Talk:Principality of Sealand/Archive 3

message: The Principality of Sealand is a fantasy micronation. Its squatter occupants who rarely exceed five, claim that it is an independent sovereign principality. It has no territory and it is not recognized by any nation. Its location is a sunken World War II Royal Navy barge situated upon a portion of Rough Sands sandbar off the coast of southeast England in the North Sea.
If anyone can find error with the paragraph above, please point out your perceived error and the factual basis for your statement that it is an error.
The fact of the matter is that this entity is a fantasy. It is occupied by squatters. It is a sunken Royal Navy vessel (barge). The entity has no territory whatsover. A mistake has been made by trying to equate territory or real estate which is a geographical fixed location of a part of the Planet Earth, with the coordinated buoy markings for the sunken vessel. A vessel cannot be a territory. The vessel rests on a sand bank called Rough Sands which the British dump on, drudge and fish around continuously. The buoys are all paid for by UK taxpayers. If there is no territory at all, then that fact must be stated. We are only discussing the use of a sunken barge. That is all. 64.63.216.251 20:42, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The description of the structure as a sunken barge or vessel seems a little off. As far as I am aware this is in fact a purpose-built gun platform comprising two hollow cylindrical legs containing living quarters, surmounted and conected by a flat platform. Three or four such structures were built and positioned off the Essex coast. Lee M 04:04, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual and real definition 

message: When I correspondend with Gene Poole and before he began hurling personal abuse my way, I thought that I was dealing with another contributor who wanted to help create an online encyclopedia based upon reality. Now I have just been informed that Gene Poole has another identity on Wiki in which he claims to rule a world empire from an apartment in Australia. I saw "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and I had no idea that this Talk page was composed of inmates. Goodbye Gene, I will close the door behind me. MPLX/MH 20:19, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  I will leave you lot to discuss this nonsense among yourselves 

message: At this discussion on the proposed deletion of Principality of Sealand the consensus was by far that either that page should redirect here or that this page should redirect there, once certain disputes had been sorted out.  This is not support for either side of the dispute but, in an effort to clean up Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Old, I have moved the contents of the principality page to Talk:Sealand/Principality of Sealand so that, when certain other disputes have been sorted out, whatever material that needs to be merged can be done so, in either location, and the resultant redirects sorted once and for all. -- Graham  ☺ | Talk 00:04, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: PS - yes I know it's a copy and paste move, but the former page has a talk page which also needs preserving, and the page history hasn't been deleted, it's been turned into a redirect. -- Graham  ☺ | Talk 00:08, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Principality of Sealand (merge) and redirect

message: I revised my comments only to have them twice obliterated. It was because of this kind of silly behavior on this page that I quit the first time. I should have known better and stayed away. I am now disappearing again. However if anyone would like to ask me a specific question relating to matters that I have stated before, feel free to send them to me - but not on this page. I will not respond to further debates, etc. about this topic and I will not add further comments to this page. (Please do not remove this footnote!) MPLX/MH 02:44, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: MPLX I've asked you once already today not to make false accusations about other writers, and now I see you've done it again. Nobody "obliterated" your comments. I simply put them back in their correct order after you moved them out of order for no aparent reason. Let me advise you that if you continue behaving in this way I will be forced to report your behaviour, because it is agressive and highly inappropriate. --Centauri 03:12, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Note

message: The legal history of Sealand article is a big mess.  Now that User:MPLX has gone away , perhaps it can be fixed.  Should it even be a separate article?  Dbenbenn 05:43, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legal history?