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Lithuanian wiki transwiki

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WikiProject X is live!

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Bungled investigation into the death of 8-year old abroad

Has media in Lithuania reported about the Investigation into the death of Monika Sviglinskaja? It concerns the 2012 death of a Lithuanian 8-year old abroad that was ruled a suicide at first, until a whistleblower forced the police to reinvestigate, followed by the arrest of a murder suspect, followed by an investigation of 4 police officers, followed by a 2015 report by Riksadvokaten, followed by a chief of a nation's second largest police district being summoned for temporary duty outside his organization, followed by the police district being fined the equivalent of around 20 000 US dollars. There is interwiki, [1], The Monica Case. "The police exposed her (the mother) to direct lies" is a recent news report from broadcaster NRK. --Dourkenw (talk) 08:57, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I found a few stories on it. Why do you ask? Renata (talk) 00:59, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

I found more articles, – Police chief Geir Gudmundsen asked the whistleblower to stay away - Police chief Geir Gudmundsen was, according to witnesses, directly involved in the whistleblower Robin Schaefer being asked to stay away from the Monika Case and Whistleblowers get the Fritt Ords Award for 2015. --Dourkenw2 (talk) 08:28, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

RfC: Jadwiga of Poland

All comments would be appreciated here. Thank you for your time. Borsoka (talk) 22:06, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Lithuanian vocative

For almost seven years, Vocative case § Lithuanian has had a hatnote requiring attention from an expert, because it claims that it "developed new forms for several classes of nouns." What are the new forms Lithuanian developed? Thanks! — Sebastian 16:40, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Rest of conversation moved to talk:Vocative case § Lithuanian.

Notability of Indrė Šerpytytė

Any thoughts on whether she passes notability per WP:ARTIST? Should we take it to AfD? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:47, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Birth place

What's the situation regarding the birth place of people born during Soviet period? Do we list City X, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union or City X, Lithuania? As far as I know there's no consensus on this and we should somehow keep everything consistent. Your thoughts are welcome. – Sabbatino (talk) 22:00, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

As a completely uninvolved editor, I'd like to offer two possible compromises:

1. Use the name "Lithuanian SSR" without adding the USSR.
2. The wording could be "Lithuania", since it's shorter and can easily serve as a term for the SSR, but in cases where there is a link or a flag, those should refer to the SSR.

— Sebastian 22:43, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

There's no point in using just Lithuanian SSR, because it doesn't differ from Lithuania in any way (apart from political system). If we list like you proposed, then Soviet Union should come along. I'm asking, because Estonians list Estonia even if person was born during Soviet period (that's their consensus). – Sabbatino (talk) 15:12, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

categories to populate

I just created Category:Paintings in Lithuania and Category:Lithuanian paintings. They have just one entry - if you can think of more, please help populate them. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:04, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Borscht FAC

Members of this wikiproject may be interested in the featured article nomination for Borscht. A source review would be particularly appreciated. — Kpalion^(talk) 06:06, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

An article "Proto-Baltic language" in Lithuanian

Hi,

I would like to ask somebody for translation of this article to English. In English Wikipedia, an article Proto-Balto-Slavic language does exist. This is a mix of the Slavic and Baltic facts. English Wikipedia (and more than 30 in others languages) contains separate article Proto-Slavic language. I won't argue over existence of common Baltic-Slavic language period. I just think, it would be fair and useful cause to have the articles both for Proto-Slavic and Proto-Baltic languages. I'm asking you for the help again, I hope, you'll understand my broken English :) Write me here, please.--Ed1974LT (talk) 17:05, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

The 10,000 Challenge

Hi, I've proposed an idea based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge for a long term goal to include your country and Scandinavia/northern Europe in combined challenge target. At present I don't know whether to make it a smaller target like 1000 for each country individually. If active editors here are interested in seeing mass improvements for their country please comment in the discussion at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Intertranswiki. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:49, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

How is it going, people?

