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		Thanks very much for your wonderfully comprehensive answer to my question. It is fantastic to see that you are willing to put that much time and effort into answering the most minor of queries. Congratulations. Jmac 20:42, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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Contents 1 About Technocracy and Positivism 2 p.m. 3 Arbitration Request Filed 4 Drieu La Rochelle 5 Your note on my talk page 6 Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Intangible 7 "Germany" 8 Mon update et mes excuses 9 Racial Policy of the Nazi's 10 Croix-de-Feu 11 Question 12 Thanks 13 Avec mes excuses 14 Abbé Pierre 15 MHP 16 Algerian Civil War 17 PKK 18 An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Torture during the Algerian War, was selected for DYK! 19 Asylum passport &c. 20 re:your edits 21 Extraordinary rendition 22 Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 23 More ER 24 Macrohistorical battles tied to the existence of European civilisation 25 Maurice Papon 26 Pallywood 27 BBC News 28 Height and intelligence 29 Maybe , first asking if y read the book,then erase the written lines 30 Mitrokhin Archive 31 Race and intelligence 32 Craniometry 33 Move from religion to religions of France 34 Torture during the Algerian War 35 Vichy Regime 36 On Manouchian 37 Disturbing edits by an editor 38 Are Fascism and Nazism forms of Socialism? 39 Thank you. 40 Thank you (II) 41 You RAOK 42 People's Mujahedin 43 Abu Omar Affair 44 DYK 45 DYK 46 Mitterrand doctrine 47 Torture by Proxy vote 48 Fascism and Italian Fascism 49 Paladin group 50 Squatting 51 Image:Expansion plan Ma'ale Adummim.gif

[edit] About Technocracy and Positivism

Tazmaniacs, Technocracy (the one in the article) is not related to Positivism, maybe the movements you are talking about are related to it, but not Technocracy Inc.

I didn't know about it before, but I have gotten confirmation of this from a Technocrat (i.e. an Official representative of Technocracy Inc.), and he has told me there is no Connection between the two.

Remember I told you to go ask the people at http://www.technocracy.ca/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=index about, well you didn't do that so I asked them and here is the response they gave me.

Written by Kolzene:

"Technocracy never had any relations with any European movements (although it did have communication with one I've discovered, but not this one) and it derived none of it's ideas from them, or anyone. Howard Scott has made it abundantly clear that Technocracy was created by him and the T.A., and if they got any ideas from anywhere, it was from Willard Gibbs, the chemist. Technocracy is not a philosophy, and hence has no relation whatsoever to Positivism, or any other "-ism" for that matter. It is a purely technological solution to a purely technological problem first encountered in North America, and hence designed originally for that area. It's basic concepts can be adapted to other areas with the same problem. This guy claims that "... is that they all support science & they all believe that there is no need for politicians as scientifics & engineers are sufficient to lead society." This is still politics, for it seeks to "lead society". Instead, Technocracy is merely a method of "managing machines" for the maximum benefit of society. These "scientists" of theirs may be "replacing" politicians, but only to become politicians themselves, regardless of their methodology. It is foolhardy to think that you can be scientific about subjective matters. Technocracy is not a philosophy because it does not "value" science above politics. It is simply a fact that is acknowledged that you need to use science to manage machines (and the rest of the material universe), whereas politics is only useful, on occasion, in the subjective realm of the human mind. These guys, and their movements, do not appear to make this very important distinction."

This is pretty clear cut, there is no Connection between the two and thus no Links can be made between them.

--Hibernian 22:27, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] p.m.

P.m. means pro memory (to be added). Electionworld = Wilfried (talk 14:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arbitration Request Filed

I have asked for abrbitration involving User:Intangible. See [here]. Please post any comments you desire to add. I think it makes much more sense for me to be the only other party at this stage, and and ask you for Comments only. You can consider other options later. Thanks for your support.--Cberlet 20:27, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Drieu La Rochelle

Tucker is a fierce and sophisticated critic of fascism and fascists, so I am dubious. Let me see if I can get a copy of the article.--Cberlet 15:08, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your note on my talk page

Thanks for your note on my talk page.

