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Shale oil

Merry Christmas, Novickas! I expanded a little bit the article in your sandbox and I think that maybe it is ready for going forward with creation of the Shale oil article.Beagel (talk) 18:56, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Belated hi...

Hello, I was meaning to say hello and welcome you back, but I wasn't around much myself... I see you are on a run with new museum articles. Nice! As always, much appreciated. I hope all is well (and not too cold!) Renata (talk) 03:12, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Your request granted ;) Let me know if I can do anything else for you. Renata (talk) 20:01, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Cure your cold? Sure thing! Drink hot tea with honey, intake massive dose of vitamin C, and sleep whole day in a warm bed. It's a bit tough with the weather... but I think I could afford a plane ticket to bring you away from that polar bear mass :) Anyhoo, I think you were on a great track with the signatory articles. Renata (talk) 01:10, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

BTW, if you are still interested in stubs about Vilnius... I think this museum is very interesting. I can also dig up some free pics from Flickr. Renata (talk) 03:15, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I will have to look this into detail later on. Thank you! Regarding Flickr, see this page. You can take any pic from "Attribution License" and "Attribution-ShareAlike License" groups. I saw some museum pics in there before. If you go to any photo, on the right side at the bottom there will be something like this:

Additional Information
  Some rights reserved       --> if you click the link it will tell which license they are using
  Anyone can see this photo  --> this has no relevance to copyright status

P.S. re translations of party names -- I totally feel the pain. That's where I spend most of my time when writing articles. It's especially frustrating when you have some foreigner with lithuanized name (like Džordžas Bušas from Georg Bush)... try figure out his/her native name! Placenames is another headache... Renata (talk) 14:50, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Which photo do you like best? Renata (talk) 01:27, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I am at work right now :( so I will look at it when I get home. Renata (talk) 18:29, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

This gives info about the hills. According to this report, the area is 24.5 ha (recalculated in 2004). Some news from today regarding planned improvements. The Word document that you asked to open had the same info as this website. Renata (talk) 22:18, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, and, the elderate is the Old Town. Renata (talk) 22:20, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you! What do you think the title should be? Now it is in Lithuanian, but all the other parks were translated into English. Kalnai Park after Vingis Park? Renata (talk) 15:16, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

I have made a DYK suggestion. Please fell to improve it as you see fit. Also, please monitor its status as I am likely to work, work, and work again the whole week :( Renata (talk) 21:10, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Shale oil again

It seems good and accurate. I propose also to nominate this article for the main page DYK. Any idea which fact could be used? Beagel (talk) 17:37, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

I think this hook is good. Alternative could be information about the first patent.Beagel (talk) 18:24, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Seems fine for me.Beagel (talk) 13:57, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Nominated.Beagel (talk) 14:45, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Not really, doing mainly housekeeping things like minor cleanup, fixing references etc. Actually I don't like to edit hot topics, but as this article in my watchlist after major cleanup last year, of course I am following what's going on. I am still preparing some oil shale technology articles. After that I hope it would be possible to simplify little bit technology side of the Oil shale extraction and it would be ready for the FAC renomination. But after last failure I afraid this little bit. Beagel (talk) 15:36, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Shale oil

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Congratulations. Good work. Beagel (talk) 08:39, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

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Horse breeds

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DYK for Kalnai Park

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Good job

Hey, you are doing a great job on Mindaugas article. Keep it up! M.K. (talk) 14:04, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, very nice :) Sorry I interrupted your edits. I hope I reinserted all of them. Let me know if you need any help. I have some time today. Renata (talk) 15:02, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Regarding the Selonian-deed, I am not sure. Probably the reviewer is right and it cannot be claimed as PD-old. You should ask someone on Commons -- they are more familiar with the copyright stuff. But I am sure regarding this image. It cannot be used on Misplaced Pages. "Everyone can see this photo" has nothing to do with copyrights. You should care about a line above it that says "all rights reserved". That means it's copyrighted and not licensed under Creative Commons (CC). If a pic was under CC the text would say "some rights reserved" and would link to the description of particular CC license. So that image needs to be deleted. Is it ok if I do it? Renata (talk) 01:28, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Regarding Mindaugas' names. I think I saw the whole long section about it in Lietuviu enciklopedija (the one published in Boston). But I don't have it at home. I would need to go to NY Public Library, but I am not in NY for the entire week. So if you can wait a week... :) Renata (talk) 17:48, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

