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Comment on List of countries and outlying territories by total area EU inclusion
You are welcome to leave a comment on the following Request for Comment (RfC): Summary: There is a dispute about whether the European Union should be included in this list. Its area equals the sum of its member countries. We are discussing if it should be included in the list or not.
 * Talk:List of countries and outlying territories by area

Thank you, -- giandrea   16:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

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Renewed discussion about the EU entry in List of countries and outlying territories by total area
Hi,

I'm contacting you because you participated in the discussion about the EU entry in List of countries and outlying territories by total area in the past. So I concluded that you might be interested to know that two editors currently push for a change in the article structure that is in conflict with the standing consensus resulting out of our past discussion.

The consensus was to include the EU entry in the initial text of the article, but not in the actual table (even unnumbered). — Whereas the change that is currently pushed would result in moving the EU entry to the very end of the article, even after the references/sources table. The result can be seen here:.

The standing consensus was not my favorite solution, as I would like to include the EU into the very list (unnumbered), but I content myself with the standing compromise. Whether you agree to or oppose the change, I strongly feel that the article's structure should not be changed without a proper discussion and maybe even a new vote before changing the standing compromise. You might want to give your point of view in the current discussion at
 * Talk:List_of_countries_and_outlying_territories_by_total_area

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The King's School, Canterbury
Note that you removed my photo already three times, calling this "rearrangement". Please restore, otherwise I will ask administrative intervention.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:15, 24 June 2016 (UTC

Hey Ymblanter. I hope that you understand that Wikipedia is not a static page. I am making changes to this particular entry to improve its quality by providing better pictures with meaningful descriptions before working on the main text itself.

Which pictures of yours in particular are you referring to?
 * Thank you. I really appreciate that a user with 202 total edits who still needs to learn how messages are signed teaches me how to edit Wikipedia. I added just one file to the page, File:Mint Yard Canterbury.jpg. It is highly appropriate. You already removed it three times. Please restore it, otherwise I will need to start discussion about your behavior.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:30, 25 June 2016 (UT

Oh sure, I'll make sure I add it back, apologies for that, the picture is not very flattering or particularly nice so I thought it had been long abandoned there. I thought you were referring to the main picture of the music building which is clearly not specially representative of the school.

As for my number of edits, I find it quite rude to judge somebody based on that. Quantity does not equal quality or grant any special rights here on wikipedia, I am sure you also know that.

Thank you
 * For the future, you may want to read WP:BRD to avoid getting into similar situations. I am sorry that you find it rude, but it is obvious that you are plainly not familiar with our policies.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:51, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Apologies accepted, no worries!

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I'm reverting vandalism, so yes, you made a mistake.
 * It looks to me as though you made a mistake, rather than deliberately vandalising, but that edit certainly wasn't "reverting vandalism". I understand how such mistakes can occur in the course of rapid reverts of repeated vandalism, but you need to watch out for similar mistakes in future. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:38, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

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Paragraph on the Republic of Geneva
Hello Sdnegel. You recently made many changes in the article Canton of Geneva. In particular you suppressed an important paragraph, to which the link Republic of Geneva redirects (this link is used in a great number of articles on citizens of the Republic of Geneva). I reinstalled this paragraph, and I am aware that it might not be in the best place in the current state of the article: please move it elsewhere if you wish, modify its content if you wish, but please don’t erase it, and don’t change its title. Thank you. Sapphorain (talk) 18:37, 26 March 2023 (UTC)


 * hello, noted, thanks. I'm in the process of writing the history of the canton. Is the paragraph as written necessary, or do I need to keep only the title? Sdnegel (talk) 18:47, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * A minimal information on this republic (which after all lasted for more than 250 years) should remain under the title. This would correspond, in my opinion, at least to what is now contained in the paragraph, but could of course be phrased differently. Thanks. Sapphorain (talk) 22:31, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi. Well of course, this is an important period to describe the events that lead to the modern canton, and one paragraph is not nearly enough to make justice to it. As I said I'm in the process of writing the history section, so more information will therefore be added under that title, which will be duly kept. Thanks Sdnegel (talk) 22:34, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

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