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Thanks for getting back to me about Flaming turquoise. I've marked the page for deletion and it should be cleared away soon. I appreciate your work here on Wikipedia and really appreciate your reasonable response to my warnings. Leave the jokes to user space and keep up the good work! Thanks, Scientizzle 20:06, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Bulgarian-Latin Wars and Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars

Hi! You've done a great job with those two articles! They cover the topics well, and especially the one related to Byzantium is very thorough while remaining concise. Here are some suggestions:

1. {{cite book}} is a good way to cite your sources, so they could all have a single, unified formatand be easier to browse.
2. Generally don't capitalize all words in section headings.
3. Make sure you add the article to the relevant categories (the Bulgarian-Latin Wars one had no categories).
4. Don't link years, centuries, decades in most cases, but do link full dates.
5. Regarding long articles with many sections, try to organize them as tidy and logical as possible, so they could be easier to read (I think the Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars needs some restructuring).

Well, that's it mostly. Bulgarian history is quite underrepresented in Wikipedia (and until recently was very underrepresented), so I hope we could work together to have a good coverage of this extensive topic in the future. Best regards, Todor→Bozhinov 15:12, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey you posted me in December about clean-up of one of my articles ive checked it and could you tell me what the hells wrong with it. Thanks King Alaric

Hey its User:king Alaric, I am still trying to sort out this artical on the Roman wars with Antiochus, ive deleted the piece on the battle at Magnesia like was suggested, however you seem to think a better title might be the Roman-Syrain wars i came to change this but i dont know how to change a pages main title if you could tell me i would be most grateful.

Greetings! There are four new battles between Bulgaria and Byzantium (Ongala, Skopie, Spercheios, Solun) which are not added in the template. I do not know how to add them, so would you do that? --Gligan 20:59, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Greetings! I would like to ask you is it a good idea to divide the battles of the Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars in the same manner like those in the Byzantine-Arab Wars. If you agree, we may discuss the possible division and improve the template. Regards, --Gligan 18:42, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking very much like you for the division . The only difference was that I did not think of a separate section for Krum's wars, but the idea is very good provided that there are even two more battle in these wars (but 1st Adrianople is the same as Versinikia, so we should remove it). The battle of Ostrovo may go to Samuil-Basil wars, as Peter Dalyan was of Samuil's kin, or we may create a seperate section for Bulgarian rebelions (there was another unsuccessful battle near Solun in 1040). In general I agree with your division: ) Best, --Gligan 10:32, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Title change

Many Thanks for altering the title of the Roman- Syrain war and i look forward to seeing it being developed. However this page has caused me a major headache im sticking to the Punic wars from now on!!! User:king Alaric

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Keep this place a good place. :) King Alaric 16:35, 14 May 2007 (UTC)KatxCore

Compromised account?

Greetings -- I was suspecting this might be a compromised account, since you have nothing but a long and excellent edit history, and was just about to block it and post a note at WP:ANI -- were you letting a friend mess around? If that was all it was, no problem. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 04:52, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem... we've had a lot of password crackers recently, so a lot of us are on the lookout for this kind of thing. Antandrus (talk) 04:55, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

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For making a difference! Hmm... I am going to have to make a 1500+ for you. This Barnstar isn't free, as payment please give this star to at least 3-5 others with 500+ edits but no barnstar; then encourage them to give it to 3-5 others that deserve it.

Pseudoanonymous 16:31, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Help needed with template

Hi,

You may have noticed that an unpleasant edit war has erupted between myself and a newbie user over a template you created, Template:Notable Rulers of Sumer.

The other user, User:Sumerophile, has repeatedly switched the template to be right-justified in the past 2 weeks, and moves the template to the top of the article. Many if not most of these articles are stubs and this causes a long line of boxes extending down the right side of the article many screens longer than the text itself.

Moreover, the information on the template is not suitable for an infobox style. It is a list of related articles and should be at the bottom of an article near the "See also" section, as with other such templates.

He has simply brushed aside my arguments and continues to enforce his own idea of where the template should go over my reverts, causing blocks and warnings for both of us as a result of the ensuing edit war. I have tried in vain to solicit any discussion about this from a third party. Can you please offer your views on this and help us come to a resiolution or consensus? Thanks, Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 18:49, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Taiwan

In November 2011 you started a move request at Talk:Taiwan#Move_request, proposing to add the word "island" to the title. This has been suggested again. Also it is suggested to move the dab to Taiwan. Then it could prominently be explained that the term Taiwan can refer mainly to 5 things: the island, the island group, any of the two provinces and a country, the ROC. That was chronological order I think. See more at: Talk:Taiwan_(disambiguation)#Move_request.

