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The deletion of the "Military Production During WWII" Was not vandalism, and I am hardly new, just not logged into my account because it's a new device. I removed all 10,000 words because the article had numerous issues, with absolutely no citations or sources. The values are ridiculous, Germany did not have 1.5 Million Naval personal, the table only lists them as having just over 2,000 ships, how do you fit 1.5 million people on 2000 ships? . Also, Germany has 21 Million combat personal and only 0.3 million labourers? Whilst the UK has 14 Million combat personal and 14 million labourers?
Look, 90% of the values were empty, none of them had sources, and half of the values that were included are beyond nonsensical. Deleting the article was not vandalism, it was an attempt to reset an article so as to encourage users to rebuild it from the start with actual values, from actual sources — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.180.109.221 ( talk) 11:52, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
I agree with the spirit of your recent edit. We do need to acknowledge the Labor government's ideological antecedents somewhere. However, that earlier statement, which you've revised, was sourced to a British writer, not to Indian nationalist historians, and it didn't say that Attlee was driven to decolonize by the mutinies, only that he was spurred into taking action (or words to that effect). You might want to leave out the "Indian nationalist" bit because it sounds like an opinion (though one I more or less agree with). Attlee, I believe, made his first implicit support of dominion status in the House of Commons in 1931. See a post on Wikipedia which I am copying below. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 06:43, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
Attlee was one of the early backers of India's independence, long before WW2. He had gone to India for the first time in 1928. He revisited for many months with his wife in 1929. On 25 November 1931, Attlee spoke in the House of Commons: ‘we in this party stand for India’s control of her own affairs ... our position is that India, as has been said, must be allowed to make her own mistakes." (Hansard, HC 1931– 32, vol. 260 (23 November– 11 December) column 416, 25 November 1931.)
- (From: Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds (2012). Attlee, A Political Biography, IB Tauris B.) "If Attlee’s interest in India had been peripheral prior to the Simon Commission, it had now become central to his political aims. On 2 December 1931, Attlee spoke in a debate on the government’s policy on India after the second ‘Round Table Conference’, which Gandhi attended after agreeing to call off his campaign of civil disobedience in a deal with the viceroy, Lord Irwin. The prime minister opened the debate, with Attlee making the second speech on the problems of India: ‘On their successful solution depends not only the future ... of ... people in India, not only the future of our own country, but ... the future of the world. I believe the solution of the questions between Europe and Asia will depend very largely on what is done.’ (Hansard, HC 1931– 32, vol. 260 (23 November– 11 December) column 1118, 2 December 1931.)"
- That speech was prophetic, for the independence of India was followed by widespread British decolonization (Ceylon, Burma, Malaya, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Guyana, the West Indies, ...) in the following decades. Attlee was a socialist, responsible for creating Britain's National Health Service, post-WW2 nationalizations, and other welfare policies. Moreover, like Gandhi, he was much influenced by Ruskin's Unto This Last. He had been committed to decolonization in India for a full 16 years before 1947. Very little chance he would have attributed Britain's decision to decolonize to these last minute additions to the mix. He may have listed those as the reasons to hurry decolonization and to set a firm date for the transfer of power, but that is hardly the reason why the British left India. It is at best one of the reasons (along with Britain's depleted post-war economy, Direct Action Day and the prospects of more Hindu-Muslim violence, ...) why the British left India in a hurry. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 12:23, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
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Everyone in the coalition had a party bias, that was part of the problem! But more seriously, why do you wish to conceal from readers the fact that he was a Conservative politician? DuncanHill ( talk) 01:23, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
"Marriott had been adopted as a Conservative parliamentary candidate for East St Pancras in 1885, though he subsequently withdrew his candidacy. In the following year he was defeated in the general election as Conservative candidate for Rochdale. In 1914 he was defeated in a contest for the Conservative candidacy for the vacant Oxford University seat in parliament. But in March 1917 he was elected unopposed as Conservative MP for Oxford City, a beneficiary of the party-political truce under the wartime coalition. He was re-elected in the ‘coupon’ election of 1918, but defeated by the Liberal candidate in the general election of 1922. He returned to the Commons after the general election of 1923 as MP for York. There he was defeated in 1929 by a Labour candidate, and retired from active politics."
"In 1895 Marriott succeeded Sadler as secretary of the Oxford extension delegacy, a position he only relinquished in 1920. Despite a slightly pompous exterior, he had a capacity for friendship, and was held in high regard by the lecturers he recruited. Marriott was more comfortable lecturing in county towns than in working-class communities. As a Conservative he was in a minority among the many extension lecturers who held progressive sympathies. This was inconsequential until the coincidence of two developments in the Edwardian period: the growth of a movement specifically for workers' education, and Marriott's growing commitment to politics. The foundation in 1903 of the Workers' Educational Association, and its development, in association with Oxford, of the first university tutorial classes, taught in 1908 by R. H. Tawney, not only undermined Marriott's position in the extension delegacy, but was opposed by him because intrinsically partisan. This led to his isolation, and Oxford's tutorial classes committee was established in independence of the existing extension administration. Marriott contributed to this isolation by presenting his political views in Conservative journals. Although sympathetic to the education of working people, he deprecated trade union activism, the growth of socialism, and measures after 1908 for public welfare. He was regarded by some students as ‘an obscurantist and reactionary’ (J. Marriott, 139) and his influence diminished. From 1910 he turned towards national affairs, especially maintenance of the union with Ireland."
