Talk:List of Registered Historic Places in Bergen County, New Jersey

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See Palestinian Territories. TalkNishidani (talk) 17:28, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Arabian Peninsula/ Arabistan

Hi,

I see you've encountered this keyboard warrior Hisham. He is known to save an official site, modify it and then reupload it to a free web hosting server and use it as a reference for his POV. I have reverted his edits in the past using the rationale "Your sources are obvious forgeries" so I think he's trying to use my legitimate rationale for reverting on you, when it is entirely inappropriate. Lawrencema (talk) 23:07, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Arabian Peninsula

Hello Harlan. I notice you are one of the more active editors on this article, and you've also commented on the Talk page. Through the vagaries of the noticeboards, the recent edit war has been posted at both 3RR and RFPP, so now we have a 24-hour block of User:Chaldeaan as well as 3 days of protection on the article (that I put on). An outsider who comes to look at the Talk page will probably be very puzzled as to what the various disputes are about. It would be helpful (if you are interested in doing so) in summarizing on Talk what the recent edit wars have been about. If this could be adequately clarified, it might be possible to lift the protection early. EdJohnston (talk) 16:15, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello Ed. The initial revert from your current version to my old version was bot-generated on the basis of suspected vandalism. I also placed a user report of the vandalism on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism and mentioned the edit war on the article talk page. The 3RR specifically provides an exception for vandalism. Several other editors have reverted to versions containing my edits and left Edit comments mentioning vandalism.

There was no lack of scholarly citations or links to scholarly works and dictionaries in the changes to the article that I had made.

I have no idea what the nature of the dispute might be, since none of the so-called 'editors' - Hisham, Chaldeaan, NoPity2, Patrick0Maran, and etc. have chosen to use the talk page to discuss the matter. I simply responded there to the brief comments they had placed in their edit summaries. I also placed messages with the citations and links on the user talk pages of Hisham, Chaldeaan, and Patrick0Maran, but they have not responded.

You have reverted the article to a version that has no mention of the disambiguation page for Arabistan, which is hardly an improvement on the situation I set out to correct, i.e. The disambiguation page for Arabistan is pointing to an article about the Arabian Penninsula that makes no mention of that term. The Merriam-Webster Geographical Dictionary contains a completely unambiguous entry which says that the Arabian Peninsula is Arabistan. I had already mentioned that under a separate section heading on the article talk page. harlan (talk) 00:51, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

I actually didn't revert the article; I simply protected the current version, whatever it was. Since you have made several edits to the page I just assumed you might know what the heck was going on there. Were you actually trying to make an improvement from the long-ago version, and are the other people reacting to that, or what? In this edit, which you described as 'Revert vandalism', you made a large change and it would take quite a bit of explanation to understand everything that's going on there. That's why I gave up and thought I would ask some editors what the argument is really about. The term 'vandalism' probably should not be used lightly, but are you saying that Chaldeaan was the vandal here? EdJohnston (talk) 01:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes Chaldeaan has repeatedly violated the integrety of the article by blanking the section on medieval history without bothering to discuss his reasons on the talk page. I posted citations and references on the article talk page and on his user talk page to no avail. Freezing the version without any mention of Arabistan or its medieval history isn't likely to motivate him to discuss things. harlan (talk) 03:44, 12 October 2008 (UTC)