User:Leutha/Archive 3 (August 2011)
Soviet
[edit]I've reverted your change in redirect at Soviet; see Talk:Soviet. Also, have you considered further archiving your talk page? It's getting rather long. –Schmloof (talk · contribs) 09:37, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello Harrypotter, I just now noticed your note about this on the talk page of the article on the NHCS. I can try to see if anyone at NHCS has access to info about Sir Charles Briggs, maybe in their archives. I did want to say that there is a first-person historical account about Briggs in Barbados that is accessible via Googlebooks from a book called "English in the West Indies: or the bow of Ulysses" by James Anthony Froude. See [1] here. Hope this is useful. Invertzoo (talk) 22:30, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
My problem
[edit]My problem is that these People's Commissars are exacly the same as Ministries. There are no differences, I've seen anywhere else where you create a seperate article for the same bloody thing. It haven't seen this happen in any other article, or topic, why in gods name should the Soviet government be treated any different? It shouldn't... Second argument, none of these articles seems to be growing, no one is working on them, and if its true as some say that there is enough information out there to evolve these articles from stub and start-classes into GA's, FA's or an article that is not easily mergeable, then yes these articles should have seperate articles. But there has been no work on these articles, no work on trying to expand them, and therefor its hard to establish a reason for why two articles about the same thing should not be one article. If you can prove to me by actually finding enough sources for both articles which can get both articles in decent shape, it would have been okay. But instead you seem to want seperate articles because they had different names, even if they worked exacly the same way and did the exacly the samething. Do you now understand my problem? --TIAYN (talk) 12:41, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- When did I say you couldn't use sources other than English? I use Russian sources all-the-time! And yes, there were some key differences from the people's commissars from other ministries, but those costums did not disappear when they renamed the whole-system. Question did these differences disappear with the ministries, or did the system continue? You are saying the commissariat's were special, but you seem to be skeeping over the point that the only differences between the ministries and the commissariats by the end of the day were none-existing.. And yes, I know, there was a different government for the RSFSR, but thats not what we are talking about, right?
- Just to rub in your face, "they were infact ministers". --TIAYN (talk) 21:21, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- Because you seem to be keen on insulting me. All I know is this, when sources confirm, and say that the commissars were in effect no difference from ministries, i beg to differ. Second, yes its true that the Bolsheviks thought the commissars were far-less burgouis, and yes, maybe there were differences from the early commissars and the ministry, but the fact is Joseph Stalin centralized all state-authority. If there was any differences, there may have been some in the pre-Stalin era. But seeing that the pre-Stalin consists, of lets say six years, before he took full control, its not much compared to the other twenty. --TIAYN (talk) 21:28, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- There are several other books which states that commissars is just the same minister, hence no real difference from commissars to ministry. Second my sources suggest that Stalin re-named the system, but didn't change the system, meaning there is no difference at all. They are the same organizations, just under different names. Seconds, no I didn't mean you insulted me by you disagreeing with me, that part i respect. Lines like this one, "[...] perhaps the article might possibly grow instead of people having to deal with your distractions" or "So no I do not understand your problem, which appears little different from a subtle form of vandalism", are seen as an insult by me. --TIAYN (talk) 21:36, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- If its so important for you to create the political commissars/ministry articles for the RSFSR do it. The commissars created in 1917 continued after the establishment of the USSR. This is proven by the fact that many of the commissars of the RSFSR before the founding of the USSR, kept their old jobs. --TIAYN (talk) 21:40, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
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Plan
[edit]Plan, instead of naming the articles Ministry of People's Commissar of/for, instead we title People's Commissar and Ministry of Foreign Affairs... What do you think? --TIAYN (talk) 20:11, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello! --KYPark (talk) 09:29, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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warning
[edit]I've told administrators about your recent unconstructive behaviour, it is sad that you don't bother to read sources. I mean, seriously, even Soviet sources say it was reorganised or renamed, but as all sources notes, these reorganisation wasn't that radical and the basic system remaned the same. I will revert all your vandalist edits on wikipedia, but seeing that you used your time vandalising instead of having a consructive discussion on the topic, that's why i'm calling the administrators at you. --TIAYN (talk) 07:26, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
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- As far as the two Commissariat/Ministry articles in discussion are concerned, they have one article on Wikipedia (Ministry of...), and the title Commissariat of... redirects to the Ministry article. If you have information you wish to add, you should add it to the Ministry of... article, and not try to create a Commissariat of... article. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 14:16, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Commissariats vs. Ministries
[edit]I support your intention to keep these articles separate and suggest you asking for a help on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Russia page. Let me know when you set up a request there. --Michael Romanov (talk) 15:38, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