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I removed the notability tag you placed on the Thomas J. Kirkpatrick article I added, not because I've subsequently received a barnstar and it's military history month (and Kirkpatrick did organize and become captain of Confederate volunteers), but because I believe any elected Virginia state senator by definition meets wikipedia's notability guideline, as I noted on that article's talk page. If you disagree, perhaps you should contribute to the discussion on my talk page concerning our Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868 project--Fitzpatrick's term as state senator was as a result of it. Jweaver28 ( talk) 00:39, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
You reverted my edit, but the text remains (without any wikilinks). I was just wikilinking and adding section header. Someone else must have added the content. Hanif Al Husaini ( talk) 08:28, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
Kindly visit and skim User talk:Rævhuld. He was once served ANI notice for this strange issue. Thanks a lot. — usernamekiran ( talk) 09:21, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hello again Rjensen, I see what your trying to do re: coalition and alliances. Unfortunately the body of the map states alliance. There is no alliance between Russia and Serbia. Without understanding this you cannot understand how the first world war started. Personally I dont think coalition helps as it suggests a formal alliance. "Alignment" would work, but would need to be changed in the body of the map as well as the descriptor. Keith Johnston ( talk) 09:28, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
Since you are the creator of our article Cambridge School of historiography, I wonder if you will be able to start a new Wikiquote article on The New Cambridge History of India. Surely you have already read some of those books and as such it should be a nice intellectual goal to set for 2017. If you are unsure how to proceed you can look for my creation q:Millennium Prize Problems as guidance which is basically a series of mathematical problems as I am sure you are already aware, given your maths background. Some redlinks (there) which might interest you include: Vijaynagar, Mughal, Rajput, Deccan, Punjab, Maratha and other q:Category:States of India.
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The issue here is that a lot of biased sources are being inserted, often by people associated with those sources (including one paid editing spam ring), based on Wikipedians deciding which biased sources should be in versus out. Basically we have competing think tanks duking it out on Wikipedia rather than reflecting independent third party assessments. It often strays very close to WP:SYN and very very often goes into WP:REFSPAM. Guy ( Help!) 10:41, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
Sorry for not consulting the group. I thought it would be appropriate to show how large the US conservative movement has become since the end of WWII.
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Your revision to the lede at the article we are both concurrently editing are not minor. I came in as a neutral party. In particular, restoring a quote to the lede -- quotes are generally never needed in ledes -- is to begin to return the lede to a partisan summary. Right now the lede summarises the article. Please discuss this in the Talk section of the article, before further lede editing. (I am going to revert them. Let's Talk in the Talk section there._ Le Prof Leprof 7272 ( talk) 16:58, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Aside from its clearly partisan appearances, the term continues to appear periodically in non-partisan media. Media Matters for America has documented the occasional use of "Democrat Party" by the Associated Press, CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune, and it is used occasionally abroad by the BBC. [1] [2] [3]
Some sources indicate that the term "Democrat Party" was in common use with no negative connotations in the early-to-mid-20th century. For example, in a 1912 book on the Democratic and Republican national conventions by William Jennings Bryan, a three-time Democratic nominee for president, Bryan wrote "Why, for instance, should a Democrat leave the Democrat Party, which has labored in behalf of the popular election of Senators for 20 years..." [4] non-primary source needed A second example is the 1919 New Teachers' and Pupils' Cyclopaedia entry for Woodrow Wilson, which states that "In 1912, Wilson was the Democrat Party nominee for President..." [5] non-primary source needed In July 14, 1922, a newspaper advertisement for Missouri's primary elections contains candidate lists for the various political parties, the Democratic Party list appears under the heading "Democratic Ticket", and each candidate from U.S. Senator to recorder of deeds is identified as "Representing: Democrat Party". [6] non-primary source needed In 1958, author John Lyman stated, "in Maryland the usage has been common for years among some members of the Democrat party itself, with no derogation intended". [7]
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…that a consequence of my long work today, is that all citations that appeared earlier have been checked, completed as far as possible, and are uniformly formatted (in appearance, if not in underlying markup). This and the restructuring of the article are what I expected to be the real matter for discussion, and if these are also of issue, please also take them up at the main article page. You will see I have created a new section there to start us (and all other editors interested) off toward resolution. Cheers. Le Prof 165.20.114.246 ( talk) 23:48, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Many of the assertions made in the main definition of conservatism are absolutely irrelevant to and biased against conservatism. Obviously, this is extremely problematic as the point of an encyclopedia is to provide an objective understanding of a topic. If you cannot understand why the main definition is unsatisfactory, please research alternative sources to ascertain the meaning of conservatism. If the page for "candy" included an alternative definition of candy that reads "a brown machine which allows for the movement of humans by combustion engine," it would be moved to the page for automobiles. The fact that a source cited for a definition which is irrelevant to its subject is the reason for the denial of its removal is as ridiuculous as asserting that propaganda has place in definitive knowledge.
