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Wilno ("Vilnius" - I don't know sources confirming the name in GDL) was a multinational capital of the multinational Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The story of "its historical capital Vilnius" is a Lithuanian nationalistic POV. Xx236 ( talk) 10:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Is there a particular article where the wording is problematic, or are we just beating a dead horse for no reason? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:59, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
I currently have limited net access; can somebody investigate what's the correct name for that article? The creator insists on the "de" variant, but I can't seem to verify this with the sources present. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:44, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
To give you some idea, there are six eight ways we can translate names for most lakes. Take
pl:Jezioro Rożnowskie. We can have:
In Category:Lakes of Poland we will find example of all of those styles. Sigh. Which one is the best? We should probably standardize this mess. (I'll also note that there are two types of names in Polish: adjective and noun based; i.e. pl:Jezioro Rożnowskie and pl:Mamry. The noun variant should probably be just kept as it is (so, Mamry Lake should be moved to Mamry, for the same reasons Katowice is not at Katowice City). I am not sure which variant is best for the adjective ones. I think I favor keeping the original adjective, so something with Rożnowskie than Rożnow, and Lake, not (lake). So Lake Rożnowskie or Rożnowskie Lake would be my preferred choice here. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:18, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
My experience is that all standardization efforts in Wikipedia go pretty much nowhere and the preferred approach is to use the most common English name on a case-by-case basis. — Kpalion (talk) 07:40, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
I am looking at our notability backlog. Case of Alojzy Adamczyk. Interesting, but the only thing I see that makes him remotely notable is receiving Polonia Restituta. Do you think that's enough? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:50, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Witkacy creation, so the author is inactive. Not in PSB, not on pl wiki, being a member of a noble family is not enough - notability is not inherited. Listing here in case anybody cares to dig deeper. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:06, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Howdy! Not sure whether the story of two small villages in West Pommerania is maybe too small for the discussion site of a WikiProject... However there seems to be a redudant entry of Rusinowo. There is one in the Gmina Wałcz (see Rusinowo, Gmina Wałcz) and another one in the neighbouring Gmina Tuczno (see Rusinowo, Gmina Tuczno). If you take a look on the map you first note that they are extremly close. However, the Wałcz-Rusinowo displays no buildings on the map - though googlemaps has a name on the map. From older German maps of the are I know that there is only one Rusinowo (German name: Ruschendorf): see http://amzpbig.com/maps/2863_Ruschendorf_1937.jpg. So I looked for the second Rusinowo it on the websites of the respective Gminas. Here comes the surprise: While Tuczno confirms the existence of a Rusinowo within its borders, Wałcz (see third entry named "GMINA z lotu ptaka") doesnt. Therefore I suggest to delete the entries on the Wałcz-Rusinowo. Interestingly the Polish Version copied the error (due to the User:Kotbot). -- Spielertyp ( talk) 00:57, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
I invite comments to Talk:Pagan reaction in Poland. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:42, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
After a discussion with User:Nihil novi over on my talk page, I've decided to finally work on the Frédéric Chopin article so we can take it up to FA status if possible. I plan to get this as a TFA on 17 October 2014 (165th anniversary of Chopin's death). If anyone wants to help out, please do so. All are welcome to assist in this process and if anyone wants to suggest improvements, please do so on the talk page. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 03:46, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Please see Talk:House_of_Radziwiłł#Name. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:52, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Anybody would like to review this before a GA nom? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:54, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Witam
Czas jakiś temu zwróciłem się do paru kolegów, których angielszczyzna jest na poziomie wyższym od mojego (samokrytycznie: czytając rozumiem, ale pisać się wzbraniam, nie chcąc popełniać ciężkich błędów), aby zechcieli przełożyć do en:wiki biogram Zygmunta Szczotkowskiego. Ma on już swoje wersje - oprócz polskiej - niemiecką i ukraińską, brakowało do niedawna jednak angielskiej (potem zacznę myśleć jeszcze nad rosyjską).
Efektem tej mojej prośby jest opracowanie autorstwa kol. Michała Rosa, które otrzymałem od niego dzisiaj (i na tę chwilę widoczne jest ono jako biogram: Zygmunt Szczotkowski) oraz niedokończony (choć nieco obszerniejszy) tekst w brudnopisie kol. Wpedzicha: User:Wpedzich/Sandbox. W biogramie Michała jest jeszcze kilka znaków zapytania, a u Wpedzicha brakuje już tylko kilku zdań (dokładnie pięciu zdań tekstu i czterech przypisów), ale kol. Wpedzich zdaje się ma w tej chwili co innego na głowie, dlatego pozwalam sobie zwrócić się tym razem do innych wikipedystów, by zechcieli ten biogram uzupełnić w oparciu o obie wersje tłumaczeń oraz oczywiście o polski oryginał.
Julo ( talk) 08:22, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Poland doesn't inform about court system in Poland, a specific police and rescue section exists. Xx236 ( talk) 12:45, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
image:Polishdippassport.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 16:42, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
FYI, Polish mine detector has been proposed to be renamed to mine detector, see talk:Polish mine detector -- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 00:49, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
File:Krolewiecherb.PNG has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 02:51, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
file:RawitschWindmills1899.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 03:27, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
We have a fairly new editor from Germany around here with no past to speak of and strangely broad experience in wiki formatting (a red flag?), implying a special agenda also. The account is called User:Kaiser von Europa (no kidding!). It started editing on 18 January 2011, in towns, cities and regions of WikiProject Poland, but quickly moved back to German exodus from Central and Eastern Europe, Curzon Line, Recovered Territories, Königsberg and so on. Please keep and eye on this, because the user continues to add new material from the bible of Nazi Party called Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. Aufl. Leipzig u. Wien; listed by Cornelia Schmitz-Berning in Vokabular des Nationalsozialismus (Vocabulary of National Socialism) as a leading source. [1] Please note the size and date of publication; some 23 volumes dated between 1903 and 1913. There's no preview in Google books, but you can get an idea by looking at its "bibliogroup". [2] The user made only 901 edits, but all within the WikiProject Poland. It is a sleeper account created on 2009-04-01 and kept dormant until the first edit two years later on 18 January 2011. [3] This user has an alternative account named Ziegenspeck, created: 2008-04-08 with 326 edits... a distraction. Kaiser von Europa makes edits only in Poland (not a single one outside of German sphere of interest). As a result, dozens of Polish towns and cities are affected this year. I don't have time to examin the results, but you can help. Thanks, Poeticbent talk 07:08, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
Royal coronations in Poland has been proposed to be renamed, see talk:Royal coronations in Norway -- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 02:20, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Should this be moved to Kazimierz Funk? Similar situation: Casimir Gzowski. -- 166.104.240.102 ( talk) 04:38, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Well, are those names really more popular in English? How about Theodor Leschetizky/Teodor Leszetycki ? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:29, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
That's my newest DYK submission. Can anyone find a better source discussing the history and use of the term? It supposedly originated with German propaganda, but I can't even find the original German name... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:58, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
I have just created a wikipedia.pl article on Father Paul Breza, a translation by a Polish friend of the Wikipedia article I created last fall. My translator friend informs me that the finished result is readable, but she is not a Wikipedian. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could go take a look at the article and fix whatever needs fixing. If possible, I would like to continue putting up Polish translations of my other Kashubian-oriented articles on wikipedia.pl.
