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Hello Rob, The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 changed not only the royal title but also the name (Style) of Parliament (from Parliament of the UK of GB & I to Parliament of the UK of GB and NI) and thereby the name of the state itself as I've always understood it to be. UK of GB & I was used as the name of the state until 1927. (Imperial Conference, 1926: Summary of Proceedings Cmd 2768, p. 15 (London: HMSO, 1926).) Gerard von Hebel ( talk) 12:05, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Let me make myself clear. I have no intention whatsoever of changing you revert edit on United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. That's not what this is about. I'll come back to you here on the points you have raised and I hope conversation will be interesting. That might take some time however since the real world has decided I'm going to be somewhat busy with things that are not Wikipedia in the next two weeks or so. I don't think I'm wrong about the makeup of Parliament however. The crown is part of Parliament. I'll come back to you about that and about the name of the state / style of parliament. I can't add comments now but I'll be back to explain my thinking on that and what it is based on. Thanks! Gerard von Hebel ( talk) 19:05, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Rob. "ownership" of Rockall is actually disputed. Iceland disputes it. There is an agreement between Ireland and the UK, who are trying to get France and Spain to support them. Denmark, until recently, was firmly behind Iceland, but that might be a little flexible. However Iceland still disputes the UK claim. I am of the view that we may be deceiving ourselves into a false sense of security. Regards Lugnad ( talk) 23:54, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I don't quite understand why my change was reverted. It showed the exact same ID-card as on: /info/en/?search=Dutch_identity_card. I believe this page shows an example-card published by the Dutch government especially for purposes such as this. To make this sure I have asked them and I am now awaiting their response. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdavids ( talk • contribs) 20:48, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
UPDATE: I have contacted http://www.rvig.nl/ and they confirmed to me, that it is no problem to publish an example ID-card for educational purposes on the internet. Here is their response, in Dutch:
Geachte heer Davids, Uw vraag is door rijksoverheid.nl doorgestuurd naar de Rijksdienst voor Identiteitsgegevens (RvIG). RvIG is onder andere belast met uitvoeringstaken die voortkomen uit de Wet basisregistratie personen en de Paspoortwet. Op uw vraag of het is toegestaan om de folder met echtheidskenmerken te gebruiken voor publicaties, kan ik u het volgende meedelen. Het Nederlands reisdocument (dus ook de identiteitskaart) is een door de Nederlandse wet beschermd document. De paspoortwet (artikel 61) spreekt over het volgende: Het is een ieder verboden drukwerken of andere voorwerpen in een vorm die ze op reisdocumenten doet gelijken, te vervaardigen, te verspreiden of ter verspreiding in voorraad te hebben. Het is echter wel mogelijk een afbeelding van het (Nederlandse) paspoort of identiteitskaart te gebruiken ter voorlichting van het publiek door middel van projectie (film, dia's, video, internet en televisie). Ik hoop u hiermee voldoende te hebben geïnformeerd. Met vriendelijke groet Lettie Lemmens medewerker contactcentrum ........................................................................ Rijksdienst voor Identiteitsgegevens Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties Turfmarkt 147| 2511 DP | Den Haag Postbus 10451 | 2501 HL | Den Haag ........................................................................ T 088-9001000 info@rvig.nl http://www.rvig.nl
Mdavids ( talk) 20:42, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Why revert if you were actually making a different edit? My edit removed the ship from the Sea-Trials table, as it should've been, it's now active (I marked as such in the summary). I should've added it to the Commissioned table, but I didn't. (computer froze, phone rang, knock at the door, yadda, yadda, yadda...) then I forgot and didn't get back to it. Why didn't you just add it to the table instead of making it look like a revert? - theWOLFchild 10:46, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Your edit removing the sovereign state columns at Constituent country was reverted 'per BRD'. That reversion was reverted by you along with subsequent edits to the article using Twinkle. Two points: 1. You are experienced enough here to understand WP:BRD i.e. if your edit is reverted, do not revert again, instead, begin a discussion with the person who reverted your change on the article talk page to establish consensus; 2. Twinkle is an anti-vandalism tool and not to be used to revert good faith edits. Please self-revert. Daicaregos ( talk) 00:09, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
Probably best not to use BAEs marketing jargon to describe the T26. The terminology used on their site is aimed largely toward the export market. Antiochus the Great ( talk) 18:29, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello Rob984, Many thanks for your reversion on Rockall. I must confess in my haste, I failed to revert all the edits from the unregistered IP, with their own agenda. Regards and thanks, David J Johnson ( talk) 11:34, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