- If he persists in copying the text of one article into another to create the second article, without proper accreditation, he will be blocked from editing. If he had different content for the two articles that showed that they were different entities - then there would not have been a problem. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 15:44, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, I mean the latter. BTW, Harrypotter just tries to revert the edits of another user, as far as I understand. Look: there was an article People's Commissariat of Finance. Another user, Trust Is All You Need, decided that this article should be a kind of a merger between two separate entities, People's Commissariat of Finance and Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union). He deleted the article content and made a redirect to Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union). He also added some deleted information to that article. So, the actual problem, how I see it, is that Trust Is All You Need makes mergers/redirects and deletes/moves the article content. And Harrypotter just tried to fix the problem. If this issue is serious enough, it should be discussed with more editors on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Russia, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/History and geography, WP:VPM or WP:AIN pages. --Michael Romanov (talk) 17:12, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
- I think it's basically a content dispute, so involving the relevant project and discussing on talkpages is the way to go. I have no notion of which might be the right option (don't know enough about russian history). --Elen of the Roads (talk) 17:33, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
- Well, a similar tactics is being used by Trust Is All You Need not only in the case of Russian history articles, see this complaint. --Michael Romanov (talk) 03:42, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
- I think it's basically a content dispute, so involving the relevant project and discussing on talkpages is the way to go. I have no notion of which might be the right option (don't know enough about russian history). --Elen of the Roads (talk) 17:33, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, but I'm reverting those edits... They were wrong by, I though, but I was wrong, I was hasty and didn't read the sources. Therefor my edits were unconstructive. Sources however say they are the same organization.... Seeing that this was bloody hard for the first place, I created People's Commissariat for Finance of the RSFSR, your one narkofin article.. Isn't that what you always wanted? I am however reverting my edits on the Norwegian articles, because they were wrong! --TIAYN (talk) 04:09, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, I mean the latter. BTW, Harrypotter just tries to revert the edits of another user, as far as I understand. Look: there was an article People's Commissariat of Finance. Another user, Trust Is All You Need, decided that this article should be a kind of a merger between two separate entities, People's Commissariat of Finance and Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union). He deleted the article content and made a redirect to Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union). He also added some deleted information to that article. So, the actual problem, how I see it, is that Trust Is All You Need makes mergers/redirects and deletes/moves the article content. And Harrypotter just tried to fix the problem. If this issue is serious enough, it should be discussed with more editors on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Russia, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/History and geography, WP:VPM or WP:AIN pages. --Michael Romanov (talk) 17:12, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi. Don't be shocked again: I just changed the BUND page and also I moved the complete Savin issue. It is not deleted but moved to the BUNDjugend page where it belongs to. Just wanted to inform you cause you complained about removing the Savin reference before. (And you were quite right then.) --Typograppa (talk) 15:01, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
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[edit]I thought we were finished! But instead you start lying claiming there was no "Ministry of Finance of the RSFSR" and creating redirects.... What the hell is wrong with you???? --TIAYN (talk) 07:01, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
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Either stop vandalising or we won't have an article at all!
[edit]Either you stop vandalising wiki, denying that a Ministry never existed, or we merge the entire MinofFin of the RSFSR article to Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation...... I must admit, I wonder why I even bother to post on this wall when I know you don't really give a shit about discussing, don't give a shit about references and don't give a shit about actually discussing and trying to come to a consensues... but hey, if you want act like that, i'm fine, but you won't come anywhere and all your edits will be reverted! --TIAYN (talk) 20:58, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi, I see that you have changed Robert Chambers into a redirect to the disambiguation page and moved the content about the naturalist and publisher to Robert Chambers (journalist). Could you help fix the incoming links to Robert Chambers please? As far as I can see they all refer to Robert Chambers (journalist). You may find Dab solver useful. Thanks, DuncanHill (talk) 13:54, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi! Just want to let you know there was a discussion not too long ago about Talk:Video_game_development#Requested_moves. I am not really pro or con this now, just letting you know. Regards. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 11:24, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
- More to the point, the result of that discussion was no consensus to move the article...so why did you move it contrary to the results of that discussion? Then you went and recreated the original article title as a DAB - thereby requiring the actions of an admin to revert your ill-considered change. Your actions are strongly contrary to the way we do things around here. SteveBaker (talk) 16:21, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi HP, I got your message on my Meta talkpage - what "contenders" do you mean? Witty Lama 04:22, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi Harrypotter, I think that Feb 9th 2pm-4pm is going to be the event time, thanks for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vinnypatel (talk • contribs) 17:47, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
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IC events!
[edit]Dear Wikipedians!
Thank you for your interest today regarding the events at Imperial College next week.
To confirm, the events will be taking place in South Kensington
Imperial College London Exhibition Road London SW7 2AZ
Check out the interactive and street maps http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/campusinfo/southkensington
Wednesday's event will be happening outside Sherfield building and in Junior common room 1230-~330pm it is the sign up day, handing out leaflets; Thursday is the day where you can engage IC students at the meet and greet from about 530-630pm, in Sir Alexander Fleming building room G60 (ring me when you get there).