Thank you in advance! Joe Hughes —Preceding undated comment added 11:50, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
I prodded this article about what I think is a Polish-American dish, confused by some with kapusta kiszona. I have never heard of kapusta in Poland being a name for a dish (it's cabbage). Feel free to tell me I am wrong. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:58, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
The WP:VisualEditor is designed to let people edit without needing to learn wikitext syntax. The articles will look (nearly) the same in the new edit "window" as when you read them (aka WYSIWYG), and changes will show up as you type them, very much like writing a document in a modern word processor. The devs currently expect to deploy the VisualEditor as the new site-wide default editing system in early July 2013.
About 2,000 editors have tried out this early test version so far, and feedback overall has been positive. Right now, the VisualEditor is available only to registered users who opt-in, and it's a bit slow and limited in features. You can do all the basic things like writing or changing sentences, creating or changing section headings, and editing simple bulleted lists. It currently can't either add or remove templates (like fact tags), ref tags, images, categories, or tables (and it will not be turned on for new users until common reference styles and citation templates are supported). These more complex features are being worked on, and the code will be updated as things are worked out. Also, right now you can only use it for articles and user pages. When it's deployed in July, the old editor will still be available and, in fact, the old edit window will be the only option for talk pages (I believe that WP:Notifications (aka Echo) is ultimately supposed to deal with talk pages).
The developers are asking editors like you to join the alpha testing for the VisualEditor. Please go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing and tick the box at the end of the page, where it says "Enable VisualEditor (only in the main namespace and the User namespace)". Save the preferences, and then try fixing a few typos or copyediting a few articles by using the new "Edit" tab instead of the section [Edit] buttons or the old editing window (which will still be present and still work for you, but which will be renamed "Edit source"). Fix a typo or make some changes, and then click the 'save and review' button (at the top of the page). See what works and what doesn't. We really need people who will try this out on 10 or 15 pages and then leave a note Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback about their experiences, especially if something mission-critical isn't working and doesn't seem to be on anyone's radar.
Also, if any of you are involved in template maintenance or documentation about how to edit pages, the VisualEditor will require some extra attention. The devs want to incorporate things like citation templates directly into the editor, which means that they need to know what information goes in which fields. Obviously, the screenshots and instructions for basic editing will need to be completely updated. The old edit window is not going away, so help pages will likely need to cover both the old and the new.
If you have questions and can't find a better place to ask them, then please feel free to leave a message on my user talk page, and perhaps together we'll be able to figure it out. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 01:04, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Is Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Lisy, Łódź Voivodeship a notable location and is the submission accurate? davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 04:19, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
If anybody cares. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:45, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Probably going to be failed because nobody cares enough to comment, never mind support... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:35, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
French-oriented User:Der Statistiker has disregarded the inline injunction, "Note: Please do not change the nationality from Polish to French without consulting the discussion page. This formulation has been found to be the best way to reflect Curie's strong connections to both of these countries", and has changed Marie Curie from a "Polish physicist and chemist, working mainly in France," to a "Polish-born French physicist and chemist". "Polish-born" usually implies a minimal connection with Poland, whereas Maria Skłodowska Curie was a mature, culturally Polish 24-year-old when she left Poland for France — not with the intent to become a Frenchwoman but to take advantage of the scientific opportunities that France could afford her and which the Russian Empire denied her in Poland.
As late as 1894, she declined Pierre Curie's offer of marriage, hoping to obtain a post in Poland at Kraków's Jagiellonian University. It was only when she failed to receive one, that she returned to France and married Pierre.
The patriotic attitudes in her family are illustrated by her sister Bronisława — who had earlier gone to Paris (to study medicine) and for whom Maria built the Radium Institute in Warsaw — in 1914, at Zakopane in Poland's southern mountains, chiding the Polish English-language novelist Joseph Conrad for having used his talents for purposes other than bettering the future of his native Poland.
Maria always considered herself Polish and taught her daughters her native language. She named the first element that she discovered, polonium, after her country, which she hoped would regain its independence. She was a Polish woman who worked in France. To call her a "Polish-born French physicist and chemist" is an intolerable distortion. Nihil novi ( talk) 18:46, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
During Wikipedia:WikiProject Qworty clean-up, the article on Jacek Tylicki came to the attention of several editors (see Talk:Jacek Tylicki). From a cursory glance of the sources, I suspect that this artist is notable, but we are having trouble verifying references, and it's likely that many are in the Polish language. I am requesting help from any available members of this project. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 10:39, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
The WikiProject Poland article importance scheme drafted in 2006, was never updated to reflect the system of ratings applied in other portals at present. It got mostly out of touch. I am revising the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Poland/Assessment#Importance_scale to reflect ratings applied in Portal Germany and others. For example, at the WikiProject Sweden all settlements with over 1,000 inhabitants are automatically marked as importance=Mid, meanwhile at the Importance scale of this project, the criteria used for rating (as defined previously) makes Talk:Tarczyn with almost 4,000 inhabitants equal to any vanishing Polish village with 200 people or less... no difference! Basically, everything in WikiProject Poland is marked as of low or mid to begin with (kind of curious, if you think about it). Portal Germany has 1,138 articles of High importance, we have 310. However, I'm fully aware also that the reasons why people may suffer from low self esteem could vary from person to person therefore my improvements only reflect what other portals did and nothing else. Thanks, Poeticbent talk 22:05, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Importance | Criteria | Example |
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Mid | Subject is notable on a national level within Poland without necessarily being famous internationally, including smaller towns; and any particular place or area closely related. | Corpus Christi Basilica |
Low | Subject mostly of local interest; peripheral or trivial within its own field of study, not particularly notable or significant. It may cover specific part of a notable article also. | Osiedle Witosa |
Feel free to update them; I tend to use a very personal-biased rule of thumb - "how many people in Poland have heard of x". Hardly a good measure, but then, to be honest, I don't care much about the importance scale (in the end, it'll always be too subjective). Quality is easier to measure, and more useful to us, I think. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:45, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Some of you may be interested in the Template_talk:History_of_Christianity#Edit_request. Some editors have raised NPOV concerns there; and I think that they may have a valid point, at least from the systematic bias theory (for example, I think that that template gives way too much weight to British/Anglosaxon Christianity). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:43, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
An anon IP is trying to expand the article on Włocławek. These are good faithed edits but there are several problems:
Ideally what would be done is that someone takes this information and properly translates, paraphrases, rewrites and wikifies it in a proper. It might be quite a bit of work, which is why I'm bringing it up here rather than doing it myself (I don't know if I have the time).
