User talk:Rama/archive 9

Unidentified minerals
Could you please tell us at commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Minerals what to do with this images, and if you'd like to keep them, update their image description pages to explain what minerals they do show? I'm afraid with the nondescript names, these images are rather useless. Many aren't used anywhere, either. Lupo 15:46, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Bah, they're all rather blurry, also. Anyway, maybe I'll take some time to go back there and see if I can identify these. Rama 16:43, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

A new article and the category
Hi, Rama. I started a new article on Anne Queffélec‎. I hope the categorization does not worry you. Regards. E104421 22:59, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Fr-compu-bio-stub and De-compu-bio-stub
Hi - a stub template or category which you created has been nominated for deletion or renaming at Stub types for deletion. The stub type, which was not proposed at WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, does not meet the standard requirements for a stub type, either through being incorrectly named, ambiguously scoped, or through failure to meet standards relating to the current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first (as it says at the top of the two categories you created!) Grutness...wha?  02:45, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:LHC1.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:LHC1.jpg. I noticed the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:


 * 1) Go to the image description page and edit it to add, without deleting the original Replaceable fair use template.
 * 2) On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace the fair use image by finding a freely licensed image of its subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or a similar) image under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our fair use criteria. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on [ this link]. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, fair use images which could be replaced by free-licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if not used in an article), per our Fair Use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Calliopejen1 02:49, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: Image resizing on Nut (goddess)
I saw your edit comment "Do not override user's preferences for thumbnail image size" when resizing the original image on Nut (goddess) back to a width of 200px. Could you please point to a Wikipedia policy statement on that? Thanks to Babelfish I read the earlier query here that another poster had asked you about in French, and while I understand the reasoning, a 100px difference in size is unlikely to upset anyone even on systems using 800x600 screens. To me it seems like an arbitrary edit without good precedent (that I am aware of). I see from your talk page and history that you have done this before to other article, and this concerns me since I can think of pages where it is a good thing to override the original image size in order to reveal detail that would not be possible at the default 200px width.

So, is there a Wikipedia policy statement on this you can point me to as reference? Cheers! Captmondo 01:36, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * For a start, this is a wiki. We do make arbitrary edits, else we'd go nowhere. You value of 300px is also totally arbitrary, incidentally.
 * Then, it is always good computer practice to avoid hard-coding things and putting unnecessary code. Hence, "thumb" is fundamentally better (and less "abritrary") than "thumb|right" or "thumb|300px".
 * To finish, from Extended image syntax:
 * From MediaWiki 1.5 the default thumbnail width can be set in the preferences, so it is recommended not to specify "px", in order to respect the users' preferences (unless, for a special reason, a specific size is required regardless of preferences, or a size is specified outside the range of widths 120–300px that can be set in the preferences)..
 * If you have details to reveal, a good practice would be to produce enlargements, either by close-up or macro photography, or by simply cropping images. But then, as you said, a 100px difference is unlikely to produce dramatic improvements. It is, on the other hand, going to be problematic on very small screens like PDAs or sub-notebooks, and will upset people focused more on text than on images.
 * Rama 05:30, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the response and for the link to Extended image syntax. The latter led me to a discussion that occurred back in December 2006 on this issue, and what came out of it was the wording that can now be found in Extended image syntax, beginning with the line "Specifying the size of a thumb image is not recommended". On the whole the rest of it supports what you say, and also allows for certain conditions when it is okay to override it (similar to the concerns I outlined above). I don't think any of those conditions relates to the images in Nut (goddess), so in the end I learned something, for which I give you my thanks. Cheers! Captmondo 18:03, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Usually, you obtain vastly better results by tweeking the image itself than by fixing the thumbnail size:
 * For a close-up, produce a photography which focuses on the detail. For instance, the images which illustrate Gebel el-Arak Knife are not the same as used on Confronted-animals because one show the whole object and the other a detail of it.
 * For images of extreme aspect ration, it's better to add a background (like on Kohl (cosmetics)). If possible, it's also better to put the object in a diagonal as much a possible to take advantage of the $$\sqrt{2}$$ factor (like on FAMAS for instance).
 * There are indeed instance where it's better to fix the size, but they are really rare. One example I'd think of is panoramas of cities. In such cases, the image cuts the text completely (rather than having the text flow around it).
 * In any case, you've been gracious about this little snag and I appreciate it. Thanks and cheers ! Rama 08:27, 27 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I appreciate the detailed response! I am familiar with much of the points you make above (like your "other" self, I am also active on uploading images to the Commons and try to PhotoShop my pics with Wikipedian thumbnail images in mind whenever possible).


 * Forgive me if I originally came off sounding combative, but in the end I wanted to be sure the reasoning for restoring the default size was on a solid grounding Wikipedia policy-wise. Cheers! Captmondo 20:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

