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I'm copyediting 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland, and I came across the below statement sourced to the BBC article; upon quick scanning I don't see references to BFC participating in the fighting. Since you appear to have expert knowledge on the subject, could you review and let me know if the below should stay?

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Lotsa luck. Last time I tried to remove a supercategory from an Irish peerage entry, I ran into a brick wall of hostility to the idea. —Tamfang (talk) 01:03, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

This page looks pretty good User:Alekksandr/Tory Government 1807–1809.

Also why does your userpage look like an article? Legacypac (talk) 16:59, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

In the article Ghost ship you cited "cite web|title=Museum exhibits|publisher=Atlantic Heritage Center Museum and Library|accessdate=September 7, 2012", but didn't add a URL link, I've tried looking up "Atlantic Heritage Center Museum and Library" but can not find it. Can you please add a URL or send me more information so I can fix this. Thanks.Pennsy22 (talk) 05:59, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

I had 'cut and pasted' this from Capt. John Jeffries Burial Marker, to which The Twenty One Friends redirects. This seems to be where the reference first appears. It reaches its current form here. Alekksandr (talk) 21:49, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Alekksandr. Please do not remove the two breaks before a stub template; please view this discussion as to why the breaks are needed. Thanks.--Nevé–selbert 20:45, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

You made a change to the page Mary Stanley, Countess of Derby where you made it a stub about an earl instead of a noble woman. She isn't an earl. The page is about her, not her husband. Is this the correct stub? I didn't want to revert without checking if there is a reason to support the change I'm not familiar with. ☕ Antiqueight ^haver 09:16, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

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Hi. Your recent edits, treating the main English monarchs category as diffusing rather than non-diffusing, doesn't seem necessary, or at all helpful to the reader actually looking for somebody via the category tree, who now has to know what century they lived in. Were these changes discussed in advance? Johnbod (talk) 13:14, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

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Could you please revert all your edits where you changed "volunteer" to "member". This is incorrect, conform Volunteer (Irish republican). The Banner talk 17:26, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

1. There are a large number of articles on wikipedia using the phrase "IRA member" - including high-profile figures such as Dolours Price and Carál Ní Chuilín, which describe them as such in the first sentence. Irish Republican Army uses the phrase "IRA member" in relation to Brendan Behan, and only uses the term 'Volunteer' in relation to the WW1-era Irish Volunteers. It appears from this that there is no consistent policy that the term 'volunteer' should be used as opposed to 'member'.

2. Volunteer (Irish republican) gives information about how members of republican organisations self-describe/how those organisations describe their members. I suggest that this should not determine how Wikipedia describes them.

3. For completeness, I should point out that I made similar edits in respect of members of loyalist paramilitary organsations who were described on wikipedia as 'Volunteer'. Alekksandr (talk) 19:22, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

There is a consistent policy, which was determined 12 years ago at the Mediation Cabal. There would need to be a fresh discussion at a central location such as WikiProject Ireland to overturn it. Unilaterally changing the term is not helpful. Scolaire (talk) 17:02, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

 Done The Banner talk 18:25, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for creating Louis Tronchin.

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The subject of Derry vs Londonderry is a bit of a can of worms. However it was Derry city that is located county Derry. This is until the English came in to Ireland and conducted unspoken horrors on the Irish. . . You can say thay were only following orders. And the history of Derry city & Derry county is only a fraction of it.

1. Wikipedia's policy on dealing with the 'can of worms' is set out at Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Ireland-related_articles#Derry/Londonderry - "Use Derry for the city and County Londonderry for the county in articles."

2. What became County Londonderry was previously County Coleraine - see County_Londonderry#County_Coleraine_and_the_Plantation_of_Ulster and parts of Counties Antrim, Donegal and Tyrone. Alekksandr (talk) 13:16, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

You have maybe not unreasonably put two creations into one category

Attempting to making things clearer I may have messed up. Please tell me what you think should be done. Eddaido (talk) 12:45, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. There are different ways of sorting these categories. My own view is that it is simplest to sort them by the Christian names/forenames of the holders. Otherwise it can get confusing when (as here) there are multiple creations of one title, or when the numbering is unclear. See e.g. Category:Earls_or_mormaers_of_Mar. Alekksandr (talk) 13:04, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Well, I don't agree that leaving them in alphabetical order functions well enough. I'll have another go later. In the meantime can you point to how the situation is handled aside from alpha in other cases? Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 13:07, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

The sub-categories at Category:Earls in the Peerage of Ireland are examples of how sorting is handled in other cases. Alekksandr (talk) 13:23, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

I've sorted it out, I think better. I realise I may have used the English way of doing it and you are currently completing Ireland? with a different system. If you can't tolerate my latest edits just adjust them to suit yourself. Eddaido (talk) 14:04, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

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Hi, You've left edit comments on a few articles telling people to "see WP:Londonderry" a few times. It needs to be all caps. WP:Londonderry goes nowhere. WP:LONDONDERRY goes somewhere. Took me a while to figure out what you were referencing. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 20:19, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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Dear Allekksandr. Thank you for your attention to the article Robert Dillon (died 1579). You added:

"{{succession box | title = [[Attorney-General for Ireland]] ..."

However, Succession box is "Deprecated in favour of the s-start template series," So I replaced your Succession box with this sequence of three templates:

{{S-bef|before=[[Thomas St. Lawrence (judge)|Thomas St. Lawrence]]}}
{{S-ttl|title=[[Attorney-General for Ireland]] |years=1535–1554}}
{{S-aft|after=[[Barnaby Skurloke or Skurlog]]}}

Please do not take offence. There are many mistakes I make. Your edit count is more than 3 times mine. I remember well how You once corrected my English, where it was much needed. I did appreciated your correction very much. With thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 10:03, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

No problem - thank you. Alekksandr (talk) 18:50, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

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[Continuity Irish Republican Army] how do you know it's referring to the county rather than the city? Can you make it unambiguous or revert, please. (t · c) buidhe 22:00, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

See the 'citation needed' note which I have added to the article. I note that the edit was made at 17:09, 14 December 2012. Alekksandr (talk) 11:15, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

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