I posted the notice, because at that time I was under attack by 1652186. Luc Verhelst is my real name. If you google me, you'll quite fastly discover that I have (had) a web log, and I don't hide my political opinions. This is what 1652186 had done, and he used this information to undermine my position. For example, he created an article on me, because he was "of the opinion that third parties in our political discussions should be aware of professional backgrounds".

I tend to believe that if I ever get into heavy confrontational discussions again, my adversaries might very well take 165's course. Therefore, I've put it on my user page, so it can't pop up during discussions at inconvenient moments, obliging me to defend myself instead of the content I propose. This way, I can simply quote F. Mitterand : "Et alors ?". ;-) --LucVerhelst 15:24, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Intangible

Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Intangible. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Intangible/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Intangible/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, --Tony Sidaway 10:14, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Germany"

Please see Talk:Louis de Saint-Just#"Germany". Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 19:34, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mon update et mes excuses

Salut. Excuse-moi pour n'avoir plus repondu sur les requetes precedentes. Si je vois bien, le conflit sur les sacrileges n'en est pas si "brulant" que jadis. Merci beaucoup pour ton attention envers le vandalisme sur mon page: c'est la consequence de ce que j'ai contribue pendant le hiatus :)... j'ai ose parler contre l'extreme droite roumaine (une sorte de multi-task). Est-ce que tu sais ou je peut trouver une liste de consuls et d'ambassadeurs Francais dans les Principautes Danubiennes est la Roumanie? Tout ce que j'y trouve sont des notices fragmentaires. Dahn 17:51, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Merci. Le site de l'Annuaire n'a pas donne grande chose - juste un link pour l'Embassade en Roumanie, qui, pour des raisons obscures, ne liste que les derniers deux embassadeurs, et ne considere comme "histoire des relations" que des choses comme "le voivode x ait introduit le Francais dans les ecoles"... ben... tout en repetant que les relations entre la France et la Roumanie restent "privilegies" (avec nous en Irak, je le doute). Mais, encore, merci pour ca. Dahn 15:38, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Racial Policy of the Nazi's

I attached a note to your comment on the Racial policy of Nazi Germany talk page. Quite frankly the contention in question is of such a low intellectual status that it was probably best removed altogether, rather than relocated. White Guard 00:42, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Croix-de-Feu

Can you please check out the newer edits in that article? Beisde being misspelled, they look apologetic to me (I want to know whether it is proper to correct them or remove them altogether). Dahn 10:08, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Je garde la page en question et encore d'autres sur ma watchlist, mais je n'ai pas vraiment intervenu sur les articles en relation avec la France depuis longtemps maintenat (j'ai recu l'appel de ma patrie sur wikipedia :)). C'est dommage que tu n'est pas aussi present que jadis, mais compte sur moi pour les urgences - dans la mesure ou les articles-probleme sont deja sur ma liste (j'estime que la pluspart y en sont deja, mais n'esite pas a me signaller d'autres, comme tu l'ait fait pour la loi des sacrileges - meme si je n'ais pas ose intervenir de plus sur celle-ci, ne suivant pas la mediation avec beaucoup d'attention). Salut. Dahn 16:08, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Hey old friend, what do you think of this edit? Khoikhoi 09:15, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. :-) As for Dink, I think it's pretty much an established fact now that Ogün Samast was the one that shot him (and apparently just for personal reasons). Yasin Hayal incited Samast to do it (he gave him the gun as well). I don't think it's from tr:Hrant Dink Suikastı, but I could be wrong. Thanks for fixing it anyways. BTW, I created an article on İsgəndər Həmidov, so if there's anything that you feel needs to be added to it, by all means contribute. Au revoir, Khoikhoi 03:02, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your help to my new articles on Italian minor political figures and events. Bye and good work... (btw, can I ask your help in the poll to dirime this edit war at Castelseprio (see talk:Castelseprio)? I've stumbled in somebody with awful style layout, nad probably one of those guys getting stuck like children in their version of any article. ) --Attilios 09:39, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Avec mes excuses

