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Reversal of Plan Ost

Please cite a source that states the post war expulsions reversed Plan Ost.--Woogie10w (talk) 17:42, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

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Hunnic Language Edits

I am reverting your edits because I have information which is constructive and useful to someone reading. I am sorry if you think otherwise. This is my source:

http://filozofia.wplanet.hu/tag_va.html . Good day to you. HorseSnack (talk) 15:04, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

This is nothing like a reliable source. Please familiarize yourself with the requirements of Wikipedia before editing further. Richard Keatinge (talk) 15:08, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

@HorseSnack: The user created the article Onogur Language (without requirements for an individual article, and checking mainstream scholarship for such a name and info), and even made a link to the article on the article of the Onogurs (who actually spoke Turkic Oghur languages, and not Uralic). Think that the article should be deleted, moved to a draft ie. before all, checked if the user mistoke the name for the Oghur languages (who are sometime called as Hunnic-, because the Huns probably spoke it (Turkic not Uralic language), see Hunnic language).--Crovata (talk) 10:17, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Dark Earth

Appreciate your work on the dark earth article. I wanted to alert you that soil science is going through a paradigm shift in understanding soil organic carbon as it relates to black soil and dark earth phenomenon. It is a huge shift. The Nature article ringing the bell on this was blogged bout here: http://www.gardenmyths.com/humus-does-not-exist-says-new-study/. If you read the Nature article referenced, you will find that black C phenomenon, not accommodated by humification theory, is precipitating a rapid reorganization of soil concepts in this area. I see this (edit: renewed interest in soil C) as a silver lining in the dark cloud of global warming building on our horizon horizon. Mao 2012, referenced in the Nature article, delves into the molecular structure of the black carbon. In the black earth article, where it says that chernozems (Russian for black soil) are black from humification? That is a major point of contention now. Evidence is accumulating that chernozems are an artifact of neolithic fire managing steppe cultures. There is a closer link between the dark earth and black soil phenomenon than we have previously appreciated. Exciting times for the science! Hope this backstory helps with your editing. -- Paleorthid (talk) 00:51, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Very interesting, and new to me, many thanks! My interest in the dark earth comes mainly from an archaeological and anthropological angle and you have opened for me a new intellectual inquiry. Richard Keatinge (talk) 09:44, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Hunnic Language Edits

I wasn't stating it as a fact, I was putting out information to let the user decide whether it was true or not. What you say about good sources is true about the Codex Isfahan, however in Wiktionary it clearly says that quiver is of Hunnish origin. I was also trying to draw attention to the fact that the word "quiver" derivation is almost certainly false as we only have 3 known Hunnish words. Thank you, -EggSalt (talk) 09:48, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikis aren't reliable sources either, and none of this looks to be worth including in the article. Richard Keatinge (talk) 10:12, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Travel in the Greco-Roman world

Hello Richard Keatinge! I recently wrote an article (Travel in the Greco-Roman world)) and thought, based on your interest in the Classics wikiproject, that you might be interested in looking it over, given that it's still quite rough. I'd like to someday get it to GA status, and any help would be appreciated. If not, no worries! Thanks--MainlyTwelve (talk) 21:06, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

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Anthony Bailey (PR advisor)

Hello, You just reverted my edit. It is patently nonsense to say that he revived the Order. The Order was functioning quite happily for over 400 years before he was born. He received it in the 1990s, he revived nothing. The Order comes under the authority of the Pope, only he can revive or dissolve it. The source is wrong. Kiltpin (talk) 20:55, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi, let's take this to the talk page. Richard Keatinge (talk) 21:46, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

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RfC at Macedonia (ancient kingdom)

Greetings. An RfC has been opened here on the issue of calling ancient Macedonia a "Greek kingdom". Your input would be appreciated if you wish to do so. --Taivo (talk) 11:11, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Please refrain from nationalist Ethnic Macedonian POV

Please I hope you refrain from ever replicating and demonstrating nationalist Ethnic Macedonian arguments like you did here: [1].

If you want to contribute positively to Wikipedia, it is expected that you do so without resorting to classic arguments about the non-Greekness of the kingdom of Macedon by quoting politicians. This is unacceptable. -- SILENTRESIDENT 13:54, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

See the talk page. Richard Keatinge (talk) 14:32, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

change Kurdistan to Assyria for Western Roman Empire article

If the change was reverted in consideration with region, why not fit with the regions that were of the time which was Assyria? Sincerely, ܐܵܬܘܿܪܵܝܵܐ 03:11, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Holen et al

I'm not going to remove this, but a discussion with the editor who first added it was about the fact that this is may be too soon to be adding this to the article. Something is extraordinary really should wait until there's some comment on it by other professionals. He'd agreed with shortening it, I'm still not sure it belongs yet. 15:32, 27 April 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller (talk • contribs)

