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TKS

These 6 TKS what were bought by Estonia were modified and not the same 1 to 1 Polish tankettes. The article should be separate from the Polish TJKS article. There were only 3 tanks types active in the Estonian army officially although several other types were used by the Estonian Legion and soldiers during the WW II among the Axis.

I will expand this article as soon as i get more books and data. The current article had to be translated ffrom my own native language and it took a bit time. Also im busy with the university - i can add more text and stuff with images on saturday and sudnay as during the week ive no time unfortunately. Just give it a little time till the end of this month and when it isnt done by 1.03 its up to you what to do. okey? Karabinier 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Kwapiński #3

Thanks much for your communication about my expansion of your valuable stub. I've added a bit more, re timeline & note on UNRRA flight on Boeing 314 Clipper (where he met my family), of which history seems ignorant. I like to think of JK's sitting in that wonderful luxury, after his trials in Europe. This includes images & links to images, including Polish children with UNRRA aid. I've not finished the refs/notes protocols, which I still find opaque. (However I have two conference addresses to write now.) Thanks for helpful info. about the mod. Poland organization that exists on Wiki. What I might attempt sometime is a two or three space graphic, a la Tufte, of the articles. I do hope in NYC & London to get more info. on the postwar Kwapinski. I appreciate the poignancy of your comment there. Thanks to your work on Wiki, I can make a small contribution to some historical justice.Alethe (talk) 14:47, 26 February 2008 (UTC) PS: More cheery, I've just enhanced the images at the end of my Blackfriars Street Bridge article.

User:Avala and his Serbian POV misrepresentations on Kosovo's recognitoin by governments

Please consider taking interest in the deletorious and Misplaced Pages-damaging edits of User:Avala in the context of Kosovo's recognition by other governments. In a word, he surmises stances of individual pro-Serb politicians for official stances of countries, and portrays them as such. Any corrections of this OR are met from his side by wiley Misplaced Pages lingo accusing the others, including me, of vandalism. Some points of departure are: his talk page, my talk page, the history of the article about international reaction to Kosovo's independence proclamation, where he unfairly attempts to paint me as a vandal, by pasting a blanking vandalism warning on my talk page, after I and other editors have been removing his untrue portrayals of facts all day today. Surely he has contravened the 3RR rule by now, acting alone. He is an administrator on the Serb Misplaced Pages, and his guile and use of wikipedia bullshit to serve his own ends is especially galling. Ditto on Commons, where I know you don't have an Adminship, but are an active user, and could take part in respected discussion in the Village Pump on this subject (under 26 February 2008). Thank you, and Best Wishes, --Mareklug 01:02, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

This user Mareklug, is throwing accusations at me for no apparent reason. I have sourced my edits and he removed them. I added to that article that one member of Bosnian tripartite presidency said Bosnia will not recognize Kosovo and then added that presiding member said presidency has reached consensus on this issue that Bosnia will not recognize Kosovo. User Mareklug removed these edits and said I was twisting truth even though there were and still are all the sources under references - International reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence. I reverted his edits several times as blanking of sourced information is nr.1 on how to recognize vandalism list. I hope you will understand that this user hasn't been constructive and has tried to remove the sourced information without giving solid reason why, only by attacking me (even on national basis calling me Mr.Serb etc.). He claims my edits are untrue even though I gave three sources (third source is regarding Republika Srpska decision to block any recognition initiative) and removed them all. Now it's the question what we are looking for here - sourced information or removing content based on personal beliefs what the situation is like. --Avala (talk) 01:15, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Rebooting WikiProject Fictional series

Hello...WikiProject Fictional series is in the process of getting a new start by attracting task forces. I am currently getting things set up for this and other project building areas. Please stop by and take a look. Your suggestions will be appreciated. - LA @ 01:20, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Interview of sorts

As you have thought about what it means to write in a wiki atmosphere, I was wondering if I might "interview" you over email for my Wikimania paper. I am planning on writing a paper on "online collaborative writing" and I'm trying to collect as many perspectives as possible. I would really appreciate it! Awadewit | talk 01:50, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

• Could we Skype this weekend sometime? It would be wonderful to talk with you! (Is "skype" a verb?) Awadewit | talk 22:53, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

DYk

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Eh oh

Yes, it's a Culture thing.

By the way, your talk page design makes me feel seasick with all these garish colored floating panels. Is there some way you could make it more user friendly? --Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival, The 16:52, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Help! Image:Leon Trotsky.JPG

Hope 2008 is going ok for you. I came across Image:Leon Trotsky.JPG. Interesting image. Do you have any idea if it might be public domain? Angus McLellan (Talk) 21:09, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I guessed that might be it, but now I know for sure! Thanks again, Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:40, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Civil war in Lithuania (1700)

From my (very limited) reading on the subject, it seems that the entire war was just one battle. There was a long conflict between the families, yes, but not armed conflict. My suggestion: move the article under the battle name (because two aticles would be repeating same stuff anyway). Renata (talk) 02:21, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

So do you object moving under battle name? Renata (talk) 17:16, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Rejs_dvd.JPG

Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:Rejs_dvd.JPG. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Misplaced Pages articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use. Suggestions on how to do so can be found here.

