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Kransky, these lists of diplomatic missions are helpful, but they aren't really what wikipedia is all about. You might try listing things like that at WikiTravel. Unfortunately we can't transwiki them b/c the lists are now licensed under the GFDL, but I'm reasonably certain you can still relicense the content by posting it at WikiTravel. I'd encourage you to do so. In the meantime, I'm going to propose deletion of the articles. Sorry.--Kchase T 08:54, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Military losses are listed under the flag that they were incurred. For example German nationals who served in the US Armed forces would be listed with US not German losses. The UK drafted men from colonies who are listed with the UK since the losses were incurred with the UK armed forces not with each colony. Germany drafted ethnic German citizens of Poland and Czechoslovakia, they are never counted as Czechs or Poles. The Irish who served the UK forces did not fight for Ireland. It would be impossible to break out the nationality for the losses of each nation and reallocate according to your methodology. The losses must be listed under the flag that were incurred in order to avoid a list of numbers that make no sense and cannot be backed up with solid sources. The UK losses listed here are per the Commonwealth War Graves commission.

• Australians, New Zealanders, Rhodesians and others fought under their own flags and the death tolls can be enumerated separately. Do you have specific information that states that the British war dead includes non-British combatants?
  

You bet I do, go to the CWGC wesite and browse through the names of the dead, there are many African, Malay and Burmese names. The Merchant navy had many Chinese and Arab losses. The problem is that there is no breakdown for each colony.
There is no breakdown of UK and Commonwealth losses by country of origin. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission does not provide the detail you are looking for. The US had German Jews in their ranks, Henry Kissinger is a perfect example. If we could identify German Jewish losses in the US Armed Forces would you include them with Germany? We need to keep the various Armed forces as seperate entities and the losses under the flag they were incurred. --Woogie10w 17:10, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the MetroPitt article; it's really appreciated. You might like to change a few things given that the Government has done further planning on the route (now also called the "Redfern to Chatswood railway line"). On your map, the Park St station should link to Town Hall - they are meant to be connected. Also, the Castlereagh St station should link to Martin Place (it's also spelt wrong too). Additionally, as per the Dept of Planning Website, the lines are meant to connect to the new Campbelltown Express line at Redfern and the Epping to Chatswood link at Chatswood via two new rail lines between St Leonards (not Saint Leonards by the way) and Artarmon. Can you fix that stuff up for us? Thanks. (JROBBO 03:52, 12 October 2006 (UTC))[reply]

In my opinion such lists should not be place on Wikipedia. It is task of respective governments to provide this information and external link + few statistics in artcile about foreign relations of country X should be enough.

Specifically, Chinese diplomatic missions, could make good overview article about Chinese mission during history. Pavel Vozenilek 13:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the airline destination lists is example of what could get wrong with Wikipedia.

If anything, one may be interested in web pages of individual embassies, what kind of service they provide and in what timeframe and some general overview about diplomatic system of China. Just sequence of "Tirana, Yerevan, Vienna, ..." doesn't give very much, IMHO. Pavel Vozenilek 14:15, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, the interest comes in discovering which countries bother to open embassies or consulates in particular places or not. What would a government prioritorise in its foreign policy, given limited resources. There are lists of flags, lists of planets, lists of alumns etc. with even less information. You are welcome to your opinion about what you think is 'wrong', but you would be holding a minority opinion against the consensus. (PS it is 12:30am here, I am going to finish the Chinese article then go to bed) Kransky 14:27, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! You've gone a great job with the dilomatic missions articles!

Do you really think it's necessary to remove the ambassadors? I know they're constantly changing, but there's a lot of such lists in Wikipedia (like List of ambassadors to the United States), and it's got the as of thing, so I think it's basically OK, but after all I wouldn't object to removing them. Todor→Bozhinov 16:54, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, sure keep them. The problem is maintaining the lists as ambassadors come and go. Do you think however you can format the list so it resembles the other entries, i.e:

• Cambodia
  • Phnom Penh (Embassy)
• China
  • Beijing (Embassy)
  • Shanghai (Consulate-General)

Start with a short introduction, then list the missions by continent (ending with Multilateral Organisations), a link to other Bulgarian foreign affairs articles and a link to the external website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Use the same continents, the same order etc as much as possible Maybe you could add the names of each ambassador at the bottom of the list, or next to each mission.

Again, thank you for your contribution Kransky 12:27, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kransky,

Yes, its correct - the Danish embassy in Australia will reopen in 2007 as part of a major reorganisation plan by the Danish MFA - weird Denmark has'nt had an embassy in such an relatively important place - considering other "less important" places in the world hosting a Danish embassy.. Sir Tanx 20:47, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

True, there are a lot of pro's for reopening the embassy - good to see more Danish embassies abroad :) The more the merrier! Sir Tanx 22:18, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year to you, too! In regards to my merge, it is okay by Wikipedia guidelines, if there is no response to a merge proposal, to be bold and merge them, which is what I did. I had never seen another diplomatic listing like those you speak of, but as the coordinator of the Burma/Myanmar project, both looked like very underdone stubs to me, so I waited, then merged them, now they make a more solid encyclopedic approach. We are going through a couple hundred Burma stubs and doing just the same. If you feel there is a need for duplication like that, then go ahead and recreate your article, but do not remove the info out of the new larger merged article, we like the improvement. And say hello to vegemite for me, do you know how rare that is in the States? It's like only me and three other people here must eat it here. I can go through a peanut-butter sized jar in about two weeks. :) Chris 19:10, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Saw that, thanks for the heads-up-one thing-for those countries that recognize the name, it's Myanmar, with the r at the end. Would you be okay with a name correction move? Chris 04:32, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Believe me, I am well aware of the adjectival correction, as is the present regime, but they still use the incorrect form, as do most in the country, which is why most of the Wikipedia articles use the r. I am ready for them to have a change of government, and go back to Burma, which the democratic opposition favors. I'm just saying for the sake of uniformity for other articles on the nation, r is the norm. Chris 04:47, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :) I plan to make an article about foreign embassies in Serbia but it seems to be hard as some of them have closed down in recent years due to financial problems, some of them have reduced their mission level on consulates and some of them maintain only a representative office with ambassador and his family. The outdated official websites aren`t helpful at all. Avala 13:07, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]