Is the project still alive? Lokyz (talk) 17:37, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Occupation

Hi, I wonder if anyone here could help me with a question. I recently referred to the Latvian SSR as the Soviet occupation of Latvia, and someone asked me if there is any Wikipedia consensus about this. Does anyone know? It must have been discussed... Thanks Yakikaki (talk) 17:56, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

I don't think there can be a Wikipedia consensus on an opinion. Occupation of the Baltic states presents all significant views on the subject: Soviet Union maintained and Russia maintains that the annexation was in accordance with international law at the time and no occupation occurred, although that opinion fluctuated a little, some of the western nations seemed to have accepted the annexation as a fact, while others (e.g., US) never recognized the annexation. The Baltic States themselves maintain that their territories were occupied. No longer a penguin (talk) 11:27, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

That helps, in case there is any discussion I can refer to the main article about the occupation. Thanks for taking the time to answer, Yakikaki (talk) 17:08, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

Greetings WikiProject Lithuania/Archive 3 Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

• Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

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Cannabis in Lithuania needs improvement

We have a new article Cannabis in Lithuania, but it could really use improvement and expansion, especially from anyone who can read Lithuanian sources. With a little polishing, it'd also be really useful to make a translated version for Lithuanian Wikipedia since it's a topic of increasing interesting these days. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 03:39, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Please help with a draft at AFC

Could someone please explain in Lithuanian to the author of User:Marketingo vadyba/sandbox why that draft is never going to be accepted here, and point them to the correct venue at the Lithuanian Wikipedia for the draft. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:35, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

I don't think their lack of English is the problem, since the submitted text is a direct translation of the English article on Predatory pricing. Anyway, they seem to have moved on and put the page on the Lithuanian wiki at [2]. No longer a penguin (talk) 14:12, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

No longer a penguin Thanks. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:10, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Is Alna Group notable?

I prodded it, the creator removed the prod. Before I go to AfD, I thought that since the creator claims it is a major Lithuanian company, I'd ask for input here. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:26, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

@Piotrus:: I think it is (marginally) notable - it's pretty much the largest IT group in Lithuania and one of the largest in the Baltic States. There are lots of articles on it in Lithuanian business press, although it is difficult to tell in Lithuania how many of them are there because of company's own efforts. However, the article looks fairly promotional and one-sided at the moment and should be tagged as such. It says nothing about allegations of corruption in public procurement, for example. No longer a penguin (talk) 07:25, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming "420 collaboration", which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017! The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. WikiProject Lithuania participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Lithuania. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer _(Talk) 22:00, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lithuania/Archive 3/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Lithuania.

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Baltic languages

There is currently a discussion taking place at Baltic languages, which might be interesting to the members of this project. – Sabbatino (talk) 16:58, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

AfD of interest: Vytautas Nekrošius

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vytautas Nekrošius

K.e.coffman (talk) 03:25, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject

Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Lithuania

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod ^talk 16:55, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Focus on Lithuania at Women in Red

In May 2018, in conjunction with m:Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/Article Lists, Women in Red is focusing on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. We hope there will be contributions on Lithuanian women.

		Welcome to Women in Red's May 2018 worldwide online editathons. File:Soraya Aghaee4.jpg New: "Women of the Sea" New: "Villains" New: "Women in Sports" New: "Central and Eastern European women" Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative
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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

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RfC on election/referendum naming format

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:37, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Has medical cannabis been legalized? Need to know when to update Cannabis in Lithuania

If anyone can read Lithuanian sources, or follows the new there, it'd be great if you could help us by updating Cannabis in Lithuania once medical cannabis (medical marijuana) becomes legal there. Apparently it's very close and has been going through parliament, but I can't find clear confirmation in a reliable source as to whether it's already passed. Here's a piece in the Baltic Times that appears to say it's close. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 23:19, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney, yes it's been legalized with the effective date of 1 May 2019. I have updated the article. Renata (talk) 13:20, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

@Renata3: thanks! Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 18:43, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Home Army Request for Comments: German casualties

Talk:Home Army/Archive 6#Request for Comments: German casualties: watchers here may comment.--JoeZ451 (talk) 16:31, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Displaying Russian names as footnotes in former Soviet Union locations?

Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Soviet_Union#Display_Russian_names_in_footnotes_of_locations_in_the_former_Soviet_Union? for a discussion on whether the Russian names should be put in footnotes in articles about former Soviet Union locations (which existed at the time of the Soviet Union)

(I am aware this country was in the Soviet Union for a shorter period than most, only from World War II to the 1990s) WhisperToMe (talk) 08:34, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

15 square metre neo-Gothic style masonry chapel

"In the old graveyard of Kretinga, a Franciscan monk, preacher, botanist and doctor is buried – Jurgis Pabrėža, otherwise known as Father Ambroziejus. [...] [T]he guardian of the monastery, Augustinas Dirvelė, decided to build a small 15 square metre neo-Gothic style masonry chapel above his grave in 1933."

So starts Draft:Jurgis Ambroziejus Pabrėža Grave Chapel. Hmm.....

