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Asking for help from Piotrus about an edit

Hello Piotrus -- I'm not sure if I will get through to you this way but I'll try. I am the retired faculty member for whom you added a photo above six years ago. I would like to make an addition to the Wikipedia page "Mathematical Sociology" but I am not sure how to do so. I've forgotten whatever I once knew in making an earlier edit on that page and I think the rules have tightened to not enable just anybody to make an edit of a page. One possibility is that I could ask you to copy and paste something I would post here on your own User talk location or maybe there is a simpler way? Any help much appreciated. (I'm refraining from using my name because I think everything is tightened up on Wikipedia and I don't want to violate any rule.) SeniorScribbler (talk) 21:47, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Piotr, Thanks for your reply. While I thought I might make some edits, I realize now that the article is far less informative than it should be. Also, I find it very difficult to navigate Wikipedia in the edit role as contrasted with the user-reader role.

Along with a former student I've produced a far more thorough encyclopedia treatment of the field with particular elaboration on recent research trends and contributions. You can take a look at this via Google search: Sociopedia Mathematical Sociology

What I thought might be best is the following very minor edit: In the Wikipedia article, insert the following at the end of the Present research section:

Present-day research trends and contributions are discussed in detail HERE.

HERE would be the URL link to the Sociopedia article, which, as you see, is freely accessible on the Internet.

It would be a struggle for me to make even this simple edit, I admit. Would you be willing to make this insertion in the article? SeniorScribbler (talk) 19:25, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

I see what you mean about the prominence of Wikipedia on searches relating to the subject. I may ask my collaborator on that linked article if he would be willing to amplify the "recent research" section although I don't know if he has any experience with contributing to Wikipedia. Thanks for adding that link and best wishes to you in all your activities.SeniorScribbler (talk) 14:05, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

Hatnote at the Teahouse

I undid your hatnote at the Teahouse. The other redirects to that essay page seem somewhat unjustified to me, so the fact that WP:TEA does not go there is not important. We can talk about it if you think it is important. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 16:22, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

Change of mind about math soc insert

Piotr, I changed my mind and created a moderately long addition to the article that tries to explain the continuity between the earlier developments in the field and later work. I thnk it might fit under Recent Research but am not sure. Also, I'm just not sure how to insert it. Should I let you see it first? And, if so, how do I actually do that? I wish this were email, I could just send it to you as an attachment!

I apologize for first sending this new message without a heading and without the marks at the end. Sorry! 24.101.111.14 (talk) 22:15, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

Substantial edit created

Piotr -- I made a substantial edit and feel pretty good about it. If you get a chance take a look (no hurry). Thanks for nudging me into giving it a try! Tom — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.101.111.14 (talk) 20:27, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Maria and Bogdan Kalinowski

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Response about blue etc

Thanks Piotr, but I don't understand your two concerns. First, when I look at the math soc page I see blue links, not red or any other color, so the page appears to be OK. Second, in regard to inline citations do you mean changing all the articles mentioned in the text (in the form "....") to footnotes? If I understand you, I need to find a help page "changing text citations into footnotes" ? or is it "changing in-text citations into inline citations" ? The terminology is new to me. I envision going through the entire page looking for "..." mentions of specific articles in journals and changing each into a footnote. Is that what you mean? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SeniorScribbler (talk • contribs) 15:07, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Sorry

This edit was an accident of mine. I didn't mean to revert your edits. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  20:01, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Request for approval of the article

Pozwolę sobie napisać w języku polskim. W ramach projektów GLAM współpracuję z Instytutem Adama Mickiewicza z Warszawy. Pracownicy tej instytucji proszą o zatwierdzenie przygotowanego przez nich hasła w en wiki, które utknęło na etapie Draft:Polish Radio Experimental Studio (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Draft:Polish_Radio_Experimental_Studio). Zależy im, żeby nie czekać 5 tygodni na weryfikację.  Najlepiej jakby artykuł pojawi się przed 13 lipca (startuje wtedy wystawa związana z przygotowanym artykułem). Czy byłaby możliwość, żebyś spojrzał na hasło i je zatwierdził, o ile jest zgodne z wymogami? Celstrzel (talk) 06:58, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

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Did some work on the article

Sorry, just forgot to give a subject/headline so here is my new post again. SeniorScribbler (talk) 20:55, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi Piotr -- I spent a good deal of time trying to be responsive to your latest comments. For instance, you will see many more references in which I replaced article titles by use of the template for citations. Earlier I had done some other work to disambiguate a number of things. I have to stop now because this work is exhausting for me. I'm not sure if I've met all your tough requirements but I did try to improve the article in respect to Wikipedia standards. SeniorScribbler (talk) 20:51, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

"Battle of Westerplatte"

As requested, I've copyedited "Battle of Westerplatte". When time permits, please review the result.

The "Background" section speaks of 5 outposts; the "Prelude" section, of 6. Which is the correct number?

