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DYK for Problems of Peace and Socialism
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 * Thanks. Some extra characters are added now. --Soman (talk) 20:20, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Union Nationale des Paysans Algériens
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DYK nomination of Cuban National Party
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German politicians
I'd be extremely grateful if you could help expand any articles within List of German Christian Democratic Union politicians. There is a chance they will be deleted. This would help greatly as I am trying hard to add to them. This lot were not deleted as of yet as I have been given some time to save this lot. Could you help salvage as many as you possibly can? The thing is the articles were created and I didn't realise that the interwiki tags and reference were not valid as a start. I thought they could be built upon. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:21, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * At the moment I can't help much, unfortunately. I could have a look at one or two, but not much more right now. Keep me noted if there are any more AfDs, or more importantly if any centralized discussion is opened. --Soman (talk) 19:54, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

National Day of Hate
Hi Soman. I changed the year in your DYK nomination from 1983 to 1984. If that is wrong then perhaps you would reply on the DYK suggestions page. -SusanLesch (talk) 19:40, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar
I am awarding you this barnstar for the unbelievable amount you have done on this topic. This is despite my personal opposition to both communism and socialism. Chris (talk) 22:07, 1 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Twice decorated! User_talk:Soman/archive2 --71.163.190.158 (talk) 05:05, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

New: Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland
Communist League of West Germany (1973-1985). Greetings --Sf67 (talk) 11:43, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Independent Moslem League
Hello. Could you possibly give a page number for your source for DYK suggestion Independent Moslem League? Thank you. -SusanLesch (talk) 20:39, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your prompt response. Verified. -SusanLesch (talk) 02:18, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Complaint regarding copyright status of File:Ufmlogo.PNG
Hi Soman, I've received a complaint from user Villeguillo regarding the above image. I believe he works primarily on the Spanish Wikipedia and was a bit surprised by the unauthorized use of the logo in the related article. He wished to make a complaint, and I informed him of Wikipedia's policy regarding fair use of logos, and that if he still desired to make a complaint I'd be happy to let him know how. I believe he contacted me because of my level of Spanish proficiency (he says his English isn't up to scratch). I'm not sure about your level of Spanish, but if you'd be able to discuss the matter with him, that would be great too. As far as my perspective, I fully stand behind Wiki's policy and am usually annoyed with those who are stingy about their trademarks and disagree with fair use; however, I'd also like to see this resolved amicably. Our conversation is here; your input is appreciated ;) AniRaptor2001 (talk) 21:49, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Use of talk pages
Hi Soman,
 * I was disappointed that you did not use the facility of the talk page when you made your most recent alteration on the National Communism page. I think you'll find proper use of these pages far better than the marginal note you included with the edit as a means of making your views known. ThanksHarrypotter (talk) 10:07, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree that it is good to use talk pages to explain the rationale behind editing. But in this case, I think my last edit summary explained the rationale behind the edit quite well. --Soman (talk) 10:34, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Moreover, I had not noticed the talk page posting you did after your last edit. I have 13000+ pages on my watchlist, many times stuff slip by without my notice. --Soman (talk) 10:43, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Indonesian socialist parties
Hi. Well done for your work on Socialist Party of Indonesia, Socialist Party of Indonesia (Parsi) and Socialist People's Party (Indonesia). When I did a rewrite of Socialist Party of Indonesia in an attempt to untangle the somewhat messy history of socialist parties in Indonesia I did not imagine anybody would go to the trouble of expanding the coverage to the other left-wing parties. I have now linked the various Indonesian cabinet articles to the articles you have created. Do any of your sources have images of the PSI logo? It looks like a picture of a seated Ganesha in a circle within a five-pointed star. I'm not sure about the colours. For that matter, depending on how far left your interests and sources go, an Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) logo is also sorely needed. Once again, thanks for your hard work. Regards Davidelit (talk) 04:26, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi. Thanks for noticing my work, I also noticed your contributions to the PSI article. I'm sorry about the original state of the PSI article, in the beginnings of my wikipedianship I hadn't fully understood the value of good referencing. As per the logo, none of my sources include pictures of logos. has a good image of the symbol, but black n white. I think it might be ok to use a black & white version in the article for now. The star would perhaps have been red, see . If we could find an image of the 1955 ballot papers, we could have logos of several parties. As per PKI, I don't think they had a logo in the modern sense, rather hammer and sickle was used in different versions, and as I understand, in different colour schemes. --Soman (talk) 08:04, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Re your Indonesian assistance request: Yes I do, but Merbabu has beat me to it. he is spot on. Davidelit (talk) 15:32, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, I saw your edits to Central Indonesian National Committee. Are you planning to write articles for Parkindo and the Catholic Party? I've been meaning to, but I don't have much in the way of sources. If you have good sources, I'll leave it to you. If you don't, I'll have a go when I have time. By the way, are your interests mostly with parties of the left? Davidelit (talk) 16:30, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I could have a look at them. In the longer run, all parties ever represented in KNIP or DPR should have separate articles of their own. Yes, my interest is often directed towards the left movements, but it is by no means exclusive. I have a few articles in pipeline on Indonesian 1940s politics, lets see by the end of the week how it emerged. --Soman (talk) 16:34, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree in principle. However I'm not sure that all of the parties were/are notable. For example, the Tharikah Unity Party (PPTI) and Village People's Party (PRD) vanished without trace despite winning a seat each in the 1955 elections, while the Islamic Victory Force (AKUI) was so obscure and insignificant that I have been unable to find the original name of the party in Indonesian - even my Indonesian translation of Herbert Feith's The Indonesian Elections of 1955 doesn't have it. Overall it seems to be left-wing parties (Murba needs an article) or those backed by the Army (eg IPKI) that lasted, and I would suggest that given the major role these two groupings played in the subsequent political history of Indonesia, the focus should be on articles about them. The third political strain, the Islamic parties, has rather better coverage as those parties are largely still around in one form or another. How about if I work on the military-backed parties and you do the lefties? Davidelit (talk) 17:12, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'll try to complete some of the other missing left groups. --Soman (talk) 19:29, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

