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Low Participation

It seems to me that this project is essentially dead, is there anyone still interested in it? I'm trying to do my best assessing articles and such following the guidelines and doing everything I can to help. Demokratickid (talk) 15:24, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello Demokratickid. Yes, this project seems to be inactive, but occasionally you can meet interested editors here on Wikipedia, mainly quarrelling over controversial topics with Hungarians. I'm trying to watch this and this page, and sometimes I edit Slovak related articles. However, I'm focusing mainly on the Czech Wikiproject. Thanks for your help and interest. --Vejvančický (talk) 08:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Alright thanks Vej. Demokratickid (talk) 21:58, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi, there is a huge amount of work to be done here, I think it is important to have at least the most basic articles about Slovakia at a start-class level, starting with the Outline of Slovakia. I'm planning to create Political scandals of Slovakia, Taxation in Slovakia, Capital punishment in Slovakia and Banking in Slovakia in the future (we'll see if I actually get to it) but there are dozens of elementary articles that should be created (Wildlife of Slovakia, Court system of Slovakia, Military history of Slovakia and so on). Brutalhovno (talk) 11:07, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Agreed, there's a lot to do at this project, Outline of Slovakia is just a starting point :) --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 11:44, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Indeed every article is helpful and those ones will definitely make for better, well-rounded coverage of Slovakia. Thank you for your work, Brutalhovno! Demokratickid (talk) 14:27, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

AfD: Slovaks in Hungary

[1] This may be of interest to your project. Beyond My Ken (talk) 14:29, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons

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Your assistance in reviewing and referencing these articles is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions, please don't hestitate to ask either at WT:URBLP or at my talk page. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 17:36, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Assistance needed with Eastern Europe

The Eastern Europe article is fraught with errors, mislabels and slanted facts as if much of it was written by ultraconservatives during the Cold War from an ethnocentric position. If you agree with that Slovakia is a Central European state rather than a Soviet satellite, please assist in rewording/correcting the article lead and body. Gregorik (talk) 06:19, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Bratislava FAR initiated

I have nominated Bratislava for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Daniel Case (talk) 03:38, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Slovakia articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Slovakia articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:37, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing

I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:28, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Personal Crusade

I've really tried to get more involved with this WikiProject, and so I've personally categorized every single unknown or unassased article and am now about to embark on a very, very ambitious (probably quixotic) crusade to lift as many Slovak articles above 'Stub' status as possible, and see if we can get another Featured article within the next six months. It's a long shot, and I may be the only one working on this project, but I figured I'd throw this out there for any interested passerby. Your help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Demokratickid (talk) 02:59, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm more involved in the WP Czech, but I'm interested. I can help with translations of Slovak sources etc. Feel free to let me know if you need any assistance. Thanks for your work, Demokratickid. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 07:29, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Okay I'll let you know if there's any particular area I'm in need of. My first personal project is to turn the Slovak Uprising of 1848/49 article into something decent. Demokratickid (talk) 18:35, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

FYI

The article about Barbara Haščáková, a former member of the disco duo Mc Erik & Barbara, is proposed for deletion. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 14:18, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Survivor: Slovak Republic

This article is being discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Survivor: Slovak Republic. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 08:40, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Ice hockey players - article names

Hello. I am letting you know, that one user created hundreds of stubs about mostly Czech and Slovak ice hockey players and rendered their names without diacritics. I moved some of them to diacriticized names but the user reverted my moves. He still opposes diacritics in "his" articles, although as you know, they are used throughout Wikipedia. Also the rest articles on ice hockey players have names with diacritics. Even the WikiProject Ice Hockey allows them to be used. For affected articles, see e.g. Vladimir Buril, Kristian Kovac, Robert Pukalovic and Tibor Visnovsky. - Darwinek (talk) 10:23, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

It seems you're in the right here, that the pages for sake of accuracy should include diacritics. And, also, they are not necessarily his articles anyway this is Wikipedia where anyone can improve/edit. Demokratickid (talk) 10:51, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Please follow the requests for move at Talk:Frantisek Ptacek and Talk:Tibor Visnovsky. Thank you. - Darwinek (talk) 17:21, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Please have a look at Talk:Vladimir Buril for another bunch of RM. - Darwinek (talk) 14:20, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Should diacritics be encouraged or discouraged in article's titles?