"Review waiting, please be patient." But all three of its sources are in Lithuanian, which I can't read. Would a reader of Lithuanian care to take a look? -- Hoary (talk) 08:11, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

FLRC: Municipalities of Lithuania

I have nominated Municipalities of Lithuania for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eisfbnore (talk • contribs) 20:56, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Spelling of Kyiv

There’s a broad conversation about using different spellings of Kyiv in article titles in certain subjects, at talk:Kyiv#Related articles. This may affect some guidelines--67.175.201.50 (talk) 04:12, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Help with Template

When adding class=Template, I expect it to visually display "TEMPLATE" (or Project in this case) not "NA", as seen in the following two Wiki Projects

Shushugah (talk) 23:26, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Shushugah: the project decided not to categorize pages outside of the mainspace. All non-mainspace pages will be lumped into NA category for assessment purpuses. So there is nothing wrong with the assessment template. Renata (talk) 03:55, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

@Shushugah and Renata3: wow, seems to be a big mistake by deciders. Compare eg Latvia ([3]) and Estonia ([4]) same list --Estopedist1 (talk) 06:35, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

2021 IIHF World Championship

Good day

I have been attempting to add content to articles related to the 2021 IIHF World Championship in ice hockey, scheduled to partly take place in Minsk this year. As you may be aware of this is a highly controversial issue and touches upon the legitimacy of Lukashenka. So far I have met rather staunch resistance and accusations of not being neutral in my approach.

What I would like to achieve for:

• IIHF: there be a brief summary of the controversy surrounding the Championships with reference to the earlier 2014 championships under Controversy. This is an accepted way of describing controversies, which this is.
• 2021 IIHF World Championship: a detailed discussion of the various actors at play, these include politicians, international organisations and large companies (event sponsors)
• Rene Fasel: president of IIHF who is doing things in a very bumbling sort of way and seems to want to have his cake and eat it too (here is an interview where he goes into detail)

I would recommed you review the talk pages of those articles to see the slow progress being made. In particular I think that the 2021 IIHF World Championship has gained political significance which in a sense makes it not only a sports event, but a political prize. If it is held in Minsk then Lukashenka scores a point. If not his opponents do. Why else all the fuss? Jabbi (talk) 12:04, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

@Jabbi: The Lithuanian national team plays in Division I so this implied controversy has nothing to do with us. It also appears that your messages here could easily fall under WP:CANVASS since you are going to unrelated WikiProjects and are trying to influence the outcome in those pages. – Sabbatino (talk) 17:28, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

@Sabbatino: It's my understanding that Lithuania and Belarus share a common past and that Lithuanian politicians have been very vocal about the political situation in Belarus. Your comment about the Lithuanian national team does not make sense to me. The issue at stake here has got nothing to do with ice hockey strictly speaking. I belive I am justified in canvassing as the editors of those pages are very ice hockey focused. --Jabbi (talk) 18:31, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

@Jabbi: I belive I am justified in canvassing as the editors of those pages are very ice hockey focused. – very few people care about ice hockey in Lithuania. In addition, I did not encounter any other Lithuanian editor besides me that regularly make edits to ice hockey-related content. So stop making false assumptions. – Sabbatino (talk) 09:34, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

@Sabbatino: that's fine, I think you misunderstand my intention here. I won't waste anyone's time more. Apologies --Jabbi (talk) 10:11, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

I understood your intention, but this is not the place for that since your messages here are subject to WP:CANVASS. Lithuania and Belarus sharing a common history has nothing to do with the current situation in Belarus and ice hockey. – Sabbatino (talk) 12:02, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

@Sabbatino: Let's agree to disagree. This is not about ice hockey. Secondly, you statement that the current situation in Belarus has got nothing to do with Lithuania is not shared by the government of Lithuania. I am not interested in discussing this further with you. Have a nice day. Jabbi (talk) 12:35, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

You have no relation to Lithuania so you can just stop right there. A foreigner cannot know the position and/or situation in/of country so just get off your high horse. – Sabbatino (talk) 12:42, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

As before, the facts speak for themselves: "Lithuania has given refuge to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the main opposition challenger in Sunday's disputed election that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claims to have won with 80% of the vote after 26 years of authoritarian rule.

Belarus's northern neighbor also is “ready and considering the possibility of accepting Belarusians, suffering from the ongoing brutalities, on humanitarian grounds,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius tweeted on Wednesday.