I have corrected your edit of the Isle of Man article. It is not part of the UK. see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18251379 or various other sources. Robynthehode ( talk) 09:18, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
Thank you Rob984. This change on Feb. 11 is completely acceptable to us. We found the statement that we were not a state as offensive and unacceptable. The description is now politically correct. Much better statement. Thanks again.Briefzehn 16:43, 11 February 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julien Houle ( talk • contribs)
Since you decide to be rude [1], can I recommend you start by reading WP:NPA and then WP:NOTAFORUM. Talk pages are for discussing articles, not persons. Jeppiz ( talk) 02:04, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Not sure if you know the three revert rule but you are just about ready to break it. Just in case, the paperwork goes like this:
Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. 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 article's 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 BRD 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 your 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.. Dr. K. 23:44, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello Rob, Just for your information, in case you don't follow that particular page, I have proposed to rename and move the article Research, Assistance, Intervention, Deterrence to "RAID (French Police)". I would appreciate your involvement - or comments - if you are interested. Thanks in advance and best regards, Bruno -- Domenjod ( talk) 21:57, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
I see you've changed the map on the EU article and then reverted yourself with the statement that you "changed it to the version without internal borders (again) as there is no longer clear consensus for change". I don't know who told you to revert it back, but as a sidenote I want you to know that there is nothing wrong with changing it as you like as you don't need a consensus for every edit. It was actually WITH borders for a very long time until a year ago or so when someone wanted a completely borderless map (both for the EU and the rest) and that caused more annoyance among people than when it was with borders. A borderless map also doesn't add much to the information in the info box as it doesn't give a good impression of who represents the EU. 51.174.227.172 ( talk) 19:32, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
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I'm not sure why the source doesn't mention Austria, but Amazon Video isn't available in the Netherlands or Luxembourg or Switzerland, or anywhere that uses the .de site that isn't Germany or Austria, so I put Austria back. You can't use the service in any other European countries, including Ireland, even though the site promotes it until you go through the process of actually signing up for it.-- occono ( talk) 18:28, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
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link what is MOS? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Viliam Furík ( talk • contribs) 16:35, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
English and Papiamento are in fact official languages in NL, see here. Adding them back. PPP ( talk) 08:56, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
Regarding edits on Greater London:
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the City of London only controlled by the Corporation and not the GL Authority? -- TransportJone ( talk) 13:32, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, Rob984. When you changed Apologist to redirect to a disambiguation page, you may not have been aware of WP:FIXDABLINKS, which says:
It would be a great help if you would check the other Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Apologist" and fix them to take readers to the correct article. Thanks. R'n'B ( call me Russ) 10:04, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
It seems impossible to make any major edit in the article of Paris without being approved by some few editors. This sounds like a
WP:OWN.
As the result the article about Paris is more and more a tourist review of the city and less and less an encyclopedia article.
I saw that you intervened in August to face an attempt to remove references to the metropolitan area and the urban area from editors.
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This article has been vandalized by someone. Included are the "2052 census" results, and information about a Russian nuclear missile strike on the town. If Canock is outside your area of interest, could you pass this on to the appropriate party? Reporting these sorts of problems on Wikipedia is itself a huge problem (no obvious way to report them).
/info/en/?search=Cannock — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.180.56 ( talk) 15:29, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for putting the link in. Perfect solution.
I wasn't being deliberately obtuse, I simply didn't understand why you'd need GB£ for a UK-made aeroplane - as I said, it's not going to be Sudanese Pounds, is it? The objector to my edit wasn't positing anything close to a convincing argument.
Looks so much neater now. Much obliged.
John — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.41.126.253 ( talk) 08:50, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments on my edit. I'm not a geologist by any means, and mostly research Sicily and the Mediterranean. I'm trying to parse the academic literature on oceanic and continental crusts in the Mediterranean. I think the concept I was trying to explain to the reader is that continental boundaries are arbitrary as you suggested. I think it would be in the interest of readers to understand that at least in this case there are several ways to categorise these islands, which have interesting cultural and political histories. As you know arbitrary lines can have large effects of self-perspective and identity. Would you be willing to help me understand this literature and communicate this message more clearly? If not I fully understand, thanks! Paolorausch ( talk) 20:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
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As you know, we European are not rabbits, so population in commuting areas does not change in two or three years. In this statistics of Eurostat there are some incongruities, as datas in some case vary too much in one year. I suppose they are improving their technics, but this is not a good reason to cancel actualized datas and, most of all, to cancel one of the largest metropolis of Europe to substitute it with a smaller one. Sorry But I must undo your edit because is inconsistent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robur.q ( talk • contribs) 06:20, 13 October 2016 (UTC) mistake Sorry, I Mistake; It wasn't you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robur.q ( talk • contribs) 06:26, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, I ran across this edit of yours, and it puzzled me. Can you explain the difference between a constituent country and a constituent state? I have always considered "state", used in this broad sense, as a synonym of "country". Thanks! — Gorthian ( talk) 17:12, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
...a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state...
A state is a type of polity that is an organized political community living under a single system of government. States may or may not be sovereign.
Hi, a principal problem with this page is that it is entitled "European Union Customs Union" but its content is EU customs unions, four in number, namely the EUCU plus three others (those with Andorra, San Marino, & Turkey).
Two topics on one page is highly confusing for the reader. Particularly because of impending Brexit, there must be much increased traffic to this page; therefore it behoves editors to ensure that the text is crystal-clear.
Hence at 18:31 today, to improve this, I made an edit (after reversing my initial, erroneous, edit). Unfortunately at 19:39 this was undone by yourself.
I would just like to make these comments on your revision narratives:
19:39 This was your undoing edit. Importantly, & unfortunately, you offered no justification for your action. However you said, extraneously, "[n]o territories are coloured in the lighter shade of blue." Not true: most countries are indeed dark blue, but four countries are light blue (Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Turkey). Please click on the map to make it bigger if you need to.
19:47 You said, "'non-EU territories' is a strange term, since they are 'UK territories' but not part of the UK." But your comment is mistaken: the phrase (or equivalent) was needed because it denoted both a state (Monaco) & territories of the UK that are not part of the EU. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:810B:440:490:287C:331C:93F2:A7AB ( talk) 23:00, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Rob984,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged EACU for deletion, because it doesn't seem to have any encyclopedic content.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Onel5969 TT me 21:33, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi!
I just would wish to check if I understand the (present-day) customs and consensus at en.wikipedia correctly:
Am I right to assume that "the [[European]] [[continent]]" is:
Cheers!
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NA means "not available". This is not the same as zero. Also, I would assume "Neg" means negative, but that doesn't make sense. -- Lasunncty ( talk) 00:10, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
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if you keep changing the facts to what sacrifice your wants and keep removing the reference and i will report you too — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harper9979 ( talk • contribs) 16:05, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
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In the map used on the article United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( File:Europe-United Kingdom (1921).svg), the eastern border of Poand appears to be completely wrong. See File:RzeczpospolitaII.png for comparison. DuncanHill ( talk) 14:36, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
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Please stop adding " British people" in the list of contemporary ethnic groups. 2600:8800:5A80:1394:D8E0:4B78:1D0E:E290 ( talk) 03:07, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello Rob 984, I see that a contemporary and formal term for something unofficially and colloquially known as The Senior Service is "Her Majesty's Naval Service". I have seen someone use this on wikipedia in reference to Nelson's Navy, and questioned it, as it certainly wasn't in use at that time. Can you advise as to when this term was formally adopted. It sounds as though it came into use in about 2014. Thanks in advance Keith H99 ( talk) 21:57, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Howdy. We merely need to describe England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland as constituent countries, within the United Kingdom article. GoodDay ( talk) 18:29, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
The prob is that a number (not sure how many) of editors refuse to describe England, Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland as anything but 'countries'.
