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assistance with mediatin on the Bosnian Mujahideen article

Hi, I'm having a problem with the editors The Dragon of Bosnia and Grandy Grandy who have repeatedly deleted an article which I edit called Bosnian Mujahideen (see edit history here ). He has also deleted links to the article on other articles. He seems to be basing his deletion of the article on two sets of arguments:

  1. that the term Bosnian Mujahideen does not exist. In fact the term is used by published (research and books) experts.. I admit though that there are other terms often used, such as El Mujahid, El Mujaheed or just Mujahideen (spelled in various forms).
  2. claims the article is based on "false info/original research" or "propaganda attempt or original research if you wish, based on unverified sources per WP:RS". As you will see from the references used in the article it is quite thoroughly sourced from what must be judged to be neutral and/or reliable sources.hmatter. RegardsOsli73 (talk) 00:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

ALH

Thx for your msg. I did a little work on Ian Johnson a while back, don't know if you saw it. I feel there's enough for a FA on him as well. Same for Sam Loxton; I reckon I can get him there too. I've been doing a little prelim research on both and located some imgaes etc. So are we drawing short straws for Hamence and Saggers??!! I'm not sure what is the minimum for FT, is it each article has to have at least GA status? Sooner or later we have to deal with the Bradman conundrum - I saw the article on Sir Isaac Newton and like that design. That would work well, say splitting his life into two articles, then we can bring the daughter articles back in and lose some of the periphal stuff. With a bit of hard work the Don could be done in a week or so....thoughts? Phanto282 (talk) 08:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Brown the Invincible

Good work! --Dweller (talk) 08:27, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Updated DYK query On 6 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bill Brown (cricketer), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Cheers, Daniel 10:34, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: RfCU/case/Peter zhou

I'm sorry to bug you, but the purpose of this RfCU was to flush out any hidden pre-baked socks not to confirm what I already know. nat.utoronto 15:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

E-mail

As the header says. Acalamari 04:05, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Bingo, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:23, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Acalamari 17:52, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Yen Bai Mutiny

Hi Blnguyen - full details of the book are:

"Les Linh Tap - Histoire des militaires indochinois au service de la France" - author: Maurice Rives - publisher: Editions La Vauzelle 1999 - ISBN: 2-7025-0436-1

As the title indicates it is a detailed and profusely illustrated history of the locally recruited regiments that France used (and misused) to hold Indochina from 1859 to 1954. The coverage of Yen Bai focuses on the actual mutiny and not the broader political context but it might be a useful reference for any reader who wants to pursue the general topic further.

Congratulations on the way you have built up the Yen Bai article almost from scratch! It now provides really first-class coverage of an important but little known incident.

Regards Buistr (talk) 03:08, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Australia newsletter

WikiProject Australia newsletter Issue 1, Volume 1 — December 2, 2007

Welcome! WikiProject Australia is a WikiProject, which aims to improve Misplaced Pages's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. This newsletter exists simply to notify Australian Wikipedians of ongoing events within the project and relating to Australia on Misplaced Pages.

WikiProject crowned first by Durova

After a post on our regional noticeboard, Durova awarded the first Special edition WikiProject triple crown to WikiProject Australia. Daniel, Blnguyen, Dihydrogen Monoxide, Orderinchaos and Lincalinca had all previously qualified for Durova's standard Triple Crown for articles relating to Australia, and so won themselves and the project the prestigious award. Congratulations to all who contributed.

Durova is still accepting new members of the project that qualify for the award, so if you qualify, add your name and your articles (remembering they can't be articles already taken) to the list.

Controversial articles debated controversially

Subsequent to the Australian federal election, 2007, an edit war sparked on the Australia article, debating over whether newly-elected Labor leader Kevin Rudd had earned prime minister status yet over current Prime Minister John Howard. The debate died down after protection was applied to the page, but later sparked the creation of another article, entitled Prime Minister-elect. The AfD for the article continues today.

An article pertaining to the Australian federal election for 2010 was created, and later debated at another AfD. Some argued that the article was purely speculation, and that the article was a clear violation of WP:CRYSTAL, a variation of Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not, which states that Misplaced Pages is not a crystal ball, and shouldn't be used for speculating about a subject or articles that predict future events. The article was later retitled to Australian federal election, 2011, after new evidence came to light regarding the election being scheduled for that year.

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Quality watch

Yet another crowning took place on the project in the past month – November 2007 was officially crowned by members of the project as "Australian FA" month. No less than seven articles were promoted to featured article status last month making it the month with the highest amount of article promotions the project has seen since its creation. Among the seven brilliant articles promoted in November were Variegated Fairy-wren, Dream Days at the Hotel Existence, Ian Chappell, 1999 Sydney hailstorm, Karmichael Hunt, Arthur Morris and Powderfinger. Hopefully more articles to come. Big congratulations to all who contributed – you're doing a great job.

Meanwhile, the following articles became GAs in November: I Don't Remember, Alan Davidson (cricketer), Ernie Toshack, Beaumont House, Archie Jackson, Alan Kippax, 1992 Queensland storms, Time on Earth, Small Mercies, Toyota Aurion, Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney, British nuclear tests at Maralinga, Passenger (Powderfinger song). And again, congratulations to all who were involved there!

We are currently aiming to have 100GAs by the end of the year!

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Karan Arjun

Hey! I wonder why you removed all my edits on the page, including the cast section I'd added. Shahid • 23:41, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I went to the old version in the history and it seems that while you were adding the cast, I was on the old version. Sorry. Great movie, although it was pretty silly... Blnguyen (bananabucket) 23:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Oh sorry, my bad. Yeh, great film! The topic is quite silly, but I can't help, it brings me sweet memories from my childhood, like many other 90s films of Salman, Shahrukh etc. Best regards, Shahid • 23:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Speed

Sigh. Kirill 03:58, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Nah, we might as well move along now. Shuffling things back and forth isn't going to be very meaningful at this point, I think. Kirill 04:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Hurlstone

The user is obviously a single-purpose account. I've tried to clean-up his/her edits a bit, by removing criticism from the intro, and by removing weasel words and selective quotations. The article needs more positive stuff, though. utcursch | talk 08:29, 12 December 2007 (UTC)