User talk:Elinruby/Archives/2023/April

Translation at second law
Why are you bothering to spend time translating the text of the law at Second law on the status of Jews? The whole thing might get removed from the article. If you're doing it for the sake of Wikisource, then it should be done there instead, under their guidelines. I think any effort "fixing" the translation there is not worth it. Mathglot (talk) 07:06, 30 March 2023 (UTC) it's done and can do with it as he wishes. I am letting him worry about the guidelines. Scope, I am getting the thing where the UI overwrites the preview again, plus I am about to be gone for the day,so sorry to combine my answers. Both of you should do as you think best. Elinruby (talk) 14:53, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The text in the article was used for the Wikisource. The detailed work and analysis was really good. I checked it against the book and it was identical. The hosting admin changed one sentence in the start to reflect the book. He read the talk page discussion and advanced it themselves.   scope_creep Talk  09:24, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Good work, everyone. Mathglot (talk) 05:26, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Incidentally
Did you know Poland is one of the few countries which consider Napoleon to be a hero? I mildly wonder if he is more popular in Poland than in France :) Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 12:30, 29 March 2023 (UTC)


 * ok, I'll bite: how does Napoleon become a hero in Poland? Elinruby (talk) 00:48, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Fate of leading French collabotors
Hi, Elin, this is just peripheral, but in looking at Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, I saw a very long account of the fates of the respective collaborators/co-conspirators (Laval, Bousquet, Leguay et al.) Bousqet's paragraph is very informative but very long, and seems a little out of proportion here. There are many reasons (in current French politics, in recent French history and in accountability of present and future war criminals) to keep this detail somewhere, but I was wondering which article would be best to locate it in. While clearly important to the Vel' d"Hiv rafle, the amount of detail (future careers, etc.) seems out of place. (On the other hand, it makes me feel a bit easier about the length of our own summary at Collaboration with the Axis powers.)
 * 1) Would this material find a better home elsewhere?
 * 2) Should whatever remains here be shortened (probably by shortening Bousquet's paragraph significantly)?
 * 3) Should I (or you) start a new question about this in a new section of Talk:Vel' d'Hiv Roundup?

Thanks for any thoughts or pointers, —— Shakescene (talk) 14:58, 1 April 2023 (UTC)


 * i suspect that information about Bousquet came from his article at en or fr wiki and may be longer because that article is longer. He was such a weaselly yet pivotal character. As far as I am concerned, any text at the collaboration article that covers material covered elsewhere can be removed. However a big caveat: He was indeed very important, so a longer section for him MAY not be undue. was the primary author of that article as I recall and may have thoughts about this. Elinruby (talk) 22:44, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm only a minor contributor to Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, although I created or made major improvements to some of the roundup articles, like Green ticket roundup. Shakescene, I think you've posed a good question, here, about where more lengthy information about this belongs, and I agree that the section at Vel' d'Hiv is too long for that content, which is peripipheral to the topic. Perhaps there's a gap in our coverage here that we could fill with an article like "Fate of Vichy collaborators". The topic itself is clearly notable, the only question in my mind is if it deserves its own page or not. (If so, we'd have to check sources to see what the exact right title should be.) I could see it developing into a parent article in summary style, with an Intro section to lay the groundwork and context, major sections about some of the principle characters, a section about the épurations for less well-known characters, and 'Main' links in all the sections, pointing to the more detailed articles on the topic. Feel free to start an article like that if you've a mind to; I think it would be a good addition to the topic area, and to the encyclopedia. Mathglot (talk) 00:44, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Interesting point. One of the primary Belgian collaborators as I recall went on to become president of the European parliament, or something of the kind. Not that i suggest including him; there are a lot of variables that vary from country to country. But yeah, great topic suggestion guys Elinruby (talk) 00:56, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Another possibility, if you're not keen on the new article approach, would be to try adding it to someplace like Pursuit of Nazi collaborators. Mathglot (talk) 01:28, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

I don't currently have an opinion about this, but there is a difference in focus between what we're discussing and "pursuit", isn't there? A lot of these guys were living loud and proud in positions of authority. Elinruby (talk) 01:36, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, there is; I'm just pointing out what's out there, in case we don't want to go with a new-article approach. It may well be that it doesn't fit in the "Pursuit" article, for the reason you state. Mathglot (talk) 02:53, 2 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I am interested in the moral complexities of the topic, whichever way we approach it. However I need to stave off cognitive overload and finish up my evidence for the Arbcom case. Let me know if you guys launch something along these lines. By the way it's been bothering me: what was that Dossier something something article that we worked on around the same time as Vel d'hiv? Elinruby (talk) 03:13, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Actually, that Pursuit of Nazi collaborators article has a fair amount about the post-Liberation careers of the French subjects. If that's true of the other countries' sections, the article might benefit from another title, such as "Fate..." or "Post-war fate..." —— Shakescene (talk) 04:09, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Interesting idea, you should broach it at the article TP. Mathglot (talk) 05:28, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Putting this here for future reference: fate of the School of Paris? Elinruby (talk) 07:42, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Michel Kikoine for example Elinruby (talk) 07:52, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Also Moïse Kisling 12:51, 7 April 2023 (UTC) Elinruby (talk) 12:51, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

M of S discussion of formatting Canadian laws
Since I suspect that the Canadian legal system is a subject of interest to you, or one where you have a little expertise, I thought this discussion might interest you: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style.

[No doubt, say I in almost complete ignorance, Québec's Loi 101 would be (because of different legal heritages) styled differently from, say, the provincial law in Saskatchewan that established universal health care under Tommy Douglas.] —— Shakescene (talk) 18:53, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Deep subject. Like the US some things are federal and some are not and the constitution happened only recently. British North America Act before that Elinruby (talk) 21:14, 2 April 2023 (UTC)


 * This isn't quite right. The Constitution dates back to 1867:  the British North America Act, 1867 was renamed the Constitution Act, 1867 in the 1982 Patriation, with some other amendments.  It remains the foundational document of the Constitution, which is composed of a number of enactments.  The Constitution Act, 1982 is the other major constitutional enactment, containing the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the amending formula, Aboriginal rights, and a few other things. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:36, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * ... (au Québec) Notwithstanding.... ;-} —— Shakescene (talk) 03:55, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Câline de tabernak hosti ben sûr Elinruby (talk) 19:09, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

French anti-Semitism before 1940
P.S. would you mind (business after pleasure) looking over my introductory paragraph to Vichy collab with Holocaust:"Long before the Occupation, France had had a history of native anti-Semitism and philo-Semitism, as seen in the controversy over the guilt of Alfred Dreyfus (from 1894 to 1906). It has thus been difficult for historians to establish how much of Vichy's anti-Semitic campaigns came from native French roots, how much from willing collaboration with the German occupiers and how much from simple (and sometimes reluctant) cooperation with Nazi instructions."

—— Shakescene (talk) 19:03, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Oh. It wasn't difficult. Controversial, perhaps. For a time it was the official position of the French government that, more or less, France just disappeared for a while. And that whole Vichy thing was something the.Germans did to France. A French president only recently took responsibility for what happened at Vel d'hiv. Mittérand? But I think it is a settled matter of French WW2 history that there were absolutely eager collaborators That is the big thing that jumps out at me.

I am hip-deep in Polish diffs and just woke up so let me just give you a rant/brain dump without looking anything up. I know you know a lot as well, but let me just hand you a free-form blob of suggestions eithout filtering for what you might already know.

My recent work around has been with French constitutional law, and it was a big deal that the Fourth Republic (and Fifth) imported their preamble from prior to the Third Republic. I think we have agreed on before on Léon Blum, who was attacked and beaten well before the drôle de guerre. The article for Camelots du roi (roy?) is a bad machine translation but extensive. Antisemitism in the French Third Republic exists but is short. An interesting sidenote, School of Paris was originally a derogatory appellation for a community of Eastern European artists, mostly Jewish refugees. I never did trace through all their fates, but at least one died in hiding trying to get out of Marseilles. But that is sort of reverse engineering collaboration. Make sure you cover Bonny. Pierre? It is hard to explain this without knowing more about your background but I am not asking because we need to explain this to anyone of any background, right?

