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Polish Chess Championship

Thanks for creating the Polish Chess Championship article. If you are interested in creating an article on Poland's official chess organization (Polski Zwiazek Szachowy?), that would be great. We need more articles in Category:Chess organizations. Ideally we'd have an article on every national chess organization, but since I'm only fluent in English there aren't very many that I can write. 165.189.91.148 16:52, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your Poland-related contributions

Hello VanWiel! Thank you for your contributions related to Poland. You may be interested in visiting Portal:Poland/Poland-related Wikipedia notice board, joining our discussions and sharing your creations with us.

-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  16:47, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Furman

Thanks for pointing this out. I've fixed it, but of course there's no telling who I may have upset ... if I get a lot of heat, I may have to blame you!!!! - Brittle heaven 22:40, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Interwiki

I'd like to add interwiki links to the (relatively few) articles I create, but unfortunately my language skills outside of English (really just American English at that) are severely lacking. It's certainly a good idea, and I may give it a try. Quale 01:43, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Zdjecie

Pewnosc mozna miec tylko jak skontaktujesz sie z autorem.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  22:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

The Commons Ambassador Barnstar

		The Commons Ambassador Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for adding commons photos to chess biographies. It is very much appreciated! Voorlandt 13:14, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Lone Pine International

Thanks for fixing my blunder on Florin Gheorghiu's country. I don't know how I got that wrong. It looks like I had it right in the text describing the 1979 tournament, but botched the table. Quale 20:17, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Lone Pine International and Roman Dzindzichashvili

I'm not sure it's accurate to say that Dzindzichashvili was a U.S. citizen when he won Lone Pine in 1980. The information I had when I created the article indicated that Dzindzi had emigrated to the U.S. in 1979 but did not have U.S. citizenship until after his Lone Pine victory. I think at the time he still had Israeli citizenship, and was not competing for the U.S. team in the Olympiads and wasn't eligible for the U.S. Chess Championship. In 1978 he was on the Israeli Olympiad team and in 1984 on the U.S. team. He didn't play in the 1980 or 1982 Olympiads. He didn't play in the 1980 or 1981 U.S. Championships, and I suspect that he wasn't eligible until 1983 when he won. This is discussed briefly in the March 16–26, 1980 section. The Lone Pine page already states that Dzindzi was living in the U.S. since 1979, but if he wasn't eligible for the U.S. Championship or Olympiad team in 1980, then I think Israel is the correct country affiliation. Quale 15:02, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Daniel King (speedway rider)

Witaj, napisałem tego stuba... ale obawiam się, że zostanie usunięty (tak jak wcześniej dwa razy usunięto ten artykuł). Pozdr, Radziński (t) 13:46, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Grandmasters - title years

Hi Pjahr, First off, thank you very much for your work in the cross-linking the English and Polish wikipedia. It is really appreciated. An another issue, I noticed that the Polish wikipedia has a lot more grandmaster bio's than on here (over 200 more!). Also the bios are in most cases more complete. Great job! I noticed it while working on the List of chess grandmasters, where the Polish wikipedia was really helpful in providing title years for a lot grandmasters. I was wondering if there is a source that you know of, where we can find more title years? We are still missing over 100 of them. Also we are still missing quite a few birth dates (they are marked with "00"). I think the List of chess grandmasters would be a good page to have on the Polish wikipedia too, since you have so many of them there would be a lot of blue links! Best regards, Voorlandt (talk) 20:33, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I have the old fide lists since 1971 from this website, unfortunately, the grandmaster flag only appears in the lists from 1998. On your files from 1990, do you have the grandmaster flag? Regards, Voorlandt (talk) 09:14, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't have any of the flags for 1990-1998, so it would be great if you could send me the files for those years! My email is voorlandt@gmail.com. (I think I can receive up to 10MB per email). Thanks a lot in advance! Voorlandt (talk) 11:20, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much for sending them! I am sure with these files I can complete most (if not all) title years. Thanks again! Voorlandt (talk) 12:10, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Image:Jakub Błaszczykowski.jpg

