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Nicholas Bridgestock - possible hoax?
Hi, do you know anything about Nicholas Bridgestock, or have access to any of the sources referenced in the article about him? If so, you might be able to help with the query I raised at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Socialism --Demiurge1000 (talk) 15:44, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
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nationality/citizenship
Why the sudden series of edits on this? Has there been a chance in policy here or is it your initiative? Generally the nationality links all make it clear that citizenship is British in the case of Scottish/Welsh etc and its complicated in the case of Irish to say the least. Why clutter up the information box with this? -- Snowded TALK  21:56, 30 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Maybe I should have raised the issue on a Talk page, but it didn't seem so controversial, so I'm afraid this is the one edit GoodDay can't be blamed for! I had to smile when I saw your user page. Being an opponent of the British union, you might applaud an attempt in those edits to distinguish between British citizenship and the various nationalities. In the following articles nationality was erroneously listed as British: Tony Benn, Winston Churchill, Peter Shore, A. J. P. Taylor, Harold Wilson. So I moved British to citizenship and added English to their nationality. The case of Lloyd George was different as he was already listed as Welsh in nationality, so in the interests of standardisation, an aim of the Infoboxes Wikiproject, I added his citizenship as British.


 * I don't agree that the nationality/citizenship issue is clear already. Lloyd George after all was born not in Wales but in Manchester. In Argentina there is a relatively large Welsh speaking population. Had Lloyd George been born there, and migrated to Wales, he would be entitled to be identified as Welsh, but he would not automatically have British citizenship. That is an interesting point vis-a-vis the Irish. It gets even more complicated when we bring in the Empire/Commonwealth. For example, describing Gandhi as British, though maybe technically accurate would probably not stay up very long! The issue of self-identification should come in here, but this does not apply to Lloyd George. As for clutter, I feel the page needs a least one reference and link to the complicated issue of British citizenship, and the infobox is probably the best place.--John Allen (talk) 20:41, 1 December 2011 (UTC)


 * The addition of citizenship is not normal as far as I can see - is this something that has been agreed on a style guide or is it just your view?  I should say that I am not opposed to the idea per se, but these things are not best resolved on individual pages -- Snowded  TALK  03:31, 3 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I shall leave this line of editing alone for the foreseeable future. It's just my view at the moment, I'm too busy finding inline citations for A. J. P. Taylor to push the idea any further.--John Allen (talk) 14:05, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

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French Status on NATO
Hi there, I was wondering if you were able to add references to the section on the "French status" that you added to the article on NATO? I marked it with an unreferenced template, since pretty much every sentence in there will need a source attached to it. Like it says on the template, the section might be removed if it doesn't have sources. Thanks!-- Patrick, o Ѻ ∞ 16:46, 5 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the message. I have all the sources to add, but it will probably take a few weeks before I get around to doing this.--John Allen (talk) 19:18, 8 April 2015 (UTC)


 * This is my original edit on 4 April 2015:

=== French status === From the mid-1960's to the mid-1990's France pursued a military strategy of independence from NATO, i.e. outside the integrated military command, a policy dubbed "Gaullo-Mitterrandism". After François Mitterrand left office in 1995, new President Jacques Chirac began a decade and a half of rapprochement with NATO by joining the Military Committee and attempting to negiotiate a return to the integrated military command, which failed after the French demand for parity with the United States went unmet. The possibility of a further attempt foundered after Chirac was forced by an election into cohabitation with a Socialist-led cabinet between 1997-2002, then poor Franco-American relations after the French UN veto threat over Iraq in 2003 made transatlantic negotiations impossible. His successor Nicolas Sarkozy, with more modest demands, negiotiated the return of France to the integrated military command and the Defence Planning Commitee in 2009, the later being disbanded the following year. Despite the rapprochement of recent decades, France intends to remain the only NATO member outside the Nuclear Planning Group and, unlike the United States and the United Kingdom, will not commit its nuclear-armed submarines to the alliance.


 * It was edited on 4 August 2015 by Patrick, o ? 8 to this:

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s, France pursued a military strategy of independence from NATO under a policy dubbed "Gaullo-Mitterrandism". Nicolas Sarkozy negotiated the return of France to the integrated military command and the Defence Planning Committee in 2009, the later being disbanded the following year. France remains the only NATO member outside the Nuclear Planning Group and unlike the United States and the United Kingdom, will not commit its nuclear-armed submarines to the alliance.


 * Patrick, o ? 8 claimed in the revision summary that "the unsourced "French status" section...is mostly duplicate information from the History section." This is untrue, were my edits "duplicate" rather than original material they would be as inaccurate as the information he refers to in the History section. This information comes from an edit on 13 July 2009 by Shattered Wikiglass, a user now banned as a socket puppet of Mrg3105, who was originally banned for disruptive editing. His sourced edit incorrectly asserts "The Military Committee excluded France, due to that country's 1966 decision to remove itself from NATO's integrated military structure, until 1995. Until France rejoined NATO, it was not represented on the Defence Planning Committee...". Clearly nobody has ever checked the source, but worse is that this rubbish is now duplicated on at least half a dozen pages. Now, in mitigation, I have no doubt that while Shattered Wikiglass is malicious, Patrick, o ? 8 is merely a halfwit confused. But the result is still the same, a lousy encylopedia.--John Allen (talk) 20:05, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * Fixed--John Allen (talk) 12:28, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

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 * Fixed--John Allen (talk) 12:03, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

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New WikiProject Socialism membership system
Hello! I'm in the process of introducing a new membership system to WikiProject Socialism (designed as part of WikiProject X and adopted by a few other projects). The new system works by filling a form which creates a WikiProject Card. I'm manually creating WikiProject cards for current members. You can find and edit yours here. Any change to your WikiProject card will be automaticalle updated at WikiProject Socialism/Members. If you have any doubt, please, feel free to contact me by replying here using the template. Best, --MarioGom (talk) 01:12, 20 July 2019 (UTC)