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Uploading pictures
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Kasparov, please stop uploading copyrighted pictures. Please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's Copyright policy. Also, there is no template called "CopyrightFreeUse". If you are trying to indicate the fair use policy, I would suggest you read up on it, because I do not think most of these images qualify. --Fastfission 01:26, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

You have continued to upload copyrighted pictures and using a nonexistant "CopyrightFreeUse" template. I am listing all of the images you have uploaded today on Copyright Problems. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 04:02, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Image source/licensing for Image:Archimedes.jpg
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Image copyright problem RE: Image:William Thomson.jpg
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If you have any questions, just leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again. --wknight94 20:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright problem RE: Image:Maxwell.jpg
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 * The copyright holder can also release their work into the public domain. See here for examples.

 * Images from certain sources are automatically released into the public domain. This is true for the United States, where the Wikimedia servers are located. (See here for images from the government of the USA and here for other governments.)  However, not all governments release their work into the public domain. One exception is the UK (see here for images from the UK government). Non-free licence governments are listed here.

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If you have any questions, just leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again. Rossrs 17:13, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Request for edit summary
Thank you for your contributions. And I have a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries more often when you contribute. An edit summary helps others understand what you changed when checking the watchlist or the recent changes, and often times complements studying the diff. Think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. I hope you don't mind. :) Cheers – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 17:44, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Lev Landau.jpg
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Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. --cohesion ★ talk 21:54, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Image:Physics.gif
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Image copyright problem with Image:Elliot_Lieb.gif
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Image copyright problem with Image:Dominique Arago.jpg
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Image copyright problem with Image:Dominique_Arago.jpg
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Image Tagging for Image:Thebe_Medupe.jpg
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Possibly unfree Image:Einstein.jpg
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Image Tagging Image:Charlie and Larry.jpg
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Image Tagging for Image:Sir_Humphry_Davy.jpg
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Image Tagging for Image:Lanius_Qel-Bertuk.jpg
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Physics Article WIP proposal
Hello, as an editor who has previously added to the Physics article and taken part in discussions on its talk page I thought a current proposal may be of interest to you. Over the past few months the article has suffered from a lack of focus and direction. Unfortunately the article is now judged by a number of editors to be in a relatively poor state. There is currently a proposal to start a full consensus based review of the article. That review and consensus process has been proposed here, your thoughts on the proposal and participation in the WIP review of the article would be much appreciated. It disappoints me that an article on one of the fundamental sciences here at wikipedia is in such a relatively poor state, and I hope you can have a browse by the page to offer your views and hopefully participate. Thanks, SFC9394 22:03, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Even Piell.jpg listed for deletion
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Image:Ultimate Magneto.jpg listed for deletion
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Orphaned fair use image (Image:Kate & Leopold.jpg)
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Image tagging for Image:Kip_Thorne.jpg
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Infobox Scientist
Please can you vote at to try to reach a consensus for shortening this infobox a little. bunix 00:35, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Kepler.jpg
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Image:Kip Thorne.jpg
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Please use an edit summary
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 * You also tend to make a bunch of small edits to the same page. It would make life a lot easier if you made as many edits together so that the history is easier to check. Thanks! --Freak104 20:59, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

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Fair use rationale for Image:Good Will Hunting.jpg
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Orphaned non-free image (Image:Mathematics and Numb3rs.jpg)
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Fair use rationale for Image:Baron Kelvin.jpg
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Orphaned non-free media (Image:David Sinclair.jpg)
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Fair use rationale for Image:Saesee_Tiin.jpg
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Alan Eppes I.jpg
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Amita Ramanujan.jpg
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Larry Fleinhardt.jpg
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Megan Reeves.jpg
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Image:Alan_Eppes.jpg
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Image:Don_Eppes.jpg
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Image:Larry_Fleinhardt.jpg
I have tagged Image:Larry_Fleinhardt.jpg as no rationale, because it does not provide a fair use rationale. If you believe the image to be acceptable for fair use according to Wikipedia policy, please provide a rationale explaining as much, in accordance with the fair use rationale guideline, on the image description page. Some examples can be found at Use rationale examples. Please also consider using or one of the other tags listed at Image copyright tags/Non-free. Thank you. Melesse (talk) 23:59, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Image:Mathematical_Model.jpg
I have tagged Image:Mathematical_Model.jpg as no rationale, because it does not provide a fair use rationale. If you believe the image to be acceptable for fair use according to Wikipedia policy, please provide a rationale explaining as much, in accordance with the fair use rationale guideline, on the image description page. Some examples can be found at Use rationale examples. Please also consider using or one of the other tags listed at Image copyright tags/Non-free. Thank you. —  pd_THOR  undefined | 16:33, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

