User talk:Gironauni

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Speedy deletion nomination of Global Food Security Index

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2012-07 meeting

Hello Gironauni,

Are you this contributor who was banned a few month ago for POV-pushing against the "Eastern Europe" term? Visite fortuitement prolongée (talk) 20:38, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I guess it was User:Arcillaroja, and he has not been banned. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive727#Complaint about editing by Arcillaroja at Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Visite fortuitement prolongée (talk) 20:39, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not really. --Gironauni (talk) 23:51, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

But I am interested in eurocentrism and racism. I hope to dedicate my time to improve this encyclopaedia by making it more objective. Kaixo! --Gironauni (talk) 23:54, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Islam in Europe

Amy reason in particular you keep changing Eastern Europe to the Balkans? Darkness Shines (talk) 19:38, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Darkshines! Yeah, I noticed that this bit didn't make much sense because the Ottoman Empire ruled in the Balkans, which is not really 'most of Eastern Europe', didn't it? --Gironauni (talk) 21:56, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:INDENT In response to your question Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire Facts on file pXXVI "Owing to their location, the Ottomans were best positioned to conquer the eastern territories of the Byzantine Empire. ... extended Ottoman control over much of southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, up to the rivers Danube and Euphrates" which is a little further than the Balkans given the Danube is in western Germany. Darkness Shines (talk) 22:05, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. Eastern parts of Byzantium is not Eastern Europe, though. It's the Middle East and Asia Minor, isn't it? Shall we put Southeastern Europe or be politically correct and say the Balkans which is pretty much the same but doesn't annoy people living in Balkan countries?--Gironauni (talk) 22:14, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am also quite certain that Hungary is a little further up from the Balkans and the Ottomans took it in 1453, source Western Civilization: A Brief History, Volume 2 p327. Also see "The Ottoman Empire also was multinational in scope, extending from Eastern Europe and the Balkans" CliffsAP European History Wiley p137 22:23, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Hungary isn't eastern Europe, though. It says it's in central Europe. Would you be willing to put it as the Balkans and Hungary, then, or the Balkans and central Europe? --Gironauni (talk) 22:29, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Did it move? [1] Darkness Shines (talk) 22:39, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, that. I know what you mean. Well, eastern Europe is a difficult one. Many people are offended when the term is used. Some of those nations we call eastern Europeans prefer to be called central Europe and this is how they call themselves, so I would be careful about it. To be objective, geographical centre of Europe is in Belarus so those countries are actually quite right. I don't think we should put a name of the region, which is offensive to them or controversial. We also shouldn't name a region when actually it's all about one country. One country does not make the whole region, does it? What do you think?--80.174.224.104 (talk) 23:53, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, Central and Western Europe

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Central and Western Europe. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - Europe. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Europe - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

If you think that the article you created should remain separate, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. JetBlast (talk) 23:34, 22 July 2012 (UTC) Could we delete East-central Europe, too? --Gironauni (talk) 01:07, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of caves

I have removed the list of random caves you added to Kartchner Caverns State Park because there seemed no reason to list those particular caves over the thousands of other caves on the planet. I have instead added Template:Caves, which links to lists of caves all over the world. That to me seems a more useful and neutral solution. -McGhiever (talk) 00:44, 14 August 2012 (UTC) There are only a few similar caves. I think your solution was best possible. Cheers! --Gironauni (talk) 21:55, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Western World

Hi there! I think I don't understand quite well your request regarding CE in this article. What would you like to edit exactly? Btw, I speak The southern variant of Castillian Spanish. :) Arcillaroja (talk) 18:37, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What's in a name

Hi, some undoing has occurred on the Wrocław. I think that ordering the names on the basis of speakers of the language avoids getting into an ownership argument of the category that plagues articles about the former parts of Germany. Please feel free disagree.Rsloch (talk) 22:43, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, my argument is a bit different. I think that chronological order is the most common. It is also very useful because you can see how the name of the city evolved. I actually subscribe that cities should have former names but it is the actual name that should be superior. I noticed that Poland and Germany are quite nationalist in that aspect. Neighbours, perhaps :) If you really want it by the number of speakers, please say it. Still, it is quite unfair to Latin which is a semi-dead language, or even Czech with its number of speakers. Chronological order sounds more natural and neutral --Gironauni (talk) 01:26, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please edit it for me if you can. --Gironauni (talk) 01:27, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The user Arcillaroja

Dear Wikipedian,

I am Marina. I am writing to you in order to clarify my fears. One of the users have been reverting my edits on Western Europe, as well as other European-related issues. I noticed, that his or her page is full of talk page entries related just to that. Would you mind to stay in touch with me? I read about vandalism on Wikipedia and I fear this is one of these cases... I hope, of course that I am wrong but... the evidence seems to suggest otherwise. By evidence I mean Arcilla's talk page as well as entry, and the fact that rather than move a critical comment from user page to a talk page, it was simply reverted. --Martina Moreau (talk) 22:28, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]