Outside of the big cities France is fundamentally paysan. That usually gets translated as peasant but that isn't really right, especially in this context. Despite what i said, i just looked up landsman but that isn't it either. There is no connotation of Jewishness or of ineptitude at sea. More like definition 4, with overtones of being fundamentally agricultural and "of the soil" and also of a very very specific place. The next village over is "le prochain pays". Imagine a human terroir, if you know that word. A very conservative culture, Catholic to its fingertips and deeply nationalistic. Except that it's l'Aquitaine and pays de la Loire.

But the Armistice shook the country to its deepest roots. It grew up on dreams of empire and la Grande Armée. Verdun was terrible and enough to make Pétain a hero, but the absolute crushing defeat, Paris an open city, was a profound humiliation. I am not sure if the country went into denial but I think the government definitely did, and given Verdun and Pétain it was very very focused on saving French lives. All that is OR for the background. I am burning deadline time so let's zoom in a bit. What you say about Dreyfus is true. But I think the antisemitism even preceded that (something about Emile Zola says a faint whisper from high school?). And maybe there was a difference between the anti-Semitism of the turn of the century and that of the 30s. or perhaps they were just waves of cultural angst separated by the Années folles?

if you look at the couple of sentences in the collaboration article about the rafle in Marseilles, I rewrote it from French policemen helping Germans to Germans helping the French round those people up. Literally slum clearance so the developers could gentrify a desirable older neighborhood, the Old Port. I remember the sources being very emphatic about that. Obviously I didn't learn about this stuff at the lycée. There were specific and I think maybe legitimate concerns in the the French, Belgian and Danish governments (can't remember if the Dutch also) about the Germans draining human and infrastructure capital, yet what they might do that was worse if the collaborators in the government didn't stall them. The history of the Service de travail obligatoire is an illustration of this but I do not remember the timeline without looking it up. For sure, the STO is thought to have been the single largest recruitment impetus. it wasn't that the youth didn't want to work -- they didnt want to work themselves to death in a camp for les Boches. And Hemingway in Paris and the Spanish Civil war, etc were romanticized. The Charlemagne unit is the only one that I have been able so far to determine was definitely and absolutely made up of enthusiastic ideological volunteers. Blum was blamed for the deceat of France, we talked about that I think, and Jews were "other" and somehow a disease. See Le Juif et la France. We have an article about this register, that I cannot find right now. Ask Mathglot. I need to back away from the shiny object and go do some stuff now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elinruby (talk • contribs) 22:25, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

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Response to inquiry about Canadian law
Hi Elinruby, as you requested, instead of cluttering up the MOS Talk page, I came here to respond to your inquiry about Canadian law. Here we go. Hope you find this helpful. I'm afraid I don't know what river you were referring to in the MOS/Law talkpage, so can't comment. Feel free to pose questions; it's a big area and this is just a thumbnail. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 00:58, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Patriation of the constitution didn't really change the use of civil law and common law, as that was already well established. (By the way, we don't use "repatriation", because the Constitution had been a British statute;  since it was brought to Canada, metaphorically, we patriated it, a back-formation by PM Pearson.)
 * After the Conquest, the British originally tried to impose British public law and English common law on the old Province of Quebec in the Royal Proclamation of 1763. That didn't work, because you can't just substitute English common law for French civil law in matters like property, contracts, and matrimonial property.
 * So in the Quebec Act, 1774, the British Parliament said that French civil law would continue to operate in private law matters, and English common law would apply in criminal law and British public law would apply to the government (eg monarchical principle, courts, etc.). It created a mixed system.
 * When Confederation occurred in 1867, that division was preserved:  the federal government controls the criminal law, based on the English criminal law, and commercial law matters of national application (eg bankruptcy).
 * The provinces were given jurisdiction over "property and civil rights" which has been interpreted very broadly: contracts, torts, property, family law, trusts, etc (in the common law provinces), and the civil law equivalents in Quebec (biens, obligations, droit de la famille, etc.)
 * New France's law had originally not been codified, since it was under the ancien régime which had a variety of regional customary laws. New France used the coutume de Paris, which was a customary law consisting of decrets, jurisprudence and decisions.  After French adopted the Napoleonic Code, the coutume de Paris gradually went out of date.
 * Lower Canada (the name for what became the province of Quebec) eventually decided that it needed to adopt a civil code of its own, which it did in 1866, the year before Confederation: Civil Code of Lower Canada.  That Code stayed in force until the mid-1990s, when it was replaced with a new Civil Code of Quebec.
 * So we now have nine provinces and three territories which use the common law (heavily modified by statutes over the years) and one province, Quebec, which is a civil law jurisdiction on civil matters, but subject to common law principles on matters that come under federal jurisdiction, such as criminal law and bankruptcy.


 * Thank you VERY much. Several people will be extremely interested. As thanks the best I can do for the moment is look up the name of that river, but just let me know if you have questions about Vichy ;)  Elinruby (talk) 01:17, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * As a side-note (which you may know already), the Québec Act (1774) was one of the very motley grab-bag of principled, philosophical, patriotic petty and predatory (if you were, say, an Indian) grievances in the Declaration of Independence (1776):"For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule into these Colonies:" (which was probably not the sentiment of the Québecois — or Lower Canadians — themselves). There's a reason that the noble and inspiring Preamble is often taught, recited and well-known, but not the individual elements of the "History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.". And I thank for a very informative summary of Canadian jurisprudential hsitory. —— Shakescene (talk) 04:36, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, one of the "Intolerable Acts". It's a bit difficult to assess what the Quebecers thought of it.  It did take away the right to the elected Assembly, but that Assembly had never been called, and there had not been any Assembly under the French so that may have been a bit of a moot point.  On the other hand, the Act expanded the boundaries of the province greatly, guaranteed the religious rights of Roman Catholics, eliminated the requirement to swear the Oaths of Supremacy and Abjuration, and restored French civil law, so one would think there was a fair bit there that would be important to them.  Perhaps the proof was in the pudding:  when the US invaded Canada, the French-Canadians joined with the British military in repulsing the Yankees.  Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:44, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Yankees still swear they won tho Elinruby (talk)
 * If was referring to Continental Army or state militia incursions into Canada during the American War of Independence, the Yankees swear that they won, because in fact and without doubt or serious contradiction, they did win. If it was a reference to Canadian participation in the War of 1812 {whose disputatious talk pages Elinruby and I have been haunting for years}, the general conclusion was an inconclusive result (regardless of what Americans or Canadians might think or claim). —— Shakescene (talk) 18:33, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I was referring specifically to the Battle of Quebec on New Years Eve, 1775, just over a year after the Quebec Act was enacted. Generals Montgomery and Arnold led the attack on a snowy night. The plan was to capture Quebec City, which would have brought all of Quebec under Yankee control, since Quebec City is the choke point in the St Lawrence. If it had succeeded, it could have changed the course of development in North America. If the French-Canadians were opposed to the system of government created by the Quebec Act the previous year, one might have thought they would stay neutral, or even join the Americans in the battle. Instead, they fought with the British. Montgomery was killed, Arnold retreated, and Quebec stayed under British control. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 18:47, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * my own position id that if you invade a country then have to retreat, you didn't freaking win, did you. i actually care much less about this than that one guy who maintained that since there are fewer Canadians Canadian history is a fringe theory ;) But yeah, I was just checking to see if you were paying attention, lol. Some good edits last night even if you do have strange ideas about tnat there war in Quebec ;) Elinruby (talk) 18:42, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I misunderstood what the Yankees thought they won. Joyeuses Pâques —— Shakescene (talk) —— Shakescene (talk) 18:56, 7 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Il n'y a pas de quoi s'excuser, je déconne Elinruby (talk) 19:06, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia says:."In 1755, six colonial governors met with General Edward Braddock, the newly arrived British Army commander, and planned a four-way attack on the French. None succeeded, and the main effort by Braddock proved a disaster; he lost the Battle of the Monongahela on July 9, 1755, and died a few days later. British operations failed in the frontier areas of the Province of Pennsylvania and the Province of New York during 1755–57 due to a combination of poor management, internal divisions, effective Canadian scouts, French regular forces, and Native warrior allies." Just saying. And no I didnt do that ;) Elinruby (talk) 18:55, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm actually not sure what side if any to cheer for in all that. Elinruby (talk) 18:58, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Collaboration with the Axis powers
I like what you're doing on Collaboration with the Axis powers and its TP. Keep up the good work! François Robere (talk) 16:32, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, (1) you might be interested in this paragraph from Pierre Laval"More and more, the insoluble dilemma of collaboration faced Laval and his chief of staff, Jean Jardin. Laval had to maintain Vichy's authority to prevent Germany from installing a puppet government, which would be made up of French Nazis such as Jacques Doriot.[58]" since that differs from including Vichy (at least for most of its existence) as a puppet state.
 * (2) Sorry to rewrite much of your work on Collabo#France, but I was trying to emphasize the Collaboration elements of Vichy within a small but sufficient amount of political and military context. I'm sure you could fix some of my omissions or inconsistencies. (Perhaps, for example, you could restore a line or two about French complicity in the Holocaust to the Rafles subsection, which might itself need a more-comprehensive subtitle.)
 * Happy International Women's Day —— Shakescene (talk) 14:45, 8 March 2023 (UTC) (he/him/his)


