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Talk:Jim Crow laws

Where are the Laws?!
The title of this entry is, "Jim Crow Laws", but it contains no examples of the actual state and local laws. Grossly incomplete. WikiJoe24 (talk) 02:40, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The External links section actually does include a link to state and local laws. There are some other sites that contain such lists which you can readily find with a google search, and if you feel that one of these other sites should be added to the External links section, that's certainly something that you could propose, if you don't want to do the edit yourself. Fabrickator (talk) 07:45, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

South Africa?!
Why an image about a South African placard of the era of apartheid is used when linking this article in another article? You want to make South Africans look bad by a thing that happened in the USA?

--Breizhcatalonia1993 (talk) 22:25, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Breizhcatalonia1993. That's the Segregation navigation box for the whole "Part of a series of articles on Racial/ethnic segregation". If you have ideas for improving that box, Template talk:Segregation or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Discrimination are the places to propose/discuss it. DMacks (talk) 05:02, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

New Earliest Mention Discovered
Under the "Etymology" section the earliest mention should be updated according the following pertinent information:

"The first reference to a “Jim Crow car” that I could find in a newspaper, aided by the 21st-century power of digitized databases? The Salem Gazette, Oct. 12, 1838, less than six weeks after the new Eastern Rail Road opened for business on thirteen-and-a-half miles of freshly-laid track from East Boston to Salem, Mass." https://time.com/5527029/jim-crow-plessy-history/ Mitzip (talk) 16:16, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

 * I came to this page to say the same thing—Jim Crow laws began in the north well before the civil war even kicked off. It's also not a legal phenomenon restricted in the least to the former confederate states. This page is in major need of updates. Bailey.d.r (talk) 04:33, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

bad link for grundy citation
There is currently a "questia.com" link for the Pamela Grundy citation to "Pamela Grundy, Learning to win: Sports, education, and social change in twentieth-century North Carolina". An actual working link is in fact available.

Most of the time, I fix issues like this on my own, but I think doing this may actually be counter-productive because it's really just papering over/covering up the problem, and as well, I'm not sure what the actual preferred link to use is. Anyway, the current link is for "questia.com" (which seems to be an actually dead website). There is a working Wayback archive link, but the only info that seems to be available there is the title of the book. So everybody who looks at this link will waste a minimum of two or three minutes unless they're persistent enough to spend more time.

Okay, they can go to worldcat (my preferred "first choice" since it purports to show "open access" sources, even though its accuracy on this is limited), enter the title of the book (or a portion thereof) which will provide them a link to archive.org. You could also do a search at "openlibrary.org", which will require you to establish a login (at no charge), which on entering the title of the book, will take you to essentially the same archive.org interface. (In this instance, archive.org and openlibrary.org are equally effective, but that's not necessarily the case).

If you went to access the archive.org link, you have to click on the "borrow" button to go directly to the indicated page number of 297. Alternatively, you can use the text search on the left panel, assuming you know what text you're looking for. The surrounding text (as plaintext) actually displays in the left panel, though the actual page may show up in the main panel (depending on how you accessed it ... you get the most restricted access if you try to go directly to the specified page by including the page number in the link, assuming you're already logged in). OTOH, if you're not logged in, you can still do a search (not sure what text to search for? the page number may be all that you need to search on).

This direct link to page 297 demonstrates how that works.

The actual preferred link to include in the citation is not obvious. (Is it a mistake for me to be giving away these secrets?) Fabrickator (talk) 23:00, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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Lysander

Lysander (Λύσανδρος ; c. 454 BC – 395 BC) was a Spartan military and political leader. He destroyed the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Aegospotami in 405 BC, forcing Athens to capitulate and bringing the Peloponnesian War to an end. He then played a key role in Sparta's domination of Greece for the next decade until his death at the Battle of Haliartus.

Lysander's vision for Sparta differed from most Spartans; he wanted to overthrow the Athenian Empire and replace it with Spartan hegemony.

Early life
Little is known of Lysander's early life. His year of birth is estimated at 454 BC. Some ancient authors record that his mother was a helot or slave. Lysander's father was Aristocritus, who was a member of the Spartan Heracleidae; that is, he claimed descent from Heracles but was not a member of a royal family. According to Plutarch, Lysander grew up in poverty and showed himself obedient, conformed to norms, and had a "manly spirit".

