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Hi, regarding the Danis article, it is a candidate to be copied to Wikibooks because it is a drink recipe. Recipes don't belong on wikipedia, per WP:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_an_indiscriminate_collection_of_information point 8. However, recipes do belong on wikibooks. Once copied/transwikied to wikibooks, the recipe content will need to be removed from the wikipedia article, which will leave an empty article. At this point, the article could be improved, if someone can find some more text to add to the article, or it could be deleted or made a redirect to something else. If you want, you could certainly add more text to the article now, if there is anything else to say about the Danis cocktail other than the recipe for it. -- Xyzzyplugh 01:32, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Do you have a source for the claim that Norkus' father had definitely converted to National Socialism during the boy's life? I thought there was uncertainity on the subject. Best, Tfine80 16:10, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm only busy until early April and desperately trying not to get lured into en.wiki until then. I'll address the outstanding issues in April, can it wait ? :-) -- Lysy talk 06:31, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
You tried to delete the information about the mass murder comitted by German soldiers from 17th Infantry Division. It shall be restored. As will all information about Nazi atrocities, despite repeated attempts to erase such information. -- Molobo 14:43, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Will do some more work on his bio. I don't like his works and I'm not a fan of baroque poetry in general, with some notable exceptions perhaps. However, I must say that I'm a great fan of Morsztyn as a person. Did you know that he was most probably a Polish spy? My history teacher once turned my attention to the fact that he was a frequent traveller, a thing uncommon in those days. What's even more strange is that he always travelled alone, without a huge court and servants, which is even more strange given the fortune he inherited. Finally, another interesting fact is that, during one of such trips to Sweden, his ship sunk in the middle of the Baltic Sea and Morsztyn made it to the Swedish shore - alone, as one of the very few survivors. His name was Morsztyn. Jan Andrzej Morsztyn :) I wonder what was his favourite drink. // Halibu tt 22:28, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Lysy, I saw today that you had added info, concerning a monument to the Red Army, in the Raudone, article about a month ago. Are you sure? Seems dubious. Dr. Dan 02:46, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, it's a surprise, and I appreciate your time and trouble to investigate it. Dr. Dan 11:42, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure about the one in planty in Kraków, but there's a soviet monument "with tanks" in central Berlin. There's a Red Army monument (but without tanks) in Warsaw as well. It seems the people were not that hysteric to remove/destroy them all.
Wesołych Świąt!
-- Lysy talk 06:56, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
// Halibu tt 09:29, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello there! I've spent the best part of last three days expanding the article on Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Since my grandpa spent there the entire war (except for a brief period in Auschwitz), I have pretty much everything ever published on the history of the camp at home. It took me ages to dig up some non-Polish sources as well, but I think that now the article is decently-sourced (Google was never my true friend until the invention of Google Books). I thought that you might perhaps want to take a look at it and check for possible dubious statements, omissions or errors. Feel free to use as many {{ fact}} tags as you please :) // Halibu tt 02:07, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
It would be useful if you'd provide specific links to the edit. In my last edit I just pasted some info from PSW article, not written by me. The entire PoRiga article is in need of a major copyedit - too little info about the negotiations compared to aftermath.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 16:32, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Dan. Perhaps you should introduce yourself :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 02:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
No relation. An interesting user to say the least. His small fixation on Korzybski, makes me wonder if he may not be a Rodak of yours. Dr. Dan 12:33, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Unfortunately, no. Feel free to remove the category, and I will come back to the matter when I find some sources. Appleseed ( Talk) 13:49, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Dr. Dan. Thanks for your Easter greetings. I send mine to you as well — a bit late, I know, but it's officially Easter until Pentecost. Sorry for ignoring you for so long. I meant to reply to you when you sent a message to me about Elser, but a lot of things came up. And I was out of the country for a whole week just after Easter. With regard to the piano template, no I had nothing to do with that. If you look at the history of the template, you'll see that it was changed on 13 April, and changed back on 17 April. If you'd prefer to have it on your own user page with the piano image, let me know. But you may prefer the pno-3 as matching the other boxes more closely. Will e-mail you some time. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 21:26, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Oh dear, I dread to be visiting you here again after all this time. But check out the vote on Talk:Elżbieta Rakuszanka. The world's gone crazy! - Calgacus ( ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 14:41, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Please take a look at talk:Wilno Uprising and comment if you are interested. -- Irpen 06:33, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
