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Dear Piotrus Sorry, this rather late in the day, but back in May, when I did this work on the Roman Dmowski page, you thanked me for my work on that page. When I first arrive, the computer assigns me an different automatic number, so I did not get your message until recently. Somewhat belatedly, your welcome. Most people don’t thank me for my work, but it is nice to be appreciated. A.S. Brown 07:07, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
A wiesz, w sumie czemu nie? Już dawno się z nikim nie kłóciłem, konfliktów o Danzig też już dawno nie było więc może nawet mam szansę... Halibutt 04:59, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi - Thanks for the note about Halibutt's rfa. As you might have noticed I rarely vote on rfas - pretty much only when it's someone I've had extensive interactions with. The note of mine you observed on Halibutt's talk page was part of an effort I undertook to identify editors who have made lots of edits but aren't admins, leading to the creation of user:Rick Block/WP600 not admins (which was subsequently largely obsoleted by Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts). When putting this list together I left a message on the talk page of every user on it (whether I knew them or not), asking them to indicate whether they had any interest in becoming an admin. This is the message you saw. I don't recollect having any direct interaction with Halibutt (and have very limited time for wikipedia at the moment), so I am unlikely to vote. Just thought I'd let you know why. -- Rick Block ( talk) 23:11, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotr,
You asked me to strike out the part of my vote. I have not done this, for the following reasons:
This last point, by the way, is an important one: the Polish Wikipedians seem very cliqueish, which is at least partially a result of the use of the Polish language, which results in you speaking behind our backs. This makes the impression that you are all the same, more or less, and any bad experiences with one Polish editor rub off on the others. This may be unfair, but "we" (the editors that don't understand Polish) just cannot read how "you" deal with the more troublesome Polish editors. I simply cannot trust Halibutt enough to support him as an admin, as a large part of his activities here are a mystery to me... Eugene van der Pijll 23:15, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
You may wish to check my userpage for my policy on RfAs. Normally, I wouldn't use a short-hand reason like "controversial", but I had already cited the opinions of two respected opposers, and didn't feel the need to add much beyond what had been said. I have no dislike of Halibutt, but I take a very hard-line on adminship because I fear that abusive admins are not subject to sufficient oversight by the achingly slow ArbCom process. If I have a real suspicion that a user might not follow consensus, I oppose his nomination. The accusation has been made that Halibutt has had problems abiding by consensus (at TfD, for example); I am somewhat familiar with that discussion, and find any unilateral action against consensus very troubling, however compelling the argument that consensus was "flawed" (in this case, I didn't find the argument against consensus at all compelling, actually.)
Many an admin likes to cite IAR as reason to ignore a supposedly "flawed" consensus. We don't need to promote an editor who already reasons in this way. I am always open to reconsidering support on a future nomination, however.
And, as a general rule, yes, controversial admins are bad. Their jobs are to enforce consensus, so nothing they do should openly defy the community. Good judges keep their egos in check. Best wishes, Xoloz 23:44, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to remark that I'm rather disappointed with your behaviour in Halibutt's case. I'm afraid that the whole vote will be rigged up, as you continue sending POV-infested notices to the talk pages of other users. While there are worse nationalists than Halibutt, his recent suggestion to reverse my edits (at user:Knyaz's talk page) is clearly far from NPOV and unacceptable for a would-be admin. Also, I think your own request for "moderating" Ghirlandajo (at mikka's talk) is rather puzzling, to say the least. And I still fail to understand why you persevere in resurrecting odious Molobo, who has been terrorizing dozens articles for the past few months. I just don't believe that advancing nationalist cause they way you do is what the admins are here for. Cheers, Ghirlandajo 00:04, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
That's exactly what I hate about electoral campaigns. But just like during the latest Sejm campaign, one can learn a lot. For instance about the conspiracies that try to control Wikipedia. Just imagine: you, me and Space Cadet sitting on a throne (single throne, of course), with all other wikipedians at our feet... Hillarious? Not really... Halibutt 01:04, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I really think he might. I know that everybody is POV, me included. But Halibutt seems more that an "average" Wikipedian. And the RfA page lists more things about him - some black book I have never heard about before, some template reverting, some other stuff. I just cannot completely trust him, because I know his strong bias. Yes, he is approachable, and polite, and intelligent, and knowledgeable, and dedicated, and so on, but those other things really bother me. I left a message on his talk - you need my help, just ask, but I just cannot support your RfA. Renata3 06:02, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I meant just that I said a sentence before: Remove an attack page from his Userspace and do not keep similar materials for a couple of months. Sorry, if I was not clear abakharev 07:05, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello Piotrus - as you can see, perhaps, I've currently voted neutral. Based on most of my interactions with Halibutt, and despite the fact that we have very frequently disagreed, I would be happy to vote to support him. But I remain a bit concerned about the incident from several months ago where he went on a WP:POINT violation spree with German city articles, inserting the Polish name. If he would clarify how he feels about this action and acknowledges that this was the wrong way of going about things, I would be happy to change my vote to support. As it stands, that activity, and Halibutt's refusal at the time to recognize that he was wrong (at least, this is my recollection - if it is not true, please correct me - a statement from him at the time admitting that he was in the wrong would be sufficient for me to change my vote), gives me some pause. Not enough to oppose, but enough to be unwilling, for the moment, to vote in support. And believe me when I say that I would much rather vote in support, I'm just not sure I can do that at the moment. john [[User_talk:John Kenney|k]] 07:17, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I don't see how the diff is relevant. I know that if someone preserved an attack page against me, the fact that Jimbo commented on its talk page won't make me feel less offended. Borisblue 19:40, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
You wrote: Thank you for your comments. Your comment made me think - how is a controversy a handicap for a 'broom and bucket' wielder? Also, what are the traits he is lacking? As his nominator, I wonder if I missed something. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 15:03, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
(in Polish) Dzięki serdeczne za Twoje poparcie i konsekwentną obronę na niezliczonych stronach niezliczonych ludzi. Gdy kilkukrotnie odmawiałem nominacji, właśnie taki rezultat miałem na myśli. Chciałbym móc powiedzieć, że nie biorę komentarzy z RfA do siebie, ale to nie byłaby prawda, bo trudno nie brać do siebie sytuacji, w których moje działania interpretuje się opacznie - i traktuje jako najgorszą zniewagę (jak w przypadku kolorowego zeszyciku, w który naprawdę wierzyłem). Oczywiście, wielu z oponentów ma całkiem sensowne powody swojej decyzji, co więcej, w wielu przytaczanych sytuacjach rzeczywiście moje reakcje nie były do końca przemyślane. Jednak te akurat głosy nie bolą, gorzej jest z tymi, którzy jak Ghirlandajo wykorzystują każdą okazję do dowalenia mi, nawet jeśli wiąże się to z przeinaczaniem faktów lub wycinaniem z kontekstu. Jak to mówią "nie ważne czy słusznie czy nie, gdy się kogoś obrzuca błotem, zawsze coś z tego błota zostaje". No ale tak to już bywa.
Tak czy siak - dziękuję za poparcie. Nie wiem co z niego wyniknie, ale i tak jestem zadziwiony tym, że tak wielu ludzi mnie poparło. Przyznaję, wielu z nich nie doceniłem i nie przewidziałem, że będą w stanie wznieść się ponad nasze utarczki z przeszłości i dostrzec w moim postępowaniu także i dobre strony. To jest bardzo pocieszające.
Niestety, na koniec głosowania w mojej sprawie będę musiał zniknąć, więc nie będę mógł odpowiadać na zarzuty/pytania. Tak się złożyło, że wczoraj i dziś byłem w pracy niemal 24h na dobę, a pracy jeszcze nie skończyłem. Jutro (dziś!) z rana jadę do rodziny, a po powrocie mam jeszcze kompletnie zawalony poniedziałek... Postaram się odpowiedzieć na wszystkie komentarze w niedzielę w nocy, ale nie wiem czy mi się to uda.
(in English) Cordial thanks for your support and for your consistent defence of my candidacy on countless pages of countless users. This situation is exactly what I had in mind when I declined being nominated several times in a row. I would be more than happy to be able to say that I don't take the RfA comments personally, but that would be wrong. It's hard not to, when my behaviour is misinterpreted, twisted the other way around and used against me as a grave offense (as was the case of the coloured booklet, in which I truly believed). Obviously, many of those who oppose me have quite sensible objections, moreover, in some of the situations my reactions were truly bullheaded. However, these votes do not hurt me. It's much worse with those who like Ghirlandajo take the liberty to take advantage of every single situation to present me in a bad light, even if it involves twisting facts or taking them out of context. They say whether right or wrong, some of the mud thrown at you always stays. That's how life is - and we know who is she.
Anyway, thank you for your support. I don't know what will be the result of that voting, but I must admit that I'm astonished by how many people supported me. I also admit that I underestimated some of those who did and I never thought that they would be able to rise above the skirmishes we were involved in in the past and find some good sides of what I do. That's very comforting.
Unfortunately, for the final days of my RfA I will be unable to respond to questions/accusations and such. It turned out that the last two days I spent at work and my work is still not finished. Tomorrow (today!) I'm leaving for my family and will not be able to return until Monday. And on that day I'll still have to work hard. I will try to answer as many questions as I can on Sunday night, but I'm not sure I can handle that. Halibu tt 01:58, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for messaging me about Halibutt's RfA; I don't always watch the RfA page. I don't think I've ever seen anyone go through with 21 oppose votes, but sometimes the 1st RfA, if failed but well handled, and followed by a couple months of good work, can turn into a successful RfA the next time. (For the record, I'm not entirely disagreeable to a Polish point of view ... and this reminds me I've been meaning to write the music history of Poland, especially the Renaissance at Kraków, for quite some time now ... ) Antandrus (talk) 17:31, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm back - and quite happy to see that many more people cast their vote. I also noticed Cadorna ( talk · contribs) vote in my RfA and it seems to me he might be someone's puppet, though I'm not sure in any rate. I remember meeting him in the wiki once or twice, which seems quite logical if you take a look at his contributions...
Anyway, I'll browse the RfA page to see if there are questions I might be able to reply to. Halibu tt 18:38, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
I did not mean that you do something wrong, I just think that you tend to be a little too anxious, jumpy and pushy. There is nothing wrong about that, I understand the feelings involved in RfA. But my point was that Halibutt behaves even better than you. And he is the one who should go and argue with every single oppose voting user.
I did this because I recently nominated a user for adminship (pretty rash action on my part), and he started to get seriously offended with the oppose votes and he just simply dig his hole. And Halibutt maintains his coolness and politness. And in comparission, behaves better than you! Renata3 20:57, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotr. My reading of the matter of neutral votes and withdrawing neutral votes is this: the RfA system isn't really a voting system. Instead it's a way of breaking down into an easy-to-tally way the consensus of the WikiCommunity.
By withdrawing my neutral vote, I'm asking not to be counted either way any more in the event of a tie - 'neutral' votes could swing it if the debate is very polarised as they indicate that there is no consensus.
I think that Halibutt's answers were very creditable, and it was good of him/her to find my question in the big pile of votes and spend time thinking about an answer and providing it. I would have switched my vote to support, but I have been unhappy with the way some of his/her supporters have set upon people opposing. I'm not prepared to penalise the candidate for that (especially when, as I say, the answers given were so very good) but my support vote might be taken as supporting other aspects of this RfA.
In the event of this RfA failing, when Halibutt comes up for RfA again I would then vote to support.
I hope this makes my thinking clear to you! Pokojowy! (which should mean "Peace!", with any luck!) ➨ ❝ REDVERS ❞ 21:39, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
You wrote 'maybe another time'. But most of the objections raised against Halibutt, a contributor who has been with us for more then two years, are actually about a fairly old events. I think that most of the objections raised there have been addressed already addressed. You may want to read Halibutt's responces there - to me they prove that he is a trustworthy person. Not perfect, no - but who among us has never erred? That he can ackowledge his mistakes, apologize and learn from them is to me a sign of a good editor - and a good person. Why should we wait any longer to recognize him as a valuable contributor? And how long should we wait? A months? 6? Another two years? I'd like to ask you to reconsider your position, especially in light of Halibutt's responces.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 22:41, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know, I am following up. Regards, Jayjg (talk) 16:24, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotrus, and thanks for the messages. I was busy last week, and had no time to respond until now. I have added my view of my blocks to the admin noticeboard. I did not know the details about Wiglafs block, one of them for the 3RR seems to be OK, the other one I do not know. Luckily, Wiglaf will from now on seek other admins assistance regarding Molobo. I am also glad to hear that you will seek input before unblocking Molobo. To be honest, I was a bit disapointed that you unblocked my first block without even telling me. Anyway, it seems Molobo got the message by now, and even though he probably does not like it, he seems to be accepting the vote outcome.
About Halibutt, unfortunately i cannot support his adminship. He is a good editor, and mostly reasonable neutral, but his resistance to consensus probably does not make him a good admin. BTW Did you know that this is his second nomination? Best regards, -- Chris 73 [[User talk:Chris 73|Talk]] 22:53, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
The response to the implied question in your heading is that it's impossible to undelete images, I'm afraid; if they're needed again, they have to be up-loaded.
