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• Red army crimes in Estonia - attacked article, voting for deleting debate is going on page http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Red_army_crimes_in_Estonia
• Red Army crimes

— Preceding unsigned comment added by ttturbo (talk • contribs)

Recent removal of link

a spam link to www.anontalk.com was recently removed from your page, you might be inclined to check it out - do not, it is a trojan site that will attempt to hijack your browser. Regards --Cameron Scott (talk) 11:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Operation Priboi

Please indicate the source for all the statistical table in the article. Thanks, Renata (talk) 18:24, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

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Please see the above link to read the full case.

For the Arbitration Committee,

Ryan Postlethwaite 10:07, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry XMAS

Stalking

Just a request, would you mind not WP:STALKing me and my edits. Is your life that boring that you have to interfere with articles I am working on in my namespace. --Russavia 22:29, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

As you have taken the above as being uncivil, I will reword it and expand. Can you please refrain from WP:STALKing my edits on WP. As you can see wikistalking is a form of WP:HARRASSment, and if it should continue, I will present the necessary evidence of stalking by numerous editors against myself and will ask for sanctions against the lot of you. Take that how you will; I write it as up until now I have not asked for sanctions against anyone as I see it as a form of childishness, and will take things in my stride, however, as the stalking by numerous editors now appears to be co-ordinated (right or wrong assumption, who knows), I will no longer be accept being harrassed as a normal thing, and in future I will not be willing to accept that. I am not part of any cosy WP:TEAM, I am here to edit in peace and I have not, and will not, engage in WP:BATTLE conditions and have no desire to get involved the utter bullshit that is prevalent in this area of editing. If you have a problem with my edits, instead of shopping for blocks against myself, you are more than welcome to address concerns with myself directly on my talk page. --Russavia 01:28, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

If this continue, one might submit an RfC about Russavia. We are not there yet, but this is certainly an option.Biophys (talk) 01:48, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

You are more than welcome to do so...in fact, would you like me to start it Biophys? Of course, I would then introduce evidence of WP:STALK, WP:TEAM, WP:GAME, WP:TEND, WP:BLP, WP:OWN, WP:POV, WP:LAWYER, and a whole lot more. Please file it, I welcome it. --Russavia 01:54, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, but no thanks. We both have better things to do with our time. I simply noted such an option for you and Martintg.Biophys (talk) 02:14, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Is there a reason you left out WP:NPA? Baseless accusations of all sorts of uppercased words are prohibited by that policy. Διγουρεν_{Εμπρος!} 13:04, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Nazi crimes in Estonia

Stop redirect the Nazi crimes in Estonia. Merry Christmas! --Poetcourt1 (talk) 08:58, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

What's that? Why you deleted the talk by Poetcourt1??? --82.131.73.212 (talk) 10:29, 29 December 2008 (UTC)