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DYK for Socialist Party of Indonesia (Parsi)
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DYK nomination of Permai
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Borotbists
Hi. I reverted your edits at Ukrainian Social-Revolutionary Party. The Borotbists were a splinter group of the USRP, and according to the article the USRP ceased to exist in 1917, and the Day article clearly refers to post-1917 situation. --Soman (talk) 06:19, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, OK. Thanks, for notifying and refereing me to the article on the Borotbists. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 12:31, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Communist Party of China vs Chinese Communist Party
If you're interested, there's a dispute here over the naming of the party .--PCPP (talk) 04:22, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

User:Ata Fida Aziz
Aye, User:Ata Fida Aziz seems to have edited a load of pages, replacing references to "Partition of India" by "independece of Pakistan". I've asked RegentsPark's opinion on this matter and reverted some of those pages back to Partition of India&mdash;but there's a load of them in a very short timeframe. I'd like to know what would be correct action here. Cheers, --Rayshade (talk) 21:35, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * A sock of the banned User:Paknur who was the formerly banned who has an obsession with removing the word India everywhere. Like many of his compatriots, he likes to write websites claiming that Pakistanis are Arabs/Persians and racially distinct from the people of India and Bangladesh etc, and likes referring to things like "ancient Pakistani poet" to avoid the word India. We need to ask someone to make an edit filter to catch these edits from the usual banned Pakistanis  YellowMonkey   ( bananabucket ) 06:04, 7 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Aye, dug through Aziz's edits, reverted obvious issues wherever Yellowmonkey wasn't already done with it. Some of his/hers edits were actually helpful, typically masking the not-so-useful ones, though. However, there are several page moves that need more experience than I have. BTW, User:Ata Fida Aziz also has a habit of removing Category:Pre-Islamic heritage of Pakistan. Cheers, --Rayshade (talk) 21:41, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Indonesian edits
A big well done for all the work you've done on left-wing Indonesian parties of the 50s and 60s. I fell rather guilty as I have not added much on the military=backed parties... By the way, I reverted your edit to Indonesian legislative election, 1971. Suharto didn't take over in 1965, although the coup that year ultimately led to his doing so. He only really gained power in 1966 with the issuing of the Supersemar order, followed by his being elected acting president, then president over the next two years. Regards Davidelit (talk) 12:37, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, :). As per the edit on the 1971, I admit that my description was a bit rash. At the same time I wasn't comfortable with the previous wording, as the whole G30S issue is tangled in controversy. It becomes a bit like saying that the KPD was banned because of the Reichstag fire. The question is whether the Reichstag fire was the actual reason behind the banning of KPD or if it was merely a pretext to do so. --Soman (talk) 13:30, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi. The Communist Party of Indonesia was banned directly as a result of its alleged (by the Army, among others) involvement in the 30 September Movement, which was officially known as "G30S/PKI" during the New Order regime. Decree No. XXV/MPRS/1966 issued by the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly on 5 July 1966 states "people and groups who follow the philosophy or teaching of Communism/Marxist-Leninism, in particular the Communist Party of Indonesia, in the history of Independent Indonesia have been proved to have repeatedly tried to overthrow the legitimate government of the Republic of Indonesia using violence" and bans the spreading of Communism/Marxist-Leninism in any form, with the exception of teaching institutions such as universities, where it may be be discussed in the interests of safeguarding the state philosophy of Pancasila. Incidentally, this decree is still in force, despite attempts by Abdurrahman Wahid to revoke it when he was president. I think I may technically have broken it by my Wikipedia edits on the PKI page, and part of my book collection is illegal! A few years ago school history books that used the term "G30S" without the "/PKI" were actually burned in public . Speaking of book burnings, the comparison with the Reichstag fire is an interesting one. However, while Marinus van der Lubbe appears to have acted alone, PKI members such as party leader D.N. Aidit and Kamaruzaman Sjam were present at the Halim Air Force Base with the coup leaders, so while G30S was a useful pretext for the Army and Suharto to exterminate the communists, upper levels of the PKI may have been involved. Not that this remotely excuses the horric events of 1965-66. Incidentally, the article about the other coup attempt blamed on the PKI, the Madiun Affair, could do with some expansion if you have the time and the references...Davidelit (talk) 14:35, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