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Biskra

Biskra (بسكرة) is the capital city of Biskra Province, Algeria. In 2007, its population was recorded as 307,987. Biskra is located in northeastern Algeria, about 248 mi from Algiers, 71 mi southwest of Batna and 137 mi north of Touggourt. It is nicknamed "The Queen of the Zibans", "The Door of the Desert" or "The Saharan Nice" because of its location at the beginning of the Sahara Desert. Due to its geographical location, its climate and natural resources, particularly farming, Biskra has always been a crossroad between the cities in the north and south. It has seen the passage of several civilizations, from the Romans and the Arabs to the French.

In 1844, Biskra became a French garrison, which saw fighting during rebellions in 1849 and 1871.

Currently the city of Biskra has 28 neighborhoods, including the three principal neighborhoods of Korra, City 60 Logements, and Equipment Zones. It is in the southern part of the Algerian rail system, and has become a popular winter resort.

Etymology
The city has been known by many names, including Biskra, Sokkra, Vescra, Vecera, Vescera, Adbesran. Historians do not agree on the origins of the current name. Some say its name comes from "Vescera", which means "station" or "place" of commercial exchange, due to its location connecting north and south. The Roman leader Betolimih Benyouba named it "the river of destiny" because of the Sidi Zarzour (its current name) that crosses the city.

Some researchers say that its name was derived from the ancient Roman name "Adebesran" because of the geothermal source that is located near the city, known as Salhine Hammam. Other sources say that the name comes from the word "Sokkra" because of the quality of the sweet dates in the city's oases. Still others claim that the current name was given to the city by the Carthaginians.

In honor of the city, the name was given to an oasis, Biskra Palms, near Palm Springs, California.

Gaetuli
The Gaetuli first appeared in North Africa during the 3rd millennium BC. They settled in a large territory south of the Roman provinces of Africa and Mauritania. According to the Greek historian Strabo, they were the most numerous people of North Africa yet the least known. Among the oldest references to the Gaetuli are those of the Carthaginians, who indicated that the Prince of the Gaetuli proposed to marry Élyssa (or Dido for the Romans), the founding queen of Carthage (present-day Tunisia) around 815 BC. However, references in ancient Egypt of certain tribes go back to 1350 BC, during the reign of Akhenaten of the eighteenth dynasty, speak of cattle trade with this people.

The Gaetuli are probably the origin of the Berber calendar, which begins around 943–949 BC, which would be after the victory of a coalition of Gétules over the Egyptians. This coalition, formed by the North African tribes, left southwestern Algeria, increasing its force as it passed through North Africa. The coalition led by Shoshenq (Berber name: Sheshnaq) defeated Pharaoh Psusennes II. Following this victory, Sheshnaq married the pharaoh's daughter, settled on the throne of Egypt under the name of Sheshonq in 952 BC, and founded the 22nd Dynasty. This biblical event is mentioned in the Old Testament, which speaks of the pillaging of this leader of the Machaouach tribe.

While traversing the desert, the Gaetuli arrived with the Taureg at Tassili, where they stayed for an extended time and subsequently mixed with the Tuareg and learned the Tamazight language for cultural and commercial exchanges. However, the Gaetuli eventually began to feel out of place and decided to continue north.

In Algeria, they settled at the edge of the Aures, where they posed problems to Roman infiltration in the 3rd century BC as they were stellar horsemen and became dreaded in combat. It was necessary to involve a late Roman politician, Gaius Marius, to negotiate exploration of the South against concessions of agricultural land around Cirta and Setifis, at the time under Roman rule; a trick of dispersing them and so diminished in their strength. Thus, the Gétule were occupied by the Romans.

