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Just to note: if you post something on my talk page, I'll carry on the conversation there (on my talk page) unless you ask me to put it somewhere else. Pfainuk talk

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Please put List of nations on your watch list. I though it had been settled but Mat Lewis clearly does not a he waited a year and then changed the redirect. -- PBS (talk) 04:46, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. Thanks. Pfainuk talk 10:03, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reverting personal attack on my talk page! — Zhernovoi (talk) 19:47, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Pfainuk talk 17:57, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An article that you have been involved in editing, Wikipedia:WikiProject South America/Falkland Islands work group/Units, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going to the article and clicking on the (Discuss) link at the top of the article, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Martinvl (talk) 19:23, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you don't mind my removing categories from a subpage of yours, as categories shouldn't populate such pages. Best, Verbal chat 17:02, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough - if they don't belong they don't belong. I've requested the page be speedied anyway because I'd forgotten I had it. Pfainuk talk 17:04, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:BCAFL team has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Pit-yacker (talk) 16:01, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What to do? The situation can't be allowed to continue where one editor is effectively vetoing everything unless he gets his way. Justin talk 18:37, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think we have a fairly strong case for non-unanimous consensus here. Goodness knows we've tried to get his agreement. And it would be going by his word: he said he wouldn't contest WP:FALKLANDSUNITS if no-one else did - and notably, no-one else did. Also notably, he's only actually opposed on procedural grounds (that he doesn't think we'll keep up our end of the bargain) - not on grounds of substance (that there's something wrong with the proposal).

If you agree with my feeling that there is actually non-unanimous consensus, then the next job is to start changing articles - which I don't mind starting on tomorrow. I figure on going down the importance scale, obviously excluding any that are clearly more connected to some other project.

On the consistency rule, last time around I only applied it where we were actually using (say) distance and area in the same paragraph. The rule is, if a metric measure is "significantly inconsistent" with an imperial one, use imperial for both, and then continue using imperial for that context in the rest of the article (for internal consistency). In practice, this generally means that all land areas in an article go imperial if one of them happens to be in the same paragraph as a distance - and not much else. Pfainuk talk 21:08, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK I have kinda suggested we just go ahead and ignore him, I can make a low key start as I have a lot of commitments at the moment. Would it not be better to work to the weekend. Justin talk 21:23, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Might be easier, yeah. Let's start at the weekend then. Pfainuk talk 06:19, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK no worries, btw seen his latest love note? Justin talk 08:00, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. He's run out of arguments, methinks. Pfainuk talk 18:36, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pfainuk, I really don't want to get entangled in this dispute, but the "cleaning up Michael's mess" summaries are likely to cause offence. Will you please moderate these messages? Tony (talk) 03:39, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If positions were reversed, would you say the same to Michael? Of course not. Please don't try and set yourself up as a neutral observer here - we all know you're not and it doesn't help anyone. Pfainuk talk 09:10, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No I had no intention of edit warring but I wasn't prepared to allow a racist epithet to remain in that article. Justin talk 19:38, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. Pfainuk talk 19:41, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Sorry to bother here, but as you are a contributor to certain discussions at the List of sovereign states I would like to show you the recently compiled list of all proposals for sorting criteria so that you can express your opinion here. Thanks! Alinor (talk) 13:29, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

hi Pfainuk,

thank you for warning, but read here. --Keysanger 15:56, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks! Pfainuk talk 17:12, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would appreciate an explanation for this accusation. I also recommend you discuss this in the Talk Page [1] instead of reverting a referenced edition. JCRB (talk) 09:32, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Simple. You do nothing on Wikipedia but push a pro-Spanish and apparently now a pro-Argentine POV. You are a POV pusher. Pfainuk talk 17:06, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A proposal to change the layout and sorting criteria of the article List of sovereign states has been finalised and submitted for consensus.

As you were previously involved in the discussion for this change, I thought I would inform you of the final proposal. Please provide comments here. Nightw 13:19, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've opened up a WP:RFM for List of sovereign states at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/List of sovereign states. Please indicate whether you agree or don't agree to mediation there. TDL (talk) 00:40, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the heads up but for information I'm avoiding the article for the moment. Kind of a lame dispute, when a cool calm discussion could easily have resolved it. Justin talk 23:28, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]