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Welcome home

My watchlist alerted me. Cheers, Jack Merridew 18:23, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I have admired the way you have behaved over the last 3 months. Respect!  Giano  19:20, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Haraki/Lindos

Hello; some of your photographs on Commons named "Haraki" look like Lindos castle...are you sure you took them in Haraki? I think there is a confusion between these castles, they are mixed in the photos you uploaded under the name "haraki"--Phso2 (talk) 12:11, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Semi-periphery_countries#Expert

I left you an (overdue) reply there. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 17:55, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

That's cool. I'm comfortable with you removing any tags you feel are inappropriate. SilkTork *YES! 18:31, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi

Welcome back. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 20:53, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Yup. Welcome back:
Postanowiłeś wrócić na dwór cesarza
jeszcze raz spróbować czy można tam żyć
...
gdy wrócisz nie miej zamiaru zasługiwać się
będziesz bił brawo odmierzoną porcją
uśmiechał się na uncje marszczył brwi dyskretnie
nie dadzą Ci za to złotego łańcucha
ten żelazny wystarczy
...
trzeba będzie na nowo ułożyć się z twarzą
z dolną wargą aby umiała powściągnąć pogardę
z oczami aby były idealnie puste
i z nieszczęsnymi podbródkiem zającem twej twarzy
który drży gdy wchodzi dowódca gwardii
...
wyjdz do ogrodu i wróć gdy już wyniosą ciało
Postanowiłeś wrócić na dwór cesarza
mam naprawdę nadzieję że jakoś to się ułoży
radek (talk) 01:02, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Judges' Council

A ping; the Judges' Council doesn't really count as part of the court system. Firstly it isn't any kind of court or tribunal, but more importantly it's completely unofficial. It has a written constitution and is considered by the executive when making decisions, but only because it's useful; by design, it has no statutory basis. Ironholds (talk) 16:57, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Category:Legal organizations it is. Ironholds (talk) 17:02, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

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Re:Sociology of leisure

Yeah, just ping me once you've nominated it and I'll take a look. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 19:24, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Work_aversion_(3rd_nomination)#Work_aversion

I have addressed your comments there and would appreciate if you'd take another look. The sourcing on that article is nothing more than random mentions of the phrase assembled haphazardly in an attempt to make it appear notable. Gigs (talk) 18:52, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Bogumiła Berdychowska

changed gender, i believe per your request, sorry for the mistake should have caught. Pohick2 (talk) 01:21, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Controversial command decisions, World War II

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Articles for deletion nomination of CINTAX

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DYK for sociology of leisure

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Talkback

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File author

Hi, can you provide the information about the author of this picture? Regards --by Màñü飆¹5 (m†¹5™) 08:00, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

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1st Armoured Division (Poland)

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Talk back

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Teofil Rutka

Tak myślę, czy (bo chyba już Cię odblokowało) mógłbyś rzucić okiem na fatalny style artka. Ale przede wszystkim chodzi mi o szablon: MSZ refy, których się za pomocą szablonu domaga, są zupełnie redundantne w przypadku, kiedy art jest napisany na podstawie haseł w encyklopediach/słownikach, i to w dodatku dość krótkich. Nawet byłem na IRCu enwiki się o to pytać, gdzie jedak nikt nie wiedział, czy refy są konieczne, czy preferowane. Jak wiesz, między różnymi wiki są na ten temat rozbieżności (de się w tych sprawach od en jeszcze dużo bardziej różni, niż pl): ja wolałbym to hasło i bez refów, i bez szablonu. Laforgue (talk) 22:28, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

A request for help

Hi there Piotrus:), I noticed your username on Translators Available Polish to English. I was wondering if you could help with updating Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi on the Hindi Wikipedia? Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi on the English Wikipedia has been majorly revamped- particularly, its being treated as a Biography of Living Persons now, since no one has been able to find evidence of his death. I'm sorry to say that I don't know much Polish, so I'd really appreciate your help in this :), although I understand if you don't have the time. Thanks in advance! Omirocksthisworld(Drop a line) 05:21, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant to say the Polish Wikipedia (I must be running on auto-pilot today!). This is the link to the article...a quick check through Google Translate gave me the impression that the language was Polish- but for all I know it could be any language. I was just focusing on getting the information about Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi to be consistent on all Wikipedias, but if there's no article about him in Polish and you would like to make one, that would be great! Thanks for your help and patience with me (I seem to be confusing a lot of languages today :( ). Omirocksthisworld(Drop a line) 20:42, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Yup

Responded at my talk page, but thought I'd drop by in mind of your practice just to say, yes, you certainly seem to be right about that. Put in process. Thanks! --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:01, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Tearoom Trade

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Materialscientist (talk) 06:02, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Statistics

Wow, there was no page on univariate analysis until now? I have a bachelor's degree in sociology, and I remember this not-so-fondly. Thanks for filling the gaps. Geschichte (talk) 11:56, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Double-barreled question

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Ucucha 00:04, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

reply

I was not aware of that. Lately I have expanded the Demographics of Europe template a little bit, adding pages for Slovenia and Bulgaria. You may change the Poland thing back if you think that's best. (LAz17 (talk) 04:48, 5 April 2010 (UTC)).

DYK for univariate analysis

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DYK for biosocial criminology

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Your GA nomination of Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits

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Sorry I missed this one - I was expecting to have Internet access over the long weekend, but the computer had enough viruses to make that pretty much impossible. Nikkimaria (talk) 12:57, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
My regular computer's fine, but I was away for the long weekend. Thanks for the offer, though. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 19:16, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLIX (March 2010)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XLIX (March 2010)
From the coordinators

I am pleased to report that the March coordinator elections have concluded, and that 15 members have been selected to serve as coordinators from April to September. Special congratulations go to AustralianRupert, Dank, MisterBee1966, NativeForeigner, Patar knight, and Ranger Steve, all of whom are newly elected coordinators. As we start this new tranche we welcome all returning coordinators, and wish those who decided not to stand for reelection luck as they move on to new things.

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Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
  2. Battle of Osan
  3. Bayern class battleship
  4. Dutch 1913 battleship proposal
  5. Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg
  6. Mary Rose
  7. No. 1 Wing RAAF
  8. USS Congress (1799)

New featured lists:

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  2. List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam War
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New featured pictures:

  1. Cavalry At Balaklava

New A-Class articles:

  1. Allan Walters
  2. Army of the Danube
  3. Battle of Dürenstein
  4. Byzantine-Sassanid War of 602–628
  5. HMAS Sydney (R17)
  6. Horses in World War I
  7. Lê Văn Duyệt
  8. Michael P. Murphy
  9. Roderic Dallas
  10. USS Triton (SSRN-586)
Project news
  • Operation Normandy

    In May 2008 a small group of editors, operating from a page in Cam's userspace, began work on improving Wikipedia's articles relating to the pivotal Second World War Battle of Normandy that took place in northern France between 6 June and the end of August 1944. Milhist has now adopted this collaboration as our third special project. The aim of Operation Normandy is to bring all core topics—official operations, battles, and the invasion beaches—to featured status by the 70th anniversary of D-Day on 6 June 2014. More information can be found on the project page; any interested editors are most welcome to sign up and help us meet this challenging goal!

  • Henry Allingham World War I Contest

    Our Henry Allingham World War I Contest ended on 11 March with the following results: in first place was Sturmvogel 66; in second place was Ian Rose; in third place was Dana boomer; and the finalists were Abraham, B.S., Carcharoth, and XavierGreen. The contest produced an incredible 238 recognised article improvements, of which 6 were Featured articles, 13 were A-Class articles and 22 were Good articles. In addition 43 newly created or expanded articles were successfully submitted for the 'Did you know' section on Wikipedia's main page. Our warmest congratulations go to the medallists and finalists, and our grateful thanks go to all participants and particularly to Eurocopter for organizing the contest.