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Please refrain from continuing to make disparaging remarks about other contributors, as was done here. If you are not satisfied with how a discussion is proceeding, the appropriate thing to do is to seek dispute resolution. — Sangdeboeuf ( talk) 19:42, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
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For your talk at Wikimania 2012, this barnstar is extremely belated, but well deserved. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:06, 22 April 2017 (UTC) |
The book you cited, "Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928" covers Jackson's association with the Indiana KKK (as well as the attempted $10,000 bribe to McCray) in its Chapter 6, entitled "Political Power," referring to him as "Klansman Ed Jackson, then secretary of state" on the very first page of that chapter. That the Klan failed in its legislative efforts doesn't say much one way or the other when one considers what a bungling, failed, and ineffectual governor Jackson turned out to be.
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New additions ...well written ...but very detailed on side events like Quebec Act .....easy to see new additions no wikitext. American Revolution.-- Moxy ( talk) 21:02, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
What happened here? -- John ( talk) 17:54, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello - Haven't spoken with you in a while, nice to see you. FYI, I have been updating the URLs on some of the Booknotes links, and while doing that, I have been (when appropriate) moving the links from the External Links sections of certain pages up in to the body of the articles, using the "External Video" template. I did this, for instance, in the Petticoat affair article in the Controversy section, so that the Booknotes interview with Marszalek can be clicked on and accessed right next to a pertinent Marszalek quote. I am not doing this for all articles, but I am doing it for some where it seems appropriate. Let me know if you have any thoughts on this. KConWiki ( talk) 14:58, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
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Hello Rjensen. I have been doing some work on the John C. Frémont article. You are welcome to read through the article and make any changes if you have time. The goal would be to get Frémont to GA and/or FA status. The lede, Civil War, and his later life sections needs more work. Thanks. Cmguy777 ( talk) 06:30, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Trying to avoid an edit war.....I start a conversation on the mass changes not vented to the sources used.-- Moxy ( talk) 16:14, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
You've been an editor since 2005 so you should really know better then to remove a citation tag especially while it is being discussed on talk, and then leave a summary "fix cite" - this is vandalism, I have reverted it as vandalism. Seraphim System ( talk) 02:47, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
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Regarding the sex war section on the suffrage article, please see the talk page. Several editors have raised concerns about that section and it really should be subject to discussion. Do you have a copy of Kent's book? We could work together to make the section better. Basalisk inspect damage/ berate 20:10, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
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Also please see MOS:LQ logical punctuation ought to be used, so full stops go after double quotes not before them. -- PBS ( talk) 09:55, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
You have included two different years for Woolrych [1] 2004 and 2002 which is correct and do you have the ISBN number?
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http://bcw-project.org/church-and-state/the-protectorate/rule-of-the-major-generals.phpThe paragraph explains in detail the research of a single individual. It does not belong in a general article on the dictionary. WP is not meant to be a depository of individual's research. I'm not sure who he is but it surely seems like you are promoting his opinion and giving undue weight to his work. ‡ ?l Cid, ?l Ca??peador ?T?LK? 16:00, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
Kindly cease re-inserting incorrect, falsely-cited factoids into the ODESSA article. The paragraph you have repeatedly re-inserted states "J. J. Abrams said that the First Order is inspired by the legend of ODESSA" whereas the article cited makes no mention of the organisation as you are well aware. Claiming that Abrams intended to refer to ODESSA is a violation of WP:OR ("Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to reach or imply a conclusion not clearly stated by the sources themselves."), of which you are also well aware as I have quoted that policy each time I have removed the offending paragraph. 79.72.143.44 ( talk) 20:57, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
There is an editor, Danteday, on the " White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" page, who is putting surnames into a list without any external reference or citation. All he had to say in his defense was that Vanderbilt and Astor were the "ultimate WASP names." It's become an edit-warring situation. He keeps reverting the page. He also included internal citations for the surnames, but the internal citations don't prove that the surnames are WASP surnames. Jonah161 ( talk) 02:12, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
For what reason did you revert my changes on American Jews? The 1910 statement had a reliable source (two of them, in fact). And why does the second statement need another source? Per what policy? 2601:84:4502:61EA:4430:7F2B:C9EA:3231 ( talk) 08:41, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
Rjensen, an aggressive user, Xenophrenic, is blanking the France section on the state atheism article. Can you have a look? desmay ( talk) 00:46, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi again, Rjensen, same Xenophrenic was just blocked for POV pushing on this topic. Can you look at restoring the section about France and adding some sources to it since you're a respected historian? desmay ( talk) 04:20, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi. In reference to your edit HERE, it is appreciated you provided a cite. However, the publication is almost 300 pages long and locating the material in question without a specific page is obviously difficult. I requested a page number HERE, but it hasn't been provided yet. Perhaps it went unnoticed or maybe you just haven't had a chance to getting around to it yet. Can you provide the needed page number so Verification can occur? Thanks. Mercy11 ( talk) 02:03, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
In the Bay of Pigs page, you have reverted my clarification of the nationality of one group of participants. American nations that could have been involved with all the confusion and deception include Guatemalans, Cubans, Panamanians and perhaps more. Every one of those are American. The US is just ONE American nationality.
