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When Americans dont monitor their children on the internet

There is no way that I can allow that to happen. You're right, his name is really Salvatore Lucania, but you can not name the article "Lucky Luciano" just because you feel that sounds better. That article is named "Charles Luciano", NOT LUCKY LUCIANO! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlir91 (talk • contribs) 14:09, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Excuse me, but is this like your period? Is this so important to you that you just have to have it your way? If that's the case, then why? Why is it so important to that this site isn't named "Charles Luciano"? Is your name "Charles Luciano"? Is that why you want the site named "Lucky", instead of "Charles"? Don't you have a job? GET A LIFE! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlir91 (talk • contribs) 15:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh my, did I hit a soft spot there? Why would you bring up the "Emo"-thing? I haven't said anything about any emos, but maybe you're an emo. Maybe your personal opinion do have an effect on this article. I mean, maybe you're f*^cked up, I don't know. All that I do know is that you have no idea what you're talking about. Proffessional opinions, my ass... But hey, who don't you go kill yourself? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlir91 (talk • contribs) 18:20, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

History of Islam in southern Italy

Your view has been opposed by three editors (incl. myself) and no other editor has come to support you. You have no justification, therefore, for going ahead with your proposed merger. Any more of this "redirecting" without engaging in discussion to generate consensus and I will have to report this as an "incident" to an administrator. I'd be happy to hear further reasons for a merger, but you have not responded to either my own or Pippu's latest points at Talk:Emirate of Sicily. Again, this is unacceptable and you must stop. Srnec (talk) 03:54, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Happy to engage in discussion, but please keep the ad hominem attacks and the hyperbole to yourself. They serve no purpose. Another editor has reverted your redirects now. I told you to stop. Until you have support, you have no business redirecting articles (i.e. deleting content). Srnec (talk) 20:03, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Can you be specific about your beefs with the lead? Really, you just throw around terms like "trolling", "blogging", "anti-Neapolitan", "anti-Sicilian", "Islamophilia". You also cleary have a strong dislike of Islam (and maybe Muslims) and its relationship to Italy especially. But I don't necessarily have a positive view of the whole thing myself, I just want to report facts. My problems with your lead are this: you removed a useful link to Islam in Italy in a sentence that establishes some context and you insist on an inaccurate "tips of Apulia and Calabria" while insisting on the word "interlude" in an attempt to downplay the significance of the whole thing. Maybe the above editor Charlir91 gave you a bad impression of Wikipedians, but I can assure you that editors such as I do not wish for anything other than accuracy and verifiability. And as to the issue of the images: it was not an attack on you or your editing (though I don't think the images add much to their articles), but a simple request that you correct certain errors of fact in the image descriptions. I'd do it myself, but I wouldn't know what the proper descriptions are. Srnec (talk) 00:31, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Images

The images you uploaded of Williams I, II, and III of Sicily, Roger I of Sicily, Conrad IV of Germany, and Ladislaus of Naples are not medieval depictions. They come from much later. They may very well be public domain, but you have to change the image descriptions. Further, the image of Charles II of Naples is of a tomb effigy. It is not a painting. Can you correct the image descriptions? Srnec (talk) 23:17, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

English-language histories of the Regno

Gennarous,

Do you know of any good histories of the Kingdom of Naples under the Angevins (say 1262 or 1285 to 1435)? I'd like to improve some of the articles on Joan I, Charles of Durazzo, and various other Tarantini & Durazzeschi, but I've never found a good book in English on the kinstrife and civil war that wracked the Kingdom after the death of Robert. Any recommendations you could make would be appreciated. Choess (talk) 03:17, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Eggplant/aubergine

The terms are both used in English. "Aubergine" is preferred in the UK, while "eggplant" is far more common in other English-speaking countries - and "eggplant" was previously very common in the UK as well. You may be familiar with the UK usage, but in cases where there are two clear variants, the policy is to go with the original usage on WP, and the page was created under "eggplant" in 2002. I don't know why you insist that "aubergine" is the only correct usage. 65.190.89.154 (talk) 08:40, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Request for review

Hiya, could use your expertise if you have some time? We're currently dealing with a POV-pusher who's creating a lot of forks on historical articles. His stuff usually looks good on first glance, but when we dig deeper there are usually profound sourcing issues, and he's actually on track to be put on an editing restriction at ArbCom. Anyway, today he created Arabo-Norman civilization. To my knowledge there was no such "civilization", though there was definitely a period of Arabo-Norman art and architecture. However, I'll be honest that I'm not that familiar with this particular time period, so could use an expert. Could you please take a look, and advise on the best way to handle cleanup? Should this be merged to something else, or perhaps renamed to something better? We've got some concerns listed at the talkpage, feel free to comment there. Thanks, Elonka 08:46, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply.  :) Do you see anything in the article that's worth merging? --Elonka 09:13, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Kings of Jerusalem

