User talk:Groucho1943

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Copyrights, etc.

Your article Infernal machine reads like it is probably a copy from a book or journal, especially the use of Harvard-style citations without the presence of a list of references. I hope you understand that Wikipedia cannot take material for which someone else holds the copyright and has not granted us rights. If it is your own work, great, and just say so (and if you had previously published it elsewhere, please say where). Similarly, if it came from a public domain source, that source should still be acknowledged. If not, let me know (by responding here) so that I can remove the current article as a copyright violation, and you can rewrite this in your own words and with explicit acknowledgement of your source. Thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:11, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This article is part of my own book Napoleon Against Himself: A Psychobiography published by Pitchstone in 2007. --Groucho (talk) 11:23, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

jabotinsky

Kh may be a fine transliteration from the Russian but it is NOT the accepted spelling - please revert your changes, including those of the images, which have been effectively deleted by the change. There is not a single book, organization or road sign in English that uses that spelling.--Gilabrand (talk) 17:52, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nevertheless, Zhabotinsky is the correct transliteration of his name. --Groucho (talk) 11:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Gilabrand, but it is not Kh, it is Zh, and that is the only correct English transliteration for the J sound in Jabotinsky. The fact that the name has been misspelled all over the world for such a long time does not mean that it must continue to be misspelled by Wikipedia. --Groucho (talk) 16:07, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jabotinsky

Please do not make changes like this. I assume you did a search and replace to "correct" his name, but in using such a method you broke every image link, several of the external links and every one of the interwiki links. This seriously damaged the article and the project in general.

Plus, as noted above, your change was illegitimate anyway. Jabotinsky is the common spelling. Regards, пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 19:18, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and you forgot to fix any of the double redirects that you created when you moved the article. This is also frowned upon. пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 19:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You may wish to see my reply to Gilabrand above. --Groucho (talk) 11:26, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

January 2009

Please remember to mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Barack Obama, as minor if (and only if) they genuinely are minor edits (see Help:Minor edit). Marking a major change as a minor one is considered poor etiquette. The rule of thumb is that only an edit that consists solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearranging of text without modifying content should be flagged as a 'minor edit.' Thank you. --Bobblehead ^(rants) 13:40, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Bobblehead. I shall certainly try to observe the rules. However, the Muslim school that Barack Obama attended in Jakarta was the BASUKI school (and not the Besuki school as in the current text of the article: see [1] and many other web pages about this school), and he attended it AFTER the Catholic Fransiskus Assisi school, whose name is also incorrect in the current text. You may wish to restore my editorial corrections. Thanks, --Groucho (talk) 16:04, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

April 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Barack Obama, Sr., but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses novel, unpublished syntheses of previously published material. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thank you. Scjessey (talk) 17:26, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your account will be renamed

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00:19, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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13:27, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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