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Republics
Need your help and/or advice. The British Wikipedian Republican Party sought fit to delete Wikinfo:Classical definition of republic (http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=Classical_definition_of_republic) from Wikipedia. There is a terrible brouhaha at Talk:Republic. They won't even allow an external link! SimonP really doesn't know what he is doing. They deleted the Classical definition of republic and created mixed government and politeia instead. The official title of mixed government is a Republic and the Romans translated "politiea" as Republic. And then to top it off the new article Classical republicanism doesn't refer to the Classical republics of Crete, Sparta, Solonic Athens, or Rome but to Machiavelli's ideology. How can that be when Venice in the 13th century instituted a mixed government and called herself a "Republic".
With Jwrosenwieg and Kim Bruning there was a tacit agreement a year ago to have republic be the modern meaning and a [Classical definition of republic] to describe the ancient republics of Hellas and Rome and their influence. To say the least the "Republic section" is all messed up. We need some clarification. I have new information but User:Snowspinner won't let me bring this back up for undelete. (I do grant that a little bit of the Classical definition is original but the rest is not.) I will not let Sparta be called anything but a republic! I will not let the British wikipedian modern republicans strip Sparta, (my heritage and roots) of her rightful name. She is a Classical republic and needs to be called such! At the least, where is the damage in having an external link?WHEELER 15:08, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Bible Society
I'm glad you like what I've written there so far. It needs some more work, and I see you've written or edited a number of articles on Bible translations; maybe you'd like to take a look at the to-do list I've just added to Talk:Bible Society. --Jim Henry | Talk 17:37, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar
Image:Ussher4004bc.jpg is kinda small. Do you have anything larger you could add? -- Sy / (talk)
I realize the image is a bit small. I'm not a phto type of guy, so if you got one better to add, feel free. - Hoshie/Crat 08:43, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I don't have anything better. Just wondering because I was confused by the image (it was too small for me to understand what it was a picture of -- I couldn't read the text). No problem. =) -- Sy / (talk) 02:12, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Flag Images
Good work on the flag images. BTW, I also work on flag images and I also live in Havelock, NC. (Man this is a small world). If you have any questions, just let me know. Zscout370 12:52, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
"MP"
Hi. You added "MP" to the main party leaders (added 'MP/MLA/AM/MSP/MEP' if party leader is such') but at the moment they aren't MPs (in fact there are *no* MPs at the moment, although there are still MLAs/AMs/MSPs/MEPs), indeed it is contrary to law for anyone to use the title 'MP' at the moment in the UK. After May 6th they can ben added back (if, of course, they get re-elected!) --Vamp:Willow 14:19, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Ethnic minorities in Northern Ireland
Sorry I took so long to reply - in my experience most ethnic minority people in NI regard the constitutional question as being little to do with them and very few vote, although pretty much all those in the country legitimately are registered (it's a bit easier here than in most of the USA). Propagandists on both sides will tell you otherwise. Of those who do vote, a fairly high proportion vote Alliance or for the other centrist parties, in my experience a lot of them are vaguely pro-Union but not in any ethnic sense. There has been a very big wave of migration from Eastern Europe in the past 2-3 years, and also a growing Protuguese community (in Dungannon largely) and African community (in Belfast) it's to early to say how their politics will develop, but I suspect like the Chinese and South Asian communities, towards apathy. Gerry Lynch 21:32, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
Kenneth Taylor
Thanks for your kind acknowledgement of my work on Kenneth Taylor. It needs some polishing and perhaps some expansion. Some sources, external links, and list of Taylor's works would be a good start. Feel free, if you have the time. Logophile 03:52, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)