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FAC

Hey, I saw your article on Tadeusz Kościuszko. A really interesting read and very different from most articles of the posted to FAC. I also nominated an article to FAC that I think would be of interest to you as well. Below is a real quick summary:

Frederick Russell Burnham -- Born on a Sioux Indian reservation in Minnesota in 1861, he moved to the American Southwest and learned scouting from some of the last of the old cowboys and frontiersmen. After the American frontier closed, Burnham moved to Africa, became Chief of Scouts and a major in British Army, taught scouting to Robert Baden-Powell (founder of the Scouting movement), and was decorated for his heroism by King Edward VII without ever giving up his U.S. citizenship.

I hope you you enjoy the article and we could really use your comments. Please take a look at Burnham's FAC and post a your comments. The article now has four supporters and one opposed. The one person who opposed the FAC refuses to provide any actionable items that we can work on and she also refuses to remove her opposed. If you have any suggestions for improving the article, please post your ideas to Burnham's FAC and I will be happy to get to work on your comments promptly. Thanks! Ctatkinson (talk) 10:45, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your helpful insights on the FAC. I'll be working on the issues you raised later today. Ctatkinson (talk) 13:38, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

I believe I have addressed your observations with the article. If you have any further ideas, please post to Burnham's FAC. Thanks for your help. Ctatkinson (talk) 23:42, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikistress

Helo again, Two months ago you were doing a survey of very active contributors so that the reasons for editors to reduce their contributions could be better understood. I had been lucky enough to contribute without running into controversy and the stress which accompanies it until the last fortnight when one of the articles I have made many contributions to in the past has been taken over by two editors who think they have the right to treat other editors with contempt.Since you have been doing some research on this type of situation perhaps you have some advice to give about this.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 22:29, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice; part way through this dispute I resigned from the whole WikiProject and am unlikely to contribute to it again. I have probably been lucky to have been contributing for so long without getting into a dispute like this. --Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 12:16, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXXXX, September 2013

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Wikicup

Sorry I've been a bit slow on helping ye with this - was a bit ill at the start of the month, and I do - as you've probably noticed - do the signpost as well. =)

Think I'm going to need to get someone to write about the technological uses of data from Wikidata. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:37, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

TVS

Hi, Piotrus! You mean the creation of a new article on the Polish channel TVS (TV Silesia) from Polish Wiki to English Wiki? Matti1990 (talk) 12:56, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

I think it can be done, but not today. I'm looking forward for the millionth article in the Polish Wikipedia. Maybe I can hit a million today and it's my birthday. Tomorrow we'll take care of the article concerning the Polish channel TVS. I hope you do not mind;) Matti1990 (talk) 16:59, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

OK! I did it. I wrote as much as I wanted. As always you can thank me. Now just waiting for the verdict on the millionth article and who wrote the millionth article. Thanks and Regards :) Matti1990 (talk) 15:26, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Battle of Warsaw (1831)

Hi there :) Would you care to take a look at the article on Battle of Warsaw (1831)? You reviewed the original version for WP:Poland and decided it failed the B-class criteria. I submitted it for GA review today, it's already a B-class for MilHist. It's still a work in progress as I doubt any native speaker reviewed it so far, but the content should be pretty much stable now. //Halibutt 08:48, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

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Neo-slavism

Just to let you know, the hook for article is wrong. Neo-slavism(article about which I created on Polish wiki in 2007 I believe) opposed creation of single unified Slavic state. Don't worry, I proposed an alternative one. --MyMoloboaccount (talk) 21:28, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Talk Page

Thank You Piotrus for the Banstar, it is very kind of You! I have not been online for a while but slowly back to researching more history, hopefully I can add something of interest in the future. Right now, there is very interesting ongoing research in subject "Ostoja" and one more professor joining forces. Some of this fresh research will be published soon and I hope then to add reference to do some changes in art on Ostoja. There is so much to do and sometimes so little time, I will try to help on other subjects related to history if I feel competent enough to do so. Best regards and wishes,camdan (talk) 19:56, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

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GANs

Be ready for a bunch of reviews. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:51, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Bohdan Pawlowicz stub

Thank you, Piotrus for your support, warm welcome + suggestions and links to the Wikipedia community + how to list. Much appreciated. Bdieu (talk) 16:32, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

I have a question. I have quite a number of newspaper article cutouts I inherited from my grandfather (fortunately he kept the header so I have the name of the publication and date). However, my article is in English and most of these articles are in Polish from newspapers which are no longer published. I'd like to use them in the citations and was wondering whether I could attach a scan of them when possible, the brief notes I have made in English, which sum up the info pertinent to the citation and a link to http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov or other archives where some of these newspapers can be found. Is it possible and if yes, how can this be done? Bdieu (talk) 13:28, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Indented line Answer to you question: It's Bohdan Pawłowicz - but as the article is in English and I do not have the Polish clavier, I did not use it. I have corrected it though. I am away from home and in a cybercafé, pressed for time. I have no idea what is needed to change the page from its current status. If you think it is ready to go and can do it, I would be grateful. If not, I will read the instructions when I get back home. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdieu (talk • contribs) 15:55, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

OK, Piotr. Finally back home and ready. I'd like you to check whether all is right and I need help on how to move the page and go through the process of nominating it for front page exposure through T:TDYK. Thanks Bdieu (talk) 13:30, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Liberum veto

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Our new friend

The latest reviewer on the Kosciuszko FA nomination has brought up a couple of minor issues which needed attention and which I have fixed, but overall, and frankly, I think he's all over the map. He starts off by saying the article is "excellent" and then carries on, at length, about many fuzzy and opinionated items in such serious tones. For example, he feels that mentioning that the 'Targowica Confederates were shocked' doesn't belong in this "excellent" article. He seems highly argumentative and opinionated over things that are not even issues. I fear if we start entertaining all of the fuzzy and perceived issues he has brought up that he will keep the page bogged down in petty and opinionated debate for a long time, given his conjecture on a lot of things. I was all set to tell him so but I figured maybe I had better confer with someone first, and you're it. What say you? -- Gwillhickers 06:15, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