French Resistance = terrorists?!
Given your knowledge of Frnch issues, please have a look at Talk:Maquis du Vercors and the category that the Maquis du Vercors article has been placed. Your views would be useful. Folks at 137 21:20, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Labelling the French Resistance "terrorists" is just a symptom of the fact that "terrorist" doesn't mean anything. Indeed some resistants, particularly the Communists, did attack civilians and did play on the classic "provocation/repression" cycle to rise the stakes (attacking German personnel in the deliberate aim of having French hostages executed by the Germans so that the population would grow to hate them). These are typical "terrorist" tactics, and are rarely labelled as such because the French resistance is considered to be the "goodies".
 * This being said, the Vercors uprising was another matter, with clearly identified insurgents rising up against the Germans and fighting their troops by conventional means. This comes in the framework of the laws of war (fthe Geneva conventions for instance) and is absolutely not comparable to terrorism. Rama 11:28, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * A balanced view that I'd support. I added other, more suitable (IMO), categories to the Vercors article. You may like to view the other editor's contribution list - there seems to be an agenda. Folks at 137 17:28, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Obviously.
 * Beware, I see that you seem to be mixing up the "Free French" with the Maquis of Vercors:
 * The Free French ("FFL", Force françaises libres) were a group of people gathered in London around De Gaulle who claimed to be maintaining the legitimacy of the French government after Pétain took power in mainland France, and which ended around 1943 when the French colonies of Northern Africa joined the Allies.
 * The maquis were more or less coordinated groups withing mainland France, some of them commanded from London and later from Algiers ("FFI", Forces françaises de l'intérieur). The Vercors maquis was part of the FFI.
 * The Vercors was an attempt at restoring an island held by supporters of the French Republic (as opposed to Pétain's "French State"), but they recognised De Gaulle as the temporary leader of France, in continuity with the last government of the 3rd Republic. They were not really a State by themselves. Rama 18:22, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
This was a famous book which supported the revolutionary aims of France and the United States. I am sure the French ship Droits de l'Homme (1794) was named after the book rather than the modern concept of human rights. Dabbler 12:23, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm very much enclined to believe you, since you are obviously knowledgeable, but (no offence) would you happen to have a source stating so ? Not that I have one stating otherwise, but I think that most Frenchmen will think of the concept rather than the book, so it's an interesting fact which would be best backed up by sources. I'll have a look at my own sources and see if I fond something. Thank you for the notice, it's interesting, as always. Cheers ! Rama 12:29, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I must admit that I do not know of any sources, but to me it seemed so obvious an origin for the name of a Revolutionary French ship. The English Wikipedia article on Paine expounds on his influence on the French Revolutionary government. If you google French sources for the phrase combined with Thomas Paine you get a lot of references which my inadequate French indicates that his work was well known and popular at the time in France but I can't think of the key words which might link that to the French Navy. Also Herman Melville (author of Moby Dick) used the name for Billy Budd's ship but that is another story.
 * A further thought and one that had not occurred to me before. The ship's name may actually have come from the 1789 La Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen by the French Constituent Assembly. Dabbler 15:12, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * That's what seems most likely at first to me. It was what I meant to mention, apparently I didn't use the proper link. In French, "Human rights" translates Droits de l'Homme (only recently have a minority of politically correct speakers started using the (cretinous) term Droits humains). Rama 15:17, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Either way Human Rights would not be an appropriate translation of the name. I am happy to have it changed from Thomas Paine's book to the French assembly declaration, but I do agree that finding a historical reference would be best. I hope that you can find one and I apologise for my Anglocentricity in assuming Paine as the origin. Dabbler 15:28, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I would think that the La Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen is probably a more likely guess, yes. Anglocentricity is rather refreshing to me, the French naval accounts about this period are often sickening, I don't mind having some other perspective at all. Cheers ! Rama 15:31, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Camerapedia scrapes
I'm puzzled by your "creation" of Cosina Voigtländer and other articles, in which you seem to have done little more than copy and paste from Camerapedia. Here is Cosina Voigtländer as you left it; here is Camerapedia's article as it was at the time. You didn't even bother to change the Camerapedia-specific categories. If it's worth copying this material from Camerapedia, isn't it worth doing so intelligently? -- Hoary (talk) 10:45, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * If it's worth whining on my talk page, isn't it worth fixing it ? Rama (talk) 10:52, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Right. So fix it. I see no reason to spend my time attending to your laziness. -- Hoary (talk) 10:57, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * On the other hand, pestering people is obviously both less time-consuming and more constructive... Rama (talk) 11:01, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The worry is that Wikipedia is not a data dump. Although I see nothing but good faith and your wish to help the encyclopedia, these articles, as copy-pasted, stray so far from many of our writing and formating policies that they cause a net loss to the encyclopedia when added this way and only cause other Wikipedians hours of needless work. I think articles should be created from the beginning to Wikipedia's standards of notability, sourcing, organization, length and format. Thanks. Gwen Gale (talk) 13:30, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

French ensign during the Revolution
It is yes, but if you read down a bit on that page it is noted that it was thicker than shown, and actual proportions are stated, which I followed. Glad you like it anyway! Martocticvs (talk) 13:55, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

An image
Hi, Rama. I see you deleted an image with the note ''Irrelevant image. Already on Commons.'' Jaakobou asked me to contact you about that. You see, that image is scheduled for deletion because Commons doesn't host fair use copyrighted material. But Wikipedia can. He thinks there's no suitable free image that could serve its function. Would you be willing to reconsider your decision on that basis? Thanks, Durova Charge! 08:58, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * No.
 * Fair use is a precise legal term. It does not amount to a "licence to upload anything I find decorative".
 * Claiming "fair use" on an image that is hosted on Commons as "copyright holder of this work allows anyone to use it for any purpose including unrestricted redistribution, commercial use, and modification" is wrong an irresponsible.
 * Furthermore, I fail to see the problem, since you can link from Image:Heil.jpg. Rama (talk) 09:46, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * PS: The "scheduled for deletion" matter is properly addressed by uploading the image under Fair Use on en: after the image on Commons is deleted. Rama (talk) 10:13, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Would you object to a content RFC on image use for the article if that proper procedure is followed?  The topic itself is something I'm not familiar with.  Durova Charge! 10:24, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I am not sure what you mean, so I assume I won't object :)
 * Incidentally, the "proper procedure" I am describing is probably a bit pedantic (even "-Wall --pendantic", if you see what I mean). But one is never too careful on licencing matters, and easily too reckless.
 * I am not really familiar with the topic itself, though I already know more than I wanted to know. In any case, "fair use" is precisely for this sort of things: discussing a work and showing a sample of it (and not for showing photos of people as it is too often used). But claiming an image that is freely licenced under fair use leaves a taste of indifference to complicated matters that need to be studied (though the question of whether the author has a right to freely licence this particular work changes the question somewhat).
 * Cheers ! Rama (talk) 10:34, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm no lawyer, so of course I'm no expert, but I studied writing in graduate school where a course in related law was required curriculum, mainly for practical purposes of covering our own behinds. So I understand a bit more than the average bear about text copyright, but image copyright is a different animal.  Either way, I appreciate enough to treat these matters conservatively.  When you showed me that Commons license my eyes widened.  It shouldn't have been on that project in the first place.


