User talk:Wee Curry Monster/Archive 7

NPOV
Hello WeeWee, you being an uninvolved third party here, could you take a look at Talk:Singapore? There's a dicky newbie there and I don't want to be seen like I'm biting him when all I'm trying to do is to be neutral. Best. --Dave ♠♣♥♦№1185♪♫™ 00:43, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

User:English Bobby
Why would you revert a User page from an edit made by the User who owns the page, back to an edit made by an anon? Everard Proudfoot (talk) 02:23, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

OK, cool. :) Everard Proudfoot (talk) 02:26, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : LIII (July 2010)
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Re: Satellite Imagery
...and I support your removal of the euphemisms. We have recently debated the "invasion" and "conflict"/"war". --Regards, Necessary Evil (talk) 21:15, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Civility will die utterly...unless we save it
Good Justin, I saw your posts on the civility rule talk page. I made a post there also, perhaps somewhat aligned with your posts.

Many editors are more equal than others. They get to shove their points of view because they are civil, they follow the quota of rules and know how to edit in this nightmarish mess.

They are good at fake politeness, when "they are all smiles while they spit in your drink." Thus they can do no wrong. It must be harder than hell to be so in love with oneself that one can be cool as Mr. Spock and polite as Ms. Manners while beating the shit out of other editors.

Look at my problem at Robbie_Mannheim, would you please?

You seem to have the spirit of the wikirevolution in you. I encourage you not to lose heart. At least you're not in trouble or being chased by a pack of administrative hell-hounds!75.21.154.247 (talk) 04:36, 31 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Its a farce, civility is an excuse as its an easy policy to police. Someone loses their temper and posts something intemperate and they get you.  Policies like NPOV etc are tooo difficult so they don't bother.   Justin talk 10:36, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Invitation
Your wisdom and patience will be welcome here. I give up --Jor70 (talk) 14:22, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the barnstar User talk:Peter Horn. Peter Horn User talk 14:52, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

A competent hand needed
"Events leading to the Falklands War": the chapter "3 Planning" and "14.1 Chilean involvement" include the same issue. --Keysanger 20:34, 11 September 2010 (UTC) (Well?) done.--Keysanger 08:03, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

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RE: The commanders
Hi Justin. The only reason why I called it "Battle of Top Malo House" was because that's the title of the Wiki-article. I agree that it's not a "battle" and I would prefer that it's called "Top Malo House fightings", - clash" or - skirmish". BTW, do you know who was in charge of Operation Black Buck? At there is a photo of AVM Chesworth and Gp Capt Price greeting Flt Lt Withers after BB1. --Regards, Necessary Evil (talk) 11:57, 6 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Mount Kent Skirmish, Skirmish at Many Branch Point - I'll leave it to others. Air Marshal Sir John Curtiss seems to be the head of Operation Black Buck from Northwood . --Regards, Necessary Evil (talk) 00:38, 7 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Justin, should it be "Top Malo House Skirmish" or "Skirmish at Top Malo House"? --Regards, Necessary Evil (talk) 21:57, 11 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I've commenced the renaming process, but you already know that. --Regards, Necessary Evil (talk) 22:32, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

James Cook
Yeah. No intention of trying to change that article again at this stage. Didn't mean to go as far as I did. Was having huge difficulty getting any sensible discussion at all going with Davido488. Well, absolutely no success at all, to tell the truth. Thanks for your input. HiLo48 (talk) 12:06, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

1982 South Georgia Invasion
I received a message saying that I had vandalised the page South Georgian Invasion page as it wasn't constructive and that the change had been reverted that I had made to Trefor Edwards' name. Trefor Edwards is my uncle his name isn't spelled as Trevor, it's a welsh spelling of the name. Every page has his name spelt wrong and I have changed it back to what I had done. Thanks Tim

Thank you for the response. I have found this pdf document which has his name spelt correctly. It can found on pg 23 of the pdf. http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA404419

Proposed deletion of Talk:Gibraltar/Archive 19
Hello, I have removed the prod tag you placed on Talk:Gibraltar/Archive 19, as prod can only be used on pages in the article space. I did this only for the sake of policy/procedure with no judgment as to the merits of your issue; please take your issue up either on the active talk page or with the user who archived it. &mdash; KuyaBriBri Talk 18:21, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome, mate
Hi there Justin, thanks for welcoming me to the community. I look forward to constructive contributions especially on Gibraltar articles. Other British Overseas Territories (including Great Britain itself) and their history are also of great interest to me. Correcting Spanish/Argentine propaganda against Gibraltar/Fawkland Islands articles is also something I intend to do.

I have a question though, I am a barrister and some time ago I did a dissertation on Gibraltar for my degree. It is a little out of date now (it was compiled around 2006) but I would like to post it somewhere as it is full of important references I researched at the time. I want to use this to show how after WWII many then undemocratic countries like Spain and Argentina used the UN forum to pass resolutions against democratic countries, like the UK. This was how Spain and Argentina got the UN to tell the UK to negotiate with them over the sovereignty of Gibraltar and the Fawkland Islands.

