Ignis Fatuus

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 Joe  I 02:44, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thqnks for your edit. I haven't spotted when it was removed until now. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up®} 15:14, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

List of companies by revenue

Hey IF, I noticed you reverted my revert of your deletion of the stock symbols: as I said in my edit notes, I was hoping we could take the matter to a talk page to get more input. Are you against a broader discussion of this issue? UnitedStatesian 17:36, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Tamil Eelam Declaration of Independence March 1, 1990

Hi Ignis,

You deleted my inclusion of Tamil Eelam in the table of Geopolitical Entities under the title Unrecognized Countries. Your comment states that the Tamil Eelam did not declare independence yet.

In fact, there was a legal Declaration of Independence of Tamil Eelam that took place in North East Provincial Council of Sri Lanka on March 1, 1990. Tamil Eelam comprises the North East part of Sri Lanka. The North East Provincial Council made the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) of Tamil Eelam on March 1, 1990 under the protection of Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF). After the declaration IPKF returned to India. The LTTE captured the newly declared Tamil Eelam territory.

Please refer: http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:BHnQuezbbekJ:www.atimes.com/ind-pak/DF01Df02.html+Unilateral+Declaration+of+Independence+Tamil+Eelam&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

Here is a paragraph that describes it: "The hasty move by the EPRLF and Varatharajah Perumal with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence for a separate state of Tamil Eelam presented an opportunity for the Sri Lankan government to dissolve the North-East provincial government. Bradman Weerakoon, in his book Premadasa of Sri Lanka: A Political Biography, wrote, "All political parties in parliament, except the EPRLF condemned Varatharajah Perumal's move. Under the Provincial Council Law of 1987 one of the safeguards to guarantee some autonomy to the Provincial Council had been that the government could not dissolve a Provincial Council by executive fiat. Varatharajah Perumal's UDI provided the opportunity for the government to bring in amending legislation which enabled the government to dissolve, ‘where more than one half of the total membership of a Provincial Council, expressly repudiated or manifestly disavowed obedience to the constitution.'" - pages 69-70 "

Therefore, I am reverting the deletion. --Sooriyajeevan 02:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Altamira

Hello Ignis. How did you decide to use "Cave of Altamira"? Seems like "Altamira cave" is much more common. If one does a Google search, the former gets 740 results and the latter 24,400. I couldn't find any discussion of this change. Also, I see that it's frequently used as a proper noun -- Altamira Cave -- but I don't know that that could be said to be standard. Regardless, I do think that the former version of the title which put "cave" in parentheses wasn't a good choice, so I'm happy to see that changed. Whatever we end up with, we'll also want to change it on the disambiguation page.[1] Thanks. TimidGuy (talk) 15:24, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Ignis, for the useful explanation. I'd be inclined to go with the most common usage in English. "Cave of Altamira" just doesn't sound quite right in English. TimidGuy (talk) 21:14, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Moves

Hi Ignis Fatuus! I reverted some of the moves you did yesterday. There should be spaces around the dashes unless the official name of the party does not have them. See also the opinion of Nightstallion, who asked me to revert your moves. Thanks and have a good time in Wikipedia! --Checco (talk) 11:01, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Geórgios Papandréou

Nice move (literally). Good choice of name version. Kudos. Dr.K. ^{λogosπraxis} 16:24, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

I disagree here. First, diacritics are (almost) never used in English when transcribing Greek names. Second, both grandfather and grandson are important to Greek history, the former arguably more than the latter, and the move of the grandson to a non-disambiguated page is therefore problematic. I have proposed a rename. Constantine ✍ 16:41, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

December 2011

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Zoran Janković a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. Not quite sure what you're trying to do/undo/shuffle-around, but I see at least one full cut'n'paste of content from one page into a (former) redirect location. DMacks (talk) 07:23, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Template:Same-sex marriage map Europe

Do not change the map. The one which you prepared is tragic and incompatible with binding policy. The map must be compatible with this. Distinction members and non-members of the EU on the map it's absurd and is absolutely dispensable. Ron 1987 (talk) 21:35, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Edit warring on Template:Same-sex marriage map Europe

Your recent editing history at Template:Same-sex marriage map Europe shows that you are in danger of breaking the three-revert rule, or that you may have already broken it. An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Breaking the three-revert rule often leads to a block.

If you wish to avoid being blocked, instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to discuss the changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. You may still be blocked for edit warring even if you do not exceed the technical limit of the three-revert rule if your behavior indicates that you intend to continue to revert repeatedly. AV3000 (talk) 23:20, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Please join the discussion

I have fully protected Parties in the European Council due to the recent edit warring. You need to go to Talk:Parties in the European Council and discuss the issue. Hopefully the two of you can work out some sort of agreement; if not, then you'll have to pursue dispute resolution. However, if you refuse to participate in the discussion, and simply resume edit warring once the article is unprotected, instead you may be blocked. It's cleary you both have differing opinions; its time to look to reliable sources and see what they say on the matter, and probably get the views of other outside editors. Qwyrxian (talk) 03:05, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

At this point the protection has ended; I see that you haven't been on WP, but it's not fair to just hold up changes indefinitely until you come back. I've told the other editor that it's okay to make their change. If you come back, and you start discussion on the article's talk page, then I'll revert Julien to the pre-dispute version, and we can continue discussion. But if you simply come back and revert the other editor without discussion, I'll block you for edit warring. Qwyrxian (talk) 23:34, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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