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Hi there. Nice work on "JAG" around the world. I was planning on creating a similar table. I like yours better! Lbbzman 15:06, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I see you've made Happy Days a 20th Century Fox production but in fact it was a (William) Fox Film Corporation production - before the mid-1930s merger with 20th Century Films. David Lauder 11:21, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for the cleanup. It looks much better. - Alvincura ( talk) 16:54, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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Thanx for good work on the article! With this edit though, the top got screwed up: a big blank space to the right of the infobox and under the hatnote. I don't know how you did that, or how to fix it. SergeWoodzing ( talk) 17:05, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
I notice that you’ve added
Crown Prince Charles John to the list of generalissimos on this page, seemingly without regard to the edit note in the list section which points out that "The term "Generalisimo" is NOT a synonym for supreme commander, or commander-in-chief, and is rarely used in English", and "All persons listed here should be supported by a source which specifically refers to them by this title"
Karl Johan seems quite clearly to be covered by the former; and for the latter, the source you have provided (which is in Swedish and so cannot be verified here) is of no account unless it actually uses the term. I also note that you’ve edited the KJ page (
here) to correspond to this.
So, do you have any evidence that KJ was ever afforded this title, in English or otherwise? (The Swedish WP article
[1] does not say so)
Can you show that the title "Generalissimus" was ever used in the Swedish military hierarchy (again, the Swedish WP does not suport this, either
here or
here)
If you are unable to provide this evidence these contributions will have to be reverted.
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Hello! Please note this change! In English, it would not be normal to refer to the Swedish government as "the State" (as in Swedish staten), and such usage can also too easily be confused with states of a union, such as Missouri or Schleswig-Holstein. -- SergeWoodzing ( talk) 14:27, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, National Defence Radio Establishment (Sweden), has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Gavleson ( talk) 17:27, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to express my sincere appreciation of the work you put into such articles as Monarchy of Sweden, where you add valuable information in considerable volume. However, your texts contain a lot of language errors, especially in word sequence and grammatical number on verbs. I'll now spend some time again on that article and correct what I find. There are programs you can run your English texts through in advance to avoid the worst problems being published. You can also write the lyrics in Swedish and then run them through "Google Translate", for example, so the grammar usually comes out right, and the other silliness, that that program comes up with, I'm sure you'll see yourself so you can fix it. -- SergeWoodzing ( talk) 07:01, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello RicJac. While it is great that you want to contribute to building the encyclopedia, there are some things you may want to reconsider. I noticed that you are creating new pages that function purely as redirects. Please stop doing that. Redirects should only be created when articles are merged or moved, not just to cover some different spelling in a different language. These spellings should instead be included on the page with the English name. The search engine will then find the right page anyway. Yes, there are a lot of similar redirects floating around here, but that is only because there is a backlog in removing them. I also saw that you created the page Gökhem as a redirect to Gökhem Church. Such pages and redirects are not within the policy of the English Wikipedia. I understand your thinking in creating it, I made exactly the same mistake when I was new here but was soon discouraged to do so. If you want the page to exist you should instead write a small (stub) article about the place and include that the church is situated at the locality, like in this article: Bunge (Gotland). Also make sure that what you include in the article is properly reference with reliable sources. If you are previously familiar with the Swedish Wikipedia, please bear in mind that standards are much higher here. I sometime compare them by saying that moving from SweWiki to EngWiki is like transferring from the Hemvärnet to the US Marine Corps. If you have any questions regarding editing here, do not hesitate to ask at my talk page. Best, w.carter -Talk 15:20, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
For anyone interested in the topic, Skinnner's A Genealogy of the Modern State to which you gave a link is certainly worth perusing, especially in connection with the usage of terms such as "the Crown" in the course of the political, constitutional and legal history of UK and its several parts, colonies and dependencies. Who owns "state" property in any given country (UK or other) can be considered in connection with legal proceedings: in what name can actions be brought or defended? But that also depends on the particular circumstances, particular country and the context in which the question arises, and can make it difficult for a 3O resolution. But at least it is obvious that mere bluster does not deserve to be awarded the benefit of any doubt. Cheers! Qexigator ( talk) 10:57, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
Skinner's article is such that I feel I should clarify my comment further. Specialists in jurisprudence will be aware of the different ways in which "state" tends to be used of English institutions and derivatives in preference to other words, in comparison with similar words in other languages about the institutions of other countries. Skinner, on p. 349 et seq., shows a reason for this: the influence of Hobbes's theory upon the habits of thought of his countrymen, and the influence of translations upon Dutch and German theorists such as Pufendorf. The result is that, if and supposing "state" and "government" are or may be distinct concepts, in practice the distinction is not always admitted or scrupulously observed, nor identical in all languages or among different peoples. It is at least fairly certain that traditional usage still allows mention of "state railways" and "inter-state" highways in preference to "government" ditto, and a knowledge of the significance of "sovereign debt" has lately become indispensable. Once more, thanks for the link. Qexigator ( talk) 17:40, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
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Out of curiosity, why did you just change the owner on a bunch of the files I uploaded from The Walt Disney Company to Disney Enterprises, Inc. I'm not mad or anything, I'm just curious as to why, since Disney Enterprises, Incorporated is a wholly-owned subsidy of The Walt Disney Company. Elisfkc ( talk) 14:48, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
I noticed you added the prime minister of several countries to the chain of command of armed forces, often as chief of the minister of defense. These are not trivial edits, as each individual country may have arranged this differently. So you would need a reliable source for each of these additions.
