DHM1

February 2007

MKoltnow,

Thanks for the e-mail. I did not know the discussion page existed. I am new to Wikipedia but I could not believe the massive distortions on the page. To make matters worse, someone was selectively erasing my contributions including those backed by hard fact. Some are left intact, eg. info on General Tsadkan, while others were changed such as the report on Wonchif which was from Abraham Yayeh's affiliated group in Asmara.

At the top of each article's page is a tab marked 'discussion'. That will link you to a page where editors discuss things about the article, including potential changes. It is important not to make changes to facts (even when you are right) before discussing it in the talk page. MKoltnow 04:43, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. As a member of the Wikipedia community, I would like to remind you of Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy for editors, which you appear to have violated at Eritrean-Ethiopian War. In the meantime, please be bold and continue contributing to Wikipedia. MKoltnow 19:23, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. As a member of the Wikipedia community, I would like to remind you of Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy for editors, which you appear to have violated at Eritrean-Ethiopian War. In the meantime, please be bold and continue contributing to Wikipedia. Merhawie 19:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did to Eritrean-Ethiopian War, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

Do not just add the same text over and over again. If your edit is contentious, discuss it on the article's discussion page. MKoltnow 19:27, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Eritrean-Ethiopian War

You seem to be pretty knowledgeable about this war, are you Ethiopian? I invite you to join WikiProject Ethiopia, a project designed to help coordinate the addition of information to Ethiopia-related articles. I appreciate your contributions to this article, and would love it if you could help flesh it out more. Try to use more citations, though. I noticed that you did not when editing the Mig-29 page, and we have no way of verifying this information otherwise. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 21:34, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Tsadkan GebreTensae

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Very nice work

Hello! I was doing New Page Patrol and I saw your article on Ethiopian Defense Industry. As an African, I am very glad to see quality articles relating to the mother continent here on Wikipedia. Keep up the fine work! Ecoleetage (talk) 13:51, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Ecoleetage (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend, Go on smile! Cheers, and Happy editing!=)
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What does 'FDRE Defense Industry' mean in the reference section of that page? Buckshot06(prof) 16:46, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm honestly puzzled by your comment referring to my edits to several articles as vandalism. Calling another editor's contributions "vandalism" is a serious charge, & the word should not be casually tossed around. In most of the cases, all I did was reformat the material that you had contributed into an external link -- no content was altered, added or removed; in the other cases, there was nothing to format so I left those sections alone. You may not have liked how the resulting link appeared -- or disagreed with the description -- but I worked with what you had provided & made my best, good faith efforts with it. I hope your use of this word was simply a mistake, & you will be more careful in the future using to describe other editor's changes. -- llywrch (talk) 18:03, 19 January 2009 (UTC)