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Einstein i wrote that the quastions that TEB728 used seem to me provoctive.TEB wrote me that he didnt understand my English , but it dosnt interfir him with blaming me again of beeing personal and puting a warning on my tallk page.To me it looks like a very dirty game against new user with limited English.I need your help on this-since it seems that TEB728 doing every thing he can to make me, at the end, beeing block from Knowledge.if you can Help me or at least to bridge between as so i dont have to suffer from this treatment - i will be greatfull. Best --
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Germany since he wasnt an ethnic German. When you says "ethnic" you mean that it acctually was his historical origin-and it wasnt...In the same way, you wouldnt refer to any German citizen which is of a Turkish ancestry as an "ethnic German" I would ask you to understand
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to do so many edits at once. None of us has anything like a monopoly of wisdom and doing c55 of the last 100 edits is, forgive me, overdoing it IMHO. It would also be good to use the talk page in a way that people can see what is happening, eg six entries entitled "Copyedit" give fellow-editors
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article!! Very few of them are flagged as "minor" and as a result it is almost impossible to see what is going on. Furthermore wholesale changes to the reference system should be done with consensus rather than "executive decision". I'm
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Weidman is the author of the musical rather than a separate book. Also as explained
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