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CPI-CPI(M) flags.
Hey buddy! Leaving you a note after a long time. I just saw that on List of recognised political parties in India you replaced File:CPI-M-flag.svg with File:South Asian Communist Banner.png with a comment as  i generally prefer this version. Actually, svg is WP standard for images and flags. So when we have a svg format for a flag why to use PNG? -- GP Pande  14:15, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! My impression is that File:South Asian Communist Banner.png is closer in its style to the flags actually used by these parties. The shape of the hammer and sickle in File:CPI-M-flag.svg is very 'sharp', whilst the edges in the Indian communist flags are generally softer. However, I don't have the software to convert png to svg. --Soman (talk) 16:02, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I see what you are saying. The hammer and sickle have much higher details in png than shown in the svg flag. While I was surfing the the website http://www.cpim.org/ I found that symbol has similar details only for sickle and not hammer. Refer to Image at top left side on the homepage of CPIM website. The hammer is similar to what is depicted in the svg image. Later I also found that the author of this svg image user:Nichalp had incorporated sickle details in the very first image. See this or scroll down the history of File:CPI-M-flag.svg. Not sure why Nichalp later removed those sickle details from the flag. If you think this original flag matches most to CPIM website flag then I will do the needful. Ah! and ... there is no software to convert any type of image to svg. SVG images have to be code written or they have to be manually drawn using specialized software. Reverse is possible i.e. svg to any other format is possible. Since any SVG can be reused again and it is code written - it is accepted as a standard rather than other formats on WP. -- GP Pande  14:23, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I downloaded Inkscape a while back, but it hangs itself everytime I try to open the application. The issue of the flags is not uncomplicated, since there isn't any exact standard. In fact, neither version is really apt with reality. At http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJf-IS3Pu7I you get a pretty good glimpse of a CITU flag (at 01:00-01:12), a design perhaps more apt to use. --Soman (talk) 16:55, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Youth of the Popular Movement against EU
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The MPD and Hoxhaism
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Notification
Hi Soman. I'm posting to let you know that your name has been mentioned on a list of potential candidates for adminship on the talk page for RfA's here. If you are interested in running, or if you would like to make any comments, feel free to join the discussion. decltype (talk) 20:18, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

"The Bund on Wikipedia" Project
Hello,

I am writing to you today asking if you are interested in "The Bund on Wikipedia" Project. http://bundwiki.weebly.com/index.html I thought that you might be because I saw that you created the page for the Morgnshtern. You can reply here, my talk page, or at eliscoming@aol.com. Thanks.--Eliscoming1234 (talk) 17:46, 21 September 2009(UTC)
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 * --Eliscoming1234 (talk) 03:38, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

MOPR v. MezhRabPom
Hi. MOPR was Russian acronym of the Comintern's Legal Defense organization (International Organization for Aid to Revolutionaries), commonly known in English as International Red Aid (IRA). The organization you ask about, Workers International Relief (WIR) was started as a Comintern arm to channel famine aid to Soviet Russia in 1921 and later became a humanitarian aid organization elsewhere (as well as a propaganda arm, under which the Friends of Soviet Russia was encompassed). The Russian acronym of this was MezhRabPom (International Workers Aid). The former started in 1922, the latter in the fall of 1921. Confusing, I know, I finally figured it out for myself very recently. Hope this helps. Carrite (talk) 18:15, 23 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Whoops, I misread your question. As far as I know, from all that I've seen, MOPR was both the international organization and the name of the Russian section to the Russians. Carrite (talk) 18:20, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Berlin constituencies
Thanks for the message, looks like you've done decent work yourself in non-Anglophone politics. I'm working on the Berlin ones at the moment and may start adding constituencies outside there. By the way I reverted your good faith edit in my user space as despite the page title, the one I'm working on now is Berlin Pankow - as it's a user page I was just too lazy to change the page title :) All the best, Valenciano (talk) 19:27, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Ro Bund
Hi. I performed a cursory search, and found very little in Romanian. There's this - which only mentions that, unlike other Jewish Romanian groups, it was socialist; and this (a book review of a book that should contain much more on this stuff, but that I for one have never seen, let alone read) - which says that it was a Russian-inspired organization and disappeared as the Russian one did (a brief and ambiguous mention of Bolshevik pressures on the latter, but without clearly stating if this is something relevant for the Romanian group).

As far as I recall, I never came across mentions of the Ro Bund in printed sources, at least not in ones I can access in short time. I will keep looking. In any case: I'm willing to translate and "milk" these sources for the article and help you DYK it, but I'm a bit busy right now - apologies for that. If it's still required (that is, unless someone else beats me to it) I'll look into it some more later today. Cheers, Dahn (talk) 12:11, 5 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Incidentally: this seems to have a lot to say about whatever else happened to the party. Dahn (talk) 13:41, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

You're most welcome. Dahn (talk) 00:28, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi. Sorry, unfortunately I wasn't able to find anything further than what Dahn pointed out, but it looks you've now cleared the DYK bar, so good job on that. - Biruitorul Talk 16:46, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Socialist International
An editor has mentioned that the world map in the Socialist International article is out of date. I noticed that you had update it in the past. Do you know how to update it? The Four Deuces (talk) 19:41, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, but it will take a few days before I have time to address it. --Soman (talk) 06:49, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I will put a note on the talk page.  BTW one editor mentioned that Germany was included but the SPD was only a coalition partner.  The Four Deuces (talk) 06:56, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Swaraj Dal


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Democratic List for Israeli Arabs
Hi Soman. I got the party's ballot letters from the Hebrew article. Agriculture and Development used 'ein (which is on the poster), but Progress and Work apparently used just nun (although this was changed recently by he:משתמש:יוסי חייט - you might want to ask them what their source is). пﮟოьεԻ  5  7  12:58, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Independent Jewish Workers Party

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DYK
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PZ
Actually, it took the "Communist" name from 1922 to 1928 (6 years), but was "Social Democratic" from 1906 to 1922 (16 years), and took part under this name in the Ukrainian Central Rada and executives, I'm just busy adding infos about this period.--Pylambert (talk) 11:50, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Article move
Hi. Thanks for moving Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Democratic) to Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik); I had tried to do this before creating the Prajatantrik page. But, I couldn't figure out how to move articles; pls can you let me know how to do this? Thanks once again. Aditya.krishnan.82 (talk, contribs) 09:12, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