Otherwise, since this is a copyright violation (which should be confirmed), it will have to be removed. Volunteer Marek 17:19, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Achinger coat of arms and dozens more. I postes a msg at User talk:Fram with request to suspend this activity until we talk. Staszek Lem ( talk) 16:25, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
While these articles contain verifiable info (and references are available, e.g., in Polish wikipedia,), they left unreferenced and basically abandoned, so formally Fram is right. I suggest the community must pledge to rescue these articles. Staszek Lem ( talk) 16:27, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
List of Landscape Parks of Poland should not be capitalized, I think. Landscape park (Poland) is not. Any objections before I list it for speedy RM? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 20:21, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
In case anyone has an opinion in the matter: Until recently, Marie Curie was "a Polish physicist and chemist, working mainly in France..." On 10 July 2013 she became "a Polish-French physicist and chemist, born in Poland but working mainly in France..." Nihil novi ( talk) 22:11, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Just a reminder of interesting discussions from our AA section (make sure to watchlist it): ex. Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_June_20#Category:1903_establishments_in_Poland or Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_June_19#Category:1915_establishments_in_Poland. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 18:57, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Requesting B-class review, in preparation for GAN comments. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:44, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Requesting B-class review, in preparation for GAN comments. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:45, 21 July 2013 (UTC)Requesting B-class review, in preparation for GAN comments. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:45, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm sure that you've noticed the new WP:VisualEditor software here at the English Wikipedia, and I hope you've tried it out. I have just been assigned to help the Japanese, Polish, and Swedish Wikipedias with this software, which will probably be turned on for all their users in a few weeks. I want to make sure that these communities have the important help and information pages translated and that the software developers hear about their concerns as feedback and with bug reports on Bugzilla, so that any problems they find will get fixed.
The problem I have, is that I don't speak any of these languages! From what I can tell with Google Translate, the Polish Wikipedia has only a few sentences posted about this software. I am leaving this note here in the hope of finding a few people who understand Polish and are interested in helping me support the Polish Wikipedia. I need people who can:
If you'd like to help, please let me know. I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 13:40, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
A committed edit-warior with the trigger finger and no knowledge of Polish is rolling back hours of work at Mogiła Abbey. Why? Because he knows best... Definitely not my cup of tea. Poeticbent talk 04:55, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
See Talk:Duchy of Sandomierz. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:20, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
There's some weird interwiki link and naming confusion. I think that some names of mountain ranges differ between different CE/EE countries, and it is creating some confusion. Consider:
I haven't checked other articles, but I have a feeling that the Carpathian ranges article may need some clean up... I suspect that some editors were incorrectly adding interwikis for ranges which are not the same (cover similar but not exact geographical territories, with different nations having their own different terminology for those ranges). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:18, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Template:Countries bordering the Baltic Sea ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 05:34, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Please consider commenting at stalled merge of Sikorski's death controversy and 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash at Talk:1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash#Merge. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:12, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
From Poland: Regional language/s Kashubian. According to the Polish article there are also 4 "pomocniczy" languages (auxiliary is something different). Xx236 ( talk) 07:47, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Please stop this term appearing on Wikipedia /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jniech ( talk • contribs) 04:37, September 16, 2013
Care to inspect this submission? Thanks, FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 01:18, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
Scratch previous comment. Can I have a third party view on recent edits to Katarzyna Weiglowa. Thank you. In ictu oculi ( talk) 09:46, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Comments would be appreciated, so far no members of this project have voiced their opinion. I think that people not familiar with the significance of this event for the Polish history may not realize the need for not merging those topics... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:17, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, my husband and his family are polish. Our last name is Rosol. I am having a hard time researching this last name and the origin/meaning etc. I did discover that it is a common meat based broth/soup popular in Poland. Any other information would be greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.15.210.36 ( talk) 14:39, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
At Help_talk:IPA_for_Polish#Mouseover_tooltips_for_IPA_template I started a discussion on whether or not to include mouseover tooltips for the Polish IPA template ({{ IPAc-pl}}. Please share your thoughts. // Halibu tt 07:10, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
In the current discussion of Maria Skłodowska Curie's nationality, here, a 6th choice, "Polish, French-naturalized", has been added for those wishing to vote or to change their vote from a previous one. Nihil novi ( talk) 14:23, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
I prodded this article, but perhaps she is notable. If anyone is interested in Polish models/actresses, second set of eyes would be appreciated. FYI, I have begun reviewing this listing, so expect few weeks of above-average prod/afds in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Poland/Article_alerts (which I hope every active member of this project has watchlisted). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:46, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello Poland experts. This article has been waiting a long time for a review. Can anyone here help? — Anne Delong ( talk) 20:21, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
For anyone interested, User:2Awwsome has opened a dispute-resolution process at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard over whether Chopin should be described on the English Wikipedia as "Polish" or "Polish-French". Nihil novi ( talk) 22:35, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
I like the fact that the editor complaining started a lame edit war in the lame edit war article! :) Time for some Monty Python! Ajh1492 ( talk) 16:35, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
Looking through the Cleanup list, there are 4004 articles needing coordinates [5]. Can we get a bot to make two passes since most seem to be villages/town/municipalities: (a) Have the BOT traverse the list on PL:WP to pull out what coordinates that we can find and write them to a CSV file (b) manually inspect the resultant list, verify and update where necessary (c) Have the BOT then traverse the list on EN:WP to update the articles Would be a whole lot easier than going in by hand on 4000 articles just to put coordinates in. I don't mind running it from here, I have the bandwidth, I helped out with running KOTBOT before with the initial generation of the village articles. Ajh1492 ( talk) 07:38, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Pulled this one from the jaws of a merge request. I translated the article form NL:WP, but it's a work in progress. Will continue, but any help or comments are appreciated. I think the subject is worthy of a DKY. Ajh1492 ( talk) 10:31, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Going through the notability list - Avishay Hadari pray tell how can you be a "Polish-born Israeli Artist" when you were actual board in Israel? I also question the notability, but wanted to put it up here first before an AfD listing. Ajh1492 ( talk) 15:47, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
It appears that the IP
87.210.232.221 from the Netherlands is dropping Ukrainian placenames into the lede of location articles across Podlaskie & Lublin Voivodeships quite rapidly, looks like it ight be a bot?
Ajh1492 (
talk)
14:44, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
No, it's round 2 of a discussion from December 2012. IP user is putting Category:Zakerzonia into a set of articles or changing lang-be tags to lang-uk tags. Need some third-party verification of the validity of the info. Ajh1492 ( talk) 16:41, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
Does this category comply our rules for categorization? There is no such state 'zakerzonia'. The term was current for a short period of time. It is an informal term. If it survives, I am about to create Category:Międzymorze , OK? Staszek Lem ( talk) 17:35, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
The prior discussion here at WPP ... Ajh1492 ( talk) 18:53, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
An alternative solution would be to put only major subdivisions claimed to be within Z/K, namely as uk wikipedia lists them, : Лемківщина, Підляшшя, Посяння, Сокальщина, Равщина і Холмщина.
Or, from Polish page: Za "etnicznie ukraińskie" ziemie Ukraińcy uznawali m.in. obecne powiaty:
Za swoje ziemie etniczne uważali również wschodnią część województwa lubelskiego z dzisiejszymi powiatami:
aż po Lublin.