In an article so concerned with confusions and distinctions about WHICH American nations did WHAT, I would think it is especially important to clarify as much as possible. It is unfortunate that US citizens are left with no convenient national identifier and so must hijack a continental identifier. In most circumstances we can deal with that necessary shorthand and sort it out by contextual indications. This article, however, would benefit from a precise statement of the US participants' nationality.
I do hope you might consider reverting your reversion.
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Hi User:Rjensen, noticed you've edited Italian American article in the past, just letting you know the images in the Politics section are confusing because it says first that Al Smith was Governor of New York, then the next image says Mario Cuomo, who came much later was the first Italian-American Governor of New York? Thanks, -- Theo Mandela ( talk) 01:17, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
It looks like this edit caused a Ref problem. Please take a second look at it. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 08:26, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi there! As a member of the Notre Dame project, I'd invite you over to take a look at a current disagreement taking place over the ND seal. Traditionally, and all over campus, the seal is colored, but another user has brought up that he would like to see it in black and white. Please take a look at the discussion here and chime in if you would like. /info/en/?search=Talk:University_of_Notre_Dame#The_Seal
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Lead sections are meant to be a short summary. The article has seperate subsections that cover both history and the languages extensively and if you compare to articles on other geopolitical regions these are not topics covered that extensively in the introduction. So it's WP:UNDUE, a very short mention of these topics in lead would perhaps be reasonable, but not overblown retelling of historical events and relationships between languages emphesizing how unrelated Latvia and especially Lithuania are to the very Scandinavian Estonia, that's essentially a POV fork on top of the article. It's been discussed ten times over - this article is about a geopolitical region of Europe, not for analysing why some Estonian politicians and their supporters think it should not continue to exist, it was allready agreed that Nordic identity in Estonia article would be suited for that. ~~ Xil ( talk) 10:33, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
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why did you not format this entry to the References section in a similar way?
If the sources is not a long citation to support the text (in which case there ought to be a short inline citation linking to it), then if you think readers will benefit by seeing the source is available, it ought to be added to a "Further reading" section, instead of the "References" section.
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Hi! Over a year ago, you added to the Cosmo Gordon Lang article this quote:
Reference: George Moyser, "Land, Cosmo Gordon" in Fred M. Leventhal, ed., Twentieth-century Britain: an encyclopedia (Garland, 1995) p 438.
There seems to be a typo in the quote, but I don't have access to the book so can't correct it. Would you be able to check? I'm guessing it should either be "industrious, an exceptional" or "industrious, and an exceptional"; the first reads better but I'm not 100% sure it couldn't be the second or something else. TSP ( talk) 00:59, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Appreciate the edits on Interwar period.
My concern is that this introduces a lot of detail about Russia specifically without comparable detail about other empires/nations. And if we were to introduce comparable detail for the others, the lead would become far too long. I was trying to just mention a few miscellaneous examples of independence movements and nations that gained independence without trying to focus on any one region of the world or any one empire.
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Dear Rejensen Please do not delete my content. I was still working on an article, when you took it upon yourself to delete all of my content. I was to add another citation when you decided to delete my entire addition.
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Biased commentary by leftwing liars is not "analysis by leading scholars," especially when Democrats were the party of segregation and the KKK well into the 1970s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:387:A:7:0:0:0:B0 ( talk) 04:57, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
From the snippet Google books allows me to see, it appears to be Crispin Gill, rather than The Economist, who is calling remedial measures for agriculture "the economics of Bedlam". It's also not clear what era he is writing abut - as he only left school in 1934 I suspect it is more likely to be the 1950's when he was on the Morning Post. DuncanHill ( talk) 17:02, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
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The deletion of the "Military Production During WWII" Was not vandalism, and I am hardly new, just not logged into my account because it's a new device. I removed all 10,000 words because the article had numerous issues, with absolutely no citations or sources. The values are ridiculous, Germany did not have 1.5 Million Naval personal, the table only lists them as having just over 2,000 ships, how do you fit 1.5 million people on 2000 ships? . Also, Germany has 21 Million combat personal and only 0.3 million labourers? Whilst the UK has 14 Million combat personal and 14 million labourers?
