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Deleting my edits, and pushing the 103 villages and other war propaganda
Do you care to inform what is your knowledge on the subject that you are so keen on deleting my edits and push POV and other war propaganda, such as the 103 villages one?Jazz1972 (talk) 20:03, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
- Jazz1972: It seems that you are not familiar with how Wikipedia works. Wikipedia is not based on what different editors know or do not know about the subjects. Wikipedia is based on what reliable sources say. Please read about it here. The mention of the 103 villages is based on the information in the book United Nations Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era. On page 81 in this book it says: "Also, 103 Cypriot villages were attacked and 30,000 Turkish Cypriots made refugees." If you think that the book does not meet the criteria of WP:Reliable sources, you may challenge the use of the source in the talk page in order to get consensus for its removal, but you can not remove the information without such consensus.
- Regarding my removal of the templates you placed in the article, it is quite simple: The template says that the sections "may lend undue weight to certain ideas, incidents, or controversies". For other editors to evaluate this information, you will need to point out what ideas, incidents, or controversies you think have received undue weight. --T*U (talk) 20:38, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
- FYI; Sources can also be challenged at WP:RSN. (And, are you ever going to start archiving this page?) Cheers - wolf 21:25, 29 January 2019 (UTC) (talk page stalker)
Do I need to remind you that you were the one that was debating and deleting another edit of mine, saying that there was only one battle (falsely) and now you are deleting my edit, saying that at list another 103 took place? So if I add a few books that are saying otherwise and a few editors agree with me, what is going to be your reaction? Jazz1972 (talk) 11:33, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
- You are welcome to add reliable sources (but please note that it has to be reliable sources, not just "a few books"). If the sources are in conflict, both views will have to be presented. How they are to be presented will have to be discussed in the talk page until a consensus is reached. That is how Wikipedia works. --T*U (talk) 12:00, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
- Jazz1972: Oh, by the way: You have never given any sources for Turkish military involvement in any other battle than the battle of Tillyria. Since it seems that you now hopefully are starting to grasp how Wikipedia works, perhaps it is time to go to Talk:List of wars involving Turkey and present the sources now? --T*U (talk) 12:52, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
You might be interested
- LouisAragon (talk) 14:15, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent edits on Balkan articles.
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| Have you ever realized how much better is Wikipedia today, thanks to the tireless contributions of yours to the Project? A question however is bugging me: how the heck do you ever spot all these problems? Do you actually read all articles or have you set the entire project on your watchlist? Don't get me wrong, just you are quite the inspiration for the rest of us. - ❖ SilentResident ❖ (talk ✉ | contribs ✎) 19:16, 26 February 2019 (UTC) |
Central Europe
Hi, please check this edit , normally I would revert it, as well "see on the map" is untenable, Slovania is mentioned in the next section "alternatively placed in Southeastern Europe"...so what's your stance, full revert, or? Thank You(KIENGIR (talk) 22:48, 3 March 2019 (UTC))
- KIENGIR: Sorry for (too) late answer, but currently real life is interfering with my time schedule... I see that another editor now has reverted it, with which I agree, both for the obvious WP:OR of "see on the map" and for the fact that Slovenia already is mentioned in the next section "Other countries and regions".
- Given the lack of any rigid definition, I would prefer to get rid of the distinction between the two lists. It would be better to list them all together, with "alternatively placed in ..." as needed.
