User talk:Silikonvadisi~enwiki

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Re: Rectors of the Izmir Institute of Technology---thank you for the note
I'm glad my small contributions were appreciated and I thank you for taking the time to write me a note.&mdash;Roman Spinner (talk) 17:24, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Quotes
Silikonvadisi, I reverted your edits because you have been changing actual quotes from these pages. Cedric James Lowe said "perhaps a bare majority, more likely a large minority in the Smyrna Vilayet, which lay in an overwhelmingly Turkish Anatolia." He did not say "perhaps a bare majority, more likely a large minority in İzmir, which lay in an overwhelmingly Turkish Anatolia." James Harbord said "The Greek troops and the local Greeks who had joined them in arms started a general massacre of the Mussulmen population in which the officials and Ottoman officers and soldiers as well as the peaceful inhabitants were indiscriminately put to death and subjected to forms of torture and savagery worthy of the Inquisition and constituting in any case a barbarous violation of the laws of humanity." He used the term "Mussulmen", he did not say "Turkish". You can't change what people said 85-90 years ago. They said what they said. Khoikhoi 19:38, 10 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I am quite familiar with the policy. The article is titled Great Fire of Smyrna, not Great Fire of İzmir. It makes no sense to use a completely different name in the rest of the article while the title is different. The name "Smyrna" was quite common in English at that time. See . There is no reason to delete a very common alternate name in English at that time, as I already said both words were widely used. Khoikhoi 19:51, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

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Renamed
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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