In case if needs a new photo of the treaty I could make a scan from Senosios Lietuvos istorija. Btw, perhaps new bridge to commemorate Mindaugas, should also be mentioned in article? M.K. (talk) 08:45, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I asked about the treaty photo at Commons; they confirmed that the photo date is an issue. So yes, if you could scan it, that would be better. About the bridge, I agree, but would like to work it into a longer paragraph, so if you have any ideas? It was dedicated in 2003, so maybe 2003 commemorations could be the theme? Novickas (talk) 13:48, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Et, my scanner "having a holiday", so I would not be able to make a scan. Sorry, M.K. (talk) 17:55, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

You have a PDF file waiting in your inbox ;) Renata (talk) 18:52, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages is educational :) Let me know if you cannot untangle what's where. I don't have too much time these days, but I will try to help. Renata (talk) 01:54, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

OMG, Saturday school.. Oh, I already feel your pain :) I would not force my kids to go thru that. Regular school is torture enough. Yeah, sounds like a plan. I am not sure what you wanted to write about his name, so I'll leave it to you to write the initial draft. I can proofread it. Renata (talk) 02:40, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

I saw your note, it's on my mind (along other mountains of garbage), but I could not find a spare moment to dwell on it. I think it would deserve to be something more sophisticated then a list of all the different names. I promise to get to it either today evening or Sat night. Renata (talk) 18:23, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I inserted the paragraph about the name. Will hunt now for the cite request. Feel free to modify or move the name as you like. Renata (talk) 22:26, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Re:Galician-Livonian Chronicle

I'd presume it was this (I don't have the texts here and would need to check). The author might be confusing it with the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia or the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle. IF you need an answer more quickly Renata actually might be better to ask. All the best, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 19:55, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I fixed the link. It's not Livonian chronicle, it's Slavic (which is to say notoriously biased against Lithuania). Renata (talk) 01:20, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Pac and szlachta

Thanks for adding page number and url to Pac. You may be interested in my cleanup of List of szlachta - see talk; I hope I am not doing unjustice to the Lithuanian families. Btw, can you access page 464 of HD? I want to verify their information on Poniatowski family, but that page doesn't display for me.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:14, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

The Szlachta are not one of my areas of interest. No, I cannot access that page either. It may contain an image, or have been randomly chosen as non-viewable per Gbook policies. (see ). Novickas (talk) 01:34, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Balts in Pomerania

Hey,

Every once and a while I encounter IPs (latest:) at the Pomerania article and the History of Pomerania series introducing a Baltic period into the prehistory section. Unfortunately, these IPs have in common that never there is an account or a longstanding IP to talk with, and I have in the past reversed the IPs' unsourced entries.

However, the IPs' claims - though always unsourced and presented in an odd way - do not seem completely made-up, but seem to rely on "real" theories from the 1960s, at least there is a stub ("Pomeranian Balts") using such sources and linking a map showing a Baltic extension as far west as Lübeck and Berlin. Yet, those Balts are said in the article to have lived in Pomerania 1500 BC to 1 AD, a period in which all reliable sources I used for the History of Pomerania and especially Early History of Pomerania articles ascribe the Jastorf culture, Lusatian culture, Pomeranian culture and Oxhöft culture to Pomerania, all of which are well-established archeological cultures usually not associated with Balts. Also, the Balts article (which is in a bad shape regarding sources) states that the Balts emerged only after 1 AD, and "Pomeranian Balts" are only mentioned once, in a table with an unreferenced-tag.

For these reasons, the occasional "Balts" insertions by the IPs have a strong smell of trolls spreading fringe theories. But just because I never heard of it and regard it unlikely, it is of course not sure that Pomerania never was inhabited by some sort of proto-culture somehow associated with proto-Balts, or even that there is a substantiated and verifiable thesis put forward by reliable historians that there once was a Baltic population in (parts of) the area.