 * I'll look but am not mad; my problem is always too much detail. Did you get the writers in? You know what they say: don't edit Wikipedia if you don:t want to be rewritten. As for whether Vichy was a puppet -- sigh. Denmark and  Belgium thought much the same thing, so if Vichy was a puppet government so were they. I don't think I want to take anyone's moral inventory. I am not suggesting we use the nomenclature at collaboration. As for the puppet government page, I noticed last night that I had work still to do an NOW it's done. I am not certain  I want to attempt substantive change over there, as my hands are currently full. I did take another look at what peacemaker had to say, and it had to do with dates and Yugoslavia, so something we haven't addressed yet. Not pertinent to current discussion. Elinruby (talk) 21:47, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
 * , my recollection is that while once the term "puppet state" was used to describe Vichy, most historians consider this inaccurate, and a better term is "client state". This was amply documented somewhere, but I'd have to go find it, if it's not in the article now. Mathglot (talk) 09:54, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * the context here is List of World War II puppet states, which does include Vichy on its list, and I believe that puppet state uses Vichy as an example. The main thing they and I are working on is Collaboration with the Axis Powers, but they got involved with thet puppet state article after he spun off collaboration with Japan. This led to a discussion of what is a puppet state. Sounds like there is a inconsistency between pages, but I merely report. The German were apparently really good at holding out false hope, in Vichy's case, of saving French POWs. And French Jews still went to extermination camps anyway. But like I've said before, I am glad I never had to make some of these choices and I am trying to write this with the nuances included, neither blaming nor excusing. Elinruby (talk) 10:11, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Mathglot (talk) 12:00, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

/* Collaboration with the Axis powers */ So, not to be that one editor, should Vichy be listed at puppet state? I think we have. consensus that it is so collaborationist that it's who the coined the term to describe, right? Elinruby (talk) 07:55, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Pt-wiki OCW templates
you know what would be cool is if the pt--wiki OCW templates worked with English. condider it a long term feature request maybe? Elinruby (talk) 07:42, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Not aware of any, and just checking pt:Operação Lava Jato I don't see anything of note there; care to add a link? Mathglot (talk) 07:50, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * hmmm maybe I saw it at OCW translations
 * but it wasn't a dedicated WCw template. I will get back to you on th, maybe Monday, no rush right?s. Elinruby (talk) 08:43, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * hey how about List of scandals in Brazil? Seems like that might lend itself to automation Elinruby (talk) 09:17, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Simplifying refs with {sfn Legifrance}
Check out my last seven edits at Tribunal correctionnel—dropped 3000 bytes converting the long, Legifrance references using the sfn Legifrance template, check it out. Also, it makes the wikicode much easier to read, with the shorter refs. Mathglot (talk) 06:50, 8 April 2023 (UTC)


 * That's fantastic. I haven't used it yet because of learning curve (minor Though it may be, I am sure) but I intend to use it heavily when I come back to the admin law glossary, most likely after the Sunday midnight deadline I am currently on. may also be interested. I was thinking it might be worth starting a civil law project to host these glossaries; or is there already a project somewhere I am not aware of? Elinruby (talk) 16:24, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * is it just {sfn Legifrance [reference number]} ? Pinging because I mangled his user name above. Elinruby (talk)`

Elinruby (talk) 16:31, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Mathglot, if there is a lots of types of citations across multiple article, it might be worth getting it done by bot.   scope_creep Talk  17:10, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * how does one "get it done by bot"? Asking for a friend that does a lot of repetitive copy edits, Elinruby (talk) 17:13, 8 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the invite, but I'm not familiar with Legifrance at all, nor the specific issue of French criminal law, since criminal law in Canada, and court structure, is based on English common law. However, if you're looking for a glossary of civil law terms as used in Quebec, here's a good link: Dictionnaires de droit privé en ligne.  As an interesting side note, when the drafters of the Civil Code of Lower Canada were working on the English version, they consciously avoided using English common law terms to ensure they didn't accidentally import common law concepts.  Instead, they used equivalent civil law terms from Scots law, which is a civil law jurisdiction. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:17, 8 April 2023 (UTC)::
 * Post an entry up at the bot noticeboard and see if somebody will take it up and start from there. If there is lots of articles needing updating then it is ideal for that.   scope_creep Talk  17:39, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Mathglot has written or is writing a glossary of French criminal law. I have made noises about French admin law. I did not know that Scottish law was civil law and find that very interesting. I also did not realize any of what you just said about what you just said about Quebec law and I thank you very much for that. At some point I might like to write up that decision about the Magpie River. where would I go to find out whether the Innu have a treaty with someone, do you know? Elinruby (talk) 19:09, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, Scots law is civil, but not codified. It has close ties to Dutch law, because the Presbyterian dissenters in Scotland sometimes sent their sons off to the Netherlands for good Calvinist educations. I'm afraid I don't know much about the Innu of Labrador, or their Treaty status (or non-status).  If there is a treaty or a modern land claims agreement, it would be with the federal government, under s. 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867.  You might find these links helpful:  Innu Nation and Why Recognize a River’s Rights? Behind the Scenes of the Magpie River Case in Canada.  Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 20:10, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

oh yeah status, thank you? And um, civil but not codified? Does that describe Dutch law then? no rush on this, and I can look it up then?Elinruby (talk) 21:50, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * In Canada, if a Band has signed a treaty with the federal government, then the members of the Band are "status Indians" (note that the bands and band members generally prefer the term "First Nation" / Indigenous, but "status Indians" is the term derived from the federal Indian Act). There are Indigenous people that for historical reasons are not members of a band that has a treaty, so they are sometimes referred to as "non-status".  The terminology also applies in some cases to Indigenous bands, to denote whether they have a treaty with the federal government ("status") or don't ("non-status"). My guess is that the Innu in Labrador don't have a treaty, because the impetus for treaties, from the government perspective, was to clarify title to land that would be settled.  Labrador didn't fit that pattern, so the Innu may not be a status band.
 * Netherlands are a codified civil law country: Dutch Civil Code.  Codification was an outgrowth of the French Revolution:  get rid of all the local coutumes and local written laws, and their implicit (sometimes explicit) connection with feudalism, and have a single code for the entire nation.  That ethos tended to spread in Europe with the French armies in the Napoleonic wars.  Since Boney never made it to Edinburgh, no codification of Scots law.  Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 22:30, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * When I saw mention of Dutch elements in Scottish civil law, I soon thought about other possible (once-Dutch) users, such as Law of Indonesia, Law of South Africa and Law of New York (state). The last doesn't seem to cite any Dutch civil origins, but the lead paragraphs of the other two show intriguing mixtures of Dutch law with other legal traditions: English common and African in South Africa; and Sharia and customary (adat) in Indonesia. See also Roman-Dutch law, Law of Namibia (S.W. Africa), Law of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Law of East Timor (Timor leste), etc. However, Wikipedia's articles on Suriname and Guyana (the former Dutch and British Guiana) don't say much, although apparently Roman-Dutch law or civil law is also part of their legal tradition. —— Shakescene (talk) 07:08, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * yeah, the mixed systems are interesting, aren't they. But let me repeat something I think I heard. The Dutch system influenced Scottish law (civil but uncodified) through the educational pattern described by Mr Serjeant Buzfuz. Having become a civil system as a result of the general move to abolish feudalism I guess? But the Dutch system became codified after that through Napoleon. And is now a civil codified system. I am going to go off and digest all this for a while. Elinruby (talk) 19:18, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * and Quebec, though a civil law system, nonetheless does have case law, I just noticed. Hmm 19:48, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

