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What are you trying to do? I don't mean that to sound agressive, sorry! What is the problem that you have with the current template? I'm happy to try to help, but I can't yet figure out what I should be doing. Physchim62(talk) 23:09, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
As for implementation dates on regulations, legally you are correct, but it is equally appropriate to put the implementation date as equal to the commencement date (and simpler in template coding for the time being!) Physchim62(talk) 00:23, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Expression of strong disagreement, while I collect my thoughts! ;) I know you're doing it in good faith, but I think we need more discussion on this one ;) Physchim62(talk) 20:16, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What do we want on these infoboxes? We obviously need a full case name, a short case name and a citation to the ECR. Are the names of the judges important? I included them on {{
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Another non-minor point is whether or not we would wish the template to be extended to CFI and EFTA Court cases, and possibly even to ECHR cases (more difficult): at present, it only covers ECJ cases, but then those are the only one's we have articles about! Physchim62(talk) 20:28, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The judges parameters are not mandatory, only the parameters for the Judge-Rapporteur and the Advocate-General are (actually most parameters can be left out without making the template look ugly, even DateSubmitted and DateDecided are not mandatory). A keywords parameter can be included easily.
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Keywords parameter is there!
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Thanks! Next I suggest that we change the title of the template to something like {{Infobox European case}} (my preference) or {{Infobox EU case}}, so that we can include more judgments and we don't end up with the problems we had over the legislation templates… Physchim62(talk) 21:36, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That way as well, our discussions will be recorded for posterity on a template talk page! Another point for ECJ cases: we need the {{{case_type}}} parameter from {{
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Hallo Fentener, ik zou er voor willen pleiten niet in iedere zin het woord Dutch plaatsen. Dat lijkt me niet juist.Taksen (talk) 18:29, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Hallo Fentener, ik zie dat Carloff gevonden hebt. In een Duitse boekje over Deense Afrika Compagnie waarin hij ook ter sprake komt, las ik een opmerkelijk zin die me goed beviel. De macht van de Europeanen beperkte zich tot de reikwijdte van de kanonnen, hetzij vanaf de muren van de forten of op het dek van de schepen. Dat geldt niet alleen voor Afrika, maar ook voor "bezittingen" in Azië. Het lijkt me passend de invloedsfeer van die verschillende landen ook te relativeren. Groeten uit Amsterdam.Taksen (talk) 08:07, 18 December 2011 (UTC)Taksen (talk) 18:10, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Beste Taksen, dat lijkt me inderdaad de juiste conclusie, dat--tot de negentiende eeuw in ieder geval--Europese handelsposten in Afrika en Azië slechts Europees waren voor zover ze onder het schootsveld van de kanonnen vielen (in de Amerika's lag dat anders). De VOC is in de eerste plaats rijk geworden door zich bezig te houden met de handel tussen Aziatische staten en had dus ook weinig behoefte grotere gebieden aan zich te onderwerpen (voor zover ze daar überhaupt toe in staat was geweest). Voor de WIC in Afrika geldt hetzelfde; men betaalde pacht aan de koning van Ashanti om in fort Elmina te mogen blijven. Pas in de negentiende eeuw veranderde dit, o.a. na de komst van Daendels, die er een plantagekolonie van wilde maken. Hollandse hoogmoed, zou je kunnen zeggen, en in 1872 waren we definitief vertrokken.