The response to your message, though, is that the painting might be out of copyright, but photographs of it are still covered by copyright law. Thus, for example, postcards sold by galleries and photographs in books or on the Web are all likely to be copyrighted by the photographers or publishers. If you took the photograph yourself, you need to say so, and to add the correct template; if you didn't, then you need to give the source, and again add the correct copyright template. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 09:30, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
And thank you for your reply. You have mine HERE, Sir...best regards, -- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 09:38, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
And again HERE. Always glad to offer whatever help I can-- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 11:59, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
You may also want to check This and Here. And, if you have not already, get in touch with GeneralPatton. I'm sure he will have some interesting tales to tell. Cheers-- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 02:06, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
szukam wszelkich informacji nt historii komunikacji. potrzebne sa mi do pracy magisterskiej o komunikatorach internetowych. czy moglbys przeslac mi mailem artykul jaki napisales na ten temat? bede bardzo wdzieczna, bo z tewgo co napisales na forum wnioskuje, ze doskonale odpowiada on moim potrzebom! czekam z niecierpliwoscia!! pozdrawiam karolina ps moj mail to batik@poczta.fm
I very much like the concept of Wikipedia, and have been a passive reader for a year or two. My major interest in editing however has been limited to 1 subject (though I learned a lot by doing this, painful as it might have been) I'll almost certainly take up your suggestion, but I wanted to finish something the way I started it. Thanks again, Pete Ekman 69.253.195.228 02:42, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello Piotruś, I'm trying to move Prussian Tribute to Prussian Homage. The latter is used by Davies, and it also gives more Google results. I can't move it because Prussian Homage is a redirect right now. Thanks. Appleseed 03:39, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Could you check out the Angra Mainyu page and the related discussion? Thx. Chelman 12:04, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
That would be wonderful if you could that, your highness ProConsul! HolyRomanEmperor 19:28, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Plish opnion on Serbs? HolyRomanEmperor 14:43, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
I expected the figures to be low, but not that low :( HolyRomanEmperor 21:34, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Piotruś, could you move List of Polish heads of state since 1918 to List of Polish presidents, which is a redirect right now? I don't expect this to be controversial. Appleseed 22:15, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your link, but I can't really get involved in that dispute, as nobody will ever see the end of it. In my opinion, Moldovan is a creole (in some of its forms, as otherwise it is just Romanian). I'm not saying this because I think Moldova belongs in Romania etc., as I hold no such ambition (unlike most of the Romanian contributors). And I don't think that Moldova is less of a reality, or a contemptible concept, since that would meen seeing Belgium as part of France, or Austria (and Switzerland, or Liechtenstein) into Germany. If you have doubts about linking language reference with Romanian in your articles, don't worry. Most of the partisans of the "Moldovan-as-distinct" would not claim that the language has been distinct forever, and they would admit that there are few differences, and rather that the few differences that exist are essential (which I may be open to). In any case, this should not apply to, let's say, 88% of the language(s), and in no case to person's names. I also noticed that there are scores of people in Moldova who consider themselves Romanian-speakers, and most of these even ethnic Romanians. So, no problem that can't be avoided. Dahn 23:27, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Dziękuje za gwiazdkę, to zawsze miło coś dostać :-). Niestety chyba w najbliższym czasie nie będe mógł poświecać wikipedii dużo czasu. -- Lysy ( talk) 21:07, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
> Why did you remove the part of the sentence 'from Russia and Austria-Hungary' in the article on Max Weber?--
Thanks for the question, Piotrus. It may have been premature. It just dawned on me that Poland was not an independent state before WW I. Do I now recollect that rightly? My knowledge on Weber is better than my knowledge of European history of the late 19th century, especially with regard to Poland.
In my view the whole section on 'Weber and German Politics' is the weakest part of the whole Max Weber article and I made an attempt to rewrite it in August, but gave up eventually. Weber's liberal imperialism (or imperial liberalism?) is hard to understand a hundred years and two world wars later. Nevertheless I think the article as a whole is great.
I will reinsert 'from Russia and Austria-Hungary'. Thanks for the welcome, Piotrus. Good work. Archos 05:48, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotrus, thanks for the welcome (and the sig. tip). JayFrancis 16:44, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
I have been editing much the article Battle of Fulford, which has been a stub. If you could please check this article and see if either it can be a featured article, or I can be recommended on how to make it fit the criteria to be a featured article. Thank you.
Piotrusiu, bardzo dziękuję za gwiazdkę. :-) Appleseed 01:21, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Serdecznie dziękuję za śliczną gwiazdkę na konto zbliżającej się Gwiazdki! Skorzystałem z Twej propozycji i bliżej określiłem się językowo. Dziękuję! logologist 10:20, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your help Piotrus.
Actually the family was a major one. They were one of the wealthiest in Poland with significant holdings. Male proteginy received the title count from Frederick the Great (and later his son) of Prussia in late 1700's (that part of Poland being under the Prussian yolk at that time). Unlike other hrabia titles, there's was a real one. In about 1905 the head of the family adopted a Kurnatowski as his heir and successor which caused some confusion amongst the Polish szlachta since (although a count/hrabia by Papal edict in 1902)could he also be the hrabia Mielzynski? The decision was probably not under the Weimer Convention on such matters.
Actually I was incorrect about the Mielzynski titles: Maximilian Mielzynski obatined his title from Frederich-Wilhelm II of Prussia on 19 September 1786 and his grandson, Maceij was seperately given the title from Frederich-Wilhelm III on 12 July 1817. Google shows me 11,900 hits on the family but this is totally unfiltered. You may want to give a try (if not already ) http://ez2find.com (72 hits on the family under hrabia mielzynski) which filters out multiple entries and can zero in on specific languages (Polish being one). On a seperate question: do you have any advice on how (if at all) it is possible to find an old Polish book (pre WWII) called "Strzal o Polnocy", involving a tragic love story of the Kurnatowski family at their estate/palace in Cieletniki? thanks.
Dzięki za nominowanie mojego zdjęcia, ale ono jest bardzo kiepskiej jakości, i w życiu nie przejdzie. Poprostu nie miałam nic innego. :)-- SylwiaS 02:24, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Ok, zobaczymy. Dzięki za narzędzia! -- SylwiaS 08:38, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Chwalić się nie będę, bo to czysto literacka fikcja, którą wielu ludzi bierze za odzwierciedlenie prawdy o mnie. Ale jeśli nie zamierzasz popełniać takiego błędu to nie ma sprawy - hal9001 kropka blog.pl. Pozdr. Halibu tt 23:21, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. The usual "move" procedure won't let me change "Confederation of Bar" to "Bar Confederation." Do you know of an admin way to do it without jumping through a lot of needless hoops? logologist 01:14, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I'm just wondering why you are adding the unreferenced template to a number of articles. There is a fairly strong consensus that this template only belongs on pages where there is an definite question about their accuracy. No one seems to have made such allegations about the articles that you are adding the templates to. Moreover you have added it to some pages, such as Ukrainian presidential election, 2004, that have quite a number of external links serving as references. - SimonP 04:23, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Second that. By your logic, you can place a tag for a good 1/2 of all articles. Either add it to all of those, or save it for articles with serious problems of dubious info. At least please consider stopping this en masse tagging until there is a policy or some discussion on that. Otherwise, please tag ALL articles that are unreferenced, that is hundreds of thousands of them. -- Irpen 07:30, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Piotrus, I am surprized that you, an experienced Wikieditor, started this en-masse tagging without floating a couple of trial balls to see what's the community's stand on that. I see your point and it makes sense. But why couldn't you make your point prominent enought to generate interest by tagging few visible articles and see the feedback before tagging so many articles at once? There are less drastic ways to encourage people to add refs than placing a tag over the whole article that makes it look dubious as a whole. -- Irpen 19:58, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Could you please provide clarification as to why you flagged the Declaration of Independence article as needing references? I noticed you flagged it only one minute after flagging Polish notation, which leads me to believe you did not visit both the Wikipedia links, as well as the external links, to see if adequate references were provided. It would save others a vast amount of time if you could iterate the facts which you feel are deficient. Obviously, some articles are blatantly lacking references (they have none whatsoever), however I don't feel Declaration of Independence meets that criteria. Thanks. -- Dan East 04:51, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotrus. Today luckily I had some time, so I created a large disambig page with the german entries, and also scanned the english wiki for Braun. I located the disambig on Braun, and moved the company article, since i think the disambig is the more important information. But feel free to move it back if you like. Also thanks for the info on Wikipedia:Naming_conventions/Geographic_names. So far I have not had any time to look at it in detail (70+ hour work weeks), but I hope to do so within the next few weeks. Happy editing -- Chris 73 | Talk 09:22, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for adding a related book to article on Ukiyo-e, however, there is a difference between references - which as been used to provide facts for the article - and further reading, which has not. See Wikipedia:Cite sources for more information.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 03:39, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, Piotrus, for your kind offer. I'll think what I can do with this particular picture. Your comment even induced me to add to my page a gallery listing a fraction of images I uploaded to this project. So far, two of my pictures - both by Prokudin-Gorskii - have been promoted to featured. Unfortunately, other candidates - such as Image:Stpeteskyline.jpg - have been moved by me or others to Wikimedia Commons, so they are not illegible as well.
By the way, I admit to have waded through Polish segment of this project but a couple of times, but today, while adding {unreferenced} tags to Krakow and Warsaw I noticed two nice pictures - Image:Warszawa2.jpg and Image:Katedra na wawelu.jpg - which are not tagged at all. Should we list them for deletion? What do you think? -- Ghirlandajo 18:03, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
As per your request, I've added a link to more photos on the FPC page. Greetings, -- Janke | Talk 11:41, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks/dzięki for message. this picture europe_warsaw.JPG was in my computer and i dont know the source where it was taken from. I will try to find it.
Best wishes!!
Hi there, Piotr. I might need your help. Could I have more info on this guy? He probably isn't the same as Yuriy of Ruthenia. I found him referenced as "of uncertain immediate lineage", but he is Koriatowicz for sure. Also, could you please look into why I cannot link him to Category:Lithuanian nobility? Somebody added a Subcategory of the same name inside the Category - I changed the name, but I guess it changed for the Category as well (chage it back, if you want to). I really don't get it. Thanks. Dahn 02:01, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks again. I had already checked out the In-Wiki sources, and my head had started spinning (it was my first contact ever with Lithuanian nobility, and I got to see their names in Lithuanian, Polish, Ruthenian, and Belarussian...). I really do not get why the Romanian sources don't bother to move past autarkical: if it's in Lithuania, it doesn't matter basically, so Iuga is just "a prince from Lithuania". Thanks for the info, perhaps you could pass the issue to some other Poles. Perhaps we could solve the enigma... Dahn 02:53, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello.
Last summer, we held the first Wikimania, a worldwide event for wikipedians, in Frankfurt. You may understand a bit more at http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, but I am most sorry to say no real good report of the event was made. Some bits here and there. During this meeting, possibly 30 people made presentations, on very various topics. Many were recorded (not all as far as I know). The list is the list of recording of these people. In the list, you will see a trigram, this trigram comes from the name of the person (for example, my real name is Florence Devouard, so my trigram is FD1 (Wikimania05-FD1_low_video.ogg). You may find the old program as well as correspondance for names here : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2005_Presentations.
