User talk:Gragox

Latvian ice hockey

Hey, I've noticed you have an interest in the Latvia ice hockey team? I'm going to try getting all the American and Canadian player articles upto a respectable state before the Games. Are you up to doing the same for the Latvian players? Check out: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey and and of the players I fixed up at Philadelphia Flyers. ccwaters 13:51, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Its up to you if you want to add you name to that. You are obviously welcome to do so.

This might help you: List of ice hockey leagues. ccwaters 14:39, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Request for comments on article naming

Talk:World Junior Ice Hockey Championships If you're interested. Thanks. ColtsScore 09:07, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Junior B Teams

Hello, a user has decided that he does not want us placing hockey stubs on Wikipedia to expand later into teams. In particular he doesn't like Junior teams... I was wondering if you could please voice your opinion. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thunder Bay Northern Hawks DMighton 02:48, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

German Wikipedia - de:Lettische Eishockeyliga

Dear Gragox, I've moved your article about the Latvijas Atklātais čempionāts in the German Wikipedia to de:Lettische Eishockeyliga in order to correct a spelling mistake. Furthermore, I've added some information to the article, like its new name "Samsung Premjerlīga" and the fact that one of the six teams is from Lithuania. It would be nice if you could check the new version to see whether everything is correct. Some more information, for example about the history of the league, would be greatly appreciated as well :). Best Regards, --Uwe 15:06, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Ice Hockey Project discussion of hockey player notability and project scope

Please come join the WikiProject Ice Hockey Notability standards for hockey players discussion. I'd like to see input from all our project members who have an opinion. Thanks! ColtsScore 01:17, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Help needed

Hi! You were the first Wikipedian in the "speaks Latvian" category who has been active in the last few days, so I came to you with this request: I'd like to put the results of the referendum held yesterday into the article, but I'm not sure which part of the table at http://www.tn2008.cvk.lv/ are the yes, no, participation etc. figures. Could you help me with that? Also, I'm wondering how true reports are that despite the failure of the referendum due to low turnout, there will likely be a similar measure adopted due to strong pressure? Thanks a lot! —Nightstallion 11:14, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Discussion about Holocaust

Our agreement is that Holocaust scholars are speaking about "only" 6 Holocaust Extermination camps (stupid definition but ....). Our disagreement is about creation of sub section other extermination camps. With knowledge that there has been many others extermination camps and sites (I know 7 of them) question is: Will we create subsection in The Holocaust template for this camps ? Can you please hear your comments about this question in section Non involved users because maybe even Latvia will have place in rewriten template (events in 1941)?--Rjecina (talk) 15:33, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Roster

Hello, and many thanks for contributing with the Latvian roster for the 2010 Winter Olympics ice hockey tournament. It's the first template of the tournament to be populated! LarRan (talk) 21:27, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Apparently I haven't finished it yet, but I'll do it ASAP. Gragox (talk) 22:34, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

latvians in khl

good job!--Львівське (talk) 17:12, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Edvīns Bietags

Regarding the article you created on Edvīns Bietags, it already existed as Edwins Bietags. I have fixed the problem. Please check for alternative spellings before you create an article. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 10:01, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Smoking ban map

Hi, I notice you're among the more frequent updaters of File:Smoking bans.png; a couple of things: 1. Spain's legislation has changed, it would be nice if someone updated this. 2. Several people have asked what brown means, since it's not on the legend. Would it be possible to clarify this? Many thanks. Lampman (talk) 15:44, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

I have no idea, my edits concerned only Latvia being marked dark brown/maroon. Gragox (talk) 15:49, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Amaya.jpg

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Valentīna Eiduka

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File:RIX passengers.png listed for deletion

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Latvians in KHL

Just want to confirm, the list you work on has been verified for this current season? (ie. there are 26 active Latvians in the KHL so far this season?) thanks --Львівське (говорити) 06:32, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

I updated it a few days ago. 25 players have played at least a single game as of now, and I marked as active also Gudļevskis who is the third goalie of Dinamo. Gragox (talk) 09:11, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

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File:Smoking_bans.png

Hi Gragox. Would you please add brown to the legend of this picture? Thanks in advance. --Ysangkok (talk) 19:04, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

I have no idea what brown stands for, my edits concerned only Latvia being marked dark brown/maroon. Gragox (talk) 21:57, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

"Soviet births"

Hey, the issue of birth places for Baltic states during the Soviet occupation was discussed here and mainly here. The result was no consensus, but since 99% of Estonians born during that era have just "Estonia" in the infobox, consistency should be followed. After all, you were the one, who first changed the birthplace to Estonian SSR. H2ppyme (talk) 17:06, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, it was another user, but it was changed from Estonia, so my point stands. H2ppyme (talk) 17:09, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

The problem is, there really was no consensus and similar points were made by other users. However, it seems that among Latvian and Lithuanian people, there is a total mess. Among Estonians, ca. 99% actually don't have any mentioning of being born under USSR occupation, since it really doesn't matter. For example, if there was an article about me, born in 1990, the fact that USSR was still occupying the country, would not matter at all, people can see that in the history of Estonia section, since legally the country was the Republic of Estonia. And I do not deny that I have reverted lots of edits that have inserted the SSR into the infobox. I have reverted these edits, but if re-reverted, I have always presented the discussion. Imagine falling into a new hundred-answer long discussion every time this happens - people have had a chance to say their opinion already. But ca. 90% articles have had just "Estonia" since the very beginning. H2ppyme (talk) 18:09, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

H2ppyme is correct, it is an informal standard to list the birthplace as Estonia in these BLP articles. --Nug (talk) 19:53, 24 January 2012 (UTC)