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As we began discussing the Ottoman Empire's role in the First World War, our professor mentioned that they were blockading the Bosphorus, using it as a chokepoint to cut off needed supplies traveling to Russia's only warm-water port, Sevastopol. An astute classmate, realizing this meant the use of warships, wondered what naval technology was like during this time. The professor turned and asked me to answer the question, as he knew I had been studying naval history and believed that I knew more about the subject.

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WikiProject Social movements or WikiProject Social reform

Hi, I have an interest in doing collaborative work that would fall under the umbrella of either social movements or social reform. I started looking around to see what was already in place and didn't see anything active now. I let a reply to your comment here. It explains my interest and the way I see it fitting under the umbrella of a new WikiProject related to social movements (or social reform). Would appreciate your thoughts. FloNight♥♥♥♥ 15:23, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Polish Armed Forces in the West

I see you started Polish Armed Forces in the West about 3 years ago. How do you think the article is progressing? -Chumchum7 (talk) 16:14, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

I am not seeing any significant changes since I wrote the article. Btw, is there any reason you have not activated your wiki email? I may be able to send you some pdf materials if you have it active and want to expand that article. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:17, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. This is the first time I've even heard of wiki email - that's my reason for not having activating it, which I shall do now. :-Chumchum7 (talk) 16:29, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Email activated. -Chumchum7 (talk) 17:48, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
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Well done Victuallers (talk) 22:31, 8 April 2010 (UTC)) 20:53, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Second Northern War

Witam,

ten artykuł został zgłoszony jako dobry. Tymczasem jest to wyjątkowo słaby artykuł z ewidentnymi błędami, nieustannym stosowaniem niemieckiego nazewnictwa miast i ziem. Na dodatek rola Polski w konflikcie jest minimalizowana lub pomijana, jak np. podanie, że wojska Rakoczego zostały pokonane przez "aliantów", że w Polsce zwyciężali głównie Tatarzy, że była to wojna szwedzko-duńska i rosyjsko-szwedzka, zaś Polacy ponosili same klęski za wyjątkiem bitew pod Warką i pod "Prostken". Ze swojej strony wpisałem drobne uwagi do dyskusji artykułu i zastopowałem głosowanie do poprawy. Na mechanizmach tutaj obowiązujących się nie znam, ale nie rozumiem dlaczego moi szwoleżerowie Gwardii nie zakwalifikowali się nigdzie, a ten gniot ma mieć miano "GOOD ARTICLE". Warto zwrócić uwagę na bibliografię artykułu, która wprost urąga zasadom: pierwsza pozycja dotyczy Piotra I Wielkiego, druga dotyczy wprawdzie dokładnie tej sprawy, ale z przypisów widać, że autor (Skandynam, jak mniemem) korzystał z pracy tegoż wprawdzie autora, ale znacznie wcześniejszej i ogólniejszej, ergo mało precyzyjnej. To trzeba albo poprawić, albo przegłosować na nie. Pozdrawiam serdecznie belissarius (talk) 02:57, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Gazette d'Amsterdam

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Materialscientist (talk) 09:12, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

A favor?

Hi, Piotr. I assume that you are fluent in Polish. Please forgive me if I'm wrong. :) I am dealing with a contributor who keeps recreating an article with copied content, and I'm wondering if there are language difficulties here. I can't know, because while the article has been deleted five times (and the content put in the article's talk page once, which has also been deleted, and in sandbox, which has been deleted twice), he doesn't talk about it. There's no doubt that there's a COI here, but I hate to block somebody for copyvios who could probably verify permission if he wanted to, and I'm wondering if there's maybe a language barrier. He's been blocked for three days; if you are up for it, would you mind explaining to him why and what he needs to do to verify permission for that content? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:35, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. The contributor is User talk:Waldemar smolarek art. The content has been previously published at [1]. I assume he could easily if he wanted put a licensing statement at that site. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:14, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much, Piotr! Whether his problem is language related or something else, I hope he'll start communicating with us so we can work this one out. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:02, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Hollandsche Spectator

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Jan Dzierzon

Imie i nazwisko Dzierzona zostalo zmieniona na Johann Dzierzon, to jest pisownia niemiecka. Britanica podaje Jan Dzierżoń (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/175400/Jan-Dzierzon) i tak powinno byc. Rowniez tu (http://bees.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=bees;idno=5017629) angielskie tlumaczenie pracy Dzierzona podaje Dzierżon, Jan. Czy skontaktowales sie z museum w Kluczborku, albo przeczytales dowody i fotokopie w podanych pracach Brozka, Gladysza i ks. Mazaka? Pomijanie zrodel polskich jest niedopuszczalne. Ci ktorzy chca zmieniac artykul powinni uznac wage zrodel polskich wage a nie lawirowac na drugorzednych przekladach i niepelnych zrodlach. Podane tez sa wspolczesne artykuly w prasie polskiej i napisane przez Polakow. Trzeba je wniesc do tekstu. Niech chociaz bedzie widoczne ze spoleczenstwo polskie ma silne zdanie na ten temat. Podaje Ci e-mail jezeli chcesz powaznie pracowac bez udzialu szpiegow: erudra@hotmail.com. --Soujdspo (talk) 22:31, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Bierz zawsze pod uwage ze: 1) w okresie Bismarck'a zniemczano imiona celowo 2) Poszukiwania liczbowe zapisu imion na internecie sa falszywka - autorzy wtedy i dzisiaj powtarzaja to co zostalo zniemczone i wprowadzone w pismie, clowo, przez nieuwage lub niewiedze. Jedyna droga czy jego imie powinno byc pisane Jahann czy Jan jest stwierdzenie ze Dzierzon uwazal sie za Polaka i kultywowal polskos, i tak jest zgodnie z dokumentami opisanymi w pracach Brozka, Gladysza i ks. Mazaka etc. --Soujdspo (talk) 02:01, 12 April 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soujdspo (talk • contribs)

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NW (Talk) 04:24, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Justus van Effen

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Materialscientist (talk) 05:42, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

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re Merging AgRinceSocial Sci Res on Greatness with Greatness article

hello Piotrus

First, many thanks for your response:

Your request for feedback

Thanks for the message. I sense, and sympathise with, your frustration. As you have noticed, there are very few editors who regularly patrol WP:FEED and unless the subject of an article is pretty straightforward, the regulars get out of their depth very quickly. But I think I see a way forward. I will leave a message on the talk page of the Sociology Wikiproject asking for someone to take a look at your draft. It seems to be a pretty active project so someone should respond soon. So, please bear with us, and remember there is no deadline! – ukexpat (talk) 13:24, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Message left at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sociology#Request for review of draft article. – ukexpat (talk) 13:32, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
I saw the request. First quick comment: you need a proper WP:LEAD section. Second: why not just merge your article into the pitful greatness article? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 22:24, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Second,

i'm doing as you suggested, but have couple questions:

1) can i simply drop an entire section (useless in my opinion) of the existing greatness article, ie the "Naming Great" bit?

2) I need to get ok to reference a specific Lulu book as it is central to my article. How do i get such an ok??

again many thanks

AgRince (talk) 09:38, 14 April 2010 (UTC)


hello again

Just to let you know, following on the advice of yourself and another editor

I merged my ‘social science research on greatness’ article with the existing article entitled greatness which was labeled as a Sociology-related stub.


in the process I dropped a very small section of the original ‘greatness’ article, entitled, “Naming Great” because I think the point is already shown in the LEAD.

