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[edit] Question strength numbers for Siege of Tenochtitlan
Back on July 20, 2005, you apparently developed some numbers for the strength box for the [Siege of Tenochtitlan]. I think these numbers (150,000-300,000) are way off and have made the changes that I think are appropriate. However, in the edit summary, you quoted some sources (Hanson and Prescott). If you have time, could you document how you arrived at your numbers in the Talk page for the article? I have already put the justification for my revised numbers in the Talk page. I'm more than willing to discuss and be convinced that your numbers are right and mine are wrong. I just would like to understand what yours are based on. Richard 18:18, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Spanish Civil War Image
Hi Albrecht,
Regarding Nationalist_soldiers_capture_Republican_troops.gif, I don't know anything more about it. I would put more, but that's everything that the Hispanic Society gave as a caption.
Best wishes,
Primetime 00:52, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cenepa War
Hello there! Maybe the first exchange of words that we had here in Wikipedia was not the most appropriated one. Hence, a little explanation regarding my actions should be stated: The main reason I was only able to add the "NPOV" tag and not modify that much the article is due to the fact that I'm currently involved in a RFC against my person dealing with this Ecuadorian-Peruvian related articles.
Having explained this, I encourage you to take a look at the talk page. I'm now providing (slowly, but steady) some points that need to be rectify before declaring the article as "neutral". Cheers! And hope to hear from you. Messhermit 03:20, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
I think that the comments made by the Ecuadorian Wikipedist involved in the "Cenepa War" articles may sound a little out of context... and that is the main reason I didn't want to get too involve with the article. The fact that this user clearly attempts to impose its will is disturbing, specially regarding this conflict. Therefore, I have to state that this user clearly portrays only one side of the story. Thus, I invite you to express yourself in this RFC against my person that is more like a "political trial" (based on conveniently presented evidence). My patience has limits, but I don't go around proudly proclaiming them like the example below. Cheers! And I hope to hear from you. Messhermit 05:05, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Alcázar on DYK
You may have a good point, but it's one that anyone may readily deduce from a reading of the article. The original suggestion on the DYK talk page referred to howitzers and sappers which do not appear anywhere in the article. Facts mentioned in a DYK entry should appear in the article so, as the updating admin, I changed it to reflect the actual wording used. The artillery bombardment and aerial bombing are mentioned and demonstrate the disproportional balance in the fighting that you think has been lost. The only specific that is missing is the reference to tanks, which the reader of the article can quickly determine were a factor (albeit there were only "2 or 3" of them). I think the essence of the article is still well represented on the DYK page and will hopefully inspire a large number of readers to visit. --Cactus.man ✍ 16:50, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Campaignbox
Sorry about that; I didn't realize someone had blanked it. Kirill Lokshin 20:32, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
- Fair enough (although the broader issue of present-day material being included within "military history" is one that I don't think we've fully resolved yet). I suspect part of the problem is that people who work exclusively on the current events may not have had enough interaction with us to recognize our templates; maybe leaving links to WP:MILHIST in the edit summaries would help here. Kirill Lokshin 01:13, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hello
Hello Albrecht. I wanted to thank you for your kind comments on the work I did months ago on the Cenepa War article. To be honest, there is still little coverage of some very interesting operational & tactical information from the Peruvian side (what I do know, comes mainly from talks with Peruvian friends, so it is not citable). I know you'll understand if I say that it would not be wise for me to get involved in what is taking place there right now. As for patience, well, mine has limits too!: [1], [2]. Best Regards. -- Andres 03:40, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Yo
I see that you have encountered Kurt Leyman (talk • contribs) Your pages are not the first that his has vandalised or the last and the things he did to your pages were rather mild in comparison to the other acts of vandalism he has commited. If you want to stop it go here and add your views to the topic go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_investigation (Deng 00:05, 25 April 2006 (UTC))
[edit] Hello check this out
Hello I have made a request for comment on Kurt Leyman and I need people to sign the request and also to sign on the specific page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/User_conduct
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Kurt_Leyman
(Deng 03:23, 27 April 2006 (UTC))
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- I corrected the attribution - his name was Richard Jack, not Jack Richard. I've attached an article URL for a Legion Magazine article on him as a source, on the talk page for that image.Michael Dorosh 21:51, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Major power
See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Major power. I think I made a good case. Please add your thoughts to improve the case for deletion ASAP. —thames 03:00, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Major Power Afd
Hello, I've just noted your comment of the 11th:
I dislike the antagonistic approach to deletion; I had thought to persuade the article's editors of the validity of my concern. If their consensus is against me I will annul my vote and leave the rest to their judgment. But I'm not touching that article again.
