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A misunderstanding

In your list of Poles you have listed two different people called Józef Bielawski. Now you have a link to Józef Bielawski because I have created an article about him. The problem is that I have created an article about Józef Bielawski - the Islamic scholar and not about Józef Bielawski - the violinist, or Józef Bielawski - the writer. I suggest we create a disambiguation page to solve this problem. Kkrystian 15:25 (UTC) 16 January 2007

DYK

On 26 January, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Name of Poland, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Yomangani 08:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

On February 2, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Żarnowiec Nuclear Power Plant, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Many thanks again Piotrus. Blnguyen  (bananabucket) 04:14, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Is Poland in Central or Eastern Europe?

Hi, seeing as you seem to be the wiki-authority on all things Polish I present to you the above mentioned question pertaining to the main article on Poland. There has been a number of edits in this article with regards to this geographical location. The current version states that Poland is in Central or Eastern Europe. I believe this should be corrected for the following reasons: the articles on Poland's neighbors all state their location as Central, not Western or Eastern; geographically Poland does not lie east of the geographical divisor of the European continent; culturally Catholic Poland has always been far closer to any western state than eastern one. There is no more Eastern Bloc and an article on present day Poland should not be swayed by past assumptions. Poland does not meet either of the two criteria presented in the "Eastern Europe" article and is already in the "Central Europe." I would appreciate your comments on this issue. Many thanks! JRWalko 03:14, 27 January 2007 (UTC)JRWalko

It's in Central Europe. It was in Eastern Europe only in the abstract sense, as part of the Eastern Bloc. Appleseed (Talk) 03:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Sources are not clear on this, and both variants should stay, preferably with a footnote explaining the various points of view.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  04:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Poland is in fact one of a number of claimants for the title, "Geographical Center of Europe." By all rights, in this view, the capital of the European Union should one day find its home in the broad suburbs of Warsaw.

The custom of calling Poland a part of "Eastern Europe" was the product of several decades' bipolar division of Europe and the world, and of ignorance. logologist|Talk 06:46, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

mogl bys powrocic do wersji ze geograficznie Polska nalezy do centralnej europy? przez wandalizm znowu jest wschodnie. Pozdrawiam--Maciek 18:14, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

moglbys tez zniemic odrazu w Poles? Tam tez toczyl sie wandalizm. Teraz Bez zameldowania nie mozna edytowac... Pozdrawiam--Maciek 18:17, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Wiec wypadaloby sie zameldowac... -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  18:20, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Nic nie dalo ze sie zameldowalem. Poza tym widocznie nic nie da ze to admin zmieni jak tutaj widac. Co zrobic z ludzmi ktorzy nie potrafia dyskutowac... przeciez sa specjalne strony do dyskusji.. no coz.. to bede zameldowany od teraz tutaj ;)--Szkopski 18:45, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Maybe this will help. Dr. Dan 19:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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Due to the edit histories I'm giving you and Alex Bakharev the heads up. Looks like your neck of the woods. Durova 19:50, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah, so this is the author of all those Trubetskoy articles. Appleseed (Talk) 20:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Déja vu all over again

There's a near-cliché about being made to keep voting until the right result comes up. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm getting rather bored by having to revisit substantially the same question. The sort of compromise that resulted in the camel in place of the horse, that we don't need. Come up with a workable compromise (i.e. Latin name per Shilkanni), and you might get somewhere. Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:52, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

So how about Jogaila (Władysław II Jagiełło) (Ягайла Ольгердович) (allowing for corrections to my non-existent language skillz)? I could live with Jagello (Shilkanni assures me that's the accurate Latin form), or Jagiello at a pinch, but byzantine confections are not what WP:NAME is supposed to produce. You should read that TV arbcom case, especially the bits about consensus building. Voting is evil, so I've heard. Angus McLellan (Talk) 00:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

I must agree. Discussing the sources for Jagello vs. Jagiello would actually be interesting, however. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 00:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Can you do me a huge favour and add a note to the Polish and Lithuanian noticeboards about the Jogaila mediation sometime? And anywhere that seems reasonable to you. (I'll owe you a favour: perhaps I can add some more stuff to the Voisin 3 article since I heaps of it.) Thanks in advance. Dziynki! (Is that how it's written?) Dobra noc, Angus McLellan (Talk) 01:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

A quick and dirty article on Aeroplanes Voisin is done. Rather than Voisin series, I think I'll do something on the Salmson 2, a successful French design that served with US and Polish air forces too. Angus McLellan (Talk) 01:58, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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This case is now closed and the results have been published at the link above.