Assuming this merger is acceptable, should I now edit the current greatness article to remove the

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This sociology-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.


or is that dealt with by wiki editors


many txs for help

AgRince (talk) 15:12, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

re ok to reference a specific Lulu book

Piotrus

many txs again re:

You asked:

  • 1) can i simply drop an entire section (useless in my opinion) of the existing greatness article, ie the "Naming Great" bit?
  • 2) I need to get ok to reference a specific Lulu book as it is central to my article. How do i get such an ok??

Re 1) I'd say yes - it is unreferenced anyway. You may want to move it to talk, perhaps somebody can salvage it later. Re 2) I don't understand your question - what ok do you need to get, from whom, and why? -- Piotrus

re 2) I'm new to Wiki (this is my first article) but as i understand it Lulu.com is blacklisted (and rightfully so in my view for all their idiotic junk email promos), but i believe it is possible to use specific book ref on lulu (ie the Url for a particular book) with editorial approval at wiki. The relevant book in my case is the last one discussed in my article, ie Dorris 2009. should i just go ahead and give the Lulu Url for that book in my references and then deal with the editorial issue when and if it comes up, or is there somewhere i can request ok to use specific book ref on Lulu..?

AgRince (talk) 19:08, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Piotrus

txs for this advice:

  • Ah, I see. What I usually do is I link their books from Google Print - those links are not blacklisted.

i'll try that and see if i can link the lulu book from there.


AgRince (talk) 10:41, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Haiti economic reforms of 1996

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Four Award

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I have replied with quick instructions on how to find diffs.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:41, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Sup

Hey Piotrus, I know this might not be the place to do so, but I have to ask: you aren't around doing many PL-related articles anymore. Do you mind me asking why? Podagrycznik (talk) 18:57, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Four Award

Four Award
Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Polish culture during World War II.

Great work! LittleMountain5 14:40, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

wikipedia at university

I realized you were using it too, and I thought I'd contact you after the semester--you seemed busy and I'm trying to finish my dissertation... Auntieruth55 (talk) 15:31, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Human subject research legislation in the United States

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Materialscientist (talk) 00:04, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Piast dynasty Poland article

I already moved this material, so I added the info in the History of Poland discussion page Orczar (talk) 02:54, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Economics: Developments

Firstly, thank you for signing the census, and an apology to those who dislike posts such as this one for messaging you again in this way. I've now got myself organised and you can opt-out of any future communication at WP:WikiProject Economics/Newsletter. Just remove your name and you wonn't be bothered again.

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All your comments are welcomed. Thanks, - Jarry1250 [[Humorous? Discuss.] 17:18, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (4th nomination)

Hi, Piotrus. Because you participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (2nd nomination), you may be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (4th nomination). Cunard (talk) 02:25, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Re: transwiki from pl wikipedia

Yes, I certainly can. Which articles would you like me to import? Graham87 08:08, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

OK, I'll most likely get to them later tonight. If not, I'll work on them tomorrow. Graham87 08:57, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Done, except for Lech Wałęsa, Human experimentation in the United States, and Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits, because I don't feel comfortable importing revisions when overlapping edits are involved. Graham87 14:06, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
History merging is how I import the old edits. The problem with overlapping edits is that there is no way to distinguish them in page histories, thus making it harder to tell who did what to the article (especially for software that reads the page history). This is especially true with imported edits because, by design, they always create anomalies in the database, since high revision ID numbers can be assigned to very old revisions.
I've imported human subject research legislation in the United Statesbecause it's a straightforward case, and Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits because only one irrelevant overlapping edit was involved (the edit just added a "the", which was done in your Polish Wikipedia version anyway). I'm still concerned about Lech Wałęsa, because there are fifteen overlapping edits, one of which is mine, but that's not really the issue. :-) To import the history from the Polish Wikipedia, I would have to delete those 15 edits first. Can you confirm that that would be OK_ I want to be really cautious here because this action would be hard to reverse. Also, how about the edits after 3 February at pl:Wikipedysta:Piotrus/brudnopis/en/Lech Wałęsa? Graham87 00:48, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Hmmm, the server won't even let me import those edits. I'm not sure what is going on, but it seems to be duplicating edits at MediaWiki talk:Wikipedysta:Piotrus/brudnopis/en/Lech Wałęsa. I wouldn't want to *history merge* the edits to the pl.wp page from 8 February with the en.wp page, but incorporating them is an action that can be done by anyone (and it seems that the user did it anyway). Graham87 01:40, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
I give up. I have tried to import edits into MediaWiki talk:Wikipedysta:Piotrus/brudnopis/en/Lech Wałęsa three times and none of the attempts were successful. I'm not sure why importation is not working for that particular page; it only has a few more revisions than the other pages that I have tried to import. Every time I try to import the edits, I add useless deleted revisions to the database; I don't want to try to import the page again because I don't want to clutter the database with ten million duplicate edits. Graham87 08:11, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
I just tested it by moving the page to a title without diacritics, and it still wouldn't import. However I didn't think that that was a likely explanation, because it imports one or two dozen edits into the history and then it comes up with a database timeout error. Perhaps it failed because of the size of the individual revisions, or communication problems between the servers, or the size of the Polish Wikipedia database, which is far larger than my usual import sources, the Nostalgia Wikipedia and Meta. Graham87 04:44, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

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Polish nobility/Szlachta

Oh dear, and I thought I was being helpful. I have no personal opinion on this; working through CAT:CSD, I came on Polish nobility tagged {{db-move|Szlachta|[[WP:ENGLISH]], see other equivalent pages in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:European_nobility}} by Espoo (talk · contribs) and made the requested move, thinking it was agreed. Can you discuss it with Espoo, if necessary starting a wider discussion on the article talk page? I will let Espoo know of your request. If the consensus is that the move should not have been done, I will certainly undo it (with a sigh, as there was a heap of double redirects to fix). Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:46, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

It isn't actually my rationale - I was just carrying out the move requested by Espoo - but his arguments seem sensible to me. He is going to start a discussion, and I will watch it, and reverse what I did if that is what is decided. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:46, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

HOAX

Hi! I hope, you will be not dissappointed, that next sentences I'll write in Polish. Nie jestem zwolennikiem teorii spiskowych, ale natrafiłem na cały szereg dziwnych haseł, które w żaden sposób nie są poparte źródłami, nie mają odpowiedników w polskiej WP, zawierają przekłamaną informację lub źródła, lub są po prostu bałamutne. Przykład? Łiesand Dunin (!!!) - niby to coś urodzone w 1870, ale "poparte" pozycją źródłową z roku... 1871. Ten sam artykuł, by nie pozostać sierotą, linkuje się z Gustave Wombique, który w internecie po prostu nie istnieje (a to, co istnieje, prawie na pewno wygenerowane jest przez hasło w wikipedii). Tak samo dziwnym wydaje się hasło Wanda Malecka - może ja czegoś nie rozumiem, ale czy "Bronisława" i "Wanda" to tytuły periodyków czasów napoleońskich?? Za tym wszystkim stoi ktoś, kto ma jeszcze takie oto edycje. Ale jest i coś jeszcze. W dziwny sposób styka się to ze sławetnym hrabią Rodrygiem Duninem (patrz Łiesand Dunin), który raz jest hrabią, a raz - farmerem, oraz - ze znaną Tobię Elonką. Może wiesz, co tu jest grane? Bo ośmielę się twierdzić, że to wszystko są postacie nieistniejące. A tak na marginesie, to wiesz być może, że nie jest żadnym problemem przytoczyć jakieś trudno dostępne źródło, nawet realnie istniejące, tyle że zupełnie nie do sprawdzenia - i podać pierwszą lepszą stronę. Tak jak to ma miejsce w przypadku "Leon Rogalski, Historyi Literatury Polskiej, tom 2, Nakładem Michała Glücksberga, księgarza, 1871. Pp.590-591". Konia z rzędem temu, kto potrafi to znaleźć, żeby sprawdzić, czy rzeczywiście są tam pp. Duninowie, Maleckie i Baranowskie. Pozdrawiam. Sverige2009 (talk) 12:42, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 April newsletter