Done.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 21:04, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

revert

Hi,

What was the point of this revert? I can understand why centering the text might not be required, but making the caption mandatory is unnecessary: I've seen people forget to fill it in several times, which results in a caption of {{67}} on articles. If there wasn't a reason, I'm going to restore these edits. If there was, please consider using a more useful edit summary than "revert" when RVing non-vandalism edits in future. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 11:23, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

World Youth Chess Championship

Thanks a lot for your contribution. It is nice to know that there was no U16 for women in 1982 and 1983. Could you expand a bit more on this? The article is in need of more context, but it is really hard to find good sources. I am very happy you found a source. On the talk page of the article I have compiled a list with questions for this article, would you mind having a look at it? Talk:World_Youth_Chess_Championship#Incomplete.2FMissing_and_Conflicting_results. Can you confirm that nr 3 of the list is now resolved? Note that her website says that she won it in 1981, but on an other part of the website it says 1982. Thanks a lot and best regards, Voorlandt (talk) 20:19, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I agree that the English wikipedia is far under its potential when it comes to chess. Both the Polish and German wikipedia are far better when it comes to biographies. I think the English wikipedia has a lot of good articles and information on tournaments and the game of chess, but is lacking seriously in biographies (especially modern grandmasters). Voorlandt (talk) 21:24, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I have now added some 'Notes' for the 1974 inaugural World Cadets U-17. You will see that the silver and bronze medal positions are included, should you wish to add them to the Polish wiki. Good work there by the way. Regards Brittle heaven (talk) 00:39, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Andrew Golota to Andrzej Gołota

can yuou please explain why you have moved the Andrew Golota article to Andrzej Gołota? regards --Vintagekits (talk) 13:14, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

This is English language wikipedia not Polish language wikipedia - therefore we use his common name in English which is Andrew Golota per WP:COMMONNAME. --Vintagekits (talk) 01:50, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

I would prefer if you would address the issue first prior to deleting the messege - what would be preferable would be to self revert the changes you made. regards--Vintagekits (talk) 09:07, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Can you please explain why you have reverted this despite the fact we have been through this? If you do not self revert I am going to report you to admin.--Vintagekits (talk) 09:33, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Have you read WP:COMMONNAME? Do you understand its contents? If as you say "you have no time to discuss it then I will let admin sort it out.--Vintagekits (talk) 10:29, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Milan Vukic

Hi there, I am putting together a Milan Vukic bio and noticed that the Polish wiki article says born 1943, Banja Luka. All of my sources (Gaige, Golombek, Whyld, FIDE etc.) are consistent with 1942, Sanski Most. Of course, the two locations appear close together on the map!

Do you have good reason to believe the Polish article is correct, or does it need to be changed? Regards, Brittle heaven (talk) 18:13, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Witam

Witam. Kiedy po jakimś czasie pracy na pl.wiki nabrałem doświadczenia, zacząłem pisać na en... głównie dlatego, że tam kategoria o żużlu składała się z kilkunastu artykułów plus brytyjscy czy australijscy żużlowcy. Przez jakiś czas, starałem się pisać artykuły na obu (głównie o turniejach). Ale kiedy zauważyłem, że na polskiej zaczynają pisać nowe osoby, odsunąłem się i skoncentrowałem się na en.wiki. PUA nie miało z tym nic wspólnego... specjalnie na potrzebę tego postu, spojrzałem w historię moich edycji i mniejszą moją aktywność na pl.wiki można zaobserwować mniej więcej rok po tym głosowaniu. Dziś, z perspektywy czasu, nawet cieszę się, że skończyło się tak a nie inaczej :) Pisanie na obu wiki wymaga więcej czasu (samo kopiowanie niestety nie wystarczy). Choć, tak sobie myślę, że na pl.wiki mógłbym nadrabiać zaległości po zakończeniu sezonu (żeby nie dublować pracy na bieżąco)... Radziński (t) 15:42, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Re: comments on my en.wiki pages

Hallo Pjahr, I appreciate that you take care to check my work on en.wiki, however I must say the following:

• I am not a master.
  
