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Falklands/Malvinas again

Sorry to bother you with this, but you show to have an open mind I will like to invite you to Talk:Argentine_Navy --Jor70 00:32, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

racist comment?

one cannot be racist against english,t hey are not a 'race' (unsigned) host86-143-172-117.range86-143.btcentralplus.com

try reading racism --Gibnews 14:48, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Date format

Hey, I actually wasn't changing the dates manually, AWB does it automatically. I was fixing typos with it so it also fixed the date. This is done according to WP:DATE#Incorrect date formats. Yonatan (contribs/talk) 03:13, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

And again

Hi. See , boy there are a lot of pro Malvinas Argentinians on the Spanish version, SqueakBox 18:37, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Indeed there are, The pages on Gibraltar are also different and some would like to insert a Spanish flag where it is not politically correct. Doing it for real it carries a jail sentence. --Gibnews 22:13, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Jah

http://jahtruth.net/gibralta.htm

I cruised several of his pages, but reading schizophrenic symptomatology gets old after a while. --Deaconse 04:38, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

In fairness I believe his is not a native having arrived on a yacht, and is not found on the streets selling books and pamphlets proclaiming the word. Also he is not advocating union with spain, so can't be totally mad. --Gibnews 10:30, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Spain banner

Gibnews - The WikiProject Spain banner does not imply "ownership" (and certainly not a territorial claim!). It simply signals that this is an article that members of this project are interested in contributing to and helping maintain. At the same time, we are sensitive to perceptions relating to "over-tagging" and if you could give me links to the specific article(s) that you're concerned about, I'll take a look at them; if necessary, I'll see if the Project is interested in helping contribute/maintain those article(s). I look forward to hearing from you. EspanaViva 22:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Your suggestion is an interesting one ... - actually, there's a "small" version of the template, let me see if that doesn't have the flag. I'll ask around about other options as well. EspanaViva 02:43, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

On Disputed status of Gibraltar, please don't substitute the template. Whether the Spanish Wikiproject template uses a flag or not, I don't care — I'm about a neutral you can get in this Gibraltar-Spain thing — but standardized templates shouldn't be substituted, as they may change with the rest of the Wikproject. My advice would be to see if Wikiproject Spain has, or would be willing to make, a different (small, for example) version of the template without the flag. Honestly, though, I don't see why it's such a big deal — it's the talk page, and if a future Wikiproject Gibraltar sticks their flag on Disputed status of Gibraltar's talk page, that's fine by me. — Rebelguys2 05:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Gibraltar is not Spain, the Spanish flag is a national symbol that is inappropriate in relation to Gibraltar, and liable to cause offence. Please respect the sensitivities of others. --Gibnews 10:25, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Your comments serve as evidence that you are missing the point. This is a project coordination issue, not the heated political issue you are making this out to be. — Rebelguys2 17:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Its a heated enough issue that if you waved one around in the street you would be arrested, IF you were lucky. --Gibnews 22:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

And if you were a Sunni in a Shi'ite area of Baghdad, you'd likely end up dead. But Misplaced Pages isn't Gibraltar or Baghdad, so what's the point of importing local political animosities? We're simply trying to build a better encyclopedia here. Local standards of political correctness aren't relevant to that (after all, we have a detailed article on the Tiananmen Square massacre, which some think is why the Chinese government has blocked access to Misplaced Pages.) We need the participation of a wide range of people, even (especially!) on controversial issues. If Serbs and Croats can work cooperatively on articles on the former Yugoslavia, I'm sure Gibraltarians and Spaniards can do the same for Gibraltar articles. -- ChrisO 09:00, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Spaniards and Gibraltarians did achieve an acceptable compromise, but you have upset that. What we have now is a mess. --Gibnews 10:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Gibraltar created

Now open for business! Please sign up at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Gibraltar.

