Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland

I want to do a en.wikipedia.org and pl.wikipedia.org collaboration

en:Aly Khan and pl:Maciej Mielżyński (powstaniec śląski) have related content

there is no pl:Aly Khan or en:Maciej Mielżyński (powstaniec śląski)

I need to find a en.wikipedian who speaks Polish, to find a pl.wikipedian who understands Polish nobility honorifics and culture and history to clarify pl:Maciej Mielżyński (powstaniec śląski), Sybilla Szczeniowska Sorondo (Sybilla Emilia hr. Mielżyńska h. Nowina), Marek Szczeniowski, and Aly Khan

see: pl:Dyskusja:Maciej Mielżyński (powstaniec śląski)#Sybilla Emilia hr. Mielżyńska h. Nowina

Piñanana (talk) 07:09, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

@Piñanana It's hard to understand what you want, the text on pl wiki is just a random collection of links. Articles can of course be translated, although neither the Polish nor English one are of very good quality (they both have unreferenced parts). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:21, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

@Piñanana How are those two articles related? What makes them have "similar content"? Artemis Andromeda (talk) 13:23, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Input needed about if Poland is a parlimentary or semi-presidential republic

The discussion is here but involves potential changes in multiple pages: Talk:Poland#Poland_-_system_of_government.
I need more input as there is a dispute. --wojtekpolska^{₁₀₁₃ [talk page]} 18:51, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

I would like someone to contribute to the discussion if possible. Would it also be appropriate to create a RfC? --wojtekpolska^{₁₀₁₃ [talk page]} 23:14, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Mikhail Suslov

Mikhail Suslov has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 03:43, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Can't edit participant section?

Hello! I'm trying to join this project, but can't seem to find the option to edit the participants section. I've been able to edit other projects' pages today. Sorenzs (talk) 17:33, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

According to this, your account needs to be at least 4 days old to be able to edit this semi-protected page. Kiwipete (talk) 17:48, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

I see, thank you! Sorenzs (talk) 17:59, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Category:Civic Platform politicians

Since Civic Platform was disbanded, and replaced by Civic Coalition (party), something should be done with the category Category:Civic Platform politicians. Since, there are numerous people who were members of the Civic Platform in the past, but are no longer members or no longer alive, I think she should keep the category, as to represent former party, and create new category "Civic Coalition members" for current members of the new party. Alternatively, we could create category "Civic Platform and Civic Coalition members" or just rename current category to "Civic Coalition members", if we assume the current situation is nothing more than name rebranding, and both parties are basically the same. What do you think? Also, since we are on the topic, I notices, that English Wikipedia misses categories for members of several parties in the Sejm, which were created this decade, such as Polish Coalition or Poland 2050. Artemis Andromeda (talk) 16:16, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Input on Andrzej Młodziejowski

Hello all; I've been reworking the above article over the past few months and managed to work it up to a considerable size. I wanted to reach out to see if it would be considered to have reached the B-class criteria for WPPOLAND, or if further work would be needed to reach it. Hwqaksd (talk) 15:10, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Where the hell is Szwekni?

I came across this article, on a Polish speed skater. He was born in 1902 in Szwekni, Latvia (at the time it was in Poland). Now, I assume Szwekni was the Polish name of the village or town in Latvia, so the name has now changed, which I can't find today, after searching everywhere. So, any ways of finding this village or town? Fortek67 (talk) 21:27, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

@Fortek67 Hi. It should actually say "Szweknia". But asside from that, I couldn't find anything. The Olympic Games data bases lists his place of birth in Polish as well, and add notes that its Latvian name and location are unknown, and that "it could be misspelled or mislocated" (see [1]). Assuming it's a real place, it's possible, it was a small Polish faming hamlet (folwark), with no more than few houses, which would be absorbed into another village and forgotten about by now. Or that it was a name used by either by Polish population, or just Jucewicz himself, for a random village in Latvia, which was not officially written down anywhere. In both cases, I doubt identification is possible. Having said that, I think you should try going to Wikiproject Latvia, and asking if anyone there would be able to identify it. Artemis Andromeda (talk) 13:01, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@Fortek67 One more thing I was able to find is, that Russian Wikipedia translates it as "Швекня". And while it could be just transliteration of Polish, considering that at the time Latvia was part of the Russian Empire, it's possible that Szweknia/Shveknya was actually Russian name for this village. Idk if that helps though. Artemis Andromeda (talk) 13:05, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@Artemis Andromeda, thank you for your interest, and correction of the place name to Szweknia. Like you said, it is or probably was most likely a folwark, or something like a Przysiółek (hamlet) (which is what I think as well). I doubt that only Jucewicz used that name, though I believe that the settlement now is most likely non-existent, under a different name, or so small that it isn't on the map. For example, I once wrote an article on Dębówek, Gozdnica. It is so small (only a few houses), that there is almost no coverage on it on the internet, not even on the Polish Wikipedia. I only found out about (and the only real online coverage it ever got) when the settlement was incorporated into the nearby town leading in the change of the voivodeship borders.

Anyways, maybe I might ask on WikiProject Latvia. Once again thanks for your help! Fortek67 (talk) 15:29, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Detailed census tables for villages

I came across these edits [2] [3] adding detailed population tables for nearly 200 villages, from the 2002 census. It seems to me that the tables are excessive for villages, and should be removed.

