Talk:Warsaw

unbalanced section

The section on "Famous People" [1] is a bit unbalanced. There have been a lot of famous people born in or from Warsaw, just like there's been a lot of famous people born in or from New York. Obviously we cannot list all of them in this article, so we should focus on the most important ones. Szpilman, Szopen and Curie-Sklodowska obviously qualify. I'm not so sure about Lempicka. Basically it seems she'd be alright to be included in there as long as many other famous folks are also included (and then she should be mentioned more briefly). Here is the list of people from Warsaw [2]. Just eye balling it very quickly I can spot about dozen and a half folks who deserve inclusion in this section more.radek (talk) 05:07, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Warsaw's metro population

Not sure if I'm doing this right but I just wanted to bring this up. The metro population for Warsaw here says 3,350,000, but the official website of the city and "Global Metro Monitor" of the Brookings site say different, listing it at about 2,500,000. So this might need a revision or further research I guess.

http://www.e-warsaw.pl/2/index.php?id=478

http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2010/1130_global_metro_monitor/1130_global_metro_profiles.aspx

-Red Hair Bow Red Hair Bow (talk) 07:39, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Not b class

I've downgraded this article from b to c class. It has large chunks of unreferenced text, and style is poor - lots of single-sentence paragraphs. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:41, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

What an article! this is the best wikipedia can show?

Yes, it seems that Poland is the most brave country in world history, whowww, how they defeted the red devils!! Yes! Awesome! The country with the world record of being-divided-into-whomever-happened -to-be-near-at-any-age seems to be the most impressive power of the world. Yeah, and God is with them too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.252.72.61 (talk) 14:58, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Districts

The districts section doesn't seem quite right to me. It says that until 1994 there were seven districts (Śródmieście, Praga Północ, Praga Południe, Żoliborz, Wola, Ochota, Mokotów) and that between 1994 and 2002 there were 11 districts (Centrum, Białołęka, Targówek, Rembertów, Wawer, Wilanów, Ursynów, Włochy, Ursus, Bemowo, Bielany). The eighteen since 2002 are mostly made up of these two lists combined (minus Centrum from list 2, add Wesoła which was incorporated at this time). I don't think this is accurately or well portrayed - something has been lost in the translation of "district" but I'm not sure what, and reading the Polish wiki article didn't leave me much clearer. I think that in 1994, the city was made bigger - the central seven districts were made into one (Centrum), each district then had the same powers. In 2002 the central seven were separated and a change in governance/powers happened again. But that's just a guess.... Severo^TC 21:41, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

In 1994 seven districts were combined into one administrative region (a Gmina) named Warszawa-Centrum. Other districts (Białołęka, Targówek, etc.) were separate gminas. So formally, there was no such thing as one city of Warsaw. (For a similar system see Tokyo, Japan.)
In 2002 this system was abolished: all 18 districts were joined into just one administrative region (a Powiat).--78.133.233.211 (talk) 14:55, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for this. Does this mean between 1994 and 2002, the 18 districts (gminas) were part of one powiat (county)? Or were they part of different counties? Also, what was the status of the outer districts before 1994 - gminas of other powiats? Thanks again, Severo^TC 18:18, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

About number of companies registered in Warsaw or any other region in Poland

Number of companies set up in the region is purely virtual. Most of firms in big cities are semi-illegal form of employment - people registered own firm and work like normal employee. It is illegal, because post-communistic authorities of Poland prohibited provision of services for one subject, but even big companies, like TV stations do not hide that they employ in this way cleaners and presenters. Some companies divide into few smaller to circumvent restrictive tax law and sometimes irrational rules of the Labour Code. And they employ mentioned above "firms" in few their "companies", so they bypass the restriction. Some of companies are set in other region that they work, because it is more easily to go hundred kilometers few time in month to another region than "wrangle" with local ZUS and the tax office branch and their interpretation of law (Polish law is often unclear and have not one interpretation in force in country). And recent times popular is setting business in other countries (and provide services in Poland)to avoid ridiculous law and tax system, which make live in Poland swimming in jelly. And the last but not least - the estimated size of the shadow economy in Poland amounts to 18-20%. 87.205.166.207 (talk) 22:54, 6 December 2011 (UTC)Polish citizen