Look, 90% of the values were empty, none of them had sources, and half of the values that were included are beyond nonsensical. Deleting the article was not vandalism, it was an attempt to reset an article so as to encourage users to rebuild it from the start with actual values, from actual sources — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.180.109.221 ( talk) 11:52, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
I agree with the spirit of your recent edit. We do need to acknowledge the Labor government's ideological antecedents somewhere. However, that earlier statement, which you've revised, was sourced to a British writer, not to Indian nationalist historians, and it didn't say that Attlee was driven to decolonize by the mutinies, only that he was spurred into taking action (or words to that effect). You might want to leave out the "Indian nationalist" bit because it sounds like an opinion (though one I more or less agree with). Attlee, I believe, made his first implicit support of dominion status in the House of Commons in 1931. See a post on Wikipedia which I am copying below. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 06:43, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
Attlee was one of the early backers of India's independence, long before WW2. He had gone to India for the first time in 1928. He revisited for many months with his wife in 1929. On 25 November 1931, Attlee spoke in the House of Commons: ‘we in this party stand for India’s control of her own affairs ... our position is that India, as has been said, must be allowed to make her own mistakes." (Hansard, HC 1931– 32, vol. 260 (23 November– 11 December) column 416, 25 November 1931.)
- (From: Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds (2012). Attlee, A Political Biography, IB Tauris B.) "If Attlee’s interest in India had been peripheral prior to the Simon Commission, it had now become central to his political aims. On 2 December 1931, Attlee spoke in a debate on the government’s policy on India after the second ‘Round Table Conference’, which Gandhi attended after agreeing to call off his campaign of civil disobedience in a deal with the viceroy, Lord Irwin. The prime minister opened the debate, with Attlee making the second speech on the problems of India: ‘On their successful solution depends not only the future ... of ... people in India, not only the future of our own country, but ... the future of the world. I believe the solution of the questions between Europe and Asia will depend very largely on what is done.’ (Hansard, HC 1931– 32, vol. 260 (23 November– 11 December) column 1118, 2 December 1931.)"
- That speech was prophetic, for the independence of India was followed by widespread British decolonization (Ceylon, Burma, Malaya, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Guyana, the West Indies, ...) in the following decades. Attlee was a socialist, responsible for creating Britain's National Health Service, post-WW2 nationalizations, and other welfare policies. Moreover, like Gandhi, he was much influenced by Ruskin's Unto This Last. He had been committed to decolonization in India for a full 16 years before 1947. Very little chance he would have attributed Britain's decision to decolonize to these last minute additions to the mix. He may have listed those as the reasons to hurry decolonization and to set a firm date for the transfer of power, but that is hardly the reason why the British left India. It is at best one of the reasons (along with Britain's depleted post-war economy, Direct Action Day and the prospects of more Hindu-Muslim violence, ...) why the British left India in a hurry. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 12:23, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
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Everyone in the coalition had a party bias, that was part of the problem! But more seriously, why do you wish to conceal from readers the fact that he was a Conservative politician? DuncanHill ( talk) 01:23, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
"Marriott had been adopted as a Conservative parliamentary candidate for East St Pancras in 1885, though he subsequently withdrew his candidacy. In the following year he was defeated in the general election as Conservative candidate for Rochdale. In 1914 he was defeated in a contest for the Conservative candidacy for the vacant Oxford University seat in parliament. But in March 1917 he was elected unopposed as Conservative MP for Oxford City, a beneficiary of the party-political truce under the wartime coalition. He was re-elected in the ‘coupon’ election of 1918, but defeated by the Liberal candidate in the general election of 1922. He returned to the Commons after the general election of 1923 as MP for York. There he was defeated in 1929 by a Labour candidate, and retired from active politics."
"In 1895 Marriott succeeded Sadler as secretary of the Oxford extension delegacy, a position he only relinquished in 1920. Despite a slightly pompous exterior, he had a capacity for friendship, and was held in high regard by the lecturers he recruited. Marriott was more comfortable lecturing in county towns than in working-class communities. As a Conservative he was in a minority among the many extension lecturers who held progressive sympathies. This was inconsequential until the coincidence of two developments in the Edwardian period: the growth of a movement specifically for workers' education, and Marriott's growing commitment to politics. The foundation in 1903 of the Workers' Educational Association, and its development, in association with Oxford, of the first university tutorial classes, taught in 1908 by R. H. Tawney, not only undermined Marriott's position in the extension delegacy, but was opposed by him because intrinsically partisan. This led to his isolation, and Oxford's tutorial classes committee was established in independence of the existing extension administration. Marriott contributed to this isolation by presenting his political views in Conservative journals. Although sympathetic to the education of working people, he deprecated trade union activism, the growth of socialism, and measures after 1908 for public welfare. He was regarded by some students as ‘an obscurantist and reactionary’ (J. Marriott, 139) and his influence diminished. From 1910 he turned towards national affairs, especially maintenance of the union with Ireland."