Thanks.

Nihil novi (talk) 21:52, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

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Piotr, HELP!

Piotr - this is SeniorScribbler again about the MathSoc page. I know you may not be available now but maybe you are. I've spent additional time since our last communication in which I've done a lot of work on editing. Today, Sunday 7-15, I spent hours -- really hours -- trying to recover from an "edit conflict." All my work appeared to be for nothing -- I mean all the work since I first contacted you about editing the article. After not finding a method of retrieving my edited page, I went through the laborious process of copying-pasting all my edit, major and minor, onto the editing page for the old version and then saving that. I then went through it to be sure that the page was back to my last work this afternoon before the conflict. But a few minutes later somebody named Chrissymad contacted me to say he/she had returned the page to the earlier version -- I mean before all my work since days and days ago! To be sure that person wrote that my edit was saved somewhere. The objection that this person had was about my edit not having a reliable source --- just after all this time I put in to produce reliable sources!! This will be the very last time I will do anything more on Wikipedia! All I ask of you now is to see if you can get Chrissymad to put back the page to the time of my last work, which was probably about 5pm here in Pittsburgh on 7-15. SeniorScribbler (talk) 21:47, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews

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Feature Image for Kartik Aaryan

Hi, I recently edited the image on the page - Kartik Aryan, which was reverted by you for copyright violation. However, it's not really the case. Rohan Shreshta did a photoshoot with Kartik recently and the picture is from there. Please look at this for your reference -https://twitter.com/theaaryankartik/status/882225101827166209

Please suggest what necessary edit needs to be made on the uploaded file to notify that the image use is not copyright violation.

Thanks --B — Preceding unsigned comment added by Behanlife (talk • contribs) 06:51, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

RfA

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It occurred to me recently that there may be a good reason for the torrent of abuse. Any admin is going to need to deal with arseholes; someone who can't, shouldn't have been made an admin. So part of the RfA process is to run a gauntlet of normally civil editors who are impersonating arseholes. Maproom (talk) 20:15, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battle of Westerplatte

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Waiting

Hi Piotrus -- Just to remind you: I left a message for you in mid July and am waiting for your reply to learn what you make of the loss of all my work in editing the Math Soc entry. SeniorScribbler (talk) 20:31, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you very much Piotrus for re-activating my edited Math Soc page. We'll see if there is some response from Chrissymad. SeniorScribbler (talk) 21:38, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

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Gorals and Kaszubs

Hello, I really don't understand why you reverted the section title for 'minorities' which you yourself proposed, as a compromise measure. Also, I don't understand why you keep highlighting the narrative that Gorals and Kaszubs are non-Polish, especially since they themselves identify as both Kaszub/Polish and Goral/Polish, perfect example of this is the 2011 census where a near total majority listed two ethnicities together, so they identify with the Polish nation, as opposed to German or Ukrainian minorities which did not. --E-960 (talk) 19:47, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

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Replying about the proposed deletion of "Elastoplast"

Hi. I have no particular worries about the "Elastoplast" article being deleted. I believe I created the article back in 2004 because there was a thing on Wikipedia in those days whereby people would request articles on various topics and then editors who were at a bit of a loose end could create stubs or full articles to fulfill the request. I created a whole bunch of these kind of articles just because they were on the list of requests. Since the Elastoplast article is fairly short I would suggest merging it with a bunch of similar articles on notable products or iconic brand names like Marmite or Doc Martens. Some of the brands could have a brief paragraph while others might have a link to a longer article. Cheers. wayland (talk) 14:15, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

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Haywards Heath Building Society

I've de-prodded the article and added more info & sources. Even as it stood the title would have merited a redirect to its successor rather than deletion. Cabayi (talk) 12:35, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Tee-Com Electronics disputed

I reject the proposed deletion of Tee-Comm Electronics because this is a company that is the heritage of the first direct digital to home satellite TV service. The topic should not be disregarded due to some arbitrary "notability" requirement. KJRehberg (talk) 17:30, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Battle of Westerplatte

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Your proposed deletion of La New Corporation

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Nomination of RadioBOSS for deletion

The software is very well known in its niche, it has lots of references here and there. There are categories in Wikipedia that lists such software: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Category:Internet_radio_software or https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Category:Radio_technology for instance. Some articles about other software do not have any external links and the only source is their own web site. There are also lots of free software that is not widely known or used and with no external sources. And this is OK and not deleted for years. So why RadioBOSS is not allowed? Is it personal? Fmcoder (talk) 12:03, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

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DYK for Hanbo scandal

On 13 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hanbo scandal, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Hanbo scandal, one of South Korea's largest corruption cases, involved presidential aides, a former minister, and top banking executives? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hanbo scandal. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hanbo scandal), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Wikipedia Student Training

Hello Prof. Piotrus, My name is Cindy Paskalina Kweesar, one of the student from Sociology of Globalization. I want to inform you that I have completed wikipedia training for students. Thank you!--Cindypaskalina (talk) 01:42, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Finished the training