You contributed to this article recently; please take another look at it. I'm bothered by the fact that certain editors keep removing the paragraph about the choice of Khatyn as a memorial site (to confuse the issue of Katyn); no matter what is said on the talk page, it is quickly deleted. Another questionable issue is the reliance on the website of the memorial for its figures, as it is hardly a neutral, academic source. Regards, ProhibitOnions (T) 10:34, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
O ne Jūsų kalbos žinios labai geros, bet jei reikia galime naudoti EN. Kaip ir minėjau pabandysime išplėtoti informacija apie Lietuvą. O dėl priešų tai jau spėjau susidurti, ir perskaityti tas „įdomias“ nuomones, atrodo pavyko kažkiek apraminti. P.S. Kiek pastebėjau turite gerą jumoro jausmą ! Puiku! M.K. 08:55, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Prašau padėti rašant Sophia of Halshany. Norėčiau parašyti taip, kad nebūtų POV atvejis. Juraune 07:15, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Finally you got my point in the workings! Yay! :) Renata 06:19, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
I sent you an email - not sure which form of communication will be quicker. I am off to eat something :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 03:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Here you go:-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you Piotrus and Ann H., for your help in restoring my Template on the Iraq War. Dr. Dan 13:47, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Would you share your opinion, and give your vote, at Talk:Sigismund III of Poland Marrtel 11:57, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Dan, for providing me with another bell-related proverb. However, it does not actually say the same (not that it needed too) and since I only want to display quotations that make a statement I move it to my talk page. PS. If you know a better wording for "my" bell proverb, feel free to enlighten me. Str1977 (smile back) 20:52, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Would you care to visit at Talk:Wladyslaw_II_Jagiellon_of_Poland#Survey. The simple "Jagiello" - for that there is now a formal listing going on to sign support or opposition. ObRoy 21:27, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I think you may have been right the first time. It is a lot of work to fight the cabal, and perhaps not really worth it. The Zygmunts seem to be getting fixed, owing to an increased amount of attention. Increasing the attention given to the Jogaila page is the only way to have it fixed. The name "Wladislaus II of Poland" would be better than the current one, ultimately though I'd want Jogaila. I am curious that Bohemian rulers with the same name are called "Ladislaus" on wiki; this is the same name AFAIK, and thus has the unfortunate side-effect of making the Polish rulers by these names more western slavic than the Bohemian rulers. Such differences reflect the influences of modern historians and the nationalisms of wiki contriubutors, but is very misleading. My second problem is the numbering; he is not the second ruler of Poland to bare the name Wladyslaw, and although this seems the dominant number on wiki, it does not seem to be so in the historical literature; why not give him his actual regnal numeral? My third problem is that this ruler was not even Polish, and his Lithuanian kingdom was much more powerful than the comparatively small Polish kingdom he tried to absorb into the High Kingdom of Lithuania; to me it is a Polish nationalist masturbation to give preference to his tenure as King of Poland; it's a bit like titling Frederick Barbarossa Federico I of Italy. But I recognize the latter point is unfightable; it would take a rigorous and tiresome reciting of arguments and evidence to get this point across, and the only people who'd take any notice would be the Polish nationalists, who'd just ignore it anyway. - Calgacus ( ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 04:01, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I have proposed to move the following monarchs from their current, generally Polish-spelled names (with diacriticals) to the systematical English name, citing my general ground that English should be used, not Polish. Would you share your opinion at Talk:Bolesław I the Brave , Talk:Bolesław II the Bold, Talk:Mieszko II Lambert, Talk:Władysław III Spindleshanks, Talk:Jan I Olbracht and Talk:Kazimierz III the Great. Marrtel 19:42, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Piłsudski an anti-Semite? Rubbish... To make long thing short, if Piłsudski was an anti-S, then all people on earth are (which of course is highly likely, judging by the comments of some of the more close-minded members of the Jewish community, and especially so those living in the US...). But, to the best of my knowledge, he was one of the people one could hardly associate with A-S at all...
As a politician he was a pro-state leader who didn't really care much for the ethnicities, unlike his famed opponent Dmowski. Also, as a socialist (in a 19th-centurish style) he did not care much for religions either. There are some direct mentions of the "Jewish cause" in his late 19th century writings (read collected works recently), but these are focused on the social and political aspect. For instance he criticized the Sionists and Jewish socialists for not being radical enough and for trying to find some modo vivendi with the Tsardom. Which, however, didn't have anything to do with Jews as a nation/religion/ethnicity, as he equally criticized the most pro-Russian nationalists of Dmowski and radical socialists of SDKPiL.
