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MedCab Case

This is to notify you that your MedCab request is being handled at this time. I ask that you participate in the discussion here. Torinir _{( Ding my phone} _{My support calls} _{E-Support Options )} 16:54, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings Wandalstouring 18:40, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Royal Marines MedCab Case

Hi, regarding the Royal Marines MedCab case, I am going to be your mediator. Also could I apologise for the delay in responding to your case. However, I notice the edit war appears to have stopped. In this context, would you confirm on the case page if the dispute still requires mediation. Thanks, Addhoc 11:00, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your response, I've outlined a possible initial compromise for discussion on the case page, and would appreciate your comments. Addhoc 14:06, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to F-14 Tomcat

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Persian

Hi.

"Farsi" is the Persian word for Persian. Writing "I speak Farsi" is as wrong as writing "I speak Deutsch".

I attract your attention to the announcement of The Academy of the Persian Language and Literature (Farhangestan) on this matter:

"Persian" has been used in a variety of publications including cultural, scientific and diplomatic documents for centuries and, therefore, it carries a very significant historical and cultural meaning. Hence, changing "Persian" to "Farsi" would negate this established important precedent.
Changing the usage from "Persian" to "Farsi" may give the impression that Farsi is a new language, although this may well be the intention of some users of Farsi.
Changing the usage may also give the impression that Farsi is a dialect used in some parts of Iran rather than the predominant (and official) language of the country.
The word "Farsi" has never been used in any research paper or university document in any Western language, and the proposal to begin using it would create doubt and ambiguity about the name of the official language of Iran.

Comment I agree with you in general that Persian is the correct term for the language, but I disagree that Farsi is not used in English. You may not consider these to be research papers or university documents, but never is a tough word to use correctly. Here are just a few recent examples: Bejnar 20:26, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hard numbers.(Currents). Columbia Journalism Review 43.6 (March-April 2005): p15 “75,000: Estimated number of blogs written in Farsi.”
Women of the Afghan War.(Book Review). Shahrzad Mojab. Canadian Woman Studies 22.2 (Fall 2002): p160, “The English literature on Afghan women is growing, though it still lags behind the coverage of Afghan women's suffering, struggle, and resistance in Farsi (Persian), Dari or other regional languages.”
The early phonological development of a Farsi-English bilingual child. Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz and David Ingram. International Journal of Bilingualism 6.3 (Sept 2002): p255, “Analyses of data from a longitudinal study of a Farsi-English bilingual infant, Arsham, supported the hypothesis that the child had acquired two separate phonologies with mutual influence; that is, he made occasional use of phonological features of Farsi in English words and vice-versa.”
Afghan Buzkashi: Power Games and Gamesmen. (Book Reviews). Ali A. Jalali. Parameters 31.4 (Winter 2001): p156, “Reviewed by Ali A. Jalali, former Afghan colonel and author of several books on Afghan military history, including The Other Side of the Mountain, coauthored with Lester Grau. Mr. Jalali is Chief of the Farsi (Persian) Service at the Voice of America, Washington, D.C.”