Cheers and good luck
Anthere 07:19, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I gather there is now a consensus to move " Action Vistula" to " Operation Wisła." At least two persons have attempted it, but there seems to be no provision in the "move" mechanism for the necessary diacritic. Do you by any chance know how the move might be made? Does one have to move the article to " Operation Wisla," without the diacritic? logologist 22:42, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
What do You think about that? Radomil talk 23:21, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotr! Thanks for you advice about my Wikibar idea. I've listed it at Tools as suggested. I'm not too sure about turning it into Wiki mark-up, as it needs to open in a blank (HTML) sidebar to work. If it was in Wiki mark-up, users would have open the Wikipedia page and cram that into a sidebar... wouldn't they? I'm prepared to be quite wrong on this, mind - I just haven't given it any thought! Thanks again! ➨ ❝ R E DVERS ❞ 17:00, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
On issues involved with history of Eastern Europe : http://www.taraskuzio.net/academic/history.pdf
Historiography and National Identity among the Eastern Slavs: Towards a New Framework1 TARAS KUZIO, York University, Toronto, Canada Abstract The article surveys Tsarist, Soviet and Western historiography of Russia and how this affected the national identities and inter-ethnic relations among the three eastern Slavs. Western historiography of Russia largely utilised an imperialist and statist historiographical framework created within the Tsarist empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although this framework was imperialist it was gradually accepted as ‘objective’ by the Western scholarly community. Yet, this historiography was far from being ‘objective’. After 1934 Soviet historiography also reverted to the majority of the tenets found in Tsarist historiography. Within Tsarist, Western and Soviet historiographies of ‘Russia’ eastern Slavic history was nationalised on behalf of the Russian nation which served to either ignore or deny a separate history and identity for Ukrainians and Belarusians. In the post-Soviet era all 15 Soviet successor states are undertaking nation and state building projects which utilise history and myths to inculcate new national identities. The continued utilisation of the Tsarist, Western and Soviet imperial and statist historiographical schema is no longer tenable and serves to undermine civic nation building in the Russian Federation. This article argues in favour of a new, non-imperial framework for histories of ‘Russia’ territorially based upon the Russian Federation and inclusive of all of its citizens. -- Molobo 13:00, 30 November 2005 (UTC) It describes very well how history was falsfied by Russian authorities in order to justify Russian imperialism. -- Molobo 13:00, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
On saw your comments on Template talk:Unreferenced. I began tagging medical and science articles with this tag about a week ago. I put them at the top of talk page. Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine puts most tags in this location. So far two editor have removed them. In the first case, we agreed to re-locate to bottom of article where References would be. Today, another editor removed the tag from two article talk page saying that Talk pages don't need sources. To back it up they referred me to Category:Articles lacking sources. That page says nothing about the location. Clearly, the unreferenced tag page gives the editor two options for tag placement, listing talk page first. I agree, this issue needs to be settled.-- FloNight 20:18, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Working on it
Nie jestem pewnie czy zredirectowanie strony z przestrzeni głównej na stronę użytkownika to dobry pomysł. Może lepiej napisać o nim normalna notkę biograficzną (tylko niech tego nie robi sam :P). Roo72 05:41, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi there! I'm afraid I'm starting to loose my nerves when it comes to certain wikipedian named similarly to an Italian painter. Too many insults, too many assumptions of bad will, too many non-constructive and provocative edits IMO. Perhaps if I could at least imagine that the guy believes his own words it would be easier to cope with his behaviour, but now I believe the line was crossed. I was thinking of starting the RfC on him, though perhaps you have some other idea? Halibu tt 09:18, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotruś, are you aware of any WP tools that, for a given article, would tell you 1) a list of the articles you've linked from your article, 2) how many times you've linked them, and 2) if you link to a disambig page? Appleseed 16:01, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Czy można kwestionować całą kategorię ? Istnieje dość dziwna kategoria Slavic culture, która w zasadzie niczego nie zawiera, a trudno mówić o wspólnej słowiańskiej kulturze(w przeciwieństwie do wczesnej mitologii) istniejącej współcześnie lub nawet w średniowieczu. -- Molobo 17:16, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello again. I am contacting editors applies NPOV and NOR standards rigidly for their input on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of modern day dictators, where a consensus has yet to be established. (You are particularly well qualified, I think, to describe the difficulties in making some of these classifications, given your knowledge of modern single-party state structures. Notice that Chinese Communist and Soviet bloc leaders are conspicuously absent from he list, including Stalin. [3] Some people, of course, argue that general secretaries of ruling parties of single-party states are not dictators because there is a collective leadership. They have a good point (with the exception of leaders like Stalin who subverted the party), but to not include these leaders implies that they were not dictators, which is also POV.) Anyway, if you have time, please take a look. Best regards. 172 07:37, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Nyah, I'm not in the right mood just now... Though it's quite surprizing. I've heard that Balcerowicz and his RPP are worse than Gomułka, but never thought that World Bank could be worse than Hitler or Stalin... or the two combined...
BTW, that comment is showing also a great way to convert all countries of the world to communism. If Hitler+Stalin=World Bank, then... just throw Hitler from it and what you'll get will be Stalin. Halibu tt 17:17, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I respectfully disagree with you: we should not use fair use images unless we're pretty sure we have a good argument.
However, if you wish to revert the three or so articles I removed the TIME covers from, I won't revert back.
I would suggest, however, that if you wish to keep them there, you should write down the fair use rationale, preferably on the image description page for the image in question. If the TIME magazine coverage is mentioned in the article in question (such as TIME man of the year, etc) there's probably a much stronger fair use claim.
Does that sound good? Thanks, — Matthew Brown ( T: C) 06:09, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotrus, I would very much appreciate your input in the following argument. There seems to be a gang of users unwilling to allow anyone to interfere with there Canberra project without invitation. It was risky to take my camera on our school excursion to Canberra, but I did for the sake of the photos I could upload to Wiki. Needless to say, I'm deeply distressed over the reaction that has taken place. In particular, I would like to ask if the removal of all my photos off the Lake Burley Griffin article was a step forward in the usefullness of the page. Please either voice your opinion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canberra or write back to me. Thanks for your time (and I hope) support. -- Fir0002 08:45, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello, good work on Mikołaj "Rudy" Radziwiłł, and thanks for the contribution. However, you forgot to add any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. From what websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Mikołaj "Rudy" Radziwiłł? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? You can simply add links, or there are several different citation methods list at WP:CITET. Thanks! Lupin| talk| popups 20:02, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
It is a generic message to inform you that there was a User Conduct Request for Comments at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Ghirlandajo started recently. As you are one of the sides in the conflict and your name appears in the evidence of disputed behaviour section you might want to take a look at it. Halibu tt 00:24, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I will post soon 5 variants so I would be happy if you would comment and choose the best for the article. For this I invite you to come to the talk page and contribute. -- Bonaparte talk 13:54, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
"If you would like a 'honorable Pole' badge or something, I think you have just qualified ;p" --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:41, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Um, I'm flattered, but how did I qualify? I lived in PL for only about six months, while working for the Warsaw Business Journal and learning to drink wódka properly. (I did better at that than learning Polish.)
Sca 19:52, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Well, Ghirlandajo seems convinced you are a Pole.
I guess he hasn't read my user page. I'm a fourth-generation American with Norwegian and German forebears, including a bunch of Volga (Russian-) Germans, and supposedly a bit of Turkish blood. (Seems the defence of Vienna by Jan Sobieski wasn't air-tight.) But one of my German great-grandfathers supposedly came from Pomerania.
Sca 20:06, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
During Halibutt's RfA, you have been informed by other editors that many of them consider your spamming of their talk pages unfriendly or offensive. Now I see you resorting to the same tactic in your frenzied anti-Ghirlandajo quest. Let me tell you that I don't think your attempts to incite more editors against me are particularly helpful to further your cause. You may have noticed that I don't ask Russian editors to comment on your shameful allegations. Please don't let your emotions to carry you beyond the limits of propriety. -- Ghirlandajo 10:31, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Wybierasz się na szopkę? [4] :)-- SylwiaS 12:25, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Ja tam nie mieszkam, a warszawskiej się naoglądałam w dzieciństwie. Ten artykuł wyskoczył mi wśród newsów o Polsce i skojarzyłam, że to Twój uniwerek. Tak przy okazji, coś na poprawę humoru w mojej piaskownicy.-- SylwiaS 14:40, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
In Russian WIki its 11,000??
in German 14.552 Kriegsgefangene ermordet: Die größten Gruppen davon mit 4.421 in Kozielsk, 6.311 in Ostashkov und 3.982 in Starobielsk
I posted a response to your comment. I would more than welcome you to join the FAC drive of this article. :) -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 19:34, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
After reading Ghirly's comments, it is my pleasure and honor to accept. Thank you! Umm now does this mean I have to stop telling "Polack" jokes? ;>-- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 23:08, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
You know, I'm on the verge of loosing my nerves now... [5]. It would be better for me to avoid that page I guess... Halibu tt 10:04, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Looks interesting, will do at some point soon. Stirling Newberry 16:02, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
done Fjl 16:43, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Done / getan. Sca 20:26, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
FWIW it's done User:Ejrrjs says What? 20:34, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Your desire is my delight. — Theo (Talk) 17:44, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Ah, but I have. I employ a user subpage system from my own user page. this page is where I usually place a message or maxim of some sort. The Bratsche/User2 page is where my normal user-ish stuff goes, like info and templates. That page is where you will find my babel template. Thanks for the message, though: I think that the template is really useful. Cheers, Bratsche talk | Esperanza 20:30, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for letting me know about this interesting project, but i will not be adding it to my user page. I am monolingual and i do not believe having a language banner on every user page is a good thing. Foobaz 05:12, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Stary, po prostu kiedyś żeglowałem po sieci i natknąłem się na artykuł o twoim mieście i o genezie nazwy. To było gdzieś rok temu. Od razu za świeżej pamięci zrobiłem adnotację na WIKI, ale dziś nie pamiętam już nic. Sorki. Space Cadet 00:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Znalazłem jedno źrodło: [ [6]]. Może znajdę więcej. Trzym się. Space Cadet 23:40, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotrus. You want to delate the pictures, that I have uploaded. They are all from www.poczta-polska.pl/mw. This is a homepage run by a Polish couple. They put pics about their trips in Poland into the internet. I have asked them if I could use their pics on wikipedia, and they gave theit permission. I have provided the source and gave the status below the pics. Dzieki, Shalom Alechem
I am sorry Piotrus, but I don't know anything about that. I am a Swede ;-).-- Wiglaf 10:56, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello Piotrus! I've used the Russian notice board in the past, and found the Polish just the other day. It does indeed look like a German notice board would be useful. And, for the record, I am an American, not a native-German speaker. ;-) Native German-speaking contributors that I am aware of include (off the top of my head) Chris, User:Sciurinæ, and User:Nightstallion. User:Saintswithin and User:Berndd11222 can also speak German pretty well. Olessi 18:34, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
I took a look at User:Jadger and he seems quite controversial and stubborn: he's already been banned 24 hours for 3RR. In all honesty, I am not very familiar with the topics he discusses. I'll keep an eye out for him, but please let me know if there are any future controversies. Balcer's usage of a source helped for the revert war on Wola. And, to add to my previous list, I believe User:Thorsten1 is a native German-speaker. Olessi 19:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Why you are remowe this authorities ?Can you explein you POV you have delit authorities. Can you explein you Point of viev
Piotr, zrobiłam nową kategorię - Polish Watchmakers, i już tego żałuję. :D Jak mogę ją skasować?-- SylwiaS 16:00, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Piotrus, Thanks for saying hello. I'm an Englishman living in Poland. Hope you don't mind if I've muscled in on your territory updating a few things on Polish Politics and my 'home' town of Sieradz. At the moment I'm restricting myself to a few minor alterations - hope to go for a big article soon! Cheers, Martin (mdhinton)
Jeśli istnieje artykuł na niemieckiej Wiki, ale nie ma go na angielskiej, to czy mogę go przekleić i poprosić o tłumaczenie?-- SylwiaS | talk 18:35, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Ty mnie chyba chesz zamęczyć. Mogę powstawiać, ale czy wystarczy tylko w niektórych miejscach? Tzn. nie muszę chyba przy każdym zdaniu? A nie raz i co pół zdania, bo ja tam wymieszałam informacje z wielu stron (tak, wszystko z internetu). A tak przy okazji. Właśnie skończyłam tłumaczyć artykuł z polskiej Wiki. Jest jakaś forma zaznaczania, że ten artykuł to tłumaczenie?-- SylwiaS | talk 20:42, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I need your help on this one: could you add the Polish version of his name? Last name is Mohyła, but I don't know your version for "Moses" (which is what "Moise" means). Thx in advance. Dahn 16:55, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Articles should not have links to User: stuff. Please make a specialized list for Boleslaus or remove the reference. Fplay 22:41, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
You may want to read Talk:Gdansk/Vote.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 02:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Beyond that, you should understand that all these points of view about ex-German places that are part of post-1945 Poland have been made, aired, discussed, contested and reiterated ad nauseum on Wiki during the past couple of years.
My own view is that these places were known to most of the world by their German names for a long time, which should be explained where RELEVANT, i.e. in any historical section. This is especially true of Danzig/Gdansk, given its unique history in the interwar period and internationally high profile politically. A secondary point is that these places where known to their INHABITANTS by their German names before 1945.
There's nothing revanchist or revisionist in naming places with the names by which they were known to the world and to themselves during the historical periods involved. Indeed, it is linguistically revisionist, in a sense, to refer to Danzig (for example) as Gdansk when writing about the six centuries in which it was inhabited mainly by Germans.
I've argued all along that the Germans today should refer to these places by their Polish names when referring to contemporary events – for the same reasons that they should be referred to by their German names when historical events are the issue.
Sca 19:49, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
I've been here for over 8 years, so I guess I must like it. People speak better English here than in England and the girls are prettier. Difficult language though; I won't be editing in Polish just yet.( Mdhinton 12:11, 12 December 2005 (UTC))
I don't have a strong personal opinion about the links to Questia. I reverted based on my assumption and observaton that Wikipedia has a policy of not linking to commercial sources. Many of the book references in articles I've seen are not available on-line. I will try to find out what Wikipedia's policy is about this. Jeremy J. Shapiro 16:15, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for copyedit of my contribution on GDL. Because of my bad english, it sometimes just stops my innitiative to correct somme issues. I hope you will correct my mistakes another time. Sincerely, Thank You. -- Lokyz 20:32, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotrus, one of my students (see Wikipedia:School and university projects - University of Virginia) submitted Diffie-Hellman problem to fulfill an assignment. Do you think it's too technical? I'm writing to you because you welcomed the author, Batman900. By the way, given your interests, I think you would enjoy the field called Science and technology studies. We have a wiki: STS Wiki. You are welcome to participate. Best regards Bryan 22:20, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotrus,
thanks for your message. But I still do not understand, why you want to delate the pics i have upoaded form www.poczta-polska.pl/mw. I have always given my source www.poczta-polska.pl/mw and I have given the status. The author agree to upload them. Here is the mail I have received form them. What else could or should I do? I think I have met all requirements. If there is something else I can do, let me know. Yours faithfully Shalom Alechem. Here is the mail. If qou still do not believe me, I can sent it to your private e-mail address:
Betreff: Re: Wikipedia Von: Marek Wojciechowski ins Adressbuch An: Chrisoph Wolfgang von Rochow <dr.rochow@web.de> Datum: 05.12.05 06:40:16
Witam! Prosze bardzo. Wykorzystanie naszych zdjec jest mozliwe pod warunkiem podania pod kazdym z nich informacji o autorach i adresu naszej strony, tak jak np. zrobiono to na stronach: http://www.eturystyka.com.pl/miasta/podkarpackie/baranow_sandomierski/baranow_sandomierski.php lub http://dolnyslask.org/miasta/henrykow.html lub http://republika.pl/duchypolskie/pskala.htm i jak to do tej pory robiono na innych stronach Wikipedii, np. o Bialymstoku, warszawskich Lazienkach, itp.