Of course, this category may list other articles, e.g., some place notable of "Zakerzonia" sentiment, e.g., alleged "capital", if any claimed.
Staszek Lem (
talk)
21:22, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
I have no problem with edits like [7], i.e. adding the Ukrainian name and the category Zakerzonia. This is my personal opinion, but getting angry at such edits only leads to nationalistic edit wars and disputes, and reminds me of the now-gone (thankfully) conflicts we used to have about Polish-Lithuanian-German placemenames; let such names proliferate, I say. I'd of course assume that Ukrainians users would do us the same courtesy and wouldn't object to Polish names for shared history places now in Ukraine, or Category:Kresy (overdue for creation, btw; see also pl:Kategoria:Kresy Wschodnie). I'll ping User:Tymek and User:Faustian, I am not sure who else is active in Polish-Ukrainian topics - feel free to ping them so they can comment here as well. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:37, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
I am just looking for a consensus since (a) the edits were made quite quickly by an IP address and (b) it seemed to be a big topic back in Dec 2012 (when I was on a wikibreak). Ajh1492 ( talk) 07:55, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi. As in Ljubljana (Slovenia) we're this month celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Polish ethnographer Emil Korytko (he significantly contributed to the mutual dialogue between Polish and Slovene authors and readers), I invite all interested members of this project to help me expand the article about him. Welcome, -- Eleassar my talk 21:14, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear Poland experts: This submission at AfC will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is there anything here that should be added to the very short article Artur Zasada? — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:12, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
If anyone is interested I pulled together Ramsar sites of Poland and nominated it for a DYK. Input and article linking is always appreciated. Ajh1492 ( talk) 16:58, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Third time is the charm. If the problem is with the Lede, that came directly from the Ramsar Convention article. Otherwise I rewrote the rest, I'd suggest its ready for a B-Class review if it makes it through the DYK one. Ajh1492 ( talk) 19:29, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
Oy! If someone has a problem with a sentence in a few paragraphs on how I properly attributed a quotation they don't delete the entire paragraph (an all the text in the article). Everything else in the article is written pulling info from at least 3 sources and written from scratch (and spent a LOT of time trying to make sure it didn't even look like a close quote). Any 3 sentence summary is going to look similar to another 3 sentence summary. I don't think the DYK reviewer understands that they're only summaries to lead into the main articles on the sites. They even deleted text I pulled from one of the subject EN:WP articles! Ajh1492 ( talk) 07:56, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Project Poland, Can anyone help us with this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Larochie ( talk • contribs) 14:36, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
We've got 3 articles in the queue for B-class Reviews for November 2013. Peer reviews are always helpful with articles, please consider reviewing an article. Ajh1492 ( talk) 09:34, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
In honor of 11 Listopada being Polish Independence Day ... I have authored a new Symbols of Poland article. It was Stub class, but Top priority - Now it is C class! It could use a little extra help with the Lede and a bit more summary material, then it could be B class and on it's way to GA. Ajh1492 ( talk) 15:25, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Done. Ajh1492 ( talk) 08:43, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Yeah! Watch for it soon on DYK! Ajh1492 ( talk) 07:38, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
User:Lekoren has been adding German names to locations in central Poland with no proof of shared history and no references (!) confirming actual German spelling of these names. Many locations are nowhere to be found in German Wiki. Poeticbent talk 15:16, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
As a subcat to Category:Government agencies by country and Category:Government of Poland. Will someone step in to create it? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:36, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Beta: Nearby pages. A nifty new Wikipedia feature. Enable it, and if you like it, leave comments here. Certainly relevant to our project, since geography of Poland is under our scope, too. Have fun! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:25, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello guys, for your attention: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Black Red White Teemeah 편지 (letter) 09:40, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
English_exonyms#Poland. Can someone go over this please. See also article Talk. Many thanks. In ictu oculi ( talk) 04:02, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Please see the discussion here. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:18, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
I've asked for a peer review of the article because its seems to risk at present gettng bogged down in side issues and needs a lot of work on some major aspects. Comments could help develop a consensus to assist editors concentration on the most important aspects. All opinons welcomed. Thanks, -- Smerus ( talk) 15:37, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Dear Poland experts: This old Afc submission is about to be deleted as a stale draft, but could be saved if someone expanded it using information from the Polish article. If anyone thinks this article is worth saving, please make an edit right away to postpone deletion. Thanks! — Anne Delong ( talk) 21:04, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
The Chopin (ship) article has been nominated for deletion. I've done what I can from available English sources. I'm sure there's much more available in Polish though. Mjroots ( talk) 05:08, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi
Recently there have been ongoing changes on the page L.L. Zamenhof done by user (which I shall not name) who believes that L.L. Zamenhof was fully Russian. He constantly changes the content of the article writing statements and sentences that are from his own point of view and are NOT TRUE. Me and other users tried to repeal the vandalism act, but unfortunately it is still going on.
Please help! Thank you
Oliszydlowski, talk 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Put an inquiry into the The Ludwik Zamenhof Centre in Białystok. Ajh1492 ( talk) 12:03, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
(i) Bożego Narodzenia. Volunteer Marek 00:59, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
I thought it may be a good idea to write few things down based on years of observed practice, both as a guide for new members and for others. Feel free to comment/append. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:16, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Biographies are deemed notable, in clarification of
WP:BIO, if:
In addition, pl wiki has a nice note on what makes a noble (szlachta) family notable at pl:Wikipedia:Encyklopedyczność - rody szlacheckie.
Frédéric Chopin is currently a good article nominee - any one who wishes to start/contribute to the discussion is welcome to do so.-- Smerus ( talk) 13:11, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
After a brutal DYK NOM, I've nominated Ramsar sites of Poland for a GA. Any comments are appreciated. yes, I know it's marked closed, but the reviewer didn't even give me a chance to respond to his concerns. Ajh1492 ( talk) 10:56, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Link to the website of the city of Chelm that is below the article is incorrect. Correct link to the city's website is under title 'Essays...' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.173.213.66 ( talk) 06:31, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
I would suggest to move the articles of Polish noble families from "family" to "House of". (including the categories) - example: "Potocki family" to "House of Potocki", "Sobieski family" to "House of Sobieski" etc.
The translation of "ród" (Ród Potockich) would be "House of" (House of Potocki) and not family (rodzina) - Rodzina Potockich could be a family of peasants or burgesses. "Ród" / "House" suggests immediately a noble family.