I welcome any tips and advice as I am quite new here and unsure as to how I should proceed. I also feel I may come under attack by other 'enthusiasts' if I struggle to verify the content I add. (JLV78 (talk) 21:26, 31 October 2010 (UTC))


 * No worries, if I could point you at a couple of policies. WP:NPOV is a cornerstone, also WP:V and WP:RS, if you can digest those.  May I also venture to suggest that perhaps you may care to temper personal opinion toward writing in a neutral fashion.
 * If you have an electronic copy, you can post research material on wikisource, its a parallel project to wikipedia to provide online copies of relevant documents - eg for example I pasted the 1850 Convention of Settlement.
 * Tensions can be deliberately stoked on those articles, with the aim of eliciting a bad tempered comment from editors. WP:CIVIL is the only policy actively enforced, so a bad tempered comment can be used against you.  Stay cool and never respond in anger.  Feel free to ask for advice at any time.  Justin talk 21:55, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Question re: Satellite map and historcal sites in Grytviken
Hello

I was wondering why you reversed my addition of a link to a map of historical sites over satellite image of Grytviken:


 * Satellite Map and historical sites of Grytviken on BlooSee

You mention EL

But I don't see what your objections may be.

The link does really enhance the article and allows reades an amazing view of Grytviken.

I'd like to hear your thoughts

Thank you

Donbribon (talk) 19:47, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Re User_talk:NickCT
Done. NickCT (talk) 14:38, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

ANI
Just for information, I have taken Imalbornoz's accusations of bad faith against you to WP:ANI. Pfainuk talk 23:20, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Re:Submarines and Gibraltar
Well Justin, this could sound weird, but I know about the Endymion 20 years ago, in part thanks to an English bloke from Sheringham. I met him here at Mar del Plata, he was in Argentina as an exchange student, and I became his 'official translator'. Some day, I asked him if he had heard something about the sinking of SS Cantabria off Cromer, just a few miles from his home town. He looked at me in disbelief, but he learned immediatly that the Spanish Civil War is one of my favorite historical periods. In brief: we developed a friendship and on his return to Britain, he sent to me Paul Heaton's book, the source where I found the details of the sinking (no DHL in 1990, so the book was delivered -ironically- by ship :). I learned other circumstances about SS Endymion from Spanish authors, such as the reasons behind this and other submarine attacks or the dismissal of the Spanish commander of the General Sanjurjo by Franco. By 1938 British and other foreign merchantmen were attacked by Nationalist aircraft on daily bases, but submarine or surface incidents were sporadic if not rare. Just to finish my comment, the sinking of the Endymion had no relationship with the Spanish claim over Gibraltar or the fact that she was a Gibraltar-owned freighter; the ship was targeted only because she was chartered by the Spanish Republic.--Darius (talk) 02:30, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your praise, Justin, I really appreciate it. Truly amazing to know about your Spaniard origins; despite my Italian ancestry, I always admired Spain and her history, even in her darkest hours.  I wrote of the bloodless confrontations between the Royal Navy and Franco's fleet in several WP articles, most notably here and here. Let me make a clarification: I actually knew of the identity of the submarine involved in the sinking of SS Endymion mostly by Spanish sources, the only British author who mentions the General Sanjurjo is Vice-Admiral Peter Gretton, in his book The forgotten factor (apparently only published in Spain). Best Regards.--Darius (talk) 13:04, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

ARBCOM Warning
You are nearing violation of policies concerning three reverts and edit waring at Gibraltar. Because no edits have been made today or yesterday I am not issuing blocks. However please consider yourself warned under terms of the ARBCOM rulings on Gibralter. JodyBtalk 19:45, 14 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Please see this addendum. JodyBtalk 14:31, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Help is coming... :)
I found a reliable source supporting Anaya's caption, Justin. Go to the talk page and see for yourself. Cheers!.--Darius (talk) 03:19, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Your MfD nominations
To answer your questions, there was no presumption on my part that you were making bad-faith nominations. However, it is always good practice to notify the creator of pages such as these of your concerns before moving to delete them, especially when the issue can be solved by other means (such as moving the pages, as you suggested), rather than outright deleting them. Hence my question whether you had done so in this instance&mdash;and my suggestion that if you didn't feel comfortable doing it yourself given your history with this editor, you could ask someone else to do it.

In any case, it looks like Ed Johnson's intervention has resolved the issue. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 20:08, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

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William Dickson
Yes I prepared an article, have been struggling with a 'cite error' though so held off on submitting it. I've put it live now, perhaps someone will help me fix it. Thanks.Bopter (talk) 14:46, 2 December 2010 (UTC)