Salut, Taz, et excuse moi por n'avoir pas repondu plus tot, mais j'ai ete plutot occupe dans des debats exasperantes (comme je l'ai dit a Attilios, ceux-ci m'ont donne moins de volonte pour prolonger mon temps sur wikipedia, car j'ai ete sujet a des allegations absurdes). Si tu a du temps, est-ce que tu peux jetter un coup d'oeil sur Talk:Vladimir Tismăneanu#Facts vs. fiction: the tags and the scandalous reasons behind them? (Peut-etre voir mes objections sur User talk:Attilios#Hi avant de consulter la page et l'article.) Je sais, l'article peut sembler obscure, mais je crois que c'est les POV-pushers ont profite de tout ca dans leur deraisonnable attaque sur moi, ma facon d'ecrire des articles, et la personne en cause (Vladimir Tismăneanu, le sujet de cet article).

Je crois que la plus bonne solution pour des cas comme Adler est de trouver une autre categorie pour la situation presente - des sous-categories comme celle-la n'ont pas d'equivalent pour autres partis et sont problematiques (une cat pour les morts ne saurait que encore plus problematique). La plus bonne solution pour des "Members of..." cats, at least dans une societes non-totalitaires, est, je crois, d'inclure tous ceux qui sont et qui ont ete des membres, et de simplement dupliquer avec des autres cats pour ceux qui ont entre un autre parti ou qui ont eu d'autres ideologies. Je sais, une cat pour "neo-conservateurs" est discutable, mais peut-etre que ces personnes ont un autre element en commun qui, etant transforme en categorie, pourrait faire la difference entre jadis et maintenant evidente pour touts et toutes.

Concernant ta liste sur l'OTAN: je vais ajouter la presence en Roumanie (en cas ou elle n'est pas encore ajoute), mais je ne sais pas ou trouver le link.

Oui, tu peut remercier les Roumains pour "Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty"... J'ai envie de m'excuser pour tout ca envers tous les Europeens. Il suffit de noter que le Parti de la Grande Roumanie n'aitait pas vraiment Eurosceptique l'anne derniere, mais qu'il est devenu pour faire un bel cadeau aux autres fachos...

Je m'excuse encore, et A +. Et une tres, tres bonne anne pour toi aussi. Dahn 20:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Pas de problème! Le temps court à des vitesses variables, ici sur internet... J'ai pas encore eu le temps de regarder sérieusement Tismaneanu, même si j'y ai jeté un coup d'oeil rapide... Nul besoin de t' "excuser" pour les agissements de l'extrême droite roumaine - ou sinon, il faudrait traiter tous les Américains de pro-Bush, ce qui heureusement n'est pas le cas! A + Tazmaniacs 18:41, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Abbé Pierre

Hi. I'd like to bring your attention to the following excerpt from the article:

'"In July 1942, two fleeing Jews asked him for help. Having discovered the persecution taking place, he immediately went to learn how to make false passports. Starting in August 1942, he guided Jewish people to Switzerland".

From what book or article did this quote come from? I added the ^{[citation needed]} tage because it is an uncited quotation. As you have removed the tag, can you please tell me what is the origin of this statement? Thank you. --SigPig |^{SEND - OVER} 17:53, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MHP

Check out this. Is it true that most of the killings were of Kurds? Khoikhoi 23:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I assume it is, but haven't got the time just now to look up some serious ref for you. But I notice that a ref was already provided, and seemed rather scholarly. Cheers! Tazmaniacs 18:39, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi.. I modified "neofascist" to "ultra-nationalist" in your latest addition to PKK for the definition of MHP. It was a technical edit, since from a political sciences view there is not a concensus on what neofascist is, and this is accentuated more in the case of Turkey since its political tradition is not completely European and therefore the fact that it is not easy to categorize Turkish ideological movements into standard European ideological systems. MHP is generally referred to as u-n by mainstream media, or sometimes simply as nationalist (on a lesser scale), so I think ultra-nationalist is better. The word "Fascist" can create confusion. Feel free to contact me if you have any more questions. Cheers! Baristarim 08:56, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