So far no major disputes. Some fixing of things that aren't broke going on. We'll see. Hope I'm wrong about my initial assessment. -- Gwillhickers 08:20, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Reference removal

Ping! -- Gwillhickers 04:02, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

GANs

Did the first just now. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 09:15, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Thought this would be auto-linked, but it's not. Talk:Sikorski's_death_controversy/GA1

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My contribution on the FP 7 Project EUFODOS

Dear Piotrus, I am a bit desperate, I do not understand what is wrong with the contribution. I have made references to all publications we have so far and it is written in my own words. I also do not understand what is meant by Euro-Spam? The German Wikipedia contribution about EUFODOS is online since nearly one year and I have also linked to that. Please shortly reply to me. Thanks in advance, Stefanie LinserStef (talk) 20:03, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

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Nazi crimes against the Polish nation

Hi there. Waiting for a GA review of the Battle of Warsaw (1831) I decided to do my very first GA review myself, but stumbled upon a huge problem. The nominated article, Nazi crimes against the Polish nation, seems like a poor-mans-version of World War II crimes in occupied Poland. The latter reads much better, has better structure, more references (and higher-quality sources at that), and generally is what the nominated article should look like. I mentioned that in my GA review, but I'm not sure where do I go from there. Any ideas? //Halibutt 09:02, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

FP 7 Project EUFODOS

Dear Piotrus, please explain what Euro-Spam means. Do you not want reference to EU Programmes and Financing? Regarding your concerns on the general notability guidelines: everything which is published about this project is cited in my contribution. So far we have no more publications. But I have referred to the official EC site http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/files/eufodos_en.pdf and to the project website www.eufodos.info. I have also made an interwiki link to the German wikipedia contribution on EUFODOS. This is already online since several month and no such comments. We have made several presentations at major conferences as well. Do you want me to cite this as well? Thanks for a soon reply. Best regards, Stefanie LinserStef (talk) 09:05, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Kenneth A. Bollen

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Your GA nomination of Sikorski's death controversy

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I agree, automated message "from me", it was good work, though I did leave a couple notes about things that really need fixed before FA, preferably sooner. Biggest concern is the one about the bag being sucked out - unless there's another source for that, I'd strongly suggest prefixing that section with "According to", instead of stating it as fact. In fact, I'll do that now.

On the Wikicup front, by the way, I'm finally about to make some progress - I spent pretty much all of September restoring a giant, complete set of images. Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Set: Puck of Pook's Hill is worth 700 points, and is passing. God, that was a lot of work, still, I've been trying to be more completionist about these things, so I'm glad I got the whole thing done.

Probably going to have to go to LoC stuff for a bit, though. Was having some issues with the scanner for a bit, but was able to get around it with rescans. However, I think it's time to replace it. It's my longest-lasting scanner to date, so it's not really unexpected. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:18, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Piotrus, I'm not sure I've said this, but - I can't guarantee the timescale; I'm kind of busy, but once I finish this one old GA review, I intend to work through all your unclaimed GA reviews. And possibly the one someone claimed and then did nothing for two weeks. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 07:13, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Could you do me a favour and list everything that needs reviewed in WP:Wikicup/Reviews? Is it just the one unclaimed left, and the one claimed but unreviewed, or are there others? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 11:05, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

As for 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash - this isn't currently up for GAN; do you just want me to pre-review the article, and see whether I agree about a merger, etc? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 22:53, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Piotrus? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 07:21, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

@Adam Cuerden: sorry, been a bit busy. Yes, I'd appreciate your comments about the merger, and whether you think the article would be a valid GA candidate. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:38, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

GOCE request

Hi Piotrus, given that Tadeusz Kościuszko is undergoing FAC at the moment, is the GOCE request still effective? --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 09:33, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

User:Sp33dyphil: I believe the article has been c/e enough for the moment. Perhaps you'd care to look at the related Casimir Pulaski instead, which I plan to FAC after TK is passed? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:07, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

I'll give it a look.I have to say though, there are editors who are much better at copy-editing than I am. Anyway, I'll remove TK from the request page -- if you want to keep it on there, feel free to revert my removal. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 06:39, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

I've now completed my copy-edit. I will have another look at the article tomorrow to see if I have missed anything. In the meantime, please go over the requests for clarifications and my changes to make sure they comply with the references. Regards, --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 09:27, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Bohdan Pawłowicz

Thank you Piotr for your explanation. As to the answers you say you are still waiting for , I provided them on this same page some paragraphs above in the BP stub thread. I must confess I find it a bit confusing to follow the thread between user pages.

On Bohdan Pawłowicz submit article process: When I finished editing the article, I clicked on the submit button. However, I noticed it was placed on the wrong page. Later someone moved it and also opened a Project Page next to the sandbox, the function of which I do not understand. Am I expected to copy and paste the article there or should I leave it where it is? What is the purpose of the Project Page? Also, how to I go about creating a new stub for a different subject now that the sandbox is taken and it will take about a month to review? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdieu (talk • contribs) 13:58, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Józef Piłsudski Monument in Warsaw (Piłsudski Square)

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Piotrus, were you planning to revisit this review now that the issues you raised have been addressed, or should I add it to the list of older articles needing a reviewer? Please let me know. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:44, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

@User:BlueMoonset: I am leaning towards failing it again due to still unsufficient and unformatted references, but perhaps a new reviewer would be more lenient? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:06, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Piotrus, it has to be failed due to the bare urls as refs, if for nothing else. But you're right about the inadequate referencing: the whole first paragraph has a single reference early on, which satisfies the rule of thumb, but there's so much information after that without any source that I'd definitely withhold approval until it's been rectified. BlueMoonset (talk) 13:41, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Piotrus, could you please take another look? The references have been formatted and other work done; I've also made further fixes to a few of the cite web templates. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:26, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Pinging one more time. If no response this weekend, I'll call for a new reviewer. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:08, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Brzeg Castle