I have in the past had people ask me if I had a status card is what I just had a light bulb moment about. Maybe in Port Hardy, a couple of times also on mainland backwaters. i hadn't made the connection though. I had also forgotten that the Seven Years' War predates the PlaIns of Abraham. So, just to follow up on that point, ant case law prior to that would essentially be treated as a coutumw and no longer applied after that date, because civil law doesn't do case law? Yes, I was wondering about a treaty with the French (or the real Canadians, depending on who you're talking to). I know nothing about the Innu, absolutely nothing, but it did look on the map like the Magpie River had its source in Labrador, but it flows to the St. Lawrence from there. So this is a Quebec question -- I think the impetus for the legislation was a proposed hydroelectric project -- but pretty far east on the north shore. Thank tyou, you have given me a lot to think about. Elinruby (talk) 23:15, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Plains of Abraham was smack-dab in the middle of the Seven Years' War, which ran from 1756 to 1763. The battle for Quebec was 1759, resulting in a British victory.  The French still held Montreal, and made an attempt to re-capture Quebec in 1760, which failed (they won the battle outside the walls, but the British retreated into Quebec and the French laid siege).  The arrival of Royal Navy ships with supplies in the spring of 1760 was decisive, as the British ships had defeated a French naval group that was to re-supply New France.  The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ended the Seven Years' War and confirmed that the British had captured New France.
 * Yes, the effect of the Civil Code of Lower Canada was that it was no longer necessary to refer to the coutume de Paris and the related cases, decrets, etc. That was one of the driving forces for the new Code:  once the Code Napoleon was enacted, the French jurists only referred to that Code, and ceased any writings about the pre-Code law.  That meant that in Quebec, the legal sources were increasingly out of date, so they enacted their own Code.  However, because the court system is based on the English courts, case law is an important part of Quebec's civil law tradition, and look very similar to cases decided by the courts in the rest of Canada. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 13:55, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Getting lost in the indents, so I'll just reply here, and hope I didn't miss something.
 * Yes, there is a bit of a learning curve for using the Sfn Legifrance template (and the other two related ones), but not too bad, I'd like to think. I'm a big believer in clear, thorough documentation, so I spent a good deal of time on getting the /doc pages right for all three templates. Which doesn't mean they're perfect, or complete, and I definitely want to hear about anything that isn't clear in the doc now, so please add messages to the template Talk pages (not here, I'll just lose it) for anything that needs clarification, further explanation, or different wording.
 * A lot of the time it is, but it's not that simple, because not everything is a "law". For most of the stuff you linked in Tribunal correctionnel that is (or was) a "law", then, yes. But Legifrance is a comprehensive government website containing every law, every bill that didn't become law, every amendment, every nullified law, every decree, act, law, or regulation, most jurisprudence, constitutions, court decisions, links to the entire Journal Officiel, and more, going back to 1529. And then, there are about 60 different codes, one for criminal code, (Code pénale), another for code of criminal procedure (CPP), another for Labor code, Family code, Aviation code, and so on. But, once you know which code, and the number of the law, then it's pretty much just . You can see some examples in the last column of the table at Template:Sfn Legifrance.
 * Scope creep, That would be great, if it were feasible, but I think with the current state of things, it wouldn't work. For starters, the laws, acts, decrees, and regulations are only part of the mix (there's all that other stuff alluded to just above) so the bot would have to recognize which type it was. And even when it's a law/decree/reg, etc., the naming isn't exact (see for example, the "param notes" about param number at Sfn Legifrance#Param notes). But there's even a worse complication: in and after 2008, France added a whole bunch of new legal codes (in the sense of, whole new areas of codified law), and then in 2020, they revamped the Légifrance website including some internals such as the format of the url paths, and after that, the French Wikipedia Legifrance template stopped working for the post-2008 legal codes. Our template is based on theirs, or at least, it was up until I changed it earlier this year (especially the total rewrite in this edit), and now it's no longer based on the French template anymore. That doesn't mean the post-2008 codes all work–at the outset, none of them did, and they will have to be converted, one by one, so that they do work. So far, the transport code (CTRANSP) and penal code (CPEN) have been converted, meaning they work in sfn Legifrance on en-wiki, but not in fr-wiki. Converting the codes is a bit tedious, but is fairly quick, so if you're going to be working with a post-2008 code where the template doesn't work currently because it hasn't been converted yet, just let me know, and I'll convert it so it does. (I should probably document the conversion procedure, so anyone can do it.)
 * Mr Serjeant Buzfuz, yes, I noticed the McGill glossary when I was first researching material for the article French criminal law. The Talk page there has a list of glossaries which includes that one, and several others as well; see . One side effect of my research, was the creation of Glossary of French criminal law, without which I couldn't have gone on to create the article about FCL. The FCL glossary is not "finished" (meaning, there are still some very basic gaps in it), and there's still all of (French) civil law, and administrative law to cover, but that will have to be separate glossaries.
 * Scope creep, That would be great, if it were feasible, but I think with the current state of things, it wouldn't work. For starters, the laws, acts, decrees, and regulations are only part of the mix (there's all that other stuff alluded to just above) so the bot would have to recognize which type it was. And even when it's a law/decree/reg, etc., the naming isn't exact (see for example, the "param notes" about param number at Sfn Legifrance#Param notes). But there's even a worse complication: in and after 2008, France added a whole bunch of new legal codes (in the sense of, whole new areas of codified law), and then in 2020, they revamped the Légifrance website including some internals such as the format of the url paths, and after that, the French Wikipedia Legifrance template stopped working for the post-2008 legal codes. Our template is based on theirs, or at least, it was up until I changed it earlier this year (especially the total rewrite in this edit), and now it's no longer based on the French template anymore. That doesn't mean the post-2008 codes all work–at the outset, none of them did, and they will have to be converted, one by one, so that they do work. So far, the transport code (CTRANSP) and penal code (CPEN) have been converted, meaning they work in sfn Legifrance on en-wiki, but not in fr-wiki. Converting the codes is a bit tedious, but is fairly quick, so if you're going to be working with a post-2008 code where the template doesn't work currently because it hasn't been converted yet, just let me know, and I'll convert it so it does. (I should probably document the conversion procedure, so anyone can do it.)
 * Mr Serjeant Buzfuz, yes, I noticed the McGill glossary when I was first researching material for the article French criminal law. The Talk page there has a list of glossaries which includes that one, and several others as well; see . One side effect of my research, was the creation of Glossary of French criminal law, without which I couldn't have gone on to create the article about FCL. The FCL glossary is not "finished" (meaning, there are still some very basic gaps in it), and there's still all of (French) civil law, and administrative law to cover, but that will have to be separate glossaries.
 * Mr Serjeant Buzfuz, yes, I noticed the McGill glossary when I was first researching material for the article French criminal law. The Talk page there has a list of glossaries which includes that one, and several others as well; see . One side effect of my research, was the creation of Glossary of French criminal law, without which I couldn't have gone on to create the article about FCL. The FCL glossary is not "finished" (meaning, there are still some very basic gaps in it), and there's still all of (French) civil law, and administrative law to cover, but that will have to be separate glossaries.
 * Mr Serjeant Buzfuz, yes, I noticed the McGill glossary when I was first researching material for the article French criminal law. The Talk page there has a list of glossaries which includes that one, and several others as well; see . One side effect of my research, was the creation of Glossary of French criminal law, without which I couldn't have gone on to create the article about FCL. The FCL glossary is not "finished" (meaning, there are still some very basic gaps in it), and there's still all of (French) civil law, and administrative law to cover, but that will have to be separate glossaries.

I hope that covers everythipng. If I missed anything, lmk. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 02:00, 9 April 2023 (UTC)


 * and the award for best use of tq goes to Mathglot it is interesting, very. A timeline would also be a good idea. It this really all just Napoleon? Elinruby (talk) 09:41, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

You are not alone...
I'm really beginning to regret roping you into this Collabaxis article two months ago and the awful nationalist battle at ArbCom that you consequently have to suffer. It does look as if this push to move blame for collaboration from the Poles to the Jews is part of a concerted ideological/nationalist campaign (no doubt organized off-Wiki). Of course, a mirror campaign to extinguish any mention of Jewish collaborators and shove all the blame onto Polish Catholics would be equally objectionable.

