User talk:Warofdreams/2007/01-03

Infobox Scottish island‎
Wishing you a 'Happy New Year' from Scotland. There is a mildly amusing discussion at Template talk:Infobox Scottish island‎ which you may have something useful to say about regarding the shortcomings of Haswell-Smith's list. Ben MacDui (Talk) 13:24, 2 January 2007 (UTC) PS Will add something re Brazil asap.

Right to vanish
Hello do you think that you could remove everything from my previous username (User:Julian Diamond) so that it just appears as a generic "Former user-#".

The old talk page can already be found on my current talk page. I guess I really don't want my real name to appear anywhere on wikipedia, especially since I often edit controversial articles.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 20:24, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you
Hi Happy new year. Thanks for changing the user name for me. Yogendra Rampuria | Talk

Category:Social Democratic Federation members
Thanks for helping populate Category:Social Democratic Federation members. (I just created it a few hours ago so I was surprised to see how quickly it's filled up!) I'm creating biographies of some notable Socialist Party of Great Britain founders, most of whom were previously members of the SDF, so the category will be slowly growing… —Psychonaut 21:43, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Change names
Hi, I am sorry to bother you, but the queue to change user names keeps on increasing and increasing with very little action being taken. If possible, could you please look on that? Thanks --Alonso 21:52, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the name change. I don't seem to be ables to recreate the old account - I get a message saying the name is to similar to the old account name (not surprising).--Peta 03:06, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!!!
Thanks for changing my user name. Feeling great now... loveisblind | Talk

I add to that. Thanks, for the same reason. JimboB 02:35, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

UK Workers Revolutionary Party members
Are you including SLL and Club members who were not in the WRP in that Category? I'm not sure that's right. I've removed Lawrence; perhaps I would also cut Fryer. --Duncan 16:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Rename
Thanks for changing my username for me. I know you've already gotten a lot of thanks from other people but, for what it's worth, thanks again. I wish you a great Wikipedia experience.

PS any suggestions on what to create new articles on? I can't seem to find any red links and the wanted page is down.

Thanks again Mr.Morose 21:22, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

New Articles
Actually, Warofdreams, you helped me a lot. I was taking a look through the articles that you created and saw Pass the parcel. I followed that and found that there was no article on "Silent ball" yet so I created one. Of course, it's not near finished (as you will see). Thanks though Mr.Morose 22:52, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

PS feel free to add to it. A picture would really help.

name change
Could you please change my name because you skipped o'er me and now I'm probably going to be forgotten? I've finally chosen a name I like now and I'm pretty sure I won't want another name change later. -Teofil Bartlomiej 00:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

name change
Thanks for changing my name. I appreciate you taking the time to do so. Thank heaps. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rogorua (talk • contribs) 01:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

Reg. WP:CHU
Hello! I had recently placed a request at WP:CHU to have my username changed. However my request was denied saying that the account was already taken. I'm confused about the discrepancy between this and this. Can a user exist without having been marked in the user creation log? I'd really appreciate if you could explain this to me. Thank you.--thunderboltz(Deepu) 13:55, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Comoros
Hi Warofdreams, Dmcdevit, who has vastly expanded the Comoros article the past few days, has run through his sources and asked me if I can help with further improvement, especially of the Culture section. I'm not aware of any Comorian editors; the closest I can think of is your work in Madagascan topics so it figured it was worth seeing if you had a stack of books on Comoros sitting at your side. Thanks!, BanyanTree 19:02, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Left communism template
I tried to do my best for the template. Thanks for the opportunity. --Mayis

Template:Left communism sidebar

List of United Kingdom by-elections
For reference when expanding to earlier elections, how did you choose the intervals for the different lists? Choess 07:58, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, William Dronfield, was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions!  Nish kid 64  15:02, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * WWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Excellent! - Tim1965 02:38, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

SDF archives
Since you're involved in editing SDF-related articles, I thought I'd let you know that I have access to all the issues of Justice from 1896 to 1902, plus several other SDF documents (letters, pamphlets, election manifestoes, etc.) from around that time period. I don't know if this sort of stuff is typically available in public libraries, so if not and you need me to scan or look anything up for you, don't hesitate to ask. —Psychonaut 18:04, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello. Is it possible for you to delete the old account for User:Amortiguado, or otherwise remove all references to it? The user is emailing me privately and being hostile and belligerant and whiny, and frankly I want nothing more to do with him. Please, find a way to give him what the frack else he wants so he'll leave me alone. PLEASE??? - CobaltBlueTony 17:36, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Template:Africa topic
Hi,