I do hope that you haven't percieved me as being unduly antagonistic, it certainly wasn't my intention (although, I hope you understand, that a note on the talk page before initiating the afd would have been appreciated). Contributing here should be fun (in the broadest sense of the word), I apologise if I've caused you any disquiet. I must say issues raised by the Afd have changed my feelings towards the article (and the whole int power series in fact). What they need is the attention of people with a background in the academic side of it. It looks like we are about to get into an argument over Italy on the Major Power page and an argument over whether Russia is an emerging superpower on the superpower page - all very tedious and messy.
Essentially these articles need informed editing, please do reconsider your decision. The enthusiastic amateur has his place, but needs to be guided from time to time. As for this enthusiastic amateur, I'm going to take a break from this series, to those areas in which I can claim a little expertise; primarily to articles on South African history - an area which doesn't attact the attention of too many other editors, thank god!
Best wishes, Xdamr 12:52, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Military conflict infobox on Eighty Years' War
If you get a chance, could you perhaps take a look at this discussion on the Eighty Years' War talk page? I know you've had some concerns about how the military conflict infobox was used before, so you might be able to better judge if I'm pushing bureaucratic consistency at the expense of quality. Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 14:31, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Battle of Madrid
Hi, I see that you are interested in the Spanish Civil War. Perhaps you might be interested in helping to expand the Siege of Madrid (1936-39) article? Its currently a work in progress.
Jdorney 13:52, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, just letting you know that I've finished my work on this article (though I'm sure it can still be improved). I wonder can we get it re-assessed from being being a stub class to at least start class?
Cheers,
Jdorney 14:45, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] About Antonio Castejón Espinosa
Hello Albrecht: I would like to know where did you find the date of dead of Antonio Castejón Espinosa because I have been unable to find it in any Internet page. I think that 1969 is correct (I lived in Seville when he was general lieutenant of that military region) but I am not sure. I am loosing memory with the age ;-)). Thanks for your response. PACO 11:01, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
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- Hi Albrecht, thanks for your response. I also have the book of Hugh Thomas (in Spanish), but maybe I passed too quickly over the data ;-)). I am thinking to create the page about Castejón in Wikipedia in Spanish, but now I have a lot of familiar problems and I don't know when I'll have enough time for that. Thanks a lot again. PACO 11:49, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Spanish Legion
It seems someone copied the Spanish Legion page into Spanish Foreign Legion last month and turned the original title into a disambiguation page. I have requested permision to move the page back to Spanish Legion but a controversial editor has opposed in the talk page (it seems this person has a long history of edit warring on other articles -currently banned for 3RR breach- and it definitely is not my intention to engage on this sort of activity against him or anyone). As you had contributed greatly to the article before, I would appreciate your comments at Talk:Spanish Foreign Legion. Regards, E Asterion u talking to me? 22:29, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Re: Campaignboxes linking wars
Personally, I don't think it's a good idea, since the conflicts don't really form a logical sequence, but merely a geographic one. One rule of thumb that might be useful is to consider whether a coherent article about the "group" of conflicts could be written; in other words, would Spanish-Moroccan Wars be a mere list of conflicts, or could it be dealt with as a single larger "conflict" that happens to be broken into stages. If it's the former, having a navigation template is probably not all that useful; the last thing we want is to have a campaignbox for every pair of countries that has found themselves on opposite sides of a war (e.g. {{Campaignbox Anglo-French Wars}}). Kirill Lokshin 21:59, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- Ah, ok; something like "Spanish colonial wars in Morocco" seems rather more reasonable, since there's actually a common theme beyond the two sides involved. The fact that the participants may vary shouldn't play into it too much; even for the obvious series of wars (e.g. the Napoleonic Wars), there tends to be a lot of variation in that regard. Kirill Lokshin 22:37, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Spanish-Moroccan wars