Round two is over, and we are down to our final 32. For anyone interested in the final standings (though not arranged by group) this page has been compiled. Congratulations to Pennsylvania Hunter Kahn (submissions), our clear overall round winner, and to Colombia ThinkBlue (submissions) and Norway Arsenikk (submissions), who were solidly second and third respectively. There were a good number of high scorers this round- competition was certainly tough! Round three begins tomorrow, but anything promoted after the end of round two is eligible for points. 16 contestants (eight pool leaders and eight wildcards) will progress to round four in two months- things are really starting to get competitive. Anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Judge iMatthew has retired from Wikipedia, and we wish him the best. The competition has been ticking over well with minimal need for judge intervention, so thank you to everyone making that possible. A special thank you goes to participants Bavaria Stone (submissions) and White Shadows (submissions) for their help in preparing for round three. Good luck everyone! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 17:37, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Economics Newsletter (Issue I)

Positively Economics

The Economics WikiProject Newsletter Issue I (May 2010)

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Sudecka Philharmonic Orchestra

Hi, I blue linked this early to fill in a link in an article on Atsuko Seta I expanded. However, I couldn't find anything to expand it. Could you find something to expand it, even a little? Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:24, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

The St Andrews Social Scientist

Good day,

I have recently been involved in the creation of an online magazine at my University. When I was on wikipedia yesterday I searched it and actually found that someone had made a page. However, I noticed that it was tagged for deletion and I was hoping you could elucidate as to why. I looked over what the person had wrote and it all seems pretty much true.

I expect that you get a lot of people creating random pages however I can assure you that this is valid; while we are new we will be featured on our University's IR and Economics department pages which should lend a degree of credence to what I am trying to accomplish. We also feature an article written by the former President/CEO of one of Canada's 50 best managed companies.

I looked over your profile and hopefully someone who has devoted a significant portion of their life to higher education can appreciate an undergraduate student trying to expand their horizons while providing students with an opportunity to augment their writing talents.

Pm66 (talk) 11:06, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Hello! I recently tried adding external links to interviews with various authors (the transcripts of which all appeared in The Missouri Review) on their respective Wikipedia pages. I understand that Wikipedia is not an advertising platform, but the interviews are germane to the content of each article. Is there a way I can add them without running afoul of Wikipedia's guidelines? Thanks in advance for your help. Ollietheunlovedchild (talk) 17:07, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

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Quick translation request

Can you translate the descriptions for the audio I just added to pl:Fantazja-Impromptu op. posth. (Chopin), and approve the edit? I just wanted to keep it in line with the equivalent English article. Thanks. Graham87 13:41, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Also, can you approve my other Chopin edits, re: the typos in the opus numbers? See my contribs on the Polish Wikipedia. Graham87 14:51, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Graham87 03:36, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : L (April 2010)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue L (April 2010)
From the coordinators

It's been a month since the end of the coordinator elections, and I am proud to inform the project that the IX coordinator tranche is doing well. Our new coordinators are rapidly learning the ropes, and the last of the task forces under consideration for merging have been consolidated into a new task force which should increase productivity and improve quality article output.

At the moment the coordinators are discussing preliminary plans for an improved version of The Bugle, and are working with editors from the American Civil War task force who are in the process of organizing a new special project relating to that conflict. It is our hope to see these changes implemented in the upcoming month. Lastly, as many of our members are also in school, we extend our best wishes to all who will be taking final exams both this month and next. For the IX coordinator tranche, TomStar81 (Talk) 22:36, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Battle of Dürenstein
  2. Battle of Pulo Aura
  3. Battle of Taejon
  4. Battle of The Cedars
  5. Brougham Castle
  6. Cleomenean War
  7. Harry Chauvel
  8. Japanese battleship Yamato
  9. Lester Brain
  10. Myles Standish
  11. Roderic Dallas
  12. USS President (1800)
  13. War of the Bavarian Succession

New featured lists:

  1. Order of battle at the Battle of Camperdown

New featured topics:

  1. Yamato class battleships

New featured portals:

  1. Biological warfare

New A-Class articles:

  1. 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
  2. Battle of Chochiwon
  3. Battle of Chonan
  4. Battle of Naktong Bulge
  5. Battle of Pyongtaek
  6. Battle of Slater's Knoll
  7. Battle of The Cedars
  8. Battle of Valcour Island
  9. Brian Eaton
  10. Douglas MacArthur
  11. Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
  12. HMAS Australia (1911)
  13. Kongō class battlecruiser‎
  14. List of battleships of Germany
  15. Massachusetts in the American Civil War
  16. Operation Sandblast
  17. Order of Saint Hubert (Bavarian)
  18. Ordnance QF 25-pounder Short
  19. Petlyakov Pe-3
  20. SMS Helgoland
  21. Sovetsky Soyuz class battleship
Project news
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Editorial: Milhist's special projects

This month we're taking a look at the Military history WikiProject's special projects. At present we have three—Operation Great War Centennial, Operation Majestic Titan, and Operation Normandy—with, as Tom mentions in his introduction, a fourth coming on line as this newsletter goes out.

  • Operation Great War Centennial

    Officially the longest running of our special projects, this started in December 2008 with the ambitious goal of improving our core articles relating to the First World War by June 2014. As it states on the project's page, "the centenary of the start of World War I ... will doubtless be a mammoth commemoration of one of the most significant wars in history, attracting vast interest from schools, universities, veterans groups and the media. It offers us the chance to showcase what a brilliant resource Wikipedia is". With World War I receiving well over 20,000 page views per day on most days, the truth of these words is evident and the opportunity too good to miss. Operation Great War Centennial has compiled a list of over 300 articles covering topics such as battles, geographical areas, people, armaments, and technology; while some have achieved featured or good status, the majority are at B-Class or below, so there is plenty there for willing editors to get their teeth into.

  • Operation Majestic Titan

    The home of our much-respected and admired "Battleship Cabal", Operation Majestic Titan started in June 2009 with the aim of creating the "single largest featured topic on Wikipedia, centered around the battleships considered, planned, built, operated, canceled, or otherwise recorded." At time of writing the prolific Majestic Titan team has produced an impressive 33 featured articles, 19 A-Class, 60 good articles, three featured topics and six good topics. According to the project's working list, there are only 427 more articles to go...

  • Operation Normandy

    Although it first appeared in Milhist's pages in March 2010, this project had been formerly operating out of Cam's userspace as the "Normandy Team" since May 2008, making it a contender for our longest-running unofficial special project. Operation Normandy is aiming to create a Featured Topic on the Second World War Battle of Normandy by the 70th Anniversary of D-Day on 6 June 2014. With nine featured articles so far and 29 more to go, progress has been steady. More help, however, is always welcome.

  • Our fourth special project, American Civil War Sesquicentennial, is in the process of organising and at present lacks a name (see this discussion if you have any suggestions). The project will be looking to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the American Civil War by its sesquicentennial anniversary in 2011. The beginning of a drive is always an exciting time to get involved, so interested editors are strongly encouraged to drop by and sign up.