- I would also want to get rid of lots of country lists in the sections further down, type "Economy", "Education" etc. They seem to take for granted that there is a clear definition of which countries to include, but they all lack inclusion criteria, and they are mutually inconsistent. I have succeeded somewhat in getting rid of such lists in other "X-ern Europe" articles, but I have not found time to attack this article yet. Regards! --T*U (talk) 14:57, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
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- LouisAragon (talk) 15:39, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Question
Flags
I don't understand the revert. Why articles concerning ethnic groups from Scandinavian and Germanic countries have them then? I thought that is the standard? Excuse my mistake. Oliszydlowski, 19:12, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oliszydlowski: No, it is not standard. It has at different times been inserted here and there by some editors, but there has never been any consensus for it. In most cases, the national flag of a country is not a relevant symbol for an ethnic group. There may be cases where it is appropriate (although I doubt it), in which case it could be suggested in the relevant talk page in order to create consensus for inclusion. --T*U (talk) 09:27, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you for clarification. Oliszydlowski, 19:29, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Littlier
Hi,
thank you for your edit. I meant, if we see modern designations, only a little part of Eastern-Europe was included to Austria-Hungary. Cheers!(KIENGIR (talk) 17:13, 9 May 2019 (UTC))
- KIENGIR: I see your point, but as you know, there are no exact definitions that can tell us once and for all that country A is part of Central Europe and country B is part of Eastern Europe. Depending on what definitions we use, the size of these parts may vary wildly (and is open for intense differences of opinions). In any case, whether 10%, 30%, 50%, 70% or 90% of Austria-Hungary belonged to Central and/or Eastern Europe is completely irrelevant to the article Dual monarchy. --T*U (talk) 22:31, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is MOS:ETHNICITY on articles about Polish Jews. Jayjg (talk) 20:04, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
Flags of districts of the Bahamas
Santiago RD has uploaded a lot of images of flags to Commons, including flags for all of the districts in the Bahamas. I can find no evidence that such flags exist. I have placed a note about those flags on an administrator noticeboard at Commons, but I don't think I can get them removed from Commons. I have asked Santiago RD to provide a working link to a source for such flags, but he has not responded. I will work to revert the addition of these apparently made-up images to articles as I see them. - Donald Albury 23:37, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
- Donald Albury: Just some words in haste: I am quite sure that all those flags (and now also lots of coats of arms) are fake. I first noticed the Greek "region flags" without any credible sourcing. I have sampled the Cuba and Dom.Rep. entries from earlier and and am convinced they are just as fake. And now the attack at Barbados is following the same pattern. The problem is that they use Commons and en-wiki in combination, thereby making it more difficult to stop. What I have done at Greece, is to revert every addition of the fake flags in en-wiki and at the same time marked all the new files at Commons with the "fictitious flag" template. When I have the time, I will rename the category in Commons from "flags of ..." to "fictitious flags of ..." in order to reduce the risk of people adding them to en-wiki (and other wikis) in good faith. Problem is that this takes time that I do not have much of for the time being. A further (and important) step would be to raise the problem at ANI, but that would also need some preparation. Talking to Santiago directly is probably just a waste of time, since they have never used a talk page (nor given edit summaries). In any case, it is good to know that there are other editors that are aware of the problem. Thanks for that! --T*U (talk) 08:23, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
- I'll help at Commons. As I said, most of my experience at Commons has been uploading images, and I was not aware of the "fictitious flag" template. I did start this discussion, but, as long as the images are Santiago RD's creations and not copyright violations, they probably will be left there. Anyway, I'll do what I can. - Donald Albury 11:19, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
- Just for giggles, have you looked at the history of List of Dominican Republic flags? The list has been cleaned out after images were deleted in 2007 (enWP), 2012 (Commons), 2013 (Commons) and 2015/2016 (Commons). Santiago RD filled it up again in 2017 with images he uploaded to Commons in 2016, without any claim as to where he found the flags. Creating fantasy flags seems to be popular. - Donald Albury 19:40, 3 June 2019 (UTC) Added 2015/2016. 20:33, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
- I just marked the first 28 out of the 189 files at m:Category:Flags of municipalities of the Dominican Republic as fictitious flags. I guess I need to learn how to use automated editing, I'll get back to them as I am able. - Donald Albury 20:09, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
- Donald Albury: I have followed up your excellent start by moving a batch of the flags you have marked to a new sub-cat "Fictitious flags...". Yes, it would be nice to have some automated tools, but we are making progress! Then, of course, there is the coats of arms... And then there is Cuba... Anyway, I'll continue when I can. --T*U (talk) 09:40, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
- I've run into a glitch. I damaged the power supply for my Chromebook and have had to switch to a slower laptop without a touchscreen, so it's taking me a little while to get back up to speed. I've been thinking about how to structure a request at AN/I, maybe asking for a minimum of a topic ban on Santiago adding flags to articles, although an indef block may be in order for failure to communicate. It also appears that fictitious flags of municipalities of the Dominican Republic have been removed from Commons more than once as "out of scope", so that may be something worth pursuing. - Donald Albury 10:54, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
- Donald Albury: There is also this and this, which may be another – and even simpler – path at Commons. --T*U (talk) 11:19, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
- I will support a request to delete them all. - Donald Albury 13:13, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
- Update to Donald Albury: After having waited several weeks for the first batch of deletion requests to be executed (there is a huge backlog), I finally lost my patience today and sent a new batch. Within a quarter of an hour after my new posting, the old batch had been removed! We are slowly moving forward... --T*U (talk) 11:57, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
- I will support a request to delete them all. - Donald Albury 13:13, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
- Donald Albury: There is also this and this, which may be another – and even simpler – path at Commons. --T*U (talk) 11:19, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
- I've run into a glitch. I damaged the power supply for my Chromebook and have had to switch to a slower laptop without a touchscreen, so it's taking me a little while to get back up to speed. I've been thinking about how to structure a request at AN/I, maybe asking for a minimum of a topic ban on Santiago adding flags to articles, although an indef block may be in order for failure to communicate. It also appears that fictitious flags of municipalities of the Dominican Republic have been removed from Commons more than once as "out of scope", so that may be something worth pursuing. - Donald Albury 10:54, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
- Donald Albury: I have followed up your excellent start by moving a batch of the flags you have marked to a new sub-cat "Fictitious flags...". Yes, it would be nice to have some automated tools, but we are making progress! Then, of course, there is the coats of arms... And then there is Cuba... Anyway, I'll continue when I can. --T*U (talk) 09:40, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
Re: Minor
Thanks for your clarification about "Minor" marking for edits. I assumed updates to data points such as a country's population are considered minor. I figured it is not as major as adding a paragraph or making some structural change. Your point is well taken and I will comply. Cheers.