As an editor who knows everything about Baltic history :), do you know anything about this matter? Regards Skäpperöd (talk) 14:56, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Me? I was just telling Renata about how I used to sleep in Saturday school. Anyway. If Marija Gimbutas has not been discredited in this regard, they had some presence in the area until the 11th- 12th centuries AD. I'm a little wary of this online reprint mentioning that - not sure if it's legit (didn't see say copyright M.G xxxx, reprinted with permission) A more recent ref (University of Pisa) refers to "the so-called Pomerania-Balts at the far west of the prehistorical Baltic area." Also, from Lituanus 1979, "In the central Pomerania arose the culture of Rzucewo and that of Narva-Nemunas, the latter embracing also the territory of the old Jatvingia, Lithuania, Latvia and part of Estonia." (Nemunas culture is, I think, well-established). So the general concept doesn't seem completely fringe. A Google book search of "pomerania balts prehistoric" yields 79 results, but all just snippets. Some probably hinges on the definition of prehistoric. Hope this helps - sorry the articles are under-sourced, there's only so much time :( Regards, Novickas (talk) 00:56, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Baltic names of water bodies don't extend too far west past the Vistula with regard to modern Pomerania straddling Germany and Poland, unfortunately I don't have any good sources for the maximum westward expansion of the Balts/Pomeranians. PetersV       TALK 02:14, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't have much time investigating this. But it seems that past Vistula "Baltic character is doubtful" (mid-1st millennium BC). So it seems to be a theory but not yet widely accepted or rejected. Renata (talk) 03:13, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

After some research, I traced down the Balt theories to the Rzucewo culture (and the subsequent ones). It seems however that the "Baltic connection" of this culture is rather a former theory that is not dogmatically upheld.

I introduced the following sentence to Early history of Pomerania: "While most of Pomerania was part of or influenced by the Single Grave culture subgroup, eastern Pomerelia belonged to the Rzucewo (also Bay Coast or Haffküsten) culture subgroup stretching from Pomerelia to Lithuania, formerly associated with early Balts." and stubbed Rzucewo culture.

I copied this thread to Talk:Early history of Pomerania.

Thank you all very much for your help, any additional comments/suggestions are welcome, probably better on the article's talk page. Skäpperöd (talk) 10:22, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

re

Thank you for appreciating my work, warm and encouraging words are very rare in this wiki :)

Concerning the Balts: The Kasperavicuite.2004.pdf paper gives the Vistula as the western border on the first page, and the Narva culture was even further east. But maybe I'm up to something, if Pamariai and Bay coast culture are the same, this probably explains some of the confusion, as Pomerania means the same (at the sea) and is something like Pamare (?) in Baltic languages. The Bay coast culture however centered on what used to be East Prussia (east of Pomerania). I have put my thoughts on Talk:Early history of Pomerania, maybe you can comment there?

And to make myself clear again, I am not ideologically opposed to a Baltic presence in Pomerania or parts thereof, not at all - if there is established work on such a presence, sure it needs to be included. I just don't want to have yet another nationalist propaganda or fringe theory chiming in, there are already IPs thriving to include "Magna Germania" and alike in the Pomerania articles, and there are others who claim Pomerania to be some sort of Polish heartland, and if there is an IP now claiming some sort of "Magna Baltica", it looks a little suspicious. But again, if you or another reasonable editor have material on Baltic presence, please make the article better. I do my best to elaborate on it myself, too, and what I found until now I have included already. All I know for sure is that in prehistory one has to be very careful to assign an ethnic character to a given archeological culture, and that in the past this care was missing especially in disputed areas, where wishful thinking and national pride made up for missing evidence sometimes. Regards Skäpperöd (talk) 18:35, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Mindaugas FA?