Special projects are a great way of organising a long-term collaboration with a specific end-point in mind, and tend to be more goal-oriented and focused than the general task forces or informal working groups. Joining a special project is also a fantastic way to work alongside like-minded editors with whom you'll undoubtedly develop close working relationships; by your third or fourth FA submission you'll hopefully be operating as part of a well-oiled team. Editor roles are many and varied: content writers, source material providers, image- and map-makers, copy editors, reviewers, MoS gurus, wikignomes, specialists and generalists... you're sure to find a job that suits you and benefits the team. If you have an idea for a special project or are already undertaking a collaboration that you think fits in with the ethos of those above, and you'd like to benefit from Milhist's support and infrastructure, consider dropping the coordinators a note. Personally I've found the synergy and teamwork of contributing to a special project (Operation Normandy in my case) to be one of the most rewarding and enjoyable aspects of my time here. I hope you will too. EyeSerenetalk 14:16, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

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Arbitration motion regarding Eastern European mailing list

Per a motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:

The current editing restriction affecting Piotrus (talk · contribs) is to be amended to allow Piotrus to raise issues and discuss improvements to articles otherwise under the ban on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland talk page.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ~ Amory (u • t • c) 00:36, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Discuss this

File:ChNiazAliKhan2.jpg

I own the picture. Poloplayers (talk) 08:12, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Will do that. Thanks for the guidance. Poloplayers (talk) 18:05, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Slides

Hi. I just saw your comments from 2008, at the top of DGG's talkpage, about slides for a presentation to librarians, and was curious if they were still available? Also, I started a vaguely related topic at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#30 seconds and a laptop this morning, which you might be interested in giving 2¢ at. Thanks :) -- Quiddity (talk) 04:14, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

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John Ward (RAF officer)

nice Decora (talk) 00:01, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Assignment 1

This is Kayla Olszewski, my wikipedia account is Kro14. I joined group 3 and the group consists of myself, Roman, Lolia, and Derek. I made an edit on The Handmaid's Tale (novel) page, under Professor Pieixoto's character profile. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kro14 (talk • contribs) 22:32, 13 May 2010 (UTC)


Kro14 (talk) 02:39, 14 May 2010 (UTC)kro14

WikiProject Poland

Hi. I appreciate your help. I'm happy to do the work when I have the time, but I don't know enough about Polish topics to make the judgments you do. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 21:59, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Assignment 1 Roman

Hey Piotr, My wiki account is RomanHarlovic and I joined group 3. The edit I made is on the page for the Lexus Cup (a golf event). —Preceding unsigned comment added by RomanHarlovic (talk • contribs) 02:16, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Assignment 1 Patrick Garner

Hey Piotr, my wiki account is Prg22 and I joined group 2. I made an edit for Industrial Engineering.

Prg22 (talk) 17:36, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Assignment 1

This is Luke Pearson. My username is LBPearson. I joined group 2 and made an edit to the Warington Baden-Powell page by linking "boy scouts." [2]

LBPearson (talk) 19:16, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Assignment

Hello, this is Lolia Adoki. My wiki account is Helgacrane. I finished the wikipedia tutorial (including sandbox edits). I am in group three, which includes Roman, Kayla, and Derek. I also did a minor edit to the Coco Chanel page (I added quotes to a phrase in the second paragraph of her early life). Helgacrane (talk) 19:19, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Extra credit: Diff attempt!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coco_Chanel&diff=362479820&oldid=362477424 Helgacrane (talk) 19:37, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Assignment & Extra Credit

Hi, this is Derek Leidemann. My wiki account is Derekl366. I did the wikipedia tutorial and sandbox edit. I am in group three, with Roman, Kayla, and Lolia. I made a small edit to the page for Paolo Pellizzari (I have no idea who he is but did a little research to find that the university he went to was Université catholique de Louvain, previously the article just state UCL).

Here's the diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paolo_Pellizzari&action=historysubmit&diff=362536577&oldid=339934516 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Derekl366 (talk • contribs) 01:25, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Assingment 1

Hi Piotr

I've created and account with the name (Naboc1) joined group1, edited the sandbox and added tour information to the Allegheny Observatory Wiki page.

Lou —Preceding unsigned comment added by Naboc1 (talk • contribs) 06:43, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Assignment Due 5-17-10

Piotr, I created my account (JuliaLynchPIT2010) and joined group 2. I edited the sandbox during the tutorial and corrected grammar on the Current Events List for May 16 on the wiki page. ~ Julia Lynch

JuliaLynchPIT2010 (talk) 14:58, 17 May 2010 (UTC)


Wiki Assignment due 5/17/2010

Hello. I joined group 1 with Lou and Jeremy. I also made an edit in the Wikipedia Tutorial Sandbox. I tried to make an edit about Westminster College,but I am having trouble doing this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RachelJA (talk • contribs) 15:51, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Permission to Use Photo

Piotrus,

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency would like to use your image of the performing seal at Loro Parque. Please advise as to its availability for advertising purposes and any documentation necessary to show right to use.

Thank you.

75.10.224.4 (talk) 18:03, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Each photo is licensed under a free license (Creative Commons), should link to the license and the license explains how the photo can be used (and yes, the photos are freely available for use - I believe the license boils down to attribution and share-alike clauses). I cannot be more specific as you have not linked to the photo (and I have uploaded dozens of Loro Parque seals to Commons...) - but I am pretty sure they are all similarly licensed. PS. Free licenses also mean that you do not have to ask for permission before using them (provided that you respect the above-mentioned license requirements). Please let me know if you have any further questions. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:08, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

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Thank's

Hi Piotrus, It's the first time I write on Wikipedia and I do so because I read a lot of articles you wrote or contributed to. So I want to thank you for your great contribution! I'm interesting in history, specialy in WW2, the european jews and Judaism in general, tough I was raised Roman Catholic and live in Québec! I would like to contribute to english Wikipedia but feel that my english is not good enough. Anyway, I don't have a lot of time and there's so much stuff that I would not know where to start!!!

Thank's again, Louis Richard —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fullmoonfever (talk • contribs) 22:44, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank's again!

Well, Wikipedia brings me so much...I think I will make a wikipedian of myself. Thank's again Piotrus! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fullmoonfever (talk • contribs) 23:30, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Assignment 1

This is Chris Nelson. My username is ctn4. I joined group 1 and the edit I made was on the page for the show The Adventures of Pete and Pete. --Ctn4 (talk) 03:20, 21 May 2010 (UTC)—Preceding unsigned comment added by Ctn4 (talk • contribs) 03:17, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

More WikiProject tags

Hello. There is another user on here who seems to tag my talk pages after me. When I start more Polish articles I will see if he tag for me.Starzynka (talk) 19:29, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Tadeusz Jasiński

I noticed Tadeusz Jasiński, but I'm confused as the body references Tomasz Jasiński. Is this supposed to be about [3] or [4]? --Nuujinn (talk) 01:38, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Actually, I was considering nominating it for deletion since there are no references, and I'm not sure either person is notable. Do you have any opinion on that? --Nuujinn (talk) 15:17, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for King Matt the First

The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Black squares in Pillars of Creation image at commons FPC

I've added an explanation of the black squares to this image's description page. Just letting you know as you requested at Commons FPC. --Avenue (talk) 12:58, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Group Wiki Page Choices

Group 2's Wiki page

Piotr, 

Group 2 has decided to update the core countries wiki page.Prg22 (talk) 23:59, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Permission/consent

I am creating a free website at yola.com and want to use http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pyramids_of_G%C3%BC%C3%ADmar_01.JPG as a page header.