Apologies, I misread your edit as replacing Greenland with Svalbard, rather than adding Svalbard to the list. The cited ref doesn't actually include Svalbard, but I'll add a ref needed tag. Pincrete ( talk) 08:38, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Rob, The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 changed not only the royal title but also the name (Style) of Parliament (from Parliament of the UK of GB & I to Parliament of the UK of GB and NI) and thereby the name of the state itself as I've always understood it to be. UK of GB & I was used as the name of the state until 1927. (Imperial Conference, 1926: Summary of Proceedings Cmd 2768, p. 15 (London: HMSO, 1926).) Gerard von Hebel ( talk) 12:05, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Let me make myself clear. I have no intention whatsoever of changing you revert edit on United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. That's not what this is about. I'll come back to you here on the points you have raised and I hope conversation will be interesting. That might take some time however since the real world has decided I'm going to be somewhat busy with things that are not Wikipedia in the next two weeks or so. I don't think I'm wrong about the makeup of Parliament however. The crown is part of Parliament. I'll come back to you about that and about the name of the state / style of parliament. I can't add comments now but I'll be back to explain my thinking on that and what it is based on. Thanks! Gerard von Hebel ( talk) 19:05, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Rob. "ownership" of Rockall is actually disputed. Iceland disputes it. There is an agreement between Ireland and the UK, who are trying to get France and Spain to support them. Denmark, until recently, was firmly behind Iceland, but that might be a little flexible. However Iceland still disputes the UK claim. I am of the view that we may be deceiving ourselves into a false sense of security. Regards Lugnad ( talk) 23:54, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I don't quite understand why my change was reverted. It showed the exact same ID-card as on: /info/en/?search=Dutch_identity_card. I believe this page shows an example-card published by the Dutch government especially for purposes such as this. To make this sure I have asked them and I am now awaiting their response. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdavids ( talk • contribs) 20:48, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
UPDATE: I have contacted http://www.rvig.nl/ and they confirmed to me, that it is no problem to publish an example ID-card for educational purposes on the internet. Here is their response, in Dutch:
Geachte heer Davids, Uw vraag is door rijksoverheid.nl doorgestuurd naar de Rijksdienst voor Identiteitsgegevens (RvIG). RvIG is onder andere belast met uitvoeringstaken die voortkomen uit de Wet basisregistratie personen en de Paspoortwet. Op uw vraag of het is toegestaan om de folder met echtheidskenmerken te gebruiken voor publicaties, kan ik u het volgende meedelen. Het Nederlands reisdocument (dus ook de identiteitskaart) is een door de Nederlandse wet beschermd document. De paspoortwet (artikel 61) spreekt over het volgende: Het is een ieder verboden drukwerken of andere voorwerpen in een vorm die ze op reisdocumenten doet gelijken, te vervaardigen, te verspreiden of ter verspreiding in voorraad te hebben. Het is echter wel mogelijk een afbeelding van het (Nederlandse) paspoort of identiteitskaart te gebruiken ter voorlichting van het publiek door middel van projectie (film, dia's, video, internet en televisie). Ik hoop u hiermee voldoende te hebben geïnformeerd. Met vriendelijke groet Lettie Lemmens medewerker contactcentrum ........................................................................ Rijksdienst voor Identiteitsgegevens Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties Turfmarkt 147| 2511 DP | Den Haag Postbus 10451 | 2501 HL | Den Haag ........................................................................ T 088-9001000 info@rvig.nl http://www.rvig.nl
Mdavids ( talk) 20:42, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Why revert if you were actually making a different edit? My edit removed the ship from the Sea-Trials table, as it should've been, it's now active (I marked as such in the summary). I should've added it to the Commissioned table, but I didn't. (computer froze, phone rang, knock at the door, yadda, yadda, yadda...) then I forgot and didn't get back to it. Why didn't you just add it to the table instead of making it look like a revert? - theWOLFchild 10:46, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Your edit removing the sovereign state columns at Constituent country was reverted 'per BRD'. That reversion was reverted by you along with subsequent edits to the article using Twinkle. Two points: 1. You are experienced enough here to understand WP:BRD i.e. if your edit is reverted, do not revert again, instead, begin a discussion with the person who reverted your change on the article talk page to establish consensus; 2. Twinkle is an anti-vandalism tool and not to be used to revert good faith edits. Please self-revert. Daicaregos ( talk) 00:09, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
Probably best not to use BAEs marketing jargon to describe the T26. The terminology used on their site is aimed largely toward the export market. Antiochus the Great ( talk) 18:29, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello Rob984, Many thanks for your reversion on Rockall. I must confess in my haste, I failed to revert all the edits from the unregistered IP, with their own agenda. Regards and thanks, David J Johnson ( talk) 11:34, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