OK, arguable. Like Drbogdan I'll take your advice on it, revert if you like, but personally I felt it's respectable enough to be in if clearly flagged as a recent claim. Richard Keatinge (talk) 15:58, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

At this edit I have put in a rebuttal from a respected authority. I feel that it is useful to have mention in something like its present form; especially in the context of widespread use by fringe sites it's good to include both the claim and the fact that it's probably wrong. But as I say, I'll take your advice if you feel strongly. Richard Keatinge (talk) 11:01, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

That's really interesting. Tom Dillehay has been an advocate of older than Clovis. So his comments hold a lot of water. I'm busy and may not have time until next week, but if I do have time today I'll add some more from your link. Hopefully soon. Doug Weller talk 12:08, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

And done. Doug Weller talk 13:27, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Religion in Ancient Rome

Hi, I am copyediting this article based on a request made at GOCE. I should have put the GOCEinuse template up as a a notice. I have inadvertently removed your last edit—I use Vim for long copy edits, and sometimes I do not see intervening edits. This is why I use the template. It was not intentional, but while the copyedit is in progress I have opened a discussion on talk and would appreciate comments there. I am going to go over the lede again once I am done with the main text in any case, though I appreciate it because my spell check missed the "attitude" typo. If you feel I've made errors in removing material from this article, it would help if you could justify that on talk where the requesting editor and other editors can discuss. There is a lot of good material in this article, and I am having difficulty condensing it but for an article of this length, I think we can expect that some material needs to be removed, or perhaps split into more detailed articles, to keep the length and level of detail manageable and improve the article. We are not supposed to discuss every detail about a topic in a general overview article, but if you feel I have made a major mistake please propose it on talk and I will follow what the consensus there is. This would be really helpful to me, and it will also avoid my accidentally reverting edits while copyediting. Thank you Seraphim System ^(talk) 08:51, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

The Battle of Watling Street

Dear Richard,

As someone who has made some logical comments on the articale about Boudica's final defeat, do you have any view on the wretched (in my view) title?

WillE (talk) 18:16, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

As you say, wretched, and long overdue for a change. Let's continue the discussion on that article's talk page. Richard Keatinge (talk) 20:14, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

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Highland Clearances

Do you still have any interest in Highland Clearances? I just feel the article could do with a broader spread of editors taking a look at it now and again.ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 23:18, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I've just had another look and my only thought is that it's much better than when I last contributed... I'll keep it on my watchlist. Richard Keatinge (talk) 17:06, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

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Sorry unable to access my old email for Wikipedia, so unable to see your email....I have changed my email account.-- BOD -- 19:21, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

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Defeat of Boudica

Richard, you took part in discussions about the page of "Battle of Watling Street". I thought you would like to know I've changed the title as above. Best. WillE (talk) 22:04, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Possible conflict of interest?

Hello Richard Keatinge,

I noticed you edited the Bicycle helmet article restoring links that a user referred to as "POV links from well known #helmetdeniers". This article references you as a board member of the Bicycle Helmet Research Foundation, which runs the site whose links you re-added in the Bicycle helmet article. Could you please explain this? Thank you, Vermont (talk) 03:29, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

As you'll notice from longstanding remarks on my user page I am (or was) a member of the Bicycle Helmet Research Foundation, and of three references that I re-added, one is a primary reference to their site, one is conveniently archived there though published elsewhere, and one is to a government publication with, as far as I know, no connection except a common academic interest. Richard Keatinge (talk) 10:15, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

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100 Years' War article edits

Hi Richard. Thank you for your contributions to Battle of Blanchetaque and Battle of Crécy in the 1345-1347 series.

I appreciate that as a bowyer you are likely to have a firm view on how to describe the loosing of an arrow, bolt or quarrel; lest you think an unusual degree of ignorance is being displayed, can I refer you to Talk:Battle of Crécy#Use of the word "fire"

In Battle of Blanchetaque you changed "it proved impossible to take any action with the main English army before winter" to " it proved impossible to do anything major with the main English army". To my eye a normal reading of the second version is that something less than major was done. I am not aware of anything. Are you?

You also replaced "The English archers successfully suppressed the fire of the French" with "The English archery proved more effective than the French crossbow shot", which means something different. If you would like to recast the sentence to remove the word "fire", could you include the main fact. Obviously, you may have a different or better word or phrase than "suppressed".

You may be amused that the second source I checked to ensure that my memory was correct re "suppression", Lord Sumption's magisterial series on the Hundred Years' War, includes "they loosed a rain of arrows down upon them. Under cover of the archers' fire ... "

Cheers

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