Because Ghirlandajo, a main party to this case, has not edited since December 27, 2006, and because of an ongoing informal mediation attempt that occured prior to Ghirlandajo's absence, this case is temporarily dismissed. If and when Ghirlandajo returns, it would be best for him to resume productive mainspace editing, which it is hoped can take place without a recurrence of the disputes that led to this case. As appropriate, the mediation between Ghirlandajo and Piotrus can be resumed to seek resolution of any live disputes that might remain between them. Under the circumstances, the arbitration case is dismissed, without prejudice to a request by any party to reopen it in the future if necessary.

For the Arbitration Committee, – Chacor 01:15, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

NewArtBot

Please check Portal_talk:Poland/New_article_announcements#User:AlexNewArtBot_-_New_Article_Bot and Portal:Poland/New_article_announcements#Possible Poland-related article found by bot . The idea is that the articles found there are processes by the portal participants Alex Bakharev 19:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks for your suggestions. The bot should eat every regular expression (see a cheat sheet). \W stands for any non-word character (outside A-Z and a-z range) I use it as a word boundary market. Sometimes it works incorrectly as the letters with diacritics are still match the patterns and seen by the bot as a word marker, that they are not.

• I am sort of reluctant to include rules polish and pole as the both words can mean something else. I have included polish with the markers on both sides /\Wpolish\W/ at least it will remove words like polished and polishing. I am very reluctant to include the rule pole as all the timber\fishing\etc. connotation would leave to massive false positive. Alex Bakharev 06:13, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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Proszę spojżec na historię tych artykułów. Moim zdaniem User:Deutscher Patriot powinien zostac przynajmniej ostrzeżony przez admina lub zablokowany(jestem za).

Proszę o reakcję. Pozdrawiam. Medard

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Interesting map template

Thanks, I'll see if I can make any improvements. Appleseed (Talk) 22:57, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Możliwy atak z polskojęzycznego

pl:Dyskusja:III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. św. Jana Kantego w Poznaniu - ma konto na en: i grozi, że tu zacznie wypisywać głupoty. Prosiłbym Cię jako tutejszego admina o ew. interwencję. Pozdrawiam Radomil talk 00:14, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Volkslista

Hello Piotruś. Do you know somebody who would be interested in translating Volkslista article from Polish Wiki? It is missing here, and only redirects to Volksdeutsche article. I think it is very important to have it here since it is crucial for understanding some issues of Upper Silesia and Silesia in general. - Darwinek 11:06, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Your DYK nomination for Mamert Stankiewicz was successful

Did you know? was updated. On February 2, 2007, a fact from the article Mamert Stankiewicz, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 22:57, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Recent edit war at article Poles

You have participated in the recent edit war over the opening paragraph of the article Poles. The article has now been fully protected to prevent further edit warring. The only way to resolve this matter is for interested editors to discuss this matter. Please go to Talk:Poles#Continued_edit_war_over_opening_paragraph and express your opinion there. Please work with your fellow editors to reach a consensus wording that is properly cited and neutral. Thank you, Gwernol 12:11, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

A proposal

Please take an early look at a proposal I've been drafting. I'm not ready to post it to a noticeboard yet, but I'd definitely like your feedback. User:Durova/Community enforced mediation Durova 23:24, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Your DYK nomination for Antoni Bohdziewicz was successful

Did you know? was updated. On February 4, 2007, a fact from the article Antoni Bohdziewicz, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 14:56, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Did you know? was updated. On February 6, 2007, a fact from the article Aeroplanes Voisin, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Keep up the great work Piotrus! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:51, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Article name

I nominated the article for selfish reasons, I admit. You and I are different types of Wikipedian: you do lots of things; I do one thing at a time, obsessively. And so I felt I had to get this one out of my system now before I move on to my next obsession (probably Anton Chekhov). I can't wait while the wheels of mediation, polls, the United Nations, or whatever tediously grind along.