Here is the contrib team page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CONTRIB/Imperial2
I (would) attach a copy of the basic events plan. could you e-mail me me using the e-mail function under toolbox at user:vinnypatel so I can do this? PLEASE BRING YOUR LAPTOP IF YOU CAN(please)! Fabian I'd really like to get you on board to do a brief game thing and make the day more interesting
Regarding Thursday's event, I will confirm by e-mail with you that there is sufficient interest form students to make it worth your while to come along, but I think this will be the case. If you could put your name down as a preliminary first that would be great.
I would like to underline that while we may not have a collosus of students, your interaction will I think get things going with our society, and alumni and external Wikipedians giving us a taste of their experience and understanding of Wikipedia will provide things students will want to come back to.
Thanks!
Vinesh I'll send you my number by e-mail — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vinnypatel (talk • contribs) 00:09, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
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MOL interest
[edit]You may want to take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glynn Thomas. If his work is on permanent exhibit in the Museum you may be aware of it and have an opinion. Cheers Fæ (talk) 06:24, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi Fabian, Vinesh here from Wikipedians at IC - I was wondering if you could e-mail me the photo you took on Thursday 17th Feb at our Meet and Greet event? I believe you have my e-mail, and we could really use it as a way of showing to the Union that there was a good turnout etc. If you could include in your e-mail a bit of text as to the University of East London society coming up and how that could you would like to collaborate with us, that would be great! Thanks a lot.Vinnypatel (talk) 21:20, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
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Nomination of Men of Essex for deletion
[edit]A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Men of Essex is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Forbidden Kingdom
[edit]Nice to hear that my game has attracted some interest. We played it two or three times at Mercyhurst College in connection with my master's program class. It took about an hour and half, maybe a bit less. It has some of the character of Diplomacy due to the required personal interaction between rounds. The first playing of the game resulted in discovery of a flaw in the game that allowed one player to manipulate the result. The posted rules include a fix to the game. The multiple plays of the game were required to sort that issue out. I found it fascinating that students kept losing the game. Since I modeled the game on the complexities of Chinese government, I suspect that American students have a hard time tolerating the give and take of Party politics. I'll be interested to hear how you fare. I hope you'll let me know.Pnoble805 (talk) 02:16, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hello. I have nominated this article, which you created, for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neuropa. Robofish (talk) 23:42, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
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We're recruiting art lovers!
[edit]Archives of American Art Wikimedia Partnership - We need you! | |
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Hi! I'm the Wikipedian In Residence at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and I'm recruiting Wikipedians who are passionate about art to participate in furthering art coverage on Wikipedia. I am planning contests and projects that will allow you access, no matter where you live, to the world's largest collection of archives related to American art. Please sign up to participate here, and I look forward to working with you! SarahStierch (talk) 00:14, 13 June 2011 (UTC) |
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Edinburgh Wikimedia Meetup Number 2
[edit]Unable to make it, but many thanks for the heads up.
I am thoroughly supportive of any and all attempts to get more scholarly Scottish content onto Wikipedia, eg. from the country's extensive archives. I am not remotely supportive of any "Yookay"-based organisations interfering in Scottish affairs, so anything under a "Wikimedia UK" (sic) banner will be getting precisely zilch support from me, and I suspect a great many other Scotland-interested Wikipedia editors. On the other hand, a Wikimedia Scotland chapter would get my full backing. --Mais oui! (talk) 02:16, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
- It would be excellent to see a Wikimedia Scotland emerge, but until then I am afraid we all have to live the consequences of James VI decision to come down to London and take up the empty throne that was available here.Leutha (talk) 16:03, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
- Well I must admit on my single visit to the National Archives of Scotland located in Edinburgh and enquired about anything in their holdings relating to Black British History, the archivist who handled my enquiry said that he was very sorry, but there was nothing! However, having come all the way from London,I was not to be put off so easily, and soon I was looking through the correspondence between Toussaint Louverture and General Frederick Maitland. At the time I just thought this was part of the institutional racism which unfortunately still persists in the archive world. However, I am a bit shocked at your suggestion that I might of been discriminated against because I come from London. As regards Wikipedia as a whole, I think you should look into the matter a little more deeply, and you will probably end up agreeing with me that most of the control is exercised from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean whereas interference comes from people from across the whole globe! I have to say that one of the refreshing things about the Wikipedia London Meet ups is that we always have people turning up from all over the world. In fact, even I feel quite comfortable, even though I have Scottish ancestors. I would like to invite you to pop down and "interfere" with our meet up: I am sure you'll find we can all jolly along. I have copied this exchange onto my talk page, as I feel Johnbod may already have tired of this exchange.Leutha (talk) 18:40, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Please take a look at the comments I have made on the talk page of the above article. I am thinking that we might need change the article title. Thanks. Blueboar (talk) 13:50, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
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BL Event today.
[edit]Sorry, cannot be there... Gordo (talk) 11:52, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
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