My ewwwil intentions are not to let you on a wikibreak, so I am proposing to make Mindaugas a featured article to be on main page on July 6 -- the day Lithuania will celebrate 1000th aniversary of its name. Sounds good, no? Renata (talk) 23:37, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

LOL :) Yes, me is ewwwil. What do you think it is missing for FA? Renata (talk) 23:49, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Interesting article on how Poles viewed Mindaugas. Renata (talk) 18:14, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Bit confused. Listed where? Main page accepts only FA. The biggest issue with press ban is that I don't really have any good sources. But if you want to work on it, sure, I'll join you. Renata (talk) 14:05, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

For that sidebar articles don't have to be FA, or GA, or even close. Just the event has to be prominent and preferably some sort of anniversary. I see you are sick and tird of Mindaugas. But I am just curious, what do you think is missing for a FA? Maybe a bit more in the legacy section, but in my book the article is complete. Renata (talk) 15:04, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Just a small note, if you missed it, there is certain comments regarding press ban. M.K. (talk) 21:38, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw that - looks like pretty minor issues before it can be GA. Some more details would be good - more text eliminates the crowded images problem. Could probably dig those up soon... Best, Novickas (talk) 22:02, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

No need to rush on this one. I have some reservations on removal certain images, but it is your call on them. Cheers, M.K. (talk) 23:59, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Teisė

Jūs gal raįote apie teisę? :-) Būtų įdomu plėsti apie LT. --Bot-iww (talk) 15:19, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Butu idoma, taip. Gaila, rasydant teise, reikalinga greciau negu vidutinio LT kalbos lyga (: Sekmes, Novickas (talk) 15:57, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Pagal Talk_page_guidelines#Good_practice (use English): Writing about LT law would be interesting, but it would, unfortunately, require more than an intermediate grasp of the language. Best wishes, Novickas (talk) 16:11, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

United States Justice Foundation

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Category:Articles needing translation from Lithuanian Misplaced Pages

Hi just to let you know there are some new stubs on painters that need translation from Lithuanian. Your help is needed! Dr. Blofeld 15:59, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah I feel the same its tied between wanting to get a huge amount of missing content on english wikipedia and wanting the quality of the initial stubs to be a little better, there needs to be a balance really, I won't create any more without at least a sentence or two in them, I've recently started a few Latvian articles and have started them with some content, I had hoped that the Lithuanian project may have expanded them. I'm sure they will be expanded eventually I can expand a few using google translate but I wanted fluent speakers to do it. Dr. Blofeld 16:24, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey,

I noticed your recent addition to Expulsion of Germans after World War II. Since your addition was Poland-related, I felt free to also introduce it here. If there is anything else in your sources that might improve Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II, you are welcome to add it. I have been working on that article, but of course it is not yet perfect. Regards Skäpperöd (talk) 17:30, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi S. Nah, just found it by surfing the general issue of WWII revenge. All very ugly. Just one thing, I seem to remember that Winston discussed population transfers and justified them in his WWII series (sorry no ref) - since he was a primary architect, I would think a quote or two would be good in the general article. Novickas (talk) 17:43, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, Winston "Clean Sweep" Churchhill is already cited here. Skäpperöd (talk) 19:44, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

In any case, I have a books regarding German expulsions, so let me know if you both need any info from them. M.K. (talk) 17:44, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

It is not really me needing more information, though I am always curious, but rather the article (series). If you find something in your books not yet included, you are welcome to expand. But be aware that these articles are sometimes under heavy flak, the very topic repeatedly causes troubles in RL German-Polish relations (though it has relaxed somewhat since Kaczinski is out of office). It's a sensitive matter, nearly everbody lost, and basically the argument is about who lost more - "the Poles" during Nazi occupation, or "the Germans" thereafter, and who won more, "the Poles" who now got the former German property or "the Germans" who in part got away with their Nazi crimes. Now such dispute can only arise when nationalists are involved, and this sometimes seems to be the case in wiki, too. Skäpperöd (talk) 19:44, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I will have in mind this. M.K. (talk) 13:14, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Just a thank you note

I just finished my evidence section (newbie warning - and yes, imperfection was deliberate) and came here to leave a thank you note. Not for you, of course, but for your cat :) SQRT5P1D2 (talk) 03:02, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

(AAARGH! Pasting from my response to Shadowmorph) - I go downtown, find a library with LOC's volumes (the famous huge red tomes), make librarians go out of their way for A3 photocopies (strangely, only A4 is permitted), come back, scan the pages, log in and while pausing for a last googling, I see this: "On May 1st the id.loc.gov service was announced to the public. The service's first offering is the Library of Congress Subject Headings...". Copy to OO.org's Calc, save as html, paste the table, the end. Someone above is playing games with me :) - Hello, LOCMAC! SQRT5P1D2 (talk) 23:29, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Welles