• Most of the 15 new pages I contributed are absolutely new, e.g. Women's Soviet Chess Championship, that I wrote after a long research, with data sent me directly by Popovsky of Magnitogorsk; I wrote Iuri Akobia with data he sent to me via email; most other pages are present on en.wiki but not on it or pl wiki.
  
• The Burmakin and Valentina Borisenko pages were translated from pl.wikipedia, and this is clearly stated in the discussion page. Translated pages are anyway "new pages I started".
  
• Burmakin placed with equal points at Porto San Giorgio 2003 and 2006, but had a lower Buholz and did not win: Delchev was the winner in 2003 and Lawrence Trent in 2006. The list of winners of the tournament does not cite Burmakin. My check was right.
  
• I translated the Sergey Smagin page from pl.wiki to it.wiki and then to en.wiki, this is completely permitted, though I would have no problem in saying it is translated from pl.wiki. It is strange that I put Moscow instead of Norilsk as the place of birth, ru.wikipedia should be well informed on a russian player, I will correct this figure.
  

Greetings, --Gabodon (talk) 18:02, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, I admit your question makes sense. One should consider, to be precise, that "equal first" and "with the same points as the winner" are not exactly the same; for example in the USSR Chess Championship there have been sometimes some truly equal first, e.g. in the 57th URS-ch 1990 Beliavsky, Yudasin, Bareev and Vyzmanavin finished with the same points and no play-off was played, so it can truly be said that all of them won the championship. However, the generally accepted meaning is that one with the same points is equal first, so I will restore Burmakin as =1st at Porto San Giorgio 2003 and 2006 (I participated in a lower category at the edition of 2006). I also consider the pl.wiki articles on chess players among the best of any wiki, especially for the section on tournament career, which is often very detailed. Greetings from Italy, --Gabodon (talk) 14:12, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

User:MystBot

I don't understand why my bot add a disambiguation page, it's probably a bug of the pywikipedia framework, i'll report the error. Thanks. Myst (talk) 06:10, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Borje Jansson

I think when I created the Borje Jansson page, the MotoGP web site listed his year of birth as 1952, however, now I see that the MotoGP site no longer lists a birthdate so, at the moment, I'm afraid I have no credible source. If he was born in 1952, he would have been 17 years old at the time of his first Grand Prix. That does sound a bit young.Orsoni (talk) 12:02, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. However, a quick search on Google yielded no answer. If I had to take a guess, I would say the Swedish Wikipedia was right. I will continue searching.Orsoni (talk) 13:19, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Help me!What does this sentence mean?

Since Euro 2012 is taking on these days, I'm trying to translate this page(PGE Arena Gdańsk) to a Chinese version, but I find it hard to understand this sentence in section"Construction history":

On 15 December 2008 work started on the ground exchange and density of land for the construction of the stadium.

I don't know what it means.And the only page I can reference to(the link given there)is in Polski...Help me, please!Thank you very much!--如沐西风(RúMùXīFēng) (talk) 13:38, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you.I just find it strange about the words "exchange" and "density" used here.--如沐西风(RúMùXīFēng) (talk) 14:13, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Player photographs in Commons

That's a fantastic collection of Euro Teams photos you have contributed to Commons. And some of those images would be envied by professional photographers! Well done! Brittle heaven (talk) 21:43, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

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World Youth Chess Championship 1995 Girls Under-14

Hi there, Just to make you aware that we have recently made a change to the Under-14 (1995 Brazil) girl's winner. Many English sources described her as Xu Xuun Yuan and I noticed you had a similar name at pl.wikipedia, sourced from a Polish chess magazine. We always suspected that this name was incorrect and that the real winner was Xu Yuanyuan. Thanks to User: Cobblet, we have now found Chinese sources that confirm this is the case - see the article and talk pages for further details. You may wish to consider changes to the Polish articles too. Regards Brittle heaven (talk) 15:00, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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