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Military history: Balkan / European / World War I

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In stead of having two small articles I think it would be good to have one solid and comprehensive one. Also the term is today used when refering to other regions as well--Dado 22:25, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The term "powder keg" may be used to describe other regions (such as the Middle East and Pakistan) as mentioned in the powder keg page, but the term "powder keg of Europe" has, to the best of my knowledge, been used exclusively to describe the Balkans, and in particular in the lead up to WWI. I disapprove of the merge of the two articles, but do endorse a fleshing out of the "powder keg" page. Additionally, this page still needs some wikifying. Both are efforts I am willing to invest my time in at a later date. BUT, as always, I can probably be talked out of my position. Cheers and keep up the good work Dado cjs56

Actually if I knew that this article existed I would probably not have started the Powder Keg article. It is my personal preference to present a term from its most generic form as I attempted in Powder Keg to a more specific explaination that this article has developed. But I may be wrong with that idea so I would like to hear more opinions on this. --Dado 02:22, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that creating a "powder keg" page with an emphasis on the generic meaning of the word is a worthy effort. I envision it as two paragraph page- the first outlining the concept of a "powder keg" generally and the second mentioning examples and linking. of course, to this page. --Cjs56 22:00, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe that will work but i am not sure how much more can be written in general about the subject so the article will probably look underdeveloped. But I may be wrong. We can leave it as is for now and we can see in the future if it makes sense to merge articles. --Dado 04:06, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistency regarding July Ultimatum[edit]

This page states that "Serbia agreed to all components of the ultimatum with the exception that they would not accept fault for the murder of Franz Ferdinand." This contradicts the claims of the July Ultimatum page, which states, "The Serbian government reservedly accepted all of the conditions of the ultimatum, except for the condition of including Austria-Hungary in Serbia's judicial inquiry (demand 6), which Serbia indicated would be unconstitutional and a violation of its sovereignty." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.103.184.76 (talk) 16:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A spat??[edit]

"...which began with a spat between imperialist Austria-Hungary and Pan-Slavic Serbia." This just seems like the poorest possible adjective for what occurred involving the July ultimatum. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.73.98.126 (talk) 15:29, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]