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looks like this is about to go live;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes limited to 2,000 pages at first; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Queue |
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TheKartingWikipedian |
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I see there's a move afoot to bring in pending changes at British Isles. A bunch of twats want to take control of the article and see this as a step in the right direction. Is this what pending changes is for? I also came across an admin who's adding more articles to the "trial" like there's no tomorrow. What gives, suckers? (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/confused.gif)
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I have as much free time as a Wikipedia admin! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Regulars Posts: 4,400 Joined: Member No.: 4,212 ![]() |
I see there's a move afoot to bring in pending changes at British Isles. A bunch of twats want to take control of the article and see this as a step in the right direction. Is this what pending changes is for? I also came across an admin who's adding more articles to the "trial" like there's no tomorrow. What gives, suckers? (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/confused.gif) You would be Levenboy? Why is there so much edit warring over the boring subject of the British Isles. (Apologies to those who find it interesting). This post has been edited by Peter Damian: |
ulsterman |
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Why is there so much edit warring over the boring subject of the British Isles. Because there are a lot of single-minded Marxist fanatics out there. They imagine that the use of the term British Isles to refer to a group of islands that includes the Republic of Ireland denigrates the republic. Sheer nonsense of course. |
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Why is there so much edit warring over the boring subject of the British Isles. Because there are a lot of single-minded Marxist fanatics out there. They imagine that the use of the term British Isles to refer to a group of islands that includes the Republic of Ireland denigrates the republic. Sheer nonsense of course. Yes, it's rather more a historical term. Does anybody get upset that the Philippines no longer belong to Philip II of Spain, yet are still called that? |
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Because there are a lot of single-minded Marxist fanatics out there. They imagine that the use of the term British Isles to refer to a group of islands that includes the Republic of Ireland denigrates the republic. Sheer nonsense of course. There are a lot of entirely fair and balanced minded individuals who spend their lives pissed off in perpetuity at the rest of the world (America is particular), saying England/English meaning Britain/British and Britain/British meaning England/English. I believe they are technically known as "Scots", and have their own parliament and laws. The World Cup and Olympic times are a perfect examples of it, when the rule appears to be, "if they are wining they are English and if they are losing they are British". The root of the problem being historically that the English never really saw British as meaning Britain but rather England with a few more frontline cannon fodder and a handy source of coal and crude oil. My suspicion is that there are a few uppity Celts of whom not the Angevin, Cromwell, Henry VIII nor Jimbo Wales's multitudinous unpaid cohorts have been able to contain who have little to do with Marxism. I am warmed to see the my favorite supremacist and apocalyptic destructive cult, the Brahma Kumaris, have made the discussion pages for pending changes following the persistent, manipulative and malevolent ownership by their adherent (... 6,000,000,000 'impure' humans to die in a nuclear holocaust they will "give courage" to happen so that 900,000 of their 'pure' faithful followers will inherit a ... no doubt 'glowing' ... heaven on earth once all other nation but Mata India have sunk below the waves!!!). This post has been edited by Cock-up-over-conspiracy: |
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My suspicion is that there are a few uppity Celts of whom not the Angevin, Cromwell, Henry VIII nor Jimbo Wales's multitudinous unpaid cohorts have been able to contain who have little to do with Marxism. Maybe so. I fully appreciate the difference between England and Great Britain. There is of course also the United Kingdom. However, the Scots (and the Welsh) aren't likely to be the people complaining about the use of the term "British Isles". On the contrary. Does anybody get upset that the Philippines no longer belong to Philip II of Spain, yet are still called that? Excellent point. There are many other examples. Just in the USA, you have Maryland (after Bloody Mary), Virginia (after the Virgin Queen, i.e. Elizabeth I) and of course The College of William & Mary(after William III and Mary II) for example. |
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