Talk:Poland

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For general questions about Poland, not related to this article, try WP:RD or WP:PWNB.

White stork picture

The picture comes probably from Germany.Xx236 (talk) 09:23, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the hint. Please be bold and replace those storks with true Polish ones. --Thorsten1 (talk) 11:47, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

:) --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 12:45, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Symbols of Lithuania claims tha storks are Lithuanian symbols.Xx236 (talk) 15:00, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure the storks couldn't care less. --Thorsten1 (talk) 19:37, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Storks have nationality?? If they do, were those Polish storks offended by the language of the German inhabitants throughout the 800 or so years when they were found in areas the Germans called eastern Germany (specifically, the German majority areas in 1937 German boundaries, to include German provinces of Silesia, Main Pommerania, & "East Prussia")?? All those years and the poor misguided Germans talked to those Polish storks in German! Another amazing story!! - there seems to be no end to the Amazing Stories !!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.14.217.231 (talk) 11:51, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Commons Polska

There is no Commons for Poland but for Polska.Xx236 (talk) 14:53, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Telecommunication and IT

Telecommunication and IT Jest: the coverage mobile cellular is over 1000 users per 1000 people (2007) Telephones—mobile cellular: 38.7 million (Onet.pl & GUS Report, 2007) Powinno byc: the coverage mobile cellular is over 1090 users per 1000 people (2008) Telephones—mobile cellular: 42 million (Onet.pl & GUS Report, 2008) zrodlo: http://biznes.onet.pl/0,1786769,wiadomosci.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.59.140.15 (talk) 04:51, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Religion in Poland

"About 88% of the population belongs to the Roman Catholic Church, with 58% as practising Catholics according to 2005 survey by the Centre for Public Opinion Research.[5]" According to "information portal of Ministry of Foreigns Affairs of the Republic of Poland" "The biggest numbers belong to the Catholic Church, approximately 95% of the religious segment of Polish society." http://www.poland.gov.pl/?document=397 --Krzyzowiec (talk) 02:33, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Democracy index

someone could add to "International rankings": (Economist Intelligence Unit) democracy index 2007
Rank: 46th
Countries reviewed: 167 source: http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/Democracy_Index_2007_v3.pdf

More indexes

Some other statistics could be also helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemployment_rate —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jxa (talk • contribs) 21:39, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Medial wages

Medial wage in Warsaw is about 3500 zlotychs, not 4600! The highest medial wages in Poland are in Katowice (3950 PLN), Gdansk (3900 PLN) and in Warsaw (3500). polacken (talk) 13:03, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Religion

I'm confused about the numbers in the Ethnicity and Religion section. I can't make out what percent of the population is Catholic. The Religion in Poland article doesn't help. It has different numbers. --Elliskev 00:20, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

OK. According to The Concise Statistical Yearbook of Poland, 2008, Poland has a population of 38.125 million and there are 33.9 million Roman Catholics—about 89%. And, according to this—if my google tranlsator is working—97% of Poles are religious. Also, the source that is used to support the 95% Catholic number—Churches and Religious Life in Poland—sound to me as if it's referring to the number of churches, not people. I am going to sort out the section using this.--Elliskev 12:35, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I would suggest that there is a great difference between being a Catholic and Practising Catholic. The 89% referes to those who would describe themselves as being Catholic. Practising Catholics, (Those attending church regularly), will vary region to region I would expect that in country area's over 50% would be possible, whilst in Metropolitan connurbations less that 25% would be the norm. Whilst the Polish people would describe themselves as Catholic, in my 15 years of living in Poland I would estimate that 80% are critical of the church. Have a look as [http://www.about-poland.com for further information. Crayden (talk) 05:34, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

homework

i arent doing this homework got that —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.137.79 (talk) 19:26, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Small error

Sentence is wrong: "and emerged several years later as a socialist republic within the Eastern Bloc under strong Soviet influence." Poland wasn't socialist republic, it was independend country (formally), but within the Eastern Bloc under strong Soviet influence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.255.109.132 (talk) 03:12, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

People's Republic of Poland was a socialist republic. M 85.222.54.163 (talk) 11:06, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Piast dynasty

please remove idiotic map showing poland in the lands of Prussia, Jotuva and Pamare, while all history sources shows that you had a war with all those lands and Prussia was till Vistula...DO NOT FAKE STUPIDS YOUR OWN HISTIRY, THOSE LAND WILL BE GIVEN BACK TO ETHNIC PEOPLE AND NOT TO NAZZI DEGENERATES POLES —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.151.172.183 (talk) 03:19, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Why would you call Poles "Nazzi degenerates", considering Nazi in the WWII context refers to Germans? Please don't change history, own up to what happened!