I know I won't be able to commit to this article in the same way for a postponed FAC (at the moment the background reading is very fresh in my mind), but that's my issue, nobody else's. I'm actually quite enjoying the fight of trying to get the article to pass in the face of this rather large obstacle of the mediation; it's certainly more fun than giving up.

By the way, thanks for voting 'support' despite your dislike of the title: I hope your critics noticed that. Anyway, Misplaced Pages isn't life, and if the article fails, don't worry, I won't be throwing myself off the nearest cliff. All the best. qp10qp 16:58, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

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Block

Can you please block User:209.242.43.98. This user's most recent vandalism was to Culture of Poland. Appleseed (Talk) 18:59, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Done. 48h. -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  19:07, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

This user was blocked several times, including once for 40 days, and still doesn't get the message. Maybe something longer than two days is required? Appleseed (Talk) 19:11, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Three months from User:Infrogmation. Appleseed (Talk) 21:32, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Expandable toolbox buttons?

I know you like replies on your talk page (the "new messages" comment at the top tells me that). But just putting the reply here always feels a little odd and stops the conversation flow. So I've done the next best thing and added a message to tell you that a reply can be found next to your query on my talk page. If you'd like be to always put the full reply here let me know. --MarkS (talk) 21:22, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

My monobook

I have spent 3 hours the last time trying to fix my monobook. I won't touch because I am scared of ruing the code and don't know what to do. If you are an authetic administrator, then you have my permission to remove the category from my monobook. Please, make sure not to remove other stuff.--Patchouli 22:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Monobook

Ooops!!! I removed the only category reference I could find in there, didn't mean to put my own (rather hacked together) Monobook in the category! Thanks for the heads-up - Stephanie Daugherty (Triona) - Talk - Comment - 00:42, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Social Darwinism

At 05:15 on 26 January 2007, as your edit summary states, you moved Social Darwinism to Social darwinism: no need to capitalize. This move appears to have been made without first placing move or merge tags on the article, and the talk page has not been moved, causing some confusion. All the references I've checked use the capitalised form, which is consistently used in the article: going through the first 100 in a google search, the uncapitalised varsion is used by one "History 203 lecture list" with a generally eccentric approach to capitals, Evowiki which dispenses with the capital in the title but uses it in the article, and two chat type pages . Doesn't seem to me like much usage, and the page is now inconsistent. Any evidence that we shouldn't move the title back? .. dave souza, talk 10:18, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, your willingness to have it changed back is appreciated. Sorry I missed the earlier discussion, and I must admit to having reverted some vandalism on the page without noticing that the title had changed. Anyway, though it's not obvious, the Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (capital letters)#Religions, deities, philosophies, doctrines and their adherents section concludes that "Philosophies, theories, doctrines, and systems of thought do not begin with a capital letter, unless the name derives from a proper noun:", and so Darwinism as deriving from the proper noun "Darwin" always begins with a capital letter, even when preceded by "social". I've changed back a page move in the past, but don't have much experience of it: is this something you'd prefer to do yourself? Thanks for your helpfulness, .. dave souza, talk 20:57, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Couple of DYK noms

Did you know? was updated. On 7 February, 2007, a fact from the article Lublin Castle, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Did you know? was updated. On 7 February, 2007, a fact from the article Salmson 2, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Yomangani 10:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Your removal of information

Probably you "missed" it, but the word, which you and your close ally user:Lysy, trying to remove is directly referenced by English sources. M.K. 13:30, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

So, may question - why are you deleting referenced formulation? M.K. 13:01, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Notes in small print

I have a question - how to make a list of notes, or references (like at the end of the Poland prehistory article I'm working on) make appear in small print? Also how to have a date and time automatically appended to the signature (like the one below)?

Orczar

Re:My monobook.js

Thanks for the note. I wasn't aware of the category problem (and it looks like I'm not the only one). I believe I fixed it (don't see my page in the category anymore), but if you see any problems, don't hesitiate to tell me. Gavia immer (u|t) 17:24, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

mono

Done. I didn't notice that. Thanks. lijealso 10:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)