Hello Mr. Konieczny, I finished the training. Kindley regards --CoElArnold (talk) 07:12, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Student Training Modules

Hello, professor! I've completed all the training on Wikipedia editing. It was very helpful. Thank you.--Dhksml1 (talk) 06:30, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of OpenBroadcaster

Hello. Thanks for the note. This article meets criteria A and B because I've tried to keep the wikipedia article more editorial and not including extra fluff and puffery. This wikipedia page makes it easy for like minded rural indigenous community radio and TV stations to learn about DIY open source options available for broadcast. The timeline table is not meant to represent a change log and only highlight significant milestones. With over 25 years in telecom industry this project is very publicly notable in reliable sources including; independent media sources in Canada (CBC and Globe and Mail), US and Internationally. You can also see some of our contributions to community radio on the Canadian Government's CRTC site (National Telecommunications Regulator) highlighting creating an open source EAS (emergency alerting) to assist communities to be safer in times of distress, forest fires, floods, etc. I have also created, shared and edited other wikipedia articles. Perhaps on the notability aspect you have me confused with another ambiguous sounding open broadcast system that is not truly notable?

Added some other independent reviews and mentions about our systems from independent sources. You bring up a good point about secondary references. I do have many testimonials that were sent in, but what is missing is a code review or certification from a regulatory body as an example. Good idea. Will be exploring this further at the many technical broadcast conferences I present\share, perhaps finding a knowledgeable competitor (peer) to review. I've kept out media releases, directory listings and kept it to notable links to pages other than what I control. Also refreshed about guidelines and don't use Wikipedia as a project wiki, we have separate sites for that kind of information.

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Hello, professor.

I am , enrolled in 'Globalization' class

https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students — Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:|User:]] ([[User talk:#top|talk]] • contribs) 22:06, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Student Training Modules

Hello Prof. Piotrus, My name is Jiyeon Han in the class of 'Sociology of Globalization'. I have completed wikipedia training for students. Thanks. --Jiyeon victoria (talk) 02:40, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Student Training

Hello Prof. Piotrus, My name is TaehaP in the class of 'Sociology of Globalization'. I have completed wikipedia training for students. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by TaehaP (talk • contribs) 09:56, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

An Inquiry about Technical Maintenance

Hello Prof. Piotrus,

I' m not sure if there are some changes when I tried to edit minutes ago. I mean, Wikipedia is going to make some Technical Maintenance from Wednesday 12 September 2018 to Wednesday 10 October 2018. Would you mind explaining that a little more by facing the situation, please? It is said that one will not be able to edit for up to an hour, but if we edit in the sandbox, will them be saved? I' m fairly certain someone had seen the Tech/Server switch 2018 before, yet I paste the link so you can also click here: [2] Besides, I'm wondering meta.wikipedia is an External link or Internal link?

and I'm leaving a message:)

Best regards, --Anqing Hu (talk) 15:42, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for addressing my question, hope to see you in class. I've finished the tutorials for students and tried to edit something on my user page, that's really helpful.

--Anqing Hu (talk) 06:51, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Student Training

Zhangpeiyao (talk) 10:31, 17 September 2018 (UTC)Hello professor.My name is Zhang Peiyao,I am the student of 'Sociology of Globalization'.I have already finished the student training, it's very helpful to me.Thank you!--Zhangpeiyao (talk) 10:34, 17 September 2018 (UTC)Zhang peiyao

Wikipedia Student Training

Hello prof. Piotrus, I'm Kiara Juliane Annisa from the Sociology of Globalization class. I want to inform you that I have finished the Wikipedia training for students. It's really helpful, thank you very much.--Kiara Juliane (talk) 12:39, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Student Training

Hello, my name is Angela Wibowo from Sociology of globalization class. I have finished my student training for wikipedia. Thankyou. --Angelaw2308 (talk) 14:41, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia Student Training

Hello Professor. my name is Jong Hoon Park and I finish the article on Wikipedia: Training / For students.Thank you. --JongHN (talk) 07:50, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia Student Training

Hello Prof. Piotrus, my name is Yeqing from Sociology of Globalization class. I have finished my student training for wikipedia. Thank you --Yeqing2015 (talk) 09:06, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Anti-Polish Khmelnytsky Uprising

See Talk:Szlachta#Malorossian_szlachta_(Little_Russia_Szlachta)

Would like to revert your latest edit to Szlachta for reasons of accuracy, but will not do so as a courtesy. As it stands now, another editor agrees with me ("Anti-Polish Khmelnytsky Uprising" is OK, got Third Opinion), and you seem to agree with editor opposing me, so it's a stalemate (Two editors "Anti-Polish" OK, two editors "Anti-Polish" not OK). Might also be much ado about nothing, but uneasy with source using the specific words "anti-Polish" and "anti-noble" being deleted for your (presuming) reasons of brevity? Thanks. - Exxess (talk) 18:30, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Szlachta article lead now very tight. Thanks for your input. - Exxess (talk) 17:52, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Nobility Through Mother - Doubtful

Szlachta article - seems to be a few vestiges of wishful thinking there. Myself, reluctant to delete, as challenging seems to be more informative for all...