The reason I mention this is this conspiratorial posting I saw on the talk page of a Swedish editor who is apparently both a scientist and a scholar of world Wikipedianism. User_talk:HaeB.

I never knew that Holocaust studies was part of an Israeli plot; I guess that I'm just naïve. "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." — Ephesians 6:12

S:-( —— Shakescene (talk) 19:42, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Hmm. that's four months old. Are you sure it's related? It's interesting though, because of his involvement with the Signpost's very uncritical review of the Grabowski article. My own involvement is limited to the collaboration article, although it annoyed me to spend several hours checking out the citizenship of various members of the school of Paris. (As far as I can tell tell all the Poles survived.) I am a bit dismayed at the "who suffered more" discourse that apparently took place in Poland, but my own position is that Grabowski was wrong to say that anybody intentionally distorted anything. Certainly VM and Piotrus seem capable of examining their beliefs. On the other hand I absolutely cannot defend some of the things that GizzyCatBella has said, while displaying a Canadian flag to boot. It's essentially over, though. For some reason GCB's antisemitism was not accrpted into evidence, which is confusing, but they are apparently investigating something we are not aware of. As far as I am concerned, I was added as a party, but all of the evidence about me is positive so I am not too concerned. I will need to do a little more talking in the analysis phase, or maybe the correct word is "should". I am just glad France had already gotten past this phase.Elinruby (talk) 19:45, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

French section of Collab with Axis
Hi, ER,

(1) No doubt to a cascade of succeeding edits and re-edits, the second paragraph's subjects get confused:

"Pierre Laval actively collaborated in the extermination of Jews. It also participated in Porajmos, the extermination of Roma people, and the extermination of other 'undesirables.' Vichy opened a series of internment camps in France where Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and political opponents were interned."

(2) The first paragraph obviously tried to summarize a vast amount of material into a few sentences. But the result seems to be a series of judgements and conclusions without specific citations.

"Because he was a hero for saving lives at Verdun in World War I, France's most notorious collaborator, Maréchal Philippe Pétain, became the head of the French State after a catastrophic French loss at the Battle of France. The government of the French Third Republic collapsed because its executive could not agree to either sign the armistice or continue to fight, and the Assemblée Nationale voted to put Pétain in charge of convoking a constituent assembly, which he did not do. The resulting authoritarian government operated outside the bounds of the French constitution and was largely run by its ministers, who initially prioritized the saving of French lives but proved willing to sacrifice foreign Jews in exchange for French prisoners of war."

(3) I don't think that it constitute Own Conclusions or Undue Weight to let the uninitiated know that Léon Blum was Jewish, so long as that reader doesn't get the impression that his premiership and identity were the principal moving cause behind French anti-semitism (which would still have been rife had the Popular Front been led by a devout Roman Catholic war hero of impeccable Gallic ancestry going back to Joan of Arc.) Similarly, I think it probably best to translate Assemblée Nationale into "National Assembly" as the wikilinked article does, or even to call it (as many writers in English do) something like "French parliament".

(4) My last comment at Talk:Collaboration was not about the oft-noted length of the article itself (as suggested by your last comment at my Talk Page), but about its Talk Page, (current length pushing 100k).

I'm just mentioning these as pointers. Hope this helps. —— Shakescene (talk) 20:49, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

On Blum, what I am having trouble conveying is that he got blamed and yeah this was a symptom not a cause. Camelots deserve a mention. I took Pétain out because he was already mentioned and seems in fact to have been content to mostly be a figurehead; not that I excuse him. Senile or not he was the face of evil in France. In an attempt to summarize however I seem to have gone too far into my own head though; I know that this portrayal is a result of recent reading but I am having trouble sourcing these exact sentences. Which is a problem. I will try again later today.

I copied the section about volunteers off to my sandbox and it's extremely unsourced, as are the pages about individual units.Elinruby (talk) 21:04, 26 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Actually it looks like for the pronouns I can just switch Vichy and it, I'll do that now before I go afk, because ick Elinruby (talk) 21:16, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
 * OK I got the pronouns, and while I was there decided that only mentioning Laval could be read as minimizing, and addressed that too. Don't really like the result but too fried on this article to worry about style. Elinruby (talk) 21:40, 26 February 2023 (UTC)


 * getting back to this: are you questioning that they were only willing to sacrifice foreign Jews? Or that they eventually deported French Jews as well? I am sure this is true but yeah it needs to be sourced....Just LMK Elinruby (talk) 05:49, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * did this ever get completely resolved? I suspect it's sourceable if not. I think i took out some normative language but that might be all. I'll check on it. Elinruby (talk) 20:55, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Your question on ARC
I used the phrase "blood libel" in 2018 in this context (also here). François Robere (talk) 15:06, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

mmmyeah that second diff is in an evidence submission that was waiting to be summarized the last I looked. I quoted item 15. So I will take that to mean that I've fairly represented the concern? (Correct me if I am wrong but I'm under the impression that we've interacted very little, and don't know you let alone your concerns) I was however asking because I had to look the term up to see how a medieval trope about drinking the blood of children actually applied here. I think it's a legit metaphorical use though possibly a bit inflammatory. And also to give you an opportunity to comment on the interactions at the time if you wanted, since I think most people would have reached a point of at least minor hyperbole by then. But I only ever even got into that because Barkeep49 asked me for diffs for the statement that there had been edit wars in the article in the past. If you would rather not comment in the case itself I understand; you're far from the only one,. Elinruby (talk) 17:30, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
 * As a neutral mention, it was certainly fair.
 * We have interacted very little, but my overall impression of you has been positive.
 * Thanks for the opportunity. Today I might use different terminology for several reasons, but I stand behind that use then. We were just starting to clean up the topic area, and stories like that were a daily affair, often accompanied by stonewalling and PAs.
 * I intend on elaborating on interactions later, and I have taken some examples from there as well. François Robere (talk) 11:07, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 * , yes even as an uninvolved editor that history was painful to even read. Barkeep asked me for diffs to substantiate past edit warring when I mentioned that I thought that this might account for the large number of references that failed verification in that section, so I am assuming that this was intended to be diagnostic. I think the people who are worried about sanctions being handed down over five-year-old behaviour are underestimating the committee. Barkeep in particular seems to be trying to look under the surface, and besides, supposing you did something wrong (which I am not saying) you have already been sanctioned. My take on that at the moment is that if sanctions were warranted for you, they were also warranted for a couple of other people, shrug, but they took the problem to 3RR, which apparently doesn't consider such things. Elinruby (talk) 17:40, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 * By the way, while going through diffs I noticed that you expressed some sympathy that one time that I and some others were getting told to work it out with Gitz on the talk page for the umpteenth time. Somewhere around where I was saying that if Wikipedia did not care that the dumpster was on fire then I guessed I didn't either. Belated thanks for that, . Random question: I realize that it's your username and you know how to spell it, but is that an anglicized version? I keep having to tell my spellcheck that no, he doesn't put an accent grave there even though yeah, it does seem like there should be one there. Elinruby (talk) 19:08, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late reply - "real life" things to deal with.
 * I agree with all of the above.
 * No problem.
 * LOL! Indeed - no grave accent, just a cedilla (cf. François). François Robere (talk) 22:44, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Article 49 spiked 500x over normal levels
I don't know what the heck happened a month ago, but there was this huge spike in viewership at Article 49 of the French Constitution about a month ago. Normally, it gets around 20 to 40 page views a day, and then out of nowhere, it shot up to over 13,000 on 16 March. Any idea what happened? Did it get onto the Main page, or something? Mathglot (talk) 04:33, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * [butting in, in complete ignorance] I would suspect that such a spike might have to do with Pres. Macron's attempts to increase the age of retirement from 62 to 64 without a majority vote in the National Assembly — attempts which we all know have provoked endless days of protest in the streets, answered with all the subtlety, finesse and restraint for which French law enforcement is so celebrated. The news reports I've read and seen that Macron bypassed a regular parliamentary vote to do so, but I don't know if Article 49 was the mechanism he used, although my reading of the Wikipedia article strongly suggests that to me. —— Shakescene (talk) 05:39, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I suspected, upon further thought (instead of going to sleep) that the clicks onto this article probably came from Wikilinks in other articles about the controversy. See, for example,
 * 2023_French_pension_reform_unrest,
 * 2023_French_pension_reform_unrest and
 * March_2023_votes_of_no_confidence_in_the_government_of_Élisabeth_Borne
 * —— Shakescene (talk) 06:28, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Aha Elinruby (talk) 19:51, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * , good sleuthing! At first, I was dubious about the first hypothesis, because even though the timing was about right, I just couldn't see how the average reader would make the connection between the street protests and the Constitution, let alone a particular article of it. But your list of links makes good sense as a possibility. It's perhaps not the first two (which used to be called "2023_French_pension_reform_strikes" since on 3/16 that article had 6,024 views, and Article 49 had twice that, so that wasn't it (or at least, not most of it). Add the Borne article wasn't created till 20 March, so that wasn't it, either. There are 24 mainspace articles which link to Article 49, so that would be the logical place to look, following up on your two links. Other than your links, which seem like the most likely suspects, I found this candidate:
 * 2023 French pension reform bill
 * but it's not that either, because it has only about a thousand views.
 * So I started thinking, "maybe it came from links outside Wikipedia, such as a press article with high viewership which either linked to our article (if so, it might be under the old, "strikes" name, depending when it was published) or was about the same topic and prompted readers to search around for more info. So, I checked around, and found "What Is Article 49.3 of the French Constitution? published in the New York Times, on—guess what day?—March 16.
 * Without access logs, it's hard to be sure, but I think it's fair to conclude that some readers of the NY Times article, after having read it, might have wanted to know more about Article 49.3, and either did a google search or came straight to Wikipedia and searched here (the internal search figure is available, if we ask the right people). If they did a google search for the title of the NY Times article, the What Is Article 49.3 of the French Constitution?, the #1 result is the Wikipedia article (even though the title is different) and #2 is the NYT article itself. Without access logs from the NYT, we don't know for sure how many people read their article, let alone searched for more info and ended up here, but it seems like the most likely scenario.
 * All of which seems to point to Elinruby as having been prescient, in his major expansion of the article, getting ready for the moment when a reform bill in France over three years later would provoke massive protests, and a NYT article reporting on it, that would in turn send thousands of readers flocking to Wikipedia to read his words. Hm, makes me wonder what kind of crystal ball he is using, and where do I get one? Mathglot (talk) 22:14, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * hmm ok? isn't this the one where there was discussion on the talk page about the administration in power and the government? The article was there as a remedy to the sort of constitutional crisis that ended the Third Republic, as I recall. I got interested in how a democracy came to vote itself out of existence a couple of years ago, when we were doing Liberation of France. one of the things that happened was the Fourth Republic, right?. Elinruby (talk) 23:06, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * putting a little time into the references, which do need it. Also starting a second pass for language Elinruby (talk) 02:06, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Takeaway from referencing: yeah, I got there from previous forays into French constitutional law. I saw that Mathglot removed some untranslated text -- and thank you for that work, Mathglot -- but I did manage to improve on what was there when I got there last night. Based on my most recent referencing binge, the reason 49.3 is important is that it allowed Macron to unilaterally increase the age of retirement. I have to come back to the referencing, but it is precisely this modification of parliamentary procedure* that distinguishes the Fifth Republic from the Fourth, and it was intended to prevent the rotating-door administrations which plagued the Fourth Republic.

