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Reasons for my raising wikistress: Some general observations on Wikipedia governance being broken and good editors trampled by the system Wikipedia is a kawaii mistress :) I agree to the edit counter opt-in terms. Current RfAdminship RfA candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report RfB candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report Manually updated by Cyberpower678 (talk) at 22:45, 10 February 2012 (UTC) The Wagner article is in need of some help We're in a bit of a pickle in the Wagner discussion page. The issues concerns Social class (sociology) and the phrase supposedly common Germanic past and has now been dismissed by some editors as inconsequential. At the end of the Wagner discussion page (under Edit War solution topic) there issome suggested courses of action that I was requested to list, from my point of view. Please help. Just take fast look. Thank you In the introduction, removed as non consequential In his own era he furthermore provided the newly emerged middle class with a medium to transfer its familial and political conflicts into a myth of supposedly common Germanic past. In the Biography chapter removed as non consequential Richard Wagner was born into a lower middle class family User:Major Torp (talk) 15:20, 7 November 2011 (UTC) Student asking for help Hi, I am a student working on the Thomas Green Clemson Wikipedia page. I had just recently made a rather large edit for the current size of the page and was wondering if you had any feedback for me that would make my page better. My user page is User:Chewey93 so please contact me if you have any tips. Thank you. Bias real or perceived? Hello, I'm the anonymous editor that recently got involved in a coupe disputes regarding the editing style on a coupe of pages such as Haller's Blue Army and Poland Armed Forces. As a casual user of Wikipedia I was unsettled by editing which I consider as bias towards polish subject matter. When comparing pages on similar topics I noticed that the language used on pages related to a polish topics used much harder (judgmental) terms, and the phraseology used created a subtle, but clear bias towards Poles that presents them in a negative way. One example was the recent Buckshot06 edits on Polish Armed Forces page, when I stumbled on this page there was only one picture in the "History" section, and it showed Polish soldiers in a diminutive way that only invited negative and stereoscopical perceptions. So, I added the current pictures which show the Polish military in a respectable, but neutral way. Now, user Buckshot06 is trying to remove them one at a time, by claiming that they have nothing to do with the text. Another, editing issue that I'm involved in is that of American football coach Jerry Sandusky who was accused of child abuse. Sandusky himself is an American first... of mixed Polish and Irish descent. But, the page only mentioned his Polish roots omitting his Irish ancestry, and when his Irish ancestry was added, administrator Milowent was insistent on only highlighting Sandusky's Polish roots first, as if the man was 100% Polish. Please see the edits below to see how he keeps changing the page structure to highlight this, and in the most recent edit he locked the page despite the fact that no vandalism or edit warring took place. 1st edit: Sandusky was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, the only son of Evelyn Mae (née Lee) and Arthur Sandusky. His paternal grandparents were Polish immigrants and his mother came from a small coal-mining town. 2nd edit (neutral): Sandusky was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, the only son of Evelyn Mae (née Lee) an Irish Catholic homemaker who came from a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town, and Arthur Sandusky who's parents immigrated from Poland. ...and this is what the section was changed to (below). It seems strange how in this case someone wants too highlight the man's Polish root, even if it means that the structure of the text is moved in a incoherent way, since the earlier sections listed the mother first, than the father, and proceeded to list the father's accomplishments, Also, how many times is the editor going to try to use Poland or Polish in one sentence, it seems like he's trying to fill the page with this fact. 3rd edit: Sandusky was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, the only son of Arthur Sandusky, whose Polish parents had immigrated from Poland, and Evelyn Mae (née Lee) an Irish Catholic homemaker who came from a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town. Now, since the page is locked, I'm not able to revert the changes, and I can't constantly argue with an administrator who clearly has more power to block IP's or lock pages. And, to prove my point of a bias, don't see any mention of Polish ancestry on pages related to other football players/coaches such as Mike Ditka, Don Majkowski, or Rob Gronkowski. Yet, in the case of child abuser Jerry Sandusky his polish background is highlighted and edited to maintain this bias. --76.118.227.161 (talk) 02:01, 4 December 2011 There's always the WP category for "Polish bank robbers". PЄTЄRS J V ►TALK 20:23, 8 February 2012 (UTC) Why would you leave a terrible site like www.westerneurope.info in wikipedia.org/Western_Europe Is the site yours? Don't worry I did the job for you and removed it. Talkback Hello. You have new messages at WP:GL/M#Map translation: Battle of Bautzen (1945). Barnstar The Original Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation. Radzymin - again... Hi there, could you take a look at Grandiose's comments on copyright of photos you uploaded to commons here? I'm not an expert and I'm not sure what is it that he really want. //Halibutt 22:37, 1 February 2012 (UTC) Thanks. I took a look at Staszic and did a quick ce, adding some {{who}} tags here and there. Sadly, I wouldn't feel comfortable