Surgical knife might need application here (building more avenues to prestige, rather than focusing on the narrow path of precision {providing sourced material}):

Szlachta#Culture_of_szlachta

Discussion here:

Talk:Szlachta/Archive 1#Nobility_Through_Mother_-_Doubtful - Exxess (talk) 18:06, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Slavic speakers in Ottoman Macedonia

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Szlachta

To be honest, I was under the impression that the remaining editor on that page was just yelling into the void and had stopped trying to follow the conversation thread days ago. Cheers, _signed, Rosguill ^talk 18:02, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Polish epigram

I saw you had an old interest in the Latin epigram about the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. I created a Wikidata item Heaven for the nobles, Purgatory for the townspeople, Hell for the peasants, and Paradise for the Jews (Q56697547) bringing together the research I could find; it does indeed look like it was first published in Italy.--Pharos (talk) 00:52, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Upon further research, the earliest version seems to be by Juraj Križanić. The proverb is discussed at Golden Liberty#Assessment and misattributed to a 20th century author.--Pharos (talk) 02:05, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Started a stub here: Heaven for the nobles, Hell for the peasants, and Paradise for the Jews.--Pharos (talk) 05:40, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, professor. I am Siyoung In from your Sociology of Globalization class. I finished my Wikipedia Student Training. Thank you. --05:54, 26 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siyoung In (talk • contribs)

Done training for student!

Hello professor, I'm Moon Jungun for Sociology of Globalization.
Please check my assignment! See you in class.
Evelyn (talk) 14:08, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

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DYK for Furgate

On 4 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Furgate, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Furgate scandal in the late 1990s, described as one of the largest in South Korea, involved influence peddling through the giving of luxury items? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Furgate. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Furgate), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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The change of the topic of wikipedia Assignment for Sociology of Globalization

--Zhangpeiyao (talk) 12:20, 4 October 2018 (UTC)Good evening Sir,

             I’m Zhang Peiyao the student of Hanyang University ERICA Campus, from Sociology of Globalization Class. I want to ask one thing. Our group (Angela and I), want to change the topic, from Economic Benefits, to the kind of Chinese Noodle, it is called Longxumian (Dragon Whiskers Noodle), and it is still not publish in both Country of Wikipedia (Chinese and English), and after we're looking for our source, we found that the topic of economic benefit is more difficult for us than Longxumian, so we want to ask your acceptance for the change of our topic. 
             Thankyou so much for your help in advance.  
             Have a mice day.

Topic change

--Zhangpeiyao (talk) 04:48, 6 October 2018 (UTC)Good morning sir.I’m Zhang Peiyao the student of Hanyang University ERICA Campus, from Sociology of Globalization Class.I have got your point about over topic.I'll explain our topic more to you on Monday.As the same time, we'll look for other topics that are more appropriate.Thanks for your help very much.Have a nice day！

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Blue Army

There is a discussion on the neutral point of view noticeboard [3] and article talk page [4] posted regarding the Blue Army and text neutrality — in reference to undue weight (depth of detail, quantity of text). Perhaps it might be a good option to get editors familiar with the topic to voice their recommendations, to see how the text on anti-Jewish violence can be trimmed proper and correct way, as it is the longest by far, in proportion to the rest of the article. --E-960 (talk) 13:21, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

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Puzzled at the notability template you added on SHOUTcast

The article already provides multiple news references. The notability template's news books and scholar links turn up thousands more references, including many from major news sources that could trivially be added. What more would be required to establish notability? It's obviously received less coverage in the past decade due to the rise of enormously successful services like Pandora or Spotify, but for a while during the '00s, along with Live365, it was probably one the two most widely noted conduits for streaming audio. (This isn't formal notability proof itself, but as an informal indication of its recognition, it was actually the first to even get mentioned on the Internet Radio article, all the way back in 2002.) It might be helpful to clarify, with an entry on the article's discussion page, more precisely what you're looking for. —Undomelin (talk) 22:44, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

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Email has been hacked

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Large number of PRODs circa 22 October 2018

I observe you have WP:PROD at least 32 articles on 22 October 2018 in the software/computing without as far as I can tell gaining consensus with the associated WikiProjects first. This level rate PRODing will in my opinion be disruptive. Per WP:PRODNOM the nominator is expected to consider possible merges first, and I see some as obvious that you have not done. I am on the verge of reporting this to ANI due to the sheer unmanagability of reviewing this number of PRODs effectively; though at more glance most are uncontroversial deletes. In at least case issues in the article seem only to be templated at the same day as the PROD. At a rough glance I will be dePRODing at least 2 one of which may be a simple merge and one of which is more complex. I will be using Template:Old prod full on the talk page and not contacting you directly if I deprod which gives required reasoning. Thankyou Djm-leighpark (talk) 09:53, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at WP:ANI regarding Possible excessive number of PROD nominations. The thread is Possibly excessive number of PROD nominations by a user on 22 October 2018. Djm-leighpark (talk) 12:12, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

