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The Romani population in Romania

What are exactly the sources for the numbers of Roma in Romania throughout time? Kenshin (talk) 10:44, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Bulibasa image

Hi Olahus, wondered if you could source the book in question to get some background on the person portrayed. It would be a pity for the image to be deleted if avoidable. Kindest Regards. RashersTierney (talk) 12:37, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Geography of Moldova map

First of all you are right, I should have left a message on your talk page. I was a little busy yesterday, and I hope you understand the delay.

The map lumps together areas with different geographical meaning:

1. Northern Moldavian Hills, Dniester Ridge (Dniester-Rāut Ridge), Bălţi Steppe, and Middle Prut Valley are gathered together into Bălţi-steppe, which is not correct, because lowland and easy hills on one side and step hills on the other, should not be.

2. Ciuluc-Soloneţ Hills, Corneşti Hills, western part of Lower Dniester Hills, and northern part of Tigheci Hills are lumped together into Codrii, which again is not correct first because it splits Lower Dniester Hills and Tigheci Hills, second because Codri (one i) is the Romanian name for forests, not for hills. Kodry was a Russian name given by the Soviets to the area. They have no such hills in Russia, and the Soviet tourists did not know that codru=forest, so for the consumer Soviet tourist unknowledgeable of the geography of the country it might have seemed as if it was meant the hills, when in fact it was only meant the forests. Cordi, i.e. the forests nowadays only cover 20-25% of the area. If one says I want to see the Codri, a local, regardless of the native language, would understand the tourist wants to see the forests, not the hills. Therefore, one should not designate the whole area as Codri, but rather as its 4 geographic components.

3. Lower Prut Valley, Bugeac Plain, eastern part of Lower Dniester Hills, and central and southern part of Tigheci Hills are lumped together as Bugeac-steppe. Again, hills and plains should not be lumped together.

4. part of Podolian Plateau and part of Eurasian Steppe are lumped together as Transnistrian plateau, a name that never appeared before. Also the plateau (in the north), even easy one as this, is quite different from the very flat steppe (in the south).

I would suggest to create a new map, using google maps, NASA freely-available maps, or smth like that. Here you can find a table with these areas and the surface area, in km^2, they occupy. Unfortunately, I do not have software capable of making maps, but I would be very glad to help with anything. Dc76\talk 10:12, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for your answer. As I said, the biggest problem I have is I cannot create maps. So if you can, please do. I will point out if some details are incorrect. Dc76\talk 14:41, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Transnistria-map.png

Hi Olahus, it seems we both had the same idea and worked on improved versions for this map. I had just uploaded my new version when you uploaded yours. Would you mind if we leave mine as the new version? It is more detailed in some aspects. Thanks, Capmo (talk) 15:40, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Page protection

Hi - requests for page protection changes should be made at WP:RFPP, not the edit-warring notaceboard. Thanks, Black Kite 22:59, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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False warning

Don't send me false warnings, there was a concensus for the definition, there was never concensus for the strange looking map. (I see people rather opposing it on the talk page.) Please continue the discussion on the relevant talk page, not on mine. Thank you. Squash Racket (talk) 18:27, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I answered in your talk page. --Olahus (talk) 16:51, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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SYNTH

The entire article needs rewriting, not as much because it fails to present "negative" aspects in Romani life (though admittedly it does), but mainly because it fails to mention important phenomenons, and, while parts of it tend to veer away from neutrality the Romani advocacy way, the text is actually in part polluted by antiziganist claims. A middle ground is needed, and that middle ground is determined not by adding up positive and negative facts we interpret, but by citing the conclusions of reliable sources. That said, your additions cited two newspaper articles, both of them taken out of context and used for sourcing things they do not actually say. Now, if the Cotidianul article is pure trivia taken out of context to source a generic conclusion, the EVZ one could still be cited, but not for what you used it - while it says something about a Romani initiative to offer more kindergarten access, and explains why some Romani families don't want to have their children educated at that level (which is equally true for thousands of Romanian families, and therefore irrelevant), the entire argument about "positive discrimination" etc. is not in any way reflected in the source.