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Hey, thanks a lot for your quick response to my problem!!! 🧡 --- ❖ SilentResident ❖ (talk ✉ | contribs ✎) 19:58, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Lime and Motorised Scooter
Hi. This vandal is being disruptive, he has reverted my edits even and has provide no explanation. It is sourced.
Lime and Motorized scooter.
101.178.163.19 (talk) 04:06, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
1960's violence
Regarding this edit summary I can not recall a scholar that does not claim that the GC approach to intercommunal violence is denialist or something similar. I believe we can employ it as a WP voice. Unless other scholars have a different opinion. Cinadon36 14:14, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
- Cinadon36: According to Demetriou the approach "parallels denialist strategies". You stated that the Greek Cypriot side are
employing a denialist approach
, which is quite a bit stronger. A couple of sources for that would be nice... But please take this to the article talk page. This discussion has nothing to do here in my user talk. --T*U (talk) 15:04, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
Removal of updated figures on Central Europe
Why did you revert/remove the edits I have made regarding the updated 2018 figures of the Human Globalization Index, Legatum Prosperity Index, and Corruption Perceptions Index? Furthermore, why did you also remove the Baltic states, Romania, and Ukraine from the defintion/lists, yet kept Croatia and Serbia? That is not fair. These reverts are unwarranted. I have reverted them back, you can take your concerns to the discussion on the Talk Page, rather than engaging in vandalism/edit warring. Please do not deliberately remove useful info and engage in a one-sided bias. Thank you. -185.41.130.3 (talk) 15:22, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
August 2019

Your recent editing history at Polish League Against Defamation shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. -185.41.130.3 (talk) 11:20, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
Dates
Well I think in a historical article it is useful to link dates. Kapeter77 (talk) 18:54, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
- Kapeter77: Even if you personally think it is useful, you have, as everyone else, to follow the "Manual of style", which is a Wikipedia guideline. See WP:MOS. The specific guideline about date linking is found at WP:DATELINK. It says:
Month-and-day articles (e.g. February 24 and 10 July) and year articles (e.g. 1795, 1955, 2007) should not be linked unless the linked date or year has a significant connection to the subject of the linking article, beyond that of the date itself, so that the linking enhances the reader's understanding of the subject.
If you disagree, you are entitled to try end change the guideline, but it is not acceptable to break it at will. Regards! --T*U (talk) 19:05, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
User Pallerti
He is using meat puppets on Hungarian Wikipedia (like user Maghasító) to spread pseudo history and linguistics. He deletes every references and texts to support his meat puppets. HE has racist agendas,he is a neo-cuman minority boy from Kunság region who spread turanist ideas and fringle theories on Hungarian Wikipedia. On English Wikipedia he is often using his meat puppet: Maghasito. It would be better to ban him from English Wiki. Hungarian wikipedia often workd like metapedia and spread fringle theories , conspiracy theories and pseudo science , due to such people like this Pallerti and his meat puppets. --Refreshers (talk) 12:44, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
- Refreshers: Still another wiki rule to learn: No personal attacks. --T*U (talk) 15:24, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Are you always stalking me?
I feel like 100% of my reverted edits come from you and are reverted very quickly. It feels strange to be followed. --WeNeedWikipedia!Wikipedia is essential!!! Can't live without it!!!(Say what?) 12:39, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
- +1 ? Sadko (talk) 08:06, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
- Stop stalking me. MrUnoDosTres (talk) 23:54, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
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Vladimir Beara discussion
Hi TU-nor,just wanted to clear some things up. You and I already had a similar encounter on a somewhat related topic (Branimir Štulić). You made an argument which i accepted as solid ground. The argument was that we should keep in mind the self-declaration of nationality from the person in question. Shouldn't the same argument apply in the Vladimir Beara discussion? Peace SerVasi (talk) 00:23, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
- @SerVasi: Each case has to be evaluated separately. There are similarities and differences between these two. Both of them were born and earned their notability in Yugoslavia, both of them experienced the split-up of the country. But there are also important differences.