By the way, something else that came to my mind: don't you think that addition (the long paragraph) be more useful in Casualties of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict? I know that there are a couple of articles that are forking each other, but I just thought maybe it would be more pertinent there.. Or maybe both, I don't know... Baristarim 08:56, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok no worries. I think that you are right, it might need to be in both articles. Currently there is a small problem with related articles in the sense that, even though they are legitimate titles, there is some content duplication (if not forking) going on between them. As for your proposed intro, I will have a look but it seems fine at first glance. Let's wait to see what others think. Cheers! Baristarim 09:14, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Algerian Civil War

I don't know if you've watchlisted it, but your False Flag edits to Algerian Civil War were completely reverted without warning by Armon. He tends to regard any suggestion of complicity or involvement by the Algerian security forces or France as conspiracy theories, and reverts them without warning (see the page history for ample illustration). He's also the person who inserted meaningless quotes from Robert Kaplan (US Army writer) about the massacres. Armon helped drive away Mustaafa, the person who wrote almost all the article and got it to featured status. He's been blocked many times for revert warring, so be prepared to fight a revert war, because in my experience he won't discuss his actions until after a few rounds of reverts and counter reverts. I'd like to participate in editing the article, but won't do it by myself because fighting such a tenditious editor is tedious and infuriating. He effectively owns some articles in this way. With the help of another editor I'd like to counteract that though... Mostlyharmless 20:08, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. One unrelated thing that might interest you if you don't already know of it is WP:Babel, where you can mark on your userpage that you're a speaker of other languages (including French obviously) Cheers. Mostlyharmless 04:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PKK

Hi Tazmaniacs!

Yes, indeed it was long time ago! Glad to see you still are around. I have left comment at the relevant talk page. Cheers Bertilvidet 16:22, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Torture during the Algerian War, was selected for DYK!

On February 17, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Torture during the Algerian War, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 00:22, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I believe another user Carabinieri (talk • contribs) nominated your article for DYK because he thought you did a fine job on it. Keep up the good work, mate. =) Nishkid64 00:38, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm glad I could help.--Carabinieri 10:02, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Asylum passport &c.

1) Ah, the asylum passport thing should probably be removed, and is a result of conflicting sources I've read saying he actually held an Italian passport but wasn't a citizen (somehow?), held a "special passport", was a full Italian citizen (which seems unlikely), or held nothing at all and wasn't a citizen.

2) I removed the comment not because I disagreed with it but because I thought it wasn't invisible. I can check the edit history again, but I thought it was a mistaken insert that was visible in the normal body of the article. If I goofed on that one, I apologize. I wasn't trying to dodge your very legitimate question.

3) Looking back, I definitely and obviously did goof on the Seldon thing. It wasn't that I was confusing him with the Rome station chief, it was that when I originally did all my research for the article, I didn't see that he had been indicted yet. It was all talk about Seldon. Either that was a later development or I just missed it.

4) I removed the speculation because I thought the way it was written it read more as editorializing than anything else, particularly as it was totally uncited (like, unfortunately, a lot of the recent edits to the article). If, like, the foreign minister of Italy was quoted somewhere as saying "This is going to fuck our shit up", that should probably go in the article. Otherwise, it's iffy. And without a source, it's just editor POV.

But thanks for staying on top of the article. I spent all morning Saturday on it and I think I burned my brain out a little bit. Ford MF 03:55, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re:your edits

That's no problem, the idea of wikipedia is to constantly edit and improve :) the ref you removed did contain the info I cited last time I checked, but seeing as you have looked more recently I will take your word for it, cheers for the polite notice though, not many people do that :) SGGH 16:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

No worries, you are of course right, can't remember my reasons at the time I wrote the article (seems ages ago now) so can't form much of an opinion, other than that you are right with the source. Doesn't impact too badly on the article anyway, thanks again. SGGH 22:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Extraordinary rendition

Replied to you at talk. Sorry if I have caused offense. Kaisershatner 20:03, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Replied at talk, I see where you are coming from now. Kaisershatner 20:36, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your note at my talk page, and for your continued efforts to find a compromise edit in good faith.Kaisershatner 14:42, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

See Talk:Truth commission#Requested move. I have re-submitted your request because you did not follow steps 2 and 3 of the process as shown on WP:RM. --Philip Baird Shearer 11:54, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More ER