Anyway, this is rather Piłsudski's pre-history. As to his later political career, I can't really think of a single situation where his actions could be interpreted that way. In fact Piłsudski was supported by the conservative and leftist Jews of Poland alike from the beginning of his influence on Polish politics. The Jewish MPs supported "his" candidate for the first president of Poland (Narutowicz), chief rabbi issued his own petitions to the Jewish community asking them to support Poland in the war of 1918-1920 and so on. (There was a famous memo from the Jewish MPs issued on July 13, 1920, at the height of Bolshevik offensive. It was published in the press between a similar memo from the primate and a memo from the Ukrainian MPs and started with "Jews, your Polish motherland is in danger". ). Anyway, perhaps some of them saw him as a lesser evil, I don't know... The fact is that until his death he was strongly supported by Jewish parties (both Bund, but also Poalej-Syjon; the earlier was initially some sort of a "Jewish section" of Piłsudski's Polish Socialist Party). And I would yet have to see some mention of Piłsudski as an anti-Semite. // Halibu tt 07:00, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
I went ahead and added the code for the userbox that you wanted. How does it look? Personally, I think the colors clash a bit, but if you like it, that's all that matters! If you'd like me to modify the color of one of them though, I can do that. Just point me at a color somewhere that you'd like instead, and I'll change the code accordingly. -- Elonka 13:27, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
hi, Dr Dan, you are right, your edit was valid and I was too fixed on Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900–2002) — the widow of George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II. However, in my opinion the current version lets less likely stumble someone over it, like I did, but feel free to reedit, I won't touch it again. -- Gf1961 13:34, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Check out the page Sanktuarium Matki Bożej Bolesnej Królowej Polski, Licheń. Yes, it is on English wikipedia. Recently it was moved by Halibutt from Sanctuary of Our Lady of Licheń. Calgacus ( ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 00:11, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
I think I'm beginning to understand and agree with your efforts concerning the IPA tag. Would you be so kind as to place one on the article about Kraków, for me. Some of my computer skills need tutoring. Dr. Dan 02:46, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Dan. I did not check sockpuppets personally since I do not have the acess rights to do so. I only copied the sockpuppet info to variouy (numerous) talk pages. The check was done by User:Mackensen. If you need a sockpuppet verififcation, try Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser. Also, I only copied the info, but did not adjust the vote results. Best wishes and happy editing! -- Chris 73 | Talk 08:00, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Dan, I think I need to cool off, as I feel my wikistress level is rising dangerously. I start to suspect that you're pretending you do not understand what I'm writing as it seems so obvious to me. Also, I think the discussion is not worth the time, maybe come back to it later, when we have some real sources to support the "Pact of Vilnius and Radom" version. Anyway, thanks for your patience. -- Lysy talk 22:50, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
I think this is the one that you're looking for: Mediation cabal. If you have any questions, let me know! -- Elonka 23:59, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
must have missed that. I put it on Talk:Wladyslaw Jagiello of Poland/Archive 2, but not on Talk:Władysław II Jagiełło/Archive 5. Just added it. -- Chris 73 | Talk 16:14, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Don't get me wrong, but please be gone from my talk page. I'm a tad tired lately and I easily get offended by remarks such as yours. Also, I've had a hard time recently and my tolerance towards people behaving as childishly as you has reached incredibly low level. You don't have to think highly of me, you don't even have to think of me at all. Neither do you have to read my comments you believe you reply to, that's not obligatory either. But when talking to other people do not make them think I said something whereas what I actually said was exactly the opposite. It's both unfair and, in this context, slanderous.
Finally, the best place to settle issues with Balcer is his talk page, not mine. If you want to continue offending me - feel free to. Go on with your comments on any page you like, feel free to put things in my mouth and call my comments (you apparently don't read) with fancy offensive terms, go on with your patronizing tone and hey, I have no idea what's it all about but I'll call you a moron just in case remarks - but in any way please get lost from my talk page with such remarks. Capisci? Thanks in advance. // Halibu tt 21:33, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
P.S. Alternatively you might want to point me to a place where I suggested that the names were invented in 1918.
Since, you want me to be gone from your talk pages, I'll give you the courtesy of a short, but to the point reply, on my own. Having lived considerably longer than you, and after reading the history of your imput in Wikipedia (particularly on the talk pages), from a long way back, I feel I may have a better idea of where you're coming from, than you do. Perhaps, if you re-read some of the comments written by the opposition to your being voted an administrator, it might remind you of many other people's perspective about you, other than your own. Your command of English is good, so I'm not sure if it's your very big Ego, or some inability to understand certain nuances in the English language, that has upset the equilibrium of your feelings, and delicate psyche, and caused you to become upset. If you can't "take it", don't "dish it out", to others. And boy, have you dished it out, and often! I wish you would have written a similar statement earlier, like the one above, to your compadre, Pan Molobo; if you had, it might have saved him from his vacation. In regards to your invitation, not to visit your talk page anymore, this will not be difficult, as I do not like to go where I'm not welcome. You may, however, feel free to visit mine, if you so choose. But, should you choose not to, I will not cry or lose sleep, if in the words of the immortal Groucho Marx, you do not "darken my towels again". Capisci tambien? Dr. Dan 22:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Maybe, it was I, that adopted your tactics in the first place, rather than the other way around. In any case, I have read and re-read these above comments (your response, not your original kind words of civility), and I can honestly understand only about 10% of what you're writing. Maybe you do need to rest a little. I also want to say in closing, that most of my "slanderous", as you call them, remarks have been in response to the snotty double entendres, and the edits of a pompous blowhard, who resents being challenged or corrected. Again, I will not mince words with you, and allow myself to be maligned and insulted by you. For each dart you throw, you'll get an ICBM in return. Please do not bother to respond, because your original suggestion above, not to have contact for now, would be in both of our best interests. I hope you'll feel better knowing that, on that point I agree with you, and tell you that you are right. Regarding the newly arrived Lithuanian editors, that you are trying hard to find some modo vivendi with, I think that's what triggered my hostility, in the first place. That, and the user:Logologist sock puppet issue, really made me stand back and see things in a different light. But that is going to be something the newbies will have to work out for themselves. Maybe you need to ask them, if they think your attitude, tactics, and approach to them has been, what you think it is. Dr. Dan 01:35, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
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And it's not the first time in these discussions. I truly resent your continual attempts to missrepresent my comments, and your "sticking your nose" in my debates with others, before the other party has a chance to respond. Am I being too sensitive, or are are you continually trying to fan the embers of animosity between people? Dr. Dan 21:29, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Lysy, you seem to have a very selective memory this morning (even in these three edits of yours, that you have put together in the last half hour, added, re-added, and deleted, SEE: the above history talk, user:Dr.Dan). It's precicisely your ad personam, and unnecessarily inflamatory remarks, that you still haven't explained, that started this "new" issue. It is nice however, that you moved this out of Talk:Republic of Central Lithuania, so as not to spam the article's talk page. I would hope you do that with a lot more of your "chats", as you call them, with some other editors. Unfortunately, if you do, it will keep you rather busy. Dr. Dan 13:46, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Please, re-read our "discussion" regarding islands of Lithuanian, Kashubian, and German speakers in Poland, so you can regain a sense of what I'm referring to. Then you can tell me what you thought I think I misunderstood the purpose of your comments, the purpose of my comments were? Dr. Dan 16:19, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
My remark was to Juraune regarding her observation about islands of Lithuanian speakers in Belarus. Now will you answer my question? What did YOU misunderstand my comment to mean? Dr. Dan 17:27, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
It's not only entertaining, but very revealing, as you change tack from edit to edit. Incidentally, since the personal question that you wanted to ask me, never came by way of email, can I assume the question was to be a "public" personal question, rather than a "private" personal question, so as to continue the good will and desire to reach a consensus between us, that you've been demonstrating? Or is Lysy puzzled by this question too?. Dr. Dan 18:29, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
A unusual choice of words since you did not express enthusiasm, considering in the final analysis that this "pissing match", is wasting both of our time, and getting on both of our nerves. What's there to be enthusiastic about, a "personal" question that you would prefer to ask publically? Let's quit entertaining the " peanut gallery", and resume our more useful and collaborative work to make Wikipedia better. No white flag from either of us, just an olive branch from both of us, to each other, and my hopes that we drink a setka of Starka together, when we meet. Dr. Dan 23:42, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for your contributions to Wikipedia. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Alphachimp talk 06:11, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Could you help adress the concerns you raised during FAC process? Unfortuanately I am not sure what I can improve in the article that would make you change your vote, could you help us balance it further?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 15:15, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. Despite a whopping victory for the name Jogaila on the previous vote, the Polish users have got upset and called yet another vote. They want to get it moved back to the old unpopular name Władysław II Jagiełło. If you are interested in stopping this, you'll need to cast your vote again. Sorry for all this tediousness. Regards, Calgacus ( ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 03:47, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
(response to talkpage comment) Thanks for the kind words, Dr. Dan. You are most welcome. :) -- Elonka 05:09, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello, could you please check my message at the bottom of User:Dmcdevit's page, as well as links provided to WP:RCU, WP:AN, WP:ANI. Some guy is stalking me from Warsaw - Molobo? Logologist? Bonaparte? AndriyK? Actually, I don't know who he is but I don't like it. Given your experience in the Polish segment of this project, I hope you will be able to discern who the pesky anon might be. -- Ghirla -трёп- 14:34, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Dr. Dan, hiya, I wanted to express a concern about some of your recent talkpage comments, like, "You Lithuanians are way overboard," "You should be ashamed of yourselves. What next? If you get your way, you'll probably want to steal these Polish architects from the list," "I'm more concerned with informing those who are unfamiliar with the facts, than to convince hopeless, biased cases," etc. Though I fully agree with you that some others in the discussion are occasionally uncivil (okay, sometimes more than occasionally <grin>), there are better ways to deal with them than responding in kind. And indeed, if some of your own comments are perceived as violations of WP:CIVIL or WP:NPA, then it makes it that much more difficult for us to address the real problem users later, because to a third-party observer, it becomes difficult to tell who started it. :/ As such, could I kindly ask you to be a bit more careful with your words, and try to concentrate more on attacking the ideas, instead of the people? That will be a more effective way of getting your point across, and will also have benefits in the long run, if in the future we need to proceed to a higher level of dispute resolution to get a real problem user taken care of. :) Thanks, Elonka 18:42, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