 * The editor's opinion, the way I understand it, is that no free image would be a good replacement for this one. I explained that free images tend to win out at Wikipedia over fair use ones, no matter how dreadful the only free image is.  He responded with a content-based argument that's outside my knowledge, so I suggested a content RFC on how images should be presented in that article.  Durova Charge! 22:25, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, the presence of the image on Commons is a rather interesting thing: the author of the photo editing, Carlos Latuff, apparently does not understand that while he has a copyright on the edited image, the author of the portrait of Sharon retains copyright also. So Latuff is not free to licence his edited image as he please. What I have seen of Latuff's work did not impress me by taste not by subtle understanding of complex matters, so I daresay that the uploader, Jaakobou, could have been more careful here.
 * As for the content, an RFC would probably be a good idea. There seem to be a few correctly free-licenced images on Commons that I would consider to be adequate replacements, for instance Image:ArielSharon.gif or Image:Arielsharonsecretlove.gif. But Jaakobou's discourse on the topic has not struck me as particularly articulate or, like Latuff's, very mindful of accuracy and nuances. So it might so be that Jaakobou does not consider these images as good replacements for reasons I do not understand at the moment. Rama (talk) 08:55, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Fast battleship image resizing
Hello, Rama!

Thanks for your interest in the Fast battleship article. I must confess to being puzzled by | this edit. Your edit comment was ''Do not override user's preferences for thumbnail images without good reasons. Lead image''. Which user's preference do you refer to? Why do you refer only to the lead image, when you resized every image in the article? What was the point of this resizing? Does sizing images at 300-350px violate any Wikipedia policy or guidelines?

Pending a reply, I have restored the images to what appears to me to be a more legible size. If you still have a problem with this, can I suggest that you post your objections to the Talk page? Otherwise, feel free to reply here; I have added this page to my watchlist.

Regards, John Moore 309 (talk) 17:40, 21 November 2007 (UTC)


 * This questions seems to pop up on my talk page regularly, I should really find a more explicit edit comment...
 * The point is that, to quote Extended image syntax:
 * From MediaWiki 1.5 the default thumbnail width can be set in the preferences, so it is recommended not to specify "px", in order to respect the users' preferences (unless, for a special reason, a specific size is required regardless of preferences, or a size is specified outside the range of widths 120–300px that can be set in the preferences)..
 * So forcing a size of 300px overrides the preferences of users who would have set another size. It is going to be problematic on very small screens like PDAs or sub-notebooks, and will upset people focused more on text than on images, for instance.
 * It is an oft-forgotten fact that rendering of HTML pages differs greatly depending on the size of the screen, its resolution, the fonts used and the size of the window. I have seen people arguing on talk pages about how to have images fit the vertical size of the introduction of an article, for instance, which obviously makes no sense at all.
 * Cheers ! Rama (talk) 09:05, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for a very full and courteous reply. I see now where you are coming from - and, now that I know, I have set my own default to 300px, which better suits my ageing eyes. I am still a little puzzled, though. As was pointed out in the debate at Image_use_policy/Archive_8#Forced_image_size, if the image size for a thumb is not specified, it forces the default image size (currently 180px) on any user who is using Wikipedia solely for reference and does not have an account. Whose preference does this reflect? For many images, 180px is simply too small for the image to achieve its illustrative purpose; moreover, this possibility is explicitly recognised in the full text of the recommendation you quote above (unless ... a size is specified outside the range of widths 120–300px that can be set in the preferences).

Also, a recommendation is, by definition, not a policy. Surely, then, it is not appropriate to "enforce" it retrospectively on other editors' work?

You will see that I have now read up the debate on this issue. So far, I have yet to read anything to convince me that my views are unreasonable; however, I am still open to persuasion. Thanks for your time & patience. Regards, John Moore 309 (talk) 22:57, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

French ship Vengeur du Peuple
Hello!

I notice you’ve made a few edits to this page (nice work, by the way).

I see that now the launch dates don’t agree; also that you’ve given a different number of survivors, amnd asked for a citation for the original figure.

The citation would be the references originally given;

Verne gave the launch date and early history, Mahan (from memory) gave the rescue details.

So, can I ask what your sources are?

Also, a minor point; you’ve made the previous name Marseillois; Verne gave the name as Marseillais, so if I’ve translated it badly/wrong, please blame my poor French. Xyl 54 (talk) 18:05, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Hello,
 * I am using the Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, written by a French Navy officer who apparently toured French shipyard and write down their records. Note that it is very possible that original sources from this time do not agree and that there's no real way of acertaining which date is more correct.
 * I'd like to say that though I very much love his work, I wouldn't consider Jules Verne as a very reliable source for this sort of details. It might be worth mentioning what Verne says, though.
 * For Marseillois, you are not to blame, it's tricky: "-ois" is an old writing of what is now written "-ais" (for instance: "French" is written Français now, but was written François in the 1780s. You can still see it on Image:Declaration_of_Human_Rights.jpg at the bottom: "Aux représentans du peuple françois". In 1760s, the spelling would have been spelt "Marseillois", hence my edit (by Verne's time, the modern spelling was fixed, hence his spelling). Now you mention it, maybe a footnote is in order.
 * Cheers ! Rama (talk) 18:20, 22 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks;


 * So the Dictionnaire has the name Marseillois, and the 1766 launch date? If so,that should be the main reference source. The Verne reference also relates to the legend section, though, so I’d leave that in.

Xyl 54 (talk) 11:58, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I think it’s better if the text agrees with the source given, even if it’s debateable; discrepancies can always go in a footnote.
 * Does the Dictionnaire also refer to the rescue? I’ll double-check the Mahan reference next time I’m in the library.
 * PS; I was going to put a bit on the talk page about the name anyway, so I’ll add the point you’ve made. Xyl 54 (talk) 12:05, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The Dictionnaire simply refers names, dates and main events like participation in a battle, but does not go at length on stories about famous ship ("not to rewrite thing already better written elsewhere", as the author has it; a bit like our NPOV policy). Though it might gove the number of survivors. At worse, we can cite contradicting numbers and attribute the sources.
 * Regarding the sinking, most modern sources (since the 1950s) seem to agree that Vengeur du peuple stroke her colours rather quickly in fact, the first of the French to do so. Apparently she put on a gallant fight in a gunnery duel with a British ship, which damaged the gunport covers of both ships, which started taking in water through the lower gunports (Vasa-style); while the British were closing the gunports with improvised covers, the French tried to pump the water outside, taking in more and more until the entirety of the crew was pumpig out water (gunports still opened...), at which point the Vengeur declared herself out of the fight and stroke. A sadly common display of incompetant enthusiasm by French sailors of the time. The fairy tail of nailing the flag is regarded as a remarkable example of propaganda, and if the singing of the Marseillaise did occur while the ship was sinking, it was probably done by wounded crewman that could nor be evacuated, rather than by fit men willing to die in combat.
 * I'll check the spelling in the dictionnary, though it'll probably list the ship under the modern spelling. I've got no problem with citing the name Marseillais and putting a footnote, for instance; let's not be too unsetling for English-speaking readers.
 * Cheers ! Rama (talk) 21:42, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