It was custom in the Spartan upbringing for a young adult to be assigned as the "inspirer" (eispnelas) or "lover" (erastes) of an adolescent, and Lysander was matched in this role with the future king Agesilaus, the younger son of Archidamus II. Nothing is known of Lysander's actual career before he was elected, in 408 BC, to Sparta's annual office of admiral, to conduct the long-running Peloponnesian War against Athens.

Admiral
From Gythium on the eastern shore of the Peloponnese, Lysander set out with 30 triremes. He sailed to Rhodes, where he collected some more ships, and made his way to Cos, Miletus, Chios, gathering ships, until he finally arrived at Ephesus, which he turned into the Peloponnesian League's naval base in Ionia. His arrival was shortly followed by that of Cyrus, young son of the Persian king Darius, who had been appointed by his father as governor of the provinces of Asia Minor in response to an earlier Spartan embassy requesting increased aid in the war against Athens. Lysander promptly went to meet Cyrus at his headquarters in nearby Sardis, and with calculated deference made a deep impression on the young prince, developing with him a close friendship that was to have a decisive effect in the course of the war. Cyrus began funding Sparta's war effort on a large scale, and was encouraged to increase the pay of Lysander's crews from three to four obols, increasing their morale and Lysander's popularity among them. Once back in Ephesus, Lysander summoned a conference of influential oligarchs from all over the Greek cities in the Aegean, encouraged them to organize into political clubs (hetaireiai), and promised to put them in power in their respective cities in the event of Athens' defeat. In doing so, Lysander created in effect a network of clients who were loyal to him personally and contributed to Sparta's war effort with increased eagerness.

As Lysander was fitting out his vessels at Ephesus, an Athenian fleet roughly the size of his own, led by the famous Alcibiades, set up anchor at the nearby port of Notium. At first, the Spartan was content to refuse battle and let his higher wages, funded by Cyrus, encourage desertions among the enemy crews. Eventually, however, one of the Athenian officers, despite orders to stay put, was drawn into a fight with an advance party of Peloponnesian ships. Lysander gave a timely order for his entire fleet to advance, and drove off the intruder before they had properly deployed for battle, inflicting modest losses. Alcibiades, who had been away on urgent business, returned upon hearing of this setback and again offered battle off Ephesus, but Lysander once more refused, and the Athenians had to withdraw.

However, Lysander ceased to be the Spartan navarch after this victory and, in accordance with the Spartan law, was replaced by Callicratidas. Callicratidas' ability to continue the war at sea was neatly sabotaged when Lysander returned all the donated funds to Cyrus when he left office.

Vice-admiral
After Callicratidas was defeated and killed at the Battle of Arginusae, Cyrus and the oligarchic clubs which Lysander had sponsored all sent embassies to Sparta requesting the former admiral's return to command. The Spartan government consented, a sign of confidence in his ability and an endorsement of his policy of supporting oligarchies in the Greek cities. As Spartan law did not allow an admiral to hold office twice, Lysander was instead appointed the secretary (epistoleus) or second-in-command to Callicratidas's eventual successor, Aracus, with the understanding that the latter would allow Lysander to take the lead. Making his base at Ephesus again, the Spartan began gathering and rebuilding the remnants of the Peloponnesian fleet in the Aegean, once again with the full cooperation of his Greek allies and Cyrus. In the meantime, Lysander visited Miletus, an ally of Sparta, and deceitfully massacred some leading democrats during the festival of Dionysus in early 405 BC to place his own adherents in power; replacing Miletus' democracy with an Oligarchy. In the summer, Lysander's principal benefactor, Cyrus, was summoned to the deathbed of his father, the King, and, before departing, took the extraordinary step of entrusting the Spartan with his entire treasury and with the revenues from the Persian-ruled cities under his administration.

Lysander finally set sail with some 125–150 ships, and among his early actions, which are variously reported by the sources, were the massacre and enslavement of the population of Iasus and Cedreae, allies of Athens. He continued toward the Hellespont to threaten the route of grain transports to Athens from the Black Sea, forcing the Athenians to send their fleet, 180 ships, in pursuit. Lysander set up anchor at Lampsacus and plundered it, while the Athenians took up a position at Aegospotami in the opposing shore of the straits. For several days Lysander refused battle, studying the opponent's moves, until, during a moment of enemy carelessness, he surprised the Athenians and captured most of their vessels as they were still ashore and unmanned. The entire Athenian fleet was gone, and Sparta had finally won the Peloponnesian War.