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DYKs
I have a few comments on T:TDYK; could you have a look? Thanks, Ucucha 13:29, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

SUCI to SUCI(C)
How would you suggest to include this change of name? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bctcanji (talk • contribs) 11:12, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
 * SUCI was known as SUCI during Ghosh's life-time. Thus the name in that particular article should be SUCI. One could put a comment like '(presently the SUCI(Communist))', but I think that's superflous since there are no other major SUCIs around. --Soman (talk) 11:20, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Category:Communist parties in the Former Soviet Union
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DYK nomination
Hi, could you have a look at the DYK nomination for LICOPA affair? Thanks, Ucucha 12:31, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
The articles you recenlty created seems fine to me. Actually I have nothing more to add because I know those parties only by name. Thank you for your precious work and happy new year, both in Wikipedia and (more important) real life! --Checco (talk) 16:45, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and happy new year to you to. --Soman (talk) 17:42, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

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 * Thanks! --Soman (talk) 21:01, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

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Disambiguation needed on Michel Zunino
Hi. Thanks for your great contributions to Wikipedia, including Michel Zunino which is on DYK right now. The article currently puts his place of death as La Garde. This is a disambiguation-page containing quite a few potential targets. Do you know which is the correct one? If so, could you please help me disambiguate it? Thanks. -Lilac Soul (Talk • Contribs) • I'm watching this page so just reply to me right here! 17:23, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I think it must be La Garde, Var. --Soman (talk) 17:25, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Kudos
Hello. Thanks for creating Chobot and Śliwka Polish minority politicians articles. From interbellum period only Junga and Wolf are missing and all Polish MPs in Czechoslovak National Assembly will be covered. - Darwinek (talk) 21:47, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Regarding your edits, I rearranged the refs. I think we can assume good faith regarding the usage of the Silesian Biographic Dictionary, but eventually the claims needs to be checked with page numbers. Btw, where did you find the info on the street name? --Soman (talk) 21:57, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I responded on the talk page of the article before seeing you actually wrote here. By the way the street name is quite a rare thing here. It is not common in the Czech Republic to name streets after minority politicians. Śliwka is "lucky" enough that Karviná is staunchly working-class communist-voting city, so they allowed the street name. Also I wanted to say I really appreciate your work on WP. I am noticing your political party/leaders articles every day and I am really glad you are working in this area, covering undercovered regions. - Darwinek (talk) 22:15, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and same to you. And via the link you gave, I also found the polish bio of Chobot. Sorry for jumping to the conclusion that your edits had been imported from pl.wiki. --Soman (talk) 22:18, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem. It's the Electronic Biographical Dictionary of Cieszyn Silesia. Quite helpful website when there's no book by hand. - Darwinek (talk) 22:26, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Good idea but isn't the article too short to be nominated for DYK? As for the hook, I would go the simple way and put something like "... that ethnic Polish politician Emanuel Chobot was a deputy in the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia?" - Darwinek (talk) 00:21, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

DYK for of Ettehadiyeh-ye Sendika-ye Kargaran-e Iran
Hello Soman. After reviewing your recent submission, I left a note by your DYK nomination. Kindly Calmer   Waters  07:19, 4 January 2010 (UTC) ·

Ceuta & Melilla
Ceuta & Melilla are not in any province. I suppose that they really don't belong on the 1822 map (no difference from any other Spanish foreign possession at that time) and I can remove them there; we could make a special 1833 map without them, but since that is the current provincial division, for most uses of the map one would want them. - Jmabel | Talk 18:46, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * But Ceuta articles says; "When Spain recognized the independence of Spanish Morocco in 1956, Ceuta and the other plazas de soberanía remained under Spanish rule as they were considered integral parts of the Spanish state. Culturally, modern Ceuta is considered part of the Spanish region of Andalusia. Indeed, it was until recently attached to the province of Cádiz — the Spanish coast being only 20 km away.", Spanish Morocco says "The territories of Spanish Protectorate of Morocco included northern Morocco (except Ceuta and Melilla, which have been Spanish since the 16th and 15th century, respectively), [...] Ceuta had been Portuguese before becoming Spanish in 1580. Melilla had been part of Spain since 1497, neither was included formally in the Protectorate, but were ruled with the same provisions as in the rest of the Spanish mainland territory.", so it doesn't seem unlikely that they had been included in the 1833 territorial reform. --Soman (talk) 19:25, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * But they weren't. Honest. Remember that even "Andalusia" was a very loose concept that time (it was only about a century since it had come to commonly include even the former kingdom of Granada—see Four Kingdoms of Andalusia—and unless I'm mistaken the abortive 1822 territorial reorganization was one of the first attempts to give the term a precise definition). Ceuta and Melilla never had provincial status; that's why they weren't initially included in the scheme of autonomous communities during the Spanish transition to democracy in the late 1970s and early '80s, and were only given autonomous status many years later after a special Ley Orgánica was passed to include them in the scheme.
 * The 1822 and 1833 statutes are linked from the respective articles, and you can easily see that Ceuta and Melilla go unmentioned.
 * I suspect that the maps we have for both the 1822 and 1833 territorial divisions contain minor errors in the areas where borders were later adjusted. In particular, I think the "1833" map is really a map of how things stood in the 1920s, after several adjustments had been made, and the "1822" map was probably originally worked backward off of that map. But they are coarse enough that I don't think they are actively misleading, especially now that I added the (still extant) enclave of Treviño, a large feature that was blatantly missing. - Jmabel | Talk 19:44, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * But that's a slightly different issue. I understand that Ceuta and Melilla were not provinces of their own in 1833. But that doesn't mean that they couldn't have been part of any other province. The royal decree document from 1833 just mention the names of the provinces, not their exact borders. this book, page 665, from 1859, states that Ceuta is part of Cadiz province. Thus the Ceuta dot on the 1833 map should be purple. But what about Melilla? --Soman (talk) 20:12, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm. The 1822 decree describes everything in terms of borders, and clearly omits them both. You are doubtless right about Ceuta in 1833; I have no idea about Melilla. I wonder why, then, Ceuta was never included in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. - Jmabel | Talk 20:18, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, the Ceuta issue seems a bit limboish. says that there was the 1978 Constitution opened the possibility to make Ceuta into an autonomous community, but it was implemented only in 1995. But where did it belong 1978-1995? --Soman (talk) 20:25, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Spanish wiki says that Ceuta was made independent from Cadiz province in 1925, by Royal Decree 4 august 1925. I only found this (3rd of August 1925), but can't really understand exactly what it means. The link to it at the BOE website says "Real decreto disponiendo quede suprimido el Ayuntamiento de Ceuta, debiendo la administración local de dicha plaza ser asumida en adelante por una Junta local de estructura y atribuciones análogas a la Junta de Arbitrios de Melilla." --Soman (talk) 20:42, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid I'm a little out of my depth on that one, too. Feel more than free to make any edits you think appropriate, and to contact me if you think I can be of further help; I think I'm moving on to other things. - Jmabel | Talk 19:40, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * ok, thanks. --Soman (talk) 20:57, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi both, I've got only a reference from the Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-historico de España y sus posesiones de ultramar, by Pascual Madoz (1855) (see here). According to it, Melilla (then only a minor "presidio", unlike Ceuta, which was a mayor one) depended at the time (as Alhucemas or Velez de la Gomera) of Ceuta and therefore, "belonged" to the province of Cádiz. My impression (and I've got no sources on it) is that both Ceuta and Melilla were integrated in the administration of the Spanish Protectorate (even if they didn't belonged to it) and when Morocco become independent, left in sort of no-man's land as simple city councils. I'll keep on searching. --Ecemaml (talk) 00:20, 6 January 2010 (UTC)


