User talk:Martin Wisse

Hi Martin :) I hope you like the place and choose to stay.

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Thanks, and keep contributing! Dysprosia 09:43, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Dutch naval ships
Hi Martin - one of the basic principles of categorisation on Wikipedia is that articles should not generally be categorised into a category and another category below or above it. Since "Royal Netherlands Navy frigates" is a specific subcategory of "Military of the Netherlands", it's not best practice to include an article in both. I created the more specific category to parallel what's being done with other navies. Note that articles in "Royal Navy frigates" are not also listed directly under "Military of the United Kingdom"... Anyway, nice to see some non-UK and non-US ships turning up! :) --Rlandmann 21:50, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Your unexplained image reversion
Hello; could you please explain why you reverted Image:Vampyroteuthis illustration.jpg from the (IMO superior) colour version I recently uploaded, to the grainy, black and white scan that I had originally put up? Unless you tell me otherwise, I'll assume it was a mistake; I've reverted the image back to the colour version and I can only hope it stays that way. -- Hadal 08:10, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Oh, no problem then. I was afraid you had reverted the image because there was something horribly wrong with it that I hadn't yet clued in on (*relief*). I suppose you may have clicked the "(rev)" link next to the old revision by mistake, perhaps thinking it would show you the old revision rather than revert to it? (To see an older revision of an image, you'd click the timestamp link, e.g. "08:14, 2 Feb 2004".). In any event, thank you for your quick reply. Cheers, -- Hadal 06:55, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Tanks of World War II
Howdy Martin.

I'm actually in the process of phasing out using the conflict as a method of categorization of the vehicles. See WikiProject_Weaponry for details on the proposed standard. Oberiko 01:37, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ligne Claire
Hi there, Nice work on the article but the final paragraphs are a little repetitive perticularly the bit about Tardi and Adele Blanc-Sec. I thought you may want to edit it before I do? --MarkB 23:05, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Nothing to improve on there there Martin. :) Thanks for your work on the article. Glad to see another Tardi fan there - is he translated into Dutch or do you read him in French? I always imagined him to be a very franco-centric writer that may not transfer too well to another language (or even outwith Paris given the way in which the town becomes a character of its own in the series)...--MarkB 11:27, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Collaboration of the week
Could you consider voting for Partisans (Yugoslvia) as a collaboration project? AndyL 17:21, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Partition of India
You voted for Partition of India, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Collaboration of the Week
Your vote for African art has helped bring about the article's selection as this week's Collaboration of the week. Please join in trying to make the article a feature.

The Humungous Image Tagging Project
Hi. You've helped with the WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


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Chilean coup
Please see my comment at Talk:Chilean_coup_of_1973. -- Jmabel | Talk 21:32, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

Bushytails
Do not blank RfA discussions. &Euml;vilphoenix Burn! 20:45, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

British comic
You voted for British comic to be the comics collaboration, and since it now is, we'd appreciate your help in working on it to get it to Featured article status. Please discuss what needs to be done on Talk:British comic and thanks in advance. Steve block talk 14:22, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

please do not leave categories as empty
I noticed that you emptied out "Category:Communist parties in Turkey". If you want to delete a category, please use cfr-speedy or other appropriate template. -- Fplay 02:49, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Orphan categories
Hey there. I've been going through Special:Uncategorizedcategories, and I noticed that you blanked the category Communist Parties in Turkey about a week ago. If a category is unused and unneded, can you please mark it for speedy deletion with the db template, rather than just leaving it orphaned? Thanks. -- SCZenz 01:12, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Chilean coup of 1973
I'd be interested in your opinion at Talk:Chilean coup of 1973. - Jmabel | Talk 06:42, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Category:Trotskyist organisations
I need to ask you why you removed this subcat from Category:Communist parties and placed it in the Category:Socialist parties. Surely, anyone agrees on the fact that Trotskyism is indeed a form of Communism - unless you have knowledge of some hidden fact. Dahn 20:05, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I want to point out several issues: there is no "mainstream communism" in reference to Trotskyism, but rather several; of these, many are in an identical situation (including what you had in mind as the "official communism" - Stalinism and post-Stalinism, I presume: the ruling parties in the GDR, Poland, one-time Romania, et al. have avoided calling themselves "communist"). There is a major ambiguity in the case of Marx's followers in the very beginning, I admit it: you have a Kautsky, a Trotsky, and a Stalin. But: following Lenin (which is what all Trotskyoists do) should be a shibboleth of Communism (since it steps out of the vaguery); Trotskyism was not only initiated by a CPSU official, it was initiated by a CPSU official who was deemed and admitted to being more left-wing than the mainstream communist party. Is this a good point I'm making? Dahn 20:24, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Anti-tank vehicle
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International Criminal Tribunal
I suggest you take the out of process close to DRV. I'll be there. do you want the content? DGG (talk) 21:33, 17 August 2007 (UTC

James D. Nicoll
Thanks for your clean up of the first half of the James D. Nicoll article. However, your reversions in the later part of the article do not accurately reflect the sources cited and as such constitue Original Research. I will be removing the 'original research' from the later portions of the article if valid sourcing is not provided for the claims made. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.69.137.41 (talk) 20:23, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

'Good Version'
Apparently the 'good version' of the article James D. Nicoll is one where sources are misquoted?? The 'rife vandalism' is the conversion of a fact based article to an unsurced fan homage. Please actually read the sources quoted before declaring 'vandalism'207.69.137.7 13:29, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I would take your 'warning' not to 'vandalise' the article seriously if any of my edits had ACTUALLY been vandalism. Requiring statements within the article to reflect what the sources actually say is not vandalism. Reverting to the versions that misquote, is. SavingJDNfromthefilk 12:19, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello
I saw you here, and read your views on your user page about Wikipedia. I too subscribe to some of them (repeat some of them) though with a little modifications. --Bhadani (talk) 16:00, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

di Stefano
Do email Jimbo. I've been round that loop as well, it's far from straightforward. Guy (Help!) 21:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

File:Sturmtiger 1.jpg listed for deletion
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Matthew effect (Sociology)
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Unexplained removal of tags
Why did you remove three justified tags from an article in this edit? Debresser (talk) 22:55, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

And from Crown of Slaves also.

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Spoor
Thanks for trying again with the Spoor article, but the arguments from the AfD pretty much still apply. DS (talk) 12:31, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Repost of Ryk E. Spoor
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fyi
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July 2016
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Proposed deletion of Skyman


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