At the EU meeting Friday, Linkevicius said he called for a special session of the UN's Human Rights Council, sanctions against individuals for use of excessive force and election fraud and the establishment of an EU fund for victims of repression." [5] [6] [7] Jabbi (talk) 13:23, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

You can stop lecturing me about what was done and said by some individuals from the Lithuanian government, because I know it better than you do. Just stop it and go argue somewhere else, because you are using this section as WP:FORUM. – Sabbatino (talk) 19:26, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

• Indeed, it does make sense that regular editors of ice hockey articles are focused on ice hockey when such edits are being made: as it should be. There not only is no escape clause in WP:CANVASS, but your blatant attempt at swaying advocacy above is exactly what the guideline enjoins. I strongly advise you reel in your crusade right now, the next step being an ANI filing. Ravenswing 20:13, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
• I am not on any crusade. I will continue to edit these pages following WP guidelines as before. My canvassing is a general one, to bring in people with general interest in the politics of this. It is also in part response to canvassing on the other side (see User_talk:18abruce#Belarussian_incidents & User_talk:Djsasso, both of these users have been prominent in the following discussions). I encourage you to file with ANI for conflict resolution. I think that's a good idea. Jabbi (talk) 20:50, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

• No, your canvassing is not a "general one." Your language above is quite blatant in its antipathy for both Fasel and Lukachenko, and that you seek to raise consciousness for a political event. Looking at the edits for the other alleged "canvassing" shows something entirely different: those edits are very neutrally phrased as seeking comment on (unnamed) neutrality and POV issues, and one cannot tell from them what "side" the editors are on, or indeed what the issue at stake is. Ravenswing 21:02, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

This is an informal talk page, if you interpret it as me giving instructions you are entirely mistaken. I don't expect anyone that reads this to approach the matter with prejudice. WP guidelines apply of course, I am a bit surprised I am having to go through this with you. --Jabbi (talk) 21:06, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

@Jabbi: Per Wikipedia:WikiProject Lithuania The Lithuania WikiProject is dedicated to creating a comprehensive, informative, and neutral guide to Lithuania for Wikipedia readers. According to the purpose of this wikiproject, asking for input at the Lithuania project about the problems in Belarus and the depth of its specific impact on a hockey tournament definitely leans into the CANVASS territory. (It is also pretty borderline with the Latvia project as it they are only a co-host and would only be impacted if there is a decision about where the games are hosted.) It is not part of this project's particular breadth of coverage. Yosemiter (talk) 00:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

@Yosemiter: My aim was to involve editors with an active interest in and knowledge of politics in Belarus. As I mentioned above, I thought Belarus' and Lithuania's common past history under the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and evidenced by how pro-active Lithuanian politicians are in the matter, meant tht I might find them here. However, there is more of an enclave mentality here on the English Wikipedia than I realised. Apologies. Consider my request null & void Jabbi (talk) 10:11, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

I haven't read this long discussion, but I recommend NOT to add such kind of some-day-events (eg 2021 IIHF World Championship, 2017 IIHF World Championship, 2017 European Beach Volleyball Championship) into country project. Just a redundant clutter for countries Wikiprojects--Estopedist1 (talk) 07:59, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Logos of various Lithuanian institutions

Sveiki! I have been working on some articles about the Lithuanian government agencies/institutions, e.g. State Tax Inspectorate, Customs Department, National Audit Office, etc. I would like to add the logos/flags/insignias for these as well as some other agencies (e.g. FNTT, VSD, etc). So, couple things:

• I believe such logos and other symbols are in the public domain as per the Article 5(3) of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights of the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublikos autorių teisių ir gretutinių teisių įstatymas). See Lithuanian text and English translation. Does anybody interpret this differently?
• Apart from going through the web sites of each agency trying to find SVG or decent quality images, does anybody know a better source of the official symbols of the government institutions?
• Any volunteers to upload such images? :)

Thanks -- Mindaur (talk) 21:48, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Turns out we already have a public domain template for such logos PD-LT-except. Just need to figure out how to use it.. Mindaur (talk) 18:17, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Čiukšytė

Isn't it a female last name? Xx236 (talk) 08:57, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Well, yes, it is. --Mindaur (talk) 13:07, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

RFC at Pahonia

There is an RFC at Talk:Pahonia#RFC:_Pahonia on Pahonia and Coat of arms of Lithuania. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:26, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

RFC at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Baltic states-related articles

There is an RFC on revisiting the birthplace infobox question at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Baltic states-related articles. --Mindaur (talk) 13:24, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Romualdas Giedraitis -> Romuald Giedroyć

There is a proposal to move the article from Romualdas Giedraitis to Romuald Giedroyć. Your input is of interest.--Cukrakalnis (talk) 21:54, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