Hi there. I thought Brzeg Castle might interest you, but if you're busy with other things, no worries! --Rosiestep (talk) 19:52, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

I didn't stub it as the plan is to expand it within 5 days; Nvvchar and Dr. B will probably participate. Just thought you might want to participate in that. There's a corresponding article on the pl wiki and I'll work on the translation, but as I don't speak the language, can you spot check? --Rosiestep (talk) 15:39, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for working on this one. I'll nom it on the 10th, in case you want to make any further edits. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:45, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Roman Dmowski Monument in Warsaw

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DYK for Fedor Solntsev

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I'm a bit surprised that you couldn't see why that photo couldn't have been taken by the FBI. However, I've nominated it for deletion on Commons at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Anas al-Liby.jpg. -- tariqabjotu 22:03, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Józef Wybicki

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DYK for Rejtan (painting)

The DYK project (nominate) 08:44, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

A beer for you!

My condolences on Tadeusz Kościuszko. To have an article sit at FAC for over two months and then get canned really sucks. (When I was at Monticello, someone asked about the slave quarters and the tour guides went really coy.) Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:40, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7Thanks. I can't blame anyone, AGF and all that, plus the edits are helping the article... it is however unfortunate that certain editor's pet ideas took over two months to iron out in the article, sigh. This certainly killed any chance for me getting a good score in the final round of the CUP :/ How're you doing? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:51, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Back for a while ...

Real life just keeps intruding. We'll see if I can contribute. Will probably be working on Captain Wrona article. --Ajh1492 (talk) 12:20, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

About project

I made Sampo generation for our project. I wrote few sentences in there. Is it right to make an article?--Dhtpgus90 (talk) 12:31, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Bab burger

...your point being? Every Wikipedia has a different notability requirement. WP:Wikipedia is not a reliable source. I have, however, restored the article. GiantSnowman 08:39, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

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Notability concerns with Arraiolos meeting

Hi Piotrus, I notice that you've just tagged this article, putting its notability in question. Could you please elaborate a bit more why you think that WP:GNG is not met? This would help me to improve the article so that any converns are ruled out. I had been under the impression that, covering a regular meeting of several heads of state, the article would have some kind of encyclopedic value. Best regards--FoxyOrange (talk) 07:27, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Just want to inform you that I've added a few more secondary sources, maybe you want to have another look at the article?--FoxyOrange (talk) 09:51, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Gwyn Pritchard

Thanks for the heads up. I helped the original creator to get this to the stage where it wasn't a speedy, and indicated some doubts about notability, but I'm no expert on this area. I probably won't comment at the AfD, I'll let the main editor make his case if he wishes Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:54, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)I have recommended on the AFD page WP:Articles for deletion/Gwyn Pritchard that it be speedily deleted as a copyright violation in 24 hours unless it is re-written as an acceptable, copyright-free, article which uses reliable sources to demonstrate that this person meets Wikipedia's notability criteria. I also summarily removed all obvious copyright violations from the primary source. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 17:06, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Brzeg Castle

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Minshat Abu Omar

Hi. Thx for your messages, I will take care of the discussion page. But unfortunately I don't know how to set up a DYK-candidate in en.Wikipedia. Would you do that for me? Best Regards;--Nephiliskos (talk) 15:54, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Thx for your reply. I took care of the references and here is a hook I think to be useful: Did you know... that Minshat Abu Omar was one of the most important strategic and economic places of Protodynastic Egypt and was re-used in late Roman Period?. Again, thanks for your help! Regards;--Nephiliskos (talk) 08:59, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

I put a infobox for antique sites in it. Unfortunately, no photograph of this site extists yet. Regards;--Nephiliskos (talk) 12:09, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

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Hi there Piotrus! I've passed the nomination. Just a comment: please check the first entry in the ″Further reading″ section, as there is "NaN undefined NaN" after the name of the author that I believe shouldn't be there. Regards.--Jetstreamer ^Talk 10:58, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

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Dzień dobry Panie Piotrze, dostałam informacje od Pana Tomasza Ganicza z Wikipedii, który poinformował mnie, że jest Pan odpowiednią osobą do zredagowania artykułu "Elżbieta Chodorowska" w języku angielskim. Artykuł "Elżbieta Chodorowska" w języku polskim istnieje w Wikimedii. Zgodnie z zasadami Wikipedii zabronione jest umieszczanie artykułów o samym sobie. Dysponuję tłumaczeniem na język angielski swojego artykułu.

Czy mógłby mi Pan pomóc w zredagowaniu wersji angielskojęzycznej?

Z góry dziękuję za odpowiedź Pozdrawiam Elżbieta Chodorowska 16:32, 22 October 2013 (UTC)EllaCh (talk)

Deleted meaningless <ref></ref>. --레비Revi^Discuss_{SUL Info} 03:47, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

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Studia Socjologiczne

Hi, I didn't forget your request to look at this journal article, it just took me a while to get around doing it :-) Unfortunately, I couldn't find too much to add. Strangely enough, although the journla has an impact factor and is listed in the JCR, it is not listed in the Thomson Reuters master journal list (I searched for ISSN, complete title, or just "Studia"). Given that it is in the JCR, it must be in the Social Sciences Citation Index, those two go together. So I added that to the article. Nevertheless, it's not really a problem that I couldn't find anything more, because having an IF and being in the SSCI show notability without any doubt. --Randykitty (talk) 20:49, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Minshat Abu Omar

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Flying Wild Hog

Hi, I don't understand why Flying Wild Hog should be deleted? It's bigger and more known gamedev company than e.g. The Farm 51 (e.g. widely known and well recived recent Shadow Warrior (2013 video game)). Please advice what should be added to article to keep and improve it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michal.szustak (talk • contribs) 18:54, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Twilight Zone tragedy for deletion