I am still uncertain about the motion of non-confidence and the motion of confidence, which a translator before me had conflated. I *think* the motion of confidence was replaced by the engagement in the Fifth Republic, but I think I read somewhere, possibly French Wikipedia, that an engagement requires a simple majority for approval, whereas a vote of no confidence requires an absolute majority, a critical distinction for a minority government. Looking for a reference for that, but I noticed last night that current events are headed to the constitutional council, which is the escalation prescribed by the constitution. Key work escalation. I added a two-sentence paragraph titled March 2023, but am not quite certain that more is going on than the usual protests as a rite of spring in Paris. Apparently this is the 11th time the government has used this mechanism. Certainly though, we do have the executive over-riding the legislature and public sentiment. Elinruby (talk) 20:39, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * But remember, Parliament != Parliament, which in Britain is the lower house. In France this is the Assemblée Nationale, and Parlement refers to the legislative branch Elinruby (talk) 19:27, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Ignorant as I am of the finer points of the Fifth Republic's constitution, I do know something of the (unwritten) British constitution. Parliament means the House of Lords as well as the House of Commons, just as the Canadian Parliament consists of the Senate and House of Commons, and the United States Congress means the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * The British House of Lords still has a formal rôle, although its actual (positive or negative) power has been progressively vitiated over the last 120+ years. Legislation must still come before it, for consideration and suggested amendments, although the Government of the Day can easily ignore or override it and essentially enact measures simply by carrying the House of Commons.
 * I've seen various names in English for the legislative branch of France, consisting of the Sénat and the Assemblée Nationale, most commonly Parliament. Just to spice things up, parlement, as you know and as countless British and American students must learn, has quite a different specific meaning referring to legal bodies under the Bourbon monarchy.
 * I should stop here to avoid dropping into silliness or incoherence. Bonne chance
 * —— Shakescene (talk) 02:10, 16 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Really! I stand corrected on the meaning of Parliament, I guess. This is what I guess for opining about the obvious, vaguely remembered from grade school, lol. While I have your attention, did that caption get taken care of? Elinruby (talk) 02:15, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * While you have my attention, what (or which) caption? —— Shakescene (talk) 02:48, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Whether or not ROA/RONA were Nazi by definition? Elinruby (talk) 02:54, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and took care of the caption, since the other editor never did provide any evidence of his contention that you are wrong. Elinruby (talk) 16:14, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

The War over the War of 1812 continues (result inconclusive)
Hi, Elin, in case you should be seized by some lunatic desire to return to the bloody battles of your callow youth, you could stroll down Memory Lane, and see that Talk:War of 1812 is, 210 years afterwards, still raging. See Talk:War of 1812. But now that we're now so much more mature, we can wage the real struggles over Collaboration with the Axis powers. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. Now we see as through a glass darkly ..." — 1 Corinthians 13. —— Shakescene (talk) 17:53, 11 April 2023 (UTC)


 * pretty much. I have zero appetite for a discussion of American exceptionalism. Elinruby (talk) 18:15, 11 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Agreeing with something and being able to recognize it when one sees it are different things. I consider that whole discussion a fine clash of British and American nationalism but my interest is limited to begin with and gets more so the more confused I get about who I should be cheering in the first place. I am inclinec to cheer for the Mohawks a priori but if the decisive battle was Monongahela then that has little to do with an attempt to soberly assess who "won". I never heard of it and associate the name with West Virginia and Ohio. Which might be right, but is something I'd have to read up on, and I fundamentally do not care. I stand by my original position that this is way way too much drama over an infobox entry. Now that we've bored everyone else out of the thread I should mention that I have raised a safety/outing concern at the Arbcom case (unrelated to those previously raised by others) and am amused/content to simply correct the people who call me Polish. The concern is genuine though, and as somebody who could probably already be located by a pissed-off state actor, the last thing I need is TFD demanding the details of my biography as he did last time. The more of that that's out there the more my concern for safety increases, and since he has already taken the position that my refusal to answer proved that I am obviously not proceeding from facts, there seems little point in re-engaging since given the recent incident I am even less willing to bare the identifying details of my biography, thanks. By the way, in my recent teasing discussions of this I was thinking of the battles near Lake Champlain, but the details of that fade into the mist and I have volunteer conscripts, French administrative law and scandals in Brazil to worry about, which i consider to be both plenty enough to worry about and mych mire interesting. Elinruby (talk) 20:02, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I was hardly being serious about re-engaging in this (especially since I have little knowledge outside what I've learnt editing War of 1812), just letting you know that plus ça change, plus c'est las même chose.
 * Having thought the editors of the day (years ago) had finally, after much wrangling, writing and research, reached some joint mutually-agreeable consensus (about how to report whatever historians' debate there was) that would resolve this never-ending and fundamentally unresolvable debate, of course the debate has never ended and probably never will (regardless of the warning at the top page that it was not the place for discussions of Who won?) Should Wikipedia, in some form, survive until the 1812 War's 250th anniversary in 2062, the editors of that day will no doubt still be dropping in to argue what can never be set in stone (cf. was Napoléon Bonaparte good or bad for France, or Vladimir Lenin good or bad for Russia?)
 * P.S. good luck on the ArbCom psychodrama; which frankly I don't read because it's too much work (hundreds of thousands of kB) and too emotional. I witnessed or participated in—but rarely enjoyed—far too many faction fights in my youth. —— Shakescene (talk) 20:52, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

nod, they are deep into a concordance of who did what to which article, which is complicated by the fact that there is secret evidence that can't be discussed, and the arbitrators'complaints about scope creep, which can't be addressed because nobody knows what the scope is. Not really complaining about any of that -- some of the secret evidence relates to my safety concern (although it in itself isn't central to whatever the issue is as some of the other evidence seems to be) for one thing. For another, there has been a news story that they pretty much have to respond to, and the actual problem, while misidentified by Grabowski, gives new meaning to the word "intractable", so I am just glad they are trying. That doesn't mean that I'm not frustrated, but I think Barkeep49 for one is actually trying to get to the bottom of some stuff and resolve it. I haven't had enough interaction with the rest of them to even have an opinion. Elinruby (talk) 21:43, 11 April 2023 (UTC)


