We're in a bit of a pickle in the Wagner discussion page. The issues concerns Social class (sociology) and the phrase supposedly common Germanic past and has now been dismissed by some editors as inconsequential.

At the end of the Wagner discussion page (under Edit War solution topic) there issome suggested courses of action that I was requested to list, from my point of view. Please help. Just take fast look. Thank you

In the introduction, removed as non consequential

• In his own era he furthermore provided the newly emerged middle class with a medium to transfer its familial and political conflicts into a myth of supposedly common Germanic past.

In the Biography chapter removed as non consequential

• Richard Wagner was born into a lower middle class family

User:Major Torp (talk) 15:20, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I am a student working on the Thomas Green Clemson Wikipedia page. I had just recently made a rather large edit for the current size of the page and was wondering if you had any feedback for me that would make my page better. My user page is User:Chewey93 so please contact me if you have any tips. Thank you.

Hello, I'm the anonymous editor that recently got involved in a coupe disputes regarding the editing style on a coupe of pages such as Haller's Blue Army and Poland Armed Forces. As a casual user of Wikipedia I was unsettled by editing which I consider as bias towards polish subject matter. When comparing pages on similar topics I noticed that the language used on pages related to a polish topics used much harder (judgmental) terms, and the phraseology used created a subtle, but clear bias towards Poles that presents them in a negative way.

One example was the recent Buckshot06 edits on Polish Armed Forces page, when I stumbled on this page there was only one picture in the "History" section, and it showed Polish soldiers in a diminutive way that only invited negative and stereoscopical perceptions. So, I added the current pictures which show the Polish military in a respectable, but neutral way. Now, user Buckshot06 is trying to remove them one at a time, by claiming that they have nothing to do with the text.

Another, editing issue that I'm involved in is that of American football coach Jerry Sandusky who was accused of child abuse. Sandusky himself is an American first... of mixed Polish and Irish descent. But, the page only mentioned his Polish roots omitting his Irish ancestry, and when his Irish ancestry was added, administrator Milowent was insistent on only highlighting Sandusky's Polish roots first, as if the man was 100% Polish. Please see the edits below to see how he keeps changing the page structure to highlight this, and in the most recent edit he locked the page despite the fact that no vandalism or edit warring took place.

1st edit: Sandusky was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, the only son of Evelyn Mae (née Lee) and Arthur Sandusky. His paternal grandparents were Polish immigrants and his mother came from a small coal-mining town.

2nd edit (neutral): Sandusky was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, the only son of Evelyn Mae (née Lee) an Irish Catholic homemaker who came from a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town, and Arthur Sandusky who's parents immigrated from Poland.

...and this is what the section was changed to (below). It seems strange how in this case someone wants too highlight the man's Polish root, even if it means that the structure of the text is moved in a incoherent way, since the earlier sections listed the mother first, than the father, and proceeded to list the father's accomplishments, Also, how many times is the editor going to try to use Poland or Polish in one sentence, it seems like he's trying to fill the page with this fact.

3rd edit: Sandusky was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, the only son of Arthur Sandusky, whose Polish parents had immigrated from Poland, and Evelyn Mae (née Lee) an Irish Catholic homemaker who came from a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town.

Now, since the page is locked, I'm not able to revert the changes, and I can't constantly argue with an administrator who clearly has more power to block IP's or lock pages. And, to prove my point of a bias, don't see any mention of Polish ancestry on pages related to other football players/coaches such as Mike Ditka, Don Majkowski, or Rob Gronkowski. Yet, in the case of child abuser Jerry Sandusky his polish background is highlighted and edited to maintain this bias. --76.118.227.161 (talk) 02:01, 4 December 2011

Hello, First of all, thank you for reviewing the What Work Is page. I will try to fix everything on it to make it up to snuff. I was part of the class project that was working on the page and the class has ended. But i care about the page and want it to work. So i will be trying to fix it up. I don't want to waste anymore of your time (i apologize for no one responding within the quite respectable amount of time that was given) so who would be a good person i could contact about certain aspects of editing? The plagarism parts confuse me but i will go back and look at the talk pages to see what the deal is. Thank you very much.

Jason Slavin

Is the site yours? Don't worry I did the job for you and removed it.

Category:Honorverse templates, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 13:20, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You appear to have overlooked my review - if you could see to the corrections that would be useful, otherwise I'll fail the article and you can see to them at leisure before renominating. Thanks, Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 13:52, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. Can you propose an alt hook for Template:Did you know nominations/Scipione Piattoli? :) --LauraHale (talk) 00:11, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Prokonsul,

Hope you don't mind me sending you a message on here, I couldn't find a way of contacting you direct from your Wikipedia user page.

I work as a freelance video/AV editor and I am interested in using your "Clouds above Poland" image in a small project for a local company. I am being paid for the work so would be happy to pay you an amount to use the image, subject to my client's approval-I could afford €40 from my budget. I hope this would be agreeable to you, I can provide more details as to my intended usage if you wish.

Thanks,

Charlie Goodliffe charlie@thebrownroom.co.uk 90.220.67.205 (talk) 21:58, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Charles. You can always use WP:EMAIL, but talk page is fine, too. You can use my image freely within the applicable license, see the image page and Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content. Please let me know if you have any questions, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 22:51, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

		The Content Review Medal of Merit
		By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted contributions to the WikiProject's Peer, A-Class and Featured article reviews for the period October–December 2011, I am delighted to award you the Content Review Medal. Buggie111 (talk) 17:29, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In reply to your comment at User talk:Black Falcon#Deletion review for Category:Freemasons:

I appreciate your notification; I was returning from a wiki-break at the time and, therefore, did not notice your post until the DRV had closed. For reference, the list of the category's original contents is available here. Cheers, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 20:56, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]