Thanks for your note. I've not seen the draft, but I've been in and out of Wikipedia the last couple of days...real busy with real world broken helicopter stuff. I'll take a look at it, though. I'm pretty adamant about not putting such poorly sourced rhetoric in the opening paragraph, and I would appreciate any future help in making this stick while not running into 3RR myself! Thanks! Akradecki 16:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Macrohistorical battles tied to the existence of European civilisation

Thanks, for the heads up. I agree with you, so I've voted delete. If someone can convince me otherwise, I may reconsider. Khoikhoi 09:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maurice Papon

just wondering if you think your recent edit to the mentioned article is ok as regards verifiability, as surely it is your opinion that one factor is the 'most important'...? Jmac 19:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC) Ok, thanks for providing such a comprehensive answer to my query, always good to hear from experts in their fields! Jmac 20:34, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pallywood

Following the recent AfD discussion on Pallywood, I've made some changes to the article to address your concerns about original research. Please feel free to comment at Talk:Pallywood. -- ChrisO 11:04, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BBC News

Responded on my talk page. - Jmabel | Talk 17:47, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Height and intelligence

Ummm, I know it's odd, but the peer reviewed science is as sound as it gets. Do you have anything more than a POV to back your assertion of pseudo science? Pete.Hurd 21:45, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Sic. Please use the Talk:Height and intelligence page for "debate", thank you. Tazmaniacs 21:47, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Ummm, are the quotes around 'debate' meant to imply that you don't consider my views to constitute real, honest debate? Pete.Hurd 22:56, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maybe , first asking if y read the book,then erase the written lines

Why did you erase the lines ?:

"A.Destabilization of european countries ?:("déstabilisation des Etats d'Europe Occidentale".) Some detectives,(belgian policemen),Balfroid,Bihay,Dussart made reports with mention of a possible destabilization of european countries. You may read this, in french,in a nice part of a report (written by Balfroid,Bihay,Dussart )on the first page of the book"L'enquête,20 ans de déstabilisation en Belgique",written by Hugo Gijsels. (...)

(dif.to read the text.)

"euillez trouver ci-joint une synthèse de pistes suivies dans le cadre de l'enquête faisant l'objet du dossier 26..."

(difficulty to read the text)

".../12 de monsieur le juge d'instruction SCHLICKER à NIVELLES."

"Les recherches ont été faites en considérant le fait que l'agression aurait été commanditée,à la base,par une organisation internationale,dans le cadre d'actions visant à la déstabilisation des Etats d'Europe Occidentale. Cette synthèse reflète la situation"

(...text dif.to read)

"à la date du"

(the text is hidden)

You may read a few more text,on that page:http://servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=4&u=10031513

B.Part of a mondial plot? Now,some people are saying it could be part of a mondial plot.(see the book of Patrick Henderickx and Patrice Debruyne,"Les protocoles de Sion".)

C.For the money? Some other people said ,it could be for the money.'

Tell me please?Why?

Tazmaniacs,did you read the book of Hugo Gijsels?Yes?

Thanks.

--81.240.253.15 21:51, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Mitrokhin Archive

We can't forget about the Mitrokhin Archive article, which is also being defaced, in my opinion. Abe Froman 22:43, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Race and intelligence

Thanks for the edits. It's nice to see someone new looking at this article! futurebird 23:35, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Craniometry

Thank you for all of the great work on this article. I often feel a little alone and it's nice to see that the world hasn't lost its mind and started believing in all of these things again. If you ever need any help, just give me a shout! futurebird 03:34, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Move from religion to religions of France

