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  • Talk:Nakhichevan, Talk:Kars Naming dispute. If it is OK to include Armenian names for Azerbaijani and Turkish towns and settlements, why Azerbaijani and Turkish names cannot be included to the articles about Armenian towns? 07:03, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Ottoman Empire - whether or not it should be quoted from sources that the Ottoman Empire was in fact a multi-ethnic state where religious faith was the determinant factor over ethnic origin. 00:54, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Britain:dispute over biblical reference to Isles of Elishah. One user claims this is reference to Britain or the British Isles, others can find no evidence. 20:29, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:British_Empire#Rockall_.26_Phoenix_Islands_Scheme_-_Request_For_Comment: dispute over relevance and interpretation (original research?) of two events. Gsd2000 13:28, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Flanders (county): No dispute, just looking for input on the use of "Flemish". 17:14, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Carthage: Whether or not it is valid to erase other culural viewpoints of Carthaginian society, rather than explain or moderate them. Whether it is valid to remove unsubstantiated, but common, stories (in this case the alleged pratice of child sacrifice) from the article completely, rather than mentioning it, and explaining that it could be case of blood libel by Roman and Greek historians. Whether it is acceptable to remove sources from the Bibliography used to "support" some of the "objectional points". Whether or not a disambigation link at the beginning of an article should be removed. - 01:55, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:East Sea — There is a dispute on how to apply Misplaced Pages:disambiguation.... Should "East Sea" redirect to Sea of Japan first or disambiguate first?12:36, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:East Sea - whether "East Sea" is English or Korean local language term Appleby 01:54, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Mulatto - edit war over the inclusion/exclusion of certain external links, and also over other wording, all of which I feel completely lost about, but I want to see some neutral editors with some expertise involved to evaluate the situation. --Nlu (talk) 05:19, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Persian people - Discussions of race - are Persians "descendants of Aryans"? 19:48, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Ruhollah Khomeini - Khomeini's views on non-Muslims. 19:48, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Rudolf Virchow - Can Rudolf Virchow be listed as a Freemason? 07:30, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Richard Nelson Frye - Accuracy dispute over quotes in this section and appropriateness of quote in this section. 01:07, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Gold_Coast,_Queensland#Initiation_of_Request_for_Comment_in_regards_to_goldcoastaustralia.com - there is a debate over whether goldcoastaustralia.com meets the guidelines for being an external link from the Gold Coast, Queensland article. See also . 07:15, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Eamon de Valera - re Eire's refugee policies during WWII, and general military options from WWII, which users Demiurge and Jtdirl insist on imposing their own opinions without sources or citations and neither is qualified as a military historian. They are censors not historians, and refuse to engage in conversation on discussion page or provide any reason other than boilerplate nonsense ("sockpuppet vandal") to censor anything they do not agree with. 14:27, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Scandinavia, Which countries are part of Scandinavia? 00:36, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Should Boethius point to the Philosopher, or a disambiguation page? Your thoughts welcome at Talk:Anicius_Manlius_Severinus_Boethius#Redirect_Boethius_to_this_article. 19:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Eastern Front (World War II) - Long edit war about the numbers in a chart about casualities during World War II along with some other issues. It was protected for 2 1/2 months...unprotected with no agreements made. It's been unprotected for 3 days and things are right back to where they were, including users accusing others of vandalism. Neutral voices would be very welcome. 17:18, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Montezuma How should English Misplaced Pages articles spell the name of the two Aztec emperors? Montezuma, Moctezuma or Moteuczoma? 07:49, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Paquisha Incident Shouldn't articles about battles and/or disputed military outposts be allowed to included the names by which both sides referred to them? Thanks. 20:25, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Persian Gulf Should it also mention the name "Arabian gulf"? 10:57, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Pope Stephen A long argument about the oportunity to rename Pope Stephen III into Pope Stephen II and so on until Pope Stephen X into Pope Stephen IX (and to keep Pope Stephen X as a redirect to Pope Stephen IX). Švitrigaila 08:35, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Mehmed-paša Sokolović It is an arguement whether he should be considered a Serb or a Bosniak. --HolyRomanEmperor 16:16, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk: List of metropolitan areas by population There is an unresolved dispute as to which reference to use for this list/ranking. The choice is between the UN urban agglomerations list and the list by the website citypopulation.de. 20:14, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Rutherglen whilst everyone seems to agree that the anceint Scots Gaelic etymology of the name should be included in the article, should the Gaelic name of this Lowland Scots town (unused locally) been given equal prominence in an infobox. --15:33, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Ukraine In the introductive paragraph of that article, the asserted "brief period of independence (1917-1921)" is based on Ukrainian People's Republic (the kind hypothetical reader may take a look on Ukrainian National Revolution (1917-1921) and the quoted sources in Talk:Ukraine). 16:43, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Joan of Arc Question over primary source as an encyclopedic reference. 21:54, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Operation Medak Pocket Dispute and possible edit war has gotten out of hand, with constant POV pushing and no cooperation, could soon extend into flaming and personal attacks. Misplaced Pages policy and verifiability of article has been compromised, and all attempts to solve the problems ends in revert.

--04:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Falkland Islands Dispute and increasingly edit war over the inclusion of Islas Malvinas in the first line of the article. I would tentatively say that most people have accepted it being there, the remaining question is whether the Malvinas should have some kind of note that it is not the official name, nor the direct translation, something along the lines of commonly known in Spanish speaking countries as..., alternative Spanish name... and others at the talk page. Ian3055 00:55, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Haydar Dispute on whether this should be an article or a disambig page (see also Haider and its history), and whether it is a WP:POVFORK of Ali (see also Haydar-e-l-Karrar). 01:16, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:History of the Ecuadorian-Peruvian territorial dispute:There has been a serious edit war over the accuracy and neutrality of information added to the article, with personal attacks and accussations. One of the involved editors asked for Full Protection (granted) and put the case before the Mediation Committee, which was not accepted by the other editor, who seems to prefer instead to have other fellow countrymen as mediators.15:06, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Paris: Months-long edit war over the validity of a view that Paris' commuter belt should seem as the city itself; predjudiced (and constant) reverts and other bad editing habits. 09:04, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:I-95 exit list: There already exist more accurate exit lists on several articles such as Interstate 95 in New Jersey, and thus the page was edited to link to those to avoid a content fork. Several editors are reverting this for no apparent reason. 07:47, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Historical revisionism (negationism) Dispute whether to include the Rwandan genocide and the Srebrenica massacre, both targets of revisionism, in the article. 18:13, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:al-Khwarizmi Dispute over whether al-Khwarimzi was an Arab or a Persian. 14:43, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Eastern Front (World War II) Dispute over what should and what should not be in the article. 10:52, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Freemasonry Dispute over inclusion of disputed material. 04:23, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Queen's Road and Talk:Queensway, Hong Kong: There are four sections of one road, Queen's Road East, Queensway, Queen's Road Central, Queen's Road West. Should the stub article Queensway, be merged into the article Queen's Road? 22:27, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
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