 * This reference is also useful. --Ecemaml (talk) 00:32, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of M 22
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Re on UFM
See my reply here. - Biruitorul Talk 16:14, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks. And if you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask, but just know that I will be replying at the other place for the time being. - Biruitorul Talk 16:37, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, Soman: my own delving into sources didn't bring much up, or at least nothing to answer your specific question. I'll keep digging, though. For the general issue, I'm with Biruitorul on this one as well - we should be considering a larger article to address the topic, but I for one am all caught up in other stuff and he's, well, serving a sentence. Dahn (talk) 15:04, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, no problem. Thanks, --Soman (talk) 15:11, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

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Sure thing...
There wasn't much to go on, but it seems I shouldn't worry about it being expanded; should have looked at your edit history first. Sorry about the inconvenience. I'll put it right back. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 16:31, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

All set. Thanks for being nice about this. :) --PMDrive1061 (talk) 16:33, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

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DYK nomination
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DYK Social Democratic Workers Party in Subcarpathian Rus
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That's a good question. Andrzejewski says, the KP was initially founded as a subsection of the East Prussian branch and only in 1921 the Danzig section was splitted from the East Prussian. But whether this was still a branch of the KPD or completely independent - I have no idea. I presume all Parties in Danzig were to small to exist without very close relations to the German parties, but that's "completey OR". Regards HerkusMonte (talk) 15:22, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

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CfD nomination of Category:BMS-affiliated unions
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Bozveliev
There wasn't much I could find about the guy, but there is one good source. I probably won't be able to add anything from it until this evening or tomorrow though. If that's fine with you, I can send you the Google-translated excerpt by e-mail for you to peruse (it's available online in Bulgarian). If you'd rather wait, I'll add some stuff to the article as soon as I can. One thing that I noticed though is that the Wikipedia article says he was born in Kazanlak while my source claims he was born in Constantinople but educated in Kazanlak. Todor→Bozhinov 07:39, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks
I was very surprised when the user Fayçal 09 deleted it...?.ترجمان05 (talk) 15:57, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Dear me Soman for adding the link ar:قالب:مستخدم الجزائر to Arabic page
 * Thanks. What happened is that you had added the link outside the 'noinclude' tag, which meant that all users having the template got linked to the arabic template page. --Soman (talk) 16:10, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
for appreciating Communist Party of Fiume it was part of my doctoral research, as other materials posted about Fiume you see them in my userpage Wukappa (talk) 19:37, 26 March 2010 (UTC) there were elections for the costituent assembly on the 24th of april 1921, won by the autonomist block that included also the Partito Autonomo Democratico fiumano led by Ruggiero Gotthardi and the Yugoslav Party of Fiume led by Benjamin Grohovac; the others were the pro-fascist national block; will write soon about that! Wukappa (talk) 08:00, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Comintern revert inadequately explained
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Laiko Vima
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Your opinion solicited
There seems to be a disagreement at Talk:International Socialist Review over whether the article International Socialist Review should be split into three freestanding articles and converted into a disambiguation page. Your opinion on the matter would be helpful. Carrite (talk) 16:02, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Finnish-American socialism
I'm actually just gearing up to write a little about the Red Finns in Oregon today, thanks for the Eteenpäin stub link, I didn't know that was out there. I'm more likely to limit myself to Toveriand Tovaritar today though... Carrite (talk) 16:33, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Stub no more
Eteenpäin. Thanks. Carrite (talk) 18:20, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Edit War
Why do you keep reverting Edit_war, in Pan-Arabism I check the many revisions, Nableezy, Malik Shabazz and you have made in 24 hours...LeeSeem (talk) 02:20, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * How many reverts have you done yourself, through all accounts that you are running? --Soman (talk) 02:25, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Excuse me, but I have one, and only one account, why would you suggest otherwise? Is this a way of legitimizing reverting edits? LeeSeem (talk) 02:30, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Seriously, that is hardly the case. --Soman (talk) 02:32, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Harassment?
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I appreciate that you believe this paper was notable as per WP:N, can you provide sources besides the one I listed (it looks like two, but it's the same source) that demonstrate that? They don't have to be in English, if that helps. --Joe Decker (talk) 15:35, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of New Eritrea Party
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DYK for Óscar Salas Moya
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DYK nomination of Roger Pinto Molina
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DYK for Fernando Untoja Choque
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DYK for 1958 Paraguayan general strike
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Thanks
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Hindi Wikipedia
Hi, How are you, its a long time to hear a word from your side. I am thinking that I should take an initiative to develop the hindi wikipedia on the topics of my expertise and interest. But I think wikipedia is a highly undemocratic space, yesterday I thought to modify stalin's article by inserting some of the genuine changes, but the User's on that page have created an "edit war" kind of thing against me, They prefer to portray the downsides of the stalin. But I want to reflect a more neutral and balanced view.

