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Armenian quote

Are there any Polish sources mentioning the Armenian quote, this quote is about how Hitler reportedly wanted his soldiers to treat Polish citizens. Mieciu K 20:44, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I couldn't find anything so far. But I will ask others.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  22:22, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

There is a heated Armenian-Turkish debate about if this quote can be atribiuted to A.H. so the opinion of Polish historians would be apreciated in that article. Mieciu K 17:43, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Statue of Bolesław Prus

I have found a photo of the statue of Bolesław Prus that stands on Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw. The photo is here ("Denkmal") on the German Wikipedia. I would like to place the photo in the English-language "Bolesław Prus" article, but don't know how to copy it into the Commons. I can't make any sense of the directions at Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons. Could someone explain in simple terms how the move is made or, better yet, move the photo into the Commons? Nihil novi 07:33, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Ummm... copy, upload, note original license and source... not sure which part is unclear?-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  12:55, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually... the whole process. For starters: "copy" to where? "upload" to what? If there were an example to imitate, I imagine I could learn to do it, like any good ape; but I don't see one... or I've missed it. Judging, too, by the "Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons" talk page, others are baffled too. Nihil novi 14:23, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

OK, let's see. Save the photo in the highest resolution possible on your computer. Go to Wikipedia Commons, register or log in, click upload, follow their instructions. I will see what can be done about making the instructions more user friendly (screenshots are probably a good idea).-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  22:21, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. That's helpful. For now, an anonymous editor has kindly moved the statue photo into the Commons, and I've placed it in the "Bolesław Prus" article. Nihil novi 00:28, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Divine Mercy paintings

Please help to solve sofisticated copyright problem about very important religious paintings. A.J. 20:42, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Piotrus

M.K has submitted a request for arbitration regarding Piotrus, an editor who frequents this board. If you are an involved party, you may wish to add a statement. Appleseed (Talk) 00:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

There is an interesting list of people there. The Wikipedia would be allegedly much better without the majority of Poles. Xx236 13:16, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Evil Poles

Time of Troubles - some POVs are more equal than other ones.Xx236 14:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, that's just a good example of article based on 1911 Britannica and 19th century Russian historians. I tagged it with 1911 pov; at some point it will be rewritten and updated. Quite a few Polish history articles are in similar condition, too...if you find something like this, tag it and move on.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  15:45, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, canvassing, how nice... <_< -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 17:47, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Please keep your bad faith comments to yourself. Thank you, -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  18:12, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Piotrus, people are tired of your lecturing. Honest. It does not earn you any points. Please do not respond with a new barrage. Thank you. --Irpen 19:55, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Your incivility and attempts to censor other users are what is not welcomed here. Please take my advice to Grafikm to yourself too and keep such mean-spirited comments off wiki: discuss articles, not editors, per WP:NPA.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  20:02, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I As you can see from above, almost knew it. :( Too bad... --Irpen 20:05, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I am glad this prompted me to read the corresponding chapters of the American historian George Vernadsky. I will sure expand the article. --Irpen 19:53, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Why the old Russian-American George Vernadsky? There is his younger follower Lev Gumilev.Xx236 09:04, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Bronisław Geremek

If someone could perhaps translate the pl.wiki section on his current troubles, I would appreciate it. Here's an opinion piece on it. Let me also say that I commend Poland's efforts in this area. No one who had links to the communist power structure has any business participating in politics today. Would that the rest of Europe had people like the Kaczyński brothers and Roman Giertych running it. Biruitorul 08:00, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Ummm... yes to the first part, no to the second one :) Think in terms of 'collateral damage' :D -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  17:32, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

"Polish Cathedral' style nominated for Deletion

The Page Polish Cathedral style has been nominated to be deleted. Please vote on this issue.

Added to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Poland; please see other discussions there and vote on them too.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  16:29, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Warsaw Uprising FAR

Warsaw Uprising has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. LuciferMorgan 15:22, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Do we need 2 Warsaw stubs?

We have {{warsaw-geo-stub}} and {{warsaw-stub}}. I believe one is enough... -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  04:38, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Polish Football 1919-1939

Should anyone want to help me expand the article I've just started, I would be grateful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Level_Football_Leagues_in_Interwar_Poland

greets Tymek 21:54, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

PL-UA cooperation proposal

Euro 2012

I propose all interested editors to join the authorities of our countries in this cooperative project. I hope there is a sufficient degree of interest and good will about at least this (yet) non-controversial topic if we can't do it all over WP. The Euro 2012 could be made a GA or, perhaps, an FA, and maintained such with our mutual attention and effort. Please help keeping this article cleaned up, help developing it and let's make sure the nationalism of any side can be kept in check while we work on this.

Football is one of the issues which strongly unite my country despite a host of issues that divide it. Let's hope that this topic can unite some Wikipedians divided over other articles.

Volunteers welcome? --Irpen 22:06, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Support. This is an important article, and getting it to a GA/FA status is needed. —dima/talk/ 00:25, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Great idea. Let me also suggest that we should work to improve other articles related to this one. Just to give one example, the infrastructure now being built to support Euro 2012 should be described. And here I have a request: having started the Autostrada A4 (Poland) article about what must be one of the most important motorways for the event in Poland, I would like to see an article about the Ukrainian motorway it will connect to, the M10. Would any of you have the necessary information to get that article going? We could also use articles about other roads connecting the major venues in Ukraine. Balcer 01:52, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Or (even more related) Olimpiysky National Sports Complex I once destubbed for DYK. That the final will be held there won't hopefully enrage my colleagues :). BTW, with some inline refs it can easily be GAed. All info is from the refs provided. Inlining them is all it would take (plus native speakers' copyediting). --Irpen 01:57, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Support, but as football is not one of my strong areas I am afraid I cannot help much. But I will see about the 'fringe' areas like infrastructure in Poland (particulary Silesia).-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  05:10, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Armia Krajowa or Polish Home Army?

See Talk:Armia Krajowa#Armia Krajowa or Polish Home Army? for ongoing discussion.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  00:56, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Polish communist PD template nomimated for deletion on Commons

See Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Template:PD-Polish.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  16:52, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Snowballing RfA

I request that next time, the campaign is run to snowball someone's RfAdm, the person behind it has decency to post such calls here rather than run it exclusively by email/IM/IRC or whatever, thus, at least, doing this campaign in the open. --Irpen 01:38, 5 May 2007 (UTC)