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Polish help requested at WP:CFD

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DYK nomination of Lü Ban (director)

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Szlachta

Thank you for your earlier message concerning the Szlachta. Unfortunately, a mass of my edits got reversed today by an administrator. Can the situation be remedied? Thank you for your time. --Po Mieczu (talk) 19:34, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

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Could you either email me a copy of this article you wrote which you mentioned in the ArbCom candidate questions or tell me where I can get a copy without having to sign up for some service? --David Tornheim (talk) 16:22, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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Deprod of UnCommon Web

I removed prod, because the article was already proded and deproded in May 2018 (Old Prod Full template was then added to the article talk page). Pavlor (talk) 09:37, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Shmuel Krakowski

On 21 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Shmuel Krakowski, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that before becoming a Yad Vashem historian, Shmuel Krakowski worked for Polish communist intelligence and security organizations? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Shmuel Krakowski. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Shmuel Krakowski), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 00:02, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Your "Decision Making" paper

Hi. I am very good at finding things with Google, and I couldn't find the paper. Google Scholar gave me only the journal link when I searched on the full title. I had high hopes for the Zenodo link, but the pdf provided is only the abstract and keywords. ResearchGate does not provide downloads. It is a networking site. It asks you to Quickly share your contact details so the authors can provide the full-text. I don't want to give authors my email address so I never use it. (Normally one can register at a site and only the site knows your email address.) I could not find a fourth outlet. SciHub does not turn up on my search. Please send a copy to DGG and apologize. StarryGrandma (talk) 14:45, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

I have read it (thankful I still have access!), but a major limitation would be data is limited to 2009. I would consider that period to be a rather turbulent one, and a lot has developed/changed since 2009. Quite a bit of data can still be derived from the public side though (e.g. RFAR, case pages, motions). But yes time constrains is still a major issue today and this extends to the activity levels of the community generally today, but I think that's the nature of a volunteer project. - Mailer Diablo 19:55, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

@StarryGrandma: While Zenodo does, indeed, seem to provide only the abstract, a full version is available through Sci Hub and academia.edu. While both of those don't seem to come up much on Google, I withdraw my criticism that the paper is easily google'able (I was somewhat mislead by customized Google search results) but I have nothing to apologize for. Knowing about Sci-Hub and academia.edu is part of being digitally literate in academia, and DGG is part of that community, he should've checked either of those - in particular Sci Hub is very easy to use, and you can get my paper from it in <1m. Since Wikipedia system does not allow for sending of attachment, it's not like I can send the paper to anyone who doesn't email me first, so there's not much I can do. PS. I don't have a ReasearchGate account so I can's speak of whether that portal can provide access to my paper or not. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:06, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Granted, it's nothing to apologise for, but it would be vastly better if you deposited the paper as you already did for most of yours. Do you still have your preprint? Does SAGE allow you to download the post-print, as some publishers do for a couple years? (This information could be useful for the Open Access Button manual for librarians on depositing.) Nemo 11:00, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Your paper

Hi, Piotrus - I found your paper quickly at sci-hub by entering the doi url located in the header of the article at Sage. I just finished reading it. Based on my experiences as an editor, I think you nailed it - thank you, job well done! Allegiance, dependence, the alpha - beta personalities - the dangers of group think and raw democracy - yep, it’s all right there. If you haven’t seen my primary question to the arbs, I’ll summarize by saying it inadvertently supports your conclusion. Kelapstick’s initial response to that question gave me pause...and I’m glad he came back to explain after I responded to it. I hope editors are paying attention and will take your conclusion to heart, particularly the following: A practical recommendation for Wikipedia in particular, and for other communities with collegiate courts in general, is that when electing members to their dispute resolu- tion bodies, those communities would do well to pay attention to how much time the prospective future judges can devote to this volunteering task. Happy voting! ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 12:50, 21 November 2018 (UTC) "@Atsme: Indeed. Perhaps I should've posted about this in the form of a candidate guide or such, perhaps I should do it next election - but yes, bottom line is, it is pointless to elect Arbitrators who won't have time to be active. Obvious, yet each year we get several that find they cannot dedicate sufficient time to this to be of much use to the community. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:00, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

I still have not been able to access your paper without going through more complicated routes than ought to be necessary, please email it to me. When Iwas working for money as a librarian I would go through any possible route to help them getthings, but I'm a volunteer now, and I read what I can immediately find. DGG ( talk ) 02:27, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