And, btw: you do realize embedded links have to be copyedited, because wikipedia articles are not posts on a forum. You would really be helping everybody by formatting the embedded links with something descriptive and in accordance to standards (author, title, publication, publication date....). Dahn (talk) 18:31, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A paragraph on Romani education was something that I indented to add (but I've abandoned the idea like so many others because of lack of time), because, despite the apparences, the situation has improved quite a lot in this area. Kenshin (talk) 08:35, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
See this, please (both): Roma_minority_in_Romania#How_can_we_improve_this_article.3F Kenshin (talk) 10:29, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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To answer your question

Because Russian authorities have been claiming "discrimination" ever since the Soviet Union fell. It started during the Intermovement era as concern trolling, and over a few years grew into full-scale accusations.

Ethnic discrimination never was a significant problem in Republic of Estonia. Partially because it wasn't a problem in the first era of independence. As you may or may not know, Estonia has been welcoming for ethnic and cultural minorities since very beginning, to the point that the Declaration of Independence is titled Manifest to all peoples of Estonia, and on its very first page -- item number 2, even before general human rights, in fact --, it promised ethnic and cultural authorities to minorities, particularly mentioning Russians, Germans, Swedes and Jews. The only item higher than this was the promise of equal protection under law, "faith, ethnicity and political outlook notwithstanding". And it might be that in some small part, officials have been slightly more aware about the potential for discrimination because of the accusations, and have thus been more careful when dealing with subjects where there's even a risk of such discrimination.

Unfortunately, Russian authorities have been "encouraging" Russian people in Estonia to find things that they could interpret as discrimination. Naturally, most Russian people are decent, reasonable folks and don't think that when, say, a car mechanic doesn't speak Russian very well, it must demonstrate anti-Russian discrimination, or that when one can't pay a bar tab in Russian roubles, it must be anti-Russian discrimination, or that when a person who speaks Russian but neither Estonian, Finnish or English is not hired to tender a bar in the tourist area of Tallinn, it must be anti-Russian discrimination. But the small minority who *do* think such things can occassionally be loud, and when it's politically convenient, Russian media will be sure to lend it a megaphone to boot.

As for Russians outside Estonia -- again, most of them are decent, reasonable folks --, some, very unfortunately, tend to accept the megaphoned accusations by Russia's state-controlled media. When the incidents have been mangled in this way, you wouldn't know that it was about a car mechanic not speaking Russian; you might instead think that the car mechanic beat up a customer for speaking Russian, or that there's an unspoken policy of not hiring Russophone people as bartenders in Tallinn. It's nonsense, but it keeps up the hopes and dreams of people who like to imagine that they're being discriminated against, and it maintains a dog-whistle politics meaning of the word "discrimination", as it is used in this context. This is why there are no "Discrimination of ..." articles for any other regions: it doesn't have the dog-whistle quality, so elsewhere, everybody concerned is quite content to discuss ethnic, religious or political discrimination under "Human rights ..." titles.

Naturally, all this can be backed by reliable sources, so an encyclopædic article *could* be written about it. But as you can see, I have enough on my wikiplate already, and I'm not particularly keen to open a new can of wikiworms. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος! 07:54, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A common trick is to sow confusion between the concepts of person who can speak Russian and person who can only speak Russian. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος! 08:12, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I know the problem. In the past, I had similar disputes with Russian users concerning Bessarabia, Transnistria, Moldova, the Moldovan "identity" (it's nothing but Stalinism), the "Eastern Slavic majority in Transnistria" (as if the Eastern Slavs were an ethnic group) etc. --Olahus (talk) 16:11, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hungarian names

Salut Olahus,

I prefer the Hungarian names rather than their official names because i am Hungarian. Are you astonished now? --Nmate (talk) 14:38, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Your username on ro.wp

Hi. We have a request filed at the Romanian Wikipedia from a user named Olahus2, who wants to usurp your username (I'm supposing you are the same person who opened the account Olahus on ro.wp). I noticed that you still haven't unified your account. My question is whether you intend to have a unified login and whether you would accept this other person to use your name on ro.wp.

From a copyright viewpoint, the usurpation seems acceptable (if you agree with it, or if you don't say anything for 7 days), because you only have a minor edit in the ro.wp article namespace (and a comment in a talk page). However, I think it's preferable for users to have the same name on all projects, and since Olahus2 cannot usurp your name on en.wp, it follows that he cannot have the name Olahus on all Wikimedia project, and as such he should think of a name that hasn't been taken yet.