For example, the Dutch prime ministers "special" powers are limited to being the chairman of the council of ministers; which makes him primus inter pares, but has no direct claim to any department; and hence is in no way in the line of command of the Dutch armed forces. His only content wise duties is his own portfolio of " General affairs", which is very limited, and whose most important task is managing the role of the king within the constitutional monarchy. So I am 99% sure your recent addition of the Dutch prime minister anywhere in the chain of command to the Dutch armed forces is (to put it bluntly) bollocks. Please do put your own world view on the organisation of countries that do not follow this (at least not without reliable sources). Arnoutf ( talk) 18:55, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
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G'day RicJac!
Sorry to bother you with such an ancient edit, but I was reviewing the Prime Minister of Finland article, when I noticed a claim that the PM would use an English-language style of "Excellency", added in 2013. There are very few honorary styles for politicians in Finland that would be automatic (ex officio) - the only one that comes to mind is the President of the Repulic. Counselor of State has been traditionally offered to some distinguished, long-serving PMs around retirement, but it's by no means automatic. Google search for "prime minister finland excellency" returns some official documents from foreign sources using this style, but for example the Prime Minister's Office does not use any style for the PM. So unless a proper source can be provided, I am removing this title from the infobox for now. -- hydrox ( talk) 17:38, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hi there. Nice work on "JAG" around the world. I was planning on creating a similar table. I like yours better! Lbbzman 15:06, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I see you've made Happy Days a 20th Century Fox production but in fact it was a (William) Fox Film Corporation production - before the mid-1930s merger with 20th Century Films. David Lauder 11:21, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for the cleanup. It looks much better. - Alvincura ( talk) 16:54, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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Thanx for good work on the article! With this edit though, the top got screwed up: a big blank space to the right of the infobox and under the hatnote. I don't know how you did that, or how to fix it. SergeWoodzing ( talk) 17:05, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
I notice that you’ve added
Crown Prince Charles John to the list of generalissimos on this page, seemingly without regard to the edit note in the list section which points out that "The term "Generalisimo" is NOT a synonym for supreme commander, or commander-in-chief, and is rarely used in English", and "All persons listed here should be supported by a source which specifically refers to them by this title"
Karl Johan seems quite clearly to be covered by the former; and for the latter, the source you have provided (which is in Swedish and so cannot be verified here) is of no account unless it actually uses the term. I also note that you’ve edited the KJ page (
here) to correspond to this.
So, do you have any evidence that KJ was ever afforded this title, in English or otherwise? (The Swedish WP article
[1] does not say so)
Can you show that the title "Generalissimus" was ever used in the Swedish military hierarchy (again, the Swedish WP does not suport this, either
here or
here)
If you are unable to provide this evidence these contributions will have to be reverted.