Do I have your permission to use this picture?

Please confirm by email. I want to add it to the Support page of my website.

Thank you

Elmo - vaalharts.info@gmail.com

196.210.188.36 (talk) 13:40, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

The mage is licensed under a free license, so yes, you can use it as long as you follow the license (see also this).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 14:54, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

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Group 1 wiki

Hey, group one is going to do periphery countries. We plan on breaking it up into 4 sections, one for each of us. The sections will be as follows: Basic background - Lou How periphery countries form (why they are behind) - Rachel Interactions with core countries - Chris How countries rise from periphery to semi-periphery or core status - Jeremy

Each of us will also add sub sections into the four main sections. For how countries rise from periphery I plan on having a section on basic background of possible ways countries can do this, another couple subsections with specific examples of how these countries rose out of periphery status and finally how they adapt to the world market in their new status.

Thanks, group 1. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HareJ10 (talk • contribs) 02:54, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

== Group 1 == Rachel Jourdan-Aufiery

The section I am doing is How periphery countries form and I plan in breaking that section into a few subsections as well I want to provide examples of specific countries and also how their new status affects other nations they interact with. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RachelJA (talk • contribs) 11:47, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Tie Break (jazz ensemble) and Janusz Iwański

Why deletions?Starzynka (talk) 14:11, 25 May 2010 (UTC) I mean why are they not notable for english wikipedia? I give up on Poland articles.Starzynka (talk) 16:08, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Mariusz Adamski is also for AFD. I have help on it but I am again confused as why this is for deletion. It is not unreferenced or unverifiable.Starzynka (talk) 16:15, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

tutorial, wiki-edit

Hello, Piotr. I completed my tutorial and finished my helpful edits and now have told you so on your talk page. See you tomorrow afternoon! AngGor (talk) 01:32, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

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DYK nom for Mariusz Adamski

Hello, I was checking my DYK noms and noticed that you submitted a nom for this prior to mine. My nom is Template_talk:Did_you_know#Mariusz_Adamski. What is the best way to resolve this? I noticed that you embedded me as a co-creator or something to that effect. I'd like to recommend that you combine my hooks with yours so we have three alts and that way you get credit for a nom. Do you think that would work? ----moreno oso (talk) 03:34, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Would you mind combining the two noms as indicated above? I think it would look better that way. I have about five other noms there and it would look good to see another editor get credit too. ----moreno oso (talk) 04:04, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Group 3 Project

Hello. We have split up The Great Divergence into the following subcategories

Roman - technology Lolia - country specific ideologies Derek - industry/economics Kayla - politics/leadership

The countries of interest will be Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Each of us will be posting our own to-do lists on the talk page.

Kayla —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kro14 (talk • contribs) 03:35, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

reversion

Done. CrazyPaco (talk) 06:32, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Re: user:Starzynka

Re Starzynka, I feel he needs another editor who can adopt him and shepard him through the Wikipedian experience. I would but am not to that point yet in my Wikipedian career. I feel that the best sponsor will be someone that speaks his language and is on the same time zone as him. Ideally, it would be an admin who adopts users but could be a senior editor. If you know someone in your WikiProject, could you make the recommendation and introductions? ----moreno oso (talk) 11:28, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Roman Wiki Group 3 To Do List

Hey Piotr,

For my part of Group 3's project, I plan to write about technology. Specifically, I want to talk about what edge the West gained technologically over the East and how they did this. I'll address increases in maritime technology and discuss engineers/scientists/labor of the time which facilitated industrial prowess. I'm sure I'll come across more topics within technology as I communicate with my group more and figure out what really gave the West the upper hand.

Thanks, Roman RomanHarlovic (talk) 13:30, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

So you are aware

Just so you're aware of the situation, one of your students decided to attack me. I manually archived the section from my talk page; I would appreciate it if you didn't ask me to participate or be involved with them again. Thanks. — KV5 • Talk • 17:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

The barnstar was an unexpected surprise. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 21:03, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Simon Sheppard (activist)

Regardless of what you think of him or his views, do you feel I have contributed to the article well?--Tablemount (talk) 00:25, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Parten's stages of play

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DYK for Parten's stages of play

BorgQueen (talk) 18:02, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 May newsletter

We are half way through round 3, with a little under a month to go. The current overall leader is Hungary Sasata (submissions), who has 570 points. He leads pool C. Pools A, B and D are led by Pennsylvania Hunter Kahn (submissions), Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) and White Shadows (submissions) respectively. Anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Two of last year's final 8, Sweden Theleftorium (submissions) and Iceland Scorpion0422 (submissions), have dropped out of the competition, saying they would rather their place went to someone who will have more time on their hands than them next round. On a related note, a special thank you goes to White Shadows (submissions) for his help behind the scenes once again. There is currently a problem with the poster, perhaps caused by the new skin- take a look at this discussion and see if you can help. The competition has continued to tick over well with minimal need for judge intervention, so thank you to everyone making that possible. Good luck to all! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 20:52, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Mariusz Adamski

Shubinator (talk) 01:44, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Economics Newsletter (Issue II)

Positively Economics

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re: MedCab

Apologies for taking sooo long to get back to you. My life has been very busy (busier than it's ever been) and I only recently got back into the swing of thing. I'm cabalish-ly keeping my semi-retired note on my page until I feel I can participate more.

Anyway, so MedCab: Of course! Pick up any case. What case you take is up to you, and we never give recommendations: everyone has gone through their baptism-by-fire. I suggest you pick something up with at least 3 parties but no more than, say, 5. After 5 parties, things start to get hectic and influencing the discussion becomes more difficult.

Couple of rules of thumb: before worrying about NPOV problems, insist on sources. Always insist on sources. I tried it the other way around first (NPOV to V), but getting stuck on NPOV is sure to cause a struggle. There's a suggestion page, easily reached at MedCab's homepage, there's an IRC channel, and of course you can always e-mail or give me a heads up on my talk page. :-) Xavexgoem (talk) 17:58, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Dorota Nieznalska

— Rlevse • Talk • 06:04, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Liceum ogólnokształcące

Hi. When you get a chance could you look at the Liceum ogólnokształcące page and see of it needs any correcting (i.e. spelling). Thanks. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 14:49, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Nieznalska

Piotrus, thanks so much for nominating Dorota Nieznalska for a DYK. You make the internet not suck. Zloyvolsheb (talk) 17:43, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Periphery countries

I know you asked for the review to start on 5 June, but as it's obviously still being worked on heavily I'll hold off until either you say otherwise, or it gets listed at GAN. – iridescent 09:45, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : LI (May 2010)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue LI (May 2010)
From the coordinators

With Eurocopter's resignation (see editorial below), this month marks the end of his tenure as a project coordinator. Eurocopter has been with the team for almost three years now and will be sorely missed, but he has taken the tough decision that his real life commitments have unfortunately made it too hard for him to focus on his coordinator duties. We wish him good luck in the future, both in real life and on-wiki.

Efforts to redesign The Bugle are moving forward and it is our intention to roll out a new format, based on the Signpost, for next month's issue. We hope that this will allow us to provide better coverage of the project's news by allowing more room to expand on the stories we bring to you. If you have any comments or suggestions on what we can do to improve coverage, please let us know.

