User talk:Björn-Isak Rosendahl

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About editing
Dear BIR! When you type four tildes, as Gene s suggests, they are automatically converted into your name and date. This is very convenient to keep track of the discussion. Also, please do not answer in the middle of some other's text. As you have already noticed, even with two persons it soon becomes impossible to understand who said what and why. This often happens even in maillists and newsgroups with theirconventions of indenting, prefeixing and coloring. A good way is to quote the phrase you comment, like I will do below:

Gene s said: "Why are you refusing to sign your posts by a standard signature". This is probably because they don't know what a standard signature is and in the heat of discussion you didn't explain that ~ is a very easy way of producing this signature (not to say that I may guess that someone was looking at gene's suggesion in the edit mode, copied the whole (nowiki)...(/nowiki) thing and got nothing good). Mikkalai 15:57, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Please stop converting valid URLs to invalid URLs
You may want to read on URLs, for example at http://www.w3.org/ --Gene s 07:45, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Please stop adding external links to article bodies
External links belong to the ==External links== section --Gene s 07:46, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/The Analyses and Reports of the Second Chechen War
When can I expect your apology? RickK 00:15, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Funny, I don't see the words "I'm sorry." RickK 06:44, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you. I accept your apology. RickK 07:01, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Second Chechen War
BIR,

I understand that you and some other users have differences of opinion over the content and potential biases (intentional or otherwise) of the article on the Second Chechen War. Have you considered making use of the Request for Comment page? I might also suggest that you propose wording changes on the article's talk page rather than editing the article directly&mdash;this might help to defuse some of the tension and cut down on the frequent reverts to the article. In general, I would also advise against accusing people who disagree with you of being part of a pro-Kremlin conspiracy; it really doesn't help move the debate forward.

Feel free to respond on my Talk page. --TenOfAllTrades 14:50, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hello again. Regarding your message, I would just like to reiterate that I'm not overly concerned about the particular biases, affiliations, or nationality of any editor. I welcome factual and notable contributions to articles from anyone who wishes to add to Wikipedia, and I'm sure that attitude is shared by every good contributor here.

Given the contentious nature of the Second Chechen War article, I would hope and expect all contributors to pay particularly close attention to the importance of NPOV, and be prepared to support their statements with references to independent sources. As it says at the bottom of every edit window, sloppy contributions will be edited mercilessly. I hope that helps to put your mind at ease. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 19:24, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

That wasn't more NPOV, I found. You changed (anti-Moscow) Chechen into Pro-Moscow Chechens, thereby distorting the sentence's crucial distinction (!). El_C 06:08, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Image:Voting for Chechen constitution.jpg
BIR,

You recently uploaded an image, Image:Voting for Chechen constitution.jpg, which indicates an external web site source:. Could you clarify a few points on the image description page?

The image is marked as being under a GFDL license, but the website linked doesn't seem to indicate the photograph's origin or copyright holder. For an image to have the GFDL copyright tag, we need to give credit to the copyright owner (the photographer or the corporate entity that bought the image) and also be able to show that the owner explicitly gave permission to distribute the image under the GFDL.

If you don't have that information, it will be necessary to delete the image from Wikipedia. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:31, 13 October 2005 (UTC)


 * This picture has been around for a long time, and I think you need to contact the webmaster for Copy rights issues. Given, of course, that you're fair and impartial in this crisis and just not seeking ptetexts etc. And furthermore, the the caricatures even photos have belonged to the politics everywhere, also in encyclopedic contexts in order to make things vivid--BIR 12:04, 14 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I would appreciate it if you wouldn't accuse me of operating under some pretext; you'll note that I haven't tried to remove any of the factual content related to the photograph, and I've come here to discuss with you the image rather than deleting it outright.
 * While it is a nice picture, I don't think it's absolutely essential to the article. If you can find information on the photographer and show that the image is under a free license, it can stay; right now I'm concerned about protecting Wikipedia from legal liability if we don't have the appropriate permission to use and redistribute a copyrighted image. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 12:30, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Image:Voting for Chechen constitution.jpg has been listed as a possibly unfree image
I've listed the image at Possibly unfree images per our normal procedure, pending resolution of the question regarding the image's source. If the licensing concerns aren't cleared up in thirty days, the image may be deleted. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 17:43, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Halibutt's RfA
I would like to express my thanks to all the people who took part in my (failed) RfA voting. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! I was also surprised by the amount of people who stated clearly that they do care, be it by voting in for or against my candidacy. That's what Wiki community is about and I'm really pleased to see that it works. As my RfA voting failed with 71% support, I don't plan to reapply for adminship any more. However, I hope I might still be of some help to the community. Cheers! Halibutt 05:10, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:IlyasAkhamov.jpg
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Restructuring of Russian Apartment Bombings page
We are currently discussing this. Perhaps you would like to join us, as you have suggested an interest before. Mariya - x - Mariya Oktyabrskaya (talk) 18:02, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Proposed deletion of Karaylar


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