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 I hope you enjoy editing here and being a [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedian]]! Please [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|sign your name]] on talk pages using four tildes (~&#126;~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out [[Wikipedia:Questions]], ask me on my talk page, or place <code>{&#123;helpme}}</code> on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!&nbsp; - [[User:UtherSRG|UtherSRG]] [[User_talk:UtherSRG|(talk)]] 16:44, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
-Tash. I have reverted changes you made to the infobox on the [[Special Air Service]] article for a second time. Those changes you have made (twice now) to the layout of the regiements in the infobox is incorrect and causes corruption of both the box and spurious data across the top of the screen. The way they are laid out in the infobox is necessary for the correct functioning of that template. [[User:Ben W Bell|<font color="Blue">'''Ben W Bell'''</font>]] [[User talk:Ben W Bell|''<font color="Blue">talk</font>'']] 10:39, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
-== London climate ==
-Hi Tashtastic. I have reverted your changes again. They are definitely not "corrections", as nothing that is there currently is wrong. They are additions, which I think are unhelpful. I have tried to explain why at [[Talk:London#Climate]]. If you disagree, please discuss it there and try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly inserting it. [[User:JPD|JPD]] ([[User talk:JPD|talk]]) 14:43, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
-== [[United Kingdom Special Forces]] ==
-Please be aware that UKSF is an official organisation within the Armed Forces of the Crown, meaning there's no room for POV.  It does include the SAS, SBS, SRR, SFSG and the UKSF Sigs Regt but doesn't include 3 Cdo Bde, 16 AA Bde, Bde of Gurkhas, HAC, etc.  Why don't you consider writing an [[Elite forces of the United Kingdom]] article listing these specialist and elite units.  I'd be happy to collaborate.  [[User:Yorkshire Phoenix (194.203.110.127)|Yorkshire Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Phoenix (194.203.110.127)|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Yorkshire Phoenix (194.203.110.127)|contribs]]) 12:50, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
-I understand your point about the UKSF. In that case, a separate article should be created to list all of the other UK special operations units; as to not list them gives the impression that the UKSF are the only UK Special operations units. It can be called UK Special Operations Forces, for example, and have a complete list of such units, with a brief mention of the UKSF as well.
-It can then be linked to from the UKSF article. We can both contribute to writing it. [[User:Tashtastic|Tashtastic]] 15:43, 21 July 2006 (UTC) Let me know your reply soon.
-:Personally I prefer the idea of an [[Elite forces of the United Kingdom]] article with ''UKSF'', ''Other Special Operations units'' and ''Other Elite Forces'' sub-headings, but the title [[Special Operations units of the United Kingdom]] would also follow Wikipedia naming conventions.  I'd be happy to collaborate with you on it.  We could use the history table from [[United Kingdom Special Forces]] to reproduce the old lists from there, rather than write again from scratch.  [[User:Yorkshire Phoenix (194.203.110.127)|Yorkshire Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Phoenix (194.203.110.127)|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Yorkshire Phoenix (194.203.110.127)|contribs]]) 16:12, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
-Okay, that's a good idea. I think the clearest title would be [[Special Operations units of the United Kingdom]], as you suggested. I am not trying to list any elite forces; just UK Special Operations units. I am relatively new to wikipedia and don't know how to start a new article. If you could start it and name it, I could then contribute much to writing it, including starting with explaining that it is about UK Special Operations units, which are not part of the UKSF.  [[User:Tashtastic|Tashtastic]] 16:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
-:Okay, I've started the article with a dump of the old version of [[United Kingdom Special Forces]] (the one that included the non-UKSF units).  Edit away!  [[User:Yorkshire Phoenix (194.203.110.127)|Yorkshire Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Phoenix (194.203.110.127)|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Yorkshire Phoenix (194.203.110.127)|contribs]]) 17:48, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
-=== [[User talk:Torinir/SOF UK Mediation]] ===
-::What do you think of my suggested compromise?  It means having them in the [[UKSF]] article again, but with no suggestion they are anything but articles of potential interest.  [[User:Yorkshire Phoenix (194.203.110.127)|Yorkshire Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Phoenix (194.203.110.127)|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Yorkshire Phoenix (194.203.110.127)|contribs]]) 11:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
-== RN article ==
-I'd be interested in your justification for removing the ASW designator in the Royal Navy Article with reference to the CVS?  Thanks[[User:ALR|ALR]] 14:12, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 ==MedCab Case==
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 This is to notify you that your MedCab request is being handled at this time. I ask that you participate in the discussion [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Torinir/SOF_UK_Mediation here]. [[User:Torinir|Torinir]] <font color="Red"><sub><small>( [[User_Talk:Torinir|Ding my phone]]</small></sub></font> <font color="Green"><sub><small>[[Special:Contributions/Torinir|My support calls]]</small></sub></font> <font color="Blue"><sub><small>[[Special:Emailuser/Torinir|E-Support Options]] )</small></sub></font> 16:54, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
-== RM Article ==
-Can you actually justify reverting the work I've done, other than sheer petulance?[[User:ALR|ALR]] 16:52, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
-== Subject to a dispute ==
-You are subject to a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history#Content_dispute_on_the_Royal_Marines Content dispute on the Royal Marines]
 Greetings [[User:Wandalstouring|Wandalstouring]] 18:40, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
-== Falklands War repeated bad spelling revisions ==
-Please stop altering the spelling of words, that are both correctly spelled and cited as such, to bizzare and archaic versions. Specifically, ''unco-ordinated'' does not appear in either the Cambridge or Oxford concise dictionaries, as cited in the article. You have now changed it three times, twice against a direct citation with no comment other than to suggest ''uncoordinated'' is an Americanism -- which it isn't. --[[User:BadWolf42|BadWolf42]] 14:53, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
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-The article is written in proper British English. "Coodinate" is an American spelling, like "cooperate" instead of co-operate is. Insisting on using "uncoodinated" is the only "bizarre" thing about it, as with so many other American habits, is lazy and inconsistent with the rest of the aricle. [[User:Tashtastic|Tashtastic]] 16:14, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
-:No it isn't. Check out *both* the dictionary cites that do *not* recognise your spelling and instead recognise mine. Continue to do this and I will have to escalate this as malicious behaviour. I see you've a history here, too.--[[User:BadWolf42|BadWolf42]] 17:47, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
-:Tash, stop the edit war. When fellow British editors are correcting your edits, it's time to step down. In this page we have few Americans and a lot of Brits, nobody let's AmE spelling go unchanged. [[User:Sebastiankessel|Sebastian Kessel]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Sebastiankessel|Talk]]''</sup> 18:08, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
-Take your own advice and check it. "Coordinate" is American lazy spelling, normally only used by American speakers. Co-ordinate has long been the proper English spelling. If your spelling was right, people would pronounce it "coo dinate". But they don't; think about it. [[User:Tashtastic|Tashtastic]] 16:45, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
-:It's not only been checked, but it's been cited four times in the Falklands Talk page as correct. Yours has been cited precisely zero times. STOP IT.--[[User:BadWolf42|BadWolf42]] 11:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 == Royal Marines MedCab Case ==