Here is a minor edit which i'd proposed to that stalin's article. I hope, I will not encounter such kind of unfriemdly behaviour on Hindi Wikipedia.

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Stalin further enhanced the New Economic Policy of the Lenin era. His Five-Year Plans brought about an era of rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union. Stalin launched a policy of Dekulakization, he thought that Kulaks or the middle class peasants were a threat to Collectivization. Initially, Kolkhoz, or collective farms, did not prove very efficient, and contributed to the Soviet famine of 1932–1933. Stalin tried to cope with the emergency by sending grain to Soviet Ukraine, but by then the famine had already taken many lives. .................................

Warm Regards.

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DYK for Gonzalo Aguirre Villafán
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CPIM ARTICLE (urgent)
A user "Deshbhakta", is reverting the edits done by me and others. Plz. support us on the talk page of CPIM article. [] I think it is necessary to stop such kind of hooligoonism, to maintain the quality standards of wikipedia.

Warm Regards Viplovecomm (talk) 20:22, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Román Loayza Caero
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May 2010
This is the only warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. The next time you delete or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia, as you did to CPIM, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. This is your LAST WARNING  Mr. R00t     Leave me a Message   22:35, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Look Soman. I really dislike your attitude. It is starting to get on my nerves. I appreciate your opinion on the matter. It is important to get all opinions to write an article about a government party. But it appears that you for some reason have a strong opinion or interest in the matter that has been shading your judgement. Please either discuss calmly on the talk page or stay away from the page altogether. And it is unnecessary to bring up that I am not an admin in cases such as this. If I had felt that he should have been blocked I'm sure Elockid or  Arbitrarily0 would have been happy enough if I had a good reason. Please read WP:NPOV and WP:NOR. Respond here and leave me a talk back template   Mr. R00t     Leave me a Message   23:09, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll try respond more in detail at a later stage. In the meantime, try to cool down on the warning templates. Acting as if you were a deciding authority, especially towards Viplovecomm (who is a user with a limited number of edits), is highly disrupting. Try to limit rants in the line of "I'll have you banned" to cases which actually merits such behaviour. In this "mediation process", correct me if I'm wrong, you have either advocated immediate banning or threating to issue a ban on all involved parties expect Deshabhakta. That pretty much closes any window to act as a constructive third-party mediator in the process. --Soman (talk) 06:27, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I actually have not yet requested a block for you. I was stating that I was fully willing to at any later point in time. I would like to know why you have such an interest in the subject of CPIM.  Mr. R00t     Leave me a Message   04:26, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * May I begin by answering a question with a question; why are you so quick to assert that Deshabhakta is correct? My own interest comes out of an overall interest in and fascination of the political history of the Indian left, I have written large chunks of the CPI(M) article and several other articles on other Indian communist groups (including some clear adversaries of CPI(M)). About a year ago I began to re-prioritize (not sure that is a correct word) my time at Wikipedia, concentrating on non-stub article creation. I hoped that other editors would step in regarding articles such as CPI(M) article, that has not really been the case. Regarding all major Indian political parties, there tends to erupt proxywars on Wikipedia. The existance of "criticism and controversies" sections effectively functions as an open invitation for POV pushing. A few days ago I encountered a gross fringe comment from the controversies section of the Indian National Congress article. --Soman (talk) 08:44, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It appears that we have solved the problem as there is no longer obnoxious edit warring. As for your question he turned out to be right and wrong. The one good thing that came out of that argument was the decision to be balanced. I do not place blame on you.  Mr. R00t     Leave me a Message   01:20, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

A socialist party history nominated for deletion
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Sorry to bug you again
I think we should think about terminating an old stub you created in 2005 on my bad information, Revolutionary Socialist Labor Party. Please drop by Talk:Revolutionary_Socialist_Labor_Party when you get a chance. Carrite (talk) 17:24, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

VANDALISM ON CPIM ARTICLE
Hi, Hope you are doing well!!! This is regarding the CPIM article, THE GENERAL CONSENSUS against Harmath was reached during the discussion period, when You NithinJ, Ravi Bajpai, me and others were against it. NOW DESHBHAKTA, has again started denying that consensus and pushing forwards his biased propaganda, please search some way to stop it. Is there any possiblity to block him editing that article for some time.