 * It's perfectly permissible to omit the outcome field, yanno, btw. A propos of nothing. Or disputed. Clearly it is disputed. Also à propos de rien, I have recently been reading Milgram experiment and about the Stanford prison experiment. And objected to the deletion of what looks like it shouldbe a spinoff of lese-majeste, y'all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elinruby (talk • contribs) 18:26, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Rue Copernic and French fascism
No doubt (sans doute) you might be interested, if you don't already know about it, in an in-absentia conviction for the Rue Copernic bombing https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/world/europe/paris-synagogue-bombing.html

No appeal from an in-absentia conviction sounds strange to me. It's not know whether Justin Trudeau will extradite from Canada.

I'm currently re-reading a book I bought and read just before I left to enter Berkeley as a freshman: International Fascism, 1920-1945, Number One of the Journal of Contemporary History (Harper Torchbooks, 1966). It has a general essay on "The Nature of Fascism in France" by Robert J. Soucy and "The Political Transition of Jacques Doriot" by Gilbert Allardyce.

Have a good weekend —— Shakescene (talk) 19:14, 21 April 2023 (UTC)


 * ¶ Link to JStor edition of the JCH no. 1, https://www.jstor.org/stable/i211473 See especially Robert Soucy's discussion of what drove French fascists towards (or occasionally away from) collaboration with Germany, beginning on page 42. —— Shakescene (talk) 05:35, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

That looks very pertinent. I will download that later today and dig in further. I have been doing some reading re Bulgaria and Serbia, and nibbling around the edges of the volunteer militias. Elinruby (talk) 16:53, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Charter of Rights would come into it. I think anti-terrorism legislation in France might be part of the no-appeal thing; not sure. In my only very slightly informed opinion I think the lack of an appeal might make some people question whether he should be extradited, given the precedent set with Maher Arar. I will do some clicking. Elinruby (talk) 01:48, 22 April 2023 (UTC)


 * à propos de rien: Elinruby (talk) 16:32, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

confirming the lack of appeal: From Contoumace: La loi du 9 mars 2004, dite loi Perben II, a institué en lieu et place une procédure dite de « défaut criminel »[10]. Cette dernière donne lieu à des débats oraux si l'accusé est représenté par un avocat[11]. En cas d'absence de l'accusé et de son avocat, il revient au juge de décider le report du procès ou la condamnation par défaut. Celle-ci devient irrévocable (le condamné ne peut pas faire appel). Looks like this was an attenpt to bring a more drastic post-911 law into compliance with european human right law. See also: Garde à vue. Elinruby (talk) 18:12, 23 April 2023 (UTC)


 * the interesting part is that on the face of it the above would seem to violate the Principle of legality in French law. Or maybe not; bombs have always been illegal. But the law about appeals (among other things) came after the alleged offence. I took a look at Canadian procedures for extradition, about while there's no question that what he is accused of is also illegal in Canada, it's a bit less clear what the Justice Department would make of the trial in absentia without appeal. The webpage specifically mentions proof of identity, as in, is this really the person who did this. So there is a review. The fact that it's France probably doesn't matter. I suspect that the Maher Arar case put an end to taking the word of other countries (in that case the US) that they have "proof". And then there is a whole appeal process, so there is time to figure this out. Elinruby (talk) 18:32, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Glancing very hurriedly over some of the reporting, I understand that the prosecution's case was denied by a lower court (one of first instance?} but reinstituted by the Cour de Cassation, which I've understood to be equivalent to an Anglo-American court of appeals. Although it still doesn't make sense from my sense of justice, perhaps one reason he couldn't take it to appeal was that an appeals court had already given its decision.
 * ¶ Since trials in absentia are so rare nowadays in American and Commonwealth law, I may not understand the principle of unappealability, but perhaps it rests on the fact neither the defendant nor an advocate appeared to defend him. (Again, some kinds of defence rely on not acknowledging a jurisdiction to whom you don't want to give recognition — for example, if some court, regular or kangaroo, in Russia or Chine were to assert extraterritorial anti-terrorist jurisdiction and hear charges against you for supporting Aleksandr Navalny or the independence of Taiwan and Ukraine).
 * But I'm no lawyer; I just have an unused associate's degree in paralegal studies (of U.S. law). —— Shakescene (talk) 19:36, 23 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I will dig into the legal question a bit. This would come under the admin law I keep saying I will finsh up after all.

Dark in here but good company
Can I talk to you yet, or would that still be bludgeoning? Elinruby (talk) 18:18, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * If it's still about that ping, which was perfectly correct although you don't seem to understand it, then no, I don't want to hear it. If it's about something else, fine. Bishonen &#124; tålk 20:16, 23 April 2023 (UTC).


 * Hmm. You still sound kinda ruffled. Look, I admit that I found the allegation so outrageous that I lost my cool, if that helps. I am sorry about all the notifications as I tried to explain to you that it was outrageous. Look at it from my point of view. The situation escalated all the way to you indicating that you would not oppose an indef ban, over "stalking" that amounts to a 1) routine discretionary sanctions notification and 2) a civil (and required) required attempt to discuss an issue of behaviour. That is the sum total of my actions on her talk page, vs:TrangaBellam on my talk page:


 * 17:13, 14 January 2023 TB
 * 22:05, 24 January 2023 TB
 * 10:28, 28 January 2023 TB
 * 14:37, 30 January 2023 TB
 * 10:08, 2 February 2023 TB
 * 10:21, 2 February 2023 El
 * 10:23, 2 February 2023 El
 * 10:35, 2 February 2023 TB
 * 11:07, 2 February 2023 El
 * 11:09, 2 February 2023 El

Maybe I'm reading the editor interaction analyzer wrong; infinite are the ways in which I have been and will be wrong. My saving grace imho is that I admit it.🌻 However, it looks to me like, if anything, she follows me, although she seems to spend more time at the noticeboards than I do.

This is *not* at this time an appeal of the interaction ban, although it's getting in the way of my wikignoming a bit. But I do understand it's considered best practice for these to be two-way, and I wish you would have a word with her about complaining to journalists about the "hostile reaction" she claims to get when she "cleans up". Pro tip, if she would talk to people, instead of daring them to start wiki proceedings, she would get less of that, definitely from me, at least. Bonus pro tip: If one tells other editors to take it to AE, one shouldn't respond with rofl emoticons when they do. It makes it look like one thinks the fix is in, especially when one's reaction to a warning is another rofl emoticon and an announcement that one can make the warning go away.

This does not require a response, unless of course you want to make one. I've said what I said and don't plan to say more at this time; not looking to argue with you, but as I understand it you're the person to talk to about that ban.Elinruby (talk) 21:15, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Elinruby, you can appeal the I-ban if you wish, but you can't complain about the other user without appealing the ban, as you do above. An appeal is an exception to the rules for interaction bans, which state "if Alice is banned from interacting with Bob, Alice would not be allowed to ... make reference to or comment on Bob anywhere on Wikipedia, directly or indirectly". See WP:IBAN. Asking an admin to take action against a violation of the ban by another person is another exception, as is asking for clarifications about the scope of the ban. But you're not doing any of that, AFAICS. What you do above — discussing TB's actions and complaining about what led to the ban — is not an exception. This is a warning. Don't complain about TB directly or indirectly again. Bishonen &#124; tålk 21:47, 23 April 2023 (UTC).

so: echoing to make sure I understand: It is a violation of an I-ban to complain that a banned user is talking to Slate magazine about their alleged hostile treatment by another user, but it is not a violation of the interaction ban to complain to Slate magazine about the other user?