French Battleship
Okay! Thanks for bringing that to my attention. :) Regards, Rudget . talk  18:50, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Hi Rama. I have recently been seeking sources for a lot of the material on MCOG and have it down to a couple of unreferenced statements. One of them is the claim that the documentaries were funded by NHK, which was first inserted in one of your edits. Do you have a source please? --Ross UK (talk) 01:25, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * It probably stems from reading . It is a good source on the topic, but has the drawback of being in French.
 * Cheers ! Rama (talk) 09:18, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that; it looks like a good resource. --Ross UK (talk) 23:04, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * It is for French readers. I assume that you have notions, but if I can be of help, don't hesitate to ask me to clarify details.
 * Cheers ! Rama (talk) 12:59, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Merci
Salut, et merci pour des commentaire dans la talk_page cocernant l'affaire des emeutes actuelles. A lire les commentaires anglosaxon, on se croirais dans une France Medievale... -__-" Yug 17:12, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Bon, le système américain es ttrès différent du système français, la mentalité est différente, le problème des banlieues est un problème complexe, je comprends que ça soit déconcertant et qu'il y ait des commentaires naïfs. Mais c'est vrai que le néo-conservatisme semble avoir sérieusement attaqué les facultés cérébrales de certaines personnes. Rama (talk) 17:22, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

En fait, ça y est notre ami a rajouté le même commentaire sur les pays où seront enterrés ces deux garçons. Voudrais-tu bien le retirer de nouveau ? Merci d'avance. -- Zantastik  talk  23:12, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ca commence à m'agacer, ces attaques personelles continuelles. Que ces gens soient frustrés parce que leurs vision des choses n'est pas partagée, je le conçois. Je suppose que la réalité les contrarie déjà beaucoup quotidiennement. Mais le côté "village d'Astérix" en plus haineux, c'est inacceptable. Rama (talk) 23:36, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Caption help
We have a little three way battle going on at Anti-nuclear movement about the caption on the image at the top. One person wants to generically describe it as "Commonly used image in the anti-nuclear movement." I don't see any need for a caption, other than providing the Alt text "Nuclear Power? No Thanks", and another wants to provide ordering information for the pins (my interpretation). What is your opinion on the best caption? I don't see that any is needed, as "the picture serves as the typical example of the subject of the article and offers no further information - no caption needed." Cheapthrill 00:31, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I have no interest in the article itself; hence I have no idea of what would be a good caption, and frankly speaking, I do not wish to have any.
 * In general terms, I think that it is a good idea to use the "thumb" syntax and describe what the image shows, or to provide context on the image. I don't know if this is helpful.
 * Cheers ! Rama 00:35, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Cheapthrill 01:28, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Paternité de la croix de Lorraine
Bonsoir Rama,