Now in full command of the seas, Lysander began touring the Aegean to receive the surrender of enemy strongholds, ordering all captured Athenian garrisons and cleruchs (colonists) home in order to overcrowd the city and hasten its surrender through famine. In many Greek cities, he installed ten-man governing boards (decarchies) whose members were selected from the oligarchic clubs he had sponsored earlier, supported and supervised by a Spartan harmost (military governor). Democrats and other opponents of his narrow oligarchies were often massacred or banished. In a propaganda gesture he restored places like Aegina, Melos and Scione to populations whom the Athenians had forcibly uprooted throughout the course of the war.

Following an unsuccessful attempt to bring about Athens's surrender with a show of force off Attica in autumn 405 BC, Lysander began establishing contacts with Athenian oligarchic exiles and sponsored their return to the city as one of the conditions for peace, which was finally concluded in spring 404 BC. Lysander received the surrender of the last of Athens's allies, Samos, in the summer of 404 BC, after which he went in person to Athens in response to an appeal by Athenian oligarchs. On the anniversary of the battle of Salamis, Lysander sailed into the Piraeus, ordered the razing of Athens's city walls and the burning of its fleet, and sent for female flautists from the city to play music as the deed was carried out. He also oversaw a meeting of the Athenian assembly which effectively abolished Athens's democracy and replaced it with a governing board of thirty oligarchs (the Thirty Tyrants).

Command in Athens
After storming and seizing Samos, Lysander returned to Sparta. Alcibiades, the former Athenian leader, emerged after the Spartan victory at Aegospotami and took refuge in Phrygia, northwestern Asia Minor with Pharnabazus, its Persian satrap. He sought Persian assistance for the Athenians. However, the Spartans decided that Alcibiades must be removed and Lysander, with the help of Pharnabazus, arranged the assassination of Alcibiades.

Lysander amassed a huge fortune from his victories against the Athenians and brought the riches home to Sparta. For centuries the possession of money was illegal in Lacedaemonia, but the newly minted navy required funds and Persia could not be trusted to maintain financial support. Roman historian Plutarch strongly condemns Lysander's introduction of money; despite being publicly held, he argues its mere presence corrupted rank-and-file Spartans who witnessed their government's newfound value for it. Corruption quickly followed; while general Gylippus ferried treasure home, he embezzled a great amount and was condemned to death in absentia.

Resistance by Athens
The Athenian general Thrasybulus, who had been exiled from Athens by the Spartans' puppet government, led the democratic resistance to the new oligarchic government. In 403 BC, he commanded a small force of exiles that invaded Attica and, in successive battles, defeated first a Spartan garrison and then the forces of the oligarchic government (which included Lysander) in the Battle of Munychia. The leader of the Thirty Tyrants, Critias, was killed in the battle.

The Battle of Piraeus was then fought between Athenian exiles who had defeated the government of the Thirty Tyrants and occupied Piraeus and a Spartan force sent to combat them. In the battle, the Spartans defeated the exiles, despite their stiff resistance. Despite opposition from Lysander, after the battle Pausanias the Agiad King of Sparta, arranged a settlement between the two parties which allowed the re-establishment of democratic government in Athens.

Final years
Lysander still had influence in Sparta despite his setbacks in Athens. He was able to persuade the Spartans to select Agesilaus II, his younger lover, as the new Eurypontid Spartan king following the death of Agis II, and to persuade the Spartans to support Cyrus the Younger in his unsuccessful rebellion against his older brother, Artaxerxes II of Persia.

Hoping to restore the juntas of oligarchic partisans that he had put in place after the defeat of the Athenians in 404 BC, Lysander arranged for Agesilaus II, the Eurypontid Spartan king, to take command of the Greeks against Persia in 396 BC. The Spartans had been called on by the Ionians to assist them against the Persian King Artaxerxes II. Lysander was arguably hoping to receive command of the Spartan forces not joining the campaign. However, Agesilaus had become resentful of Lysander's power and influence. So Agesilaus frustrated the plans of his former mentor and left Lysander in command of the troops in the Hellespont, far from Sparta and mainland Greece.