You may be interested in my proposal here. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 20:40, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Request for move

There is a request for move, which may interest members of this WikiProject, at Talk:Martin Ruzicka. - Darwinek (talk) 10:46, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Request for move

There are requests for move, which may interest members of this WikiProject, at Talk:Marek Bartánus and Talk:Peter Čerešňák. - Darwinek (talk) 19:33, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

There is another related request for move at Talk:Tomas Jurco. - Darwinek (talk) 18:31, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Request for move

It has been proposed that Milan Jurčina be renamed and moved, see Talk:Milan Jurčina. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 12:11, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

RFC ar Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (use English)

There has been a brewing issue at WP:RM over WP:HOCKEY recommendations and how they should be applied over WP:COMMONNAME and WP:UE. Basically the hockey recommendation is that Diacritics shall be applied to all player pages, where appropriate as for the languages of the nationalities of the players in question. This is in fact a mandate that does not allow consideration of any other policy on naming. I think we need to resolve the issue of which naming convention we use for ice hockey players. Is it the one for the names of everyone else based on existing policy and guidelines, or do we have a blanket exception for one project? Please go to Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(use_English)#RFC_on_hockey_names per Vegaswikian (talk) 00:53, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Mass page move request

A mass nomination to move articles about sportsmen based on diacritics in their name has been filed at Talk:Dominik_Halmosi#Requested_Move --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 03:50, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Slovakia will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Slovakia's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:54, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Retired user

I don't know if it suppose to be of my concern or not, but I found this user (#6 in your participant log), to be retired. Now, he goes by the name of Hexagon1 in your log, but his real name is User:John Quincy Adding Machine. I would like to know if we (you) need to delete him, or create an inactive partcipants log as well? The reason why I posted this is because why have a participant listed if he doesn't contribute. I don't know about his account, but it says retired, which in my opinion, mean inactive. Your feedback will be welcome!--Mishae (talk) 23:30, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Krásna Hôrka

The Krásna Hôrka was destroyed by fire overnight. I've nominated the article for ITN. Assistance is sought from members of this WP in expanding the article and improving the referencing. Mjroots (talk) 08:16, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

HighBeam Research partnership

HighBeam Research [2] -- an online, pay-for-use search engine for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias has agreed to give free, full-access, 1-year accounts for up to 1000 Wikipedia editors to use. HighBeam has access to over 80 million articles from 6,500 publications, most of which are not available for free elsewhere on the internet. Aside from a free 7-day trial (credit card required), access to HighBeam would cost $30 per month or $200 per year for the first year and $300 for subsequent years, so this is a wonderful, free, no-strings-attached opportunity. To qualify, editors must have at least a 1 year-old account with 1000 edits. Please add your name to the WP:HighBeam/Applications account sign-up page if you are interested. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 14:55, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

New article: Rural parliament

I have started a new article which deals with the Slovak rural parliament, among others. Please review, contribute and expand. Additional quality refs highly welcome.Mais oui! (talk) 04:40, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Filip Horansky

Is anyone on this project familiar about how to apply WP guidelines to this edit:

Filip Horanský (born January 7, 1993) and known professionally as Filip Horansky, is a tennis player from Slovakia. Filip Horanský at www.talenty-info.sk "Filip Horanský je najlepším juniorským tenistom u nás."

In ictu oculi (talk) 19:14, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Article alerts misfire?

Two multiple proposals Talk:Milan Jurcina -> Slovak Spelling: Milan Jurčina etc., and Martin Bakos -> Martin Bakoš etc. are not showing (yet) on WikiProject Slovakia front page. This may be due to a bot misfire? In ictu oculi (talk) 03:42, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

fully professional league?

Is the Slovak Super Liga a fully professional league?SirEdimon (talk) 23:05, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes it is, see Statutes of the Slovak Football Association [3], Chapter 13, No. 1, p. 10: Únia ligových klubov je riadiacim a samosprávnym orgánom na úseku profesionálneho futbalu. (Union of League Clubs is the governing and self-governing authority in the field of professional football [in Slovakia]). Union of League Clubs is an autonomous organization of football clubs with legal status and internal structure, it governs two highest football competitions (leagues) in Slovakia (see the official website of the Slovak Football Association). Here is the list of members (all clubs of Slovak 1st and 2nd football league). --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 07:30, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Oh my friend, thank you!!!! This is really very usefull for me. So do you think, I could add this league on this list:WP:FPL? SirEdimon (talk) 21:40, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

I've added Corgoň Liga to the list, including the sources mentioned here. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 06:08, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks again SirEdimon (talk) 21:29, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Debate on inclusion of Esterhazy in article on Gasparovic

Hello, I am trying to establish consensus on whether or not to include of a section describing a controversy on Gasparovic's comments on Esterhazy. A fellow editor believes that the controversy is noted and such, and properly sourced, I believe that it gives undue weight to a marginal issue. For the full discussion, please see the article's Talk page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ivan_Ga%C5%A1parovi%C4%8D#Re:_Gasparovic_revision 89.173.110.130 (talk) 14:13, 7 August 2012 (UTC)