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I removed the notability tag you placed on the Thomas J. Kirkpatrick article I added, not because I've subsequently received a barnstar and it's military history month (and Kirkpatrick did organize and become captain of Confederate volunteers), but because I believe any elected Virginia state senator by definition meets wikipedia's notability guideline, as I noted on that article's talk page. If you disagree, perhaps you should contribute to the discussion on my talk page concerning our Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868 project--Fitzpatrick's term as state senator was as a result of it. Jweaver28 ( talk) 00:39, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
You reverted my edit, but the text remains (without any wikilinks). I was just wikilinking and adding section header. Someone else must have added the content. Hanif Al Husaini ( talk) 08:28, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
Kindly visit and skim User talk:Rævhuld. He was once served ANI notice for this strange issue. Thanks a lot. — usernamekiran ( talk) 09:21, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hello again Rjensen, I see what your trying to do re: coalition and alliances. Unfortunately the body of the map states alliance. There is no alliance between Russia and Serbia. Without understanding this you cannot understand how the first world war started. Personally I dont think coalition helps as it suggests a formal alliance. "Alignment" would work, but would need to be changed in the body of the map as well as the descriptor. Keith Johnston ( talk) 09:28, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
Since you are the creator of our article Cambridge School of historiography, I wonder if you will be able to start a new Wikiquote article on The New Cambridge History of India. Surely you have already read some of those books and as such it should be a nice intellectual goal to set for 2017. If you are unsure how to proceed you can look for my creation q:Millennium Prize Problems as guidance which is basically a series of mathematical problems as I am sure you are already aware, given your maths background. Some redlinks (there) which might interest you include: Vijaynagar, Mughal, Rajput, Deccan, Punjab, Maratha and other q:Category:States of India.
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The issue here is that a lot of biased sources are being inserted, often by people associated with those sources (including one paid editing spam ring), based on Wikipedians deciding which biased sources should be in versus out. Basically we have competing think tanks duking it out on Wikipedia rather than reflecting independent third party assessments. It often strays very close to WP:SYN and very very often goes into WP:REFSPAM. Guy ( Help!) 10:41, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
Sorry for not consulting the group. I thought it would be appropriate to show how large the US conservative movement has become since the end of WWII.
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Your revision to the lede at the article we are both concurrently editing are not minor. I came in as a neutral party. In particular, restoring a quote to the lede -- quotes are generally never needed in ledes -- is to begin to return the lede to a partisan summary. Right now the lede summarises the article. Please discuss this in the Talk section of the article, before further lede editing. (I am going to revert them. Let's Talk in the Talk section there._ Le Prof Leprof 7272 ( talk) 16:58, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Aside from its clearly partisan appearances, the term continues to appear periodically in non-partisan media. Media Matters for America has documented the occasional use of "Democrat Party" by the Associated Press, CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune, and it is used occasionally abroad by the BBC. [1] [2] [3]
Some sources indicate that the term "Democrat Party" was in common use with no negative connotations in the early-to-mid-20th century. For example, in a 1912 book on the Democratic and Republican national conventions by William Jennings Bryan, a three-time Democratic nominee for president, Bryan wrote "Why, for instance, should a Democrat leave the Democrat Party, which has labored in behalf of the popular election of Senators for 20 years..." [4] non-primary source needed A second example is the 1919 New Teachers' and Pupils' Cyclopaedia entry for Woodrow Wilson, which states that "In 1912, Wilson was the Democrat Party nominee for President..." [5] non-primary source needed In July 14, 1922, a newspaper advertisement for Missouri's primary elections contains candidate lists for the various political parties, the Democratic Party list appears under the heading "Democratic Ticket", and each candidate from U.S. Senator to recorder of deeds is identified as "Representing: Democrat Party". [6] non-primary source needed In 1958, author John Lyman stated, "in Maryland the usage has been common for years among some members of the Democrat party itself, with no derogation intended". [7]
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…that a consequence of my long work today, is that all citations that appeared earlier have been checked, completed as far as possible, and are uniformly formatted (in appearance, if not in underlying markup). This and the restructuring of the article are what I expected to be the real matter for discussion, and if these are also of issue, please also take them up at the main article page. You will see I have created a new section there to start us (and all other editors interested) off toward resolution. Cheers. Le Prof 165.20.114.246 ( talk) 23:48, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Many of the assertions made in the main definition of conservatism are absolutely irrelevant to and biased against conservatism. Obviously, this is extremely problematic as the point of an encyclopedia is to provide an objective understanding of a topic. If you cannot understand why the main definition is unsatisfactory, please research alternative sources to ascertain the meaning of conservatism. If the page for "candy" included an alternative definition of candy that reads "a brown machine which allows for the movement of humans by combustion engine," it would be moved to the page for automobiles. The fact that a source cited for a definition which is irrelevant to its subject is the reason for the denial of its removal is as ridiuculous as asserting that propaganda has place in definitive knowledge.