—your IX Coordinator Tranche, May 2010

Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Action of 1 August 1801
  2. Battle of Villers-Bocage
  3. Brian Eaton
  4. HMAS Australia (1911)
  5. HMS Lion (1910)
  6. Japanese battleship Tosa

New featured lists:

  1. List of battleships of Germany

New A-Class articles:

  1. 102nd Intelligence Wing
  2. Battle of Quebec (1775)
  3. Bombing of Yawata (June 1944)
  4. Deutschland class battleship
  5. Indiana class battleship
  6. Russian battleship Slava
  7. SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand
  8. SMS Hannover
  9. William Ellis Newton
Project news
  • With consensus reached on a name the American Civil War task force has officially opened our newest special project. Codenamed Brothers at War, its goal will be "...to improve [US Civil War] related Wikipedia articles to featured status, and to see as many of these as possible appear on the main page on their respective 150th anniversaries."
  • The straw poll concerning preemptive disambiguation of military units as outlined by our Manual of Style has been closed, with near unanimous consensus that the current practice of preemptive disambiguation be retained. Thanks to everyone who participated in either the discussion or the straw poll.
  • Members of Operation Majestic Titan have adopted a three-tiered award system to show appreciation to those who have done work on battleship or battlecruiser articles. Formally known as the Titan's Cross, the award has been issued to Parsecboy, Climie.ca, The ed17, and MBK004.
  • The project's official IRC channel (#wikipedia-en-milhist) has been restarted. Project members and anyone interested in military history are encouraged to join us for substantive discussions, social discourse and a few laughs. Instructions on how to get on IRC are available here.
Contest department
Awards and honours
Editorial: Project coordination and constructive editing

For those of you who might not know me, I'm Eurocopter. I served as a coordinator of the Military history WikiProject from August 2007 until few days ago, when I decided to resign due to real life issues making it impossible for me to continue to perform project duties on a regular basis. Reflecting on my experience and activities within the project, I decided to write this editorial to set out a few thoughts and offer some advice to interested members.

First of all, what does project coordination mean and how does it help the Military history WikiProject? Although the coordinators do not have any real executive powers, they play an important role in project management. To make editing contributions easier for our members we establish guidelines, manage Peer and A-Class reviews, and consult and assist when needed. The primary goal of the coordination team has always been to stimulate the development of quality articles and, once they have been developed, to facilitate maintaining them at a high standard for as long as possible. This has been carried out through the organization of a considerable number of assessment drives, contests and special projects. However, there is still much to be done to make the project one of the best and most active wiki-communities. Coordinator involvement in trying to achieve this, as the central promoters of any activity undertaken within the project, is more than important; the coordination team should stand as an example of civilised and constructive cooperation. Perhaps the most annoying issue—unfortunately quite widespread through the pages of Wikipedia—is POV-dominated conflict. While such a phenomenon might seem inevitable in a community within which hundreds of members of different nationalities with different historical and political views interact, it doesn’t mean we should accept it. The ability to neutrally mediate such conflicts is an important and desirable coordinator function.

Secondly, but most importantly in my opinion, is the question of how the project enables editors to contribute effectively. Perhaps you already know how difficult it is to take an article to the highest quality levels such as A-Class or featured status. It is even harder to do this working alone. I believe the best thing the Military history WikiProject has done is to bring together groups of editors with similar interests. As there are very few editors skilled in all the diverse article development areas, you might feel the need for help from editors more experienced in, for example, advanced copy editing, image editing etc. To this end the project provides task forces and special projects where members should always feel encouraged to ask questions, discuss, debate and give advice. Such cooperation is the best way to create properly balanced articles and to establish a neutral point of view. Our Style guide and Academy are also useful in guiding you along the path of writing an article. A final, but vital, part of the collaborative article writing process is editor behaviour when interacting with other editors who are contributing to the same article. Even on those occasions where an editor upsets you or allows their personal opinions to influence their editing, always remain calm, civil and try to reach an agreement. Contributing to Wikipedia is something most of us do as a hobby; time spent in useless conflicts is precious editing time wasted.

All in all, the Military history WikiProject is a good meeting point for milhist-interested editors, both beginners and advanced, with someone always there to give help and advice when needed. I wish to thank all my fellow coordinators and project members who keep this beautiful community running. I will certainly miss it!

Best regards and happy wiki-editing! Eurocopter (talk) 20:24, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

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Tomorrow's Deadline

Hey, I recently posted a new section to my groups talk page on the Great Divergence about tomorrow's deadline. Other reviews/editors seemed a little angry at me for saying that it needs to be submitted soon. I don't know if they understand it's a school project but I don't know how to respond. I just wanted to talk to my group about when all their edits will be done and who wanted to submit the article.Thanks Kro14 (talk) 16:03, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

PICTURES!!

Piotr, I've died a little inside over the weekend trying to get a picture up on my site. Is there anyway we could go over this in class? Pre- or post- deadline, I want to get some pictures up on my little blurb of the article. Thanks! AngGor (talk) 01:38, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Revision to Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri articles

I noticed that you have revised either Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri or Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire.

I intend to revise those articles following the Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines. There are more details on the discussion pages of those articles. I'd be interested in any comments you have. It would be best if your comments were on the discussion pages of the two articles.

Thank you.

Vyeh (talk) 14:43, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Just a passig comment

Hello there. You probably have never met me considering that I'm only 1 in 10,000,000+ but I just wanted to say that this is amazeing. I never thought that Wikipedia could be used as a classroom assigment. Very creative. Anyway I found you out since you seem to get Malleus to help you with any issues that your students have in writeing. (I'm a big time TPS of his talk page) I just wanted to point out that in one of the articles that one of your groups are working on has a small (but in a way big) issue with the map. Japan is shown haveing it's most northern island as a Periphery country while the rest of the island chain is a Core contry. There are probably a few more "typos" so to speak in the map that may have to be fixed in order to pass it's GAN. But in a larger sence, this may not really be a big thing. Sicily is also marked red but I doubt that many people will notice. Anyway I just thought that I'd let you know about those very minor issues. Good luck with your students at getting all three of these articles to GA status!--White Shadows stood on the edge 00:13, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Wow. who knew that there were so many other colleges useing Wikipedia the way that you do. I've heard that many universities actually dislike Wikipedia considering that "Anyone can edit it". Anyway, if you don't mind, I'll head over to the talk page of Periphery countries and make a few more suggestions since it seems like the article is in the middle of a huge expansion and this may mess up the GA with large sections of the article being changed and re-written.--White Shadows stood on the edge 00:21, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Well you know what they say: Things don't always turn out as you plan them. Depending on when the deadline for promoteing all of the articles are, you may be able to finish on time. GAN's can be harsh and now that they are displayed at the top of every article with the {{good article}} template, people are even more concerned over their quality. At leat you are not makeing them write an FA! (heck I don't even have one)--White Shadows stood on the edge 00:26, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

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Question about a source

Hi Piotr,

I've corrected the map from your suggestions. I originally based the map on information that I found on the internet that referenced a paper in an academic journal. For some reason the tables that are on the internet are not in the academic article. Here is the web link to the article on the internet: http://www.irows.ucr.edu/cd/appendices/asr00/asr00app.htm#Table%20A2 and here is a link to the academic article on JStore: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2657290 I'm not sure how to site this as a source since they say that you should not use a web site as a source. Could you please provide guidance. Thanks.

Lou Naboc1 (talk) 05:56, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Map

Okay the map has been updated to include Greenland as a core country and both citations have been applied. Naboc1 (talk) 18:37, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Map Update

Excellent! Thanks. I've added the grey "other" section to the Map. Naboc1 (talk) 04:13, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Edited the Kruszwica history section - thanks

Thanks for you input on how to go about editing the page. I also added one inline citation at the end of the section to provide a better reference.