Back in Sparta by 395 BC, Lysander was instrumental in starting a war with Thebes and other Greek cities, which came to be known as the Corinthian War. The Spartans prepared to send out an army against this new alliance of Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos (with the backing of the Achaemenid Empire) and ordered Agesilaus to return to Greece. Agesilaus set out for Sparta with his troops, crossing the Hellespont and marching west through Thrace.

Death
The Spartans arranged for two armies, one under Lysander and the other under Pausanias of Sparta, to rendezvous at and attack the city of Haliartus in Boeotia. Lysander arrived before Pausanias and persuaded the city of Orchomenus to revolt from the Boeotian League. He then advanced to Haliartus with his troops. In the Battle of Haliartus, Lysander was killed after bringing his forces too near to the walls of the city.

Following his death, an abortive scheme by Lysander to increase his power by making the Spartan kingships collective and that the Spartan king should not automatically be given the leadership of the army, was "discovered" by Agesilaus II. There is argument amongst historians as to whether this was an invention to discredit Lysander after his death. However, in the view of Nigel Kennell, the plot fits with what we know of Lysander.

Legacy
Lysander is one of the main protagonists of the history of Greece by Xenophon, a contemporary. For other (later) sources he remains an ambiguous figure. For instance, while the Roman biographer Cornelius Nepos charges him with "cruelty and perfidy", Lysander – according to Xenophon – nonetheless spared the population of captured Greek poleis such as Lampsacus.

The Westland Lysander aircraft was named after him.

Commemoration
According to Duris of Samos, Lysander was the first Greek to whom the cities erected altars and sacrificed to him as to a god and the Samians voted that their festival of Hera should be called Lysandreia. He was also the first Greek who had songs of triumph written about him.

Sayings attributed to Lysander

 * "Where the lion's skin does not reach, it must be patched with the fox's".
 * He boasted about cheating "boys with knuckle-bones and men with oaths".

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User talk:Merphant

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Help or drop me a line. BTW, I like what you have done with the place. Cheers! --maveric149

Please check Musical genre. You and I just collided and something you did may have been lost. Ortolan88 14:36 Aug 1, 2002 (PDT)

Santa Cruz Operation is listed as created by you, today (Oct 3), as a new page. I could have sworn the page existed before today. Have I lost my mind?

 * It doesn't appear to have existed previously under that title, but Merphant seems to have cut-n-pasted it from the long-existing SCO, then redirected that page to the new one. Merphant, you might want to check out How to rename a page for a cleaner way to rename/move pages. (Which I've just performed on the page in question.) --Brion 10:21 Oct 3, 2002 (UTC)

Hi - I just extended the dynamics article, and made all of your little stubs on dynamic indications (forte, fortissimo and pianissimo) redirects to there. Hope you don't mind. I think it's better this way, because I can't think of a way to make those little articles more than stubs, and they're all closely linked anyway, so I think it's best to have all the stuff in one place. --Camembert

 * You're right, it is better this way. I made those because they were empty articles linked from a prominent page like music basic topics. I tend to make a lot of stubby articles which should probably be combined, like F clef, G clef, etc. as in the discussion on Talk:treble clef. My strategy is to fill in the badly needed info first, then go back and polish later. -- Merphant

 * I think that's a pretty good strategy, and you're doing pretty well by it :)  I like what you did with clef by the way - I added a couple of comments to the talk page there. --Camembert

I do wish you wouldn't keep altering/redirecting flautist. A flautist is the British term for flutist, based on the word flauto, and retained due to 18th Century Italian influence. If you don't want to have this, perhaps you can suggest some other way round the problem. DM

 * I thought it redundant to have an article for both flutist and flautist; let's pick one (obviously I chose flutist, but if you prefer flautist, well let's call the whole thing off ;-) -- Merphant

In a sense it is redundant, but I can't see how to get the different term in otherwise. Flautist is commonly used in the UK, and perhaps other European countries, but flutist is (apparently) commoner elsewhere. Can you think of a way of including the following text ....

Flautist: British term for flutist, based on Italian word flauto, and adopted due to 18th Century Italian influence. Outside the United Kingdom it is more common to refer to flutists or flute players.

Also, is there some way that using "flautist" will actually link directly to this text - I'm not sure if Wikipedia has something similar to the internal labels for URLs/HTML - see www.xyz123.com#link 34 for example.

Actually - I think I'll fix it - I'll edit flutist.