You are right, as usual. Your tact, embarrasses me. Perhaps my overuse of sarcasm needs to be put into check. I have learned this by emmulating some poor previous examples on WK, and will take your suggestion to heart. It's not easy. BTW, the Lithuanians never complained because they knew I was joking. Without being specific, there are unfortunately some biased and hopeless cases extant all over the place in life, not just Wikipedia. When they perceive that they are "winning" the argument, all is good and well, no matter what brutality and tactics are used by them. When they are losing the argument, they whine and put in complaints of being abused. What's really funny is whether they are named or not, for some reason or another, they paranoidedly (sic) feel that it's they who are being attacked, even when the point was more generally implied. Guilty consciences maybe? I will take your advice to heart, and thank you. You are truly delightful to interact with. Dr. Dan 20:19, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, regarding the Danis article, it is a candidate to be copied to Wikibooks because it is a drink recipe. Recipes don't belong on wikipedia, per WP:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_an_indiscriminate_collection_of_information point 8. However, recipes do belong on wikibooks. Once copied/transwikied to wikibooks, the recipe content will need to be removed from the wikipedia article, which will leave an empty article. At this point, the article could be improved, if someone can find some more text to add to the article, or it could be deleted or made a redirect to something else. If you want, you could certainly add more text to the article now, if there is anything else to say about the Danis cocktail other than the recipe for it. -- Xyzzyplugh 01:32, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Do you have a source for the claim that Norkus' father had definitely converted to National Socialism during the boy's life? I thought there was uncertainity on the subject. Best, Tfine80 16:10, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm only busy until early April and desperately trying not to get lured into en.wiki until then. I'll address the outstanding issues in April, can it wait ? :-) -- Lysy talk 06:31, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
You tried to delete the information about the mass murder comitted by German soldiers from 17th Infantry Division. It shall be restored. As will all information about Nazi atrocities, despite repeated attempts to erase such information. -- Molobo 14:43, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Will do some more work on his bio. I don't like his works and I'm not a fan of baroque poetry in general, with some notable exceptions perhaps. However, I must say that I'm a great fan of Morsztyn as a person. Did you know that he was most probably a Polish spy? My history teacher once turned my attention to the fact that he was a frequent traveller, a thing uncommon in those days. What's even more strange is that he always travelled alone, without a huge court and servants, which is even more strange given the fortune he inherited. Finally, another interesting fact is that, during one of such trips to Sweden, his ship sunk in the middle of the Baltic Sea and Morsztyn made it to the Swedish shore - alone, as one of the very few survivors. His name was Morsztyn. Jan Andrzej Morsztyn :) I wonder what was his favourite drink. // Halibu tt 22:28, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Lysy, I saw today that you had added info, concerning a monument to the Red Army, in the Raudone, article about a month ago. Are you sure? Seems dubious. Dr. Dan 02:46, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, it's a surprise, and I appreciate your time and trouble to investigate it. Dr. Dan 11:42, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure about the one in planty in Kraków, but there's a soviet monument "with tanks" in central Berlin. There's a Red Army monument (but without tanks) in Warsaw as well. It seems the people were not that hysteric to remove/destroy them all.
Wesołych Świąt!
-- Lysy talk 06:56, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
// Halibu tt 09:29, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello there! I've spent the best part of last three days expanding the article on Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Since my grandpa spent there the entire war (except for a brief period in Auschwitz), I have pretty much everything ever published on the history of the camp at home. It took me ages to dig up some non-Polish sources as well, but I think that now the article is decently-sourced (Google was never my true friend until the invention of Google Books). I thought that you might perhaps want to take a look at it and check for possible dubious statements, omissions or errors. Feel free to use as many {{ fact}} tags as you please :) // Halibu tt 02:07, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
It would be useful if you'd provide specific links to the edit. In my last edit I just pasted some info from PSW article, not written by me. The entire PoRiga article is in need of a major copyedit - too little info about the negotiations compared to aftermath.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 16:32, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Dan. Perhaps you should introduce yourself :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 02:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