Taz- It seems to me that the singular word "religion" in the title "Religion in France" does not imply that there is only one in English, and that for wiki consistency the) article "religions in France" should be moved back to Religion in France and that the category "Religions in France" should be merged to "Religion in France" (which already has subcats in Islam, etc.). --NYArtsnWords 17:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Taz - although I can appreciate your desire to deconstruct the categories in order to counteract bias, in English, the use of the singular "Religion" does not strike me as unnecessarily ideological. I would say "Food in France" or "Wine in France", even though there are many wines and kinds of foods, and I would have a tendency to say "tell me about religion in America" without feeling I was unconsciously being a conservative (I hope!). This would be different if the prepositional phrase "of France" was used: the "Foods of France" or "Wines of France" or "Religions of France" would seem more natural. You should check out Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories) and -- if this is a cause you want to champion -- you should suggest a whole-hearted reorganization of ALL of the RELIGION(s) categories on the appropriate "naming conventions" talkpage. Remember, the work of an encyclopedia is different from political debate: do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point, but work toward consensus through discussion. Cheers. (p.s. For clarification: while I have a PhD ("doctor of philosophy"), it is not in "philosophy".) -- NYArtsnWords 17:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Larryfisker 16:11, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Larry, that's a good think you took in account, now you're gonna be able to learn a bit how Wiki works. First, be civil and don't accuse me of vandalism because of such a diff concerning Maurice Papon, which others users of the page agree on. If you have any problem about that, behave like a grown-up, go to Talk:Maurice Papon and bring out your concerns there. Argue rationally. Thanks. PS: read again my header on the head of my talk page: this page is not for POV debates, which are to be adressed on the relevant talk pages. Thank you. bye Tazmaniacs 17:44, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Torture during the Algerian War

Why did you blank that section at Torture during the Algerian War? I reverted it, but seeing as you're an established user, I figured I'd ask before warning you. John Reaves (talk) 02:49, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vichy Regime

As your English is better than mine, could you please add in the page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_Regime
all the following (2 pages) which is the Vichy Regime policy: " National revolution "
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9gime_de_Vichy#La_R.C3.A9volution_nationale_dans_le_paysage_politique_fran.C3.A7ais
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_R%C3%A9volution_nationale

Thanks Liv110

[edit] On Manouchian

Salut, Taz, et excuse-moi pour n'avoir repondu plus tot. I don't know if you noticed, but I was actually the original editor on the Manouchian article - translated it from fr:wiki. I am by no means an expert on these guys, and I was actually surprised that there was this much info available on Bancic (she is virtually anonymous in her native country - btw, a small monument erected in her memory in Bucharest was recently torn down, and there were several reactions that this was an improper gesture, one motivated by her being a communist and not by the fact that she died a heroic death; do you think its mention-worthy in the article?). Anyway, I also added the mention about the controversy (the part involving Mélinée Manouchian, which I could not however source). I did not know how much one could and should expand on this issue, so I left it to editors more familiar with the topic to decide about that, especially since most French references I found about related stuff did not look entirely reliable.

Interesting stuff on both racism and French far rightists. I will do my best to catch up with your work on the latter - though you are obviously more capable of expanding it then I am, not just because you're a local, but because craniometry consistently shows that French people are more intellectual than Romanians (see what I did there? ;)). I don't know if it qualifies for inclusion, but I think I remember that A. D. Xenopol authored a booklet on "race and intelligence" of much the same quality as other "theorists"; if you think that the articles will ever get that detailed, I'll see if I can pick up some stuff about that, though it is bound to have been kept in obscurity (since you do such a good job in those articles, and have obviously structured the content, I think the best way to do so is if I furnish you information and references on these things as I bump into them, and you include them in the articles as you want it, went and where you wanted). Unfortunately, for now I'm caught up in Romanian and related topics (hey, check out my work on Christian Rakovsky), so I will mostly watch from the side - it is very cool when serendipity makes us meet halfway, like in Bancic's case. Boogie down, Taz, and keep up the good work. A bientot. Dahn 14:42, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Salut encore et, s'il te plait, excuse moi pour le delai. Je ne voudrais pas sembler meprisant sur la question du racisme: c'est vraiment interessante, mais je crains n'avoir que des conaissances superficieles sur la question du fond, et quelques-unes sur des details a part.

Tu fais une observation interessante sur Xenopol. J'avais plutot pense a ses activites concernant le racisme typique (plus que etre anti-semite, le gars ait ecrit, si je me souviens bien, un "traite" sur les races - avec toutes les cliches de circonstance). Le consensus sur son "anti-alcoolisme" est qu'il a uitilse un prejuge sur le Juifs roumains, qui (puis ce que il leur etait interdit d'obtenir emploi dans la plupart des profession) aurait accapare le commerce des boissons dans la campagne. (Des recherches plus recentes infirment l'idee-meme: on a conclu que le nombre de Juifs travaillant comme debitants de boissons etait en fait insignifiant.) Xenopol croiait que "les Juifs veulait tourner les purs paysans en des accros blablabla". Mais je ne sais pas si quelqu'un a examine la connection supplementaire avec les tendences idiotes de son temps (voir Zola, absynthe, etc): ca devrait ajouter de contexte pour telles fantaisies...