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Hi. I saw a note in an edit summary of yours--thanks for the edits. Now that I read the novel I see what's happening: the Ashanti king delivers subjugated tribes, prisoners, to the Dutch who basically impress them into service in the East Indies. I will figure a way to state that correctly in the article. Thanks for the compliment, by the way; the book is worth reading. 66.168.247.159 (talk) 22:02, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome! You're right indeed, the
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Oddly enough, the soldiers recruited in the Gold Coast had quite a luxurious life in the Dutch East Indies, because they were classified as "Europeans" since they were soldiers in the military (the Dutch divided their subjects in the East Indies into two categories: Europeans and natives). They usually married an
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Thanks for your response: this is interesting material. The novel doesn't spend much time on "them" "over there", but Wikipedia has a link, even if sideways, in W. R. van Hoëvell. You're probably the better person to redo this in the article on the novel--I could not come up with a better term than impressment, but I have little knowledge in this area. Thanks, 66.168.247.159 (talk) 22:40, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Fentener van Vlissingen. I would like to propose that the articles on the Cape Colony (there are now several I see - all for the same political entity) be merged into one page, entitle "Cape Colony" or even "Colony of the Cape of Good Hope" if you like.
The reasons are that the Cape (like many self-governing territories) has passed through the control of several colonial powers throughout its history, with little change to its internal structure - or with changes occurring only later. To be consistent, you would then need to create new separate articles for the Cape as it went through far far greater political changes - to representative government, responsible government, annexation of Natal etc. The decolonisation and evolution of states is a complex process.
You would also need to correct the great many links that I still come across, that still link to your disambiguation page. Finally, the entity is commonly referred to as "the Cape Colony" in academic and informal circles, regardless of which colonial power held sway at which particular time. The longer name "British Cape Colony" is not generally used and seems to needlessly complicate things.
Far simpler and more consistent to just revert the page to "Cape Colony", and update its info-box to account for the political changes. Abu Shawka (talk) 14:30, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Abu Shawka. Well, I guess I couldn't disagree more. By your logic, New Netherland should be merged with Province of New York, and Dutch Gold Coast, Danish Gold Coast, Portuguese Gold Coast, Swedish Gold Coast, and Brandenburger Gold Coast should be merged with Gold Coast (British colony). I don't think that will work. Of course the internal structure of the colony did not change overnight after it was taken over from the Dutch by the British, but the change in the administrating colonial power is the principal reason for many of those later changes (e.g. English replacing Dutch as the official language, early abolition of slavery). And of course the evolution of states is a complex process, but few political changes are as momentous as a transfer of sovereignty. That is why colonies have separate articles from contemporary sovereign states and also why colonies changing hands should have separate articles. As Wikipedia expands, some other political changes can split up articles as well (we now have separate articles for the Union of South Africa and for South Africa as we know it today; another example: German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, West Germany, and Germany describe various incarnations of the same sovereign state).
As for the term British Cape Colony and Dutch Cape Colony not being generally used: that is just not true. Check this and this list of literature on Google Scholar.
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You enter into a third-party discussion with me about you being right in using the data, rather than directly engaging with me in such discussion as would be a proper academic way of dealing with the issue.
You have willingly taken the risk of transgressing rules set out by the European Database Directive, regardless of the consequences.
Please explain to me why there should be an assumption of good faith here by **demonstrating** good faith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith)
You obviously enjoyed the work done by me and others on the collection and collation of data. Otherwise you would not have used these to produce the Wikipedia articles in the way you did. It is good academic practice to inform colleagues about this, rather than keeping quiet. As a result your decision to stealthily harvest data from http://gcdb.doortmontweb.org/index.php has led to full closure of the website and your expulsion from it. So what were you thinking?
Yours faithfully,
Michel R. Doortmont
I disagree with you on this: it is not considered good academic practice to inform the authors of publications of a citation of their work. People cite from publications here on Wikipedia all the time, which is perfectly legitimate with proper citations. As for your database rights, your terms of use are in contravention to article 3 of Dutch database rights law:
Artikel 3.
1. De producent van een databank welke op enigerlei wijze aan het publiek ter beschikking is gesteld mag de rechtmatige gebruiker van die databank niet verhinderen in kwalitatief of kwantitatief opzicht niet-substantiële delen van de inhoud ervan op te vragen of te hergebruiken. Voorzover de rechtmatige gebruiker toestemming heeft om slechts een deel van de databank op te vragen of te hergebruiken, geldt de eerste zin slechts voor dat deel.