PLZ. REPLY. Warm Regards. -Viplovecomm (talk) 10:32, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

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PLZ. REPLY ASAP
Hi, Hope you are doing well. I see you are not very well active on CPIM article these day, may be you are busy with some other work. But I want to raise the issue of Deshbhakta to arbitrary committee, if possible want to block him from edit that cpim article. He is pathetic, accusing me everyday of copyright violations, unreliable citations, biasedness etc etc. I've no idea how to deal this issue, I am waiting for your quick reply of what to do. Also I've started an consensus against his edits, plz. make your vote count in that consensus.

Reply soon. regards. -Viplovecomm (talk) 08:15, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello. I've been tied up with other stuff and haven't followed the developments in the CPI(M) article lately. I'll have a look at it. However, I think seeking a block for Deshabhakta is the wrong way to procede. I agree, and have stated several times, that his intentions in editing the article are solely pov-pushing. A better way to procede would be to involve more, hithero uninvolved, and experienced editors to work out a consensus and a plan on how the article should be improved further. The underlining advice is to remain cool and not panic, that will enable a more constructive dialogue. --Soman (talk) 13:56, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for reply, I'hope some more experienced editors will join that article soon. Moreover I am researching a lot of good books, and internet articles to expand that article. In this EDIT WAR on harmath, we have totally forgot the preindependence phase (possibly linked with CPI), and historic victories of the party during late 1970's, barga etc. I am consentrating on that, General Consensus has reached AGAINST HARMATH, it will not be displayed there any more. regards -Viplovecomm (talk) 21:06, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Political Position of Die Linke (Germany)
Hi there. I see we were of different opinions concerning the inclusion of the political position in the article on Die Linke. I would be interested in your opinion on what I said on the talk page. I have just added "left-wing" as political position for the time being but I will also add "far-left" again, if you do not provide good reasons for not including this sourced (!) political position. Regards, Janfrie1988 (talk) 15:35, 18 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I see your points and in fact I tend to agree that it is difficult to pinpoint a whole party to one position, especially a party which is as diverse as Die Linke is. I also tend to favour multi-dimensional (at least 2-dimensional) systems like e.g. the Political Compass to the one-dimensional left-right spectrum. Aside from all its flaws, however, it is the most widely used and known system to categorise political groups and parties. The majority of our readers probably aren't students of political science and many of them might not be familiar with the peculiarities of the party systems in certain countries but nearly all of them should be familiar with the terms left and right and associate something with these terms. Therefore such a categorisation is highly helpful for getting a first impression. I have always regarded this an advantage over the German Wikipedia where these positions are left out and I had to delve quite deep into the matter to understand where certain parties stood (or read the English article). Certainly such an impression shouldn't be regarded as a complete and exhaustive description of a party's stances but I still hold that it is helpful in the beginning.


 * Of course there are more and less controversial examples. Hardly anyone (and no reliable mainstream source) would call the SPD anything but centre-left and I have never heard any independent news or academic source call the CDU anything but centre-right (except for the CDU itself, which claims to be in the "centre" but that would probably not count for an independent source). This is different for Die Linke however. Personally, I see the supervision by the Verfassungsschutz (in states with conservative governments) as little less than a quite obvious attempt to demonise and damage a political opponent who might in fact take the German constitution more seriously than the CDU itself - however, my personal opinion on the matter is unfortunately quite irrelevant. There are parts of the mainstream German media and a significant number of politicians which call Die Linke far-left or even extremist and certainly want to express a negative opinion with that, while other mainstream media and politians more or less regard it as a democratic party just as any other in the Bundestag. I think as Wikipedia editors it is our duty to represent this in the article and also in the infobox. Such positions are always subjective (there are just some that more people agree on) and sources can't change that but they can at least put it into context. I remind you that WP:V clearly says that what matters on Wikipedia is "verifiability, not truth" (emphasis in original). We should stick to that and adequately represent sources. "Far-Left" might sound derogatory but this is okay, simply because a significant number of people see Die Linke in that way (including the Verfassungsschutzbericht, which might indeed be a better source for "far-left" than the Guardian article).


 * On a more general note I would like to add that including the position on the left-right axis is the status quo in political party articles. I think altogether taking out the positions in an article on a party that we might have sympathies for is too important a decision to just make it on our own. If all other parties have such a position this one should have it too, unless we convince people on the project to change the convention (but then we would have to take out the positions in all articles). Now, concerning Die Linke the situation is complicated and for the reasons I have listed I think it is the best solution to represent this by including two positions and sourcing where these evaluations come from. Regards Janfrie1988 (talk) 20:12, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Tanka movement
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Der Elsässer Bote
I usually enjoy looking at what you're working on. I drove through the area last week; it's very pretty. Take it easy, Drmies (talk) 03:06, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and thanks for the swift improvements to the article :) --Soman (talk) 03:07, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, it's nothing that you wouldn't have found either, just trying to beat you to the punch, haha. Later, Drmies (talk) 03:08, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election, 2010
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DYK for National Youth Organization
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Richard Alan Minsky
I noticed you have BLP concerns about the article. If you can be more specific, I agree these should be fixed. Thanks. KimChee (talk) 18:08, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * As per selection criteria #4 at Did_you_know, I'm not sure it is fixable. The article solely focuses about Minsky as a felon, which in my view makes it unsuitable for DYK. --Soman (talk) 18:26, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, understood. I was wondering if something wasn't properly referenced by a reliable source. Thank you for your time. KimChee (talk) 19:00, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * No, and for the record I find the article well written and well referenced. --Soman (talk) 19:05, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. I moved the article (because there is another notable Richard Minsky) and wrote an alternate hook, though I'm not sure "a used" or "an used" is more appropriate use of English. KimChee (talk) 23:25, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox Nepalese political party
Template:Infobox Nepalese political party has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Axem Titanium (talk) 10:08, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