Any objections?-- Sobiepan ( talk) 11:24, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
It seems that some editors are removing Polish placenames from Lithuanian municipalities. Again. Sigh. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:01, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
In regard to the use of Polish name in the lede see Wikipedia:NAME#Treatment_of_alternative_names. At one point a consensus was reached that if an article has a dedicated "Name" section then these names go in there. If it doesn't they go in the first sentence per Wikipedia:NAME#Treatment_of_alternative_names. Same applies to various other articles. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 11:11, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
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Wilno ("Vilnius" - I don't know sources confirming the name in GDL) was a multinational capital of the multinational Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The story of "its historical capital Vilnius" is a Lithuanian nationalistic POV. Xx236 ( talk) 10:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Is there a particular article where the wording is problematic, or are we just beating a dead horse for no reason? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:59, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
I currently have limited net access; can somebody investigate what's the correct name for that article? The creator insists on the "de" variant, but I can't seem to verify this with the sources present. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:44, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
To give you some idea, there are six eight ways we can translate names for most lakes. Take
pl:Jezioro Rożnowskie. We can have:
In Category:Lakes of Poland we will find example of all of those styles. Sigh. Which one is the best? We should probably standardize this mess. (I'll also note that there are two types of names in Polish: adjective and noun based; i.e. pl:Jezioro Rożnowskie and pl:Mamry. The noun variant should probably be just kept as it is (so, Mamry Lake should be moved to Mamry, for the same reasons Katowice is not at Katowice City). I am not sure which variant is best for the adjective ones. I think I favor keeping the original adjective, so something with Rożnowskie than Rożnow, and Lake, not (lake). So Lake Rożnowskie or Rożnowskie Lake would be my preferred choice here. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:18, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
My experience is that all standardization efforts in Wikipedia go pretty much nowhere and the preferred approach is to use the most common English name on a case-by-case basis. — Kpalion (talk) 07:40, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
I am looking at our notability backlog. Case of Alojzy Adamczyk. Interesting, but the only thing I see that makes him remotely notable is receiving Polonia Restituta. Do you think that's enough? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:50, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Witkacy creation, so the author is inactive. Not in PSB, not on pl wiki, being a member of a noble family is not enough - notability is not inherited. Listing here in case anybody cares to dig deeper. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:06, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Howdy! Not sure whether the story of two small villages in West Pommerania is maybe too small for the discussion site of a WikiProject... However there seems to be a redudant entry of Rusinowo. There is one in the Gmina Wałcz (see Rusinowo, Gmina Wałcz) and another one in the neighbouring Gmina Tuczno (see Rusinowo, Gmina Tuczno). If you take a look on the map you first note that they are extremly close. However, the Wałcz-Rusinowo displays no buildings on the map - though googlemaps has a name on the map. From older German maps of the are I know that there is only one Rusinowo (German name: Ruschendorf): see http://amzpbig.com/maps/2863_Ruschendorf_1937.jpg. So I looked for the second Rusinowo it on the websites of the respective Gminas. Here comes the surprise: While Tuczno confirms the existence of a Rusinowo within its borders, Wałcz (see third entry named "GMINA z lotu ptaka") doesnt. Therefore I suggest to delete the entries on the Wałcz-Rusinowo. Interestingly the Polish Version copied the error (due to the User:Kotbot). -- Spielertyp ( talk) 00:57, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
I invite comments to Talk:Pagan reaction in Poland. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:42, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
After a discussion with User:Nihil novi over on my talk page, I've decided to finally work on the Frédéric Chopin article so we can take it up to FA status if possible. I plan to get this as a TFA on 17 October 2014 (165th anniversary of Chopin's death). If anyone wants to help out, please do so. All are welcome to assist in this process and if anyone wants to suggest improvements, please do so on the talk page. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 03:46, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Please see Talk:House_of_Radziwiłł#Name. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:52, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Anybody would like to review this before a GA nom? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:54, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Witam
Czas jakiś temu zwróciłem się do paru kolegów, których angielszczyzna jest na poziomie wyższym od mojego (samokrytycznie: czytając rozumiem, ale pisać się wzbraniam, nie chcąc popełniać ciężkich błędów), aby zechcieli przełożyć do en:wiki biogram Zygmunta Szczotkowskiego. Ma on już swoje wersje - oprócz polskiej - niemiecką i ukraińską, brakowało do niedawna jednak angielskiej (potem zacznę myśleć jeszcze nad rosyjską).
Efektem tej mojej prośby jest opracowanie autorstwa kol. Michała Rosa, które otrzymałem od niego dzisiaj (i na tę chwilę widoczne jest ono jako biogram: Zygmunt Szczotkowski) oraz niedokończony (choć nieco obszerniejszy) tekst w brudnopisie kol. Wpedzicha: User:Wpedzich/Sandbox. W biogramie Michała jest jeszcze kilka znaków zapytania, a u Wpedzicha brakuje już tylko kilku zdań (dokładnie pięciu zdań tekstu i czterech przypisów), ale kol. Wpedzich zdaje się ma w tej chwili co innego na głowie, dlatego pozwalam sobie zwrócić się tym razem do innych wikipedystów, by zechcieli ten biogram uzupełnić w oparciu o obie wersje tłumaczeń oraz oczywiście o polski oryginał.
Julo ( talk) 08:22, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Poland doesn't inform about court system in Poland, a specific police and rescue section exists. Xx236 ( talk) 12:45, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
image:Polishdippassport.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 16:42, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
FYI, Polish mine detector has been proposed to be renamed to mine detector, see talk:Polish mine detector -- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 00:49, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
File:Krolewiecherb.PNG has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 02:51, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
file:RawitschWindmills1899.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 03:27, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
We have a fairly new editor from Germany around here with no past to speak of and strangely broad experience in wiki formatting (a red flag?), implying a special agenda also. The account is called User:Kaiser von Europa (no kidding!). It started editing on 18 January 2011, in towns, cities and regions of WikiProject Poland, but quickly moved back to German exodus from Central and Eastern Europe, Curzon Line, Recovered Territories, Königsberg and so on. Please keep and eye on this, because the user continues to add new material from the bible of Nazi Party called Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. Aufl. Leipzig u. Wien; listed by Cornelia Schmitz-Berning in Vokabular des Nationalsozialismus (Vocabulary of National Socialism) as a leading source. [1] Please note the size and date of publication; some 23 volumes dated between 1903 and 1913. There's no preview in Google books, but you can get an idea by looking at its "bibliogroup". [2] The user made only 901 edits, but all within the WikiProject Poland. It is a sleeper account created on 2009-04-01 and kept dormant until the first edit two years later on 18 January 2011. [3] This user has an alternative account named Ziegenspeck, created: 2008-04-08 with 326 edits... a distraction. Kaiser von Europa makes edits only in Poland (not a single one outside of German sphere of interest). As a result, dozens of Polish towns and cities are affected this year. I don't have time to examin the results, but you can help. Thanks, Poeticbent talk 07:08, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
Royal coronations in Poland has been proposed to be renamed, see talk:Royal coronations in Norway -- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 02:20, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Should this be moved to Kazimierz Funk? Similar situation: Casimir Gzowski. -- 166.104.240.102 ( talk) 04:38, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Well, are those names really more popular in English? How about Theodor Leschetizky/Teodor Leszetycki ? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:29, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
That's my newest DYK submission. Can anyone find a better source discussing the history and use of the term? It supposedly originated with German propaganda, but I can't even find the original German name... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:58, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
I have just created a wikipedia.pl article on Father Paul Breza, a translation by a Polish friend of the Wikipedia article I created last fall. My translator friend informs me that the finished result is readable, but she is not a Wikipedian. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could go take a look at the article and fix whatever needs fixing. If possible, I would like to continue putting up Polish translations of my other Kashubian-oriented articles on wikipedia.pl.