Your input needed here. M.K. (talk) 11:27, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, you can poke around as long as you want. Btw, could you see ref as it not correspond with provided link and book tittle. M.K. (talk) 08:35, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Feel free to work on it, however I don't think that over expansion with the background is needed. M.K. (talk) 10:06, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

There are several historical pictures, which would be very good to find and include to article. First one a picture of a million signatures collected by Lithuanians and delivered to US president Harding asking for the de jure recognition (1921 May 31), have it but cant make a scan now:(. And second one members from tarba Lietuvai gelbėti with F.D. Roosevelt (1940 10 15). If you will notice them give me a note. Thanks, M.K. (talk) 20:54, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

I see. I got one already. M.K. (talk) 10:11, 12 May 2009 (UTC),

I think I lost some edits of yours on Welles, could you review did I reintroduce all of them. M.K. (talk) 15:03, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Done with a hook, however I am still don't like Welles issues with EOs, now there are quite "jumpy" time lime - from June to April etc. Any suggestions would be useful. M.K. (talk) 19:49, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

new one

Could you ce this? Thanks, M.K. (talk) 11:50, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the ce. Regarding that source, I am not sure that it meats WP:RS req. also I think that Facebook took info from WP itself. M.K. (talk) 14:21, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Welles again

I moved that part of EO on talk, as previous placement was rather complicated. Suggestions are welcome M.K. (talk) 10:48, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Please see here. M.K. (talk) 08:43, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Hey! What exact Routledge's book do you have in mind? M.K. (talk) 21:18, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Well, I have The Baltic Question during the Cold War already ;) M.K. (talk) 21:30, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Oil shale extraction

Hi, Novickas. I am planning to renominate the Oil shale extraction article for FAC. Of course, this article is not ready for renomination yet, but I am planning to concentrate on this in coming months. You have done an excellent work on improving oil-shale related articles and I hope you will have a time to assist also with this article. Thank you in advance. Beagel (talk) 18:24, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

		The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
		For your stellar efforts in locating problems in History of Jews in Poland and spearheading a thorough cleaning of that article. Moonriddengirl 16:25, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I hope that the material has been adequately revised. It took many hours of careful review, and several contributors have assisted in revising material. I can't be sure, obviously, that we've gotten everything, but we've certainly gotten a lot. If you have any interest in how much of a pastiche this had become of copyrighted sources, you should check out archive #3. I appreciate your vigilance and your diligence. :) --Moonriddengirl 16:25, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Status update

I was busy with school (final exams & CPA) and some family drama. I will be out for June (traveling), but then I should be back. I have this one free weekend (which I should really spend shopping for gifts), but it seems I will be editing... Renata (talk) 16:34, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliment. Somehow category:Lithuanian women writers looked too empty... :) Renata (talk) 19:39, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Hi. User:Piotrus brought this up on my talk page (where you have an answer, btw) and asked me to take a look. I don't have time immediately—I've been longer on Misplaced Pages than I have time for already at the moment. But I wanted to ask you, if you think it rises to the level of copyvio, to blank & list it at CP. I know you have a good eye for these issues. You should consider joining us at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Copyright Cleanup. :) (Pardon the shameless plug. I'm constantly looking for people with an interest and an aptitude. Must run! I'm late!) --Moonriddengirl 19:14, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Should you happen to come back online with time to spare before I do, can you see if my rolling back the clock on this article has taken care of the issues? It's always possible that other contributors than the one I'm investigating added copyvio text to the article as well. --Moonriddengirl 22:03, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Copyvios OF Misplaced Pages

I appreciate your work on copyvios, but please be careful to check whether the copyvio is not in fact OF Misplaced Pages - this is not the first time you have removed content that was plagiarised from Misplaced Pages, instead by it. Internet Archive is a good tool to use to check where the given text apperead first: on Misplaced Pages, or outside it. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 20:04, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Actually, it was the first time I'd removed material; in an earlier instance, I asked MRG to check, and she found that even tho it was published in an NYU professor's website, WP had written it first. :( Yes, assumed more good faith of the website in question at Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth than of WP. I will assume less good faith of scholars in the future. Novickas (talk) 20:13, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

