User talk:Jamesgibbon

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Welcome. If you wish, you can also cast a vote here []. I recently added a link to the daughter article on the subject matter, but otherwise it remains as version 1 with a new link.--MONGO 07:37, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Qatar
Thanks for your answer at WP:RD about Qatar. I am grateful. PedanticallySpeaking July 8, 2005 20:46 (UTC)

Anti-Semitism in Poland
Hello, James. I've reverted the article to a more NPOV version by Piotrus. Someone has been reverting it to a very POV verison so as to increase the number of delete votes. Feel free to take a second look. Thanks. HKT 22:17, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

You are a sockpuppet
Of me.

According to Melissadolbeer. See Requests for comment/Melissadolbeer where this accusation is made. 09:00, 16 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Forgive me if this isn't the right place for this; I have no experience of this process. I have no wish to be involved in this dispute; I only wish to point out, that contrary to the suggestion above, I am certainly NOT a sockpuppet; I'm an individual Wikipedian living in Derby, England. I have a website at jamesgibbon.com. I can be contacted by telephone by an admin if necessary. I've added a similar comment to WP:RFAR. james gibbon  13:25, 16 July 2005 (UTC)


 * You should remove your comments or correct your RfC contribution by moving them up to the list of endorsing signatures under the outside view. You only sign the ouside view if you want to endose the comment by Mel Etitis ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) where he notes that the RfC is improper and that it concerns an article in which no action has been taken to resolve a dispute. This is how you can help the RfC process: "If necessary, educate users by referring to the appropriate Wikipedia policies." --AI 10:18, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration
Melissadolbeer has opened a request for arbitration against you (at WP:RFAR). 09:27, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

consensus
The Authentic Matthew VFD has closed. The results were
 * Delete - 21 (58%)
 * Keep - 11 (31%)
 * Merge - 4 (11%)

This was declared to have been no consensus, and therefore a new VFD has been opened at Votes for deletion/Authentic Matthew (consensus).

Would you be prepared to re-add your vote there? ( ! | ? | * ) 09:41, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Authentic Matthew the sequel
The POV that was in Authentic Matthew, an article you voted to delete, before it was NPOVed has been re-created at a new article - see Votes for deletion/The Original Gospel of Matthew. ( ! | ? | * ) 20:17, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Gender roles in Islam
Regarding your suggestion, I have been trying to work with this, I mean compare what the opening paragraph was like when I began work on it. Note too how Lao Wai constantly removes my request for citations, and constantly includes the allusion that all women of Medina were all Ansari (Helpers of Muhamad) - That is obviously untrue, but he keeps adding it anyway. ,,. Note also how The Source he uses to justify his assertion "Obviously this is a vision of Heaven that is more likely to appeal to men. Eternally virgin dark-eyed Houris are unlikely to appeal to many women" says nothing of the sort, in fact is says almost the opposite ("The life of women in Jannah will be as pleasant and happy as the life of men. Allah is not partial to any gender. He created both of them and He will take care of both of them according to their needs and desires. Let us all work to achieve the Jannah and then, in sha’ Allah, we will find there what will satisfy all of us fully."). Anyway, besides that, anything of any merit is already dealt with in Women in Islam, a more stable and more Accurate and more NPOV piece.

Doire/Derry/Londonderry
James - if you look later in Talk:Derry, you will see that this one has been debated to death. There is no right solution. So the consensus reached, as being equally intolerable to both sides and favouring neither, is that the City is Derry and the County is Londonderry. See also Derry/Londonderry naming dispute. --Red King 23:56, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

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Military hanging
Dear James,

I'm hoping to add a section on military hangings, but there's some sort of edit war going on at hanging, apparently related to Singapore's recent execution of Van Nguyen, and I thought I'd let it die down.

My understanding (not certain knowledge) is that hanging can't be used in the U.K. military any more. (I think Tony Blair got rid of the residual death penalty in 1999.) It certainly isn't in Australia. It is still available as a punishment in the U.S. military, where the reather unpleasant "standard-drop" method has traditionally been used (and I don't think they offer lethal injection).

On a side note, one of the more memorable literary/cinematographic hangings I remember is the WWII military hanging of a U.S. soldier in the U.K. in The Dirty Dozen. I seem to recall that they used the "long drop".

Regards,

Wulfilia 05:27, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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Hi. I'm TechnoFaye and I'm writing this because the perfectly good image of Mark Lawrenson you uploaded was marked for deletion by Abu Bidali. You should know that he does this because he thinks it's funny; he even says so on his user page. More then 20 other editors just like us are parties to several formal complaints to Wikipedia in an effort to have him banned permanently for doing just what he did to you. Others have described him on the record as a "hoodlum" and a "vandal". My testimony was that "Bidali would be just as happy breaking antennas off cars at night". After he is gone, we can repair the damage he has done to WP. If you haven't already, please consider adding your name to the lists at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Abu_badali#Users_Who_Endorse_This_Summary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Abu_badali#Users_who_endorse_this_summary:_2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Abu_badali#Users_who_endorse_this_summary:_4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Abu_badali#Other_users_who_endorse_this_summary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Abu_badali#Users_who_endorse_this_summary


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Requests for arbitration/Abu badali
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An Arbitration case involving Abu badali has been opened: Requests for arbitration/Abu badali. You have expressed an interest in this before, so please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Abu badali/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Abu badali/Workshop.

Thanks, - Jord 16:44, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

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Flood
Hi James. Noticed your changed the disambiguation entry for the film Flood. Unsure if you noticed, but there was already a stub created for this film here, and would have been best to expand this. Also, my understanding is that the year of a film is only entered if there is more than one film with the same name. The two articles will need to be merged, and as you are showing more of an interest than me I am happy to leave you in charge of this should you require. --Raerth 21:55, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

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Never mind. Cheers, Je tL ov e r  (talk) 23:17, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

sorry about that, redirected the page for you. Cheers, Je tL ov e r  (talk) 23:19, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

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