Greetings. I appreciate your zeal for scholarly rigor in articles. However, please note that making accusations and misrepresenting others' positions (such as here) is considered uncivil and disruptive to the achievement of consensus. I would prefer to keep talk page discussions focused on the content of the article itself. — Sangdeboeuf ( talk) 10:36, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
Please refrain from continuing to make disparaging remarks about other contributors, as was done here. If you are not satisfied with how a discussion is proceeding, the appropriate thing to do is to seek dispute resolution. — Sangdeboeuf ( talk) 19:42, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
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For your talk at Wikimania 2012, this barnstar is extremely belated, but well deserved. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:06, 22 April 2017 (UTC) |
The book you cited, "Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928" covers Jackson's association with the Indiana KKK (as well as the attempted $10,000 bribe to McCray) in its Chapter 6, entitled "Political Power," referring to him as "Klansman Ed Jackson, then secretary of state" on the very first page of that chapter. That the Klan failed in its legislative efforts doesn't say much one way or the other when one considers what a bungling, failed, and ineffectual governor Jackson turned out to be.
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New additions ...well written ...but very detailed on side events like Quebec Act .....easy to see new additions no wikitext. American Revolution.-- Moxy ( talk) 21:02, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
What happened here? -- John ( talk) 17:54, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello - Haven't spoken with you in a while, nice to see you. FYI, I have been updating the URLs on some of the Booknotes links, and while doing that, I have been (when appropriate) moving the links from the External Links sections of certain pages up in to the body of the articles, using the "External Video" template. I did this, for instance, in the Petticoat affair article in the Controversy section, so that the Booknotes interview with Marszalek can be clicked on and accessed right next to a pertinent Marszalek quote. I am not doing this for all articles, but I am doing it for some where it seems appropriate. Let me know if you have any thoughts on this. KConWiki ( talk) 14:58, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
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Hello Rjensen. I have been doing some work on the John C. Frémont article. You are welcome to read through the article and make any changes if you have time. The goal would be to get Frémont to GA and/or FA status. The lede, Civil War, and his later life sections needs more work. Thanks. Cmguy777 ( talk) 06:30, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Trying to avoid an edit war.....I start a conversation on the mass changes not vented to the sources used.-- Moxy ( talk) 16:14, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
You've been an editor since 2005 so you should really know better then to remove a citation tag especially while it is being discussed on talk, and then leave a summary "fix cite" - this is vandalism, I have reverted it as vandalism. Seraphim System ( talk) 02:47, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
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Regarding the sex war section on the suffrage article, please see the talk page. Several editors have raised concerns about that section and it really should be subject to discussion. Do you have a copy of Kent's book? We could work together to make the section better. Basalisk inspect damage/ berate 20:10, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
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Also please see MOS:LQ logical punctuation ought to be used, so full stops go after double quotes not before them. -- PBS ( talk) 09:55, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
You have included two different years for Woolrych [1] 2004 and 2002 which is correct and do you have the ISBN number?
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Kindly cease re-inserting incorrect, falsely-cited factoids into the ODESSA article. The paragraph you have repeatedly re-inserted states "J. J. Abrams said that the First Order is inspired by the legend of ODESSA" whereas the article cited makes no mention of the organisation as you are well aware. Claiming that Abrams intended to refer to ODESSA is a violation of WP:OR ("Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to reach or imply a conclusion not clearly stated by the sources themselves."), of which you are also well aware as I have quoted that policy each time I have removed the offending paragraph. 79.72.143.44 ( talk) 20:57, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
There is an editor, Danteday, on the " White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" page, who is putting surnames into a list without any external reference or citation. All he had to say in his defense was that Vanderbilt and Astor were the "ultimate WASP names." It's become an edit-warring situation. He keeps reverting the page. He also included internal citations for the surnames, but the internal citations don't prove that the surnames are WASP surnames. Jonah161 ( talk) 02:12, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
For what reason did you revert my changes on American Jews? The 1910 statement had a reliable source (two of them, in fact). And why does the second statement need another source? Per what policy? 2601:84:4502:61EA:4430:7F2B:C9EA:3231 ( talk) 08:41, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
Rjensen, an aggressive user, Xenophrenic, is blanking the France section on the state atheism article. Can you have a look? desmay ( talk) 00:46, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi again, Rjensen, same Xenophrenic was just blocked for POV pushing on this topic. Can you look at restoring the section about France and adding some sources to it since you're a respected historian? desmay ( talk) 04:20, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi. In reference to your edit HERE, it is appreciated you provided a cite. However, the publication is almost 300 pages long and locating the material in question without a specific page is obviously difficult. I requested a page number HERE, but it hasn't been provided yet. Perhaps it went unnoticed or maybe you just haven't had a chance to getting around to it yet. Can you provide the needed page number so Verification can occur? Thanks. Mercy11 ( talk) 02:03, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
In the Bay of Pigs page, you have reverted my clarification of the nationality of one group of participants. American nations that could have been involved with all the confusion and deception include Guatemalans, Cubans, Panamanians and perhaps more. Every one of those are American. The US is just ONE American nationality.
