User talk:Pofka

This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian on 16 April 2022.

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Gotteswerder Castle is a very good article. Well done. BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 16:35, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

@BoyTheKingCanDance: Thanks. -- Pofka (talk) 16:37, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Dovydas Giedraitis moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Dovydas Giedraitis, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more in-depth coverage about the subject itself, with citations from reliable, independent sources in order to show it meets WP:GNG. It should have at least three. And please remember that interviews, as primary sources, do not count towards GNG, neither does routine sports coverage.(?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 12:25, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Grammatica Litvanica

On 16 February 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Grammatica Litvanica, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Daniel Klein's Grammatica Litvanica (pictured), the first printed grammar of the Lithuanian language, introduced the distinctive Lithuanian letter Ė? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Grammatica Litvanica. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Grammatica Litvanica), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

February songs

my daily stories

Thank you for an interesting DYK! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:15, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: I am glad that you like it. Thank you for your kind words. :) -- Pofka (talk) 14:17, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

music today: the regional festival - DYK of 13 years ago ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:26, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:50, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Hi, it is an interesting information I was not familiar with before. Thanks. However, I have not participated in discussions about such infoboxes problematism, so I don't have strong opinion regarding this question. -- Pofka (talk) 17:04, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

understand, - lucky you! - today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:04, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Wow, just one year until 100. Impressive jubilee is approaching! -- Pofka (talk) 16:13, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Gediminas

Hello,

I've recently done some work editing Gediminas to make it more WP:NPOV (mostly getting rid of MOS:PUFFERY. In fact, I think the article may be sufficiently NPOV enough by now. If possible, can I remove the NPOV template from the article? If not, are there any additional edits I need to make to make the article more NPOV?

Below are the diffs of the revisions I made: [1] [2]

And here are the diffs of the subsequent revisions that occurred after I made the edits: [3] [4]

I decided to notify you as although I have already posted in Talk:Gediminas and Wikipedia:WikiProject Lithuania about this, as I haven't been getting responses to my questions. I want to reach a WP:CONSENSUS before I remove the NPOV dispute template on the article. I thought you might be a good person to reach out regarding this topic as you have far more editing experience than me (I only joined a week ago) and you seem familiar with the topic at hand judging from your contribs.

Shadow of the Starlit Sky (talk) 12:29, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Marcelus

As you are no doubt aware, I am the admin who sanctioned Marcelus. I wish to clarify first that the sanction was explicitly for edit warring and not for any other conduct, and second that he is at liberty to edit the topic within the bounds of his restriction. There is no need for you to bring his sanction up in unrelated discussions. In fact doing so, and this comment in particular, are suggestive of a battleground mentality. Marcelus has explicitly asked for no sanctions against you so I don't intend to take this any further but please focus more on content and less on contributors. Thank you, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:10, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Turning Wikipedia Green Barnstar
		I've noticed you've made tons of new articles about churches in Lithuania, as well as Gediminas' Cap (which got nominated for DYK). Especially, AMAZING work on Gediminas' Cap; absolutely amazing for a new article. Keep up the great content work. :D -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 22:34, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

@Shadow of the Starlit Sky: Thanks for your kind words and a barnstar. Creating such content about Lithuania was my pleasure and I was doing it for more than 12 years already. -- Pofka (talk) 17:13, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

You’re welcome. Btw, would you mind if I joined WikiProject Lithuania? I have virtually no knowledge about Lithuania but found that a lot of Lithuania-related articles seriously need copyediting, cleanup or disambiguation (well, I’m already in the Guild of Copy Editors and WikiProject Disambiguation). Also, I think I could act as a sort of “vandalism patroller” for the wikiproject.

Oh, and by the way if you want to know how I ended up finding out that all these Lithuania related articles need C/E, you can look at this user subpage. [5]

-- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 22:06, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

@Shadow of the Starlit Sky: Hi, if you want to contribute to Lithuania-related articles I see no reasons why you couldn't join WikiProject Lithuania. There are plenty of English language sources about Lithuania as well, so knowledge of Lithuanian language is not mandatory. -- Pofka (talk) 09:51, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

@Pofka Well, I joined it already while you were gone LOL. So far I’ve been working on cleaning up Klaipeda. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 12:05, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

@Shadow of the Starlit Sky: Hehe, okey. Article about Klaipėda definitely need expansion with WP:RS. -- Pofka (talk) 12:08, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

@Pofka IMO that article needs copy editing more than anything. LOTS of grammar issues and awkward phrasings. Also, there might be some unencyclopedic info/cruft too…. Either way, it seriously needs improvement. Besides, it’s even more important to improve it because it is a designated level 5 vital article- I never saw a vital article in such horrible conditions. So I’m working on copy editing it section by section as of now. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 12:15, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

@Shadow of the Starlit Sky: Yes the article is definitely very important as it is about the third-largest city of Lithuania, but requires quality input. -- Pofka (talk) 12:18, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

@Pofka Agreed. Either way it desperately needs cleanup. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 12:19, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

AE result

As a result of this AE thread, you are now subject to a one-way interaction ban with Marcelus. You may not refer to him, address him, comment about him, revert his edits, or interact with him in any other way, anywhere on Wikipedia. You may not report Marcelus to noticeboards and you may not comment on any noticeboard discussion concerning him. This does not prohibit you from commenting in the same talk page discussion as Marcelus provided you do not interact directly with him. No such restriction will apply to Marcelus but I will ask him to behave, as a courtesy, as though it did.

Further, you should consider this a final warning. There was not a consensus amongst admins for a topic ban this time but if there are any further concerns about your conduct in the Eastern Europe topic area, your previous topic ban will almost certainly be reinstated. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:57, 9 April 2023 (UTC)