Roman colonization
The city of Biskra experienced many violent wars during the Roman colonization, including the resistance war led by the Berber leader Tacfarinas, followed by his successor, the militant Jugurtha "Youghorta". With the help of the inhabitants of the city, who provided human and material support, Jugurtha destroyed the Roman army at the end of the so-called Numidia region.

The Vandals in the 4th century
The Vandals "Oundals" invaded the city of Biskra and occupied all its land, but the resistance and continuous fighting of its inhabitants forced the Vandals to integrate with them. After a few decades, the Romans took over the city, where they built obstacles to protect themselves from the vengeance of the population.

The arrival of the Arab conqueror Uqba ibn Nafi al-Fihri in the 7th century
They remained with such vigilance until the arrival of the Arab conqueror Uqba ibn Nafi al-Fihri in the 7th century AD. During this period, the whole area came under the Arab-Muslim monarchy. After 20 years of conquest, Uqba ibn Nafi died in 683 AD when he returned from Morocco with his army. His death was organized by an ambush mounted by his adversary, the Numidian prince (Berber) Koceila and his army at Tahouda, a small village located 5 km from the oasis "Sidi Okba". His body was buried in the mosque of the city that took his name. According to the imam of this mosque, it contains more than 300 tombs and is the 4th holy place of Islam, after Mecca, Medina and Aksa.

In the early 10th century, Biskra and the entire Ziban area were conquered by the kings of Beni Hammad.

The Hillal Bannis in the 12th century
Followed by the Kabyla of Elathbend banished Hilal (Hilalian Arabs) who removed and confiscated the property of the inhabitants. They asked for the help of the Almohads of the kingdom of Marrakech in the 12th century.

The Hafsids in the 14th century
In the 14th century, the Hafsid arrived in Tunisia and Algeria. Biskra became an important hub for the Hafsid of Tunisia where it remained under lure monarchy and direction for a long time then under the authority of the Marinid Sultanate of Fez and banned Abd-Elouadi and the Znatiyin of Tlemcen.

The conquest of the city by the Turks in 1541
In 1541, the Turks began their conquest of the city under the direction of Hocine Agha who defended the city of Algiers at the time and brought out the strength of Charles Compte of the latter.

The Ottoman Empire remained in the city for three centuries until the French colonized it.

French colonization from 1844
After the French conquest of Biskra in 1844, the site was fortified to secure the area against uprisings. El-hadj Mohammed Esaghire Elokbi, as the successor to El-Emir Abdelkader, waged continued war against the French, attacking the French forces under Lamoriciere on 23 December 1847. Elokbi also opposed the Ben Ghana clan as well as Ahmed Bey's claim as ruler of Constantine. Resistance continued in the Ziban and Aurès Moufrntains.

In Biskra the local chief Bou Zian rallied the people against the palm tax, seizing the moated fortification of Zaatcha 20 km from Biskra. The French marched on Zaatcha, laying siege for months. It finally fell after 53 days of attacks by a French force of 7,000 troops. Bou Zian was killed. The French counted the loss of 2130. French control nonetheless remained tenuous when attacks were mounted again in 1879 at El-kamri.

Some 100 years after the battle of Zaatcha, in 1954 Biskra was again the scene of anti-French assaults during the Algerian War of Independence where house-to-house battles cost many lives.

In culture
At the end of the 19th century Biskra, a popular spa town and gateway to the Sahara, became a center for artists and photographers such as Émile Frechon, Alexandre Bougault and Rudolf Franz Lehnert. From 1872 to 1920 the French Count Albert Landon de Longueville hosted in his villa-cum-chateau at Biskra (today Villa Bénévent), nobility, artists and writers, including Béla Bartok, Oscar Wilde, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, André Gide, Nasreddine Dinet, Eugène Fromentin, Karl Marx, Anatole France, Francis James and Henri Matisse.

Biskra is the setting of key sections of André Gide's 1902 novel The Immoralist and lesser known 1897 prose-poem Les nourritures terrestres (The Fruits of the Earth), and he visited the town in 1895 (for a fortnight from 31 January) with Lord Alfred Douglas, following a meeting with Oscar Wilde in Blida and Algiers.