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I wish I'd noticed this AfD or I'd have weighed in. This tragedy was the subject of two books! Nominating this article for deletion was insane. Piotrus, thanks for creating this article. I had been meaning to do so myself. I have one of those books and will try to expand. Coretheapple (talk) 12:34, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Battle of Warsaw (1831)

Hey, I believe I replied to all issues you raised at Talk:Battle of Warsaw (1831)/GA1. In most cases I fixed the problems, in others I added some explanation. Please let me know if there's anything more I can do. //Halibutt 16:01, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks a lot mate, it was fun. I get the impression we created yet another article no one will ever read, but what the heck :) //Halibutt 12:37, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Neo-Slavism

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Featured Article Process

Personally I think it's a rather arbitrary and capricious process ... Białystok was a well-written article in better shape than a lot of other FA articles and it was completely savaged and trashed when I put it up for FA review in 2011. I see no motivation for submitting any other articles for FA. Ajh1492 (talk) 06:54, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

We should try to make articles as good as possible. There seems little benefit, per se, to picking up "Featured Article" medals. Nihil novi (talk) 10:50, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

@User:Nihil novi: it's not about medals as about visibility. Featured Articles get 24h Main Page placement, which means ~100+k views. Good Articles, unfortunately, only quality for the same visibility as DYKs (~5-30k views). So there's an incentive to get content Featured, if one wants it to be widely read (and I like to educate the world about Polish history). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:56, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Medals, hardly! It's about consistency in the review process and having something other than tenuous standards that are arbitrarily applied. Other than a front-page view for the article, it's be better to get a number of articles to GA quality. Ajh1492 (talk) 15:26, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Killing Us Softly

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Can this be copied in some way?

http://dk.bu.uni.wroc.pl/cymelia/displayDocument.htm?docId=8200031886

I have no idea how to do it, the map is very interesting. --MyMoloboaccount (talk) 02:42, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes please. --MyMoloboaccount (talk) 09:22, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

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Re: Forerunner Saga

Haha, you travel some odd alleys of Wikipedia then :P It's somewhat close to being good to migrate, but I've been holding off because I want to make sure it's pretty much complete before posting. Since the constituent novels are notable and have a lot in common (including a dearth of useful commentary in some areas) my plan was to merge them into a single higher-quality article like I did for The Myst Reader; just want to make sure I'm not obliviating some useful content in the progress (plus the plot section needs a hacking). Thanks for reminding me about it though, I can add it to my todo list--sadly I've had less time for article-work recently, but hopefully that will change soon. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 13:12, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

artykuł w języku angielskim Elżbieta Chodorowska

Dzień dobry, dziękuję za odpowiedź. Według Pana wskazówek umieściłam swój artykuł w języku angielskim w piaskownicy EllaCh/Sandbox. Co jeszcze powinnam zrobić? Z góry dziękuję za odpowiedź. Pozdrawiam E. Chodorowska — Preceding unsigned comment added by EllaCh (talk • contribs) 15:58, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

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Kraków Cloth Hall

hello there, the format I chose was based on the cloth hall in Ypres. Either way I am fine with it, I do wish however that there is some consistency in the naming format. I noticed however that there are a large number of articles that have not been written yet about places in the city, and a lot of information is missing on the ones that do exist, such as the cloth hall. I wish there was more translation work going on from the Polish articles' side. Thank you. Gryffindor (talk) 16:03, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi Piotrus, what a surprise. Thank you very much for your medal, I am very touched and I really did not contribute much but will keep trying. Gryffindor (talk) 11:13, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

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Changed hook

On Template:Did you know nominations/Tomás Menéndez Márquez, you accepted the neutrality of the hook with the word "Indians". I see that it has been changed to "Native Americans" in the queue. I felt that being rescued by "Indians" after being abducted by pirates was more catchy than being rescued by "Native Americans". There is an element here playing off of children's stories. Do you know if there is any way to address this? -- Donald Albury 13:54, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. I was surprised at how quickly the item was promoted. I think the change took away a lot of the punch of the hook, but it's done. -- Donald Albury 12:45, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

artykuł w języku angielskim Elżbieta Chodorowska

Dzień dobry, dziękuję za odpowiedź w sprawie mojego artykułu. Umieściłam tłumaczenie na j. angielski w piaskownicy EllaCh/Sandbox, ale przyznam się, że nie wiem jak postępować dalej. Z góry dziękuję za pomoc w tej sprawie.

Pozdrawiam Elżbieta Chodorowska (EllaCh (talk) 15:42, 30 October 2013 (UTC))

DYK nomination of Rominten Hunting Lodge

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DYK for Anti-Superstition and Black Magic Ordinance

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DYK for Killing Us Softly

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Hi Piotr, the outreach:Wikipedia Education Program/News (which is designed to have a target audience of professors but is documented on-wiki as well) is only either via email or updated on that page, but I also add all the relevant articles from it to the monthly talk page newsletter Leigh puts together for Wikimedians. You can sign up at m:Global message delivery/Targets/This Month in Education; I use the Global Message Delivery system to deliver Leigh's message to talk pages on the 15th of each month. I still see the two newsletters as having different audiences -- one is more for the global Wikimedian community and has a broad education scope, and one is specifically for professors using Wikipedia as a teaching tool. Obviously, there's some cross-over interest, which is why I add some of the articles from my newsletter to the wiki one. Hope this helps. -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 17:57, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 October newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Our final nine were as follows:

1. Cwmhiraeth (submissions)
2. Hawkeye7 (submissions)
3. Sasata (submissions)
4. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions)
5. Casliber (submissions)
6. Adam Cuerden (submissions)
7. Miyagawa (submissions)
8. Piotrus (submissions)
9. Ealdgyth (submissions)

All those who reached the final win prizes, and prizes will also be going to the following participants:

• Casliber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for four featured articles in round 4, worth 400 points.
• Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 20 good articles in round 3, worth 600 points.
• Another Believer (submissions) wins the FL prize, for four featured lists in round 2, worth 180 points.
• Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.
• Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize, for 2 featured portals in round 3, worth 70 points.
• Hawkeye7 (submissions) wins the topic prize, for a 23-article featured topic in round 5, worth 230 points.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 79 did you know articles in round 5, worth 570 points.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 23 in the news articles in round 4, worth 270 points.
• Ed! (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 24 good article reviews in round 1, worth 96 points.
• The judges are awarding the Oddball Barnstar to The C of E (submissions), for some curious contributions in earlier rounds.
• Finally, the judges are awarding Cwmhiraeth (submissions) the Geography Barnstar for her work on sea, now a featured article. This top-importance article was the highest-scoring this year; when it was promoted to FA status, Cwmhiraeth could claim 720 points.

Prizes will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition. While it has been an excellent year, errors have opened up the judges' eyes to the need for a third judge, and it is with pleasure that we announce that experienced WikiCup participant Miyagawa will be acting as a judge from now on. We hope you will all join us in welcoming him to the team.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. Brainstorming and discussion remains open for how next year's competition will work, and straw polls will be opened by the judges soon. Those interested in friendly competition may also like to keep an eye on the stub contest, being organised by Casliber. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:45, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for the congrats. It was an unexpected honor. Take care. Tony the Marine (talk) 04:06, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Polish nationalism

The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Rominten Hunting Lodge

The DYK project (nominate) 08:04, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Question.

If an article was deleted from Wikipedia is there any way to see its contents afterwards somewhere(cache, some deleted pages archive, etc?) --MyMoloboaccount (talk) 08:19, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Fuck featured article candidate discussion

• Fuck (film)

Notifying you because you participated in the Peer Review.

Fuck (film) is a candidate for Featured Article quality — comments would be appreciated at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fuck (film)/archive1.

Thank you for your time,

— Cirt (talk) 18:12, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash

Page numbers added, last sentence rearranged.--C. Trifle (talk) 22:39, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup award

Awarded to Piotrus for reaching the final "8", and finishing in eighth, in the 2013 WikiCup. J Milburn (talk · contribs) and The ed17 (talk · contribs) 11:35, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Question about submitting to GAN

Hello Piotrus, I see that you are quite skilled at writing good articles. I feel that an article I have written may meet GA criteria, but it is a fairly new article (less than a month old) and I'm the primary author (maybe 95% of it). I don't want to make a fool of myself at WP:GAN. Do you think it would be frowned upon for me to submit the article under such circumstances? Thanks — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:35, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

RE: Thanks for the pointers. I've considered WP:PR but thought the wait would be too long, maybe I'm wrong, I'll give it a go first. But if you don't mind, a quick word of advice... if you have a list of say, artworks, released daily over a month, and the article documents them as a series, would you go into detail about each work or just pick the most noteworthy ones? E.g. the problem being with only a few sentences to say for each piece, sectioning the article day by day would look a bit messy, while including all of them would be hard to navigate. I want to make sure the article is "complete" as GA criteria states. Thanks for your help! — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:44, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Stats

Nyah, I got to go pro, that's where the real readership starts :) Thanks for the link (and the heads-up about the GA, will get back to it ASAP). //Halibutt 06:08, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

European Academy of Diplomacy

FYI, I have restored this article you PRODded following a request at my talk page. GiantSnowman 13:36, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Twilight Zone tragedy

The DYK project (nominate) 08:04, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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Elżbieta Chodorowska artykuł w języku angielskim

Dzień dobry, zgodnie z Pana zaleceniami skorygowałam mój artykuł. Jak mam dalej postępować? Z góry dziękuję za odpowiedź. Pozdrawiam Elżbieta ChodorowskaEllaCh (talk) 15:06, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Ping!

Just letting you know that I added some references to the article for The Christmas Heart. It's not the most notable movie Hallmark put out, but I was surprised at what I did find. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:49, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for War against the potato beetle

The DYK project (nominate) 17:17, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:Reward_board#As_we_are_going_to_keep_this.2C_do_we_need_to_tighten_the_criteria_a_bit.3F

Given it's been kept at MfD, I've reposted a proposal to tighten it. See header. Cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:43, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Adding references in the article of Kimshin Myongsuk

I added some references, and I will probably be working on more. Thank you for letting me know. Take care.--Db9023 (talk) 03:56, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Samuel Orgelbrand

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 16:36, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Symbols of Poland

Symbols of Poland looked so pathetic that I HAD to do something considering today is Polish Independence Day. I see no reason why we can't get this article to GA status in short order. Ajh1492 (talk) 07:52, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Who's Afraid of Peer Review?

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Concordat of 1925

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Template:Did you know nominations/George Strock

Piotrus, could you please return to this, take a look at ALT4, and make sure that the approved hooks are noted and the unapproved ones struck? This has been sitting for a while, and it would be nice to get an approval tick back on it. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:05, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

That was painful ...

That was a very painful event with complete over-reaction and frankly disruptive editing on the part of the reviewer. It's not like citation tags weren't associated with the passages since DAY 1 of the article. The excuse of being overcautious to cover one's own disruptive editing is quite egregious and I'm tempted to open and ANI myself. I'm not surprised that articles like this one are written. Ajh1492 (talk) 06:10, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia research

I somehow stumbled on to User talk:Tbayer (WMF) talk page and saw the work you've done analyzing research on Wikipedia, it's impressive! For example, I was interested in the study that was done, looking at RfAs and social ties, that's an interesting question. So many .pdfs to read now.