Have done it - think it's much better - hope you do too. Best wishes DM.

 * Ok, glad we got that resolved :) -- Merphant

Actually you might also be able to help - I don't think that the flute head joint is ever hyperbolic - see flute - I've made an amendment - I'm 90% sure this must be incorrect - they are parabolic surely? OK - so you altered the text - that's OK - but we should know for sure whether the interior can ever be a hyperbola - I think not.

 * They probably are parabolic. I'll just delete the hyperbola part. -- Merphant

OK - thanks - that makes sense. Is this the "right" way to communicate, or are we supposed to use "Talk" - I haven't a clue - only just started (a few days back). It seems to work! DM.

Moved from User:Merphant/sandbox:

Suggestion make the image pages redirects to the apropriate piece article.

 * That would be neat, click on a piece, go to the article. I'm not sure how to do that; making the image pages redirect seems like a bad idea, though. This is actually just a testbed for a chess gameboard like the ones in Lir and Ram-Man's chess games. -- Merphant

is it possible to have just the image without a background? Lir 00:14 Nov 21, 2002 (UTC)

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/A00_Sokolsky_Opening

 * I'm not sure what you mean. The images in my sandbox should have a transparent background; they do in Mozilla, at least. The ones in the article linked above are of somewhat better quality; they seem to be the same pictures, just scaled and shaded a little. I also found some public domain chess books on the internet which have some very nice images: look here for an example. These would be very easy to convert to usable PNGs. -- Merphant

 * I've uploaded the new images. They look nice, but they are a bit larger than the old ones (like twice as big). -- Merphant

Just read your note about the musical terms lists - quite fair. I like meddling too!

Also, I like the chess board - if it were easier to edit, Wikipedeans could take time out to play chess - when they get bored with playing with Wikipedia, that is! -- User:David Martland

 * I've tried to make it a bit easier to edit, with coordinate ids for each table cell. There is some discussion of wiki table syntax on meta-wikipedia, but who knows if/when this will happen. I'm actually pretty bad at chess, but I thought it would be fun; also, some of the chess pages might be able to use it, like the Sokolsky opening linked above. -- Merphant

Sorry, I was just including some translations. Well I will wait that we set up a clear policy on inclusion of words English-English dictionary versus English-Other language dictionary. Regards -- Youssefsan

Oups. I didn't catch what you mean. I thouht it was a list of words by alphabetical order, since the link was on the main page next to by topic. Youssefsan

Modern Art is NOT contemporary art. Please do a little research and fix this article. Thank you.....DW

 * I'll leave it to you and others who know more about the topic. -- Merphant

Hi,

In Harmonic series I am slightly confused by this: "The fundamental is called a pedal note or pedal tone and can be faked." From my point of view as a trumpet player, pedal notes are mostly fakes, but the fundamental isn't a fake, though I think people do call it a pedal note. Or maybe not, I'm really not sure. In other words, the "real" range of the instrument goes down to, say, a concert E, then a good player can fill in with a pedal D and C - which are not fundamentals of anything, as they are too high - before getting down to a Bb which I suppose is the fundamental being one octave below the 2nd harmonic Bb which is the lowest "normal" note. I should add that when I play any of these notes they sound rubbish, and that the Bb is very very out of tune - only on my flugel do I get a good, in-tune Bb presumably becase the physics is so different.

Oh dear, this is a pretty annoying paragraph really, I'm sorry - all I've done is to say that there is something wrong with what you've written then admit I haven't got a clue how to fix it! Hm let me think. OK. (1) I am not sure the fundamental is called a pedal tone; (2) I am sure that the intermediate notes below the normal range but above the open or 1st position fundamental are pedal notes; (3) I am sure that these intermediate notes are faked, as they do not fit the harmonic series; (4) I think that the fundamental is not really a fake, as it belongs in the harmonic series, and is certainly not a fake in the same sense as those intermediate pedals are.