Staszów County also has very extensive tables from the 2011 census, inserted by the same editor (who is no longer active since 2014). – Fayenatic London 08:24, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

@Fayenatic london I agree, they are too detailed. I would scale them down to simply say population by year, similarly to how it's done for, for example Ursynów#Demographics. Artemis Andromeda (talk) 14:02, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

@Fayenatic london this is extremely outdated information and should be deleted. I then suggest replacing it with a new statistic, such as from Polska w liczbach - you can search most settlements with "Szukaj" at the top right, it shows the most recent population statistic which is sourced from the government, such as the 2021 Polish census.

Example: Fortek67 (talk) 23:30, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

References

Please would a member of this WikiProject go ahead with the above? I do not have capacity for it. I am also treading carefully over Polish article edits having been forcefully accused on my talk page of vandalism, for disambiguating place names after renaming of counties. – Fayenatic London 23:41, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

That's alright. I will do a few, but also can't do all. I tend to focus on rail transport in Poland, as I never see anyone working on that. Fortek67 (talk) 23:50, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

@Fortek67 - thanks for your request on my talk page. The edit you gave as an example, Wymysłów, Gmina Szydłów, contains quite a few changes. I can probably manage to remove the entire Demography section using AWB, as long as this is the same approach as on all the other articles. Can you please confirm this? With regards to removing the "unsourced location", you can ignore these as I have another AWB task designed to do exactly that. Kiwipete (talk) 01:56, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes; that would be great, removing the entire Demography section. The population figure in the infobox should be simplified to what I did, were it should only state the source, year, and pop. figure. The source can be used as before from Polska w Liczbach, (for every village) though that might be difficult to implement into AWB. Thanks, Fortek67 (talk) 02:06, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

I've started removing the Demography section. Unfortunately, I can't do anything about the population in the infobox. At the moment, I'm working through the Świętokrzyskie voivodeship. Please have a look at some of my recent edits. Kiwipete (talk) 08:07, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

I've finished this task for now. As far as I could see, these changes were made to towns only in the Świętokrzyskie voivodeship. If you come across any others, please let me know. Kiwipete (talk) 20:18, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Turns up there is a lot more - noticed this at Gmina Rytwiany. The list goes on... Fortek67 (talk) 21:18, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Will look out for them. Thanks! Fortek67 (talk) 20:36, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Solomon Asch

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Rita Chałubińska

This stub is up for deletion. Bearian (talk) 02:48, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

Problem with article for this village

Hi, I wanna ask someone more knowledgeable about those things. Recently, I stumbled onto article about this village, known as Osiedle Słoneczne, Pomeranian Voivodeship. It's a stub, but my issue is, I do not belive this place is a village/hamlet, or even has a status of a "part of settlement" ("część miejscowości"). It seem to be just random neighborhood of houses, being part of nearby village. As such I reported it to deletion for lack of notability. But my issue is, that most of stub articles about villages in Poland were generated automatically basing on information from databases, it means that this place must have or had in the past, some legal status to be present on those databases, which would potentially give it an ounce of notablity. What do you think? Artemis Andromeda (talk) 23:44, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the creator of all these articles, Kotniski (via Kotbot) was last active on Wikipedia back in 2007, so I suspect you'll get no joy trying to ask them what their source(s) were. I use the Polish government (I think) website TERYT to do a basic check of towns like this one. Kiwipete (talk) 02:43, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

Didn't we already have a discussion about this problem? Because this is a pretty big problem labelling tiny settlements or things like Kolonias as separate villages. And it's pretty stupid how nothing has been done for over 15 years since Kotbot made this articles.

I guess the only fix to this could be finding a reliable data base, and creating a new bot that would fix or possibly merge all of these articles into what village or town or city they're part of? Because so many of these articles have been created, it would take years to fix this manually. Fortek67 (talk) 20:07, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

@Fortek67 - I agree. Using the TERYT website (https://eteryt.stat.gov.pl/eTeryt/rejestr_teryt/udostepnianie_danych/baza_teryt/uzytkownicy_indywidualni/wyszukiwanie/wyszukiwanie.aspx?contrast=default), you can navigate to the Miejscowości (SIMC) tab, and then select the voivodeship (województwo), then the county (powiat) and then the gmina, and click WYSZUKAJ. This will give you a list of all the "towns" (for want of a better term) for that gmina. But I don't know how to do this in an automated manner. Kiwipete (talk) 22:43, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes, we could use TERYT (which I am familiar with). I'm just thinking, who might be the right person to be able to program such a bot, if automation like kotbot is possible.

What do you think would be the right choice? Merging settlement articles into their village/town/city they are part of, (since they are usually very short stubs), or could we simply correct these articles into what they are e.g. kolonia, osiedle? Speaking of these articles about types of Polish settlements, (kolonia, osiedle, and more) they are currently very short. Should we merge all of them into a list article, explaining what they are, and any information? I have also found that they seem to be difficult to navigate between each other (since they are about the same topic; types of Polish settlements), or not many pages link to them despite their significance, in my opinion. Fortek67 (talk) 23:16, 27 March 2026 (UTC)