Pozdrawiam Marek Wojciechowski
Szanowne Panstwo Wojciechowscy,
jestem internauta, ktory czesto pisze na Wikipedii artykuly zwiazane z Polska na stronach francuskich, niemieckich i angielskich. Czesto brakuje mi zdjec, zeby upiekszy moje artykuly. Czy moglbym skorzystac z niektorych (nie osobistych) zdjec z Panstwa zbiorow na www.poczta-polska.pl/mw. Chodzi glownie o zdjecia z Warszawy (chce napisac artykuly o zamkach i parkach naszej stolicy), ale tez o innych miastach oraz zamkach i krajobrazach.
Pozdrawiam serdecznie,
Rochow
Hey Piotrus/Archive 7! Thanks for your support on my RfA. The final outcome was (57/4/3), so I am now an administrator. If you need help, have a question, or just want to chat (or if I get out of line!), please don't hesitate to let me know! Again, thanks! :D
Has a ref to User:Piotrus/List of Poles. Articles should not refer to things in User: namespace. Fplay 04:38, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I did cite my reverts on Wola, if u had cared to of read my edit summaries you would of seen it. Jadger 01:37, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotrus, as far as I remember Gajl allowed us to use his works at wiki. Do you know if he made the Nieczuja arms as well - and if so, where could it be obtained? So far we have only the one I created myself, which is... well, far from being perfect I'd say.. Halibu tt 12:10, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
What do you think about setting up a Wiki (using MediaWiki, of course) for college and university teachers (and students) who are using Wikipedia in their assignments? This could include copies of assignments, links to pages, discussion, criticism, guidelines, etc. Perhaps this could be set up within Wikipedia, but it seems non-encyclopedic. I can set up the wiki on my server (which is running STS Wiki. The key thing would be having at least two or three people who would be willing to visit the site every day and watch out for link spam and vandalism. I haven't had too much trouble with STS Wiki, thanks to the bad behavior and blacklist extensions. What do you think? Thanks for helping my students! Bryan 16:28, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
You're welcome
Hello. I would like to inform you, as an administrator, interested in the history and political situation of the central Europe, that there is an ongoing discussion at article Territorial claims of the Baltic States (formerly was known as "Lost territories of the Baltic States", but was recently renamed; some users seems to disagree with that renaming). Recent edits as well were accused of POV, and, in fact, article was disputed for a long time already. It would be nice if you would add that article to your watchlist and continue helping to improve it until a decition will be reached about its future (there is currently a poll about it in the article's talk page). I hope together we all will be able to make that article neutral. Kaiser 747 10:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
You were among the people who this anon tried to change the password of. So you know, I've blocked the user permanently. I'll likely unblock the IP later, once I thing they're full discouraged. -- user:zanimum
Very well-written post. Kudos, Piotrus. Olessi 04:53, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotruś, I thought it was conventional to add articles to "Peace treaties" in addition to other, more specific categories (e.g. "Polish peace treaties") since a treaty by definition involves more than one party. Since only a few countries have their own peace treaties categories, I thought it would not suffice to put an article only in the Polish peace treaties category, but rather to also make it available in the larger pool. What do you think? Appleseed 03:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Stanisław Swianiewicz - hope you find it useful. BTW, are you comming home for Christmas? Halibu tt 12:48, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotruś, could you look into blocking 204.39.64.2? Btw, I reverted the Peace treaties edits. Appleseed 16:37, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Several editors (myself included) have a problem with an anon user vandalising Operation Wisła article. The user uses one IP in evenings 217.96.248.99, but in working hours her IP changes every day 83.22.214.209, 83.30.125.176, 83.30.128.69, 83.30.148.40. I’m not sure about protecting the article, because several editors are working on it now. Blocking the 217… IP will give us at least some peace in evening hours, but the person will be still vandalising during mornings and afternoons. What do you suggest? Here’s some evidence.-- SylwiaS | talk 18:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
AFAIK every single book on the topic has their names. In fact there were 12 of them in the three camps. One was killed in other place at the same time and one more was promoted to Brigadier posthumously, after he was killed as a Colonel. Halibu tt 19:28, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotruś, could you make the moves to Mieszko I and August II the Strong? They require an admin. Appleseed ( talk) 16:17, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotrus, thanks for letting me know about this, although I wish I'd been let know earlier, before a lot of these moves had taken place. I think we should try, in general, to stick with anglicizations when the monarch is better known by it, and to stick with the normal monarchical naming rules as much as possible (it gets complicated for kings with surnames that need to be given, though). At any rate, I wish this discussion had gone on at the naming conventions page, rather than on an article talk page, where it's less likely to be seen by those with interest. john k 19:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey Piotrus, sorry if I blew up a bit. I wasn't accusing you of wrong-doing. I just find it rather surprising that a whole bunch of pages were moved without discussion. Especially when they were already named in perfectly normal ways according to normal naming conventions rules for monarchs, like Augustus II of Poland. john k 19:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I realize that you're very busy with royalty right now. But once the revolution is over, could you advise me about "direct link to talk page in [my] signature"? I couldn't find an implementation mechanism, or even an unequivocal explanation, on Wikipedia:Signature. Thanks. logologist 21:48, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Would you mind moving Zbigniew? Appleseed ( Talk) 01:32, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that Social study was a redirect that pointed to Social sciences. I changed it to point to Social studies. Is that why you proposed a merger? I do not think that Social Studies should be merged with Social Sciences. "Social Studies" is a standard grammer and high school subject and there seems to be an effort to provide some navigation on "school subject" lines. -- Fplay 07:46, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Enhancing the description does not change the fact that the graph itself is not a soruce of information, and at best is a misleading collection of visually confusing information.
The lists that you are collecting demonstrate that human being percieve the history of the universe in a logarithmic fashion. We recall in vivid detail that which happened seconds ago, and everything else we summarize recursively over time, compacting hours, days, years, decades, centuries, etc. down into footnotes. In fact, if we analyze history, we find that, at any point in history, that graph would have appeared to show that "real soon now" some great event was about to transpire from the point of view of the people who, at that time, thought every recent event was highly significant.
This is very nearly the same logic which leads Christians of every generation since the founding of their religion to believe that Christ would return in their lifetimes.
This is Wikipedia. Break your wizzy graphs down into textual information, with a single, vastly simplified graph that shows the general shape of the progression, but don't use an image as a data source, since most people won't even click on the image, and are thus left with a poor caption and a graph they can't read. Stop trying to inject that graph into every article that touches on technological progression like an evangelist and maintain a single article that presents useful information about a theory which can stand or fall on its own merits.
- Harmil 13:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Correct me if I am wrong, but most of the ribbons were made by you, right? I think that they should have their own page (linked from Wikipedia:Barnstar) and category. Could you take care of this? I found at least two ribbons not linked from your userspace (this is getting somewhat chaotic): Image:Odznaka za Rany.gif, Image:BoNM-Poland.png. Plus the Barnstar page should list the national versions of the medals as well, wouldn't you agree?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 19:07, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
G próbuje przenosić moje wypowiedzi tak aby nie były widoczne w dyskusji.Ja przez kilka dni będę poza siecią. -- Molobo 09:34, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this article please? I noticed a couple of people with this name on your List of Poles. I'm not too sure if the source given for this individual is a reliable one. Thanks. Kappa 03:41, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I sent you an email (hope it went through!). Olessi 04:39, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotr, do you have any idea why I have been blocked by an administrator named Marudubshinki?
Sca 14:33, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
No, I'm not an administrator. Marudubshinki has blocked me by blocking IP 207.200.116.132. I frankly don't understand the technical aspects of this, but would like to be unblocked. Thanks for taking an interest. Sca 16:33, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I added a few more sources for Helena Rasiowa. Thanks for the info on Babel. Antidote 21:11, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm gonna be working on the list of Poles in a while. I might need some help in translations (as many of the red articles here have articles on the Polish wikipedia). Ok if I chime in and ask for a quick translation now and then? Antidote 09:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Feel free to create Category:Proposed countries and add United States of Greater Austria to it, I'm in favour. Nightstallion ✉ 20:03, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
I see you have abandoned the page History of the Jews in Poland/Temp. Time to delete or not? If not, please leave a meaase at the top of the page, since other people may be wondering as well. mikka (t) 20:46, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. -- Bhadani 14:47, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I've been unable to move five Polish monarchs. I wonder whether you could help? The rulers to be moved are:
Otherwise, all the Polish-Lithuanian royalty that's moving, has moved.
I noticed that you left a template on my talk page which claimed that some articles that I created were unreferenced. Leaving aside the question of whether or not this was appropriate for you to do (I think it wasn't, since the references were already on the page), I would like you to know that there is an error with the template. It adds "edit" links to the page as though they are links to edit the specific section. But instead, clicking on one took me to the edit page for the template. If they add "edit" links to a discussion page, those links should work for editing the section, not the template. FYI, Elonka 21:05, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
hi, i know you want to spread the polish point of view... you know that kind of propaganda like in silesian upspring articles... i don't know if you really believe what you edit or you just want to spread propagandry... i advice to check non polish history book to discover what your edits are unlogical like "rejoin silesia to poland" "upsring of polish people agains occuping forces etc..."
There's a notice at the " Ote" and " Oda von Haldensleben" articles, suggesting their merger.
The latter article needs to be deleted; and the former, " Ote" article (which is more complete and actually contains everything that is in both) needs to be given the latter's title, " Oda von Haldensleben" (if that queen indeed usually goes by "Oda," rather than "Ote," in Polish).
Could you look into these two brief articles? I don't think there's any point keeping both.
Hi! Could you clarify what you mean by "low edit count"? Thanks! ᓇᐃᑦᔅᑕᓕᐅᓐ ✉ 08:44, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Merry Holidays, Piotr! Thanks for the tip, but I think the (Russian, isn't he?) guy has a point. No matter how fair I may consider myself, I'm biased by being Romanian. I'd rather accept that than disregard it, especially since the debate is inane as long as it is carried in terms that would've had relevance in the 1890s. I actually didn't even look on the discussion page for the article, but I'm willing to bet I already know it by heart. I'd like to point out that I certainly don't agree with Ukrainian nationalists, but I cannot say much in favor of Romanian ones. And this interests you too: who knows if in the future debates like this one wouldn't be carried with you? I'm thinking... Pokuttya. I read somewhere that Ion Antonescu claimed it from the Germans, so it's not a forgotten "realm". :) Dahn 14:20, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
G'day Piotrus!
