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Fabian Ware negotiations with foreign governments

In Who's Who in World War I, the author writes that "Ware took charge of negotiations with foreign governments, which included not only Britain's wartime allies, but also her enemies, notably Turkey", yet I cannot seem to find any other sourcing on negotiating with any government other than France. Can anyone help me out? Point me towards some sources? Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 01:16, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

After the war there were negotiations with Turkey about the graves in Gallipoli. You can see something about this in the books Anzac Battlefield and Return to Gallipoli. While not dwelt on in detail, a phrase like "carefully worded compromise" (Return p. 39) implies that negotiations had taken place.  --Lambiam 07:12, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

A brief mention of the post-war negotiations at Gallipoli are at Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory (p. 78): " The negotiations leading to the reservation of specific parts of the Gallipoli Peninsula for memorial purposes were complex, and to this end precise surveys were produced of the areas proposed for reservation". Alansplodge (talk) 13:42, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

I seem to have linked to the same book as Lambiam; apologies (but it is a different quote). Alansplodge (talk) 14:15, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Adult age 18

Who or what added 18 to the adult article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult

If you're referring to the sentence in the lead that says "The typical age of attaining legal adulthood is 18....", that has been in the article for at least 18 months. Do you have a problem with it? HiLo48 (talk) 05:22, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

No not at all was just wondering who or what put that there? -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:741B:500:8C89:423C:D1A3:FFC2 (talk) 05:29, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

The article discussing which year numbers mark the transition to adult status is Age of majority... AnonMoos (talk) 05:34, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

By searching for "typical age" with the Wikiblame tool, you can easily find out which editor added this.  --Lambiam 07:19, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

21st century arts and entertainment

As brilliant as the information used for 21st century is. Is there a reason or none for why theres barely any for arts and entertainment? Compared to what's been done for the 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century#Arts_and_entertainment — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:741B:500:1C0:1C8A:7E08:2E8F (talk) 15:00, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello, IP editor. The reason that section is poorly developed is that no volunteer editor has yet taken on the task of expanding it. You are welcome to give it a try. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 18:55, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

The punishment for murder in Vienna in the early 1910s

If someone would have killed Adolf Hitler in Vienna in the early 1910s, what would his or her penalty for murdering Hitler have been? Indeed, did Austria-Hungary have the death penalty for murder back then, or what? Futurist110 (talk) 18:01, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Capital punishment in Austria would seem to indicate that it would have been. Although if someone were smart enough to figure out what Hitler was going to do decades later, he should probably also be smart enough to evade capture. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:49, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

The Austrians were apparently reluctant executioners, the first man to be hanged after the establishment of the First Austrian Republic (founded in 1919) was not until 1934. Still looking for sources about the Habsburg Empire; perhaps they were more punitive. Alansplodge (talk) 10:21, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

The number of executions in the years 1893–1898 were, consecutively, 2, 0, 5, 5, 5, 4. One condemned man died in 1895 before he could be executed. (Source: Maynard Shipley (1907). "Homicide and the Death Penalty in Austria-Hungary". Publications of the American Statistical Association 10:77, pp. 253-259.) Gruesome fact: if the hanging failed, the execution was completed by the executioner by strangling.  --Lambiam 19:52, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

That's just plain ghastly! Futurist110 (talk) 21:43, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

I wonder if any of them pulled a Percy Wetmore and botched the execution on purpose. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:05, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Oberleutnant Adolf Hofrichter, who in 1909, tricked a fellow officer into taking cyanide pills so that he could take his place on a prestigious course at staff college, was only given 20 years in prison. Alansplodge (talk) 10:34, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

However, Hugo Schenk, who murdered four maids by tying them to weights and dropping them into lakes or rivers, was hanged in Vienna in 1884. Alansplodge (talk) 10:51, 11 April 2020 (UTC)