La paternité de la croix de Lorraine est très nettement attribuée à l'amiral Muselier et en particulier par Thierry d'Argenlieu lui-même. Ceci à été largement débattu et sourcé sur les articles Wp fr : Croix de Lorraine, Thierry d'Argenlieu, Émile Muselier sur lesquels on a laissé la source de Gaulle mais cité également les autres. J'avais corrigé en faisant par erreur référence à l'article France libre. Cordialement, 90.35.31.73 (talk) 23:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC) (Daniel•D sur fr: )
 * Free French Forces dit que d'Argenlieu a lancé l'idée, et que la conception a été faite par Muselier. L'idée de la croix de Lorraine y est attribuée à d'Argenlieu, là-dessus je pense que tu as les détails mieux en tête que moi.
 * Au fait, quand on cite le nom de famille seulement, on dit "Argenlieu", ou "d'Argenlieu" ? Rama (talk) 23:46, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * C'est une erreur par omission de De Gaulle qui ne cite pas Muselier sur cette question dans ses Mémoires de guerre. Cette erreur est connue et les historiens (R. Aron, et de nombreux autres cités en référence et aussi sur les pages de discussion des articles et des intervenants : user:Attis principalement et moi-même ) l'on depuis longtemps rectifiée. La raison principale de cette omission vient sans doute de la brouille entre de Gaulle et Muselier consécutive à l'affaire de la prise de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon par les FNFL (Muselier ayant été obligé de se plier aux ordres du Général, en dépit de sa parole donnée aux Américains) et à l'attitude de non-subordination de Muselier vis-à-vis de De Gaulle qui en suivit. D'Argenlieu (on dit d'Argenlieu) à toujours reconnu, écrit et laissé cette paternité à Muselier. D'ailleurs de Gaulle n'a que quelques mots sur la question : « Entre-temps, tous nos éléments, suivant l'idée émise par d'Argenlieu, adoptèrent comme insigne la Croix de Lorraine [...] ». Les ordres de création des FNFL et FAFL et la création de l'emblème Croix de Lorraine sont bien de Muselier qui est resté dans l'Histoire principalement pour cela. Comme cette erreur est depuis pas mal de temps dans Wikipédia (était pour fr:), elle est reprise partout sur Internet. Mais les sources papiers sont profusion. Daniel•D 90.35.31.73 (talk) 00:48, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Donc c'est bien d'Argenlieu qui a eu l'idée au moins d'un insigne, et Muselier qui l'a dessiné. Rama (talk) 00:51, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Absolument pas ! C'est Muselier et lui-seul en référence à son père Lorrain d'origine . . Daniel•D 90.35.31.73 (talk) 00:56, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * D'Argenlieu était Carmelite, je ne sais pas s'il se serait vanté de ce genre de choses. Je ne sais pas si je suis très clair, mais la thèse que je comprends, c'est que d'Argenlieu a suggéré l'idée d'un insigne distinctif, et que Muselier l'a produit. Je ne sais pas trop qui aurait eu l'idée de la croix de Lorraine, mais quelle qu'en soit la réponse, ça n'empêche pas et a l'avantage d'être cohérant avec toutes les sources. Ou y en a-t-il qui écartent explicitement toute participation de d'Argenlieu ? Rama (talk) 01:12, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Mais lui-même. Toutes les sources, sauf de Gaulle, ne retiennent pas d'Argenlieu mais Muselier, les historiens ne font même pas mention de d'Argenlieu pour la croix de Lorraine. La solution retenue après discussions sur fr:, comme tu peux le voir dans les articles déjà cités et dans les liens que je t'ai postés, a été de citer prioritairement Muselier avec suffisamment de sources et de mettre la source de Gaulle avec l'explication ad hoc. 90.35.31.73 (talk) 01:36, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Je crois qu'il serait bon de mettre préemptivement un terme à l'idée que fr: pourrait faire autorité en une quelconque manière sur en:. fr: représente l'état d'avancement de en: il y a trois ou quatre ans, a beaucoup moins d'utilisateurs, dont la plupart ne savent pas écrire de façon scientifique et ne s'en rendent même pas compte; elle est lourdement franco-centrée, ses institutions sont immatures, le climat y est détestable, et elle refuse d'implémenter les mesures prises sur en: il y a des années pour inventer les siennes. Il n'y a donc aucune raison pour que des décisions prises là-bas soient implémentées ici.
 * Pour le reste, la question n'est pas de savoir si d'Argenlieu revendique l'idée d'un symbole distinctif, mais de savoir si des sources disent explicitement que ce n'est pas le cas. Nous avons des sources qui disent que ça l'est, et ça n'est pas incompatible avec la suite. Ca n'est pas Muselier XOR d'Argenteuil, et du reste l'article mentionne bien Muselier comme créateur du symbole. Rama (talk) 09:23, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Sur fr: versus en:, j'ai un avis, mais c'est hors sujet. Pour ce qui nous intéresse, je citais les articles en question sur fr: pensant que tu daignerais prendre connaissance des discussions sur le sujet et des sources que nous sommes plusieurs à avoir apportées. Au vu de tes réponses, j'ai quelques doutes. Maintenant si tu préfères le capitaine de corvette d'Argenlieu au vice-amiral Muselier comme initiateur de la croix de Lorraine en dépit des écrits de d'Argenlieu lui-même, c'est comme bon te semble, Wikipédia (en général) n'est pas à une connerie près. Et si, c'est Muselier ou exclusivement d'Argenlieu. Daniel•D 17:10 14 décembre 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.2.27.20 (talk) 16:09, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Moi, ce que j'aime, c'est les sources qui correspondent aux affirmations. Je n'ai pas d'avis pour le reste. En l'occurence, j'ai l'impression que tu n'es pas au clair sur ce que tu affirmes, et tu ne donnes pas de source. Rama (talk) 16:17, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Il n'est pire aveugle que celui qui ne veut voir : Un de mes premiers ordres – du 2 juillet, si j'ai bonne mémoire – précisa que les bâtiments des Forces navales françaises libres porteraient à la poupe les couleurs nationales françaises et à la proue un pavillon carré bleu, orné d'une Croix de Lorraine rouge. Et ce fût (sic) l'origine de l'insigne du Mouvement de la France libre. Pourquoi j'ai choisi la Croix de Lorraine? Parce qu'il fallait un emblème en opposition à la Croix Gammée et parce que j'ai voulu penser à mon père qui était Lorrain. » Pour plus de détail voir : Croix de Lorraine
 * francelibrebdr.fr, Croix de Lorraine
 * Ordre de la Libération, Émile Muselier
 * Le général de Gaulle ne retiendra que le nom de Thierry d'Argenlieu dans ses mémoires. Le texte exact de L'appel de De Gaulle est : « Le 21 juillet [1940], j'obtins que plusieurs de nos aviateurs prissent part à un bombardement de la Ruhr et fis publier que les Français Libres avaient repris le combat. Entre-temps, tous nos éléments, suivant l'idée émise par d'Argenlieu, adoptèrent comme insigne la Croix de Lorraine. » (Charles de Gaulle, Mémoires de guerre, L'appel (1940-1942), chap. « La France Libre », Plon, 1954, (ISBN 978-2-266-09526-6), (repris par édit. Pocket, p. 99).
 * « Sous le signe de la Croix de Lorraine », article publié par France d'abord, journal brazzavillois dans le n° 18 du mercredi 5 novembre 1941, p. 11-13, reproduisant, comme indiqué en en-tête, « des extraits d'une conférence faite dernièrement à Londres par l'amiral Muselier ». L'amiral explique, paragraphes 4 à 6 de l'article, p. 11 « Dès le début, il m'a paru nécessaire de différencier de façon apparente, les bâtiments de guerre de la France Libre et ceux restés fidèles au Gouvernement du Maréchal Pétain.
 * « Dans la nuit du 2 au 3 juillet 1940, seul dans sa petite chambre du Grosvenor Hotel, à Londres, il prend d'autres décisions, sans référence à personne. Pensant à son père, un Lorrain, il rédige un statut de la Marine française libre, prescrivant d'arborer l'insigne qui deviendra légendaire : « Les bâtiments de guerre et de commerce [...] porteront à la poupe le pavillon national français et à la proue un pavillon carré bleu, orné en son centre de la croix de Lorraine en rouge, par opposition à la croix gammée. » » Robert Aron, Les grands dossiers de l'histoire contemporaine, « Le putsche de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon », Éditions CAL, p. 197, (repris de Librairie Académique Perrin, 1962-1964).
 * Françe Libre, « Les origines des FNFL, par l'amiral Thierry d'Argenlieu », article tiré du n° 29 de la Revue de la France Libre de juin 1950, p. 17-20.
 * Bruno Leroux, article Croix de Lorraine dans Dictionnaire historique de la Résistance, dir. François Marcot, Robert Laffont, 2006, p. 925-927.

Ainsi que les liens déjà postés.

Je suis très au clair. 90.2.27.20 (talk) 00:25, 15 December 2007 (UTC) Daniel•D
 * Et tiens je te recopie juste la fin du lien que tu feins de n'avoir vu : http://www.france-libre.net/temoignages_documents/1_6_1_6_origines_FNFL.htm :

« [...] Proposée par l’amiral Muselier au chef des Français libres et de lui agréée, dès juillet 1940, pour être l’emblème distinctif des Forces navales renaissantes à la vie, la croix de Lorraine devint immensément plus qu’un signe distinctif d’unités combattantes. Elle devint par acclamation le symbole de la résistance d’un peuple.

