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Good article reassessment for Kraków[edit]

Kraków has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:03, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

World Kociewie Day[edit]

As World Kociewie Day on the 10 February is approaching I thought I might post here to see if anyone would be interested in helping to improve the Wikipedia entry for Kociewie?

I've also had a go at creating a Kociewian userbox here. Wikociewie (talk) 12:40, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Wikociewie My first thought was that we need to split the article about the people (Kociewiacy) from the region. The issue is, I cannot locate any RS using the term Kociewians in English; the few English sources mentioning that group use the Polish term Kociewians. In either case, I think creating such an article (about the ethnic group) should be a priority. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:11, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes I think this is a very good idea! Wikociewie (talk) 09:01, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Stara Kosianka#Requested move 2 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:32, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Issues with Polish village names[edit]

I left a discussion at the village pump about the mass errors of Polish village names on English Wikipedia. Ilawa-Kataka (talk) 17:23, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hatnotes on articles that are disambiguated[edit]

Hi all, I have had a request from @Shhhnotsoloud to remove the hatnote I added to this article. I neither completely agree nor completely disagree with their sentiments, but it seems that the use of hatnotes, in particular Other places and See also is widespread in articles that are disambiguated. I can find no mention of hatnotes in WP:MOSPOL. Could project members please add their thoughts? Thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 07:10, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think they are helpful and woudl support keeping them. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:06, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The relevant guideline applicable to all articles is Wikipedia:Hatnote: "The purpose of a hatnote is to help readers locate a different article if the one they are at is not the one they're looking for", and specifically WP:NAMB: "It is usually preferable not to have a hatnote when the name of the article is not ambiguous." A hatnote being "helpful" is not enough: helpful material that does not meet the purpose of a hatnote should go in the body of the article or at the See also section. Hatnotes, especially long ones or multiple ones, are intrusive, and separate the reader from the material they are really looking for. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 12:04, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this discussion, but I'd like to point out that hatnotes on disambiguated pages make little sense as long as you do your search entirely inside Wikipedia. However, if you search in Google, the first result is likely to be an already disambiguated Wikipedia article, but it may not be what your are looking for. In that case, a hatnote may actually be helpful. — Kpalion(talk) 11:05, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In the above discussion, a couple editors think the above subject may be notable but have provided no evidence of notability. I would like to avoid pushing this to AfD unnecessarily, so can someone who is familiar with Polish sources be able to weigh in on the notability question? -- Tavix (talk) 14:27, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notice

The article Krajków, Łódź Voivodeship has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

This article states that it belongs to Gmina Wieluń, but its related article on the Polish wikipedia states that it is in Gmina Mokrsko. What's more, the Polish article states that it is part of the town of Krzyworzeka, Łódź Voivodeship, i.e. not a separate town in its own right. There is no content here that could be merged into Krzyworzeka.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Kiwipete (talk) 08:38, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

IPA transcriptions; need help[edit]

Please see these contribs from a new account: [1]. I have almost no knowledge of IPA and have no idea if this is correct or not. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 14:26, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hammersoft Neither do I. Maybe @I-hate-informal-Polish-IPA-transcription will explain. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:10, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
All of their edits have been reverted by @Nardog - maybe they can also comment? I also thought that the correct template to use is {{IPAc-pl}}. Kiwipete (talk) 07:43, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for review[edit]

Dear editors, if someone would be willing to or had some free time to review my recent rewrite of the list of Ministers of the Interior of Poland, I would be greatful. As I'm a beginer in editing with proper references :-) I would be thankful for both editorial and meritoric feedback on my edits.

While reviewing please note I deliberately used title "Minister of Internal Affairs" with regard to the interwar and communist period, and "Minister of the Interior" to the modern era – in the first case there were no official English translations of the title so I used the direct translation of it, whereas in the second case there was an English translation used by the MSW which is the one mentioned. Also please give your opinion on using coloured background of the party name cell in the last one of the tables (in other two it wouldn't serve any pupose in my opinion) – I was using here and in other aspects the pattern established by the British lists of ministers, for e.g. here.

I also proposed merging the article Ministry of the Interior (Poland) into this article. I have steated my reasons here and they stand unchanged. (I haven't kept my promise on the date stated, but I was distracted lately :-). — Antoni12345 (talk) 13:57, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aleksandra Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk[edit]

I've created an article for Aleksandra Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk. Unfortunately, I cannot read Polish, so I have to rely on machine translation from sources, so I may have made errors. Could some native Polish speaker review the article, and check it against the native-language sources?

She is also mentioned in this book, to which I don't have access. — The Anome (talk) 18:36, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]