About ECI Status
Hello, Soman
 * I really don't think so its so important because if you look at other countries political parties they haven't provided any ECI status type of form actually in the real Template:Infobox political party they haven't provided it so i don't think it so important. There may be a majority party or a minority party in a country.-- Kkm010 as&#169; 15:57, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * There are other similar examples. Brazilian parties have their Election Commission number listed ("TSE Identification Number") in infoboxes, for example. The ECI status is extremly relevant in the Indian context, because it determines the status of election symbols in elections. Dividing parties in 'majority' or 'minority' would be irrelevant in the Indian national context, as no party holds majority. --Soman (talk) 16:05, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * But Soman as far as Brazilian political party is concern TSE is an identification number its not stating that its a (minority or majority party) or (National or state party). For more information please look at this parties Democratic Party, Conservative Party (UK) or this one Conservative Party of Canada, there are more. Non have they provided a ECI or any kind info mentioning of the status in their own country. So I think its not so inportant and worth mentioning their status.-- Kkm010 as&#169; 17:13, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Soman waiting for ur answer.-- Kkm010 as&#169; 17:55, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't see how the comparison is relevant. In the case of British parties, there is no issue of election symbol. Nor is there any multi-tier classification of parties by their Election Commission. --Soman (talk) 18:02, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * But my friend if you look at every party apart from Indian parties none have mentioned about any kind of status I can give you more eg.-- Kkm010 as&#169; 18:08, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Why would a party outside India be listed on classification by the Election Commission of India? --Soman (talk) 18:15, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Personal Attacks
Hello, my name is Ronk01, I have noticed that several of your talk page posts could constitute personal attacks. I have also noticed several NOPV breaches. I would ask that you avoid such behavior in the future. Thank you, Ronk01   talk,  19:47, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello, Ronk01. Could you be little more specific? --Soman (talk) 19:50, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, multiple attacks regarding User:Deshabhakta on the Communist Party of India talk page. Remember, no matter how horrible you think an eidotr is (or actually is) personal attacks are never acceptable. Ronk01  talk,  03:12, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm of the opinion that I have not done any personal attacks in that discussion. If there are any edit diff that you find objectionable, please provide them and we can discuss about it. --Soman (talk) 09:15, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
It was Viplovecomm that left that, sorry.  Mr. R00t   Talk  21:22, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
 * no problem, --Soman (talk) 21:27, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Francisco Frutos
Would you care to provide some references. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 17:51, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I would suggest you direct that question to the editors that wrote the article. However, in any case mass prodding is not the way to in cases like this. Yes the article needs references, but deletio wouldn't serve any purpose. The article is about a notable personality, and no extraordinary claims are made in the article text. --Soman (talk) 17:56, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Under röd flagg
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Anti-Fascist Blok
In regard to this I was wondering if you had or were aware of any sources which discuss the blok in detail? I pretty much just translated the article from Polish Wiki and would sure appreciate help with expanding and sourcing it.radek (talk) 04:03, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I was not aware of the organization before I stumbled across the article. I could look into it in a few days. --Soman (talk) 04:09, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Volksfront (Alsace)
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DYK for Jean-Pierre Mourer
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DYK for Charles Hueber
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DYK for Alsatian Workers and Peasants Party
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DYK for Bloody Sunday (1926)
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DYK for Die Neue Welt
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 18:04, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Very, very nice, this multiple DYK: congratulations, and thanks for your many useful contributions! Drmies (talk) 21:12, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --Soman (talk) 21:29, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Tendentious POV-pushing and COATrack on GAZPROM
Thanks for bringing this issue to the attention of the administrators' noticeboard. I share your concern.

Someone, who is currently unable to edit Wikipedia suggested that the case may have some connection to WP:EEML and WP:DIGWUREN. Maybe you could ask for advise on the talk pages of those cases. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 01:00, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Loksatta in Indian party template
Yes, it is unrecognized. That is why I have added it in the "UNrecognized section" of template. Thanks. Townblight (talk) 12:18, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Singapore Federation of Trade Unions
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DYK for Independent Regional Party for Alsace-Lorraine
The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Greekboy
Thanks for the heads-up. Problem sorted. Ground Zero | t 01:27, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Alsace-Lorraine Regional Party
The DYK project (nominate) 06:04, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Ny Dag
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DYK for Sydsvenska Kuriren
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Tage och Geijer
Hello, just stopped by to say that United NLF Groups was a very impressive new creation. Interesting to see a much more substantial article than the Swedish one. Tomas e (talk) 10:23, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --Soman (talk) 14:08, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

WP:Articles_for_deletion/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes_(3rd_nomination) exists
neutral notification Collect (talk) 12:59, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Stockholm-may-day-poster-1972.png
 Thanks for uploading File:Stockholm-may-day-poster-1972.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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DYK for Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence
Hello! Your submission of Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! --NortyNort (talk) 09:17, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the revert on my talk page. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:medium; color:#4682B4;"> E lockid</b>  ( Talk ) 11:59, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem, you're welcome. --Soman (talk) 12:02, 16 July 2010 (UTC)