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Arbitration

I'm afraid that the request for arbitration you opened regarding the Gaza strip edit war was premature and inappropriate. May I suggest that you familiarise yourself with theMisplaced Pages dispute resolution process, and that you consider withdrawing the arbitration request, which is bound to be rejected. (You don't go running to the supreme court with every classroom spat).--woggly 09:30, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

An austrian?!?!

You may be surprised to know that according to the current debate on inflation you are very fringe. Carbonate 10:55, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Gaza

I just work on categories and copyedits. Sometimes, I see things that look out of place/wrong and I bring them up. That's all I do. Nothing exciting. Thanks Hmains 02:12, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

"Ungezieferbefall"

Hallo!

Ich schreib dir in Deutsch, weil du es offenbar schreiben und lesen kannst. Ich habe mir erlaubt, den Westbahnhof-Artikel bezüglich des "Ungezieferbefalls" zu ergänzen. Falls ich dich richtig verstanden habe, wusstest du nicht, was damit gemeint war. Das Wort "infestation" hattest du ja schon geschrieben und "Ungeziefer" lässt sich mit dem Wort "vermin" übersetzen. Alles klar? Wenn nicht, beantworte ich dir gern weitere Fragen über meine Diskussionseite. - der Polizist

Gold Standard

The article had reached a point where it was deviating significantly from "Neutral Point of View", particularly both the introduction and significant sections of the body. I can certainly understand being disheartened at losing work, however, there was no way to clean up everything without reverting back to a "last reasonably good version" and working forward from there.

One reason I reverted the edits you made however was this one section in particular:

In an international gold-standard system, which may exist in the absence of any internal gold standard, gold or a currency that is convertible into gold at a fixed price is used as a means of making intergovernmental payments. Under such a system, when the exchange rate between two currencies rises above or falls below the fixed mint rate by more than the cost of shipping gold from one country to another, arbitrageurs can buy gold with the undervalued currency, ship it to the country whose currency is overvalued, and there redeem it for gold until the intercurrency rate returns close enough to the official level that such activity is no longer profitable. International gold standards such as that established after World War I limit which entities have the right to redeem currency for gold. Under the Bretton Woods system, these were called "SDRs" for Special Drawing Rights.

International gold standards don't require intergovernmental payments be made in the gold standard - for example the Renaissance saw an international gold standard because banks used particular fineness of coinage, in order to allow trade settlement to occur. During the 1500-1800 period, formal transport of governmental gold or silver reserves to pay off national accounts was not the means by which international gold (or silver in many cases) standards were imposed, but instead by the relative market prices of different coins or notes, often set either by banks or internally by a government (for example Newton's assay). With settlement in a standard coin, particularly for bills of trade, the effect is to standardize convertible value, even, or often especially, in the absence of government reserves being transfered. Governments often ended up responding to bleeding coinage in wake of such adjustments by ending the circulation of gold or silver coins, and issuing notes instead which reduced the ability of specie to flee a particular nation. Stirling Newberry 19:08, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Islamicists

The group seems to be notable enough to warrant inclusion - and that is what is important, not whether it makes the advocates for a particular point of view look good or bad. Stirling Newberry 19:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Look forward to your further work on the article. Stirling Newberry 21:44, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Of course, we must remember that things that are "Notable" to Stirling are just things that advance his fringe, non-majority POV. T Turner 13:03, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Let's see Turner and personal attacks and Joe and directly inaccurate material. I see. Well mediation will help, but the sources are not going to back you up on your quest for making Gold Standard unreflective of current scholarship on the field. Stirling Newberry 11:59, 29 August 2006 (UTC)