Does that make any kind of sense at all??!! Sorry! :) Nevilley 08:32 Mar 25, 2003 (UTC)

 * It makes a lot of sense; it's a very interesting question. I did a little research; see Talk:Harmonic series (music). -- Merphant

Wiktionary-WordNet

You have a message at wiktionary:User talk:Merphant. --Menchi 07:12 May 7, 2003 (UTC)

Thank you thank you thank you for creating the art history article. hard to believe that such an article didn't yet exist. Kingturtle 22:32 7 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * My pleasure. I just wish I knew more about it; the current page is pretty weak. Something to look into when I have the time, I guess. -- Merphant

Congratulations, you have just been made a sysop! You have volunteered for boring housekeeping activities which normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops basically can't do anything: They cannot delete pages arbitarily (only obvious junk like "jklasdfl,öasdf JOSH IS GAY"), they cannot protect pages in an edit war they are involved in, they cannot ban signed in users. What they can do is delete junk as it appears, ban anonymous vandals, remove pages that have been listed on Votes for deletion for more than a week, protect pages when asked to by other members, and help keep the few protected pages there are, among them the precious Main Page, up to date.

Note that almost everything you can do can be undone, so don't be too worried about making mistakes. You will find more information at Administrators, please take a look before experimenting with your new powers. Drop me a message if there are any questions or if you want to stop being a sysop (could it be?). Have fun! --Eloquence 21:15 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi, you cast a vote in the TEMP5 debate. The Temp5 proposal was voted down by 61.3% to 38.6%. We seem to be going around in circlces on the whole issue of the main page. A new vote is now taking place to clarify what exactly we want, namely
 * 1) Do we actually want to have a new page?
 * 2) If so when (immediately, after a pause, timed to the press release, etc)?
 * 3) What do people want on the front page and what do they want excluded?

As of now, the whole issue seems surrounded by complete confusion. This way, finally and definitively, we will know what we want and when we want it. So do please express your opinions. The vote is on the same page as the previous votes. FearÉIREANN 20:17, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Wow! That's amazing. Much better than my old thing. I took that link away anyway as I realised it didn't work at all in Mozilla and I hadn't got round to fixing it yet. I won't need to now - yours is much more impressive! Angela 01:01, Sep 15, 2003 (UTC)

 * Hope you don't mind but I switched my link to yours at Friends of Wikipedia/Miscellaneous. Angela 17:26, Sep 17, 2003 (UTC)

Art history
Thanks. --Alex S 02:31, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC) Question: How does one become a sysop?

Sandbox
Hi, I replied in the sandbox, but I thought I'd better repeat it here as things aren't guaranteed to stay there. I find the interlanguage links in the sandbox useful for when I want to go to a sandbox of another Wikipedia. I wouldn't know where to find them otherwise. Angela. 00:01, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

quick note on cal
great job on redoing cal. Goodralph 08:00, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Art categories
Hi,

I noticed that you have recently been active in categorising the visual arts. Can I also encourage you to join the categorisation discussion at Category talk:Art -- Solipsist 21:25, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Your pic
Thanks for creating and uploading Image:Sixteenth notes and rest.png and Image:Sixteenth note run.png. I notice they currently don't have image copyright tags. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GFDL, etc.) Thanks so much,    – Quadell (talk) (help)   01:57, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

 * Ok, done. -- Merphant 08:55, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

A Request
Over at Culture of the United Kingdom one of the main things that is stopping us from putting it forward as a featured article candidate is the fact that the art section is so small (one small paragraph). You have listed yourself on List of Wikipedians by fields of interest as someone with an interest in art. Would you be able to pop over there at some point and help us to expand the section please? Many thanks. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 11:54, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I live in California and have never been to the UK. I really don't know much about it. I'll be interested in reading what you all come up with, though :) Merphant 02:48, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Image copyrights: chess images.
Hi! Do you know the copyright status of the following images? Are they from a copyrighted Unicode font, or did you roll them yourself? Any help would be appreciated.

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grendel|khan 03:40, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)

Image:2 against 3.mid
Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 09:20, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Image:3 against 4.mid
Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 09:31, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright
Thanks for that. For the future, Public domain stuff you create yourself can be tagged as cheers, Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 05:44, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Bryce Harrington
Hi -- Since you've ben working on the Inkscape article, I thought you might be interested to know that the Bryce Harrington article is currently being voted on for deletion. --Bcrowell 16:13, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Re: WP:TEST
The sub-question change was the only modification I made; I haven't much experience with Perl. :P æle ✆ 2006-05-25t20:12z

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Hi Merphant -- I've been contacted by a user concerning your Wikiholic script. In short, the link points to a blank page on tools.wikipedia.de. No perl or HTML code, not even a stray alphanumeric character -- literally nothing. Do you have any idea what might be going on? If you decided to remove this useful tool, I apologize for not seeing your announcement. -- llywrch 22:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

