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The move protection has nothing to do with the content of the page or the ongoing discussions. It's because we had a serial page move vandal who was moving all the country pages to nonsense titles. The protection does *not* bar any editing to the page, including replacing it with a redirect to Holland (disambiguation) if that is what the consensus is. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. NawlinWiki (talk) 12:30, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2008-05-17T12:30:00.000Z","author":"NawlinWiki","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-NawlinWiki-2008-05-17T12:30:00.000Z-Holland","replies":[]}}-->

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Just noticed that it is not all that recent, but I saw it today and made some comments that may be helpful. I ran into something like this with French->English. Noticeboard#Translating_non-English_Wikipedia_articles_without_footnotes

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Hello Schildewaert. Happy Wednesday to you. While I appreciate your quickly retracting the accusation of vandalism you made against me, I wonder if you'd please consider striking or otherwise withdrawing your subsequent assertion that my edit undoing your addition to Queer was performed in bad faith. I would point out that my edit included a summary citing one of Wikipedia's core content policies plus a referral to the talk page, where I explained my reasoning more fully and expressly agreed with you on one point. Your restoration (which carried no edit summary) of the changes you made to the article flies in the face of best practices and, as another editor suggested to you, looks rather like the beginning of an edit war. I'd further point out that your failure to assume good faith, coupled with your remark about the article's supposed "guardians", suggests you may be straying uncomfortably close to battleground territory. I can hardly be termed a guardian of an article I've made a grand total of two edits to, can I? In any event, all my edits on Wikipedia are made in good faith, and I'd be very grateful if you'd modify what you wrote at Talk:Queer to remove any suggestions to the contrary. Rivertorch (talk) 18:23, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2014-01-29T18:23:00.000Z","author":"Rivertorch","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Rivertorch-2014-01-29T18:23:00.000Z-Please_retract","replies":["c-Schildewaert-2014-01-29T18:26:00.000Z-Rivertorch-2014-01-29T18:23:00.000Z"]}}-->

I've taken out the comment you referred to. You have to understand that I put a lot of work into improving this article, and then two people swooped in to delete it all without much explanation. Of course, it was natural for me to assume that you were guardians of the article who were prone to resisting every single edit, even those that were improving the article. It's also very off-putting to have to spend so much time to deal with the aftermath of this. Please wait a while before deleting the next time. You assumed that I was doing something harmful to the article. Not every editor is a vandal. Having said that, as an occasional editor, I do appreciate experts like you coming in to correct these articles (including mine) and to remove vandalism. Schildewaert (talk) 18:26, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2014-01-29T18:26:00.000Z","author":"Schildewaert","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Schildewaert-2014-01-29T18:26:00.000Z-Rivertorch-2014-01-29T18:23:00.000Z","replies":["c-Flyer22-2014-01-29T18:30:00.000Z-Schildewaert-2014-01-29T18:26:00.000Z"]}}-->

Rivertorch, if Schildewaert does retract, Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines#Own comments should be kept in mind. It would be best to strike through the comment instead of removing it. Simply removing the accusation takes part of my comment to Schildewaert on that matter out of context. Flyer22 (talk) 18:30, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2014-01-29T18:30:00.000Z","author":"Flyer22","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Flyer22-2014-01-29T18:30:00.000Z-Schildewaert-2014-01-29T18:26:00.000Z","replies":["c-Rivertorch-2014-01-29T18:43:00.000Z-Flyer22-2014-01-29T18:30:00.000Z"]}}-->

(Edit conflict) True. The tags <s> and </s> can be used to strike comments thus: stricken comments. By "or otherwise withdraw", I was simply referring to something like an additional comment stating that the accusation is withdrawn. Schildewaert, you know how to reply to someone else's comment because you just did it. Replying here is absolutely fine; most editors watch the pages they leave comments on for replies, and I'm one of them. Please see Help:Using talk pages for more information. Anyway, I'll be off-wiki for the rest of the day, but I appreciate your prompt response and look forward to rejoining any constructive discussion at a later time. Rivertorch (talk) 18:43, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2014-01-29T18:43:00.000Z","author":"Rivertorch","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Rivertorch-2014-01-29T18:43:00.000Z-Flyer22-2014-01-29T18:30:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

First of all, thanks for withdrawing your remarks about me. I really appreciate it. Second, I wonder if I might give you some unsolicited, friendly advice. I haven't checked your user contributions, but I gather from what you said to Trystan that, although you've had an account for several years and have amassed several thousand edits, you must have been toiling away mostly in little-noticed areas of Wikipedia up until now. On well-watched articles, particularly those involving topics that are controversial, spending five hours "going over the text" and then being wholesale reverted isn't the slightest bit unusual; it happens all the time, it has happened to most of us, and it really shouldn't ever be more than a minor disappointment. If you let that kind of thing get under your skin, you'll be continually in conflict with your fellow Wikipedians every time you tackle such an article.

It's not like you crafted this gorgeous sand castle and rude people came along and kicked it to smithereens. Think of it instead as you built something and provided a permanent set of blueprints, but the neighbors, citing the building code, caused it to be dismantled and all the pieces safely stored. In other words, all of your changes are still in the page history and are available for you and others to consult, recreate in part, or otherwise use to make a better article in future.

Edit warring has a very specific meaning, and in no way was Trystan's reversion (or mine) a "declaration" of war. The bold-revert-discuss (BRD) cycle is a highly effective way to find consensus and avoid edit warring, and following BRD is exactly what we've been doing. You made bold changes, we reverted, and now we're discussing. When someone short-circuits that process by reverting the reversions of several other editors, then that editor (and only that editor) is edit warring.

You asked about finding an "adjudicator who can resolve this expeditiously". This page tells you how to do that, but I think you'll find that such measures generally work only when discussion on an article's talk page has become completely unproductive. We're still in discussion mode, and we may yet be able to find consensus without resorting to extreme measures. It would really help if you'd be patient, focus exclusively on the content of the article (not the behavior of other editors), and try to recognize that policy-based objections citing WP:NOR or other hard-and-fast rules must be taken seriously and usually should be resolved first. That's my two cents, anyway, and I hope it helps. If it doesn't, the "undo" command is at your disposal. Rivertorch (talk) 16:56, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2014-01-31T16:56:00.000Z","author":"Rivertorch","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Rivertorch-2014-01-31T16:56:00.000Z-Comments_at_Talk:Queer","replies":[]}}-->

I've answered you here: Talk:Armin_van_Buuren#What_do_Armin_van_Buuren_and_other_DJs_like_him_actually_do_to_produce_music. Peter238 (talk) 19:38, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2014-10-19T19:38:00.000Z","author":"Peter238","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Peter238-2014-10-19T19:38:00.000Z-Armin_van_Buuren","replies":[]}}-->

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