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	I have reverted this edit, , for unnecessary duplication, ], errors, and other reasons that i have explained on the TALK page. Please read the explanations, and also please read the current content of the article, including observation of the (now carefully referenced) historical basis for the OBU, before you edit here again. thanks, best wishes, ] (]) 19:52, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
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	== My Addition to Russian Revolution ==
	Hi Fifelfoo. I added the following to the article about the 1917 Russian Revolution: The New Bolshevik Government

			Will you please take a look at the following thread and offer your opinion. ] (]) 04:56, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
	Although having triumphed in the Russian Civil War, when they took charge of the government they had new problems. The Bolshevik party was composed mostly of laborers, not many members had much leadership expirience. The party was not the most unified, although it did encourage discipline and unity. Within the pary there was opposition by both individuals and groups. This really frustrated Lenin, so he changed that situation. The Bolsheviks were also faced with criticism and opposition, and the Bolsheviks showed no tolerance at all. The Bolsheviks believed very stongly on the evil of class. They favored the classes that used to be mistreated and were very much the enimies of the former elite class. Because of their dislike of class, the bolsheviks eliminated it and created the opposite of class in society.

			== PR ==
	I noticed you undid it and called it patent nonsence and unsourced. I would like to point out I did source it, The Russian Revolution Second Edition by Sheila Fitzpatrick Oxford University Press Copyright Sheila Fitzpatrick 1994 ISBN 0-19-289257-6. I would like to what you meant when you called it patent nonsence. If it could be improved, please consider taking the piece I added and improving it. Thank you, ] (]) 20:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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			== RSN on Callahan blog ==
	Please see the talk page. From my part I don't really think I was being bold - I certainly didn't delete anything, I merely reworded the lead and slightly expanded. As indeed you yourself did... Equally if you look there is a discussion thread on the lead, albeit a small one. I look forward to your contributions on the talk page. Cheers. ] (]) 06:42, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

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			In 2014, Fifelfoo, not in 2014+. Bash it out and hand it in. Get the right examiners, whatever you do. ] (]) 22:44, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
			:Current schedule alongside paid employment is first draft mid-2014, then two semesters of redrafting. My team is holding me to it well. If it seems long, its because I'm part-time, at least in part due to a previous Prime Minister's funding model for research students. ] (]) 01:49, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
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	Not so. Virga only restored bits from a previous version - I can't tell who had added it originally. , I had only removed info that was obviously added from neonazi sources; I also noticed that the entire text on his political career was under likely to have used the same crap as its source, only it was virtually impossible to tell apart with all the good-faith edits in between. The solution would be to revisit the entire article with proper references, but I can't be expected to do that myself just so that the tag can be removed. ] (]) 16:15, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
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	:Between 6 and 10 December 2005 Hanshans23 edited Lukacs with that information. They appear to be good faith if internet researched edits. I will mull and return after further investigation.

			I mentioned your conclusion about the lack of Tertiary sources from 2011 in ] Your thoughts are welcome there. --] ] ] 22:37, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
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			== Poorly sourced ==
	'''Why''' are you removing material from a ''credible source'' (the ]) through a ] (])? If anything, as a marketing association, the DSA should inflate the median earnings; hence it should probably have a cavaet saying '''at most''' $2400. — ] ] 16:31, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

			] references scrapbook.com - has that site been suggested for blacklisting? <sup>]]]</sup> 11:22, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
	== Albanian nationalism RfC ==

			== Great point ==
	Fifelfoo, I am actually never been to a situation like this. So my reaction might not been in the best form. However I think that a RfC is a necessity on that article (]). '''Can you please guide me on the process?''' Should I stay away from the talk page for a while? Thanks! —] (]) 16:33, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