@DGG: I don't know if I still have your email. Why not use Sci Hub like everyone else? It takes 30 seconds to find my paper there and download it. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:36, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Be careful, you might be branded "a vocal proponent of Sci-Hub" and ostracised! Nemo 10:49, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: Ha. One would think that people involved in FOSS/FC movements would be more understanding of guerilla open access.... (wow, we don't have En Wiki entry for de:Guerilla Open Access Manifest yet?). But then one needs to remember that Wikipedians also suffer from meta:copyright paranoia view and that Wikipedia is more holy than the Pope when it comes to enforcing some aspects of copyright that nobody cares about. Shrug. I stand by what I said. As an academic who has to publish in close access for my career, I consider the closed access system a parasitic exploitation of my work, and each and every single published academic I talked to shares this sentiment, through I admit it may be generational (although many of my colleagues are in their 50s and 60s). And since AFAIK Sci-Hub is a non-profit volunteer project, I can't imagine any sensible criticism of it outside of the fat profiteers in the publishing, their shills, and assorted useful fools. On the plank with all that ilk, I say. Yarr. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:02, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

There is some discussion of it in Aaron Swartz, although it's hard to tell how proper it is and how much there should be. Knowing such context would be useful (especially when one talks about USA laws), but guerilla OA is most definitely not our job as Wikimedia or Wikipedia, so I can understand some ignorance about it. What puzzles me is the blindness to duties which fall squarely in our remit, such as ensuring verifiability and guiding users towards existing legal avenues to access documents. Old-school copyright paranoia at least serves a purpose, namely to teach how bad current copyright laws are and how important it is to use free licenses; it's very different to just go around screaming that death is imminent and nothing will save us so we should just cut our throats and hope for heaven. Nemo 16:20, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Quadriga Fintech Solutions

Removed PROD, see talk page. Morgan Ginsberg (talk) 23:11, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Ethnographic group

On 26 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ethnographic group, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the concept of an ethnographic group is more commonly found in Soviet and post-Soviet, rather than Western, scholarly works? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ethnographic group. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ethnographic group), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

"Tim White-Sobieski" is a valid article and must not be deleted

All current editors at Wikipedia are quite new and recent arrivals. We are not sure of their background in education, languages, linguistics, architecture, arts, etc. Tim White-Sobieski is an artist who has proven his talent through many exhibitions and collaborations (i.e. Louis Vuitton's Bernard Arnault Collection, New York City's Westwood Gallery etc.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Butterbeanne (talk • contribs) 00:57, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Dear Professor

Choi Pu Reum (talk) 04:36, 30 November 2018 (UTC)Hello. My name is Choi pureum. I am the student in the class of 'globalization'. My wikipedia team decided to have a 'wikipedia' consultation for professor on Monday with sangwoo, jonghoon. But I always have part-time job after 18:00 on Mondays and Wednesdays. So I wonder if only two of our team can consult with the professor, or whether I can be consulted individually. Have good day professor. thank you Choi Pu Reum (talk) 04:36, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Dominik Dziewanowski

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Crealogix

Hi Piotrus,

the article was updated now again. What do you say. Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wutalhonky (talk • contribs) 08:20, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLII, December 2018

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Draft:Teresa Stanisławska-Adamczewska

Problem pewien. Wyszukiwarka grobow (pierwszy przypis) trzeba wpisac Teresa Adamczewska. Na pl-Wiki zrobiono jakis dodatek do przypisu, ale na en-Wiki nie widze sposobu. Czy, jako doswiadczenszy "tubylec", mozesz cos poradzic? 109.233.47.132 (talk) 07:16, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Drogi anonie, kod na en wiki jest pod tym wzgledem identyczny jak kod na pl wiki. Dodalem przypis do draftu, wystarczy przetlumaczyc. Akurat bardzo sie spiesze wiec wybacz ze nie zrobilem tego. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:25, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Lü Ban

On 10 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lü Ban, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Chinese film director Lü Ban was banned from film-making for life for his satirical comedies, the last of which, also banned, discussed the topic of film censorship? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Lü Ban), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 12:02, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for The Unfinished Comedy

On 10 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Unfinished Comedy, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Chinese film director Lü Ban was banned from film-making for life for his satirical comedies, the last of which, also banned, discussed the topic of film censorship? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Unfinished Comedy), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 12:02, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for The Nature of Prejudice

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PROD Deaf Side Story

I noticed you have done some work on Deaf Side Story. Just to let you know, I have proposed it for deletion.CircleGirl (talk) 18:03, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13

Newsletter • December 2018

This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:

• Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
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• Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

We finish wikipedia project.