- For Vladimir Beara, his coaching career lasted until 1987, when Yugoslavia still was Yugoslavia, so he was always a Yugoslav player and coach. The information about his declared ethnicity has nothing to do in the lede, but it is fine to have it in a section lower down. The sourcing for this could have been better, but I think it is good enough to mention.
- Regarding Branimir Štulić, his notability stretches into the period after Yugoslavia was divided, so it could have been pertinent to mention a later nationality in the lede, but since he has denied taking any citizenship, which is covered in the article, there is nothing to mention. The only possibility I see, would be "Yugoslav, later stateless", but I am not sure if that is correct. It would have to be sourced that he really is regarded as stateless. My simple solution was to avoid the problem by just saying he was a singer-songwriter. That would imo be enough, since he is mentioned in the same sentence as headman in a Yugoslav rock group. I see now that another editor has added "Yugoslav", which in my opinion is a poorer solution, but I have no intention of edit warring over it. --T*U (talk) 07:01, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
Handke/Austria
Since I... don't think my continued presence will be particularly useful on that talk page, and I said I wouldn't post again, responding here. Imo, the point is not to "get at Austria"; it's just a fact that he was born in Nazi Germany. It's not "using his infobox" to make a statement about Austria anymore than Gerhard Schroder's infobox has been coopted to remind us that Germany was once Nazi, or that Vladimir Putin's infobox is being contorted to remind us that Russia was once the Soviet Union. What all of these have, is just common policy that you say the state entity the person was born under. Some day, if Wikipedia lasts so long, we perhaps will have an infobox for some X al-Y who for all we know could be a lesbian who will help spread Canaanite polytheistic neopaganism, and her infobox will say "Raqqa, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria", not because its some ploy to remind people she was born under a hyper-Islamist theocracy that would despise her future existence, but just because it's a fact.
On the other hand, imho, removing the baseline practice of stating what state entity someone was born under specifically when it's Nazi Germany tends to involve some awkward contortion. Like in this case. If we go with Resnjari's idea of Carinthia, nobody knows what that is. If we say "Austria", well that's just false because it's anachronistic. If we say "present day Austria", that's a rather tortured way to put it, because it begs the question of "but... what was it then?"; for people (most) who know the history, it just looks like evidence of Wikipedia being held hostage by people's "feelings", which is not professional. Two of these were suggested as compromises, I think both you and Resnjari were operating under the normal Balkan scenario where the fight arises from everyone not AGFing and you just have to find something that doesn't look like one side "wins". But this is a different scenario. I won't deny there's merit in a view that some editors are fans of Handke and getting defensive about what they see as attempts to accuse him of being a fascist, while the other side perceives a whitewash. I understand that since I side with Ktrimi often people will think I am coming at it from that angle, but I didn't know who Handke was until I followed Resnjari to this page, and on this specific case Sadko does have a point -- I see a lot of criticism, which I do think is notable, but he could be given a place where his responses to accusations were stated to, and I don't see that. But sometimes the compromise deal isn't worth the externality it imposes.
Ironically, Khirurg accidentally brought up a good point on BLPN aobut the relation of Handke to his family's past and attempts to use it against him, because the other side of the coin is an overreaction that serves to erase information that is relevant. A quick google search reveals that Handke's notability does come in part from being born under Nazi rule, and this was the case before the Yugoslav Wars started. For example, consider this piece from 1988 on his work by British commentator (of Austrian Jewish origin) David Pryce-Jones, published in the NYT . He has this to say, among other things, Peter Handke is an Austrian, born at a time when his country was part of Hitler's Reich. To dwell on that period and its aftermath does not make for popularity there. Unlike Germany, Austria has done nothing to atone for its Nazi past. This has created a special atmosphere of silence and evasion, carefully cultivated in a population that aided and abetted Nazism with almost unanimous enthusiasm... Austria's failure to deal with its Nazi past has promoted in a number of intellectuals... rejection of others and to plain lack of humanity. It is this novel's melancholy achievement to show such sentiment for what it is, not cleansing but deepening the moral confusion of the world the Nazis left to their descendants.
. From Pryce-Jones' view, yes, this is relevant to his literature. I am not saying we should adopt this POV necessarily. But it's weird to pretend it's not part of who he is, and bizarre contortions to evade basic facts should not be the sacrifice on the altar of compromise on what certainly not the last Balkan squabble on that page. Cheers, --Calthinus (talk) 03:32, 15 December 2019 (UTC)