Thank you in advance! Joe Hughes —Preceding undated comment added 11:50, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
I prodded this article about what I think is a Polish-American dish, confused by some with kapusta kiszona. I have never heard of kapusta in Poland being a name for a dish (it's cabbage). Feel free to tell me I am wrong. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:58, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
The WP:VisualEditor is designed to let people edit without needing to learn wikitext syntax. The articles will look (nearly) the same in the new edit "window" as when you read them (aka WYSIWYG), and changes will show up as you type them, very much like writing a document in a modern word processor. The devs currently expect to deploy the VisualEditor as the new site-wide default editing system in early July 2013.
About 2,000 editors have tried out this early test version so far, and feedback overall has been positive. Right now, the VisualEditor is available only to registered users who opt-in, and it's a bit slow and limited in features. You can do all the basic things like writing or changing sentences, creating or changing section headings, and editing simple bulleted lists. It currently can't either add or remove templates (like fact tags), ref tags, images, categories, or tables (and it will not be turned on for new users until common reference styles and citation templates are supported). These more complex features are being worked on, and the code will be updated as things are worked out. Also, right now you can only use it for articles and user pages. When it's deployed in July, the old editor will still be available and, in fact, the old edit window will be the only option for talk pages (I believe that WP:Notifications (aka Echo) is ultimately supposed to deal with talk pages).
The developers are asking editors like you to join the alpha testing for the VisualEditor. Please go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing and tick the box at the end of the page, where it says "Enable VisualEditor (only in the main namespace and the User namespace)". Save the preferences, and then try fixing a few typos or copyediting a few articles by using the new "Edit" tab instead of the section [Edit] buttons or the old editing window (which will still be present and still work for you, but which will be renamed "Edit source"). Fix a typo or make some changes, and then click the 'save and review' button (at the top of the page). See what works and what doesn't. We really need people who will try this out on 10 or 15 pages and then leave a note Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback about their experiences, especially if something mission-critical isn't working and doesn't seem to be on anyone's radar.
Also, if any of you are involved in template maintenance or documentation about how to edit pages, the VisualEditor will require some extra attention. The devs want to incorporate things like citation templates directly into the editor, which means that they need to know what information goes in which fields. Obviously, the screenshots and instructions for basic editing will need to be completely updated. The old edit window is not going away, so help pages will likely need to cover both the old and the new.
If you have questions and can't find a better place to ask them, then please feel free to leave a message on my user talk page, and perhaps together we'll be able to figure it out. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 01:04, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Is Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Lisy, Łódź Voivodeship a notable location and is the submission accurate? davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 04:19, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
If anybody cares. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:45, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Probably going to be failed because nobody cares enough to comment, never mind support... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:35, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
French-oriented User:Der Statistiker has disregarded the inline injunction, "Note: Please do not change the nationality from Polish to French without consulting the discussion page. This formulation has been found to be the best way to reflect Curie's strong connections to both of these countries", and has changed Marie Curie from a "Polish physicist and chemist, working mainly in France," to a "Polish-born French physicist and chemist". "Polish-born" usually implies a minimal connection with Poland, whereas Maria Skłodowska Curie was a mature, culturally Polish 24-year-old when she left Poland for France — not with the intent to become a Frenchwoman but to take advantage of the scientific opportunities that France could afford her and which the Russian Empire denied her in Poland.
As late as 1894, she declined Pierre Curie's offer of marriage, hoping to obtain a post in Poland at Kraków's Jagiellonian University. It was only when she failed to receive one, that she returned to France and married Pierre.
The patriotic attitudes in her family are illustrated by her sister Bronisława — who had earlier gone to Paris (to study medicine) and for whom Maria built the Radium Institute in Warsaw — in 1914, at Zakopane in Poland's southern mountains, chiding the Polish English-language novelist Joseph Conrad for having used his talents for purposes other than bettering the future of his native Poland.
Maria always considered herself Polish and taught her daughters her native language. She named the first element that she discovered, polonium, after her country, which she hoped would regain its independence. She was a Polish woman who worked in France. To call her a "Polish-born French physicist and chemist" is an intolerable distortion. Nihil novi ( talk) 18:46, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
During Wikipedia:WikiProject Qworty clean-up, the article on Jacek Tylicki came to the attention of several editors (see Talk:Jacek Tylicki). From a cursory glance of the sources, I suspect that this artist is notable, but we are having trouble verifying references, and it's likely that many are in the Polish language. I am requesting help from any available members of this project. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 10:39, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
The WikiProject Poland article importance scheme drafted in 2006, was never updated to reflect the system of ratings applied in other portals at present. It got mostly out of touch. I am revising the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Poland/Assessment#Importance_scale to reflect ratings applied in Portal Germany and others. For example, at the WikiProject Sweden all settlements with over 1,000 inhabitants are automatically marked as importance=Mid, meanwhile at the Importance scale of this project, the criteria used for rating (as defined previously) makes Talk:Tarczyn with almost 4,000 inhabitants equal to any vanishing Polish village with 200 people or less... no difference! Basically, everything in WikiProject Poland is marked as of low or mid to begin with (kind of curious, if you think about it). Portal Germany has 1,138 articles of High importance, we have 310. However, I'm fully aware also that the reasons why people may suffer from low self esteem could vary from person to person therefore my improvements only reflect what other portals did and nothing else. Thanks, Poeticbent talk 22:05, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Importance | Criteria | Example |
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Mid | Subject is notable on a national level within Poland without necessarily being famous internationally, including smaller towns; and any particular place or area closely related. | Corpus Christi Basilica |
Low | Subject mostly of local interest; peripheral or trivial within its own field of study, not particularly notable or significant. It may cover specific part of a notable article also. | Osiedle Witosa |
Feel free to update them; I tend to use a very personal-biased rule of thumb - "how many people in Poland have heard of x". Hardly a good measure, but then, to be honest, I don't care much about the importance scale (in the end, it'll always be too subjective). Quality is easier to measure, and more useful to us, I think. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:45, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Some of you may be interested in the Template_talk:History_of_Christianity#Edit_request. Some editors have raised NPOV concerns there; and I think that they may have a valid point, at least from the systematic bias theory (for example, I think that that template gives way too much weight to British/Anglosaxon Christianity). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:43, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
An anon IP is trying to expand the article on Włocławek. These are good faithed edits but there are several problems:
Ideally what would be done is that someone takes this information and properly translates, paraphrases, rewrites and wikifies it in a proper. It might be quite a bit of work, which is why I'm bringing it up here rather than doing it myself (I don't know if I have the time).