Le symbole de son honneur, de son courage, de son espérance contre toute espérance, en bref de son invincible foi dans les vertus de la race et les destinées du pays.

Dix années ont passé!

Croix de Lorraine qui scella la victoire et le rétablissement de nos libres institutions, à toi, notre fierté!

Croix de Lorraine, joyau de notre patrimoine, devenue à jamais croix de la Libération, à toi, notre fidélité.

G. d’ARGENLIEU »
 * Daniel•D 90.2.27.20 (talk) 04:40, 15 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Si tu mettais moins d'énergie à mettre ma bonne foi en doute, tu te rendrais compte que là n'est pas la question. Mais j'ai déjà eu la mesure de ton sérieux avec les photos de Guy Môquet, je ne suis pas surpris. Rama (talk) 10:38, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * C'est réciproque. Et tu peux garder tes attaques personnelles pour toi, merci. Daniel•D 90.2.93.202 (talk) 10:50, 18 December 2007 (UTC) Ps : Tous les éditeurs se doivent de rechercher une exactitude aussi grande que possible. (voir Wikipédia:Pertinence)
 * Ca ne peut pas être réciproque, dans la mesure où le Droit du copyright va dans un seul sens, celui où tu avais tort. Ne pas connaître le Droit en vigueur n'est pas une tare irrémédiable; ne pas accepter quand on a eu tort peut le devenir.
 * L'exactitude n'est pas la fidélité à une version décrétée vraie en sélectionnant des sources, surtout pas par un comité de Wikipédiens auto-constitué violant allégrement WP:OR. Rama (talk) 14:16, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Commence par lire un peu sur le sujet, les bouquins cités en référence sont en vente libre (de source sûre, la plupart dans ma bilbliothèque). Sur ce, le taré et violeur te souhaite bonne continuation. Daniel•D 90.2.93.202 (talk) 17:33, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

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Glorious First of June
Hi, in reverting my edits to images on the above page, you wrote "(Do not override user's preferences for thumbs, per WP:EIS. If the images are too small, change your settings in preferences.)" I'm afraid that I don't understand any of that and didn't understand any of WP:EIS and consequently fail to see why it is necessary. When I changed my preferences as you suggested, it resulted in all of the images on the page switching to a variety of bizarre sizes (some huge, some tiny) which made the article confusing to look at. What exactly is going on here and why has this issue never been raised in any of my previous articles (four of which have passed FAC)? Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 21:49, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The rendering of a web page depends on the browser, screen size, resolution, font, etc., so it is pointless to tweak details so that they look good on your computer, because in most cases they will yield different results on other computers.
 * The solution to this problem is make parameters customisable. In this case, the size of thumbnails is set in the user's preferences. By giving a value (for instance 250px as you did), you merely ensure that people reading on small screens (subnotebooks, for instance) will have disturbingly huge images, will people reading on large, high-resolution screen will see tiny, difficult to read images. On the other hand, by leaving the parameter free and setting only "thumb", the users will see the images to the size of their preferences (typically 120px for the first, and 300px for the second).
 * the "variety of bizarre sizes (some huge, some tiny)" to which you refer is probably due to some of the images being vertical. Indeed, "thumbs" are defined by the horizontal dimension of the image, so a 200px-wide vertical thumb will be much larger than a horizontal one. The solution is to set the "upright" parameter for the vertical images; this will make the vertical images smaller by a fixed factor.
 * The reason why is was never raised in other articles is probably because people are insufficiently aware of this. In the general rule, it is always a bad computer pratice to hard-code values. The language allows it, but it should nominally be used only for specific cases like landscapes or headers.
 * Cheers ! Rama (talk) 22:39, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thankyou, that explained the problem perfectly. I notice you have added information about the siking of Vengeur du Peuple to the Glorious First of June article. Could you please provide a reference for this with a page number. Thanks --Jackyd101 (talk) 14:35, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll do it as soon as I get the book handy. By the way, I wouldn't consider it an authoritative source, certainly not my modern standards, but this author can be quite lyrical at times, so his critical appreciation of the incident seems all the more worth noting to me ("even him" agrees that...).
 * I'll need to find myself good French books, it's amazing what one can reconstruct with access to references of both sides. I remember a captured ship whose entire career was reconstructed this way, while no unique source told it in its entirety.
 * Cheers ! Rama (talk) 14:42, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The source repeats the story, so it is an example of the legend of the sinking of the Vengeur, whatever the truth may have been. I've noticed that you are filling in the ship red links on the order of battle and well done on tracking down Juste. Can you help me with one other thing though, Trente un Mai was formerly called Mont Blanc, but there was another ship with the fleet also called Mont Blanc, and I can't track down which ship it was. It returned to France on the 29th. Part of the problem is that French records are patchy and its not completely clear which ships were engaged on which days, which order they were in and what they were even called at this period as names changed so suddenly. Thanks for creating these articles, it was a bit beyond me. Perhaps if you are able there is one other thing if you can translate French - Pierre Vanstabel, admiral in charge of the French convoy has no article, but there seems to be information on him here in French. My French is awful but this might be the basis for an article. Its just a suggestion, if you can't do it then no problem. Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 09:35, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I have access to documentation given as reference by the service historique de la Marine, so there's little prowess on my part. I'll be doing all the remaining ships systematically in the next days.
 * I'll draft something on Vanstabel, but we must be wary of copyright when creating an article from one single source. Maybe my Histoire de la Marine by Farrère also has something. Besides, I'll need to find myself better sources in French.
 * Thank you for your interest, and do not hesitate to ask if you need something else of the sort. Cheers ! Rama (talk) 09:42, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll also complete French ship Mont-Blanc so that you can have a complete list. Don't hesitate to ask when such problems occur (though I've noticed that merely putting accents properly and spelling Redoutable correctly would suffice to fill lots of red links ^^) Rama (talk) 10:11, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Mont Blanc
The reference to Mont Blanc definately comes from William James, p. 145, I have it in front of me. James is unusually authorative on such matters, but given the great confusion surrounding the names of the French ships in contempory English accounts, its more than likely he is mistaken on this point. If the ship was not Mont Blanc then I have no idea what it might be, no source I have avaliable offers an alternative. Quite puzzling.