You reverted an edit that I had made to Template:Africa topic. I thought that the change I had made was relevant. There's no 'Public holidays in Mauritius' article (so its a red link), but it can be found as a sub-section of Culture of Mauritius. I don't understand the template very well, so could you make any changes that are necessary to point to the relevant subsection?

Aeons 05:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Made redirect. Thanks for your help. Aeons 12:49, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Roger Protz in Peter Taaffe article
Hi Thought I would ask your opinion on an issue in the article on Peter Taaffe, as it relates to something I think you posted there, ref Roger Protz, before I proceed to perhaps post something on the Taaffe entry dicussion page or on the article.

If you're not bothered and want me to just go straight there, or do the edit, that's fine.

On the first issue of the Militant, above the editorial, it says

MILITANT

Editor: PETER TAAFFE (Walton Young Socialists)

All correspondance to the business manager:

S. Mani, 40 Stapleton Road, London S.W. 17

The minutes of the meeting of the RSL which agreed to set up the Militant, as outlined below, are available in Militant's archives.

I would like to suggest something along the lines of the following text:

Current article has

Taaffe joined what was then the Revolutionary Socialist League, led by Ted Grant, in the early 1960s and became the second editor (after Roger Protz) of its publication, Militant when it was launched in 1964. Eventually, the group became known by the name of the paper, and was either referred to as Militant or the Militant Tendency.

Replace with:

Taaffe joined what was then the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL), led by Ted Grant, in the early 1960s. In 1964 Grant, Arthur and Jimmy Dean, Keith Dickenson, and others on the executive of the RSL decided to launch the Militant newspaper.

Peter Taaffe, who lived in Liverpool at that time, was appointed editor, Roger Protz, who lived in London where the paper was to be produced, and who had experience working on a magazine, was appointed technical editor. A business editor and sub editors were appointed. Taaffe's task was to change the whole approach of this small group towards the working class. At that time Trotskyists and Communists tended to speak in an idium which was quite inaccessible to ordinary workers. Taaffe's task was to speak in the language of the "Labour and trade union movement".

In 1965 Taaffe moved to London to work full time on the Militant, despite a serious shortage of money: “I was compelled first of all to sleep on the floor of a supporter in Balham.. . once or twice spending sleepless nights in the entrances of subways” (The Rise Of Militant, p11)

Eventually, the group became known by the name of the paper, and was either referred to as Militant or the Militant Tendency.

etc...

---

I wonder what you think? This is a sketch, anyway, of an entry. I could substantiate the matter a little further I believe.

Perhaps you saw a reference which said, "Taaffe only moved down to London in 1965, Protz edited the Militant before that". This would be half right, insofar as Protz was the technical editor, but it is misleading. Taaffe was appointed editor at the start, because of his work in Liverpool, and it was indeed essentially Taaffe's project, his goal.

Just FYI, it was always said that Ted Grant, who never liked the name Militant for the paper, only reluctantly acquiessed in the whole project. "Militant" was Taaffe's choice, and the Liverpool lads on the RSL exec, Arthur and Jimmy Dean in particular, and Keith Dickenson, won the day. Grant favoured "Socialist Appeal."

Anyway, if you have any opinions on the matter, please let me know. Someone tells me Roger Protz was employed working on a magazine called New Society at the time, (a bourgois liberal publication) which later merged with the New Statesman, but I can't back that up. Perhaps you have some info on this?