There's a fair amount of work to do in tagging the Talk page of all Gibraltar-related articles with the {{WikiProject Gibraltar}} tag, but you're probably a better position than me to do it, since you know the Gibraltar articles better. In case you're wondering, I've already added the tag to Talk:Spain... -- ChrisO 18:38, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah like we need more edit wars. Not amused. Very silly. --Gibnews 20:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Stalking you

Can you please provide evidence of stalking or else remove the accusation, if you cant/dont I will report it as a breach of WP:NPA.regards--Vintagekits 13:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Your threat is noted. --Gibnews 15:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Can you provide evidence of your claim?--Vintagekits 15:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Your threat is noted. --Gibnews 16:20, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

What I am asking you is have you got proof to back up your accusation?--Vintagekits 16:36, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Your behaviour here for a start.

I would further refer you to your communication of 19 Dec 2006 19:30:48 which seems remarkably similar to the advice given in Arkell v. pressdram, however in this case you may wish to follow that course of action yourself. --Gibnews 17:14, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Gibraltar

Hey Gibnews, why arent u part of wikiproject Gibraltar?--Burgas00 15:39, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I thought that had been made clear on the project page;

This 'project' was never discussed and was simply created as a knee jerk reaction to wikiproject Spain. Now although there is a lot of merit in the latter, all that needs doing in relation to Gibraltar is to sort out the categories, which someone started doing and to add those correctly to the articles to link them together. The 'project' lacks any substance and because I support Gibraltar does not mean supporting nonsense for the sake of it.

I see including templates, particularly with flags, as spamming. Gibraltar has ties with Portugal, Morocco, Italy, the UK, Malta, etc by the time they were all there there would be little else to see.

This garbage is rather like the tribbles on Startrek, one is cute but they multiply.

I asked nicely for it to be reconsidered, but the editor who started it does not want to discuss anything.

There is also the issue that we have been able to achive some sort of peace in the Gibraltar -v- Spain war and it would be nice to get something positive done - flag waving is likely to bugger that up.

--Gibnews 15:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

You might at least find this to be of some use. -- ChrisO 18:06, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Stop sulking and join the Gibraltar project. There is not much point having one without you participating!--Burgas00 12:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Didn't you read the comments above ? --Gibnews 19:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok I see what you mean... I hadnt actually:-)--Burgas00 20:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok I added my opinion to the RfC. So I guess you also get alot of porn on your TVs in Gibraltar? :D Those local tv stations are so funny.--Burgas00 16:58, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I also think the local TV stations are amusing and a good idea for communities, but there was one which showed looped hard porn all day. As it was on the same frequency as GBC, it causes inteference and when their transmitter went off the air due to a power failure, the communal system relayed the porn channel automatically and we got complaints. GBC does not run anything with nudity and its was only last year someone said 'fuck' on a live programme, once.

However once they go digital, the problem of intereference will stop. --Gibnews 00:53, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Accuracy

Re.Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Astrotrain#Response_to_One_Night_In_Hackney, it seems in your comment you have misrepresented, no doubt unwittingly, One Night In Hackney's statement by omitting the wikilink. Please be careful over such volatile matters. Tyrenius 02:51, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I fail to see how its missrepresented. The wording is a direct quote seems unambiguous and is on the same page. I make no comment apart from quoting a source which refutes his claim totally. --Gibnews 11:09, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

List of Britsh Flag

Can you explain this revertion and why you called this "vandalism". regards--Vintagekits 13:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

I believe its self-evident that removing valid referenced content because of a political agenda is vandalism. But I really don't think I need to explain everything I do on Misplaced Pages to you, so please desist from pestering me.--Gibnews 19:19, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Malvinas

I answered you Falklands post on my talk page :) --Jor70 03:50, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok, There was not air links to the islands until 1971, when Argentine Air force (LADE) begin anphibious flights between comodoro rivadavia and stanley with grumman hu-16 albratros . After FAA request, UK and AR reach agreement and FAA construct first runway. Flight begin with fokker f27 and continues with fokker f28 jets twice a week until 1982 as the sole air link of the island YPF, the national oil and gas company, was in charge to suply the islands too —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jor70 (talk • contribs) 12:03, 11 March 2007 (UTC).

PC

- Kittybrewster 22:00, 13 March 2007 (UTC)