I just want to wish you a Happy New Year! Bonaparte talk 11:21, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
node_ue ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Transnistria&diff=33241397&oldid=33240396
just deleted some very good references and sources. The rephrase was made by Wosyl. Can you calm down him a little bit? Bonaparte talk 11:25, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Node of course! Look at his last changes. Bonaparte talk 11:41, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
I see no reason why you have delete it. -- Bonaparte talk 12:07, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Your recent move of John II Casimir of Poland to Jan II Kazimierz Vasa left approximately 10+ double redirects. I understand, judging from the length of your talk page, that you are a busy person, but when you move a page, take responsiblity! :-P (I should not be saying this to a sysop, eh?) Well, thanks for reading, and a Happy New Year. — Ambush Commander( Talk) 16:56, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Zerknę na to RfC ale już nie dziś. A na razie Wszystkiego Najlepszego w Nowym Roku!-- SylwiaS | talk 18:48, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
I've updated and cleaned up the List of Polish monarchs and Template:Monarchs of Poland. Is there anything more to be done immediately about double redirects? Cleaning up references within articles will obviously be a longer process. logologist| Talk 02:18, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
hello Piotrus! Can you please look at Transnistria http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Transnistria&diff=33468672&oldid=33468577 there is a push POV fork there. First they edit, then blocked the page. When the page was unblocked they revert my NPOV edits. They deleted valid neutral info from BBC. Bonaparte talk 10:56, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note on the history of the world map. It looks pretty interesting; and I can tell that you're doing a lot of good work on the article. Unfortunately, I don't feel qualified to weigh in on the subject one way or the other. You and the other editors on the article know far more about the subject than I do. It has been a very long time since I've studied the Palaeolithic period; the last time I did some relatively serious reading on the subject was undergraduate years. Happy New Year! 172 19:33, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
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Dear Piotrus Sorry, this rather late in the day, but back in May, when I did this work on the Roman Dmowski page, you thanked me for my work on that page. When I first arrive, the computer assigns me an different automatic number, so I did not get your message until recently. Somewhat belatedly, your welcome. Most people don’t thank me for my work, but it is nice to be appreciated. A.S. Brown 07:07, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
A wiesz, w sumie czemu nie? Już dawno się z nikim nie kłóciłem, konfliktów o Danzig też już dawno nie było więc może nawet mam szansę... Halibutt 04:59, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi - Thanks for the note about Halibutt's rfa. As you might have noticed I rarely vote on rfas - pretty much only when it's someone I've had extensive interactions with. The note of mine you observed on Halibutt's talk page was part of an effort I undertook to identify editors who have made lots of edits but aren't admins, leading to the creation of user:Rick Block/WP600 not admins (which was subsequently largely obsoleted by Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts). When putting this list together I left a message on the talk page of every user on it (whether I knew them or not), asking them to indicate whether they had any interest in becoming an admin. This is the message you saw. I don't recollect having any direct interaction with Halibutt (and have very limited time for wikipedia at the moment), so I am unlikely to vote. Just thought I'd let you know why. -- Rick Block ( talk) 23:11, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotr,
You asked me to strike out the part of my vote. I have not done this, for the following reasons:
This last point, by the way, is an important one: the Polish Wikipedians seem very cliqueish, which is at least partially a result of the use of the Polish language, which results in you speaking behind our backs. This makes the impression that you are all the same, more or less, and any bad experiences with one Polish editor rub off on the others. This may be unfair, but "we" (the editors that don't understand Polish) just cannot read how "you" deal with the more troublesome Polish editors. I simply cannot trust Halibutt enough to support him as an admin, as a large part of his activities here are a mystery to me... Eugene van der Pijll 23:15, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
You may wish to check my userpage for my policy on RfAs. Normally, I wouldn't use a short-hand reason like "controversial", but I had already cited the opinions of two respected opposers, and didn't feel the need to add much beyond what had been said. I have no dislike of Halibutt, but I take a very hard-line on adminship because I fear that abusive admins are not subject to sufficient oversight by the achingly slow ArbCom process. If I have a real suspicion that a user might not follow consensus, I oppose his nomination. The accusation has been made that Halibutt has had problems abiding by consensus (at TfD, for example); I am somewhat familiar with that discussion, and find any unilateral action against consensus very troubling, however compelling the argument that consensus was "flawed" (in this case, I didn't find the argument against consensus at all compelling, actually.)
Many an admin likes to cite IAR as reason to ignore a supposedly "flawed" consensus. We don't need to promote an editor who already reasons in this way. I am always open to reconsidering support on a future nomination, however.
And, as a general rule, yes, controversial admins are bad. Their jobs are to enforce consensus, so nothing they do should openly defy the community. Good judges keep their egos in check. Best wishes, Xoloz 23:44, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to remark that I'm rather disappointed with your behaviour in Halibutt's case. I'm afraid that the whole vote will be rigged up, as you continue sending POV-infested notices to the talk pages of other users. While there are worse nationalists than Halibutt, his recent suggestion to reverse my edits (at user:Knyaz's talk page) is clearly far from NPOV and unacceptable for a would-be admin. Also, I think your own request for "moderating" Ghirlandajo (at mikka's talk) is rather puzzling, to say the least. And I still fail to understand why you persevere in resurrecting odious Molobo, who has been terrorizing dozens articles for the past few months. I just don't believe that advancing nationalist cause they way you do is what the admins are here for. Cheers, Ghirlandajo 00:04, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
That's exactly what I hate about electoral campaigns. But just like during the latest Sejm campaign, one can learn a lot. For instance about the conspiracies that try to control Wikipedia. Just imagine: you, me and Space Cadet sitting on a throne (single throne, of course), with all other wikipedians at our feet... Hillarious? Not really... Halibutt 01:04, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I really think he might. I know that everybody is POV, me included. But Halibutt seems more that an "average" Wikipedian. And the RfA page lists more things about him - some black book I have never heard about before, some template reverting, some other stuff. I just cannot completely trust him, because I know his strong bias. Yes, he is approachable, and polite, and intelligent, and knowledgeable, and dedicated, and so on, but those other things really bother me. I left a message on his talk - you need my help, just ask, but I just cannot support your RfA. Renata3 06:02, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I meant just that I said a sentence before: Remove an attack page from his Userspace and do not keep similar materials for a couple of months. Sorry, if I was not clear abakharev 07:05, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello Piotrus - as you can see, perhaps, I've currently voted neutral. Based on most of my interactions with Halibutt, and despite the fact that we have very frequently disagreed, I would be happy to vote to support him. But I remain a bit concerned about the incident from several months ago where he went on a WP:POINT violation spree with German city articles, inserting the Polish name. If he would clarify how he feels about this action and acknowledges that this was the wrong way of going about things, I would be happy to change my vote to support. As it stands, that activity, and Halibutt's refusal at the time to recognize that he was wrong (at least, this is my recollection - if it is not true, please correct me - a statement from him at the time admitting that he was in the wrong would be sufficient for me to change my vote), gives me some pause. Not enough to oppose, but enough to be unwilling, for the moment, to vote in support. And believe me when I say that I would much rather vote in support, I'm just not sure I can do that at the moment. john [[User_talk:John Kenney|k]] 07:17, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I don't see how the diff is relevant. I know that if someone preserved an attack page against me, the fact that Jimbo commented on its talk page won't make me feel less offended. Borisblue 19:40, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
You wrote: Thank you for your comments. Your comment made me think - how is a controversy a handicap for a 'broom and bucket' wielder? Also, what are the traits he is lacking? As his nominator, I wonder if I missed something. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 15:03, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
(in Polish) Dzięki serdeczne za Twoje poparcie i konsekwentną obronę na niezliczonych stronach niezliczonych ludzi. Gdy kilkukrotnie odmawiałem nominacji, właśnie taki rezultat miałem na myśli. Chciałbym móc powiedzieć, że nie biorę komentarzy z RfA do siebie, ale to nie byłaby prawda, bo trudno nie brać do siebie sytuacji, w których moje działania interpretuje się opacznie - i traktuje jako najgorszą zniewagę (jak w przypadku kolorowego zeszyciku, w który naprawdę wierzyłem). Oczywiście, wielu z oponentów ma całkiem sensowne powody swojej decyzji, co więcej, w wielu przytaczanych sytuacjach rzeczywiście moje reakcje nie były do końca przemyślane. Jednak te akurat głosy nie bolą, gorzej jest z tymi, którzy jak Ghirlandajo wykorzystują każdą okazję do dowalenia mi, nawet jeśli wiąże się to z przeinaczaniem faktów lub wycinaniem z kontekstu. Jak to mówią "nie ważne czy słusznie czy nie, gdy się kogoś obrzuca błotem, zawsze coś z tego błota zostaje". No ale tak to już bywa.
Tak czy siak - dziękuję za poparcie. Nie wiem co z niego wyniknie, ale i tak jestem zadziwiony tym, że tak wielu ludzi mnie poparło. Przyznaję, wielu z nich nie doceniłem i nie przewidziałem, że będą w stanie wznieść się ponad nasze utarczki z przeszłości i dostrzec w moim postępowaniu także i dobre strony. To jest bardzo pocieszające.
Niestety, na koniec głosowania w mojej sprawie będę musiał zniknąć, więc nie będę mógł odpowiadać na zarzuty/pytania. Tak się złożyło, że wczoraj i dziś byłem w pracy niemal 24h na dobę, a pracy jeszcze nie skończyłem. Jutro (dziś!) z rana jadę do rodziny, a po powrocie mam jeszcze kompletnie zawalony poniedziałek... Postaram się odpowiedzieć na wszystkie komentarze w niedzielę w nocy, ale nie wiem czy mi się to uda.
(in English) Cordial thanks for your support and for your consistent defence of my candidacy on countless pages of countless users. This situation is exactly what I had in mind when I declined being nominated several times in a row. I would be more than happy to be able to say that I don't take the RfA comments personally, but that would be wrong. It's hard not to, when my behaviour is misinterpreted, twisted the other way around and used against me as a grave offense (as was the case of the coloured booklet, in which I truly believed). Obviously, many of those who oppose me have quite sensible objections, moreover, in some of the situations my reactions were truly bullheaded. However, these votes do not hurt me. It's much worse with those who like Ghirlandajo take the liberty to take advantage of every single situation to present me in a bad light, even if it involves twisting facts or taking them out of context. They say whether right or wrong, some of the mud thrown at you always stays. That's how life is - and we know who is she.
Anyway, thank you for your support. I don't know what will be the result of that voting, but I must admit that I'm astonished by how many people supported me. I also admit that I underestimated some of those who did and I never thought that they would be able to rise above the skirmishes we were involved in in the past and find some good sides of what I do. That's very comforting.
Unfortunately, for the final days of my RfA I will be unable to respond to questions/accusations and such. It turned out that the last two days I spent at work and my work is still not finished. Tomorrow (today!) I'm leaving for my family and will not be able to return until Monday. And on that day I'll still have to work hard. I will try to answer as many questions as I can on Sunday night, but I'm not sure I can handle that. Halibu tt 01:58, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for messaging me about Halibutt's RfA; I don't always watch the RfA page. I don't think I've ever seen anyone go through with 21 oppose votes, but sometimes the 1st RfA, if failed but well handled, and followed by a couple months of good work, can turn into a successful RfA the next time. (For the record, I'm not entirely disagreeable to a Polish point of view ... and this reminds me I've been meaning to write the music history of Poland, especially the Renaissance at Kraków, for quite some time now ... ) Antandrus (talk) 17:31, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm back - and quite happy to see that many more people cast their vote. I also noticed Cadorna ( talk · contribs) vote in my RfA and it seems to me he might be someone's puppet, though I'm not sure in any rate. I remember meeting him in the wiki once or twice, which seems quite logical if you take a look at his contributions...
Anyway, I'll browse the RfA page to see if there are questions I might be able to reply to. Halibu tt 18:38, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
I did not mean that you do something wrong, I just think that you tend to be a little too anxious, jumpy and pushy. There is nothing wrong about that, I understand the feelings involved in RfA. But my point was that Halibutt behaves even better than you. And he is the one who should go and argue with every single oppose voting user.
I did this because I recently nominated a user for adminship (pretty rash action on my part), and he started to get seriously offended with the oppose votes and he just simply dig his hole. And Halibutt maintains his coolness and politness. And in comparission, behaves better than you! Renata3 20:57, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotr. My reading of the matter of neutral votes and withdrawing neutral votes is this: the RfA system isn't really a voting system. Instead it's a way of breaking down into an easy-to-tally way the consensus of the WikiCommunity.
By withdrawing my neutral vote, I'm asking not to be counted either way any more in the event of a tie - 'neutral' votes could swing it if the debate is very polarised as they indicate that there is no consensus.
I think that Halibutt's answers were very creditable, and it was good of him/her to find my question in the big pile of votes and spend time thinking about an answer and providing it. I would have switched my vote to support, but I have been unhappy with the way some of his/her supporters have set upon people opposing. I'm not prepared to penalise the candidate for that (especially when, as I say, the answers given were so very good) but my support vote might be taken as supporting other aspects of this RfA.
In the event of this RfA failing, when Halibutt comes up for RfA again I would then vote to support.
I hope this makes my thinking clear to you! Pokojowy! (which should mean "Peace!", with any luck!) ➨ ❝ REDVERS ❞ 21:39, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
You wrote 'maybe another time'. But most of the objections raised against Halibutt, a contributor who has been with us for more then two years, are actually about a fairly old events. I think that most of the objections raised there have been addressed already addressed. You may want to read Halibutt's responces there - to me they prove that he is a trustworthy person. Not perfect, no - but who among us has never erred? That he can ackowledge his mistakes, apologize and learn from them is to me a sign of a good editor - and a good person. Why should we wait any longer to recognize him as a valuable contributor? And how long should we wait? A months? 6? Another two years? I'd like to ask you to reconsider your position, especially in light of Halibutt's responces.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 22:41, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know, I am following up. Regards, Jayjg (talk) 16:24, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotrus, and thanks for the messages. I was busy last week, and had no time to respond until now. I have added my view of my blocks to the admin noticeboard. I did not know the details about Wiglafs block, one of them for the 3RR seems to be OK, the other one I do not know. Luckily, Wiglaf will from now on seek other admins assistance regarding Molobo. I am also glad to hear that you will seek input before unblocking Molobo. To be honest, I was a bit disapointed that you unblocked my first block without even telling me. Anyway, it seems Molobo got the message by now, and even though he probably does not like it, he seems to be accepting the vote outcome.
About Halibutt, unfortunately i cannot support his adminship. He is a good editor, and mostly reasonable neutral, but his resistance to consensus probably does not make him a good admin. BTW Did you know that this is his second nomination? Best regards, -- Chris 73 [[User talk:Chris 73|Talk]] 22:53, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
The response to the implied question in your heading is that it's impossible to undelete images, I'm afraid; if they're needed again, they have to be up-loaded.