Andysoh 22:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Chilean edits
Hello,, since you have made several edits to articles about Chile, you may be interested in looking at the Chile-related regional notice board to pick up on other topics that need attention, or to express needs which you perceive pertaining to Chile. J A X HERE | T a l k 02:49, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

CHU
Hey, since you seem to be the bcrat I thought I'd leave you a note. :) First of all there were a few malformed requests you turned down because they were, well, malformed. I tried to fix them up and if you could revisit them at some point it would be appreciated by the users requesting the changes, I'm sure. Also, I don't mean to badger, but I have a CHU request on there too which is noncontroversial and the name should be available.  If you could give it a look, it'd be appreciated. Cheers, ✎  Peter M Dodge  (  Talk to Me  &bull;  Neutrality Project  ) 04:32, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

names
I have had a few name changes and I have a bunch of unused pages of my old names that are simply wadsting space:


 * User:Jim Bart
 * User:Cali Drama King
 * User:Texas Drama King
 * User:Teofil Bartlomiej

anyway I was wondering is you could remove these pages. -I&#39;m Working for Him 17:27, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Taaffe, Protz, clean-up?
Hi Thanks for your remarks on my page!

Do you think we have done enough to effect a clean-up?

In the Taaffe discussion I've suggested a draft of other material to help the "clean up" along the lines of the discussion - more references to Taaffe and achievements, to place in perspective the open turn split. I hope strictly NPOV stuff.

I wonder what you think? I don't think the original indicated in the slightest the historical legacy which is associated with the Militant, of which some mention, if only breif, is necessary in a biography of its founder and long time editor. But probably could do with much improvement.

You menion the Roger Protz entry but it says "Founding editior of the Militant". Maybe insert "technical" or perhaps "alongside Peter Taaffe" Not vital.

30 Jan - further references addded to Taaffe addition proposal in discussion page, POV in first para removed.

cheers Andysoh 03:03, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Belfast West
Hi! In the party affiliations of the above constituency page, I introduced "Anti-Parnellite Nationalist" from 1890. You've changed it to INF. Whilst the point is a trivial one, as both designations can be considered correct, he was Anti-Parnellite from 1890, but he was INF from 1891, to be strictly accurate we'd need to introduce a row for December 1890 - March 1891 which seems like overkill when one row will do. I'm not going to amend your edit but thought I would mention this to you in case you wanted to rethink the change. DrKiernan 08:24, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

The dot after 'st.'
Hi, it's a interesting point you brought up about the dot after abbreviations of saints in moving Old St Paul's Cathedral. Is there a suggested format in the manual of style? It doesn't seem very clear at Manual of Style (abbreviations) at the moment. The only thing I'm a bit unsure about is that I notice other buildings include the dot, such as St. Peter's Basilica and other ones listed at St. Peter's Cathedral and Cathedral of Saint Paul don't seem to be very consistant. Half the entries seem to favour different formats. Which is the correct way? Bob talk 14:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah that's quite interesting - thanks for the reply, I'll have to remember that in future :) Bob talk 21:00, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Taaffe page
Hi, Wow! The foot notes and contents are really neat. Thanks for all that work.

Well, the citations are quite a challenge, but I really appreciate the time you've taken on it, and I think you are quite right in identifying the weaknesses of the material.

I’ve made a start on the citations, and it’s made a big improvement. You just don’t see these things yourself.

Some notes:

1. Question: I put a smaller version of the peter Taaffe picture because it took ages to download. I know wikimedia say use a high, print quality version, but I thought maybe it was unnecessarily high. What do you think? I don’t mind either way – change it back or I will if it was wrong. Let me know.

2. Proposal: I think Matgamna’s main point is on the look of the paper, e.g. precisely on the technical side, (meaning layout) which Taaffe could not remotely match after Protz left. In other words he was doing what he was supposed to, and his leaving left Taaffe in the lurch.

Would you be happy with: 

"According to Sean Matgamna’s highly critical recollections (Matgamna was an RSL member at the time), Protz did most of the work on the first three or four issues. But he left the RSL the following year (1965), and Taaffe moved down to London to become National Secretary of the RSL and work full time on the Militant. [3]"

and just as an afterthought, is not the whole thing more of a footnote type of thing?

3. Just to be clear: I'm sure you agree that since Taaffe was/is editor / general secretary of the Militant / Socialist Party, then the success of that paper / tendency / party is immediately relevant, since one might say it is his life's work, and whilst not every factoid is going to be directly tied to Taaffe, I'm sure we will arrive at an agreement on the question of balance here.

4. You haven't indicated that any citations were needed in the piece I placed in the discussion, so after waiting a little longer for any feed back I'll paste that into the biog, and hopefully the whole thing will seem a bit more balanced and relevant.