If so: let's consider this an appeal then, since in that case it's just permission for slander, about which I am not permitted to complain. The basis for this appeal, of a ban which I requested, is that it isn't being enforced. She fails to follow the procedure of the case, yet makes fun of me on talk pages where it is not appropriate for me to reply.

And you are giving *me* warnings. I assume that my appeal is denied because how dare I, but just saying. This has been an effort to discuss, and since this has not been possible, fine. I told you I wasn't looking for an argument. Have a nice day. Elinruby (talk) 22:24, 23 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Look, I'm not trying to be difficult, but I can't action complaints or appeals on mere hints; you say "I wish you would have a word with her about complaining to journalists about the "hostile reaction" she claims to get when she 'cleans up'", apparently assuming that I closely follow everyting both of you do. In reality I don't know what you're referring to. Now you have specified that into "a banned user is talking to Slate magazine about their alleged hostile treatment by another user"; still not helpful without a link or diff. Also I don't know what to do with a general, diff-less, complaint that "She fails to follow the procedure of the case, yet makes fun of me on talk pages where it is not appropriate for me to reply", either. And you add a list of times TB contacted you on your talk before I placed the ban. Presumably that's a complaint about what led to the ban.


 * Also, and I'm sorry you weren't told about this clearly at the time, Arbcom, as represented by User:Barkeep, briefly altered the conditions of my I-ban in March, and I therefore asked them to take over the ban, which they agreed to do. See this discussion on your page, this on mine, and this note in the log. So could you please address your appeal either to Barkeep as your first port of call, or put it at WP:AN (for consideration by the community) or WP:AE (for consideration by uninvolved admins)? Wherever you put it, please consider that the reader(s) will need specific information, diffs, etc. Bishonen &#124; tålk 08:28, 24 April 2023 (UTC).


 * Your points are well-taken, and btw I am not trying to be difficult either. To the extent that I am anyway, I am sincerely sorry.


 * I actually am under the impression (from an, actually, quite close reading of the subsequent thread on your talk page) that BK only' modified it to allow evidence submission in the case. The issue of evidence submission on talk pages is indeed his problem to that extent, and only brought to you on my second reply when I thought we were burnng an appeal.


 * If you are requesting that any appeal go to AN, that is the procedural clarity that i was looking for, so thank you for that. I will do that at some point, and btw simply say that you referred me there, period. BK is of the DENY philosophy (I think), which still leaves my wikignoming hampered by a sanction resulting from a baseless complaint imho. But the reputational harm has already been done and his hands are full with gnarly procedural questions, the last I looked, with what to do about evidence submitted by a blocked sock. This is definitely more urgent and probably more important than the forensic investigation that now appears to be required for me to manifest as a punctuation fairy.


 * So peace out, Bishonen. Sorry to bother you but I was under the impression it was required. I have questions about Bishzilla but they can await a later time, and the procedural questions I still have about this this don't need to be asked here if you are referring me to AN. 🌻 Elinruby (talk) 19:16, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Either AN or AE, yes. Welcome in Bishzilla pocket, little user!  bishzilla  ROA R R! !   pocket 19:44, 24 April 2023 (UTC).

Admin law glossary
Happy Wednesday; here's a skeleton of Draft:Glossary of French administrative law, it's all yours. Happy hunting! Mathglot (talk) 08:17, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. I think we'll find the lines are blurry but I had some stuff for n my sandbox for it. Elinruby (talk) 08:28, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * In some cases they are a little blurry, and certain terms should live in both glossaries. I've been looking into selective transclusion for that, so we only have to actually include the definition in one place, and the other glossary can just transclude it. That will solve the problem of fragmentation of similar content, and keep the maintenance to just one copy of it, instead of having to sync it in two places all the time. Mathglot (talk) 06:26, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Found another really good glossary; it's bilingual, with all the dictionary entries in French, and all the definitions and explanations in English. It's called the Council of Europe French-English Legal Dictionary, and it's in Google books, so you know how Google skips pages here and there, so it's not complete, but there are a *lot* of pages available. Almost everything from A to J is available (with several short gaps with missing pages) but there's nothing past 'J'. But it's really worth trying it for any French legal terms in the A to J range. Mathglot (talk) 07:14, 23 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Awesome. I just found out that the river in Quebec was declared a person under Innu law, or at least by Innu entities. Elinruby (talk) 07:22, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

I was just looking at that glossary. It looks partially populated, is that the transcluding you were talking about? Elinruby (talk) 03:19, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * The transcluding, is where it slurps content from the other glossary; see for example, bon père de famille or ordre public, and look at the wikicode. Mathglot (talk) 10:51, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Btw, the Draft:Glossary of French criminal law is about 75% releasable (not 75% done, because it could be vastly expanded, but close to releasable). Please add any words you need and don't see there, to the Talk page, and I'll get to it eventually. Mathglot (talk) 10:55, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * great, thanks. I should be able to give this some thought tonight or tomorrow Elinruby (talk) 10:50, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

French law, Canadian law and international air agreements
Hi, Elin, since I know that you (and also Mr Serjeant Buzfuz & Mathglot) have some interest in French law, Canadian law and administrative law, you might perhaps have some interest in this RefDesk question that has almost  nothing  to do with such upbeat cheerful subjects as terrorism, Vichy and Nazi collaborators/enablers:

Reference_desk/Humanities. —— Shakescene (talk) 19:09, 25 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I answered, but in case you missed it, in turns out that Canada did indeed withdraw from that treaty. Elinruby (talk) 01:16, 27 April 2023 (UTC)


 * speculatiion: might have felt uncomfortable given its position between US and Soviet Union Elinruby (talk) 13:40, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Bing Chat's essay on Vichy and the Jews

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The Vichy French government was a puppet regime established by Nazi Germany after France’s defeat in World War II. The Vichy government enacted anti-Semitic laws with the full knowledge and support of the Catholic church1. Before the Nazis ever demanded the Vichy government participate in anti-Semitic policies, the French had enacted policies that removed Jews from civil service and began seizing Jewish property2. Anti-Jewish laws were enacted by the Vichy France government in 1940 and 1941 affecting metropolitan France and its overseas territories during World War II34. These laws were decrees of head of state Marshal Philippe Pétain since Parliament was no longer in office as of July 11, 19403.

I hope this helps!

Received message. The Vichy French government was a puppet regime established by Nazi Germany after France's defeat in World War II. The Vichy government enacted anti-Semitic laws with the full knowledge and support of the Catholic church. Before the Nazis ever demanded the Vichy government participate in anti-Semitic policies, the French had enacted policies that removed Jews from civil service and began seizing Jewish property. Anti-Jewish laws were enacted by the Vichy France government in 1940 and 1941 affecting metropolitan France and its overseas territories during World War II. These laws were decrees of head of state Marshal Philippe Pétain since Parliament was no longer in office as of July 11, 1940. I hope this helps!

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What happened to Jews under Vichy France?

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My mistake, I can’t give a response to that right now. Let’s try a different topic. —— Shakescene (talk) 19:37, 27 April 2023 (UTC)


 * While we don't want Chatbot or Bing Chat to write anything for Wikipedia, I suspect that using it can save you a lot of time in ferreting out facts, references and distinctions for subjects you don't already know well (e.g. collaboration in the Far or Middle East). —— Shakescene (talk) 03:00, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Do not rely on LLMs; they are merely spitting back the likeliest words in response to gobs of stuff they have gorged on, including propaganda and false narratives. In relatively uncontroversial areas where no one has a counternarrative, it might be okay. Mathglot (talk) 09:22, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I rwad this as a suggestion for generating search terms on let's say collaboration with the Japanese in Malaysia....Elinruby (talk) 13:07, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Exactly, that's what I was thinking — not to rely on AI's conclusions, interpretations or relative emphases, but as a more-sophisticated kind of search-engine offering possible leads and sources with more context than a traditional search-engine's long list of links and snippets (go, fish!) —— Shakescene (talk) 13:20, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

the fact that Wikipedia is so many of the references underlined who important it is to get this right. Elinruby (talk) 01:10, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Ukrainian redux


Just saying, here is some overdue validation,. Elinruby (talk) 19:59, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Yup! Thanks.  Volunteer Marek   20:18, 29 April 2023 (UTC)