The response to your message, though, is that the painting might be out of copyright, but photographs of it are still covered by copyright law. Thus, for example, postcards sold by galleries and photographs in books or on the Web are all likely to be copyrighted by the photographers or publishers. If you took the photograph yourself, you need to say so, and to add the correct template; if you didn't, then you need to give the source, and again add the correct copyright template. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 09:30, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
And thank you for your reply. You have mine HERE, Sir...best regards, -- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 09:38, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
And again HERE. Always glad to offer whatever help I can-- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 11:59, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
You may also want to check This and Here. And, if you have not already, get in touch with GeneralPatton. I'm sure he will have some interesting tales to tell. Cheers-- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 02:06, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
szukam wszelkich informacji nt historii komunikacji. potrzebne sa mi do pracy magisterskiej o komunikatorach internetowych. czy moglbys przeslac mi mailem artykul jaki napisales na ten temat? bede bardzo wdzieczna, bo z tewgo co napisales na forum wnioskuje, ze doskonale odpowiada on moim potrzebom! czekam z niecierpliwoscia!! pozdrawiam karolina ps moj mail to batik@poczta.fm
I very much like the concept of Wikipedia, and have been a passive reader for a year or two. My major interest in editing however has been limited to 1 subject (though I learned a lot by doing this, painful as it might have been) I'll almost certainly take up your suggestion, but I wanted to finish something the way I started it. Thanks again, Pete Ekman 69.253.195.228 02:42, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello Piotruś, I'm trying to move Prussian Tribute to Prussian Homage. The latter is used by Davies, and it also gives more Google results. I can't move it because Prussian Homage is a redirect right now. Thanks. Appleseed 03:39, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Could you check out the Angra Mainyu page and the related discussion? Thx. Chelman 12:04, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
That would be wonderful if you could that, your highness ProConsul! HolyRomanEmperor 19:28, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Plish opnion on Serbs? HolyRomanEmperor 14:43, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
I expected the figures to be low, but not that low :( HolyRomanEmperor 21:34, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Piotruś, could you move List of Polish heads of state since 1918 to List of Polish presidents, which is a redirect right now? I don't expect this to be controversial. Appleseed 22:15, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your link, but I can't really get involved in that dispute, as nobody will ever see the end of it. In my opinion, Moldovan is a creole (in some of its forms, as otherwise it is just Romanian). I'm not saying this because I think Moldova belongs in Romania etc., as I hold no such ambition (unlike most of the Romanian contributors). And I don't think that Moldova is less of a reality, or a contemptible concept, since that would meen seeing Belgium as part of France, or Austria (and Switzerland, or Liechtenstein) into Germany. If you have doubts about linking language reference with Romanian in your articles, don't worry. Most of the partisans of the "Moldovan-as-distinct" would not claim that the language has been distinct forever, and they would admit that there are few differences, and rather that the few differences that exist are essential (which I may be open to). In any case, this should not apply to, let's say, 88% of the language(s), and in no case to person's names. I also noticed that there are scores of people in Moldova who consider themselves Romanian-speakers, and most of these even ethnic Romanians. So, no problem that can't be avoided. Dahn 23:27, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Dziękuje za gwiazdkę, to zawsze miło coś dostać :-). Niestety chyba w najbliższym czasie nie będe mógł poświecać wikipedii dużo czasu. -- Lysy ( talk) 21:07, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
> Why did you remove the part of the sentence 'from Russia and Austria-Hungary' in the article on Max Weber?--
Thanks for the question, Piotrus. It may have been premature. It just dawned on me that Poland was not an independent state before WW I. Do I now recollect that rightly? My knowledge on Weber is better than my knowledge of European history of the late 19th century, especially with regard to Poland.
In my view the whole section on 'Weber and German Politics' is the weakest part of the whole Max Weber article and I made an attempt to rewrite it in August, but gave up eventually. Weber's liberal imperialism (or imperial liberalism?) is hard to understand a hundred years and two world wars later. Nevertheless I think the article as a whole is great.
I will reinsert 'from Russia and Austria-Hungary'. Thanks for the welcome, Piotrus. Good work. Archos 05:48, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotrus, thanks for the welcome (and the sig. tip). JayFrancis 16:44, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
I have been editing much the article Battle of Fulford, which has been a stub. If you could please check this article and see if either it can be a featured article, or I can be recommended on how to make it fit the criteria to be a featured article. Thank you.
Piotrusiu, bardzo dziękuję za gwiazdkę. :-) Appleseed 01:21, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Serdecznie dziękuję za śliczną gwiazdkę na konto zbliżającej się Gwiazdki! Skorzystałem z Twej propozycji i bliżej określiłem się językowo. Dziękuję! logologist 10:20, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your help Piotrus.
Actually the family was a major one. They were one of the wealthiest in Poland with significant holdings. Male proteginy received the title count from Frederick the Great (and later his son) of Prussia in late 1700's (that part of Poland being under the Prussian yolk at that time). Unlike other hrabia titles, there's was a real one. In about 1905 the head of the family adopted a Kurnatowski as his heir and successor which caused some confusion amongst the Polish szlachta since (although a count/hrabia by Papal edict in 1902)could he also be the hrabia Mielzynski? The decision was probably not under the Weimer Convention on such matters.
Actually I was incorrect about the Mielzynski titles: Maximilian Mielzynski obatined his title from Frederich-Wilhelm II of Prussia on 19 September 1786 and his grandson, Maceij was seperately given the title from Frederich-Wilhelm III on 12 July 1817. Google shows me 11,900 hits on the family but this is totally unfiltered. You may want to give a try (if not already ) http://ez2find.com (72 hits on the family under hrabia mielzynski) which filters out multiple entries and can zero in on specific languages (Polish being one). On a seperate question: do you have any advice on how (if at all) it is possible to find an old Polish book (pre WWII) called "Strzal o Polnocy", involving a tragic love story of the Kurnatowski family at their estate/palace in Cieletniki? thanks.
Dzięki za nominowanie mojego zdjęcia, ale ono jest bardzo kiepskiej jakości, i w życiu nie przejdzie. Poprostu nie miałam nic innego. :)-- SylwiaS 02:24, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Ok, zobaczymy. Dzięki za narzędzia! -- SylwiaS 08:38, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Chwalić się nie będę, bo to czysto literacka fikcja, którą wielu ludzi bierze za odzwierciedlenie prawdy o mnie. Ale jeśli nie zamierzasz popełniać takiego błędu to nie ma sprawy - hal9001 kropka blog.pl. Pozdr. Halibu tt 23:21, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. The usual "move" procedure won't let me change "Confederation of Bar" to "Bar Confederation." Do you know of an admin way to do it without jumping through a lot of needless hoops? logologist 01:14, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I'm just wondering why you are adding the unreferenced template to a number of articles. There is a fairly strong consensus that this template only belongs on pages where there is an definite question about their accuracy. No one seems to have made such allegations about the articles that you are adding the templates to. Moreover you have added it to some pages, such as Ukrainian presidential election, 2004, that have quite a number of external links serving as references. - SimonP 04:23, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Second that. By your logic, you can place a tag for a good 1/2 of all articles. Either add it to all of those, or save it for articles with serious problems of dubious info. At least please consider stopping this en masse tagging until there is a policy or some discussion on that. Otherwise, please tag ALL articles that are unreferenced, that is hundreds of thousands of them. -- Irpen 07:30, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Piotrus, I am surprized that you, an experienced Wikieditor, started this en-masse tagging without floating a couple of trial balls to see what's the community's stand on that. I see your point and it makes sense. But why couldn't you make your point prominent enought to generate interest by tagging few visible articles and see the feedback before tagging so many articles at once? There are less drastic ways to encourage people to add refs than placing a tag over the whole article that makes it look dubious as a whole. -- Irpen 19:58, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Could you please provide clarification as to why you flagged the Declaration of Independence article as needing references? I noticed you flagged it only one minute after flagging Polish notation, which leads me to believe you did not visit both the Wikipedia links, as well as the external links, to see if adequate references were provided. It would save others a vast amount of time if you could iterate the facts which you feel are deficient. Obviously, some articles are blatantly lacking references (they have none whatsoever), however I don't feel Declaration of Independence meets that criteria. Thanks. -- Dan East 04:51, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotrus. Today luckily I had some time, so I created a large disambig page with the german entries, and also scanned the english wiki for Braun. I located the disambig on Braun, and moved the company article, since i think the disambig is the more important information. But feel free to move it back if you like. Also thanks for the info on Wikipedia:Naming_conventions/Geographic_names. So far I have not had any time to look at it in detail (70+ hour work weeks), but I hope to do so within the next few weeks. Happy editing -- Chris 73 | Talk 09:22, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for adding a related book to article on Ukiyo-e, however, there is a difference between references - which as been used to provide facts for the article - and further reading, which has not. See Wikipedia:Cite sources for more information.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 03:39, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, Piotrus, for your kind offer. I'll think what I can do with this particular picture. Your comment even induced me to add to my page a gallery listing a fraction of images I uploaded to this project. So far, two of my pictures - both by Prokudin-Gorskii - have been promoted to featured. Unfortunately, other candidates - such as Image:Stpeteskyline.jpg - have been moved by me or others to Wikimedia Commons, so they are not illegible as well.
By the way, I admit to have waded through Polish segment of this project but a couple of times, but today, while adding {unreferenced} tags to Krakow and Warsaw I noticed two nice pictures - Image:Warszawa2.jpg and Image:Katedra na wawelu.jpg - which are not tagged at all. Should we list them for deletion? What do you think? -- Ghirlandajo 18:03, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
As per your request, I've added a link to more photos on the FPC page. Greetings, -- Janke | Talk 11:41, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks/dzięki for message. this picture europe_warsaw.JPG was in my computer and i dont know the source where it was taken from. I will try to find it.
Best wishes!!
Hi there, Piotr. I might need your help. Could I have more info on this guy? He probably isn't the same as Yuriy of Ruthenia. I found him referenced as "of uncertain immediate lineage", but he is Koriatowicz for sure. Also, could you please look into why I cannot link him to Category:Lithuanian nobility? Somebody added a Subcategory of the same name inside the Category - I changed the name, but I guess it changed for the Category as well (chage it back, if you want to). I really don't get it. Thanks. Dahn 02:01, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks again. I had already checked out the In-Wiki sources, and my head had started spinning (it was my first contact ever with Lithuanian nobility, and I got to see their names in Lithuanian, Polish, Ruthenian, and Belarussian...). I really do not get why the Romanian sources don't bother to move past autarkical: if it's in Lithuania, it doesn't matter basically, so Iuga is just "a prince from Lithuania". Thanks for the info, perhaps you could pass the issue to some other Poles. Perhaps we could solve the enigma... Dahn 02:53, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello.
Last summer, we held the first Wikimania, a worldwide event for wikipedians, in Frankfurt. You may understand a bit more at http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, but I am most sorry to say no real good report of the event was made. Some bits here and there. During this meeting, possibly 30 people made presentations, on very various topics. Many were recorded (not all as far as I know). The list is the list of recording of these people. In the list, you will see a trigram, this trigram comes from the name of the person (for example, my real name is Florence Devouard, so my trigram is FD1 (Wikimania05-FD1_low_video.ogg). You may find the old program as well as correspondance for names here : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2005_Presentations.