No relation. An interesting user to say the least. His small fixation on Korzybski, makes me wonder if he may not be a Rodak of yours. Dr. Dan 12:33, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Unfortunately, no. Feel free to remove the category, and I will come back to the matter when I find some sources. Appleseed ( Talk) 13:49, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Dr. Dan. Thanks for your Easter greetings. I send mine to you as well — a bit late, I know, but it's officially Easter until Pentecost. Sorry for ignoring you for so long. I meant to reply to you when you sent a message to me about Elser, but a lot of things came up. And I was out of the country for a whole week just after Easter. With regard to the piano template, no I had nothing to do with that. If you look at the history of the template, you'll see that it was changed on 13 April, and changed back on 17 April. If you'd prefer to have it on your own user page with the piano image, let me know. But you may prefer the pno-3 as matching the other boxes more closely. Will e-mail you some time. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 21:26, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Oh dear, I dread to be visiting you here again after all this time. But check out the vote on Talk:Elżbieta Rakuszanka. The world's gone crazy! - Calgacus ( ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 14:41, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Please take a look at talk:Wilno Uprising and comment if you are interested. -- Irpen 06:33, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
You contributed to this article recently; please take another look at it. I'm bothered by the fact that certain editors keep removing the paragraph about the choice of Khatyn as a memorial site (to confuse the issue of Katyn); no matter what is said on the talk page, it is quickly deleted. Another questionable issue is the reliance on the website of the memorial for its figures, as it is hardly a neutral, academic source. Regards, ProhibitOnions (T) 10:34, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
O ne Jūsų kalbos žinios labai geros, bet jei reikia galime naudoti EN. Kaip ir minėjau pabandysime išplėtoti informacija apie Lietuvą. O dėl priešų tai jau spėjau susidurti, ir perskaityti tas „įdomias“ nuomones, atrodo pavyko kažkiek apraminti. P.S. Kiek pastebėjau turite gerą jumoro jausmą ! Puiku! M.K. 08:55, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Prašau padėti rašant Sophia of Halshany. Norėčiau parašyti taip, kad nebūtų POV atvejis. Juraune 07:15, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Finally you got my point in the workings! Yay! :) Renata 06:19, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
I sent you an email - not sure which form of communication will be quicker. I am off to eat something :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 03:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Here you go:-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you Piotrus and Ann H., for your help in restoring my Template on the Iraq War. Dr. Dan 13:47, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Would you share your opinion, and give your vote, at Talk:Sigismund III of Poland Marrtel 11:57, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Dan, for providing me with another bell-related proverb. However, it does not actually say the same (not that it needed too) and since I only want to display quotations that make a statement I move it to my talk page. PS. If you know a better wording for "my" bell proverb, feel free to enlighten me. Str1977 (smile back) 20:52, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Would you care to visit at Talk:Wladyslaw_II_Jagiellon_of_Poland#Survey. The simple "Jagiello" - for that there is now a formal listing going on to sign support or opposition. ObRoy 21:27, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I think you may have been right the first time. It is a lot of work to fight the cabal, and perhaps not really worth it. The Zygmunts seem to be getting fixed, owing to an increased amount of attention. Increasing the attention given to the Jogaila page is the only way to have it fixed. The name "Wladislaus II of Poland" would be better than the current one, ultimately though I'd want Jogaila. I am curious that Bohemian rulers with the same name are called "Ladislaus" on wiki; this is the same name AFAIK, and thus has the unfortunate side-effect of making the Polish rulers by these names more western slavic than the Bohemian rulers. Such differences reflect the influences of modern historians and the nationalisms of wiki contriubutors, but is very misleading. My second problem is the numbering; he is not the second ruler of Poland to bare the name Wladyslaw, and although this seems the dominant number on wiki, it does not seem to be so in the historical literature; why not give him his actual regnal numeral? My third problem is that this ruler was not even Polish, and his Lithuanian kingdom was much more powerful than the comparatively small Polish kingdom he tried to absorb into the High Kingdom of Lithuania; to me it is a Polish nationalist masturbation to give preference to his tenure as King of Poland; it's a bit like titling Frederick Barbarossa Federico I of Italy. But I recognize the latter point is unfightable; it would take a rigorous and tiresome reciting of arguments and evidence to get this point across, and the only people who'd take any notice would be the Polish nationalists, who'd just ignore it anyway. - Calgacus ( ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 04:01, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I have proposed to move the following monarchs from their current, generally Polish-spelled names (with diacriticals) to the systematical English name, citing my general ground that English should be used, not Polish. Would you share your opinion at Talk:Bolesław I the Brave , Talk:Bolesław II the Bold, Talk:Mieszko II Lambert, Talk:Władysław III Spindleshanks, Talk:Jan I Olbracht and Talk:Kazimierz III the Great. Marrtel 19:42, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Piłsudski an anti-Semite? Rubbish... To make long thing short, if Piłsudski was an anti-S, then all people on earth are (which of course is highly likely, judging by the comments of some of the more close-minded members of the Jewish community, and especially so those living in the US...). But, to the best of my knowledge, he was one of the people one could hardly associate with A-S at all...
As a politician he was a pro-state leader who didn't really care much for the ethnicities, unlike his famed opponent Dmowski. Also, as a socialist (in a 19th-centurish style) he did not care much for religions either. There are some direct mentions of the "Jewish cause" in his late 19th century writings (read collected works recently), but these are focused on the social and political aspect. For instance he criticized the Sionists and Jewish socialists for not being radical enough and for trying to find some modo vivendi with the Tsardom. Which, however, didn't have anything to do with Jews as a nation/religion/ethnicity, as he equally criticized the most pro-Russian nationalists of Dmowski and radical socialists of SDKPiL.