Postwar Communist Poland

Like the unanswered comment in one of the above states, Why does the map of post-WW2 Polish land annexations have a description in the text saying that all the dark areas were German? Danzig was a Free City State based upon the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.14.217.231 (talk) 10:45, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Eastern Europe?

There is Eastern Europe mentioned in the Postwar Communist Poland paragraph. Due to the fact, that Poland is a part of Central, not Eastern Europe (mentioned also in the very beginning of this article - "Poland [ˈpoʊlənd] (help·info) (Polish: Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe.") I suggest that the link called "collapse of communism across Eastern Europe" should be re-written to "collapse of communism across Central Europe" -- Finrod Felagund, 2008-10-12 00:12 CEST —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.79.35.19 (talk)

Poland straddles Central to Eastern Europe e.g., would anyone agree that the extreme eastern part of Poland (Curzon Line boundary) was "Central Europe"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.14.240.177 (talk) 09:33, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Poland is either Eastern or Central Europe depending on two systems of divison. The CIA Factbook uses Centrul Europe for instance, however the UN uses Eastern Europe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.205.150.49 (talk) 21:53, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Warmest City

Is Tarnow the warmest city whole year? I would suggest Slubice or Legnica —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.105.131.120 (talk) 11:40, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

History of Poland (1569–1795, History of Poland (1795–1918) and History of Poland (1939–1945)

I can't understand why there is no informations about polish uprisings in main article. I think that it should be mention at least. (1794, 1830, 1863 and 1944 at least). I am not able to write it in english but I know it is fundamental(!). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.24.130.36 (talk) 22:20, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

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HDI out of date

I was recently browsing the Poland wiki page to find out information about it's Growth Rate. When I saw it, I investigated further, by going onto the HDI page, and then selecting the 2008 section. I found that Poland was now 39th, not,as was stated in the article,37th. I realise it says 2005 in the article, but if more recent information is available, why is it not displayed on the article? I would edit the article myself, but it is as yet protected, so I cannot. 20:31, 24 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.11.8.17 (talk)

 Fixed I have updated to the 2006 figures (released in 2008), but create an account and you can edit semi-protected articles yourself in four days. :) Njaelkies Lea (talk) 20:55, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

GDP - a need to upgrade

Why don't you change the data of Polish GDP per capita (PPP) ? Today it's 17,560 USD and the total is 669,0 bln USD —Preceding unsigned comment added by Msqe (talk • contribs) 13:05, 2 February 2009 (UTC) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/pl.html#Econ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.156.122.3 (talk) 09:49, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

 Fixed, but I used the IMF source as I believe that to be more credible in matters of GDP. Njaelkies Lea (talk) 10:16, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Yet again nominal GDP per capita is artificially uplifted according to the IMF World Economic Outlook, the source mentioned in the footnote, which is 14.980 not 16800 or something. As i can't edit this article due it is editing-protected, could anyone do this and follow the source as it should fe followed without distorting data? Thank you in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.61.59.236 (talk) 13:33, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Category:Countries bordering the Baltic Sea vs, Category:Poland

Category:Poland is itself a category within Category:Countries bordering the Baltic Sea. — Robert Greer (talk) 19:03, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

So? WP:Categorization and subcategories makes it quite clear (well, not as clear as it might - but see my proposed rewrite as mentioned at that talk page) that a page can belong to both a category and a subcategory thereof.--Kotniski (talk) 08:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Revert changes from user Kirk diamond

I would suggest reverting changes from user Kirk diamond, he uses articles just to promote himself (Dariusz Zawislak). There is a huge crosswiki spam from him:
http://toolserver.org/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=Kirk+diamond&lang= --Spock lone wolf (talk) 14:30, 6 April 2009 (UTC) i was born in poland szymon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.183.243.205 (talk) 08:18, 5 June 2009 (UTC)