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== Obvious vandalism. ==
== Semi-protected edit request on 16 May 2023 ==

Section on "17th to 20th centuries" jumps from deportation of Jews under Nazis in 1944 to 1980s ] and the Kosovo War of 1990s.


Clearly, entire section of history went missing.
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On the pictures to the right when you enter the page the Sahat kulla is mistaken from Mother Theresa Cathedral. (the picture shows Sahatkulla but what you wrote says Cathedral of Saint Mother Theresa) ] (]) 13:40, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
:{{ping|Jonitooo}} {{done}}<!-- Template:ESp -->, corrected the caption. '''] ]''' 19:13, 16 May 2023 (UTC)


Apparently, ] got up at early one Saturday morning and "presumptively deleted" whole chunks of the article into oblivion and uselessness. Must have been SOME Friday night.
== Edit Request ==


In the text, it's said that Pristina is the capital and '''<s>largest</s>''' city of Kosovo, it's right that it's the '''capital''', but it's the second biggest city of Kosovo, after Podujevo, Podujevo coming with '''633km2''', while Pristina has '''572km2''', but you can say that by population Pristina is '''higher'''. ] (]) 07:25, 7 August 2023 (UTC) I mean, I had drunk my share in my time, but I never ended up deleting decades of history because of that. ] (]) 19:15, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
:{{not done}}. The size of a city is usually measured by the number of inhabitants. That is what people usually think when they read about the "size" of a city. Per the ], we cam thus say that Pristina is the largest city of Kosovo. '''] ]''' 21:13, 7 August 2023 (UTC)


:Hi, 109/175.104.40, and thank you for coming forward with your concerns.
== Ktrimi991's revert ==
:I know it's a bit inconvenient, but if you read the sections above, the material was added by a user (Tetovario, alia CheddarB23) who repeatedly and egregiously violated the copyright of numerous authors and text, sometimes creating false attributions in an attempt to cover up their behaviour. I'd already removed several examples of copyrighted material they had inserted. Unfortunately, it became necessary for me to ] large sections of content that they added. Which, yes, I know hasn't left the article in a great state, but Misplaced Pages is a work in progress! If you'd like to chip in, please feel free! Because the history is all still there- the only thing that's left to do is for somebody to look at the sources and write some new, original, content with facts from them. ] (]) 23:28, 2 August 2024 (UTC)


==Flag and seal==
@] Concerning your revert with {{tquote|"Eric Hamp is a linguistic source of the highest quality, way more recognized and cited than all other sources of the section combined"}}'':'' The reason why the Slavic theory goes first is because it is supported way more. Judging by the sources, the Proto-Slavic/Serbian etymology is supported by five sources. How many sources back the Proto-Albanian theory by Hamp? None. Your personal opinion of Hamp, and your alleged "over-qualification" of his work compared to others, is backed by no RS. ] (]). 19:00, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
:Hamp's view is supported by Curtis and Mehmeti. And yes, Hamp is way more recognozed than the rest of sources. ] (]) 19:04, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
::@] Mehmeti don't explicitly agree with Hamp, it is called recitation. Read the source. ] (]). 19:12, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
:::I read Mehmeti way before you did. He says:{{tq|Hamp’s sharp eyes dissected even phonetic evolution of certain Albanian place-names which went hand-to-hand with the complex historical processes that underwent carriers of Albanian. Being himself an ardent neogrammarian, Hamp inferred peculiar phenomena as an outcome of the specific development of place-names: of major importance is his new etymology regarding Prishtinë, attested ever since, which he acknowledged as a derivative of  *pṛ-tu-, harking back to the Indo-European root *per- ,,passage, through”, cognate with Lat. portus and Eng. ford, while for the second element he surmised *stein-, a cognate with English ‘stone’, thus most likely a motivated name for a place between rivers. Moreover, vocalization ṛ > ri, which is notably Albanian, warrants that proto-Albanian has been spoken in Dardania before Trajan commenced to spread Latinization through Dacia}}. Je praises Hamp's etymology of Pristina. ] (]) 20:04, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
::::Where do you see praising? It's recitations/interpretations. Mehmeti is explaining Hamp's work. That's why Mehmeti's source was used to refer to Hamp's work, as you can see in the article. ] (]). 21:57, 15 August 2023 (UTC)


If you look at the website linked in the in in the infobox, the flag has a white background rather than a blue one and the colour gradient on the seal is symmetrical. In the wiki version of the seal, the house-like symbol is also at the wrong place and I think the name of the city above the seal is also part of it (maybe also of the flag). Would be nice if someone could fix this. ] (]) 22:10, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
== Lead ==


== Error in climate section ==
{{xt|Pristina seems to have been a small village before the late 15th century. ... The first mosque in Pristina was built in the late 14th century while under Serbian rule.}}


The second claim seems highly improbable in light of the first. ] (]) 20:05, 7 September 2023 (UTC) The mean annual and monthly sun hours are different from each other in the table and the text in the 'Climate' section, i suppose because of different references; I would change it myself but i haven't edited enough articles yet. ] (]) 15:35, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
:Good point. The second sentence is sourced to a travel guide, so it does not meet the ] criteria. ] (]) 20:55, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

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To-do list for Pristina: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2010-03-25


Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
  • Copyedit : some needed
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  • NPOV : it is difficult to tell whether some statements are objective or POV - more use needed of references to reliable sources and reference to/presentation of opposing viewpoints
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  • Other : remove irrelevant material, eg, ref to Ulpiana (it's not even close and it's covered elsewhere!)
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Obvious vandalism.

Section on "17th to 20th centuries" jumps from deportation of Jews under Nazis in 1944 to 1980s Slobodan Milošević and the Kosovo War of 1990s.

Clearly, entire section of history went missing.

Apparently, GreenLipstickLesbian got up at early one Saturday morning and "presumptively deleted" whole chunks of the article into oblivion and uselessness. Must have been SOME Friday night.

I mean, I had drunk my share in my time, but I never ended up deleting decades of history because of that. 109.175.104.40 (talk) 19:15, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi, 109/175.104.40, and thank you for coming forward with your concerns.
I know it's a bit inconvenient, but if you read the sections above, the material was added by a user (Tetovario, alia CheddarB23) who repeatedly and egregiously violated the copyright of numerous authors and text, sometimes creating false attributions in an attempt to cover up their behaviour. I'd already removed several examples of copyrighted material they had inserted. Unfortunately, it became necessary for me to presumptively delete large sections of content that they added. Which, yes, I know hasn't left the article in a great state, but Misplaced Pages is a work in progress! If you'd like to chip in, please feel free! Because the history is all still there- the only thing that's left to do is for somebody to look at the sources and write some new, original, content with facts from them. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 23:28, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Flag and seal

If you look at the website linked in the in in the infobox, the flag has a white background rather than a blue one and the colour gradient on the seal is symmetrical. In the wiki version of the seal, the house-like symbol is also at the wrong place and I think the name of the city above the seal is also part of it (maybe also of the flag). Would be nice if someone could fix this. Iluzalsipal (talk) 22:10, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Error in climate section

The mean annual and monthly sun hours are different from each other in the table and the text in the 'Climate' section, i suppose because of different references; I would change it myself but i haven't edited enough articles yet. Tbany (talk) 15:35, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

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