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United Kingdom of Great Britain (1707)

Howdy Spiritofstgeorge. Thank you for your kind, polite, and civil demeanor that you have shown me on the Wikipedia Article page entitled Great Britain (1707), or whatever they decide to call it. I am fed-up with DeCausa, and Moonraker. Simply put, I can not reason with them. Anyways, thank you for being pleasant to talk to, and take care, Don ("from Across-the-Pond"). Best wishes, ArmchairVexillologistDonLives! (talk) 18:30, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Howdy Spiritofstgeorge. Thank you for your kind reply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:ArmchairVexillologistDonLives!#Thanks_for_the_message

Take care, Don ArmchairVexillologistDonLives! (talk) 18:47, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Years in England

Hi Spiritofstgeorge.

Thanks for the message - glad to see that others agree with what I started. As I get time I would intend to do more, and add more detail in to the Scottish, English, Welsh and Northern Irish articles. Cheer Fishiehelper2 (talk) 11:11, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Rangers FC dispute

I'm not sure if you aware that there is a discussion about the Rangers dispute at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#Rangers_F.C to discuss whether there should be a single Rangers FC article instead of the two that presently exist for Rangers 1872-2012 and the Newco Rangers. Regards Fishiehelper2 (talk) 21:54, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

You are currently canvassing on the talk pages of numerous editors - please cease at once. GiantSnowman 12:59, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Read the description of canvassing - "done with the intention of influencing the outcome of a discussion towards one side of a debate" - exactly what you have done. GiantSnowman 15:38, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

You have NOT been even handed - it doesn't matter who or what you target, it's your tone. You have said that "an attempt is being made to undermine this article by pushing through a 'same club' approach despite many of us believing this is heavily biased and very selective use of the sources" - that is one of the most biased things I've ever seen on here. GiantSnowman 15:47, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

I'm uncertain how Wikipedia actually works but judging by the absolute rubbish spouted on the site regarding Rangers FC and the childish continual use of "newco" then I will regard any Wiki entry as doubtful in future. I will certainly not trust any entry to be actually correct. I have no wish to debate anything about Rangers FC. The club was founded in 1872 and is still in existence to date. There is no debate. Voting on something like this is akin to voting on whether the Earth is flat. No matter what majority of people would vote that it is flat it wouldn't alter the fact that the World is round. My use of Wikipedia after this nonsense will be extremely limited and always require a double check from an alternative and more reliable source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JCDBigBear (talk • contribs) 17:23, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Let me guess JCDBigBear, you're a Rangers fan? Oh wait, you're called "Big Bear". If you're not sure how wikipedia is run, well, it's run without bias. Andevaesen (talk) 05:16, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

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August 2012

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Revised secterism proposal

as you are against removal and suggested changes to wha ti proposed can your eview my recent proposal as i have admened it and added few more sentenacnes, it remains neutral and consened but includes more things although i need ot add some refenreces to it, if you can be happy with the new version i am happy enough to put it liveAndrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 08:42, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Donald findley interview

do you havea wbelink to that itnerview i would like to use it in the articleAndrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 13:31, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

oh i aint concerned he take legal actionif he was he done it by now, it more as adding a more clear source if a video or tape is heard him admitting it it a bit harder to demise it--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 13:53, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Reported for Edit Warring

You seem to be following me around the Rangers pages and undoing all my edits, no matter how small. The sub-section title "adminsitration & liquidation" you seem intent on using the term 'relaunched club' even though this issue was raised on the talk pages, and that term did NOT reach consensus for it's use. I've reported you for edit warring. Ricky072 (talk) 14:58, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

he isnt edit warring in fact i would suggest to spiritofgeorge to report you for POV pushing and ingore sources and not gaining consensus to change things--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 16:15, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

if you have reported him where have you done it ic ant find it, and you should hav notify him with the code it tells you to notify the user with--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 16:27, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

no i meant to ricky where is his report of you, because oyu are not edit warring yet you havent done anything wrong--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 16:33, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

not goign on what the articvle itself says

goin on the artuicle itself "however Artemio Franchi, the president of UEFA at that time, rejected the idea as the reigning European Cup Winners' Cup champions—Rangers—were serving a one year ban at the time imposed by UEFA for the misbehaviour of their fans.", im goign to validate the reference to be sure th article might be wrong--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 14:58, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

the source does not meantion anytihng abouta ban i just checked--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 15:02, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

ill double check but the thing ir evret said ranger where banned the souce and article says different but if your correct it wasnt recngise it gettign removed--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 15:23, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

it was approved and bless by the then uefa president--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 15:27, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

problem is uefa says there werent banned so that gives a problem we will need to dig into this further and put more references mayb reference groupo note--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 15:39, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

found it, it was unoffical, uefa choose to use other words i will update it--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 15:44, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

ownership of rangers fc

this article isnt just about the new ciompany but the old one to ive not had time to improve it please revert i dn5 want to edit war buti can improve it slighjtly just nowAndrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 10:57, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

this article will go more into depth about the incorptaion in 1899, david morray tenure, craig whyte tenure and eventally sale to the rangers football club ltd.

yes ricky determination to consensus has bene bothering me but i really aint up for another edit war i rather leave it to talk page to sort it, ive jsut went along with it, im more concerned about getting the article to FA if there content war it wont pass.

im trying to do all the otehr tihngs required to bring it uop, then once we can get it pass we can work on getting #certain stuff readdedAndrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 12:37, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

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No problem, I probably wasn't very clear. I'm trying to get the article to FA status but I'v not got a lot of time for editing it at the moment, so I'v just been adding minor things and reverting anything thet may be controversial unless its already got consensus on the talk page. Hopefully I'll get some time in the new year to sort out all the minor problems and nominate it for GA status at least! Cheers, VanguardScot 19:27, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

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Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation

Do you have a citation to a reliable source to back up the statement that you keep adding? If you only have Russian propaganda sources to back up the statement, then it could still be OK, though you would need to discuss the exact wording.-- Toddy1 (talk) 12:59, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Do you have citations to reliable sources for your other controversial edit?-- Toddy1 (talk) 13:08, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

• I agree that «annexation» seems to be a non-neutral word — at least with some negative connotations. Since the UN is involved, and General Assembly doesn't recognize the acquisition as legal, I think, it's generally correct to say that reliable sources consider these acquisition illegal, because where do we get the international law from, if not from the UN? It's the UN who decides, what is legal according to the international law, and what's not. But if in Wikipedia, according to NPOV, we should present even more neutral view, so to mention all the existing opinions, then as long as "annexation" is a non-neutral term, I would agree to replace it with "acquisition", since Russian government prefers not to call this "annexation", and this view, as it's a side of conflict, should also be represented. Otherwise, if "annexation" is really neutral term, which means "acquisition", then there is no point to discuss. But in this case we should remove the paragraph, where it's said that Russian government denies that it's was an annexation, because then the Russian government just denies the meaning of the word. And also in the article about annexation we should remove the word «forcible». SkipTheRules (talk) 00:52, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

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You need to be clearer

You made this addition to the article on the annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation. Please could you either rewrite it or delete it.

If you choose to rewrite it, please could your new version include the following information:

• Enough information that the reader can see why it is relevant to the annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation. At the moment it looks like a random paragraph in the wrong article.
• Which country they were banned from.
• Better information in the citations, such as the date of articles being cited, and the author(s) if known.

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