The French artist Henri Matisse has a work titled Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) an oil painting finished in 1907.

The Hungarian composer Béla Bartók collected traditional music in Biskra in 1913.

The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski, who traveled to North Africa, seemed to have been quite impressed by Biskra. This trip probably aroused genuine interest in the North African/ Arabic culture. He composed many pieces influenced by his experience there. He sent a postcard from Biskra on 11 April 1914.

Diana Mayo, the protagonist of Edith Maude Hull's popular 1919 novel The Sheik, starts her journey into the desert from Biskra, and in the identically named 1921 silent movie The Sheik starring Rudolph Valentino in perhaps his most famous role.

Winston Churchill's cousin, sculptor and author Clare Sheridan held a salon in Biskra in the 1920s and 1930s.

Geography

Biskra is located in the north-east of Algeria, in the district of Biskra. The city lies about 248 mi from Algiers, 71 mi southwest of Batna and 137 mi north of Touggourt. She is nicknamed "The Queen of the Zibans", "The door of the desert" or "The Saharan Nice" because of its location which is the beginning of the desert. It is located at an altitude of 87 m in the northern part of the Sahara Desert.

Apart from the mountains that surround it, the topography of Biskra is generally very flat. Part of the city is surrounded by the Sfa Pass and the Ziban Mountains. In the outskirts of Biskra, the landscape is very arid with all the same vegetation that vary depending on the location. Small water points can be found in the outskirts of Biskra, especially in the oases and canyons of the mountains around El Kantara. The prefecture of Biskra is crossed by Oued Labiod waterways, Oued El Arab, Djedi, Oued Meziraâ, Oued El and Oued el Gantara. The city covers an area of 127.55 km2. It has a population of 307,987 and is the 10th most populous city. It has a population density of 1,612.0 inhabitants per square meter. The population of Biskra are called Biskri.

As in the rest of the country, Biskra does not observe summer time and stays in the same time zone all year round. Whether winter or summer, the time is always the same in Biskra. The sunrise is around 7:41 am to 21 December and 5:24 am on 21 June. The sunset is around 5:30 pm on 21 December and at 7:54 pm on 21 June.

Cityscape

Neighborhoods
The city of Biskra has gone through three phases before getting to where it is today. Started by the pre-colonial phase which testifies, that the city was pending this period under Roman rule over country of the Berbers, and having taken the role of the capital of southern Numidia, and the

A very prosperous city, built by the Muslims in the Middle Ages. During the Turkish period the city was hit by epidemics, binding occupiers of the fort to leave the city to settle, in a group scattered the interior of the palm grove, south of the city, around two elements of the form local production, the built environment that are the mosque and seguias, besides the use local building materials.

Secondly, the city was marked by the colonial phase characterized by the building of fort Saint Germain on the northern part, and the construction of a city (the colonial checkerboard) by an urban model, different from the previous one, and having undergone several extension, particularly the 1st and 2nd and the Dervau Plan, followed during the 50s, by popular extensions to the South at the expense of the palm grove and without dimensional and formal logic.

In the end the post colonial phase characterized by the proliferation of self-built no plan to urban and architectural quality at least and without model, where typological reference, which has only to be curbed, after the instruction of the laws intervention and control of the state, over the urban space, by launching large Housing development operations in the framework of ZUNH, in the form of housing communal collective or subdivision which, despite this, has not been able to resolve the demand for housing, bringing the state to promulgation, other laws havingobjective, improving urban quality, openness and diversification stakeholders.

Today, the city of Biskra is made up of 28 neighborhoods including 3 main ones which are, Korra, City 60 Logts ENICAB and Equipment Zones.

Climate
Biskra has a subtropical hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) typical of the region in which it is found. The city has long and extremely hot summers and short, pleasantly warm winters. In summer, the peaks of heat are among the highest in the country with temperatures that can exceed 49 C and are similar to cities like Luxor or Phoenix. The average peak July temperature, which is the hottest month, is about 42 C. On average, the city experiences more than 92 days a year where the temperature is equal to or exceeds 38 °C and nearly 20 days above 43 C. In comparison, New York City has had a total of 59 days when the temperature was equivalent to or above 38 °C since 1870. Temperatures generally begin to approach or even exceed 34 °C by April. Biskra is one of the hottest cities in the country when it comes to daytime temperatures. Indeed, this one is often higher than 27 °C during the hottest months. The highest minimum temperature recorded in Biskra was 37 °C on 4 July 1993, making it the hottest night ever recorded in the city. On 14 July 1910, the temperature reached 51 °C which is the record of heat in Biskra.

