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I have removed the personal attack in the above edit. Please comment on the content, not the contributor. Please also do not take this as an endorsement of, well, anything British Isles related. -
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19:41, 8 January 2010 (UTC)reply
I've restored the version prior to the POV attempt to remove British Isles. Reasoning: In 1948–49
Johnny Carey won the award. Was he the first player outside the UK to do so - yes he was. Reference is correct. In 1955-56
Bert Trautmann won the award. Was he the first player outside the British Isles to win the award - yes he was. Was he the first player outside the
Home nations to win the award - no he wasn't. Reference is incorrect. Johnny Carey beat him to that acolade because the Republic of Ireland is outside the Home nations. The POV-pushing, political attempt to remove British Isles had resulted in erroneous information. I've corrected it.
Mister Flash (
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21:03, 10 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Unfortunately this article is under attack yet again by the anti-British Isles POV army. This user,
Þjóðólfr, insists on removing the relevant and obvious fact that
Bert Trautmann was the first player outside the
British Isles to win the award. I've explained above why this is the case, but to no avail, apparently. As with other members of the anti-British Isles group, this user is gaming the system by insisting on a reference to an obvious fact - and not any old reference, but one that specifically states, word-for-word, the contested sentence. I'll fix up the article for now, but we could be into edit war territory yet again.
Mister Flash (
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21:34, 24 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Maybe, but the term "Britain and Ireland" can be ambiguous, whereas it's clear what we mean by British Isles. And to remove BI is giving in to the nationalist POV which would see BI removed entirely from Wikipedia.
Mister Flash (
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20:06, 27 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Oh, so you wouldn't revert B&I but you would revert the more accurate BI. Why would that be then, especially as how you claim the fact to be inane etc.?
Mister Flash (
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19:33, 28 January 2010 (UTC)reply
I'm tempted to place a 3RR report on both of you. Edit warring isn't necessarily over 3 reverts within 24 hours. Less then 3 per day, over a multiple day period is also warring.
GoodDay (
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19:45, 29 January 2010 (UTC)reply