5. (Off the record, as it were:: In case you’re interested: Of course Taaffe always had specific responsibility for Liverpool on the Militant executive, and played a central role in policy decisions in Scotland in 1988 which I hint at with one instance, and though I could not / did not source it he was central to discussions in Scotland with Tommy Sheridan, about forming "Anti-Poll Tax unions" (i.e prior to the decision to support non-payment – the other option was the SWP / CP option of staying within the law and getting the trade unions to take action. The Scottish SWPers, I am told, paid their poll taxes.) which were another break with the Labour Party and the direction the Grantites wanted to go (deeper entryism - some of whom by this time were becoming bitter and twisted, but again, that's another story.) Taaffe was all the time in the lead in pulling or guiding the other leading Militant executive (‘Editorial board’) members in this direction, against an increasingly embittered Grant / Woods group.) Andysoh 02:03, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Systemic bias
Hi. Thanks for your recent edit to the Countering systemic bias article. May I please request that rather than reverting imperfect edits you instead attempt to improve them? This would certainly benefit wikipedia in the long run as many editors do not revisit articles to see if their contributions have been removed. Many thanks, --Rebroad 19:02, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

fact tags in wikipedia namespace
Hi again!. I noticed your edit here and wondered if you could explain why you believe fact tags are not appropriate in wikipedia namespace. It seems reasonable to be that wikipedia endevours to be factually correct in all but user namespaces. Cheers, --Rebroad 19:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

taaffe page - thanks
Hi, Again I'm grateful for your comments, and entirely agree. Added more biog and made minor changes to emphasise Taaffe. Don't know if I can push it any further. I hope on balance now the reader will now feel s/he is reading an interesting biography of an individual, with background info. I've also made further clean up efforts, and removed the clean up tag - I hope that was ok.

I have stuff on the period of the growth of Militant in the 60s and 70s which maybe I'll suggest for the Militant Tendency page, which needs some attention anyway.

I am thinking of starting on the Militant Tendency page the same citation treatment required. The Ted Grant page has errors (I've pointed out the worst on the discussion page) but I'm reluctant to jump in and make the agreed changes.

Andysoh 01:53, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

WP:CHU
Grateful thanks for your help. --Old Moonraker 22:08, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Changing username
Does this swich over your contributions, userpage, talk page, everything? Cornell Rockey 05:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Would my previous signatures now redirect to the newly created userpage, and talk page? Cornell Rockey 18:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Globalization
You know, I almost put the globalize template on Historic district myself, but thought better of it because I figured if it made it to the front page in DYK?, probably likely, it would be expanded, which is why I left the intro purposely ambiguous and then sectioned it off into 'Historic districts in the United States' and its sub sections. But you're right it might just be too broad of a topic and there is justification for articles such as Historic districts in the United States, Historic Districts in the United Kingdom, Historic districts in Austria, etc. though that is quite an undertaking. Not that I mind the globalize template or anything, I hope someone expands it, I just wanted to explain my rationale, one editor to another. Another alternative would having the overview article, Historic district, be done in summary style and then having those articles above as child articles or whatever.

Of course, I would have included all that myself but I lack the expertise.A mcmurray 20:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Your note
I've replied by e-mail. SlimVirgin (talk) 07:12, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Welcome
Here are the top three tasks as of now:


 * Tag articles with
 * Discuss the scope of the project on the project talk page
 * Improve the article for February's collaboration of the month: Uganda.

— Emiellaiendiay 20:36, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007
I noticed your last edit to this article. If you round the SP 2003 poll to the nearest tenth of a percent, it is 0.0, not 0.1, that is why I changed it to 0.05, and put the reference in  Fasach Nua 16:18, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * FYI, I am reading the Members, 2007 page to keep me updated as the results of the election are coming in. Just so you know you work is being used and appreciated. --Rye1967 17:08, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