I have corrected your edit of the Isle of Man article. It is not part of the UK. see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18251379 or various other sources. Robynthehode ( talk) 09:18, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
Thank you Rob984. This change on Feb. 11 is completely acceptable to us. We found the statement that we were not a state as offensive and unacceptable. The description is now politically correct. Much better statement. Thanks again.Briefzehn 16:43, 11 February 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julien Houle ( talk • contribs)
Since you decide to be rude [1], can I recommend you start by reading WP:NPA and then WP:NOTAFORUM. Talk pages are for discussing articles, not persons. Jeppiz ( talk) 02:04, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Not sure if you know the three revert rule but you are just about ready to break it. Just in case, the paperwork goes like this:
Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. 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 article's 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 BRD 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 your 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.. Dr. K. 23:44, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello Rob, Just for your information, in case you don't follow that particular page, I have proposed to rename and move the article Research, Assistance, Intervention, Deterrence to "RAID (French Police)". I would appreciate your involvement - or comments - if you are interested. Thanks in advance and best regards, Bruno -- Domenjod ( talk) 21:57, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
I see you've changed the map on the EU article and then reverted yourself with the statement that you "changed it to the version without internal borders (again) as there is no longer clear consensus for change". I don't know who told you to revert it back, but as a sidenote I want you to know that there is nothing wrong with changing it as you like as you don't need a consensus for every edit. It was actually WITH borders for a very long time until a year ago or so when someone wanted a completely borderless map (both for the EU and the rest) and that caused more annoyance among people than when it was with borders. A borderless map also doesn't add much to the information in the info box as it doesn't give a good impression of who represents the EU. 51.174.227.172 ( talk) 19:32, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
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I'm not sure why the source doesn't mention Austria, but Amazon Video isn't available in the Netherlands or Luxembourg or Switzerland, or anywhere that uses the .de site that isn't Germany or Austria, so I put Austria back. You can't use the service in any other European countries, including Ireland, even though the site promotes it until you go through the process of actually signing up for it.-- occono ( talk) 18:28, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
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link what is MOS? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Viliam Furík ( talk • contribs) 16:35, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
English and Papiamento are in fact official languages in NL, see here. Adding them back. PPP ( talk) 08:56, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
Regarding edits on Greater London:
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the City of London only controlled by the Corporation and not the GL Authority? -- TransportJone ( talk) 13:32, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, Rob984. When you changed Apologist to redirect to a disambiguation page, you may not have been aware of WP:FIXDABLINKS, which says:
It would be a great help if you would check the other Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Apologist" and fix them to take readers to the correct article. Thanks. R'n'B ( call me Russ) 10:04, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
It seems impossible to make any major edit in the article of Paris without being approved by some few editors. This sounds like a
WP:OWN.
As the result the article about Paris is more and more a tourist review of the city and less and less an encyclopedia article.
I saw that you intervened in August to face an attempt to remove references to the metropolitan area and the urban area from editors.
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This article has been vandalized by someone. Included are the "2052 census" results, and information about a Russian nuclear missile strike on the town. If Canock is outside your area of interest, could you pass this on to the appropriate party? Reporting these sorts of problems on Wikipedia is itself a huge problem (no obvious way to report them).
/info/en/?search=Cannock — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.180.56 ( talk) 15:29, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for putting the link in. Perfect solution.
I wasn't being deliberately obtuse, I simply didn't understand why you'd need GB£ for a UK-made aeroplane - as I said, it's not going to be Sudanese Pounds, is it? The objector to my edit wasn't positing anything close to a convincing argument.
Looks so much neater now. Much obliged.
John — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.41.126.253 ( talk) 08:50, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments on my edit. I'm not a geologist by any means, and mostly research Sicily and the Mediterranean. I'm trying to parse the academic literature on oceanic and continental crusts in the Mediterranean. I think the concept I was trying to explain to the reader is that continental boundaries are arbitrary as you suggested. I think it would be in the interest of readers to understand that at least in this case there are several ways to categorise these islands, which have interesting cultural and political histories. As you know arbitrary lines can have large effects of self-perspective and identity. Would you be willing to help me understand this literature and communicate this message more clearly? If not I fully understand, thanks! Paolorausch ( talk) 20:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
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As you know, we European are not rabbits, so population in commuting areas does not change in two or three years. In this statistics of Eurostat there are some incongruities, as datas in some case vary too much in one year. I suppose they are improving their technics, but this is not a good reason to cancel actualized datas and, most of all, to cancel one of the largest metropolis of Europe to substitute it with a smaller one. Sorry But I must undo your edit because is inconsistent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robur.q ( talk • contribs) 06:20, 13 October 2016 (UTC) mistake Sorry, I Mistake; It wasn't you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robur.q ( talk • contribs) 06:26, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, I ran across this edit of yours, and it puzzled me. Can you explain the difference between a constituent country and a constituent state? I have always considered "state", used in this broad sense, as a synonym of "country". Thanks! — Gorthian ( talk) 17:12, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
...a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state...
A state is a type of polity that is an organized political community living under a single system of government. States may or may not be sovereign.
Hi, a principal problem with this page is that it is entitled "European Union Customs Union" but its content is EU customs unions, four in number, namely the EUCU plus three others (those with Andorra, San Marino, & Turkey).
Two topics on one page is highly confusing for the reader. Particularly because of impending Brexit, there must be much increased traffic to this page; therefore it behoves editors to ensure that the text is crystal-clear.
Hence at 18:31 today, to improve this, I made an edit (after reversing my initial, erroneous, edit). Unfortunately at 19:39 this was undone by yourself.
I would just like to make these comments on your revision narratives:
19:39 This was your undoing edit. Importantly, & unfortunately, you offered no justification for your action. However you said, extraneously, "[n]o territories are coloured in the lighter shade of blue." Not true: most countries are indeed dark blue, but four countries are light blue (Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Turkey). Please click on the map to make it bigger if you need to.
19:47 You said, "'non-EU territories' is a strange term, since they are 'UK territories' but not part of the UK." But your comment is mistaken: the phrase (or equivalent) was needed because it denoted both a state (Monaco) & territories of the UK that are not part of the EU. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:810B:440:490:287C:331C:93F2:A7AB ( talk) 23:00, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Rob984,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged EACU for deletion, because it doesn't seem to have any encyclopedic content.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Onel5969 TT me 21:33, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi!
I just would wish to check if I understand the (present-day) customs and consensus at en.wikipedia correctly:
Am I right to assume that "the [[European]] [[continent]]" is:
Cheers!
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NA means "not available". This is not the same as zero. Also, I would assume "Neg" means negative, but that doesn't make sense. -- Lasunncty ( talk) 00:10, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
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if you keep changing the facts to what sacrifice your wants and keep removing the reference and i will report you too — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harper9979 ( talk • contribs) 16:05, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
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In the map used on the article United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( File:Europe-United Kingdom (1921).svg), the eastern border of Poand appears to be completely wrong. See File:RzeczpospolitaII.png for comparison. DuncanHill ( talk) 14:36, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
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Please stop adding " British people" in the list of contemporary ethnic groups. 2600:8800:5A80:1394:D8E0:4B78:1D0E:E290 ( talk) 03:07, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello Rob 984, I see that a contemporary and formal term for something unofficially and colloquially known as The Senior Service is "Her Majesty's Naval Service". I have seen someone use this on wikipedia in reference to Nelson's Navy, and questioned it, as it certainly wasn't in use at that time. Can you advise as to when this term was formally adopted. It sounds as though it came into use in about 2014. Thanks in advance Keith H99 ( talk) 21:57, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Howdy. We merely need to describe England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland as constituent countries, within the United Kingdom article. GoodDay ( talk) 18:29, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
The prob is that a number (not sure how many) of editors refuse to describe England, Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland as anything but 'countries'.
Apologies, I misread your edit as replacing Greenland with Svalbard, rather than adding Svalbard to the list. The cited ref doesn't actually include Svalbard, but I'll add a ref needed tag. Pincrete ( talk) 08:38, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
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