved that after coming accross a couple of books on the conflict and am in the slow process of working the article over adding references and information from them. However I would still appreciate another opinion! Cheers SGGH 10:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Cold War Introduction Picture
I think the introduction text looks noticeably naked compared to similar articles. I understand your concern about the maps, but how about an infobox which is similar to those used in other war articles such as World War II and Vietnam war? I dug this one out of the archives:

SpiderMMB 19:55, 24 April 2007 (UTC)


 * With all due respect, as you seem to have had a large hand in what I consider a well-written article, there is no reason for me to go through five pages of archives before submitting a suggestion. I could just as easily have added the infobox without asking you, but I asked out of consideration.


 * There's no reason for you to "rewrite" your "previously long postings." Your succint statement was easy enough to understand.  But I would suggest you try to understand when someone is trying to be cooperative and not difficult.  SpiderMMB 00:49, 26 April 2007 (UTC)


 * No worries, and I appreciate the reply. SpiderMMB 10:08, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

re:revert
Sorry about the revert to Boris Yeltsin, didn't read the last edit summary and all I saw was a big chunk of blanking and assumed vandalism! --Samtheboy (t/c) 09:31, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

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New editor
Thanks for the note. He certainly does bear watching. -Will Beback · † · 20:20, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Ditto, thanks. SlimVirgin (talk) 23:32, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

My condolences
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Socialism
Hi 172. The recent changes to the socialism article are worrying, and my attempts to keep things sane are being undone by several editors. An objective voice would be helpful amidst all this instability, so, if you have time, check things out. -- WGee 04:52, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

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annexation
Could you please help resolving a dispute wrt to annexation article. This edit illustrates part of it. Thanks in advance, --Irpen 05:25, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

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TfD nomination of Template:PD-Old regime Iraq
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Relevance drafts ready for editing/comments
Hi,

Father Goose and I (WikiLen) have developed competing versions for a possible guideline on relevancy. I note you have previous participated at this project. Your contributions would be timely now. My draft is the current proposed guideline only because I made mine after Father Goose did his. This is not to suggest either version is favored. Thanks for your interest... —WikiLen 03:49, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Draft REL2 REL2.1 by Father Goose
 * Draft REL3 by WikiLen

FAR on History of Russia
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Call for editor participation at Relevance
Hi 172,

Relevance requests your presence — see, "Call for editor participation" at the talk page. —WikiLen 17:23, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Slovo-joe.jpg
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Image copyright problem with Image:Iraq,_Saddam_Hussein_(222).jpg
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Template:Cold WarWikiProject
Cool! That's a great image! Chris 21:17, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

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Image sources
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Image:Saddam Hussein on his throne.jpg
Hi. You wrote in your Edit Summary for this edit "/* Secular leadership*/ rm image not taken during the period being described under the heading". So, when was it taken, can we put the image in that section? Thanks! — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 17:59, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Image:AlBakr.jpg license is questioned
Hey, 172, edit the license at Image:AlBakr.jpg so that the source, etc. is clarified. WhisperToMe 20:06, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Discussion of Category:Allied occupation of Europe
Hello, 172. I've just posted what I think was a sensible recommendation regarding Category:Allied occupation of Europe, which has been nominated for deletion at this page. If you can free up a few minutes to read through the discussion, I think your comments would be of real value, given your professional expertise in the field, and your generally judicious approach to the subject. The discussion was opened on July 31, and will probably close in the next day or two. Regards, Cgingold 21:27, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Image tagging for Image:Saddam1970s.JPG
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AfD Race science
Hello! Since a merge to Scientific racism did not get consensus, and that this is a POV fork, I've submitted a second Afd request. I hope you can quickly check it out, cheers! Tazmaniacs 17:33, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

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NOR
There has been a big debate over this policy. I think you have valuable experience that makes you an important interlocutor on this matter. I suggest you first go here for a very concise account, and then depending on how much time you have read over the WP:NOR policy and the edit conflicts that led to its being protected, or the last talk to be archived ... or just go straight to the talk page. If you have time - i think it is important Slrubenstein  |  Talk 16:26, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

FAR History of post-Soviet Russia
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Replaceable fair use Image:Russiaduma.jpg
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Your article International reactions to the death of Boris Yeltsin
Hi 172. The article "International reactions to the death of Boris Yeltsin" which you created or substantially contributed has been deleted by a motion of afd consensus. Following the general willing of our folks, I've transwikied the article to Wikiquote where its content fits the criteria there. You can view the article here and the credit for initial contributors here. If you want to continue contributing to the article, please come across Wikiquote. Best regards. @pple complain 15:37, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Penelas.jpg
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FDR0415.JPG
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Image:WorldBankbuilding.jpg
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Image:Getulio55.jpg
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