Have you come across works that are more historical, looking at change over time, comparing Wikipedia's early years to how things are done today (today meaning whenever the study was done)? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:25, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

artykuł w języku angielskim Elżbieta Chodorowska

Dzień dobry Panie Piotrze! Starałam się dostosować do Pana instrukcji. Wprowadziłam kategorie i linki, ale ponieważ jestem laikiem, nie bardzo rozumiem o co chodzi z tymi paragrafami. Jeszcze raz bardzo proszę o Pana pomoc. Pozdrawiam Elżbieta ChodorowskaEllaCh (talk) 18:03, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK George Strock

Please read the follow up comments to your review of the DYK nom for George Strock Thanks. — btphelps ^{(talk to me) (what I've done)} 22:36, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Re:Proposed deletion of Space colony (Gundam)

Two things:

• First, remember to sign your posts so I know who left me a message. This was a minor oops, but I do like to keep track of those who ping me for whatever reason. :)
• Second, I've removed fiction from the justification for proposed deletion of the article on grounds that there was actual physicist research into space habitat in the cylinders, so regardless of whether or not they appear in fiction the proposal and the use of the colonies is in fact entirely based on facts, or if not facts then at a minimum research by people who know what they are talking about. That said, I have no justifiable reason to amend the GNG argument you raise in the proposed deletion. I'd be open to deconstructing the page by moving relevant information to other pages, but I get a feeling that wouldn't be a solution you or others would be particularly keen to pursue, particularly since the material is largely uncited/cited to fictional series and the external links appear to be all dead (which is a little weird since one of them links to the internet archive).

Sad as I am to say it, I'll repeat my affirmation that Wikipedia is not a place where fiction can long dwell, yet I understand that as time and standards shift we must adjust and accept that not everything can move forward with us. To that end then, I'd be open to moving the material elsewhere, and though I am not happy about the loss of the page, if it comes to that, I will not contest the proposed deletion. I do appreciate the fact that you left me a message about the proposed deletion though, as I hate learning that pages I created were axed because the nominator could not be bothered to notify me of the decision to bring a page of mine into the deletion process. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:39, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

It appears that someone else beat me to outsourcing, and added two sources as well. There is a small section on the matter at Universal_Century_technology#Space_colony which summarizes the info in the article you've proposed for deletion. As for as I am concerned, this is good enough for me. As for Wikia, I've saved a copy of the article and I'll add it there if it is determined that they have no relevant page for the material. TomStar81 (Talk) 02:58, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Take a look at this and let me know your thoughts ...

Don't push the button yet, but was adapting the DYK nomination process to B-class reviews.

User:Ajh1492/sandbox_WikiProject_Poland/Reviews

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Jewish cemeteries of Warsaw

Hi Piotrus. I'll do what I can to make it "less terrible", but I'm not sure yet what that will be. We'll see as things develop. I hope all is well with you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 01:34, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

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Response to Good Article comment

This course is part of a two semester sequence in an undergraduate minor that requires six courses total, so this student will be continuing to edit Wikipedia as part of the minor for longer than the current semester. Additionally, I will be monitoring the pages of any students who submit their pages for GA review. Students are discouraged from submitting their articles for good article status unless they are prepared to continue to monitor and work on them.DStrassmann (talk) 15:03, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination for Pan Am Flight 923

Hello Piotr,

I have made the change you requested for the nomination of Pan Am Flight 923 (nomination here). Thank you for taking the time to review.

— Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû _(blah?) 05:43, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Major change in article

You wanted to be notified if there was any major changes. Well, this is major. QuackGuru (talk) 08:17, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Proposed Deletion of Juan Rico

Hi. Just to let you know that I have removed your "proposed deletion box" from the article about Juan Rico, in accordance with its instructions, since I object to the deletion of this article. Please see the article's talk page for more details. Thank you. RomanSpa (talk) 15:41, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi. I have replied to your most recent comment on the Talk Page of the article about Juan Rico. Thank you. RomanSpa (talk) 13:17, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

thank you

for your very fair notifications about the Starship Troopers fictional elements deletions. As always, you know the value of discussion. DGG ( talk ) 16:06, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for November 2013

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some feature changes, major infrastructure improvements to make the system more stable, dependable and extensible, some minor toolbar improvements, and fixing bugs.

A new form parsing library for language characters in Parsoid caused the corruption of pages containing diacritics for about an hour two weeks ago. Relatively few pages at the English Wikipedia were affected, but this created immediate problems at some other Wikipedias, sometimes affecting several dozen pages. The development teams for Parsoid and VisualEditor apologize for the serious disruption and thank the people who reported this emergency at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and on the public IRC channel, #mediawiki-visualeditor.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:

