User talk:MiguelNS

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Angola war map
Regarding Image:ABW.png: from what did you create the image? I'd like to create a higher resolution image, so if you have any other source images I can use, that'd be very helpful! Thanks, dewet|✉ 21:39, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

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Luso-Islamic War
Hello MiguelNS! I have never eard of a Luso-Islamic War! That does not mean it did not exist, of course. Is this a reference to the campaignes of Afonso de Albuquerque? This article has nothing writen on it! You are the sole responsable for creating it. A war that happened in the Atlantic Ocean (West Africa) and in the Indian Ocean (India, East Indies, Indochina)?!? And Portugal and the Kingdom of Cochin were allies in all these stages of war the whole time? And this lead to the formation of the Portuguese Empire? This can not be! The Portuguese Empire formed in a slow gradual process that involved several wars and other social phenomenon. Can you explain? The Ogre 21:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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hi
Although it may not seem as such, I am willing to contribute to articles on the English Wikipedia relating to the Portuguese language; just check out and watch my user page and talk page. :-) learnportuguese (talk) 19:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

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Biafra
Miguel,

Does the entry on the Nigerian Civil War need any of your 'See Also' material?

Katanga has no relationship to Biafra. If you feel it has relevance as a secessionist state, surely that would be better under the general Biafra entry?

The Unholy Alliance also doesn't seem to be of much use to the Biafran Civil War.

The list of extinct states again seems better in the Biafra entry than the Nigerian Civil War.

Regards,

Jeremy —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bendel boy (talk • contribs) 09:35, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Why is The Unholy Alliance important? It doesn't seem to have any relevance to the Nigerian civil war - it looks to be more a Southern Africa issue, which just happened to be commonly used around the time of the war.

Similarly, the list of secessionist states would seem to better in the Biafra entry than the civil war entry. A list of civil wars would make more sense for the civil war entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bendel boy (talk • contribs) 10:40, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Unholy Alliance (geopolitical)
Hi Miguel, User:Avraham is at it again. It's time to save your baby. -65.246.126.130 (talk) 20:22, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Category:Realist think tanks
I don't see where there are sources that describe the enties in this category as "Realist think tanks". Whose judgment are we using for including articles in that category? Categorziations should be verifiable, like anything else on Wikipedia.  Will Beback   talk    23:38, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

The sources? The sources are the think-tanks themselves. Some describe themselves as realist, in others much of its staff considers itself realist. - MiguelNS

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Al-Shabab al-Muminin and Houthis
Hey MiguelNS, I'm happy you're interested in editing Houthi-related articles, as these need as much help as we can get. However, the article you just created (Al-Shabab al-Muminin) appears to describe the same group as Houthis. Previously we had an article entitled Shabab al-Muomineen (just a different Arabic transliteration), but because the term "Houthis" is much more commonly used, we decided to merge any relevant info into the Houthis article and make the Shabab al-Muomineen article a simple redirect. This should probably done for Al-Shabab al-Muminin as well. Hope that makes sense. Joshdboz (talk) 19:32, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

No problem. Just make sure that all Al-Shabab al-Muminin searches are redirected to Houthis - MiguelNS

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