Otherwise, since this is a copyright violation (which should be confirmed), it will have to be removed. Volunteer Marek 17:19, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Achinger coat of arms and dozens more. I postes a msg at User talk:Fram with request to suspend this activity until we talk. Staszek Lem ( talk) 16:25, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
While these articles contain verifiable info (and references are available, e.g., in Polish wikipedia,), they left unreferenced and basically abandoned, so formally Fram is right. I suggest the community must pledge to rescue these articles. Staszek Lem ( talk) 16:27, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
List of Landscape Parks of Poland should not be capitalized, I think. Landscape park (Poland) is not. Any objections before I list it for speedy RM? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 20:21, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
In case anyone has an opinion in the matter: Until recently, Marie Curie was "a Polish physicist and chemist, working mainly in France..." On 10 July 2013 she became "a Polish-French physicist and chemist, born in Poland but working mainly in France..." Nihil novi ( talk) 22:11, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Just a reminder of interesting discussions from our AA section (make sure to watchlist it): ex. Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_June_20#Category:1903_establishments_in_Poland or Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_June_19#Category:1915_establishments_in_Poland. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 18:57, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Requesting B-class review, in preparation for GAN comments. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:44, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Requesting B-class review, in preparation for GAN comments. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:45, 21 July 2013 (UTC)Requesting B-class review, in preparation for GAN comments. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:45, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm sure that you've noticed the new WP:VisualEditor software here at the English Wikipedia, and I hope you've tried it out. I have just been assigned to help the Japanese, Polish, and Swedish Wikipedias with this software, which will probably be turned on for all their users in a few weeks. I want to make sure that these communities have the important help and information pages translated and that the software developers hear about their concerns as feedback and with bug reports on Bugzilla, so that any problems they find will get fixed.
The problem I have, is that I don't speak any of these languages! From what I can tell with Google Translate, the Polish Wikipedia has only a few sentences posted about this software. I am leaving this note here in the hope of finding a few people who understand Polish and are interested in helping me support the Polish Wikipedia. I need people who can:
If you'd like to help, please let me know. I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 13:40, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
A committed edit-warior with the trigger finger and no knowledge of Polish is rolling back hours of work at Mogiła Abbey. Why? Because he knows best... Definitely not my cup of tea. Poeticbent talk 04:55, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
See Talk:Duchy of Sandomierz. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:20, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
There's some weird interwiki link and naming confusion. I think that some names of mountain ranges differ between different CE/EE countries, and it is creating some confusion. Consider:
I haven't checked other articles, but I have a feeling that the Carpathian ranges article may need some clean up... I suspect that some editors were incorrectly adding interwikis for ranges which are not the same (cover similar but not exact geographical territories, with different nations having their own different terminology for those ranges). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:18, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Template:Countries bordering the Baltic Sea ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 05:34, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Please consider commenting at stalled merge of Sikorski's death controversy and 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash at Talk:1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash#Merge. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:12, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
From Poland: Regional language/s Kashubian. According to the Polish article there are also 4 "pomocniczy" languages (auxiliary is something different). Xx236 ( talk) 07:47, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Please stop this term appearing on Wikipedia /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jniech ( talk • contribs) 04:37, September 16, 2013
Care to inspect this submission? Thanks, FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 01:18, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
Scratch previous comment. Can I have a third party view on recent edits to Katarzyna Weiglowa. Thank you. In ictu oculi ( talk) 09:46, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Comments would be appreciated, so far no members of this project have voiced their opinion. I think that people not familiar with the significance of this event for the Polish history may not realize the need for not merging those topics... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:17, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, my husband and his family are polish. Our last name is Rosol. I am having a hard time researching this last name and the origin/meaning etc. I did discover that it is a common meat based broth/soup popular in Poland. Any other information would be greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.15.210.36 ( talk) 14:39, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
At Help_talk:IPA_for_Polish#Mouseover_tooltips_for_IPA_template I started a discussion on whether or not to include mouseover tooltips for the Polish IPA template ({{ IPAc-pl}}. Please share your thoughts. // Halibu tt 07:10, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
In the current discussion of Maria Skłodowska Curie's nationality, here, a 6th choice, "Polish, French-naturalized", has been added for those wishing to vote or to change their vote from a previous one. Nihil novi ( talk) 14:23, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
I prodded this article, but perhaps she is notable. If anyone is interested in Polish models/actresses, second set of eyes would be appreciated. FYI, I have begun reviewing this listing, so expect few weeks of above-average prod/afds in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Poland/Article_alerts (which I hope every active member of this project has watchlisted). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:46, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello Poland experts. This article has been waiting a long time for a review. Can anyone here help? — Anne Delong ( talk) 20:21, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
For anyone interested, User:2Awwsome has opened a dispute-resolution process at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard over whether Chopin should be described on the English Wikipedia as "Polish" or "Polish-French". Nihil novi ( talk) 22:35, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
I like the fact that the editor complaining started a lame edit war in the lame edit war article! :) Time for some Monty Python! Ajh1492 ( talk) 16:35, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
Looking through the Cleanup list, there are 4004 articles needing coordinates [5]. Can we get a bot to make two passes since most seem to be villages/town/municipalities: (a) Have the BOT traverse the list on PL:WP to pull out what coordinates that we can find and write them to a CSV file (b) manually inspect the resultant list, verify and update where necessary (c) Have the BOT then traverse the list on EN:WP to update the articles Would be a whole lot easier than going in by hand on 4000 articles just to put coordinates in. I don't mind running it from here, I have the bandwidth, I helped out with running KOTBOT before with the initial generation of the village articles. Ajh1492 ( talk) 07:38, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Pulled this one from the jaws of a merge request. I translated the article form NL:WP, but it's a work in progress. Will continue, but any help or comments are appreciated. I think the subject is worthy of a DKY. Ajh1492 ( talk) 10:31, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Going through the notability list - Avishay Hadari pray tell how can you be a "Polish-born Israeli Artist" when you were actual board in Israel? I also question the notability, but wanted to put it up here first before an AfD listing. Ajh1492 ( talk) 15:47, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
It appears that the IP
87.210.232.221 from the Netherlands is dropping Ukrainian placenames into the lede of location articles across Podlaskie & Lublin Voivodeships quite rapidly, looks like it ight be a bot?
Ajh1492 (
talk)
14:44, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
No, it's round 2 of a discussion from December 2012. IP user is putting Category:Zakerzonia into a set of articles or changing lang-be tags to lang-uk tags. Need some third-party verification of the validity of the info. Ajh1492 ( talk) 16:41, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
Does this category comply our rules for categorization? There is no such state 'zakerzonia'. The term was current for a short period of time. It is an informal term. If it survives, I am about to create Category:Międzymorze , OK? Staszek Lem ( talk) 17:35, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
The prior discussion here at WPP ... Ajh1492 ( talk) 18:53, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
An alternative solution would be to put only major subdivisions claimed to be within Z/K, namely as uk wikipedia lists them, : Лемківщина, Підляшшя, Посяння, Сокальщина, Равщина і Холмщина.
Or, from Polish page: Za "etnicznie ukraińskie" ziemie Ukraińcy uznawali m.in. obecne powiaty:
Za swoje ziemie etniczne uważali również wschodnią część województwa lubelskiego z dzisiejszymi powiatami:
aż po Lublin.
