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Hi. I disagree that names of countries need icons next to them. MOSICON says they should “help the reader rather than decorate,” and specifically‘’’ to “provide additional essential information or needed illustration”.

But it's good that this is coming up. The guideline is not specific enough, and both my interpretation and yours may be valid ones. I'd like to settle this question once and for all, so we can stop revert-warring over this. We need to get the community to form a consensus, either about this type of use of icons in general, or this specific application of them in infoboxes. I've started a discussion thread at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Flag icons guidelines. Please let's discuss there. —Michael Z. 2008-12-12 17:01 z

Linking complete nouns

Nitpicky, but I don't see how this “fixes” the links. Sentences are easier to read when noun phrases are linked as a unit, as T-34 medium tank, rather than separating their proper names as if they were isolated adjectives, like T-34 medium tank. See also WP:R#NOTBROKEN. —Michael Z. 2009-02-10 22:17 z

Image permission problem with Image:VSS Rifle Iron Sights.jpg

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MPM's pics on Wikipedia

Well, he takes the images specifically for IMFDB, but I showed him a watermark design I built (see the Series 70 1911 picture on his page). The only image he released on here was a CETME 5.56mm MG42 design, but I personally prefer my watermark over the one he used for that image. I'll see what he says, but I think he would prefer if his images stay on IMFDB. - Gunmaster45 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:43, 11 May 2009 (UTC).

Douglas A-20 caption

Hi K, the way I usually punctuate a caption written as a sentence is to apply full punctuation; if the caption is a statement or is a fragmentary sentence or non-sentence, then, it is not treated as a sentence. FWiW, the caption in the aforementioned article does not have a verb, but it can be re-written as a sentence. Bzuk (talk) 18:11, 13 May 2009 (UTC).

help

well i m here asking for help i m new to wikipedia n dont knw many of the rules. what i edited in those articals were lines which were anit-indian in an artical about india n those lines carried referances from pakistan based websites if not edited by user with name Zuhayer171288 whom i find vadalising indian articals perticularly about indian army/system.I request you to please go through all the articals reading each and every line which i edited before you jump to conclusion wheather those edits should be reverted or not and wheather i should be reported or not. one more thing i find you to be from canada with interest in USA,Germany and serbia, will you consider referances from a russian or chinese websites in a USA related artical to be neutral? or referances from polish or dutch websites in artical about germany or german national football(soccer) team to be neutral? or referances from albanian or croatian websites in a serbian artical to be neutral, I guess your answer will be a big no similarly how can you consider referances from a pakistani website in an india related artical to be neutral?I hope you got my point and ll look up into this.(Sushilkumarmishra (talk) 20:04, 17 May 2009 (UTC))

This has nothing to do with India. The Arjun is a failed design and many Indian editors refuse to accept the project's many failures and mishaps out of nationalistic pride. Koalorka (talk) 23:14, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

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Patton^t/c 22:20, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

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Mexican Army's Weapons Inventory

• I have no idea what you are talking about, try elaborating a little further. Ocelotl10293 (talk) 13:28, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Please provide sources documenting Mexico's national weapon inventories. Koalorka (talk) 15:22, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

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Saddo

Oh sorry... God you're sad, you spend your life studying guns, get a life, who cares about my name change, it's the proper name for the weapon anyway, so don't act like a teacher, obssessive control freak #rolleyes —Preceding unsigned comment added by 07ed01 (talk • contribs) 16:28, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Super cool story bro. Koalorka (talk) 19:42, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Koalorka/Userboxes/No-Turkey

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My apologies. ^ Withdrawn. –xeno^talk 02:29, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

File:Stepanov RPK-74.jpg : Deletion Request

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FYI

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Article_ownership_and_personal_attacks_by_User_Koalorka. Mfield (Oi!) 05:25, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

July 2009

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for personal attacks per ANI discussion. Please stop. You are welcome to make useful contributions after the block expires. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below. Toddst1 (talk) 14:14, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

A note of support

Just wanted to say I disagree completely with this block and that I think it's a crock. There's something very wrong when a random user can appear out of nowhere, mess around with article layouts, and then get prominent editors blocked for disagreeing with them. Commander Zulu (talk) 22:03, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Advanced trolling. This one can maunuever around policies rather effectively. Not that he'll be able to change anything. The "new" layout established on the MilHist discussion page is a mirror copy of a page layout I had proposed almost a year ago. So he's wasted a good deal of time re-inventing something that's been around in the same form for a long time. The futility of his butthurt crusade is entertaining and somewhat sad. 173.34.97.54 (talk) 13:28, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

To be clear, the editor wasn't "blocked for disagreeing with them." This editor was blocked for repeat offenses of WP:NPA per consensus on ANI. Toddst1 (talk) 14:08, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

You keep telling yourself that. By punishing greatly exaggerated NPA violations, your block excluded me from the ongoing dispute, and had the effect of basically blocking me for disagreeing with the agitator. 173.34.97.54 (talk) 18:23, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

You never participated in the discussion that you demanded take place even before you were blocked. The substance of our discussion is that subsections are allowed and that the guidelines are not strict rules that will be followed exactly by every article. Some guy (talk) 20:06, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 2 weeks in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for block evasion. Please stop. You are welcome to make useful contributions after the block expires. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below. Toddst1 (talk) 20:33, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

You have to stop

I agree that User:Some guy has been baiting you and Nukes4Tots - but I can't help the situation going forwards if you keep doing things like very transparently evading the block you got for being really rude to him.

You aren't helping yourself by block evasion. It just makes you look bad to other administrators.

Please take the two weeks off and let me deal with the baiting situation if it continues after that.

Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 20:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

The damage has been done. The troll has canvassed enough admins to get his way. His objective was to disassemble the WP:GUNS core structure of editors and the incompetent and malleable admins have helped him out nicely in this. The IP block is not really a problem for me, I'm not too concerned about blocks or bans, but you might as well extend this to a permanent ban, I will certainly not respond to primitive harassment from an editor with a cognitive disability, keep my accout locked, the level of interference by uninvolved idiots is overwhelming. Koalorka (talk) 21:31, 8 July 2009 (UTC)