I had just started reading Lewinski-Corwin's book earlier in the day and saw this section was almost literally word for word from his text, with one small insertion by an editor who changed the end of a sentence translate a term. So I felt compelled to create a user account to see about how to go about addressing this lack of citation. Now that I have the account I will read up on procedures and try when and where I can to contribute.

Thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MeckPomm (talk • contribs) 21:09, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Grab some glory, and a barnstar

Hi, I'd like to invite you to participate in the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. In May, about 30 editors helped remove the {{copyedit}} tag from 1175 articles. The backlog is still over 7500 articles, and extends back to the beginning of 2008! We really need your help to reduce it. Copyediting just a couple articles can qualify you for a barnstar. Serious copyeditors can win prestigious and exclusive rewards. See the event page for more information. And thanks for your consideration. monosock 04:56, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Periphery countries (part 2)

I can see they're still working on it; do you want me to do the review now to give time for them to make any changes and meet the deadline, or would you rather I give them time to finish tinkering? Malleus's point about Russia ("periphery" on the map, "core" in the text) still needs addressing; I've also noticed some other issues with the map—French Guiana a P.C., despite being a fully-integrated département of France, the Argentine half of Tierra del Fuego a different color to mainland Argentina, a mysterious island P.C. island off the coast of Brazil, the solidly-prosperous Czech Republic, Poland and United Arab Emirates bracketed with the periphery countries (whatever one's opinion of Dubai, it certainly doesn't suffer from "lack of technology, unstable government, and poor education and health systems"). If there's no easy way to fix the map, you might want to consider (or suggest that they consider) removing it for the moment; it's not necessary, and it would be a shame to fail it over that.

I'm also highly sceptical about the whole Stabilized government section—quite aside from the fact that I can think of any number of dictatorships with considerably more stable governments than the Western democracies, with the (arguable) exception of Iraq I think your students would be hard-pressed to think of a military action by any country (core, peripheral, or otherwise) in the past 20 years with protection of markets as the driving objective. If this is what the theory says (the cited source isn't available online so I can't check), it needs to be very clear that this is what this particular theory says, not what is widely accepted. – iridescent 19:10, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

I will do. As long as the map is sourced that's fine, but in that case it at least needs an explanatory footnote somewhere to clarify the status of Russia in particular. – iridescent 19:26, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of SHL (motorcycle)

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DYK for SHL (motorcycle)

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DYK nomination of PWS-52

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Great Divergence Lead and my section

Hey, I'm fixing up the lead for our section. I also edited the paragraph on Spain by taking out some the excessive history and leaving behind the core information dealing with Spain's politics. Does this improve the paragraph? If not, I can work on it more. Kro14 (talk) 22:08, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for PWS-52

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Periphery countries again…

How long do you want me to leave the GAN open for on Periphery countries? I'm more than happy to leave it until the end of the project, as I can see they're still working on it. At the moment it has far too many [citation needed] markers to pass, but if you think there's a reasonable chance they'll be able to fix them I'm happy to wait; you presumably have a better idea than me of how likely the students are to resolve all the outstanding issues. – iridescent 10:43, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Actually, while I'm here do you know what the modern name of "Benche, Poland" is? (Currently a glaring redlink on Charles Domery.) It doesn't look like a Polish or German spelling to me (as Domery lived in France, I suspect it's a French translation), but I can't think of anything that it might be. As Domery ended up in the Prussian army, I assume it's somewhere that came under Prussian rule during the Partitions. Every book on Domery gives "Benche" as his birthplace, so I assume it isn't a typo. – iridescent 10:50, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks; will close it as not passed, in that case (although hopefully, someone will come along and work on it later). Regarding Domery/Domerz, I've added a "no place called Benche exists" footnote—I'm wondering whether it's actually Benz outside Stettin/Szczecin, but Pomerania wouldn't have been considered Polish in that period. I suspect that whoever signed him up to the French army just scribbled down his name and birthplace as they sounded to a French ear, and both names were perpetuated from there. (If I had to guess, I'd guess the name was originally some form of Damir, but that's pure OR.) – iridescent 15:01, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Have put it as B-class, which I think is where it fairly sits on the scale. (I have to confess that I've never quite understood the B/C distinction, which seems to differ day to day). I've left the importance settings untouched, as I don't know how significant it is as a concept, and whether core/periphery is a widely used distinction. (My gut instinct is that developed/developing is far more commonly used.) – iridescent 16:09, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks for rating the historical timelines high importance :) I was wondering, do you know how I might get more people to notice them? Because they really need expanding and so far they're little more than a vanity project for me. Serendipodous 19:31, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Neican

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DYK nomination of Reformation in Italy

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment

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DYK for James Morris Blaut

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DYK for Reformation in Italy

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Looking for campus ambassadors for public policy initiative

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Spelling of Mme. Hanska's name

Hello there, Piotrus! Since you've worked on articles involving Poland and eastern Europe, I wonder if you might be able to shed any light on the spelling of Eveline Hanska's name? Thanks in advance! Scartol • Tok 19:20, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Done and done. I was going to do that, but then I saw your "I'm back" notice and figured I'd cut out the middleman. No worries! Thanks again. Scartol • Tok 22:36, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Eric Jones (economic historian)

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DYK for PWS-5

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DYK for PWS-6

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Your self-description, at other WP projects, as an admin on EN WP

Those are misleading. Could you please correct them? [5], [6]. It's been about six months since you resigned that position during an arbitration proceeding. Novickas (talk) 19:23, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Novickas (talk) 02:32, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

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Since you started the last TFD, I thought you might want to know that I have re-nominated {{expand}} for deletion. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 20:40, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

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Wikilinking in Confirmation bias

Hi, please see the discussion at Talk:Confirmation_bias#Too_few_wikilinks_or_too_many.3F Thanks, MartinPoulter (talk) 12:08, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Robot and GAN

Hi

I believe that you may have looked at the Robot article in a GAN attempt just under two years ago Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Robot/1.

I know you are fairly busy as a general rule so if you are unable to say yes can you direct me to someone who may have a bit of time free ?

Could you as someone with GA knowledge, or someone you can direct me to, possibly spend a few minutes going over the article again and tell me whether you think it could be easily tweaked into another nomination or whether it should be left for a while.

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DYK for Frank Curto Park

— Rlevse • Talk • 18:02, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Henryk Cederbaum

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Actually, there still seems to be a bit of confusion there that needs to be clarified. Could you take another look? Thanks, Nsk92 (talk) 05:32, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Henryk Cederbaum

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Saving the battletech articles by transwiking them to the battletech wiki(needs administrator)

I asked the only administrator at the Battletech wiki to import the nominated articles over there, but then I checked his contributions and found he hasn't made any in years now. [7] So he'll probably not see my message.

So, if you want the articles saved, follow the instructions there, and you can easily upload them yourself. You just have to go to the wiki Adoption request and asked to be made an administrator on that wiki. Only an administrator can use the import function. Since there is no active administrator, you'll get approved instantly(tell them you are going to transwiki articles from Wikipedia to save them). I can't do it myself since it hasn't been 60 days since I adopted my last wiki(just a few days actually), and I also know nothing about this series. But if you wanted to save it, just export everything before it gets deleted, and make a request there, then import it once they approve you. Dream Focus 15:50, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Kapyl

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Arbitration motion regarding Eastern European mailing list

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Help: plwiki deleted image query

Hello Piotrus. I think that pl:Plik:Tabor3.JPG was copied from File:P7180046.JPG here, so that the info on Commons at commons:File:Tabor-kościół i pomnik Rolanda.jpg is rubbish, but since it is deleted on plwiki I cannot be sure. But you could! Help please. Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:37, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

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