Of course, this category may list other articles, e.g., some place notable of "Zakerzonia" sentiment, e.g., alleged "capital", if any claimed.
Staszek Lem (
talk)
21:22, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
I have no problem with edits like [7], i.e. adding the Ukrainian name and the category Zakerzonia. This is my personal opinion, but getting angry at such edits only leads to nationalistic edit wars and disputes, and reminds me of the now-gone (thankfully) conflicts we used to have about Polish-Lithuanian-German placemenames; let such names proliferate, I say. I'd of course assume that Ukrainians users would do us the same courtesy and wouldn't object to Polish names for shared history places now in Ukraine, or Category:Kresy (overdue for creation, btw; see also pl:Kategoria:Kresy Wschodnie). I'll ping User:Tymek and User:Faustian, I am not sure who else is active in Polish-Ukrainian topics - feel free to ping them so they can comment here as well. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:37, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
I am just looking for a consensus since (a) the edits were made quite quickly by an IP address and (b) it seemed to be a big topic back in Dec 2012 (when I was on a wikibreak). Ajh1492 ( talk) 07:55, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi. As in Ljubljana (Slovenia) we're this month celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Polish ethnographer Emil Korytko (he significantly contributed to the mutual dialogue between Polish and Slovene authors and readers), I invite all interested members of this project to help me expand the article about him. Welcome, -- Eleassar my talk 21:14, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear Poland experts: This submission at AfC will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is there anything here that should be added to the very short article Artur Zasada? — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:12, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
If anyone is interested I pulled together Ramsar sites of Poland and nominated it for a DYK. Input and article linking is always appreciated. Ajh1492 ( talk) 16:58, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Third time is the charm. If the problem is with the Lede, that came directly from the Ramsar Convention article. Otherwise I rewrote the rest, I'd suggest its ready for a B-Class review if it makes it through the DYK one. Ajh1492 ( talk) 19:29, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
Oy! If someone has a problem with a sentence in a few paragraphs on how I properly attributed a quotation they don't delete the entire paragraph (an all the text in the article). Everything else in the article is written pulling info from at least 3 sources and written from scratch (and spent a LOT of time trying to make sure it didn't even look like a close quote). Any 3 sentence summary is going to look similar to another 3 sentence summary. I don't think the DYK reviewer understands that they're only summaries to lead into the main articles on the sites. They even deleted text I pulled from one of the subject EN:WP articles! Ajh1492 ( talk) 07:56, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Project Poland, Can anyone help us with this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Larochie ( talk • contribs) 14:36, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
We've got 3 articles in the queue for B-class Reviews for November 2013. Peer reviews are always helpful with articles, please consider reviewing an article. Ajh1492 ( talk) 09:34, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
In honor of 11 Listopada being Polish Independence Day ... I have authored a new Symbols of Poland article. It was Stub class, but Top priority - Now it is C class! It could use a little extra help with the Lede and a bit more summary material, then it could be B class and on it's way to GA. Ajh1492 ( talk) 15:25, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Done. Ajh1492 ( talk) 08:43, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Yeah! Watch for it soon on DYK! Ajh1492 ( talk) 07:38, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
User:Lekoren has been adding German names to locations in central Poland with no proof of shared history and no references (!) confirming actual German spelling of these names. Many locations are nowhere to be found in German Wiki. Poeticbent talk 15:16, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
As a subcat to Category:Government agencies by country and Category:Government of Poland. Will someone step in to create it? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:36, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Beta: Nearby pages. A nifty new Wikipedia feature. Enable it, and if you like it, leave comments here. Certainly relevant to our project, since geography of Poland is under our scope, too. Have fun! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:25, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello guys, for your attention: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Black Red White Teemeah 편지 (letter) 09:40, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
English_exonyms#Poland. Can someone go over this please. See also article Talk. Many thanks. In ictu oculi ( talk) 04:02, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Please see the discussion here. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:18, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
I've asked for a peer review of the article because its seems to risk at present gettng bogged down in side issues and needs a lot of work on some major aspects. Comments could help develop a consensus to assist editors concentration on the most important aspects. All opinons welcomed. Thanks, -- Smerus ( talk) 15:37, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Dear Poland experts: This old Afc submission is about to be deleted as a stale draft, but could be saved if someone expanded it using information from the Polish article. If anyone thinks this article is worth saving, please make an edit right away to postpone deletion. Thanks! — Anne Delong ( talk) 21:04, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
The Chopin (ship) article has been nominated for deletion. I've done what I can from available English sources. I'm sure there's much more available in Polish though. Mjroots ( talk) 05:08, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi
Recently there have been ongoing changes on the page L.L. Zamenhof done by user (which I shall not name) who believes that L.L. Zamenhof was fully Russian. He constantly changes the content of the article writing statements and sentences that are from his own point of view and are NOT TRUE. Me and other users tried to repeal the vandalism act, but unfortunately it is still going on.
Please help! Thank you
Oliszydlowski, talk 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Put an inquiry into the The Ludwik Zamenhof Centre in Białystok. Ajh1492 ( talk) 12:03, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
(i) Bożego Narodzenia. Volunteer Marek 00:59, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
I thought it may be a good idea to write few things down based on years of observed practice, both as a guide for new members and for others. Feel free to comment/append. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:16, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Biographies are deemed notable, in clarification of
WP:BIO, if:
In addition, pl wiki has a nice note on what makes a noble (szlachta) family notable at pl:Wikipedia:Encyklopedyczność - rody szlacheckie.
Frédéric Chopin is currently a good article nominee - any one who wishes to start/contribute to the discussion is welcome to do so.-- Smerus ( talk) 13:11, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
After a brutal DYK NOM, I've nominated Ramsar sites of Poland for a GA. Any comments are appreciated. yes, I know it's marked closed, but the reviewer didn't even give me a chance to respond to his concerns. Ajh1492 ( talk) 10:56, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Link to the website of the city of Chelm that is below the article is incorrect. Correct link to the city's website is under title 'Essays...' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.173.213.66 ( talk) 06:31, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
I would suggest to move the articles of Polish noble families from "family" to "House of". (including the categories) - example: "Potocki family" to "House of Potocki", "Sobieski family" to "House of Sobieski" etc.
The translation of "ród" (Ród Potockich) would be "House of" (House of Potocki) and not family (rodzina) - Rodzina Potockich could be a family of peasants or burgesses. "Ród" / "House" suggests immediately a noble family.
Any objections?-- Sobiepan ( talk) 11:24, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
It seems that some editors are removing Polish placenames from Lithuanian municipalities. Again. Sigh. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:01, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
In regard to the use of Polish name in the lede see Wikipedia:NAME#Treatment_of_alternative_names. At one point a consensus was reached that if an article has a dedicated "Name" section then these names go in there. If it doesn't they go in the first sentence per Wikipedia:NAME#Treatment_of_alternative_names. Same applies to various other articles. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 11:11, 19 January 2014 (UTC)