My apologies You were afraid that you were vague, and I have to admit the same - my edit summary may not have been explanatory. The Green March had nothing to do with Spain, except as a proxy, or only in asmuch as Spanish Sahara was a province of Spain. The conflict was between Morocco and the Polisario Front; so it seems misleading to characterize it as a Spanish-Moroccan conflict (Spain, of course, rolled over and sold out the Sahara, so there was clearly no conflict between the Spanish and Moroccans.) I suppose that since the Sahara was a province at the time, you could justify re-adding it; I won't object. I hope that clears up what I was doing - otherwise, nice template, by the way. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 18:19, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Surrender of Montreal (1760)
If you concerned about the ratio of articles dealing with French victories to British victories, why not flesh-out more articles dealing with French victories or created some stubs on battles or skirmishes that aren't yet a part of the 'pedia? Blanking and redirecting pages that don't fit with your agenda smacks of WP:POINT, and I would ask you to stop because it's a bit disruptive and not very constructive. Mike McGregor (Can) 13:26, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- The article is fairly ridiculous, I must admit. It speaks of a "siege," but nothing notable actually happened. If you want a real siege, see the Siege of Paris in 1870-1871. I don't see why someone could not use this article as precedent for creating other articles with the harmless fall of cities.....like "Surrender of London (1066)" or "Surrender of Berlin (1806)." Just opens up an uncomfortable can of worms. I'd personally support for deletion if it came up, but I don't think it would succeed.UberCryxic 04:53, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Great power peer review
Please see Wikipedia:Peer review/Great power and comment. Nobleeagle (Talk) 00:31, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Crown of Aragón
Hi, I see you reverted many of the changes I included in this entry. I can't see why. I am really not trying to leaden anything when I mention that the institutions were kept for some more decades (centuries, actually) after Spain formed: this is just a fact and I think it is interesting to know that the Crown of Aragón kept functioning basically the same way even when Spain was already existing. Is it not? Since I mention this fact, then I mention the moment when these institutions are finally abolished. I would be trying to load this politically if I mentioned some sort of continuity with present day self government, which I do not. I am no nationalist of any kind.
It is true that Barcelona and Valencia shared the economical primacy. I don't have the citation, neither does the present version, so? Then the reference to the Consell de Cent does not fit in there, for this is an article about the Crown of Aragón, not an article about Catalonia's municipal regime.
Again I am surprised at seeing reverted my mention to the Fueros ¿? I am not trying to load anything politically here, just mentioning the well known process in medieval Europe of kings trying to strenghten their power by getting allied with cities or territories which they granted self governemnt.
Last, but not least, I am really against of the use of "Empire". That was no empire. How can someone call Empire a loose confederation of three Peninsular territories? They ruled lands all over the Mediterranean? ok, but again this was a loose one which, besides, didn't last that much anyway.
Please, mate, look into my reasons and let me know what you think: I am hoping you reconsider this matter. As I say above, I am no nationalist of any kind and I am only trying to add some interesting information here, really. Mountolive 03:52, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for your fast feedback, Albrecht. Well, indeed I think your revert was quite drastic, but I see no problem -and actually agree- with your point of taking things out of the introduction. Also you are right that, to some extent, a few of my remarks were a bit redundant, even though I still wish to make clear the interesting fact that the Crown of Aragón institutions kept working after uniting with Spain (this is an interesting fact which, besides, proves the Catalan nationalists that "Spain" doesn't necessarily mean lack of self-government, as they want to stress). I may come back to this article again with similar views, but detailed in a different way. I hope you will agree with those, since, as I said, I am actually not trying by any means to endorse the Catalan nationalist view. Mountolive 04:24, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
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- I have made a zillion little edits trying to make the history section more lineal and consistent than the previous version, hope that you agree. I guess it could look better, but it's time to go bed now. Mountolive 06:04, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Defeats
Cool category huh? They killed off Famous American defeats, but this should work. Amazed they don't have this yet. --~~
[edit] Nine Years' war
Thanks for your comments on the Nine Years’ War article. I must add though that my use of Churchill was very minor.
