User talk:Wikitza

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Attributing motives to countries

Surely if a country can be "eager" (your wording) it can also be "envious"? In fact, as you are probably aware, it is a standard way of speaking to ascribe motives, feelings and actions to countries. It's not just me saying so, and it's a misunderstanding to say this is what Wikipedia describes as a "POV". The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick^t 14:56, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tomé Pires

Hello there. thanks you for your edit to Tomé Pires. Could you please place those references as in-line cites rather than a list at the end. Did you really use all those refs to create the additional info. Any that weren't directly used, should go into a list of "Further Reading". thanks --Merbabu (talk) 12:47, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copying material from other articles

If you are going to copy material from other articles, often a bad idea if the other material isn't cited, you must indicate what article it came from, the easiest permanent way to do this is with a wikilink in the edit summary. This is an absolute requirement as that is the only way attribution to the original editor can be traced. Not to do this is actually a copyright violation as it breaks our licenses. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 13:45, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Links to the licenses are right under this edit window, where it says you release your contributions. As for the 'arguably' language, what's interesting about that is that it is word for word from one of Gavin Menzies' pages, however that is copyright 2008 and the text in the Cantino article was added 19 October 2007. I'm trying to get the Internet archives to tell more more about the Menzies page, but it isn't working right now. In any case, it's unsourced and I all I could find is that the other map says 1500 on it. Dougweller (talk) 16:24, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Iberian Pyrite Belt

On May 21, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Iberian Pyrite Belt, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 06:02, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Diffie reference

Hi. I looked at the pages you cited for Diffie's Foundations of the Portuguese empire, 1415-1580, but I couldn't find all the info you added from those pages. For example, Rafael Perestrello landing on the coast of China in 1513 isn't mentioned. His name also doesn't come up when you search that book on GoogleBooks. Could you help clarify your sources? Thanks. Jonas Poole (talk) 01:28, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pedro Álvares Cabral

Hello! The article about Pedro Álvares Cabral has passed through a major overhaul (from this [1] to this [2]). It has since been nominated to featured status (See Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Pedro Álvares Cabral/archive1). I've noticed that you have interest in the subject of the Age of Discovery so if you find some time, please make a comment there if you support or not its nomination. Regards, --Lecen (talk) 19:18, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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