			That addition at ] was a really excellent point especially for academic/scientific topics. I did de-jargonize, link, and compress the material a bit, as well as put it in a more logical sequence, but it hit directly on something that the majority of our editors know nothing about. It's the source of a tremendous amount of the friction at our more technical, academic, and medical articles, especially in these days of there being over 100,000 journals, and a lot of ] ones, plus ] publishing stuff that looks scholarly but would never pass peer review, and lots of mainstream book publishers putting out books on non-trivial topics but written by schmoes with no credentials, and .... It's a real morass. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — ] ] ] 😼 </span> 04:40, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
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			:Never mind that harsh enforcement of poorly assimilated knowledge use rules mean that other methods of scholarly dissemination and review can be ruled out. I remember being interviewed by an anthropologist about oral knowledge systems and wiki. Apart from wiki being a eurocentric knowledge system to begin with, my points were pretty clear: if an oral knowledge system possesses field expertise, that expertise is esteemed, and it possesses a review mechanism then go for it. OTOH, ram raiding oral knowledge systems and taking their data is another nasty european-style cultural habit. Central point on WP:IRS territory: we care about the quality of the review mechanism, the field itself being esteemed, and the produced knowledge being field-specific. And the field itself being esteemed is important. I'm sure that some biblical literalists make claims about biblical astronomy, but that field is not esteemed regardless of the quality of review, and the produced knowledge being specific to the field. ] (]) 05:07, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
			::Agreed. I'm not sure if that last point has been articulated clearly enough in the essay; it's mentioned but just a blip. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — ] ] ] 😼 </span> 05:44, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

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			You're back! I was so happy to see your name earlier today. I had wanted to ask you something during that long Fifelfoo-free drought spell, and discovered that you'd been off-wiki for a long time. I'm glad it was just a break. I hope that all's well with you, and that I'll see you around again. ] (]) 00:03, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

			== Romania's Fascist-named public places ==

			Hello. You've been quite friendly with me, I appreciate that. However, I once made a comment on one of our conversations where I kinda bragged about the list of Romanian public places named after Fascists/Antisemites/War criminals I have in my infobox. Allow me to make sure that you get the right picture.

			You see, I definitely understand why - over there in the West - it's the far right who's perceived as the main enemy. You guys fought a "hot" and dreary war against it, followed by just a cold war against the far left's representative, the Soviet Union. However, we had a hot war with the Soviet Union's far left, a very bloody one, whilst the far right didn't do us one 100th of the harm the far left did. The Red Army, did. 14 years of occupation and plunder...forced labor in Hellish prisons...a wretched regime which lasted us nearly half a century and we had to spill more blood to get out of it...the destruction of all our pre-war intellectual elite...Mate, there is no way in Hell or anywhere else for anyone to convince us that the far right is equally bad, let alone worse. We rally behind anyone who resisted and fought the Reds, and yes these individuals are sometimes Fascists/Antisemites, but we don't see that. Shouts like "Fascists, Antisemitic, war criminal" - they're literally gibberish to most of us. We won't see the point, all we'll see is our anti-Communist heroes and martyrs being attacked, and we won't like it. Also - about convicted war criminals - convicted by ''whom''? The Soviet Union? Which in itself was the greatest war crime in the history of humanity, through all it did? And people in the West expect their condemnations to be on equal footing with the Nuremberg Tribunals? Nah, never. The Soviet verdict is invalid to us. It's not whether Antonescu or others did something, it's who sentenced them. The reviled, resented and illegitimate Soviet regime of occupation. That's what we see mainly. And this is why Antonescu in 2006, years after his war crimes were exposed, was still voted as the 6th greatest ever Romanian by the population: he was the most virulent anti-Communist fighter.

			The US ambassador here, Hans Klemm, complained when our National Bank issued some coins 2 years ago with Mihail Manoilescu, one of our pre-war pro-Nazis and Antisemites. He declared himself disappointed, and referred to WW2 as the darkest time in Romanian history. Do you see how abhorrently entitled he is? He thinks if that time was the darkest for ''his'' country, it must have been the same for ''ours'' too. No, it was the red half-century that followed. And after over 1000 of us died to earn our freedom in 1989, here comes Mr Klemm, and other Westerners, to tell us that...no we're not in fact free. And that we still can't honor the same type of people that the Communists interdicted us to honor for decades. Which is basically trampling on the victory of our Revolution. Finally, I'd like to address why Germany and Italy and even Japan are much more "at peace", shall we say, with their pasts. Because, after WW2, they were occupied by the objectively better regime of the Western liberal democracies. But we got the Soviet end of the stick. It was not better, it was not a new model, it was a Hell. Our past regime from WW2, with or without Holocaust participation, was still demonstrably miles better than what came afterwards.