You reverted my contributions to the Trotskyism template. Why?
All my contributions were entirely legitimate, except possibly C.L.R. James, which is debatable. (It is alleged that his most important intellectual contributions were after he left the Trotskyist movement, but this ignores the important contribution to Trotskyism he made when, as a member of the SWP and with Trotsky, he helped to develop the position on Black self-determination.) All the rest are absolutely indisputable. Please help me to understand what your intention is here. cargohook 07:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

sry
I'll stop. I've got an idea, why dont I add links instead of removing them. Let me know &mdash;Semper Fi,  Darkest Hour   15:43, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Survey Invitation
Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 21:29, 3 March 2007 (UTC)talk to me

Favor...
Hello, ! I think that you're a really great editor, so, do you think that you could sign my autograph book, maybe? It would be an honor if you did! See ya later, ! Cremepuff222 ( talk,  sign book ) 01:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Template talk:Trotskyism
I was just looking at Template talk:Trotskyism and saw that [a] it seems like we agreed to add in Pierre Frank, but I forgot or something. and [b] I seem to now be opposed to having CLR James there, but I was previously in favour, and so I clearly needa second opinion. What do you think? My instinct says both in, or both out. What do you think? --Duncan 20:25, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Great Sheffield Flood
Hi. I've deleted Great Sheffield Flood from the list of natural disasters. If you look at the references for it you will see that it is a man-made disaster, not a natural disaster. Viv Hamilton 21:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Template:Asia topic
Hi Warofdreams,

I'm not sure why it is breaking for you, as it seems to work fine for me. All I did was remove a redirect. Could you explain why it is that the the redirect is necessary for function? Cheers,  Tewfik Talk 03:32, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Are all the links really Geography of... ? They certainly don't lead to those pages, and moreover, my revision works fine for me. I'm afraid I still don't understand the problem.  Tewfik Talk 03:41, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Ahhh =D Thanks,  Tewfik Talk 03:50, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Category:Former Trotskyists
Hi. I noticed one of your edit summaries on Category:Former Trotskyists, and I think we have a similar attitude towards it. If you have time, could you please check my comment on Category talk:Former Trotskyists and share your thoughts? Thanks. Dahn 20:12, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

RfA
I saw you jsut closed Ryanpostlethwaite's IRA. Are you in the process of closing John Reaves too? If not and you have the time to, go ahead, I will if you can't though. Thanks - Taxman Talk 20:57, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Patrick Cunningham
Patrick Cunningham is a useful stub article, but something looks wrong about the last sentence: it doesn't make sense to me. Perhaps you can clarify it? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:52, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

On the Edge
Can you please take a look at the article about Tim Wohlforth and Denis Tourish's book On the Edge (book) on political cults? See, someone keeps removing info about the author's personal involvements with the groups they are writing about (Healyites and CWI respectively) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.98.233.91 (talk) 04:00, 23 March 2007 (UTC).

New architecture article bot
Greetings to you Warofdreams, Have enjoyed your writing style and admire your in-depth treatment of architecture articles. Trying to add to the year in arch pages anytime that I'm plodding about editing pages. The ArchitectureSearchResult test seemed to deliver very good results, with more than about 90% of the articles being worthy. Do you think it's a good idea to have the results sent to another page? Then an editor can pick and choose the good articles to be added manually to the New article announcements. Can the "rules" eliminate redlinks and redirects with this useful tool? Cheers. — 02:14, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Response to Adminship nomination.
I responded on my talk page with: ''Thank you for taking the time to review my RfA; I appreciate that. I don't think I did too badly; after all, 40/28/14 and 59% support isn't terrible. I will continue to edit Wikipedia; but I will make sure I listen to the opposers reasons.'' Acalamari 18:15, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Systemic bias
Is there an acknowledgement on that page of general political systemic bias? I think there should be. Judgesurreal777 02:26, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Browser Questions.
I have a couple of questions. Whenever a user is sysopped, do they have to clear their browser cache? I'm asking because I know that whenever a monobook change is done, the cache has to be cleared for the changes to take effect. Did you, when you were given bureaucrat rights, have to clear cache at all for the changes? I know I don't have to worry about any of this now, but I'm just curious. Since you reviewed my RfA, and because you are both an admin and a bureaucrat, I thought you were the best person to ask this. Acalamari 17:00, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your answer. I was interested to know, in case it did require cache clearing. I know a lot of other things do, and I wasn't sure if rights-changing also required it. Thanks! :) Acalamari 16:46, 2 April 2007 (UTC)