assessing the article myself as I can't really tell much of the prose. Not a native speaker. //Halibutt 20:27, 2 February 2012 (UTC) This horse never dies apparently. Would you mind?. I mean the question No. 2: "File:The_fighting_near_Radzymin.jpg: what steps have been taken to look for previous publication? Same for other images from that source". Any ideas? I must say I also liked the questions about the architect of the church depicted on one of the photos. //Halibutt 21:29, 7 February 2012 (UTC) History of Poland in the Early Modern era,History of Poland (1569–1795) + History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (various) You appear to have left various split/merge tags on these pages. Do you intend to update these articles? Op47 (talk) 20:06, 5 February 2012 (UTC) I'm aware of the merge issues that have been raised. What keeps it from happening is that History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1764–1795), the third and last of the detailed History of Commonwealth series is not finished, as I'm being distracted by several other projects. May be I should prioritize this work to get the Commonwealth situation cleaned up. Orczar (talk) 22:34, 5 February 2012 (UTC) I've made new suggestions under Talk:History of Poland in the Early Modern era. Orczar (talk) 15:42, 6 February 2012 (UTC) WP Poland in the Signpost The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Poland for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 08:27, 6 February 2012 (UTC) Yeah, I noticed the info on the noticeboard and thought that - since you are probably the only wikipedian actively involved with WP:PL, there would be no better person than yourself. Certainly I'm not the one as technically speaking I'm not even a member :) //Halibutt 20:42, 6 February 2012 (UTC) Thanks for the note, Piotr. I hope that you take the time to participate in the interview. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 06:13, 7 February 2012 (UTC) You should also direct Vecrumba to the interview (if you haven't already). I don't know if he has listed himself as a project member, but he certainly contributes a good bit.VolunteerMarek 18:54, 7 February 2012 (UTC) I "promoted" myself to more active status. :-) PЄTЄRS J V ►TALK 19:18, 7 February 2012 (UTC) tb Hello, Piotrus. You have new messages at Volunteer Marek's talk page. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. If you set up a questionnaire sandbox, I'll fill out. Best, PЄTЄRS J V ►TALK 19:13, 7 February 2012 (UTC) Never mind, added mine to the sandbox! PЄTЄRS J V ►TALK 20:17, 8 February 2012 (UTC) We miss you! Piotrus: On behalf of WPPOLAND - we hope to see you back with us again one day! Hopefully inside the next 5 days we launch a new website with the first of 5 printed booklets on anti-Polish sentiment. I planned to inform Wiki Polish editors encase they can use it. Jniech (talk) 22:09, 7 February 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 06 February 2012 News and notes: The Foundation visits Tunisia, analyzes donors In the news: Leading scholar hails Wikipedia, historians urged to contribute while PR pros remain shunned Discussion report: Discussion swarms around Templates for deletion and returning editors of colourful pasts WikiProject report: The Eye of the Storm: WikiProject Tropical Cyclones Featured content: Talking architecture with MrPanyGoff Arbitration report: Four open cases, final decision in Muhammad images, Betacommand 3 near closure Technology report: October's coding challenge: results now in; progress on 1.19 steady; and why for a while interwiki links were no more Read this Signpost in full Single-page Unsubscribe EdwardsBot (talk) 00:12, 8 February 2012 (UTC) guilt trippin' Ay, with this [1] you're making me feel bad. I'll try to do some of these soon. One thing though that has turned me of is that the particular time period that is being dealt with - 18th century - is both one that I'm not all that familiar with and one that, relatedly, not that interested in.VolunteerMarek 00:37, 9 February 2012 (UTC) Billboard charts I've thought of organizing the various charts into genres such as rock, country, dance, pop, etc. It would at the same time split Billboard charts and merge such articles as Rock Songs, Alternative Songs and Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. Take out #1 lists and/or the chart records trivia and they are little more than stubs. One of these days, I'll propose it to the Record Charts project group, but it would be something like Billboard rock charts, which I created in my user space. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 22:57, 9 February 2012 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification Hi. When you recently edited Wisława Szymborska, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Party line (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:06, 10 February 2012 (UTC) Maps Hello again! I uploaded the finished files and you can see them at the Map Workshop. As for File:Armia_krajowa_1.png it looks straightforward and can be done quickly, so send in the translations. By the way, I wonder if you could get Lonio17, the creator of these and many other excellent maps, to start doing them in SVG instead. SVG is infinitely more usable and modifiable, and learning the software should be an easy task for someone who already has the skill to produce such maps. Cheers! -- Orionist ★ talk 19:08, 10 February 2012 (UTC) February meeting It's time to schedule the February outreach:Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting. Please add your availability to this Doodle by February 15 so we can schedule the meeting at a time that the most people are available. Thanks! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 22:19, 10 February 2012 (UTC) Saw your quotes I was reading the University Times on-line and saw your quotes. Great job and thanks for taking a stand. CrazyPaco (talk) 00:23, 11 February 2012 (UTC)