Anyway, this is rather Piłsudski's pre-history. As to his later political career, I can't really think of a single situation where his actions could be interpreted that way. In fact Piłsudski was supported by the conservative and leftist Jews of Poland alike from the beginning of his influence on Polish politics. The Jewish MPs supported "his" candidate for the first president of Poland (Narutowicz), chief rabbi issued his own petitions to the Jewish community asking them to support Poland in the war of 1918-1920 and so on. (There was a famous memo from the Jewish MPs issued on July 13, 1920, at the height of Bolshevik offensive. It was published in the press between a similar memo from the primate and a memo from the Ukrainian MPs and started with "Jews, your Polish motherland is in danger". ). Anyway, perhaps some of them saw him as a lesser evil, I don't know... The fact is that until his death he was strongly supported by Jewish parties (both Bund, but also Poalej-Syjon; the earlier was initially some sort of a "Jewish section" of Piłsudski's Polish Socialist Party). And I would yet have to see some mention of Piłsudski as an anti-Semite. // Halibu tt 07:00, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
I went ahead and added the code for the userbox that you wanted. How does it look? Personally, I think the colors clash a bit, but if you like it, that's all that matters! If you'd like me to modify the color of one of them though, I can do that. Just point me at a color somewhere that you'd like instead, and I'll change the code accordingly. -- Elonka 13:27, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
hi, Dr Dan, you are right, your edit was valid and I was too fixed on Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900–2002) — the widow of George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II. However, in my opinion the current version lets less likely stumble someone over it, like I did, but feel free to reedit, I won't touch it again. -- Gf1961 13:34, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Check out the page Sanktuarium Matki Bożej Bolesnej Królowej Polski, Licheń. Yes, it is on English wikipedia. Recently it was moved by Halibutt from Sanctuary of Our Lady of Licheń. Calgacus ( ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 00:11, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
I think I'm beginning to understand and agree with your efforts concerning the IPA tag. Would you be so kind as to place one on the article about Kraków, for me. Some of my computer skills need tutoring. Dr. Dan 02:46, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Dan. I did not check sockpuppets personally since I do not have the acess rights to do so. I only copied the sockpuppet info to variouy (numerous) talk pages. The check was done by User:Mackensen. If you need a sockpuppet verififcation, try Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser. Also, I only copied the info, but did not adjust the vote results. Best wishes and happy editing! -- Chris 73 | Talk 08:00, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Dan, I think I need to cool off, as I feel my wikistress level is rising dangerously. I start to suspect that you're pretending you do not understand what I'm writing as it seems so obvious to me. Also, I think the discussion is not worth the time, maybe come back to it later, when we have some real sources to support the "Pact of Vilnius and Radom" version. Anyway, thanks for your patience. -- Lysy talk 22:50, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
I think this is the one that you're looking for: Mediation cabal. If you have any questions, let me know! -- Elonka 23:59, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
must have missed that. I put it on Talk:Wladyslaw Jagiello of Poland/Archive 2, but not on Talk:Władysław II Jagiełło/Archive 5. Just added it. -- Chris 73 | Talk 16:14, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Don't get me wrong, but please be gone from my talk page. I'm a tad tired lately and I easily get offended by remarks such as yours. Also, I've had a hard time recently and my tolerance towards people behaving as childishly as you has reached incredibly low level. You don't have to think highly of me, you don't even have to think of me at all. Neither do you have to read my comments you believe you reply to, that's not obligatory either. But when talking to other people do not make them think I said something whereas what I actually said was exactly the opposite. It's both unfair and, in this context, slanderous.
Finally, the best place to settle issues with Balcer is his talk page, not mine. If you want to continue offending me - feel free to. Go on with your comments on any page you like, feel free to put things in my mouth and call my comments (you apparently don't read) with fancy offensive terms, go on with your patronizing tone and hey, I have no idea what's it all about but I'll call you a moron just in case remarks - but in any way please get lost from my talk page with such remarks. Capisci? Thanks in advance. // Halibu tt 21:33, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
P.S. Alternatively you might want to point me to a place where I suggested that the names were invented in 1918.
Since, you want me to be gone from your talk pages, I'll give you the courtesy of a short, but to the point reply, on my own. Having lived considerably longer than you, and after reading the history of your imput in Wikipedia (particularly on the talk pages), from a long way back, I feel I may have a better idea of where you're coming from, than you do. Perhaps, if you re-read some of the comments written by the opposition to your being voted an administrator, it might remind you of many other people's perspective about you, other than your own. Your command of English is good, so I'm not sure if it's your very big Ego, or some inability to understand certain nuances in the English language, that has upset the equilibrium of your feelings, and delicate psyche, and caused you to become upset. If you can't "take it", don't "dish it out", to others. And boy, have you dished it out, and often! I wish you would have written a similar statement earlier, like the one above, to your compadre, Pan Molobo; if you had, it might have saved him from his vacation. In regards to your invitation, not to visit your talk page anymore, this will not be difficult, as I do not like to go where I'm not welcome. You may, however, feel free to visit mine, if you so choose. But, should you choose not to, I will not cry or lose sleep, if in the words of the immortal Groucho Marx, you do not "darken my towels again". Capisci tambien? Dr. Dan 22:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Maybe, it was I, that adopted your tactics in the first place, rather than the other way around. In any case, I have read and re-read these above comments (your response, not your original kind words of civility), and I can honestly understand only about 10% of what you're writing. Maybe you do need to rest a little. I also want to say in closing, that most of my "slanderous", as you call them, remarks have been in response to the snotty double entendres, and the edits of a pompous blowhard, who resents being challenged or corrected. Again, I will not mince words with you, and allow myself to be maligned and insulted by you. For each dart you throw, you'll get an ICBM in return. Please do not bother to respond, because your original suggestion above, not to have contact for now, would be in both of our best interests. I hope you'll feel better knowing that, on that point I agree with you, and tell you that you are right. Regarding the newly arrived Lithuanian editors, that you are trying hard to find some modo vivendi with, I think that's what triggered my hostility, in the first place. That, and the user:Logologist sock puppet issue, really made me stand back and see things in a different light. But that is going to be something the newbies will have to work out for themselves. Maybe you need to ask them, if they think your attitude, tactics, and approach to them has been, what you think it is. Dr. Dan 01:35, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