• Accidental deletion of infoboxes and other items: You now need to press the Delete or ← Backspace key twice to delete a template, reference or image. The first time, the item becomes selected, and the second time, it is removed. The need to press the delete key twice should make it more obvious what you are doing and help avoid accidental removals of infoboxes and similar (bug 55336).
• Switch from VisualEditor to the wikitext editor: A new feature lets you make a direct, one-way editing interface change, which will preserve your changes without needing to save the page and re-open it in the wikitext editor (bug 50687). It is available in a new menu in the action buttons by the Cancel button (where the "Page Settings" button used to be). Note that this new feature is not currently working in Firefox.
• Categories and Languages are also now directly available in that menu. The category suggestions drop-down was appearing in the wrong place rather than below its input box, which is now fixed. An incompatibility between VisualEditor and the deployed Parsoid service that prevented editing categories and language links was fixed.
• File:, Help: and Category: namespaces: VisualEditor was enabled for these namespaces the on all wikis (bug 55968), the Portal: and Viquiprojecte: namespaces on the Catalan Wikipedia (bug 56000), and the Portal: and Book: namespaces on the English Wikipedia (bug 56001).
• Media item resizing: We improved how files are viewed in a few ways. First, inline media items can now be resized in the same way that has been possible with block ones (like thumbnails) before. When resizing a media item, you can see a live preview of how it will look as you drag it (bug 54298). While you are dragging an image to resize it, we now show a label with the current dimensions (bug 54297). Once you have resized it, we fetch a new, higher resolution image for the media item if necessary (bug 55697). Manual setting of media item sizes in their dialog is nearly complete and should be available next week. If you hold down the ⇧ Shift key whilst resizing an image, it will now snap to a 10 pixel grid instead of the normal free-hand sizing. The media item resize label now is centered while resizing regardless of which tool you use to resize it.
• Undo and redo: A number of improvements were made to the transactions system which make undoing and redoing more reliable during real-time collaboration (bug 53224).
• Save dialogue: The save page was re-written to use the same code as all other dialogs (bug 48566), and in the process fixed a number of issues. The save dialog is re-accessible if it loses focus (bug 50722), or if you review a null edit (bug 53313); its checkboxes for minor edit, watch the page, and flagged revisions options now layout much more cleanly (bug 52175), and the tab order of the buttons is now closer to what users will expect (bug 51918). There was a bug in the save dialog that caused it to crash if there was an error in loading the page from Parsoid, which is now fixed.
• Links to other articles or pages sometimes sent people to invalid pages. VisualEditor now keeps track of the context in which you loaded the page, which lets us fix up links in document to point to the correct place regardless of what entry point you launched the editor from—so the content of pages loaded through /wiki/Foobar?veaction=edit and /w/index.php?title=Foobar&veaction=edit both now have text links that work if triggered (bug 48915).
• Toolbar links: A bug that caused the toolbar's menus to get shorter or even blank when scrolled down the page in Firefox is now fixed (bug 55343).
• Numbered external links: VisualEditor now supports Parsoid's changed representation of numbered external links (bug 53505).
• Removed empty templates: We also fixed an issue that meant that completely empty templates became impossible to interact with inside VisualEditor, as they didn't show up (bug 55810).
• Mathematics formulae: If you would like to try the experimental LaTeX mathematics tool in VisualEditor, you will need to opt-in to Beta Features. This is currently available on Meta-wiki, Wikimedia Commons, and Mediawiki.org. It will be available on all other Wikimedia sites on 21 November.
• Browser testing support: If you are interested in technical details, the browser tests were expanded to cover some basic cursor operations, which uncovered an issue in our testing framework that doesn't work with cursoring in Firefox; the Chrome tests continue to fail due to a bug with the welcome message for that part of the testing framework.
• Load time: VisualEditor now uses content language when fetching Wikipedia:TemplateData information, so reducing bandwidth use, and users on multi-language or multi-script wikis now get TemplateData hinting for templates as they would expect (bug 50888).
• Reuse of VisualEditor: Work on spinning out the user experience (UX) framework from VisualEditor into oojs-ui, which lets other teams at Wikimedia (like Flow) and gadget authors re-use VisualEditor UX components, is now complete and is being moved to a shared code repository.
• Support for private wikis: If you maintain a private wiki at home or at work, VisualEditor now supports editing of private wikis, by forwarding the Cookie: HTTP header to Parsoid ($wgVisualEditorParsoidForwardCookies set to true) (bug 44483). (Most private wikis will also need to install Parsoid and node.js, as VisualEditor requires them.)

Looking ahead:

• VisualEditor will be released to some of the smaller Wikipedias on 02 December 2013. If you are active at one or more smaller Wikipedias where VisualEditor is not yet generally available, please see the list at VisualEditor/Rollouts.
• Public office hours on IRC to discuss VisualEditor with Product Manager James Forrester will be held on Monday, 2 December, at 1900 UTC and on Tuesday, 3 December, at 0100 UTC. Bring your questions. Logs will be posted on Meta after each office hour completes.
• In terms of feature improvements, one of the major infrastructure projects affects how inserting characters works, both using your computer's built-in Unicode input systems and through a planned character inserter tool for VisualEditor. The forthcoming rich copying and pasting feature was extended and greater testing is currently being done. Work continues to support the improved reference dialog to quickly add citations based on local templates.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 22:13, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

untitled

hello Piotrus, I see that you are a profs in wikipedia. I recently published my first article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASBIS and it was claimed to be written like an advertisement. Do you know what should I change to improve the article? Thank you Anastasia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Прокрастинастя (talk • contribs) 15:00, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Bródno Jewish Cemetery

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The Signpost: 20 November 2013

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Dalbit's article

I am working on developing Mcdonaldization in Korean Wikipedia. Db9023 (talk) 04:03, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom questions

I still have two of your questions that I was intending to answer but have not yet gotten the chance. Are these questions that you would still like me to answer, or are they ones that you would not mind if I skipped now that voting has started? Thanks, Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 16:26, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Stephen Báthory/GA1

I've read through the article and made a few minor comments on Talk:Stephen Báthory/GA1. I'll do one more read through to see if I missed anything else. I don't think it needs to go through GAN again. Ajh1492 (talk) 23:09, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Tęcza (Warsaw)

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November 2013 GA Thanks

This user has contributed to Erving Goffman good articles on Wikipedia.

On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I thank you for your editorial contributions to Erving Goffman, which recently was promoted to WP:GA.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 17:52, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		Polish Barnstar of Diligence
		Thank you for your great work on Poland-related articles. Keep it up. People like you "make Wikipedia (and the Internet) not suck" --Երևանցի talk 18:22, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Concordat of 1925 GA review

FYI, I can't see it making GA without some editor involvement / engagement in the process. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 18:10, 27 November 2013 (UTC) GA reviewer

DYK for Civil war in Poland (1704–1706)

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Your GA nomination of Concordat of 1925

The article Concordat of 1925 you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Concordat of 1925 for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of North8000 -- North8000 (talk) 15:12, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

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Talkback (Ks0stm)