On the same subject, are you able to find out the full name of Admiral Cornice, mentioned at the bottom of the French section of the order of battle? I spent some time looking out for his full name, but couldn't find it. Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 11:55, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Regarding the Mont-Blanc, maybe this should be read as "the ship which had born the name Mont-Blanc, in which case he is quite correct, and we could simply replace Mont-Blanc with 31 Mai. Does the number of ships check out?
 * The French ships were renamed almost everytime the political trend changed, which it did quite often, so I can imagine a British officier identifying the ship and writing the old name. He couldn't be blamed.
 * The admiral is probably Pierre-François Cornic (1731-1801; aka Cornic-Dumoulin). It's a Breton name.
 * Cheers ! Rama (talk) 12:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It couldn't have been the 31 Mai, because that ship was present at the battle two days later. James says "Villaret took this opportunity of sending home the crippled ship Indomptable, attended, as it would appear, by the Mont Blanc 74, to see her safe into port". No other source I have provides a name for the ship which escorted Indomptable back to France so presumably the ship was misidentified by British officers at the time and the true identity of the ship is unclear. I'll add something to this effect to the list. Cornic sounds about right, one of James's weaknesses is in the spelling of French names (he tends to anglicise them), so that probably is the man.--Jackyd101 (talk) 16:01, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Good clue ! The Indomptable was taken in tow by a 74-gun Brutus ; I think that she was the ex-Diadème (lead ship of the class). Since we don't have presently have a Brutus in the order of battle, we keep the same ship count if we substitute Brutus for Mont-Blanc. Rama (talk) 16:59, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * PS: what I find odd is that we have a name (Thévenard) for the captain of an uncertain ship :p Rama (talk) 17:01, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thats a very good point. I checked on James's order of battle and sure enough, Mont Blanc was listed as being with Villaret's fleet in May 1794 under Captain Thevenard. On p.145, as mentioned, Mont Blanc is listed as leaving with Indomptable and Trente-un-Mai under Honore Guanteaume joins (although where exactly the latter joins from is not clear, the impression is that she was cruising independantly in the Bay of Biscay, which seems a little unusual). Brutus is not mentioned at all. The ship may therefore be Brutus, do you know what sources these websites were based on? This could shed some light on this problem.--Jackyd101 (talk) 21:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I have found an interesting site which details the French order of battle. Their sources are listed at.
 * I've made a list at User:Rama/Combat de Prairial, with a comparative list from our own article, and it seems that Order of battle at the Glorious First of June has one ship too many (31 ships of the line, while this source lists 30).
 * It also confirms Brutus as being the former, razeed Diadème, and gives a list of the smaller units (I'd be delighted to get rid of the paragraph which claims that precise data about smaller units can't possibly be acquired).
 * Cheers ! Rama (talk) 11:48, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

(deindent) Sorry it took a while, I have been extremely busy in real life and will be for the next few days. This website fills in a lots of gaps, so if you can and if you consider it reliable, please edit the wikipedia pages concerned to reflect this new information (remember to inline source correctly as you go). The pages are on my watch list and i will monitor it when I can to check and make sure that there are no discrepancies. My French is awful, but the page seems to give a complete list of french frigates and brigs (which would fit well in the bottom section) and also information regarding the various captains (something that British sources are very vague on). Perhaps you could add full names for captains where applicable and see which might deserve future articles of their own? As for the extra ship, can you see which one it is that is on our page and not on the external one? Then we can compare sources and see where the problem comes from. Since there is now a source explaining the Mont Blanc appearance, that can be changed to reflect this new information. Finally, the external page divides the French up in divisions in an interesting manner, but does not reflect the actual French line at the time as Villaret mixed the divisions up on the morning of the battle to even out the provision of first rates in his battleline. Thus the order of ships in the order of battle article is probably more accurate (running west to east). I realise I am asking you for an awful lot and I don't expect everything at once, but my hectic worklife at the moment coupled with my dreadful French means that I won't be able to get to this soon and when I do my understanding of it won't be the best. Please do what you can and thankyou for your interest. Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 10:05, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello,
 * Well I hope things are running fine for you. Best wishes in any case.
 * Regarding Mont Blanc, I've been having an interesting discussion with a dedicated amateur on the French Wikipedia, who has access to interesting books, including accounts of the battle by Troude (Les batailles navales de la France, capitaine de frégate Onésime-Joachim Troude, Paris 1867, tome 2, pp. 328 to 363). Turns out that a 74-gun ship Mont Blanc, under captain Alexandre Thévenard, is reported as escorting Indomptable back to Brest! As we suspected, Indomptable was dismasted and towed by the frigate Brutus.
 * On the other hand, the 31 mai is not listed as part of the fleet that sailed from Brest on 16 Mai, but she is listed as taking part in the fight of the 1 June. fr:User:Rled44 might be able to tell use more from Saturday.
 * I think that it is strange that the Dictionnaire des bâtiments... would have let a 74-gun ship through, since it's usually fairly torough even for smaller ships; on the other hand it's not infallible (especially when it comes to citing enemy ships: the spelling is often highly inventive, to the point that there are things that I have been unable to confirm at all), so maybe we've just hit a little snag here.
 * In any case, the game is still afoot, and it's getting quite interesting. Cheers ! Rama (talk) 10:22, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm fine thanks, just busy. That does sound interesting. I can help with the 31. Mai thing though, William James clearly states that the ship joined the French fleet on the 31st May, the same day that Indomptable and the mysterious Mont Blanc left. What is not clear is where she came from. She is not listed as sailing with Nielly, Vanstabel or Villaret's forces but there were at least two French squadrons in the Bay of Biscay during May 1794 which did not participate in campaign directly. What exactly they were doing in the Bay and where they came from I also do not know. Audacious saw one squadron in the distance on her way back to England alone, James posits that this was the force under Jean-Joseph Castignier but gives no more information about it. It is possible therefore that 31. Mai was detached from one of these and joined the French fleet independently. Its very curious.--Jackyd101 (talk) 13:00, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I have asked fr:User:Rled44 about this, maybe he'll find something. One thing that puzzled me is that the 31 Mai would have arrived on the 31 May. Maybe a coincidence, but it's fishy, especially since I'd be quite embarrassed to think of what happened on a 31 May that the Convention would have honoured by naming a warship. On the other hand, we have confirmation that Ganteaume was her commanded, and his career is not difficult to trace. Rama (talk) 13:38, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Featured List
Just to let you know that the Order of battle at the Glorious First of June article is now a featured list. I realise there is more work required on the French side of things, and will not neglect this, but I just wanted to say thankyou very much for all the work you put into the article, research and into the creation of so many articles on French ships. Many thanks--Jackyd101 (talk) 10:38, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * A huge thankyou for all the work you put into the Glorious First of June article which has just passed FAC. The work you did in preparing this article for FA standard and working on associated articles and red links was hugely appreciated. Thankyou. On another note, if you are interested I am working on a new article about a later battle which has several French red links that I cannot fill myself. If I bring the links to you, would you be able or interested in filling them in?--Jackyd101 (talk) 00:43, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I can't certify that I'll be able, but I surely am intersted. Cheers ! Rama (talk) 08:42, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Well if you get a chance, the list is at User:Jackyd101/Workbox7. It'll be up there a while as I am waiting on a book. If you can help, then fantastic, if you can't then don't worry. And thankyou very much for all the hard work you put into the featured articles above, it was hugely appreciated.--Jackyd101 (talk) 10:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Massively appreciating the work you did on creating these articles, they look really nice. Thankyou very much.--Jackyd101 (talk) 23:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

