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revert war

This User vandalises my page so I vandalise his.

Clearly he has no mind of his own and is a sockpuppet. Sollogfan 11:48, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Template:Sollog

I understand you think that one sentence on Munich Massacre is wrong. I agree. But you are reverting a huge amount of text -- not just that one sentence. Please stop.

Also, I have started a discussion on Talk:Munich Massacre about your version and the other version, and I would value your input there. – Quadell ] 19:46, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

I see what you mean. He wants to depersonalize the whole thing (eliminating the names if the athletes) and otherwise get rid of anything he views as sympathetic towards Israel, which he clearly hates. Too bad. He is wrong to drastically alter waht was a balanced, factual article to fit his worldview.

Talk:Munich Massacre

Regarding Talk:Munich Massacre, any comments you have about a user belong on that user's talk page. The talk page for Munich Massacre should be used exclusively for discussion about the article itself, not the participants. Thanks, – Quadell ] 21:57, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Good point; that would lower the snarkiness level a bit.

I have attempted a compromise version of Munich Massacre that incorporates the best parts of both versions. Improvements are welcome, but I would like to humbly ask that you not do a blanket revert, as you would be reverting good edits as well as bad. Thanks! – Quadell ] 22:21, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Yasser Arafat article

Hi A2Kafir. The version HistoryBuffEr tried to insert was his own; he does this with all articles he edits, creates his own POV version, and insists on inserting it without any kind of consensus or agreement in Talk:. Feel free to revert them whenever you see them, as his versions violate Misplaced Pages policy in several important ways. Jayjg 03:31, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. A2Kafir 03:33, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

My pleasure, and if it hasn't been said before, welcome to Misplaced Pages. Jayjg 03:50, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Bat bomb

Hi, I actually thought the Bat bomb edit you reverted was a good one; I looked up the two books and "Sunwing" does seem to be inspired, plot-wise, by the bat bomb project, whereas "Silverwing" isn't. Just a thought. I have a special affinity for this article, because it was my first one on Misplaced Pages (before I got a login)............ A2Kafir 23:15, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I assumed that since the books were one series having the link to the one with an article would be best, not realising it needn't be referenced in all books from the series. My bad, restored. Thanks for you vigilance! --fvw*† 23:18, 2004 Nov 29 (UTC)

Leaning tower

"Good lord. It's like arguing with a lump of depleted uranium." Hey, if it's me you're referring to, (a) smile when you say that, and (b) can't you upgrade my predepleted self to plutonium? Erm, that little matter aside, I was outside the Leaning Tower the year before last. Its leaningness lets too many people overlook what a lovely building it was supposed to be, and still is. Shortly after seeing it I saw a wonderful photo book devoted to it. Italian text only, and I didn't buy it because it was big and expensive and I'd already bought too many books, and I stupidly omitted to make a note of the photographer, title, ISBN. Extensive websearches have failed to turn up anything. D'you happen to know the book I'm talking about? -- Hoary 02:39, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the reminder of separate-language capabilities of Bookfinder, O fellow infidel. I'll take a look later. Books, books -- yes, I have dozens of them; I don't know what to do. The most monstrous is the Encyclopædia Britannica, 10th edition: the spines are crumbling and the effect on the, er, decor is profoundly depressing. As for Italian book-souvenirs, my prize is Salvini, Il Duomo di Modena. And as for irresistible bargains, if you don't already have Get me a table without flies, Harry (bemused American tourists in Ireland and all that), snap it up at half price. (Incidentally, Bill Griffith is about a thousand times more Wikipediaworthy than at least one Philadelphia-based timewaster I could name.) Hoary 03:35, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Misplaced Pages's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
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• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to ] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to ] all my contributions to any ], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Siberia Airlines

Might want to work this in somewhere: Siberia Airlines Flight 1812. A2Kafir 20:52, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Here it is Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 accident AlexPU

Sorry, couldn't find it when I looked.

Sorry about that... I couldn't find the add message link (that little "+") but have now.

I keep adding a link and it keeps getting reverted... did I miss the (a) point here?

I'm asking you, because yours was the last revert.

--User_talk:Brillpappin

Three revert rule

Hi, looking at your recent edits on Khmer Rouge I see that you have reverted the page at least three times in the past twenty-four hours:

• 17:50, 16 Dec 2004 reverting to 5:07, 16 Dec 2004
• 01:35, 17 Dec 2004 reverting to the same version
• 02:48, 17 Dec 2004 reverting to the same version

This is usually a sign that you need to step back a bit and, if the page needs to be reverted, let someone else do it.

It's also a breach of the Three revert rule, which makes three or more reversions by the same user in twenty-four hours an offence that can be dealt with by an administrator blocking you for twenty-four hours. Consider this a polite warning.

It's okay to go to another editor and ask him to look at a page and see if he thinks it should be reverted. That would not be breaking the rule.

I agree that the other user should go to the talk page and discuss his POV problems. Why not leave a message on his talk page asking him to do so? --] 03:06, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Reverting

Before you revert, you should discuss the edit on the talk page. You are not doing so. Please start. Stargoat 16:09, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up! Didn't see my typo. Danny 00:02, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Japan-geo-stub

Hi A2Kafir - I've just removed the image you put on the japan-geo-stub template. Images have been removed from many of the larger stub categories to help with server problems. There was already a perfectly good image for this category, which was removed in line with this policy - and then you put a new, different image back there. Please do not use an image on this or other templates which have had images removed until the "all-clear" has been given to use images - see ] for more information. (In any case, the images used on stub categories are usually decided after some debate at WP:WSS - a map of Japan was not used because there is disputed territory involved in the country, so to use a specific map might cause concern). Grutness| 05:52, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)