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Your GA nomination of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Jan Henryk Dąbrowski you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Quadell -- Quadell (talk) 23:20, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Greetings, Piotrus. I know that you have plenty of experience with GANs and FACs, so I wanted to ask your preference about something. I could review the Jan Henryk Dąbrowski article using only the rather lenient GA criteria. Or I could mention absolutely everything that I think could possibly be improved about the article, even if such changes are not required for GA status. (This could be useful if you intend to nominate the article as a FAC someday.) Which sort of review would you prefer? All the best, – Quadell ^(talk) 23:25, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Roman Dmowski

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Your GA nomination of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski

The article Jan Henryk Dąbrowski you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Jan Henryk Dąbrowski for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Quadell -- Quadell (talk) 18:20, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

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FAR Rus' Khaganate

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I noticed you on some of the discussions on the talk page, so thought I would inform you of the FAR. Chaosdruid (talk) 01:54, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

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Battles of Krasnoi and Vyazma (1812)

Hello Sir,

I researched and wrote the Wikipedia articles about the Battles of Krasnoi and Vyazma (1812). I take your criticism and commentary (about the articles) seriously: I am impressed with your knowledge of certain aspects of those engagements: particularly the history of the Polish contingent that participated in these battles. I would like to amend the articles in order to reflect these facts (which are almost never mentioned in English language sources). Please see my replies to your comments on the battles. Also, I have discovered that you are a faculty member at a university, and that you teach a course on writing Wikipedia articles. I sent you an email about my articles, and what steps I can begin taking to improve them. I am eager to read your reply. Kenmore (talk) 17:52, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Corruption in Poland

Gatoclass (talk) 20:34, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski

The article Jan Henryk Dąbrowski you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Jan Henryk Dąbrowski for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Quadell -- Quadell (talk) 16:52, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

By the way, when I listed this article at Wikipedia:Good articles/History, I wasn't sure how to fit "Dąbrowski" into the alphabetization there. Do you know whether the "ą" should be treated like an "a", or like a separate letter after "Dz", or what?

@User:Quadell - in Polish language, ą is a letter following a, before b. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:25, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Greater Poland Civil War

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Re:Welcome to Wikipedia!!!

I am pleased that You invite me on the English Wikipedia. Thank you and best regards, --Rewa (talk) 13:25, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Old train station in Katowice

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Emergency

Dear "Piotrus"

Recently a user named Klivo has been constantly changing the nationality of L. L. Zamenhof to Russian. We (me and other users) have provided multiple evidence, but he wouldn't stop. Please help us to repeal the "hooligan" (Proszę pomóż!)

User:Oliszydlowski, User talk:Oliszydlowski 17 December 2013 (UTC)

This is Onestar from HYU

Thank you for introducing a valuable tutorial for wikipedia. I have translated an article from English wikipedia to Korean wikipedia. The article was about K-pop and I worked on 'Characteristics', 'Marketing', 'Dance' and 'Fashion'. As Korean culture is becoming more famous among the globe, this work was interesting to me and brought me to think much as a member of Korean culture suppliers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by OnestarLim (talk • contribs) 08:37, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

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Disconfirmed expectancy

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It seems you "rated" Disconfirmed expectancy as a C-class on the Psychology WikiProject's quality scale, but you didn't leave any reasoning or comments for the rating. I can see that you're a rather significant editor here, and I hope this doesn't come across as rude, but I was relatively certain that this was at the very least B-class nearing GA (perhaps a few edits away in terms of cleaning things up). I don't have a problem with you rating the article as such, if you have some kind of rationale for it. It doesn't really help the editors coming along to improve it to not know what needs to be done to better the article.

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Hello Professor

I'm so sorry that I didn't edit Wikipedia last week.. so I edited more than 5 on this week :) --Dhtpgus90 (talk) 06:41, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

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West Point

Hey there Piotrus, long time -- no talk to. Been working on the various sections of the Thomas Jefferson page and noticed that in the West Point section there is no mention of Kosciuszko's important involvement. Thought you'd might want to get in there and remedy that. -- Gwillhickers 23:28, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue XCIII, December 2013

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Ród / House

I would suggest to move the articles of Polish noble families from "family" to "House of". (including the categories) - example: "Potocki family" to "House of Potocki", "Sobieski family" to "House of Sobieski" etc.

The translation of "ród" (Ród Potockich) would be "House of" (House of Potocki) and not family (rodzina) - Rodzina Potockich could be a family of peasants or burgesses. "Ród" / "House" suggests immediately a noble family.

What do you think about it?--Sobiepan (talk) 16:47, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

European Young Chemists' Network

Dear,

I noticed that you requested a deletion for that page. I tried to improve this page, yet finding third party references was troublesome. Nonetheless, I would like to ask you to keep this page online. As a young chemist myself, I'm part of this network as a member. And as I'm now at the end of my academic career, I found this network extremely interesting as it provided me additional contacts (joint research, new connections, ...). I'm very lucky that I found this network and I believe other young chemists could benefit as well. Therefore, a page on Wikipedia for this page could help other young chemists to get connected with this network.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gonone2014 (talk • contribs) 18:51, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 December 2013

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VisualEditor newsletter • 19 December 2013

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some toolbar improvements, fixing bugs, and improving support for Indic languages as well as other languages with complex characters. The current focus is on improving the reference dialog and expanding the new character inserter tool.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:

• Rich copying and pasting is now available. If you copy text from another website, then character formatting and some other HTML attributes are preserved. This means, for example, that if you copy a pre-formatted suggested citation from a source like this, then VisualEditor will preserve the formatting of the title in the citation. Keep in mind that copying the formatting may include formatting that you don't want (like section headings). If you want to paste plain, unformatted text onto a page, then use Control+⇧ Shift+V or ⌘ Command+⇧ Shift+V (Mac).
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Looking ahead: The transclusion dialog will see further changes in the coming weeks, with a simple mode for single templates and an advanced mode for more complex transclusions. The new character formatting menu on the toolbar will get an arrow to show that it is a drop-down menu. The reference dialog will be improved, and the Reference item will become a button in the main toolbar, rather than an item in the Insert menu.

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