The climate is very dry and mostly very clear. Rainfall is limited to only 128.8 mm per year. Precipitation is quite rare despite some showers usually during the coldest months, mainly January and February, where it rains several times in the season, which brings the majority of humidity to Biskra in a year. The highest precipitation record recorded in Biskra in a year is (600.5 mm) in 1910 while the driest year is only (27.7 mm) recorded in 1945. The extreme heat that prevails during the summer can cause violent storms at the end of it and usually occur in September, when the air humidity becomes significantly higher with an average of 41% moisture per year. The month with the highest air rate in Biskra is December with 59% humidity, July is the least heavy month with only 27% on average per year. Aside from rainfall or humidity, sandstorms can occur several times a month and even become Haboob, which can make visibility almost zero. Biskra has a very good duration of sunshine in the year with an average of 3,292 hours of sunshine a year. The wettest month is November with (20.1 mm), while July is the driest month with (1.7 mm).

The hot, dry and sunny climate of the city sometimes attracts some inhabitants of the northern regions as in the city of Batna located 115 km northeast, which experiences fairly icy and wet winters during this period, to enjoy the pleasant weather and sunny in winter.

On average, Biskra knows no day in the year with a temperature below zero. Moving away from the urban area, the risk of frost may be more frequent and night temperatures are lower. Biskra very rarely experiences freezing days and only occurs occasionally during periods of mild cold weather. what can happen to Biskra and its surroundings. The record for the largest number of frost days recorded at Biskra in a winter is 1980–1981 with 73 days, while the record for the number of consecutive years experiencing freeze-up in Biskra is 1886 years. 1888. The lowest recorded temperature in Biskra was -5 °C on 27 December 1914, while the lowest daily maximum temperature was 7 °C on 2 February 1934.

Flora and Fauna

The fauna of Biskra is characterized by a great diversity of insects such as Sacred Scarab and yellow broad-tailed scorpions are found. There are also amphibians like frog, reptiles like the Horned Viper or the Egyptian cobra. A variety of birds including Black Warbler, mammals such as Gazelles, small Gerboise, Fox, Wild boar, Hare, Hedgehog, Bat, Myriapods, Crustaceans such as the Crab stream or the Water Flea. There are also a lot of black and red spiders that some species hide in dead tree stumps.

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Restoring deleted paragraph
I don't have a good feeling about this edit, in which Mista-X deleted:

 * Bains' personal politics became the driving force behind the CPC-ML, its ideological trajectory following his own: in the 1960s and 1970s, he and the party were Maoist; in 1978, following Mao's 1976 death, Bains became a supporter of the views of Enver Hoxha (an admirer of Stalin) and the Albanian Party of Labour.

with the rationale:

 * POV about Bains ppl can see part history for this info and come to own conclusions

Almost no readers will go through the history to find relevant information that might have been erased. You aren't contesting the accuracy of the information; if there's more information that would put it in context, please do add.

Since its deletion leaves the article with immensely less information about Bains' political progression – a pretty important in a biography of a political figure :) – I'm going to restore it to the main article now. If you feel it misrepresents anything, please add to or tweak it, or discuss it here? Thanks. Samaritan 10:28, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Party History
The whole reason I edited that Paragraph was because it is POV. If people want party history, they can look at the entry for Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) and come to their own conclusions.

This paragraph is ment only to suggest that CPC-ML is a cult and the members followed Bains every move like sheep. If you want to add a paragraph about Bains ideological changes, that's fine. But you have to back up your claims. If you want to talk about the party's ideological changes, put that in the entry of the party. But don't assume that the party's ideology changed because Bains woke up one morning and decided Hoxha is better than Mao. The party makes descisions as a collective, and always has.