Maybe, in case that is true, state that you support Taiwan Island and Taiwan (island). My preference is Taiwan Island, but both are better than the ambiguous title "Taiwan" for an article that only talks about the island. Huayu-Huayu (talk) 00:58, 18 January 2012 (UTC) Hello, Crispus,

Thank you for creating Fall_of_Krak_des_Chevaliers.

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Hi, I just marked Fall of Krak des Chevaliers, and noticed the lead is missing. Could you see if you could write a quick lead summorising the article (and maybe section the rest of the article a bit?)

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Reverting Director Infoboxes to by Decade

I've changed my opinion. I prefer how they are without the decades.--TheMovieBuff (talk) 16:47, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

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Clarify...

You appear to be taking credit for edits ([1] & [2]) made by IP user 24.159.56.69. Is that IP yours? - ^theWOLFchild 04:21, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Actually, I just noticed your edit summary; undoing the revert after signing in. Surely you know that editing while logged out is not permitted? - ^theWOLFchild 04:28, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Reverting Policy

Please be aware that it is Wikipedia policy to provide an explanation when reverting good faith edits. Simply reverting an edit clearly made in good faith that does clear up an article should not simply be reverted. Crispus (talk) 04:21, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

You were reverted by another editor. You reverted them. You know full well that you should have gone to the talk page. I reverted your edit, and you reverted again. Now you're headed for an edit war. Go to the article talk page and make a case for you edits, like you're supposed to. - ^theWOLFchild 04:25, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

You reverted a good faith edit without providing an explanation. A simple revert with an explanation that the edit is in good faith and when it clears up a part of the article that is poorly written anyway, is how the system should work. BRD simply is NOT applicable here, because there should be feedback on an edit before a revert is used. Otherwise, the edit process becomes horribly slow. So please include an explanation for the reasons on your edits, as per Wikipedia policy "Insufficient explanations for edits can be perceived as uncivil."— Preceding unsigned comment added by Crispus (talk • contribs) 2016-02-07T23:31:56

(edit conflict)

You made mass changes to an established article without seeking consensus on the talk page. That's fine... you were being bold. But you were reverted. Once that happened, you should have gone to the talk page to discuss the edits, not revert them back in again. I reverted back to the previous version because I had faith in the editor that reverted your changes, and agreed with him. Since you didn't before, you should have gone to the talk page then but, no... you then reverted again. (And, you've done this twice, on two different articles) You seem to think that your way is the only way and you can revert as often as you like to try and ram your changes into the article. Well, good luck with that... - ^theWOLFchild 04:43, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

I did not simply undo his edit, I took his criticism into account and removed a few of the included wars. So I did not simply start an edit war. The only edit war that began was when I changed the article where the formatting was all wrong, and my good-faith edits were undone without any consensus. You seem to think that I am acting in bad faith, but I assure you that I am not, just an infrequent editor that hadn't signed in in a while that saw some changes that needed to be made. Crispus (talk) 04:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Also, you must be aware that "Occasionally an established editor will edit while logged out. While not usually an egregious issue, there can be some concerns about attribution and privacy.

If you made an edit without logging in, you cannot go back and directly tie that edit to your account. If your desire to account for the edit overrides your desire for anonymity, you can log in, make a dummy edit, and add a note in the edit summary about the previous edit." I followed such a policy. I am only a semi-active user, so when it became clear that my edits were facing hostility, I immediately signed in and took credit for them, as per policy. Crispus (talk) 04:37, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

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Aduatuci or Atuatuci

You should have really posted a proposal with rationale before doing that move. :) --Andrew Lancaster (talk) 11:20, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Oh, so that’s how I should have done it. I wasn’t sure, as I hadn’t had an article I had written deleted before. Thanks for taking me on good faith, guess I’ve glt a good stub to feel respsonsible for expanding now :) Crispus (talk) 14:18, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Yes that is the second issue and now there are even 2 articles :) --Andrew Lancaster (talk) 17:39, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

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