Here is the request: ro:Wikipedia:Schimbarea numelui de utilizator. Please let me know how you want this to be done. Thanks. — AdiJapan 16:33, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please disregard the message above. I thought there were two different active users with the same name on ro.wp and en.wp. — AdiJapan 13:16, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Sofia Rotaru

Hi. Please don't just blindly change Moldavian to Romanian. There's at least three editors (myself included) who think that it should read Moldavian. We've got a thread open on Talk:Sofia Rotaru#Romanian vs Moldavian if you want to discuss potentially changing that. Thanks. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 17:27, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Can you explain your edits on the talk page? All you said was "this issue is closed now." But it isn't - you're the only one pushing for that change. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 14:08, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Can you explain why it should be readed "Moldavian" instead of "Romanian". Which point of view it actually? Sofia Rotaru's ? I doubt it. There is also no consensus to use the designation "Moldavian". --Olahus (talk) 14:16, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Photo montage

Hi Olahus. Could you provide an alternative image, preferably where the Romani people concerned have publicly self-identified as being of this ethnicity/background? Otherwise what we have is liable to removal per WP:BLP policy. If you wouldn't mind, perhaps you could reply at Talk:Romani people. Thanks. RashersTierney (talk) 10:37, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. Why not. --Olahus (talk) 14:43, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Stanford's 1878 Ethnological map

I've seen you removed the Stanford's 1878 Ethnic composition map of the Balkans from the Balkan's article. This map is of historical significance since upon that map the Congress of Berlin created Bulgaria as a state in 1878 and shaped her borders. I also noticed that you also removed it from any other article of wikipedia including the very article of the Berlin's Congress by saying that it is wrong. Wikipedia is not judging an historical document as it is a 1878 map as right or wrong, especially a map upon a treaty was determined. WP works with references, documents and facts, leaving the reader to judge for himself what is right and what is wrong. So if you have censuses that denying what the map is picturing, you have to put them into the articles, with the necessary references. My opinion is that in the Balkan's article is better to avoid such maps because I believe that a day will come when the article will have 20 or 30 of them. But since for the time being had only one, of somewhat pro-Bulgarian view showing even eastern Thrace having a Bulgarian majority, it is good to give also a second opinion about, from a very well known cartographer of the era, enough serious as to influence a major treaty. Regards, --Factuarius (talk) 02:19, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have answered your post in my talk page, there. --Factuarius (talk) 10:48, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cannot understand your msg, plz restate it in more understandable form. --Factuarius (talk) 14:00, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My answer and any other future answer is (and will be) in my talk page. --Factuarius (talk) 17:08, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I found this map which is surprisely yours and as for the Serbia is almost identical with Stanford's map. There are some traces of Germans almost negligible (unlike your bold circles) and shows both Bosnia and Croatia being populated by Serbs as Stanford's. Also shows no traces of Hungarians and Germans in the part of Romania that the Stanford's map covers. Surprisely the common areas of the two maps are more or less identical, which is a rather rare phenomenon for Balkan ethnological maps, so I would like to ask you if this map is also wrong. And if so, why you bothered to download it? --Factuarius (talk) 00:14, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The maps are by far not identical. I cropped the two maps, so that you can easily compare them:


  • Kiepert
    Kiepert
  • Stanford
    Stanford
  • Kiepert
    Kiepert
  • Stanford
    Stanford

As you can see, they are major differences. The legend for Kiepert's map can be seen here: green for Croato-Serbians, blue for Romanians, red for Germans, white for Hungarians.--Olahus (talk) 19:35, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Banatul de Severin

Trebuie vorbit cu cine se pricepe la asa ceva sa se creeze odata articolul despre Banatul de Severin. Am vazut destui tampiti care iau de buna faza cu Oltenia = Banatul de Severin, probabil dupa harti vechi si proaste, si nu vor sa recunoasca faptele si adevarul. Chiar acum pe commons sunt niste harti cu Bulgaria in a doua jumatate a secolului al 13lea in care Oltenia apare ca fiind dominata de bulgari, si alta in care scrie ca Tara Romaneasca a fost sub dominatie bulgara pana 1322 (le-o fi ciuda bulgarilor pe maghiari?). Partea proasta e ca prostiile astea apar aici prin articole si lumea le ia de bune. Cei care le fac sunt incapatanati ca niste catari si nu vor sa recunoasca dominatia maghiara din 1241 cel putin. Nu ai gasit nicio harta mai detaliata a Banatului de Severin? --Alex:D (talk) 19:29, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Le-am trecut in mesajul de mai sus, dar uite-le din nou:

Cumania - Muntenia map (fz22)

check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Terratransalpina.png --fz22 (talk) 21:52, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cumania - Muntenia map (fz22)

check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Terratransalpina.png --fz22 (talk) 21:52, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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