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Firest my apologies for the mis-spelling; "streetcar-like" is one thing, but "streetcar-lice" suggests cooties. That said, as you probably know, interurban cars weren't generally merely streetcars/trams, and at the extremes - the lightest streetcars vs the West Coast SP electric stuff, for instance, there was no comparison. The only real point of overlap is the PCC and its brethren; iconic as these are now, they are still a small part of the whole interurban story, since most systems died, converted, or went moribund before the PCC was builtAnmccaff (talk) 21:36, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

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Sorry to bother you, but could you tell me if Nancy Rubin Stuart should be considered a reliable source for the Castilian language and Isabella I of Castile? Shouldn't we be using historians for articles like Isabella I of Castile? --Kansas Bear (talk) 02:07, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Given that she won, or was awarded, a Higher Doctorate for her monograph, and seems to have transitioned into biography via an interest in women's studies, I'm not seeing the big problem. Her presses look good and her other works reinforce the idea that she's an expert biographer of women. As always, depends on the claim. (If anything, the fact that she's working in English is my main concern). Fifelfoo (talk) 21:39, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

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I mentioned your conclusion about the lack of Tertiary sources from 2011 in Talk: Science#Gravitational wave astronomy Your thoughts are welcome there. --Ancheta Wis (talk | contribs) 22:37, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

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Ilse_Koch references scrapbook.com - has that site been suggested for blacklisting? 11:22, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

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That addition at Misplaced Pages:Frequently misinterpreted sourcing policy was a really excellent point especially for academic/scientific topics. I did de-jargonize, link, and compress the material a bit, as well as put it in a more logical sequence, but it hit directly on something that the majority of our editors know nothing about. It's the source of a tremendous amount of the friction at our more technical, academic, and medical articles, especially in these days of there being over 100,000 journals, and a lot of predatory ones, plus arXiv publishing stuff that looks scholarly but would never pass peer review, and lots of mainstream book publishers putting out books on non-trivial topics but written by schmoes with no credentials, and .... It's a real morass. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 04:40, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

Never mind that harsh enforcement of poorly assimilated knowledge use rules mean that other methods of scholarly dissemination and review can be ruled out. I remember being interviewed by an anthropologist about oral knowledge systems and wiki. Apart from wiki being a eurocentric knowledge system to begin with, my points were pretty clear: if an oral knowledge system possesses field expertise, that expertise is esteemed, and it possesses a review mechanism then go for it. OTOH, ram raiding oral knowledge systems and taking their data is another nasty european-style cultural habit. Central point on WP:IRS territory: we care about the quality of the review mechanism, the field itself being esteemed, and the produced knowledge being field-specific. And the field itself being esteemed is important. I'm sure that some biblical literalists make claims about biblical astronomy, but that field is not esteemed regardless of the quality of review, and the produced knowledge being specific to the field. Fifelfoo (talk) 05:07, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

Agreed. I'm not sure if that last point has been articulated clearly enough in the essay; it's mentioned but just a blip. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 05:44, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

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You're back! I was so happy to see your name earlier today. I had wanted to ask you something during that long Fifelfoo-free drought spell, and discovered that you'd been off-wiki for a long time. I'm glad it was just a break. I hope that all's well with you, and that I'll see you around again. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:03, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Romania's Fascist-named public places

Hello. You've been quite friendly with me, I appreciate that. However, I once made a comment on one of our conversations where I kinda bragged about the list of Romanian public places named after Fascists/Antisemites/War criminals I have in my infobox. Allow me to make sure that you get the right picture.