Sur la question des logements nicois, je ne sais pas que dire. Si il me semble que L'Humanite ait une tendence a exagerer les choses (je pense toujours a ce qu'ils ont publie pendant la Revolution Roumaine) - d'alors, dans l'article, une residente dit que ca ne porte pas de consequence -, il est toujours troublant de voir que, pour toutes les coupes de cheveux sur les roues en '44, une France conserve toujours le Travail-Famille-Patrie. Il y a des fois que je me demande si la culture du moment ne saurait pas devenue plus permissive que jadis envers ces "valeures" - pendant que la majorite tourne indifferente, la minorite peut convincre en reciclant l'idiotisme des anees '30 sous forme populiste et sans les symboles associes.

OMG, ces deux Gladio-related articles sont vraiment penibles! Je vais les visiter bientot, Taz - just que a ce moment, si tu a qulque chose d'urgent sur eux (une dispute) a me signaller, tu peut compter pour moi pour donner mon avis sur la page de discussion. Sur Pacepa: il n'est pas vraiment "unreliable", mais on doit signaller que celles sont ces oppinions, pas des certitudes. Je crois aussi qu'il ne doit pas etre une source principale, mais rester un "cette personne ajoute que...". Comme j'habite ici, je dois dire que, si Pacepa est vraiment douteux a bien des fois, un grand nombre de ses detracteurs Roumains sont des cretins (comme le General Pleşiţă, un des grands tortionnaires du regime communiste, qui est mediatise par des groups louches de la ex-Securitate et de l'extreme droite pour defendre l'image de Ceauşescu comme "un leader plus national que communiste" - une union qui peut sembler paradoxale, mais qui suit deja une tradition).

Je crois avoir entendu ce que tu a volut dire avec le WikiCharts link, mais, au moment que je l'ait clique, 383 etait quelqu chose sur les X-Men (maintenant, quand j'ecrit ca, c'est "Academy Award for Best Picture").

Je vais aussi suivre ton conseil et ajouter l'info sur Olga, ici et sur la page de frwiki. Merci encore. Dahn 00:41, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

J'ai oublie de te demander: est-ce que tu sais a peut-etre que fait reference le mot "Democatholique"? I cannot seem to find any reference to it, but I bumped into it in a Romanian text I was quoting in the article on Gândirea, and it seemed to refer to something specific, and was probably taken word-by-word from something obscure in French. I tentatively linked the term to Christian Democracy, but I'm not 100% sure if it was meant like that. Thanks. Boogie down. Dahn 17:44, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disturbing edits by an editor

I thought that you might be interested in a racially disturbing pattern of edits by an editor that has erased article sections pertaining to the common human heritage in Africa. User:Dbachmann is the editor in question. Please see his edits under African people.

Also, he has a pattern of erasing very substantive parts of history for certain regions. See, for example, his wholesale erasure of history of Turkestan prior to Arab invasions. He argued that BC history is "anachronistic." Dogru144 13:15, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Reply to similar comment on my talk page.

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I looked at 11 edits summed here. I understand you oppose the removal of the image, which you could take up on the talk page, but this doesn't seem like "a racially disturbing pattern of edits". Rich Farmbrough, 13:22 11 March 2007 (GMT).

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Rich Farmbrough, 13:22 11 March 2007 (GMT).

[edit] Are Fascism and Nazism forms of Socialism?