2. Bij overeenkomst kan niet ten nadele van de rechtmatige gebruiker van het eerste lid worden afgeweken.
Best regards,
Fentener van Vlissingen (talk) 12:49, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply
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Interesting how you keep bending the issue towards your own righteousness. With regard to the Dutch database rights law, the quoted articles are less than straightforward, as you make them out to be. Your claim that the database is / was open to the public is false, I contend. Access is limited to screened and registered users, which is a group of people that, under Dutch and European law, cannot be defined as "the public". So there is a legal issue there, which would focus on (a) whether you accessed the database legally; (b) if the fact that you could access it was intended by the owner; and (c) if you accessing the database as a non-registered user means that the database "is made available in any way to the public". I would like to see jurisprudence on that. And when dealing with a non-public database, the regulations for use of the database are valid. I would guess you are not working in academia yourself. If you were, you would know that in case of data usage from ongoing projects like this, in whatever way made available, it is good practice to discuss this usage with your colleagues and the owner of the database. In its basic form that is also what the registration requirement is for. And finally, I notice that you do not react to my main question here: how do I maintain an assumption of good faith towards you? Is it a question too close for comfort? I suppose it is and notice that you are unwilling to **demonstrate good fate** in a dispute, which I read to be unbecoming for contributors to Wikipedia. Michel Doortmont 14:08, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
I maintain good faith, because I assumed (and still assume) that that my citation of your website was a case of fair use (or in Dutch law, citaatrecht).
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Once again, Doortmont, you fail to distinguish between reproducing the contents of a database (this is where database rights come in) and merely depending on its contents as a source for content that is created by someone else. Judging by your own description of the case, Fentener van Vlissingen has not engaged in wholesale copying of large or small parts of your database, so your allegations of infringement aren't supported by the facts. Nyttend (talk) 01:39, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Nyttend, please stop slapping me with the same argument over and over again without dealing with the core argument put forward by me, namely that this is NOT a public database, but a closed private repository. The way in which the information was acquired was wrongful in the first place and should not have happened. This may be a mistake on my part (having a backdoor open for a while), but it does NOT change the legal status of that database / repository. Simply having information stored online does NOT qualify it as being in the public domain. Check the multiple discussions on Wikipedia about this I would say. As I do not seem to have the ear of the Wikipedia administrators, I have taken measures there where I do have control. The database is now fully closed to the public, registration is enhanced, and much of the information has been made unavailable for any user except the administrators, in order to avoid any further misuse or abuse of the datasets in the database. Oh and by the way, I am taking these measures in good faith. As far as I am concerned this is case closed. Michel Doortmont 13:04, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Gerard Spong has written an extensive analysis on the Constitutional Court of Suriname and it's implications to the December murders and the Amnesty Law. I am not sure how I can use the document, because quite frankly I sometimes felt completely lost, but I'm think this will interest you. It is also a treasure trove...
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I've been trying to make sense of it, and couldn't find a clear overview for the Amerindians anywhere. If you know anything about the Aluku, because they've been without a granman for years now, and duckduck and google draw blanks. KittenKlub (talk) 11:39, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@KittenKlub:, you're welcome! The situation with the Wayana granman is indeed quite confusing. The "granman" on the Lawa River, Ipomadi Pelenapïn, is the ex-husband of Karin Boven [de] (who for some reason has an article on the German Wikipedia!), by the way, I'm not sure you noticed that (it's hinted at in the dankwoord of her dissertation). Their daughter lives in the Netherlands.
AFAIK, the Aluku are still without a granman.
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I didn't know that. I quickly scanned the document for granman and didn't read it in detail. I still have one chapter left of that doctoral dissertation (Scholtens) and I want to finish that book first, because that is one hell of a resource (even though it's dated). The Aluku don't have any treaty other than acknowledgement that they are French, so it wouldn't surprise me, if the French government wants to forget about the traditional government altogether. KittenKlub (talk) 11:56, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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