Moonraker12 (
talk)
14:03, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Please note this change! In English, it would not be normal to refer to the Swedish government as "the State" (as in Swedish staten), and such usage can also too easily be confused with states of a union, such as Missouri or Schleswig-Holstein. -- SergeWoodzing ( talk) 14:27, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, National Defence Radio Establishment (Sweden), has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Gavleson ( talk) 17:27, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to express my sincere appreciation of the work you put into such articles as Monarchy of Sweden, where you add valuable information in considerable volume. However, your texts contain a lot of language errors, especially in word sequence and grammatical number on verbs. I'll now spend some time again on that article and correct what I find. There are programs you can run your English texts through in advance to avoid the worst problems being published. You can also write the lyrics in Swedish and then run them through "Google Translate", for example, so the grammar usually comes out right, and the other silliness, that that program comes up with, I'm sure you'll see yourself so you can fix it. -- SergeWoodzing ( talk) 07:01, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello RicJac. While it is great that you want to contribute to building the encyclopedia, there are some things you may want to reconsider. I noticed that you are creating new pages that function purely as redirects. Please stop doing that. Redirects should only be created when articles are merged or moved, not just to cover some different spelling in a different language. These spellings should instead be included on the page with the English name. The search engine will then find the right page anyway. Yes, there are a lot of similar redirects floating around here, but that is only because there is a backlog in removing them. I also saw that you created the page Gökhem as a redirect to Gökhem Church. Such pages and redirects are not within the policy of the English Wikipedia. I understand your thinking in creating it, I made exactly the same mistake when I was new here but was soon discouraged to do so. If you want the page to exist you should instead write a small (stub) article about the place and include that the church is situated at the locality, like in this article: Bunge (Gotland). Also make sure that what you include in the article is properly reference with reliable sources. If you are previously familiar with the Swedish Wikipedia, please bear in mind that standards are much higher here. I sometime compare them by saying that moving from SweWiki to EngWiki is like transferring from the Hemvärnet to the US Marine Corps. If you have any questions regarding editing here, do not hesitate to ask at my talk page. Best, w.carter -Talk 15:20, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
For anyone interested in the topic, Skinnner's A Genealogy of the Modern State to which you gave a link is certainly worth perusing, especially in connection with the usage of terms such as "the Crown" in the course of the political, constitutional and legal history of UK and its several parts, colonies and dependencies. Who owns "state" property in any given country (UK or other) can be considered in connection with legal proceedings: in what name can actions be brought or defended? But that also depends on the particular circumstances, particular country and the context in which the question arises, and can make it difficult for a 3O resolution. But at least it is obvious that mere bluster does not deserve to be awarded the benefit of any doubt. Cheers! Qexigator ( talk) 10:57, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
Skinner's article is such that I feel I should clarify my comment further. Specialists in jurisprudence will be aware of the different ways in which "state" tends to be used of English institutions and derivatives in preference to other words, in comparison with similar words in other languages about the institutions of other countries. Skinner, on p. 349 et seq., shows a reason for this: the influence of Hobbes's theory upon the habits of thought of his countrymen, and the influence of translations upon Dutch and German theorists such as Pufendorf. The result is that, if and supposing "state" and "government" are or may be distinct concepts, in practice the distinction is not always admitted or scrupulously observed, nor identical in all languages or among different peoples. It is at least fairly certain that traditional usage still allows mention of "state railways" and "inter-state" highways in preference to "government" ditto, and a knowledge of the significance of "sovereign debt" has lately become indispensable. Once more, thanks for the link. Qexigator ( talk) 17:40, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
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Out of curiosity, why did you just change the owner on a bunch of the files I uploaded from The Walt Disney Company to Disney Enterprises, Inc. I'm not mad or anything, I'm just curious as to why, since Disney Enterprises, Incorporated is a wholly-owned subsidy of The Walt Disney Company. Elisfkc ( talk) 14:48, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
I noticed you added the prime minister of several countries to the chain of command of armed forces, often as chief of the minister of defense. These are not trivial edits, as each individual country may have arranged this differently. So you would need a reliable source for each of these additions.
For example, the Dutch prime ministers "special" powers are limited to being the chairman of the council of ministers; which makes him primus inter pares, but has no direct claim to any department; and hence is in no way in the line of command of the Dutch armed forces. His only content wise duties is his own portfolio of " General affairs", which is very limited, and whose most important task is managing the role of the king within the constitutional monarchy. So I am 99% sure your recent addition of the Dutch prime minister anywhere in the chain of command to the Dutch armed forces is (to put it bluntly) bollocks. Please do put your own world view on the organisation of countries that do not follow this (at least not without reliable sources). Arnoutf ( talk) 18:55, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
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G'day RicJac!
Sorry to bother you with such an ancient edit, but I was reviewing the Prime Minister of Finland article, when I noticed a claim that the PM would use an English-language style of "Excellency", added in 2013. There are very few honorary styles for politicians in Finland that would be automatic (ex officio) - the only one that comes to mind is the President of the Repulic. Counselor of State has been traditionally offered to some distinguished, long-serving PMs around retirement, but it's by no means automatic. Google search for "prime minister finland excellency" returns some official documents from foreign sources using this style, but for example the Prime Minister's Office does not use any style for the PM. So unless a proper source can be provided, I am removing this title from the infobox for now. -- hydrox ( talk) 17:38, 27 March 2017 (UTC)