Cheers and good luck
Anthere 07:19, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I gather there is now a consensus to move " Action Vistula" to " Operation Wisła." At least two persons have attempted it, but there seems to be no provision in the "move" mechanism for the necessary diacritic. Do you by any chance know how the move might be made? Does one have to move the article to " Operation Wisla," without the diacritic? logologist 22:42, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
What do You think about that? Radomil talk 23:21, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotr! Thanks for you advice about my Wikibar idea. I've listed it at Tools as suggested. I'm not too sure about turning it into Wiki mark-up, as it needs to open in a blank (HTML) sidebar to work. If it was in Wiki mark-up, users would have open the Wikipedia page and cram that into a sidebar... wouldn't they? I'm prepared to be quite wrong on this, mind - I just haven't given it any thought! Thanks again! ➨ ❝ R E DVERS ❞ 17:00, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
On issues involved with history of Eastern Europe : http://www.taraskuzio.net/academic/history.pdf
Historiography and National Identity among the Eastern Slavs: Towards a New Framework1 TARAS KUZIO, York University, Toronto, Canada Abstract The article surveys Tsarist, Soviet and Western historiography of Russia and how this affected the national identities and inter-ethnic relations among the three eastern Slavs. Western historiography of Russia largely utilised an imperialist and statist historiographical framework created within the Tsarist empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although this framework was imperialist it was gradually accepted as ‘objective’ by the Western scholarly community. Yet, this historiography was far from being ‘objective’. After 1934 Soviet historiography also reverted to the majority of the tenets found in Tsarist historiography. Within Tsarist, Western and Soviet historiographies of ‘Russia’ eastern Slavic history was nationalised on behalf of the Russian nation which served to either ignore or deny a separate history and identity for Ukrainians and Belarusians. In the post-Soviet era all 15 Soviet successor states are undertaking nation and state building projects which utilise history and myths to inculcate new national identities. The continued utilisation of the Tsarist, Western and Soviet imperial and statist historiographical schema is no longer tenable and serves to undermine civic nation building in the Russian Federation. This article argues in favour of a new, non-imperial framework for histories of ‘Russia’ territorially based upon the Russian Federation and inclusive of all of its citizens. -- Molobo 13:00, 30 November 2005 (UTC) It describes very well how history was falsfied by Russian authorities in order to justify Russian imperialism. -- Molobo 13:00, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
On saw your comments on Template talk:Unreferenced. I began tagging medical and science articles with this tag about a week ago. I put them at the top of talk page. Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine puts most tags in this location. So far two editor have removed them. In the first case, we agreed to re-locate to bottom of article where References would be. Today, another editor removed the tag from two article talk page saying that Talk pages don't need sources. To back it up they referred me to Category:Articles lacking sources. That page says nothing about the location. Clearly, the unreferenced tag page gives the editor two options for tag placement, listing talk page first. I agree, this issue needs to be settled.-- FloNight 20:18, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Working on it
Nie jestem pewnie czy zredirectowanie strony z przestrzeni głównej na stronę użytkownika to dobry pomysł. Może lepiej napisać o nim normalna notkę biograficzną (tylko niech tego nie robi sam :P). Roo72 05:41, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi there! I'm afraid I'm starting to loose my nerves when it comes to certain wikipedian named similarly to an Italian painter. Too many insults, too many assumptions of bad will, too many non-constructive and provocative edits IMO. Perhaps if I could at least imagine that the guy believes his own words it would be easier to cope with his behaviour, but now I believe the line was crossed. I was thinking of starting the RfC on him, though perhaps you have some other idea? Halibu tt 09:18, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotruś, are you aware of any WP tools that, for a given article, would tell you 1) a list of the articles you've linked from your article, 2) how many times you've linked them, and 2) if you link to a disambig page? Appleseed 16:01, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Czy można kwestionować całą kategorię ? Istnieje dość dziwna kategoria Slavic culture, która w zasadzie niczego nie zawiera, a trudno mówić o wspólnej słowiańskiej kulturze(w przeciwieństwie do wczesnej mitologii) istniejącej współcześnie lub nawet w średniowieczu. -- Molobo 17:16, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello again. I am contacting editors applies NPOV and NOR standards rigidly for their input on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of modern day dictators, where a consensus has yet to be established. (You are particularly well qualified, I think, to describe the difficulties in making some of these classifications, given your knowledge of modern single-party state structures. Notice that Chinese Communist and Soviet bloc leaders are conspicuously absent from he list, including Stalin. [3] Some people, of course, argue that general secretaries of ruling parties of single-party states are not dictators because there is a collective leadership. They have a good point (with the exception of leaders like Stalin who subverted the party), but to not include these leaders implies that they were not dictators, which is also POV.) Anyway, if you have time, please take a look. Best regards. 172 07:37, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Nyah, I'm not in the right mood just now... Though it's quite surprizing. I've heard that Balcerowicz and his RPP are worse than Gomułka, but never thought that World Bank could be worse than Hitler or Stalin... or the two combined...
BTW, that comment is showing also a great way to convert all countries of the world to communism. If Hitler+Stalin=World Bank, then... just throw Hitler from it and what you'll get will be Stalin. Halibu tt 17:17, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I respectfully disagree with you: we should not use fair use images unless we're pretty sure we have a good argument.
However, if you wish to revert the three or so articles I removed the TIME covers from, I won't revert back.
I would suggest, however, that if you wish to keep them there, you should write down the fair use rationale, preferably on the image description page for the image in question. If the TIME magazine coverage is mentioned in the article in question (such as TIME man of the year, etc) there's probably a much stronger fair use claim.
Does that sound good? Thanks, — Matthew Brown ( T: C) 06:09, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotrus, I would very much appreciate your input in the following argument. There seems to be a gang of users unwilling to allow anyone to interfere with there Canberra project without invitation. It was risky to take my camera on our school excursion to Canberra, but I did for the sake of the photos I could upload to Wiki. Needless to say, I'm deeply distressed over the reaction that has taken place. In particular, I would like to ask if the removal of all my photos off the Lake Burley Griffin article was a step forward in the usefullness of the page. Please either voice your opinion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canberra or write back to me. Thanks for your time (and I hope) support. -- Fir0002 08:45, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello, good work on Mikołaj "Rudy" Radziwiłł, and thanks for the contribution. However, you forgot to add any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. From what websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Mikołaj "Rudy" Radziwiłł? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? You can simply add links, or there are several different citation methods list at WP:CITET. Thanks! Lupin| talk| popups 20:02, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
It is a generic message to inform you that there was a User Conduct Request for Comments at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Ghirlandajo started recently. As you are one of the sides in the conflict and your name appears in the evidence of disputed behaviour section you might want to take a look at it. Halibu tt 00:24, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I will post soon 5 variants so I would be happy if you would comment and choose the best for the article. For this I invite you to come to the talk page and contribute. -- Bonaparte talk 13:54, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
"If you would like a 'honorable Pole' badge or something, I think you have just qualified ;p" --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:41, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Um, I'm flattered, but how did I qualify? I lived in PL for only about six months, while working for the Warsaw Business Journal and learning to drink wódka properly. (I did better at that than learning Polish.)
Sca 19:52, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Well, Ghirlandajo seems convinced you are a Pole.
I guess he hasn't read my user page. I'm a fourth-generation American with Norwegian and German forebears, including a bunch of Volga (Russian-) Germans, and supposedly a bit of Turkish blood. (Seems the defence of Vienna by Jan Sobieski wasn't air-tight.) But one of my German great-grandfathers supposedly came from Pomerania.
Sca 20:06, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
During Halibutt's RfA, you have been informed by other editors that many of them consider your spamming of their talk pages unfriendly or offensive. Now I see you resorting to the same tactic in your frenzied anti-Ghirlandajo quest. Let me tell you that I don't think your attempts to incite more editors against me are particularly helpful to further your cause. You may have noticed that I don't ask Russian editors to comment on your shameful allegations. Please don't let your emotions to carry you beyond the limits of propriety. -- Ghirlandajo 10:31, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Wybierasz się na szopkę? [4] :)-- SylwiaS 12:25, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Ja tam nie mieszkam, a warszawskiej się naoglądałam w dzieciństwie. Ten artykuł wyskoczył mi wśród newsów o Polsce i skojarzyłam, że to Twój uniwerek. Tak przy okazji, coś na poprawę humoru w mojej piaskownicy.-- SylwiaS 14:40, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
In Russian WIki its 11,000??
in German 14.552 Kriegsgefangene ermordet: Die größten Gruppen davon mit 4.421 in Kozielsk, 6.311 in Ostashkov und 3.982 in Starobielsk
I posted a response to your comment. I would more than welcome you to join the FAC drive of this article. :) -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 19:34, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
After reading Ghirly's comments, it is my pleasure and honor to accept. Thank you! Umm now does this mean I have to stop telling "Polack" jokes? ;>-- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 23:08, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
You know, I'm on the verge of loosing my nerves now... [5]. It would be better for me to avoid that page I guess... Halibu tt 10:04, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Looks interesting, will do at some point soon. Stirling Newberry 16:02, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
done Fjl 16:43, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Done / getan. Sca 20:26, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
FWIW it's done User:Ejrrjs says What? 20:34, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Your desire is my delight. — Theo (Talk) 17:44, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Ah, but I have. I employ a user subpage system from my own user page. this page is where I usually place a message or maxim of some sort. The Bratsche/User2 page is where my normal user-ish stuff goes, like info and templates. That page is where you will find my babel template. Thanks for the message, though: I think that the template is really useful. Cheers, Bratsche talk | Esperanza 20:30, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for letting me know about this interesting project, but i will not be adding it to my user page. I am monolingual and i do not believe having a language banner on every user page is a good thing. Foobaz 05:12, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Stary, po prostu kiedyś żeglowałem po sieci i natknąłem się na artykuł o twoim mieście i o genezie nazwy. To było gdzieś rok temu. Od razu za świeżej pamięci zrobiłem adnotację na WIKI, ale dziś nie pamiętam już nic. Sorki. Space Cadet 00:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Znalazłem jedno źrodło: [ [6]]. Może znajdę więcej. Trzym się. Space Cadet 23:40, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotrus. You want to delate the pictures, that I have uploaded. They are all from www.poczta-polska.pl/mw. This is a homepage run by a Polish couple. They put pics about their trips in Poland into the internet. I have asked them if I could use their pics on wikipedia, and they gave theit permission. I have provided the source and gave the status below the pics. Dzieki, Shalom Alechem
I am sorry Piotrus, but I don't know anything about that. I am a Swede ;-).-- Wiglaf 10:56, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello Piotrus! I've used the Russian notice board in the past, and found the Polish just the other day. It does indeed look like a German notice board would be useful. And, for the record, I am an American, not a native-German speaker. ;-) Native German-speaking contributors that I am aware of include (off the top of my head) Chris, User:Sciurinæ, and User:Nightstallion. User:Saintswithin and User:Berndd11222 can also speak German pretty well. Olessi 18:34, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
I took a look at User:Jadger and he seems quite controversial and stubborn: he's already been banned 24 hours for 3RR. In all honesty, I am not very familiar with the topics he discusses. I'll keep an eye out for him, but please let me know if there are any future controversies. Balcer's usage of a source helped for the revert war on Wola. And, to add to my previous list, I believe User:Thorsten1 is a native German-speaker. Olessi 19:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Why you are remowe this authorities ?Can you explein you POV you have delit authorities. Can you explein you Point of viev
Piotr, zrobiłam nową kategorię - Polish Watchmakers, i już tego żałuję. :D Jak mogę ją skasować?-- SylwiaS 16:00, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Piotrus, Thanks for saying hello. I'm an Englishman living in Poland. Hope you don't mind if I've muscled in on your territory updating a few things on Polish Politics and my 'home' town of Sieradz. At the moment I'm restricting myself to a few minor alterations - hope to go for a big article soon! Cheers, Martin (mdhinton)
Jeśli istnieje artykuł na niemieckiej Wiki, ale nie ma go na angielskiej, to czy mogę go przekleić i poprosić o tłumaczenie?-- SylwiaS | talk 18:35, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Ty mnie chyba chesz zamęczyć. Mogę powstawiać, ale czy wystarczy tylko w niektórych miejscach? Tzn. nie muszę chyba przy każdym zdaniu? A nie raz i co pół zdania, bo ja tam wymieszałam informacje z wielu stron (tak, wszystko z internetu). A tak przy okazji. Właśnie skończyłam tłumaczyć artykuł z polskiej Wiki. Jest jakaś forma zaznaczania, że ten artykuł to tłumaczenie?-- SylwiaS | talk 20:42, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I need your help on this one: could you add the Polish version of his name? Last name is Mohyła, but I don't know your version for "Moses" (which is what "Moise" means). Thx in advance. Dahn 16:55, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Articles should not have links to User: stuff. Please make a specialized list for Boleslaus or remove the reference. Fplay 22:41, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
You may want to read Talk:Gdansk/Vote.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 02:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Beyond that, you should understand that all these points of view about ex-German places that are part of post-1945 Poland have been made, aired, discussed, contested and reiterated ad nauseum on Wiki during the past couple of years.
My own view is that these places were known to most of the world by their German names for a long time, which should be explained where RELEVANT, i.e. in any historical section. This is especially true of Danzig/Gdansk, given its unique history in the interwar period and internationally high profile politically. A secondary point is that these places where known to their INHABITANTS by their German names before 1945.
There's nothing revanchist or revisionist in naming places with the names by which they were known to the world and to themselves during the historical periods involved. Indeed, it is linguistically revisionist, in a sense, to refer to Danzig (for example) as Gdansk when writing about the six centuries in which it was inhabited mainly by Germans.
I've argued all along that the Germans today should refer to these places by their Polish names when referring to contemporary events – for the same reasons that they should be referred to by their German names when historical events are the issue.
Sca 19:49, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
I've been here for over 8 years, so I guess I must like it. People speak better English here than in England and the girls are prettier. Difficult language though; I won't be editing in Polish just yet.( Mdhinton 12:11, 12 December 2005 (UTC))
I don't have a strong personal opinion about the links to Questia. I reverted based on my assumption and observaton that Wikipedia has a policy of not linking to commercial sources. Many of the book references in articles I've seen are not available on-line. I will try to find out what Wikipedia's policy is about this. Jeremy J. Shapiro 16:15, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for copyedit of my contribution on GDL. Because of my bad english, it sometimes just stops my innitiative to correct somme issues. I hope you will correct my mistakes another time. Sincerely, Thank You. -- Lokyz 20:32, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotrus, one of my students (see Wikipedia:School and university projects - University of Virginia) submitted Diffie-Hellman problem to fulfill an assignment. Do you think it's too technical? I'm writing to you because you welcomed the author, Batman900. By the way, given your interests, I think you would enjoy the field called Science and technology studies. We have a wiki: STS Wiki. You are welcome to participate. Best regards Bryan 22:20, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Piotrus,
thanks for your message. But I still do not understand, why you want to delate the pics i have upoaded form www.poczta-polska.pl/mw. I have always given my source www.poczta-polska.pl/mw and I have given the status. The author agree to upload them. Here is the mail I have received form them. What else could or should I do? I think I have met all requirements. If there is something else I can do, let me know. Yours faithfully Shalom Alechem. Here is the mail. If qou still do not believe me, I can sent it to your private e-mail address:
Betreff: Re: Wikipedia Von: Marek Wojciechowski ins Adressbuch An: Chrisoph Wolfgang von Rochow <dr.rochow@web.de> Datum: 05.12.05 06:40:16
Witam! Prosze bardzo. Wykorzystanie naszych zdjec jest mozliwe pod warunkiem podania pod kazdym z nich informacji o autorach i adresu naszej strony, tak jak np. zrobiono to na stronach: http://www.eturystyka.com.pl/miasta/podkarpackie/baranow_sandomierski/baranow_sandomierski.php lub http://dolnyslask.org/miasta/henrykow.html lub http://republika.pl/duchypolskie/pskala.htm i jak to do tej pory robiono na innych stronach Wikipedii, np. o Bialymstoku, warszawskich Lazienkach, itp.