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And it's not the first time in these discussions. I truly resent your continual attempts to missrepresent my comments, and your "sticking your nose" in my debates with others, before the other party has a chance to respond. Am I being too sensitive, or are are you continually trying to fan the embers of animosity between people? Dr. Dan 21:29, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Lysy, you seem to have a very selective memory this morning (even in these three edits of yours, that you have put together in the last half hour, added, re-added, and deleted, SEE: the above history talk, user:Dr.Dan). It's precicisely your ad personam, and unnecessarily inflamatory remarks, that you still haven't explained, that started this "new" issue. It is nice however, that you moved this out of Talk:Republic of Central Lithuania, so as not to spam the article's talk page. I would hope you do that with a lot more of your "chats", as you call them, with some other editors. Unfortunately, if you do, it will keep you rather busy. Dr. Dan 13:46, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Please, re-read our "discussion" regarding islands of Lithuanian, Kashubian, and German speakers in Poland, so you can regain a sense of what I'm referring to. Then you can tell me what you thought I think I misunderstood the purpose of your comments, the purpose of my comments were? Dr. Dan 16:19, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
My remark was to Juraune regarding her observation about islands of Lithuanian speakers in Belarus. Now will you answer my question? What did YOU misunderstand my comment to mean? Dr. Dan 17:27, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
It's not only entertaining, but very revealing, as you change tack from edit to edit. Incidentally, since the personal question that you wanted to ask me, never came by way of email, can I assume the question was to be a "public" personal question, rather than a "private" personal question, so as to continue the good will and desire to reach a consensus between us, that you've been demonstrating? Or is Lysy puzzled by this question too?. Dr. Dan 18:29, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
A unusual choice of words since you did not express enthusiasm, considering in the final analysis that this "pissing match", is wasting both of our time, and getting on both of our nerves. What's there to be enthusiastic about, a "personal" question that you would prefer to ask publically? Let's quit entertaining the " peanut gallery", and resume our more useful and collaborative work to make Wikipedia better. No white flag from either of us, just an olive branch from both of us, to each other, and my hopes that we drink a setka of Starka together, when we meet. Dr. Dan 23:42, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for your contributions to Wikipedia. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Alphachimp talk 06:11, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Could you help adress the concerns you raised during FAC process? Unfortuanately I am not sure what I can improve in the article that would make you change your vote, could you help us balance it further?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 15:15, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. Despite a whopping victory for the name Jogaila on the previous vote, the Polish users have got upset and called yet another vote. They want to get it moved back to the old unpopular name Władysław II Jagiełło. If you are interested in stopping this, you'll need to cast your vote again. Sorry for all this tediousness. Regards, Calgacus ( ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 03:47, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
(response to talkpage comment) Thanks for the kind words, Dr. Dan. You are most welcome. :) -- Elonka 05:09, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello, could you please check my message at the bottom of User:Dmcdevit's page, as well as links provided to WP:RCU, WP:AN, WP:ANI. Some guy is stalking me from Warsaw - Molobo? Logologist? Bonaparte? AndriyK? Actually, I don't know who he is but I don't like it. Given your experience in the Polish segment of this project, I hope you will be able to discern who the pesky anon might be. -- Ghirla -трёп- 14:34, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Dr. Dan, hiya, I wanted to express a concern about some of your recent talkpage comments, like, "You Lithuanians are way overboard," "You should be ashamed of yourselves. What next? If you get your way, you'll probably want to steal these Polish architects from the list," "I'm more concerned with informing those who are unfamiliar with the facts, than to convince hopeless, biased cases," etc. Though I fully agree with you that some others in the discussion are occasionally uncivil (okay, sometimes more than occasionally <grin>), there are better ways to deal with them than responding in kind. And indeed, if some of your own comments are perceived as violations of WP:CIVIL or WP:NPA, then it makes it that much more difficult for us to address the real problem users later, because to a third-party observer, it becomes difficult to tell who started it. :/ As such, could I kindly ask you to be a bit more careful with your words, and try to concentrate more on attacking the ideas, instead of the people? That will be a more effective way of getting your point across, and will also have benefits in the long run, if in the future we need to proceed to a higher level of dispute resolution to get a real problem user taken care of. :) Thanks, Elonka 18:42, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
You are right, as usual. Your tact, embarrasses me. Perhaps my overuse of sarcasm needs to be put into check. I have learned this by emmulating some poor previous examples on WK, and will take your suggestion to heart. It's not easy. BTW, the Lithuanians never complained because they knew I was joking. Without being specific, there are unfortunately some biased and hopeless cases extant all over the place in life, not just Wikipedia. When they perceive that they are "winning" the argument, all is good and well, no matter what brutality and tactics are used by them. When they are losing the argument, they whine and put in complaints of being abused. What's really funny is whether they are named or not, for some reason or another, they paranoidedly (sic) feel that it's they who are being attacked, even when the point was more generally implied. Guilty consciences maybe? I will take your advice to heart, and thank you. You are truly delightful to interact with. Dr. Dan 20:19, 30 July 2006 (UTC)