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L'Orient/Orient
Hi, I wonder if you can tell me your source for changing the name of the ship. L'Orient is the more common name for referring to this ship that I can see, and sources like David Cordingly's 'Billy Ruffian' use L'Orient. If she was actually called Orient and not L'Orient then I would indeed prefer the name to be correctly titled. But I'm a little confused at this apparent disparity in the sources. Benea (talk) 14:45, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The article is not part of the name of the ship itself. It's especially bizarre when one says "the L'Orient", which occurres several times.
 * Be wary that English sources often come from people who are not native French speakers. They often grossly misspell French names ("Redoubtable" instead of "Redoutable", for instance, is a classic). Incidentally, French sources also misspell English names to the point that I have had trouble recognising some ships even in recently published books.
 * There are instances in which it is debatable whether the article is part of the name, typically substantified adjectives: Le Redoutable would mean "Daunting one". But even French sources are not consistant in this and in fact tend to write "le Redoutable", which translates as "Redoutable" or "the Redoutable", but not "Le Redoutable" or "the Le Redoutable".
 * I suspect that English sources tend to add the French article because French ships do not have prefixes like "HMS", and some names were used in both navies. But adding an article is only a folkloric way to give a "French touch", just like Tex Avery gives a "16th Century touch" by writing "Ye Mayflower" on a ship in one of his cartoons.
 * Cheers ! Rama (talk) 16:19, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

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 * I don't have to know the article, so I don't see the purpose of your last question.
 * For the rest, you are deeply wrong. The image is not the subject of the article. The image represents the subject of the article, which is Noisettes. The band.
 * The fair use is also irrelevant because the band still exists. As such, there is no excuse to use a fair use image rather than a Free one. If the Free one doesn't exist, go make it. But don't invoke fair use in such cases, because, besides hindering the creation of Free content, it can be downright illegal. Rama (talk) 16:26, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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 * Did you read the Fair use template ? Did you notice the phrase "the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it", in bold ? Rama (talk) 16:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

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Hi! I saw that you uploaded. Can I use it for the teplate of the Hungarian Wikiproject: Wine? That would be very good. Thanks: Fifuszfc (talk) 12:25, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Since the image is made available under a Free licence, you can. Cheers ! Rama (talk) 12:39, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

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Kindly quote me a passage from the Memoires where de Gaulle refers to the Free French movement as a "government" before June 1944. Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 11:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
 * "le Comité serait le gouvernment". Mémoire de Guerre, L'Appel, Plon 1954, p.219. Rama (talk) 11:53, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

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Request
Hi there, I have a couple of requests of you if you have the time. Firstly thankyou very much for the ship articles you created in relation to Battle of Tory Island, they were much appreciated and the article has finally been moved to mainspace. I was wondering however if you might be able to create stub articles for me for two French officers. They have stubs on the French wikipedia, but my French is so awful I cannot translate them. The articles are Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart (on the FW as ) and Daniel Savary (who appears as ) any help you can give towards this would be hugely appreciated, although if you are too busy then please don't worry about it.--Jackyd101 (talk) 13:06, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem, I'll schedule this for my next pause. Cheers ! Rama (talk) 14:19, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thankyou very much, great job.--Jackyd101 (talk) 10:17, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

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Permission to use sexual images
Hello Rama,

My name is Max and currently I'm working on a website about sex, sexuality, contraceptions, etc. Your images are really good and I would like to use them on this website.

I've read the license for the images, but I'm still not sure, so I'm asking your permission if I can use them on my website. With credits, of course, to Wikipedia or to your personal page.

These images will be vectorized - those that doesn't have a SVG version - and will be modified a bit for the website. I would like to add a white-yellow colour on the man from theimage.

I can provide you with the URL of the website, but for now I would like it to remain hidden :-).

This is my first time on writing something on Wikipedia, I hope this message goes to you.

Thank you -- Maaxxu. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maaxxu (talk • contribs) 13:45, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The licence of these images allows you to use them for any purpose, modified or unmodified. In return, your website should mention the original author ("Rama") and the licence of the image; derivative of the original images should also be licenced under the same terms as the originals.
 * I hope this answers your question. Cheers ! Rama (talk) 07:25, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Rama,

Your drawings are very beautiful. I'd like to know if you'd be interested in doing some more drawings of other sexual positions, possibly as commissioned work.

-Tony Tonymartez (talk) 21:01, 30 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you.
 * I am open to suggestions, though I cannot guarantee that requests will be fulfilled very quickly. But you are welcome to ask.
 * Cheers ! Rama (talk) 21:38, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Rama,

It would be very interesting to see what you would draw for what is typically known as the "piledriver" position, as well as another position where a woman is performing oral on a man (fellatio/blowjob).

-Tony Tonymartez (talk) 15:19, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

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