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Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Dingo, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 22:28, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Paleolithic dog

Hello Makumbe, I have undone your edits. Mammal Species of the World edition 3 (2005) does not address these specimens. They were analysed by Thalmann 2013 but the team was unable to determine these specimens because the degraded Goyet "dog" did not provide reliable DNA and the Altai "dog" rated as a dog on 2 tests and wolf on two tests. No Pleistocene wolf has been taxonomically classified. Therefore, we cannot say what they are. We believe that these are some form of Canis lupus but that is not clear. Regards, William Harris • talk • 10:30, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Also, regarding a recent edit, I believe you were looking for this:

"Finally, within the Old World clade, wolf and dog represent sister taxa. Therefore, suggestions that the dog or dingo are a separate species (Canis familiaris) (e.g., Crowther et al. 2014) would cause gray wolves to be a polyphetic taxon; and consequently, our results support dogs as a divergent subspecies of the wolf."

Does this citation help prove the "wolfness" of the Goyet Dog? Makumbe (talk) 19:51, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

No, but it indicates that both the Dingo and the Dog are wolves, and rebuts Crowther. I understand you have recently been to the Dingo page. William Harris • talk • 21:21, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your response Mr. Harris. I thank you for giving me the citation which helps in my edit of the Dingo. What I asking was whether the Drake re-assessment of the Goyet Wolf published in 2015 would help in the argument that the Goyet Dog however ambiguous its genetics is a Canis Lupus the old-fashioned way - by careful observation etc. I am really glad I found your talk page- you seem to be like me very interested in wolf/dog stuff and canine evolution. I appreciate your help- Jeff Thurston, (makumbe) Makumbe (talk) 21:41, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Editing

Don't give up editing, Jeff. You were correct about the Dingo but the time was not right. Your edits about the Anglo-Saxons led to a clarification of that article with another editor providing further citation. These are all good things. Regards,  William Harris |talk  05:57, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, please see message on my talk page.  William Harris |talk  21:10, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Systemic issues in many WWII pages

Hey, good to come across you, even if it's in a sock investigation. You seem to be running into the same issues I am across multiple pages. I've tried to start small in addressing them but I'd be happy to take a look at Panzer Aces, etc. I think you'll find related issues at the pages outlined in our sock investigation entry. LargelyRecyclable (talk) 19:08, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Panzer ace

Hi Makumbe, I just wanted to say thank you for your work on the Panzer ace page. The Page had a very POV viewpoint running through it, and in my opinion, was not neutral in tone. The title of the article "Panzer Aces in Popular Faction" was ridiculous, I had moved for it to be changed to "Panzer Ace" myself, but had no luck. So nice work. Deathlibrarian (talk) 12:00, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi- Thanks Deathlibrarian. I see I have been accused of being a sock puppet. Since I am not no worries but thanks for the words of support. I am currently reading a pile of about 10 books on WW2 tank warfare- some recommended to me by a friend at Oxford University Press. When I am finnished I'm going to start putting suggestions on the Panzer Ace Talk page and then start editing. The whole "in popular culture" paragraphs which are inserted in many articles are Editorials for sure. Thansk agaain- Jeff T.Makumbe (talk) 18:19, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Hey Makumbe - I'm sorry to to hear you are being accused of being a sock puppet - as far as I am concerned you've done really well in pulling what I see as a a very non standard wikipedia article into line with wikipedia general policy. You have my support. Deathlibrarian (talk) 23:42, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Panz of the Eastern Fronter aces

I'm not sure your recent comments on the Panzer aces page are going to be received constructively. I'm certainly not going to tell you what to do but you'll likely find it easier going in future editing there if you remove or modify them to focus exclusively on the article and tone down the pejoratives. Cheers. LargelyRecyclable (talk) 20:07, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

I won't be editing this page in the near future. If it offends someone- Oh well- truth hurts! Nothing I've said is offensive to anyone personally- I called out Nick-d and his false accusation, I called the little clique "the Triumvirate" but did not name names and I called out Myth of the Eastern Front for the BS it is. My section does concentrate on the article- it is based on an editorial POV. I just hope I haven't made it difficult for you. Makumbe (talk) 21:51, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Arabian wolf

Of interest: http://canids.org/CBC/20/Arabian_wolf_and_domestic_dog_in_saudi_arabia.pdf (Its not all about panzers!) William Harris • (talk) • 21:12, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

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Makumbe, if you don't understand how your comment about Neitzel is an unacceptable violation of our BLP policy, you have no business editing here. I am sorry I didn't see it earlier, since it really warrants rev/deletion: it's too late for that now. BTW--"our Israeli friends"? What the hell kind of comment is that? Drmies (talk) 18:29, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Mr. Drmies - Panzer Ace article

I just saw your post - this is really poor behaviour from Mr. Drmies, who appears to basically be a bully. So far he has been rude to Largely recycled, Nick_D, myslef and you. No one deserves to be called a Nazi sympathizer. I think I pinged you to get you back involved in the Panzer ace discussion, as I knew you were interested in it - but I see now its turned into quite a bad experience for you. Very sorry about that, as you said, best to take a break from it. We are all volunteers on wikipedia, trying to do the right thing. Deathlibrarian (talk) 05:58, 27 December 2017 (UTC)