A study on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies

Hi. I have emailed you to ask whether you would agree to participate in a short survey on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies in articles pertaining to global warming and climate change (survey described here). If interested, please email me Encyclopaedia21 (talk) 19:50, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Copy editing

Novickas, may I ask that if you do a copy edit on an article, like you did over at Jan Dzierzon, you take some care and thought in order to leave the article with less copy editing work needed then before? While some of the changes were meant to improve the article you left portions of it a mess. In particular, the second paragraph of your version repeated things, bungled references and the rearranging was done without any attention paid to style and grammar. Basically, if you're going to "clean up", please also "clean up" after yourself after you've made your changes.radek (talk) 23:38, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Please feel free to revert any of my edits that you see as unhelpful. We can then proceed to discussion. Novickas (talk) 03:33, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

I did. That's not the issue - I don't want to revert your edits, but neither do I want to have to go back and reconstruct the refs and text that got mixed up. I'm only asking that you be a little more careful when doing copy edits or rearrangements as a sloppy job just creates more work for others and in some cases is worse than no job at all. Same goes for copy vio removals that also delete a lot of legit text.radek (talk) 04:07, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Dzierzon and 'reconciliation'

I would like ask you, if you are Lithuanian, to do not make conclusion regarding Dzierzon and “reconciliation” between German and Poles. First above all the museum does not ask for “reconciliation”. They only say that “Dzierzons work belongs to achievements both culture”. There is nothing regarding multicultural identity, although Dzierzion’s work has international scientific value and is an international achievement. There is nothing to reconcile since Jan Dzierzon identified himself as Pole and disliked Germans. For understanding this you have understand the historical period and Poles situation there in Prussia and when Poland did not existed on the map. Beside you have to know literature and facts regarding Dzierzon himself in Polish biography. I do not think you know the bibliography. The fact that in English and other bibliography Dzierzon is named German is a result of historical reality. Dzierzon wrote his work for international public in German since Polish language was not popular. (Hi obviously wrote in Polish too - actually his first publication is in Polish). Secondly, and most important, he could not announce himself a Pole officially and internationally without consequences for his scientific opportunities. Prussian government would consider it as political provocation. Thus please do not attempt do interpretations which would not make Dzierzon happy. I believe you are not beekeeper also. Introduction of Italian bees was and still is consider important fact in history of beekeeping in Europe, America etc. It is possible that Dzierzon’s work influenced Mendel but it is not replacement for the sentence about Italian bees. At the end I ask you do not attempt mix into straggle between Poles and German. You can believe me you attempt will not be appreciated. German robbered us Poles from many think and invaded our land for centuries. The last World War was only the apogee of their barbarism. In such condition their revision of such facts as Dzierzon national identity is only next offence. I leave you the removing of you POV and attempts from the article. Best regards, Typvbnew —Preceding unsigned comment added by Typvbnew (talk • contribs) 01:25, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

I think this is better discussed at the article's talk page. Sincerely, Novickas (talk) 14:01, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Re:Request

Sigh - wish I could tell myself from 2004 a few things :) I am not sure which sentences are copyvio, feel free to remove them and at some point I'll see if I have time to look at those articles. Thanks, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 21:40, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Simply. I don't have time to fix everything myself. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 03:27, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

If you clearly list what is a copyvio, I'll see what I can do. Your recent links are not very helpful. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 19:41, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, with that I can work more easily. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 19:57, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Macedonia article naming

I noticed your comments earlier on Misplaced Pages:Centralized discussion/Macedonia/main articles. With regard to your endorsement of the main article naming, I wondered if you were aware of the requirement in ] that things should be termed by "the common English language name as found in verifiable reliable sources"? "Republic of Macedonia" is neither the common English language name nor is it (by a very long way) the predominant term in reliable sources, the vast majority of which use simply "Macedonia" (per ). It would be helpful if you could consider this point, and if you continue to favour the option you supported, if you could explain why you believe NPOV should be set aside in this instance. -- ChrisO (talk) 15:46, 26 June 2009 (UTC)