Pozdrawiam Marek Wojciechowski
Szanowne Panstwo Wojciechowscy,
jestem internauta, ktory czesto pisze na Wikipedii artykuly zwiazane z Polska na stronach francuskich, niemieckich i angielskich. Czesto brakuje mi zdjec, zeby upiekszy moje artykuly. Czy moglbym skorzystac z niektorych (nie osobistych) zdjec z Panstwa zbiorow na www.poczta-polska.pl/mw. Chodzi glownie o zdjecia z Warszawy (chce napisac artykuly o zamkach i parkach naszej stolicy), ale tez o innych miastach oraz zamkach i krajobrazach.
Pozdrawiam serdecznie,
Rochow
Hey Piotrus/Archive 7! Thanks for your support on my RfA. The final outcome was (57/4/3), so I am now an administrator. If you need help, have a question, or just want to chat (or if I get out of line!), please don't hesitate to let me know! Again, thanks! :D
Has a ref to User:Piotrus/List of Poles. Articles should not refer to things in User: namespace. Fplay 04:38, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I did cite my reverts on Wola, if u had cared to of read my edit summaries you would of seen it. Jadger 01:37, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotrus, as far as I remember Gajl allowed us to use his works at wiki. Do you know if he made the Nieczuja arms as well - and if so, where could it be obtained? So far we have only the one I created myself, which is... well, far from being perfect I'd say.. Halibu tt 12:10, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
What do you think about setting up a Wiki (using MediaWiki, of course) for college and university teachers (and students) who are using Wikipedia in their assignments? This could include copies of assignments, links to pages, discussion, criticism, guidelines, etc. Perhaps this could be set up within Wikipedia, but it seems non-encyclopedic. I can set up the wiki on my server (which is running STS Wiki. The key thing would be having at least two or three people who would be willing to visit the site every day and watch out for link spam and vandalism. I haven't had too much trouble with STS Wiki, thanks to the bad behavior and blacklist extensions. What do you think? Thanks for helping my students! Bryan 16:28, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
You're welcome
Hello. I would like to inform you, as an administrator, interested in the history and political situation of the central Europe, that there is an ongoing discussion at article Territorial claims of the Baltic States (formerly was known as "Lost territories of the Baltic States", but was recently renamed; some users seems to disagree with that renaming). Recent edits as well were accused of POV, and, in fact, article was disputed for a long time already. It would be nice if you would add that article to your watchlist and continue helping to improve it until a decition will be reached about its future (there is currently a poll about it in the article's talk page). I hope together we all will be able to make that article neutral. Kaiser 747 10:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
You were among the people who this anon tried to change the password of. So you know, I've blocked the user permanently. I'll likely unblock the IP later, once I thing they're full discouraged. -- user:zanimum
Very well-written post. Kudos, Piotrus. Olessi 04:53, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotruś, I thought it was conventional to add articles to "Peace treaties" in addition to other, more specific categories (e.g. "Polish peace treaties") since a treaty by definition involves more than one party. Since only a few countries have their own peace treaties categories, I thought it would not suffice to put an article only in the Polish peace treaties category, but rather to also make it available in the larger pool. What do you think? Appleseed 03:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Stanisław Swianiewicz - hope you find it useful. BTW, are you comming home for Christmas? Halibu tt 12:48, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotruś, could you look into blocking 204.39.64.2? Btw, I reverted the Peace treaties edits. Appleseed 16:37, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Several editors (myself included) have a problem with an anon user vandalising Operation Wisła article. The user uses one IP in evenings 217.96.248.99, but in working hours her IP changes every day 83.22.214.209, 83.30.125.176, 83.30.128.69, 83.30.148.40. I’m not sure about protecting the article, because several editors are working on it now. Blocking the 217… IP will give us at least some peace in evening hours, but the person will be still vandalising during mornings and afternoons. What do you suggest? Here’s some evidence.-- SylwiaS | talk 18:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
AFAIK every single book on the topic has their names. In fact there were 12 of them in the three camps. One was killed in other place at the same time and one more was promoted to Brigadier posthumously, after he was killed as a Colonel. Halibu tt 19:28, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotruś, could you make the moves to Mieszko I and August II the Strong? They require an admin. Appleseed ( talk) 16:17, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotrus, thanks for letting me know about this, although I wish I'd been let know earlier, before a lot of these moves had taken place. I think we should try, in general, to stick with anglicizations when the monarch is better known by it, and to stick with the normal monarchical naming rules as much as possible (it gets complicated for kings with surnames that need to be given, though). At any rate, I wish this discussion had gone on at the naming conventions page, rather than on an article talk page, where it's less likely to be seen by those with interest. john k 19:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey Piotrus, sorry if I blew up a bit. I wasn't accusing you of wrong-doing. I just find it rather surprising that a whole bunch of pages were moved without discussion. Especially when they were already named in perfectly normal ways according to normal naming conventions rules for monarchs, like Augustus II of Poland. john k 19:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I realize that you're very busy with royalty right now. But once the revolution is over, could you advise me about "direct link to talk page in [my] signature"? I couldn't find an implementation mechanism, or even an unequivocal explanation, on Wikipedia:Signature. Thanks. logologist 21:48, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Would you mind moving Zbigniew? Appleseed ( Talk) 01:32, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that Social study was a redirect that pointed to Social sciences. I changed it to point to Social studies. Is that why you proposed a merger? I do not think that Social Studies should be merged with Social Sciences. "Social Studies" is a standard grammer and high school subject and there seems to be an effort to provide some navigation on "school subject" lines. -- Fplay 07:46, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Enhancing the description does not change the fact that the graph itself is not a soruce of information, and at best is a misleading collection of visually confusing information.
The lists that you are collecting demonstrate that human being percieve the history of the universe in a logarithmic fashion. We recall in vivid detail that which happened seconds ago, and everything else we summarize recursively over time, compacting hours, days, years, decades, centuries, etc. down into footnotes. In fact, if we analyze history, we find that, at any point in history, that graph would have appeared to show that "real soon now" some great event was about to transpire from the point of view of the people who, at that time, thought every recent event was highly significant.
This is very nearly the same logic which leads Christians of every generation since the founding of their religion to believe that Christ would return in their lifetimes.
This is Wikipedia. Break your wizzy graphs down into textual information, with a single, vastly simplified graph that shows the general shape of the progression, but don't use an image as a data source, since most people won't even click on the image, and are thus left with a poor caption and a graph they can't read. Stop trying to inject that graph into every article that touches on technological progression like an evangelist and maintain a single article that presents useful information about a theory which can stand or fall on its own merits.
- Harmil 13:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Correct me if I am wrong, but most of the ribbons were made by you, right? I think that they should have their own page (linked from Wikipedia:Barnstar) and category. Could you take care of this? I found at least two ribbons not linked from your userspace (this is getting somewhat chaotic): Image:Odznaka za Rany.gif, Image:BoNM-Poland.png. Plus the Barnstar page should list the national versions of the medals as well, wouldn't you agree?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 19:07, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
G próbuje przenosić moje wypowiedzi tak aby nie były widoczne w dyskusji.Ja przez kilka dni będę poza siecią. -- Molobo 09:34, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this article please? I noticed a couple of people with this name on your List of Poles. I'm not too sure if the source given for this individual is a reliable one. Thanks. Kappa 03:41, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I sent you an email (hope it went through!). Olessi 04:39, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Piotr, do you have any idea why I have been blocked by an administrator named Marudubshinki?
Sca 14:33, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
No, I'm not an administrator. Marudubshinki has blocked me by blocking IP 207.200.116.132. I frankly don't understand the technical aspects of this, but would like to be unblocked. Thanks for taking an interest. Sca 16:33, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I added a few more sources for Helena Rasiowa. Thanks for the info on Babel. Antidote 21:11, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm gonna be working on the list of Poles in a while. I might need some help in translations (as many of the red articles here have articles on the Polish wikipedia). Ok if I chime in and ask for a quick translation now and then? Antidote 09:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Feel free to create Category:Proposed countries and add United States of Greater Austria to it, I'm in favour. Nightstallion ✉ 20:03, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
I see you have abandoned the page History of the Jews in Poland/Temp. Time to delete or not? If not, please leave a meaase at the top of the page, since other people may be wondering as well. mikka (t) 20:46, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. -- Bhadani 14:47, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I've been unable to move five Polish monarchs. I wonder whether you could help? The rulers to be moved are:
Otherwise, all the Polish-Lithuanian royalty that's moving, has moved.
I noticed that you left a template on my talk page which claimed that some articles that I created were unreferenced. Leaving aside the question of whether or not this was appropriate for you to do (I think it wasn't, since the references were already on the page), I would like you to know that there is an error with the template. It adds "edit" links to the page as though they are links to edit the specific section. But instead, clicking on one took me to the edit page for the template. If they add "edit" links to a discussion page, those links should work for editing the section, not the template. FYI, Elonka 21:05, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
hi, i know you want to spread the polish point of view... you know that kind of propaganda like in silesian upspring articles... i don't know if you really believe what you edit or you just want to spread propagandry... i advice to check non polish history book to discover what your edits are unlogical like "rejoin silesia to poland" "upsring of polish people agains occuping forces etc..."
There's a notice at the " Ote" and " Oda von Haldensleben" articles, suggesting their merger.
The latter article needs to be deleted; and the former, " Ote" article (which is more complete and actually contains everything that is in both) needs to be given the latter's title, " Oda von Haldensleben" (if that queen indeed usually goes by "Oda," rather than "Ote," in Polish).
Could you look into these two brief articles? I don't think there's any point keeping both.
Hi! Could you clarify what you mean by "low edit count"? Thanks! ᓇᐃᑦᔅᑕᓕᐅᓐ ✉ 08:44, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Merry Holidays, Piotr! Thanks for the tip, but I think the (Russian, isn't he?) guy has a point. No matter how fair I may consider myself, I'm biased by being Romanian. I'd rather accept that than disregard it, especially since the debate is inane as long as it is carried in terms that would've had relevance in the 1890s. I actually didn't even look on the discussion page for the article, but I'm willing to bet I already know it by heart. I'd like to point out that I certainly don't agree with Ukrainian nationalists, but I cannot say much in favor of Romanian ones. And this interests you too: who knows if in the future debates like this one wouldn't be carried with you? I'm thinking... Pokuttya. I read somewhere that Ion Antonescu claimed it from the Germans, so it's not a forgotten "realm". :) Dahn 14:20, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
G'day Piotrus!
I just want to wish you a Happy New Year! Bonaparte talk 11:21, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
node_ue ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Transnistria&diff=33241397&oldid=33240396
just deleted some very good references and sources. The rephrase was made by Wosyl. Can you calm down him a little bit? Bonaparte talk 11:25, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Node of course! Look at his last changes. Bonaparte talk 11:41, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
I see no reason why you have delete it. -- Bonaparte talk 12:07, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Your recent move of John II Casimir of Poland to Jan II Kazimierz Vasa left approximately 10+ double redirects. I understand, judging from the length of your talk page, that you are a busy person, but when you move a page, take responsiblity! :-P (I should not be saying this to a sysop, eh?) Well, thanks for reading, and a Happy New Year. — Ambush Commander( Talk) 16:56, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Zerknę na to RfC ale już nie dziś. A na razie Wszystkiego Najlepszego w Nowym Roku!-- SylwiaS | talk 18:48, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
I've updated and cleaned up the List of Polish monarchs and Template:Monarchs of Poland. Is there anything more to be done immediately about double redirects? Cleaning up references within articles will obviously be a longer process. logologist| Talk 02:18, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
hello Piotrus! Can you please look at Transnistria http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Transnistria&diff=33468672&oldid=33468577 there is a push POV fork there. First they edit, then blocked the page. When the page was unblocked they revert my NPOV edits. They deleted valid neutral info from BBC. Bonaparte talk 10:56, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note on the history of the world map. It looks pretty interesting; and I can tell that you're doing a lot of good work on the article. Unfortunately, I don't feel qualified to weigh in on the subject one way or the other. You and the other editors on the article know far more about the subject than I do. It has been a very long time since I've studied the Palaeolithic period; the last time I did some relatively serious reading on the subject was undergraduate years. Happy New Year! 172 19:33, 1 January 2006 (UTC)