User talk:Leicchaucer

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Leicester University Law Society[edit]

Well, to be perfectly honest and nice, this is a Wiki, so just go to the article and fix it? GreenJoe 19:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You can contact the admins at WP:RAA. Good luck. GreenJoe 20:05, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits[edit]

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July 2010[edit]

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Prime Minister of Lower Saxony a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 01:46, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please try to resolve your differences with User:Josh Gorand. In the meantime, please use the Cut and paste move repair holding pen to have the revision histories of the two pages merged. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 01:50, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Minister-President[edit]

How could anyone get anything other than Minister-President from Ministerpräsident? Kingjeff (talk) 02:44, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you want to have a vote on the topic? Kingjeff (talk) 17:13, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'd very much prefer a vote on the issue, rather than having a discussion on who was wrong first...what do you think? Leicchaucer (talk) 20:05, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion is going nowhere. I think a vote is the only way to go. I think the four options are Ministerpräsident/Ministerpräsidentin, Minister-President, Prime Minister and Premier. I think the vote should happen on WikiProject Germany since there will probably be a wider turnout. Kingjeff (talk) 23:29, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I concur with you 100 per cent. Doing it for the WikiProject Germany will prevent an unrepresentative sample or one person imposing their unsourced theories on the entire community. I find Josh's conduct to be only a bit short of scandalous and unbecoming.Leicchaucer (talk) 01:38, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And you agree with me on all 4 names? Kingjeff (talk) 02:05, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Voting has started here. Kingjeff (talk) 03:14, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Second round of voting has started. Kingjeff (talk) 14:04, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see you reverted back Josh Gorand's talk page. Don't let him manipulate you into an edit war over his talk page over some comment you made to him. We both know Josh Gorand is manipulative and he will drag you into a block. Kingjeff (talk) 18:17, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Please remember that the discussion did not reach any consensus and the votes were even slightly in favour of "Minister-President". That's why I have restored the term in the Gerhard Schröder article. De728631 (talk) 19:41, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Acknowledged - I will respect the current consensus. However, I would suggest that interested users try to thrash this terminology issue out as soon as possible. There is a case to be made that we should be using accurate English terms here on Wiki.Leicchaucer (talk) 20:56, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This has already been discussed ad nauseam on Wikipedia and I'd like to point out that there's quite a number of respected writers and organisations using the term "Minister President" such as the Economist Intelligence Unit [1], Joseph Conrad [2], the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences [3], or the Foreign and Commonwealth Office [4]. De728631 (talk) 21:18, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I for one see absolutely no reason to restart such a discussion and on the other hand I could show sources from the governments of Saxony Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg Western Pommerania, as well as from the German federal government (embassy to the UK) or other sources like CeBIT, the University of Heidelberg or the Spiegel magazine who all use variations of Minister President. Add to that 500k Google hits for "minister-president site:be". Consensus can change or in this case consensus may eventually be established first of all but in my eyes this term is already well-established in Europe and so we don't need to change anything. De728631 (talk) 14:33, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. On that note you might want to consider the words of the admin who closed the last vote/debate: "This issue has used up far more time and energy than warranted by its objective importance. All participants are asked to consider stepping back from the issue and just leaving it be. There is no indication anywhere here that either the one or the other wording is factually wrong, against policy or otherwise damaging to the project.". De728631 (talk) 14:41, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

June 2012[edit]

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July 2012[edit]

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Mayawati. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 14:29, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Mayawati. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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I shall be adding the requisite sources underpinning the assertion of an authoritarian style of leadership made.Leicchaucer (talk) 07:21, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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