About your qustion. I suppose, it wouldn't be a joke: Patrick Desmond Carl-Alexander Guinness is the eldest son of Princess Marie Gabriele (or Marie-Gabrielle) von Urach. And the House of Urach, in turn, have a claim for the Jerusalem Kingdom. -- Worobiew (talk) 14:14, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Patrick is the heir-general of Maria, daughter of Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy, while the Prince de Ligne de La Trémoille is the heir-general of Anna, another daughter of Amadeus. The birth order of Anna and Maria is not known with certainty, so either one could be the rightful heir to Cyprus, Jerusalem & Armenia. Choess (talk) 21:34, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

WP CIVIL

Please remember to maintain civility and not make personal attacks as you did in this edit summary http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Multiculturalism&curid=51885&diff=199328313&oldid=199253533 TheRedPenOfDoom (talk) 12:47, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. Gennarous, the edit was fine, but calling an anon "commie troll" in an edit summary, was uncalled for. Please try to avoid this kind of language in the future. --Elonka 16:03, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Response for what you call a "grotesque flag" at the article Two Sicilies

I put down what was believed to be the flag of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies in its final years of 1860 to 1861, which you call a "grotesque flag" of the Lombards. That is an outrageous insult. Don't ever bother me with your snobbery again.--R-41 (talk) 01:58, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

You have no right to be offended, I saw what was the last flag in that country's existance, so I put it on there, to represent the last flag of the country. Now don't bother talking with me anymore.--R-41 (talk) 02:16, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Naples

The last time I saw the article on Naples it was a sorry mess. I was delighted to see that it is now a well organised and referenced piece, it appears mostly due to your efforts. Keep up the good work! Dionix (talk) 03:42, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment. :) Gennarous (talk) 11:09, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Have you had the chance to check out Talk:Italians#Appearance vote - to close 03/26/08? Dionix (talk) 23:18, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Political Evil

Gennarous, I am aware that Fascism in Italy was originally not anti-Semitic, its propaganda director, Sarfatti, also Mussolini's mistress was Jewish. Mussolini is considered evil for selling his personal morals by having Italy adopt anti-Semitism at Hitler's pressure which led him to abandon his mistress, have the Fascist party purged of Jews, send Italian Jews to concentration camps and Mussolini advocating increasing a racist agenda in its African colonies towards native Africans. This is not "communist" propaganda, I am no communist. If you believe I am a communist for informing people that Mussolini caved into German pressure for anti-Semitism, then I have the fair right to claim that you an apologist for Fascism. If you are, I want nothing to do with you, now stop bothering me.--R-41 (talk) 14:31, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Imperialism is evil, if you want me to post that belief, I will. Imperialism means the imposing of superiority of one people over another, that is evil. What the British did to the Boers of South Africa was evil, what the British and Spanish did in persecuting the aboriginal peoples in the Americas was evil, and other examples such as the one you say. Fascism follows imperialist policies that are oppressive, and allowed the murder of Ethiopians. If the Portugese Empire allowed mass murders, then who ordered those was indeed evil. So yes, I will post that imperialism is evil as well as Fascism.--R-41 (talk) 01:41, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Neapolitan provinces

Could you load on commons all those images representing neapolitan provinces' coats of arms please? Thanks and bye --Wento (talk) 11:11, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I am no Communist son.

Communism is a flawed, stupid, and oppressive ideology which resulted in the deaths of millions. Don't put words in my mouth that I'm a communist. If you still think so, I think you need some help son.--R-41 (talk) 23:54, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh by the way, did you know that your hero Mussolini was once a socialist too, he liked Marx for a while, wanted overthrow of the capitalist system. Ooh, I guess he's a pinko-commie too, but no fascists want to remember that now do they, nope, not even though Mussolini's first name selected by his father was named after Benito Juarez, a socialist and that Mussolini was so desperate for support as head of the Italian Social Republic that Mussolini tried to get support of communists, he even used an old quote from Vladimir Lenin in the 1910s which congraduated Mussolini as being "Italy's only true communist" to draw in support. But you don't know that because you don't even understand what Communism is, nor that Fascism was created as a nationalist spinoff of its authoritarian statist ways.--R-41 (talk) 00:07, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Request

Hiya, instead of edit-warring at History of Islam in southern Italy, could you please engage at the talkpage? I'm trying to follow along, but some clear and civil comments from you at the talkpage would be preferable to some of the edit summaries that I've been seeing recently.  :/ Can you please try to ratchet the civility up a notch? Thanks, Elonka 12:21, 2 April 2008 (UTC)