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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXVI (February 2009)

The February 2009 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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20 SS Division

Hi I have removed your last dit from the article as the links are already there in the info box and the body oof the article --Jim Sweeney (talk) 19:31, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

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Fresh pigs on the Pigcam

You might appreciate . It's got quite a number of pigs on right now. Διγουρεν_{Εμπρος!} 22:59, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Another wildlife camera is in the news: Foto: nugis viis kakukaamera pesast muna minema. A marten has been caught on camera stealing one of the owl's eggs. Διγουρεν_{Εμπρος!} 15:51, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

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Caution

If a user asks you to stay away from their talk page, you should consider that an absolute request. If you experience problems with that user requiring discussion, go to WP:WQA or WP:ANI and ask uninvolved editors for help. Further cornering of editors on their own talk pages may result in sanctions, especially if the dispute involves Eastern Europe or any other area under Misplaced Pages:General sanctions. Thank you. Jehochman 15:36, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

??? Your "caution" comes almost three days after my last message on Russavia's talk page on March 18, in which I was attempting to resolve the issue of Russavia's increasingly strident editing. What are you doing here? Martintg (talk) 20:36, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

I am responding to a request for sanctions at WP:AE. It has come out that you posted to Russavia's talk page after he asked you not to. That's a clear line we want to avoid crossing again. Thanks. Jehochman 23:43, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Well your response is misplaced. As I said, my last comment on Russvia's talk page was three days before your "caution" and two days before someone else made a complaint about Russavia's continued unprovoked incivil behaviour in a report to WP:AE, to which you refer. incivility and personal attacks for which he was clearly warned previously not to engage. I have reopened the WP:AE report as I will be presenting evidence with diffs showing these attacks were unprovoked. Martintg (talk) 06:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Did you post to Russavia's talk page after he asked you not to? Yes or no? Jehochman 14:19, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Notability

Hi. Regarding this PROD removal:. That link does not establish notability. Per WP:N, " If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article." The link you provided () is not an independent secondary source, so it does establish notability. The topic of Estonia-Chile relation may yet turn out to be notable, but we need better sources. Yilloslime _C 04:19, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough, however looks like some else is expanding that topic, let's see where it leads. Estonia-Iceland relations is definitely notable for the reasons stated. Martintg (talk) 04:22, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Well i just AfDed it (here) before noticing that someone had come along and started working on it. Anyways, there are 5 days before the AfD closes, that should be plenty of time for interested editors to dig up sources, assuming there are good sources out there. Cheers. Yilloslime _C 04:31, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

No Ethnic EPithets

Hi,

you might have seen the discussion at . Apparently, this sort of thing is surprisingly common on Misplaced Pages -- advocates of all sorts of weird ideas like to brand people who dare to counter them as being of "that other ethnicity". This kind of dog-whistle classification of sources into "good sources of unspecified ethnicity" and "evil sources of that other ethnicity" runs counter to the spirit of WP:NPOV and, since it requires the editors to research the source's ethnicity, also WP:NOR -- but it seems Misplaced Pages doesn't have a policy that would explicitly prohibit it. We should have such a policy, perhaps named WP:NEEP for 'No Ethnic EPithets'.

Do you think you could draw up a proposal? Διγουρεν_{Εμπρος!} 07:51, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

You make a very good point. I will draft a proposal and drum up some discussion. Martintg (talk) 09:55, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Reverts

Our flying pig reported you for 3RR on JB and Safka. This is a mistake, I believe, but you may wish to revert yourself for the time being. Colchicum (talk) 21:58, 1 April 2009 (UTC)