Could use some input here.. -Cb

Please take part in the current vote to rename the Nazism entry to National Socialism. See: Talk:Nazism#Requested_move. This is part of a longstanding dispute that goes back at least to 2004, in which some editors argue that Fascism and/or Nazism are merely a variety of Socialism. This is the view of a small number of libertarian/Free Market authors, and an even smaller subset of authors on the left. I argue that a majority of scholars reject this formulation, but this is being challenged on a number of pages. In addition, several editors have started redirecting [[National Socialism and National socialism away from National Socialism (Disambiguation) to Nazism, which they are attempting to rename National Socialism, as part of this larger campaign to suggest Nazism is Socialism. If you are interested in the outcome of this vote and the larger discussion, please visit: Talk:Nazism#Requested_move. Thanks.--Cberlet 17:15, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you.

• Thank you for your useful contributions to Landmark Education. Smee 22:34, 12 March 2007 (UTC).
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Yours, Smee 03:28, 14 March 2007 (UTC).

• You may be interested to know that the information you had added to the intro has now been removed, again. Smee 10:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Thank you (II)

Thanks for your contributions on surveillance, especially for creating Category:Surveillance scandals. -- Petri Krohn 02:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] You RAOK

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For your civility and goodwill, and 12,000 + good faith contributions to the project. Thank you. Smee 17:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to post to your user page and/or leave on the talk page as you see fit. Yours, Smee 17:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] People's Mujahedin

My apologies for the exasperated tone of my comments on your "Political Cult" edit re the People's Mujahedin (I have since toned down these comments). As you have probably noticed, I've been dealing with some really annoying people there who have kept me in a kind of combat mode. As it now stands, we have one sentence on this group, simply saying they are widely regarded as a political cult, a statement backed up by citations to print sources recognized by Wikipedia. I encourage you to add a sentence, "However, this view is disputed by others who think the group has been victimized by misinformation" (or something to that effect), followed by footnotes citing publications recognized by Wikipedia. I am aware that the term "cult" is sometimes misapplied or used based on inadequate information. If the reference comes from fringe sources only, it should be removed. If there are references pro and con from Wikipedia-recognized sources, then citations to both the pro and con viewpoints should be presented. Anyway, keep up your good work.--Dking 17:19, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Abu Omar Affair

Hi Tazmaiacs. i'm doing soem research about this case. i'm collecting the most important material on my page. it must be organized yet, but still could be interesting. have a look and feel free to add comment anything: User:Teardrop.z/Abu Omar. have a good time! Teardrop.z 15:21, 17 March 2007 (UTC) the link was wrong... and i didn't even notice;( now it's ok.

you were right. i argued against the transfer of the two articles. i was actualy in waiting mode. it seem to me impossible that it.wiki give such lack of attention to those cases. the only things other people had to add to the page were tags to move it here or merge it there, with no discussion. my priority now is reserch, actually for personal purpose, but i'm glad i can share what i find. but i can't let other wikipedians-not-improving-the-page write my schuduler on what to reserch and when to add it to pages. I rather prefer editing in en.wiki where my contribution find other thoughs to be improved then move it to it.wiki where, if ever, other editor will put their effort. Teardrop.z 00:47, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

On 18 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Projekt-26, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 18:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

On 19 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Secret files scandal (Switzerland), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 07:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mitterrand doctrine

Seeing things like [1], it's always a pleasure to have you around :) . Rama 17:48, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Torture by Proxy vote

If you haven't seen it yet, there's now a "vote" on the ER talk page, you might want to put your two cents in. Akradecki 13:52, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fascism and Italian Fascism

Hi. i took a speed reading on both pages. it seem to me they are not that bad as whole. i'd could to give an hand. if you give me the controversial points or questions i'll make some research and give back an opinion citing arguments and sources. have a good time. Teardrop.z 18:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paladin group

hi! thanks to have translated the french Paladin group page. I've written the most of it. I am very interested by this period (60's, 70's) and cold war, mercenary and so on... Do you know one of these men called Jean Kay? He has worked for Paladin Group. I am looking for most information about him. Thanks. (French site:Vegetarien75) Vegetarian75 08:22, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Squatting

Hiya, thanks for adding stuff about the Spanish squat situation to the squatting page, i found your edit interesting. But i also reverted your edit about shanty towns, for me these are clearly squats also. If you want to debate this further on the squatting talk page, let's do that (altho i should warn you im not online every day!). Cheers, Mujinga 19:15, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Expansion plan Ma'ale Adummim.gif

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