You see, I definitely understand why - over there in the West - it's the far right who's perceived as the main enemy. You guys fought a "hot" and dreary war against it, followed by just a cold war against the far left's representative, the Soviet Union. However, we had a hot war with the Soviet Union's far left, a very bloody one, whilst the far right didn't do us one 100th of the harm the far left did. The Red Army, did. 14 years of occupation and plunder...forced labor in Hellish prisons...a wretched regime which lasted us nearly half a century and we had to spill more blood to get out of it...the destruction of all our pre-war intellectual elite...Mate, there is no way in Hell or anywhere else for anyone to convince us that the far right is equally bad, let alone worse. We rally behind anyone who resisted and fought the Reds, and yes these individuals are sometimes Fascists/Antisemites, but we don't see that. Shouts like "Fascists, Antisemitic, war criminal" - they're literally gibberish to most of us. We won't see the point, all we'll see is our anti-Communist heroes and martyrs being attacked, and we won't like it. Also - about convicted war criminals - convicted by whom? The Soviet Union? Which in itself was the greatest war crime in the history of humanity, through all it did? And people in the West expect their condemnations to be on equal footing with the Nuremberg Tribunals? Nah, never. The Soviet verdict is invalid to us. It's not whether Antonescu or others did something, it's who sentenced them. The reviled, resented and illegitimate Soviet regime of occupation. That's what we see mainly. And this is why Antonescu in 2006, years after his war crimes were exposed, was still voted as the 6th greatest ever Romanian by the population: he was the most virulent anti-Communist fighter.

The US ambassador here, Hans Klemm, complained when our National Bank issued some coins 2 years ago with Mihail Manoilescu, one of our pre-war pro-Nazis and Antisemites. He declared himself disappointed, and referred to WW2 as the darkest time in Romanian history. Do you see how abhorrently entitled he is? He thinks if that time was the darkest for his country, it must have been the same for ours too. No, it was the red half-century that followed. And after over 1000 of us died to earn our freedom in 1989, here comes Mr Klemm, and other Westerners, to tell us that...no we're not in fact free. And that we still can't honor the same type of people that the Communists interdicted us to honor for decades. Which is basically trampling on the victory of our Revolution. Finally, I'd like to address why Germany and Italy and even Japan are much more "at peace", shall we say, with their pasts. Because, after WW2, they were occupied by the objectively better regime of the Western liberal democracies. But we got the Soviet end of the stick. It was not better, it was not a new model, it was a Hell. Our past regime from WW2, with or without Holocaust participation, was still demonstrably miles better than what came afterwards.

In conclusion, sorry for this huge intrusion into your talk page. I guess I just wanted to discuss this with someone, and you seemed friendly enough. I hope you see where we Romanians come from: it's not "Yay, Fascists and antisemites, let's promote them!" but "Yay, anti-Communist fighters and martyrs, let's promote them!" We're exercising our costly-earned freedom. Torpilorul (talk) 19:47, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

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That is interesting

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"But as Hayden White has demonstrated" (Luyt, 447) Fifelfoo (talk) 01:47, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

?? I am hot a professional historian, I don't understand what do you mean.--Paul Siebert (talk) 02:50, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Hayden White was very strong on the concept of interpretation. Claiming his works "demonstrated," is like accusing an epistemological post-modernist of "proving." Fifelfoo (talk) 15:31, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

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Precious

precision in anarchism

Thank you for quality articles such as Australian Education Union and Helen Palmer (publisher), for adding precision to Anarchism beginning in 2003, and even in the edit summaries, for reviewing with class, for Libertarianism's annotated bibliography, for ending "that long Fifelfoo-free drought spell", - repeating (29 September 2010): you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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MKuCR

I noticed that you made this edit. I don't think your participation in the DR discussion is consistent with that. Please, self-revert, and wait for the DR's outcome. (My own opinion is that the section needs a complete rewrite, so your change is just cosmetic). Paul Siebert (talk) 18:09, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Actioned. Thank you. Fifelfoo (talk) 05:37, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Fifelfoo and Paul Siebert, one user literally did this. Editing the article while the AfD is ongoing is borderline disruptive and may be taken to ANI if they too do not self-revert, as Fifelfoo correctly did. Davide King (talk) 01:59, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

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