User talk:Edwin Hale

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AfD nomination of Dietrich Man
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I added a source for him, but if you've got a source for the info you put into the article it'd help save it from AfD if you added it now. Nick mallory 13:52, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Welcome and Dietrich Man
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Regarding the deletion nomination of Dietrich Man above: I just searched for some sources and references for the story, and learned some interesting things (like the existence of a bishopric of Havelberg). I was able to verify his time as a bishop, but couldn't find out anything about his family. Could you help out a bit and tell us and cite your sources? Thank you, and thank you for writing these articles! Kusma (talk) 19:34, 2 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Could you try to add your source to a ==References== section in the articles? (You may want to follow the citation guideline WP:CITE). I found the book you mentioned in the catalog of the German National Library; the German Wikipedia even has an article about the author, de:Oskar Pusch (Genealoge). For the articles where you have used the book, can you add a References section that contains something like

which will produce
 * Pusch, Oskar: von Below. Dortmund : Forschungsstelle Ostmitteleuropa im Lande Nordrhein-Westfalen 1974.

(unfortunately I can't find an ISBN for the book). That makes it easier for others to verify your research, and helps other editors who want to do more research on the topic. Thank you, and happy editing! Kusma (talk) 11:22, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

History of Grabow
There are two Grabows. The one in Saxony-Anhalt was in the diocese of Magdeburg. From here, colonists came to what was then the Prignitz, and created a new Grabow. This was then lost to Mecklenburg.Edwin Hale 09:29, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

You recently edited the history section of Grabow. Are you sure you had the right one? The mention of Magdeburg makes me think of Grabow, Saxony-Anhalt. Agathoclea 12:28, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

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Re:Joachim Christian von Blumenthal
The article had previously been deleted by Seicer and I deleted it again as recreation of deleted material. (Sorry, I might have not been clear enough in the deletion description.) You would be best off talking with him about its notability; I was simply performing routine deletions of the time. JJ (talk) 18:11, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

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Good Man
They had to remove a lot of the things you put into Brit views of the Monarchy, and while I would quibble about some of the removals the vast majority was entirely fair, due to Wikipedia policy.

However, I personally do not have to adhere to having a "neutral" point of view. I can instead have a "correct" point of view, and I would like to commend you on trying to clarify things - you were absolutely correct in putting everything into context. It is such a shame that Wikipedia cannot reflect this.

Having said that, the alternative is far worse, then you end up with something like Conservapedia, which is essentially what Wikipedia would look like if controlled by paranoid schizophrenics.

So... all in all... don't do that again here, but please know that your views are absolutely fair and reasonable, and are shared by a great number of other editors.

Regards,

Egg  Centri  c  23:48, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Joachim von Blumenthal
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Edwin Hale (talk) 21:43, 2 February 2013 (UTC) I hope I am following the etiquette properly. Thanks for the comment on my entry on "Joachim von Blumenthal". It is mostly a translation of an entry in German Wikipedia on the same guy, the entry is called "Joachim Christian von Blumenthal".

This guy was basicly Prussia's finance and War minister at the time the Napoleonic Wars broke out and is thus a very important personage.
 * That's fine, but please can you edit it to translate the remaining German words such as "am" and "und" into English, and use the date style 2 October 1749 rather than 2. Oktober 1749. Stifle (talk) 21:47, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Team Secret
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