In an article so concerned with confusions and distinctions about WHICH American nations did WHAT, I would think it is especially important to clarify as much as possible. It is unfortunate that US citizens are left with no convenient national identifier and so must hijack a continental identifier. In most circumstances we can deal with that necessary shorthand and sort it out by contextual indications. This article, however, would benefit from a precise statement of the US participants' nationality.
I do hope you might consider reverting your reversion.
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Hi User:Rjensen, noticed you've edited Italian American article in the past, just letting you know the images in the Politics section are confusing because it says first that Al Smith was Governor of New York, then the next image says Mario Cuomo, who came much later was the first Italian-American Governor of New York? Thanks, -- Theo Mandela ( talk) 01:17, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
It looks like this edit caused a Ref problem. Please take a second look at it. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 08:26, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi there! As a member of the Notre Dame project, I'd invite you over to take a look at a current disagreement taking place over the ND seal. Traditionally, and all over campus, the seal is colored, but another user has brought up that he would like to see it in black and white. Please take a look at the discussion here and chime in if you would like. /info/en/?search=Talk:University_of_Notre_Dame#The_Seal
Best, Eccekevin ( talk) 23:04, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
Lead sections are meant to be a short summary. The article has seperate subsections that cover both history and the languages extensively and if you compare to articles on other geopolitical regions these are not topics covered that extensively in the introduction. So it's WP:UNDUE, a very short mention of these topics in lead would perhaps be reasonable, but not overblown retelling of historical events and relationships between languages emphesizing how unrelated Latvia and especially Lithuania are to the very Scandinavian Estonia, that's essentially a POV fork on top of the article. It's been discussed ten times over - this article is about a geopolitical region of Europe, not for analysing why some Estonian politicians and their supporters think it should not continue to exist, it was allready agreed that Nordic identity in Estonia article would be suited for that. ~~ Xil ( talk) 10:33, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
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You made
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why did you not format this entry to the References section in a similar way?
If the sources is not a long citation to support the text (in which case there ought to be a short inline citation linking to it), then if you think readers will benefit by seeing the source is available, it ought to be added to a "Further reading" section, instead of the "References" section.
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I note that you are one of the contributors to WP:HSC. How rigorously is this advice used/enforced/policed or publicised across the editor community? I have tried to implement its advice and got shouted down by 2 editors who wanted to retain a reference (in Highland Clearances) that was written by 2 human rights lawyers touting for more business through a new international convention (as opposed to recognised historians). ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 22:52, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hi! Over a year ago, you added to the Cosmo Gordon Lang article this quote:
Reference: George Moyser, "Land, Cosmo Gordon" in Fred M. Leventhal, ed., Twentieth-century Britain: an encyclopedia (Garland, 1995) p 438.
There seems to be a typo in the quote, but I don't have access to the book so can't correct it. Would you be able to check? I'm guessing it should either be "industrious, an exceptional" or "industrious, and an exceptional"; the first reads better but I'm not 100% sure it couldn't be the second or something else. TSP ( talk) 00:59, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Appreciate the edits on Interwar period.
My concern is that this introduces a lot of detail about Russia specifically without comparable detail about other empires/nations. And if we were to introduce comparable detail for the others, the lead would become far too long. I was trying to just mention a few miscellaneous examples of independence movements and nations that gained independence without trying to focus on any one region of the world or any one empire.
--MC 141.131.2.3 ( talk) 20:48, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect History of the Democratic Party. Since you had some involvement with the History of the Democratic Party redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. - CHAMPION ( talk) ( contributions) ( logs) 22:26, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
Dear Rejensen Please do not delete my content. I was still working on an article, when you took it upon yourself to delete all of my content. I was to add another citation when you decided to delete my entire addition.
Sincerely, Garfield7380
Biased commentary by leftwing liars is not "analysis by leading scholars," especially when Democrats were the party of segregation and the KKK well into the 1970s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:387:A:7:0:0:0:B0 ( talk) 04:57, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
From the snippet Google books allows me to see, it appears to be Crispin Gill, rather than The Economist, who is calling remedial measures for agriculture "the economics of Bedlam". It's also not clear what era he is writing abut - as he only left school in 1934 I suspect it is more likely to be the 1950's when he was on the Morning Post. DuncanHill ( talk) 17:02, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
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