Hi, professor. Our team finish wikipedia project. Please, confirm our project. Thank you!! https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Gochang,_Hwasun_and_Ganghwa_Dolmen_Sites https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B3%A0%EC%B0%BD_%ED%99%94%EC%88%9C_%EA%B0%95%ED%99%94_%EA%B3%A0%EC%9D%B8%EB%8F%8C_%EC%9C%A0%EC%A0%81 https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Onggi https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%B9%EA%B8%B0 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Choi Pu Reum (talk • contribs) 10:50, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 31

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Please check the assignment

Dear professor Piot. This is HanBin Bae and MinSeung Sung. We finished our Wiki project.

Eng. https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Ottogi Kor. https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B3%BC%EC%9D%BC%EC%86%8C%EC%A3%BC

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Another student?

Let's read a book book is up for deletion. Based on the article creator's editing history, including editing sandbox drafts in the userspace of one of your declared students, I thought there might be a connection to your course, and that you'd want to know about it if you didn't know already. Bakazaka (talk) 18:03, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.6

Newsletter Nr 6, 2018-12-25, for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta) Participation: This is the sixth newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise. (To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please see below) Now 100 supporters At 3 December 2018, the list of users who support the potential Wikimedia genealogy project, reached 100! A demo wiki is up and running! You can already now try out the demo for a genealogy wiki at https://tools.wmflabs.org/genealogy/wiki/Main_Page and try out the functions. You will find parts of the 18th Pharao dynasty and other records submitted by the 7 first users, and it would be great if you would add some records. And with those great news we want to wish you a creative New Year 2019! Don't want newsletters? If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list or alternatively to opt-out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Opted-out of message delivery to your user talk page. Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019! Hello Piotrus, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 25 December 2018 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. Cheers from your WikiProject Genealogy coordinator Dan Koehl. To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

Acte Préalable - notable?

I recently added the Notability tag to Acte_Préalable. I noticed that you'd also previously added it, but removed it again - May I ask why you reconsidered? Happypoems (talk) 20:51, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Please check

Hello, professor. This is Jong Hoon Park. I've edited two articles about globalization. One was to translate and add to the content of APEC. The other is a translation of the globalization articles of the football transfer market and a new. I hope my grades will improve. Thank you. I'll add the link below.

https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EC%8B%9C%EC%95%84_%ED%83%9C%ED%8F%89%EC%96%91_%EA%B2%BD%EC%A0%9C%ED%98%91%EB%A0%A5%EC%B2%B4

https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B6%95%EA%B5%AC_%EC%9D%B4%EC%A0%81%EC%8B%9C%EC%9E%A5%EC%9D%98_%EC%84%B8%EA%B3%84%ED%99%94

--JongHN (talk) 11:08, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!

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Quick question about butter lambs

Hello! A few years ago you commented on the talk page of the Butter Lamb page, mentioning that you've seen more Lambs made out of chocolate or sugar. My question is, do you eat the chocolate or sugar lambs? And also, do you know if the lambs would be eaten if they were made out of butter?

Thank you! BookManiac42 (talk) 00:40, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	You too deserve a gong this New Year! Best wishes and wszystkiego najlepszego z Londynu! Po Mieczu (talk) 13:33, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Leszek Podhorodecki

Hello, Piotrus. I was reading the above article, and found, in the Bibliography section, the following entry:

Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski ok. 1591-1646 [emphasis added]

I am wondering whether you, as the person who started the article, intended for "ok." to be part of that entry. You can let me know if it's intentional, and you may feel free to remove it if it's a mistake. Thanks.--Quisqualis (talk) 08:40, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Stefan Czarniecki

Hello, Piotrus. I encountered the name of a Polish town on the (then) south-eastern Polish border in the above article. The mention of the town was introduced by you in edit #501628343:

For the next several years he would serve on the always-virulent south-eastern border, where he made his home in Illńce.

This town "Illńce" does not exist. Either "Illńce" is not the correct spelling of its name, or "Illńce" was destroyed or demolished, or "Illńce" has been renamed. As you are a Pole, and a person who may have access to the source books by Nagielski and Podhorodecki, it is my hope that you can clear up my confusion over this town's name. Apparently, it is prominent enough that you tried to make a Wikilink for it in your edit. Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to provide.--Quisqualis (talk) 09:27, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Politeja academic journal

Hello Piotruś and Happy New Year! I just wanted to let you know that the Jagiellonian University's journal, Politeja, is lined up for speedy deletion. It only has an entry to distinguish it from the defunct (since 2002) Politeia (journal), that does have an entry and appears to be intact. The problem seems to be notability and a suggestion that it is there only for advertising purposes. This is all rather too advanced for my capacities. Do you know some way of helping out? Sorry to be adding to your pile, so early in the year. Many thanks. --Po Mieczu (talk) 00:52, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you indeed for ensuring common sense prevailed in this instance. While I'm here, I note that you started the entry on the Ostroróg family ages ago. You may like to know I have done pages on three of them, Stanisław Julian Ostroróg and two of his surviving sons, Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg and especially the latest, Leon Walerian Ostroróg. Now Leon may interest you as someone who wrote already in 1911 about Japan as a potential template in statecraft for the then burgeoning state of Turkey. How these Poles get into some unexpected places! Kind regards, --Po Mieczu (talk) 13:29, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Someone has got the bit between the teeth and really objects to the journal. It is now listed for deletion, while I have been welcomed to Wikipedia!! Best wishes, --Po Mieczu (talk) 09:29, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Help get the new draft approved: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Draft:Shrihari_Sathe

Can you please help get the new draft approved, https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Draft:Shrihari_Sathe ? (Followup to https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:Uma.infinitum#Proposed_deletion_of_Shrihari_Sathe) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.251.188.241 (talk) 08:48, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Dear anon, I am sorry I don't have time to help you. Please ask at WP:TEAHOUSE. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:50, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you!