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If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Misplaced Pages page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Project FMF (talk) 21:31, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

DYK medal

		The 200 DYK Medal
		Awarded to Piotrus in recognition of his double century. Blnguyen (vote in the photo straw poll) 06:16, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Hm, still waiting for the double century of articles :) Blnguyen (vote in the photo straw poll) 06:16, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Yaropolk Izyaslavich

Is there any reliable Polish language material on this guy? Seems like the kind of guy Polish historians might have been interested in, so I just wondered. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 08:55, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Outside Context Problem encounters Outside Context Problem

I've started a discussion on a possible merge of Outside Context Problem to Excession, here. --Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival, The 11:33, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Kwapiński #4: DYK

Piotrus, thanks for your recent grooming of the opening of this. Congratulations on your DYK award: Is it too late to put the article up for DYK? I've been slow off the mark there, since--as earlier noted--I've been working on the Blackfriars Street Bridge entry some more: adding photos, improving text--but then, as a hole was recently broken in its deck, discovered it, reported to city, bridge closed, tv interview etc.--while I'm writing an invited address elsewhere.

I'm enjoying the wikitraffic counter. Hope to get the Kwapinski going in hits, somehow. People need to know of the man, but more of modern Polish history. Cheers, Alethe (talk) 15:41, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Ivan Rohach

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wikitraf

Thanks for the DYK advice. Re wikitraf, I meant ] Notice the spike on traffic after local tv gave me a soundbite on the bridge, where I mentioned the Wiki entry Alethe (talk) 17:12, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Tłumaczenie z litewskiego - YB

Niestety moja znajomość litewskiego jest na tyle znikoma, że nie podejmuję się tłumaczenia. Spróbuj może wśród wikipedystów deklarujących jego znajomość pl:Kategoria:User lt. Masti (talk) 19:09, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

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If wish to make an official complaint

Piotrus (talk · contribs), I wish to complain against your apparent collaboration with Molobo (talk · contribs). I don't think that it is right for administrators to behave as you have done in the article Bloody_Sunday_(1939), or Morgenthau Plan for example. Molobos edits are heavily contested in the Morgenthau plan, see the article talk page, and you simply select to revert back to include all of Molobos edits. And you don't even bother to explain yourself at talk.--Stor stark7 00:25, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Just FYI, this is currently being discussed at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard#How can I complain against an admins actions?. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:28, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Kwapiński DYK hooks

Thanks for shortening. It's only by the good luck of Ancestors.com making landing manifests available recently that I was able to identify JK on UNRRA flight. We now know from that that at 58 he was of medium height, had blue eyes and white hair (no wonder). Ironic that he states that he's not been in prison. I've been wondering if a light sepia tone to coarse-screen photo of him would improve it. Given great luck, I may get another--& postwar info.-- over the next year, either from the Polish Arts est. in NYC, around w. 30th, or in London. Cheers, Alethe (talk) 02:46, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

DYK

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXIV (February 2008)
Project news The fifth project coordinator election has now concluded. Roger Davies has been elected to serve as the project's Lead Coordinator, and Blnguyen, Eurocopter tigre, Kyriakos, LordAmeth, Nick Dowling, TomStar81, Wandalstouring, and Woody will occupy the eight Assistant Coordinator positions. Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who participated! In the simultaneous referendum on project organization, you voted almost unanimously for a primus inter pares structure. As a tangible reflection of this, Assistant Coordinators are now known as Coordinators. The contest department has completed its eleventh month of competition, which saw 10 entries. The top scorer this month is Dreamafter, with 28 points, followed by Smsarmad, with 13 points, with Blnguyen, Ed! and jwillbur also fielding entries. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 188 points in total. You are encouraged to submit articles you're working on as entries. The National militaries task force has been created. A new automatically-generated clean-up list is available to track articles that have various clean-up tags applied to them. A new logistics department has been created. The aim is to provide a pool of useful article creation skills that anyone can draw on. These include copy-editing, photograph retouching, and reference material sourcing. If you can contribute, please do so.	Articles of note New featured articles: 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident Carlson's patrol Coenwulf of Mercia Glorious First of June Koli Point action Operation Camargue New featured lists: List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality New A-Class articles: 51st Army (Soviet Union) Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975-1999) Le Paradis massacre Military of East Timor USS Bridgeport (AD-10)
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Radziecki traktor odpowiedział ogniem rakiet w stronę Chińskiego myśliwca po czym powrócił do bazy ;]

Amusing, reminds me of the old times ;]--Molobo (talk) 08:29, 5 March 2008 (UTC)