 * The problem was a small bug in the script, which I have now fixed. Thanks, Merphant 06:54, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Thank you both Llwyrch and ele-maid for helping fix the test. ;-) | A ndonic O   Talk  10:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * And thanks to Merphant for his prompt attention to this matter! -- llywrch 20:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Dizzy Gillespie
noticed you started the page a while back - check it out now, lot's of changes and a touch of controversy about the opening paragraph.--Smkolins 23:37, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

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Hi, is it possible to have Finnish Wikipediholism_test in automated version? please answer!! thank u!! --Olliii (talk) 13:02, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

 * It is possible; the source code is here: http://toolserver.org/~merphant/wikiholic/wikiholic.pl . I don't want to maintain the Finnish version, but for someone on Finnish Wikipedia who has a toolserver account, or some other web space where they can run cgi scripts, it should be pretty easy to set up. Merphant (talk) 05:48, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 5 June 2020
Please include more info on civil wars around the world 81.96.147.110 (talk) 11:01, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
 * You can suggest edits here on this talk page on the form "Please change X to Y" citing reliable sources. – Thjarkur (talk) 11:15, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Edit request
I would like to suggest the following edit:

From: "A civil war is a high-intensity conflict, often involving regular armed forces, that is sustained, organized and large-scale."

To: "A civil war is a high-intensity conflict, often involving regular and irregular armed forces, that is sustained, organized and large-scale."

Maybe even some further editing to better detail prevalence and role of irregular troops such as militias, guerrillas, and armed "gangs". But I wouldn't know how to go about that.

Reasoning: Such groups ARE very often, if not always, integral to the fighting. I find it surprising that neither of these phrases (except for one occurrence of "paramilitaries" and only in passing) occur in the whole article, despite them being so prevalent in any civil war. 190.100.175.35 (talk) 23:03, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm referring to groups such as the Nicaraguan FSLN and the Kurdish PKK. 190.100.175.35 (talk) 23:19, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 January 2021
The Civil War was a great war between Britain and Russia. Britain took all of Russia's apples and bananas and caused The Civil War. This lasted for around 42 years and Russia never got their apples or bananas. Kawkjfnkanwkf (talk) 16:32, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
 * ❌, for obvious reasons. Pahunkat (talk) 16:33, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 April 2021
The civil war is about how the north and the south are fighting over land. Due to the lowering of slaves, they needed land to make more money. The civil war was about how slaves use technology. Also, this is not too important and there was this dude john brown all he did was hate slaves and wanted them to die. Tresicity (talk) 14:53, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:57, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 December 2021
Original — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.239.115.144 (talk) 00:22, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Bolded names in the lead
Per ngram
 * "Civil war" is more than 100 times as common as "non-international armed conflict" and "NIAC" (separately)
 * "Intrastate war" is about half as common as either "non-international armed conflict" or "NIAC" (separately), or 200 times less common than "civil war"

According to MOS:BOLDALTNAMES, only significant alternate names should be bolded in the lead. NIAC is actually about twice common in RS than "intrastate war", although both of them are far less common than "civil war". "Intrastate war" was reinstated without comment or justification. I do not think that intrastate war is a significant alternate name when looking at RS usage. In addition to the commonality argument, the legal meaning of NIAC (which differs from the law of war applicable in international armed conflict) is probably more significant, if anything. I'm not a big fan of proliferation of bolded names, so I propose only having the main name bolded with the alternate ones in a footnote. (t · c)  buidhe  21:14, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Initial reason for war = tariffs
I think this is very important to include on this topic. Franklinian! (talk) 14:28, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * That may be true now, but civil wars started during Rome's late Republican period when Roman Generals learned that their legions were just as willing to fight other legions as they were to fight foreigners or rebels. I don't remember, off hand, where I found that, but if a citation is needed it shouldn't be too hard to find.  JDZeff (talk) 20:15, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

skibi tolet was in the war as well as the camera man
Skibitolet (talk) 01:07, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Who, if anyone, was "skibi tolet" and do you have reliable, secondary sources to support what you are saying? --Hammersoft (talk) 01:33, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 October 2023
Similarly, the rise of refugees from neighboring countries, will increase the probability of a civil war in the host country. Robbandsnow (talk) 05:09, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
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