I accept this discernment from a very special source. Kind regards, --Po Mieczu (talk) 12:23, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLIII, January 2019

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Nationalization in Poland

The article has many red links. This may be a yet another stumbling block at WP:TDYK. I would suggest to convert them into plain text until the dust settles. Staszek Lem (talk) 21:04, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Martha Choe

I notice that a while back you stuck a {{notability}} tag on the Martha Choe article. She served on the Seattle City Council, which only has nine members at a time, so I don't think there is any doubt about notability. I suspect that a different tag might be in order -- the article needs to be fleshed out better -- but I don't think notability is in question. Would you agree to remove this, or replace it with something else?

(I ran across this because I was adding a photo to the article.) - Jmabel | Talk 05:48, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Carmen Mory

On 13 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carmen Mory, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Swiss-German spy Carmen Mory, later a Nazi concentration camp kapo, was described as a "third-rate Mata Hari"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carmen Mory. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Carmen Mory), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Proposed deletion of International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning

The article International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable journal. Not indexed in any selective databases, no independent sources. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG.

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Nomination of John Radzilowski for deletion

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GA reassessment

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DYK for The Nature of Prejudice

On 10 February 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Nature of Prejudice, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1954 social psychology book The Nature of Prejudice is considered a classic that defined the field of intergroup relations? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Nature of Prejudice. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Nature of Prejudice), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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The Bugle: Issue CLIV, February 2019

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Hey

Could you take a look at Draft:David M. Posner? The subject was apparently important enough for The New York Times to write about him, but it was declined by a relatively inexperienced editor on grounds of notability. I thought you'd probably know more about it than I do. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:01, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

Updating Entire Page

To whom it may concern,

Several classmates and I from English 102 were assigned the task of editing a Wikipedia article. We choose the campus card page. We've spent several weeks working on it and strongly believe it is accurate and very informative now. The previous page was filled with plagiarism but we have corrected that.

Thanks!

Cwichtricks99 (talk) 21:43, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

WikiProjects

It seems to me that I used to do that, but forgot somewhere along the way. Thank you for the reminder. WQUlrich (talk) 06:47, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

P.S., I still have your Wiki-kitten on my user page! WQUlrich (talk) 06:47, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Galina Serebryakova

Hi Piotrus, Thank you for your messages. I have tried entering Serebryakova in the Did You Know section, but, being technologically illiterate, I was defeated by instructions which, being stupid, I couldn't understand. Wizlon Don — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wizlon, Don (talk • contribs) 16:18, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

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KPK

In regards to - diff - you assertion that the KPK are a "respectable Polish-American NGO" - I am not sure you are aware of the distinctions between the different North American Polish groups (and there are a few) - the KPK is quite the outlier. They have for instance advocated that a central focus in a human's rights museum should be on atrocities vs. Poles (protesting over emphasis of the Holocaust). They are zealously anti-communist, and if I recall correctly were the last group (in the 70s and 80s) to recognize the Polish government in exile. They have protested against portrays of the infamous Kielce pogrom in theater, asserting lack of Polish involvement in this and other massacres (counter to established historical sources), and advocated stressing incidents of "Jews killing Poles". According to Piotr Wróbel (Polish-Canadian, chair of Polish studies at UToronto) they are "aggressively right-wing". Just in case you want to amend your statement.Icewhiz (talk) 09:02, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

In a similar fashion - in the Jewish-American community - there are very large differences in the specturm of Jewish Defense League-Zionist Organization of America-American Jewish Congress-HIAS. HIAS is the diametrical opposite of ZOA in just about every respect. Icewhiz (talk) 09:45, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

References

DYK for Bierut Decree

On 27 February 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bierut Decree, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1945 Bierut Decree nationalized all land in the Polish capital of Warsaw after the city's destruction by the Nazis? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bierut Decree. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Bierut Decree), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 12:01, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

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project: == Proposed deletion of William H. Rease ==

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Your statement at AE

While I realise the complaint is complex, your statement at AE is well over double the length restriction. It is far more likely to be read if you could cut it down to something nearer the 500-word limit. Don't go berserk, there is some leeway; as it stands, it's a bit impenetrable. GoldenRing (talk) 09:56, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

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