Thanks,

--Mista-X 15:35, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Point well taken, so I've brought the information back referring only to Bains himself:

 * In the 1960s and 1970s, Bains was identified as a Maoist. By 1978, following Mao's 1976 death, Bains became a supporter of the views of Enver Hoxha and the Albanian Party of Labour, which were Stalinist.

I'm trusting the editor or editors who added this/let it stand earlier on factual accuracy; if any of this, referring to Bains rather than Bains and the party as a whole, is inaccurate or unrepresentative, I would of course support its amendment. Samaritan 16:11, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I agree the para was POV and needed to be deleted. There were many real world events which led Bains and CPC (ML)to change their views and can be found in party literature including a book by Bains which discussed the world wide debate on the theory of three worlds which Enver Hoxha denounced. Shortly after the death of Mao Tse Tung, Deng Xiaoping after some manouvring managed to take power and remove the Gang of Four who were adherents of the Cultural Revolution. He campaigned to discredit the cultural revolution. Enver Hoxha and the Albanian Party of Labour took a public position criticising the the rise of Deng Xiaoping and his policies. This was supported by Bains and eventually CPC (ML). It should be noted that many "Maoist oriented" groups were also struggling with the changes in China and the issue was heavily debated amongst the groups and within CPC(ML). CPC (ML)was one of the earliest groups to migrate to the views of Enver Hoxha and the Albanian Party of Labour after a Party Congress held in Montreal. Rick Hundal 22:56, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

"Stalinism"?
I don't much like Bains being identified as a "Stalinist". "Stalinism" is a term only used by those who are anti-Stalin in almost all circumstances. Those who actually uphold Stalin are just Marxist-Leninist. Supporters of Enver Hoxha are usually referred to as Hoxhaites.

--Mista-X 16:18, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hmm... but aren't these issues (about Stalinism) reflected pretty well in the article Stalinism? Samaritan 16:30, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

That whole article is writted POV, and is horribly anti-communist and anti-Stalin. Bains would never have called himself a "Stalinist", nor would any of his comrades, so why is it fair to lable him a "Stalinist"? If anything, it should be noted that this is a term used by his opponents IMO. --Mista-X 16:46, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * As opposed to "anti-revisionist"? I'm reminded of the words of Dr. Hibbert: "And hillbillies prefer to be called 'sons of the soil' but it ain't gonna happen". Carolynparrishfan 03:02, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * It's been over twelve years, but actually, "anti-revisionist" is the correct term now as it was then. You're as much of a clown as Parrish is. 70.29.99.162 (talk) 15:11, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Sikh?
I noticed this article has the Sikh stub template: This Sikh biographical article is a stub. But his religion is not mentioned in the article, how do we know he's a Sikh? -- OlEnglish (Talk) 10:04, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Hardial Bains was an atheist. His family, however, was Sikh. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tellsthetruth (talk • contribs) 03:33, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

 * OlEnglish is asking for a source. --Mista-X (talk) 04:35, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

 * The user is correct. He was an atheist and he did come from a Sikh family. He is acknowledged in Sikh publications as having been part of the Sikh community. Reference: International Bibliography of Sikh Studies. Kittyhundal (talk) 03:16, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Hephaestus books?
The article references at least two works published by Hephaestus Books (HB).

HB appears to be in the business of selling reprints of Wikipedia articles. Thus, these are circular references, and should be deleted. See, for example: Jerry Pournelle's article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.32.192.35 (talk) 19:22, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

 * That would be right IF the content of these two books is in fact from Wikipedia. But if as seems much more likely it's from "other Creative Commons" sources - like pamphlets made freely available by the communist party - then the references are independent and can stay. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:06, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

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Ben Seattle
Does being slagged off by any old "leftist" (<--- a meaningless catch-all word) warrant a mention? Ben Seattle's self-published page is not a thoughtful academic piece, but a hateful diatribe with every word calculated to land the maximum amount of damage to Bains' credibility, starting with the title In memory of a charlatan. It's clear if you read it that Seattle is an unabashed revisionist, and that he has a personal axe to grind with Bains, as well as hating Stalin and his supporters more broadly. So, with that said, can someone please explain how this is WP:NPOV? It's like citing the Westboro Baptist Church as an authoritative source on homosexuality. Fucking ridiculous! 174.89.132.146 (talk) 16:25, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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