I’m not sure I agree entirely with your reservations of Churchill as a historian but I understand your concern which is why I use Churchill sparingly - if at all. Chandler quotes him throughout his work – although he does say when discussing Marlborough that Churchill was ‘more than a little parti pris’ ie: Predjudice
Its been some time since I read his Second World War – I have an abridged version. I shall take another look at it taking into consideration what you said.
Thanks again for the comment – coming from someone as yourself, who clearly has knowledge and interest in early modern warfare, it was certainly much appreciated. Raymond Palmer 13:19, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- I try to only include information that can be verified with another source. The sentence that you refer to:
Although Marshal Luxembourg, with superior numbers defeated William’s army at the bloody Battle of Landen on 29 July, it had little effect beyond attrition; despite suffering enormous casualties, William was able to maintain himself in the field.
The quote that Landen had ‘little effect beyond attrition’ was taken from Lynn. Lynn goes on to say ‘William gathered back dispersed elements of his forces to restore his army’. I used the Churchill quote - ‘was able to maintain himself in the field’ because it is more economical with regards to wording.
If I can’t verify a ‘fact’ from another source I usually don’t put it in the article.
I am currently updating the WOTSS article to bring it up to modern FA status. The existing article is missing plenty of history and is completely unsourced. When its finished I’ll let you know, and if you feel its deficient eg: too anglo-centric, particularly regarding the Duke of Marlborough, I can make the necessary ammendments . When it comes to Marlborough I certainly won’t use Churchill.
Thanks, Raymond Palmer 20:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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- You're not pestering me at all, please comment/discuss as often as you see fit, it's very helpful. Raymond Palmer 19:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Peninsular War References
I have created a references section instead of further reading section in the Penunsular war article. I added Chandlers Campaigns of Napoleon and Gates The Spanish Ulcer, because I assumed this is the two books you use in the notes. Carl Logan 20:10, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- Hey, thanks for your request. I've now given the article a copyedit. Look over it and see if you like it.UberCryxic 22:52, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Battle of Restigouche
You've got a point about style, since the battle only ended when the French left. But it ended the (albeit faint) hope that France would come to the aid of her colony. So i just changed it to read 'British victory' instead. Sbmcmull
No worries. This is one of the more obscure events in Canadian Military History, so I'm glad you even bothered to notice! Sbmcmull
[edit] Re: A question of etiquette
Well, that depends on whether you're content to leave the article in its current state. If you are, then simply ending the discussion may be the best approach, as continuing the debate may provoke a defensive reaction from him. In my experience, such questions of national pride and such tend to blow up into fairly time-consuming fights more often than not. (Which is not to say, of course, that he may not be willing to have a perfectly civil intellectual discussion on the point of significance of contributions and so forth; but, if things get out of hand, you'll likely be forced to spend a lot of time on the issue.) Kirill Lokshin 21:37, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cicero at the gates
Meh what are you gona do....I just regret having to go up against a teacher's pet who hasn't read two lines on Waterloo.UberCryxic 03:06, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Copyright violation?
Commons seems to go through these bouts of copyright insanity every so often; they're really caused by inconsistent copyright law across national borders, and Commons generally choosing to go with the most restrictive possibility even when it's fairly absurd. (I believe they recently deleted their entire stock of photographs of the Bismark.)
Unfortunately, I don't really have any influence on Commons policy, so there's not much I can do at the source of the problem. My advice would be to simply upload the image(s) directly to en:Wikipedia, where the Commons admins can't get to them. Kirill Lokshin 18:06, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- My guess is that, when the image was moved to Commons, our local copy was deleted; you may need to upload it here again if we want it to stay regardless of what happens to the Commons one. Kirill Lokshin 21:08, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