FAR for flag of Lithuania

I have nominated Flag of Lithuania for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. (t · c) buidhe 22:49, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Rename articles about uezds for consistency

I’m proposing renaming every article in the form of, for example, Akhtyrka Uyezd → Akhtyrka Uezd, to match the spelling of the renamed main article Uezd. Please discuss at talk:Uezd#Rename articles about uezds for consistency. —Michael Z. 22:16, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Bitė company's 'art projects'

Days ago, some user edited the Bitė Group article, adding the group's history and its art projects, presumably machine translated from Ukrainian WP. I thought the revisions broke the manual of style so I reverted them, but I added the history part back later with some additional sources. However, I have no idea how to elaborate on the company's 'art projects' with plenty of reliable sources to back up, especially when there's a lack of sources in English and I'm totally not fluent in Lithuanian. I managed to figure out the native Lithuanian names of the projects (Bitės meno erdvės and Lietuva Tavo Delne), but that's it. So I need help from some Lithuanian speakers. JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 18:31, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Romualdas Giedraitis → Romuald Giedroyć move discussion

I notify you about the proposed move of Romualdas Giedraitis article under the new name Marcelus (talk) 07:28, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Zigmas Zinkevičius' writings on the Polish language and Poles in Lithuania

I started the discussion questioning reliability of Zigmas Zinkevičius here: Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Zigmas_Zinkevičius'_writings_on_the_Polish_language_and_Poles_in_Lithuania. You are welcome to comment Marcelus (talk) 21:21, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Women in Red focus on the Baltic states

Contributors to this project may be interested to see that in July 2022, Women in Red is focusing on the Baltic States.--Ipigott (talk) 08:48, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Order of the Cross of Vytis and lt.wiki

The en.wiki article has links through Wikidata to articles in several other wikis but not lt.wiki, with Wikidata Q1507943, created 2017. The lt.wiki article is |Vyčio Kryžiaus ordino Didysis kryžius and has a separate Wikidata entry Q23775638, created 2016. (Higher number, earlier creation? I find Wikidata confusing.) I don't read Lithuanian. Is the lt.wiki article really about only the "Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Vytis " as Wikidata says, while the others are about the whole order? Is there a lt.wiki article about the order? Can they be connected? Over to some Wikidatasavvy Lithuanian-reader to sort this out, please! PamD 11:43, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

PamD, with the aid of automatic translation it seems that in lt Wikipedia there are articles for

Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Vytis

Officer's Cross of the Order of the Cross of Vytis

Commander's Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Vytis

Commander's Cross of the Order of the Cross of Vytis

Knight's Cross of the Order of the Cross of Vytis

Medal of the Order of the Cross of Vytis

Flag of the Order of the Cross of Vytis

but Order of the Cross of Vytis is a redirect to Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Vytis.

So Wikidata is correct, but a possible solution would be for a Lithuanian editor to write an article about the Order of the Cross of Vytis. TSventon (talk) 13:08, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

PamD, Another possibility would be to add a local link to lt Wikipedia, see Help:Interlanguage links#Local links. TSventon (talk) 09:00, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_February_5#Polish-Lithuanian_office-holders_names

I started a discussion about renaming PLC office holders, you might be interested in joining Marcelus (talk) 17:17, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Administrative map of Soviet Lithuania

Hi, does anybody have reliable administrative map of Soviet Lithuania with Apylinkė? I want to paint proper map of the planned Polish autonomy 1990, but I cannot find good map as basis. Marcelus (talk) 20:18, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Žirmūnai

Žirmūnai has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:37, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Gediminas NPOV dispute

I've recently edited some language in Gediminas to make it more WP:NPOV, and I recently posted a discussion comment on Talk:Gediminas about it. I'm thinking of perhaps getting rid of the NPOV dispute template if the article is sufficiently WP:NPOV at this point. I think you may be interested in this discussion as Gediminas is a Top-importance article in Wikipedia:WikiProject Lithuania.

Can you please review my comment on Talk:Gediminas (and examine the diffs I posted there) so we can determine whether or not to remove the NPOV dispute template?

Shadow of the Starlit Sky (talk) 00:36, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

RFC on Belarus Section of Coat of Arms of Lithuania

There is currently Request for Comments in the Coat of arms of Lithuania article, regarding the content of the Belarusian section. It seems to me that participants in this Wikiproject may be interested. Link Marcelus (talk) 19:13, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:32, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

No Lithuanian wiki articles?

For Litvin and Polish-Lithuanian identity? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:38, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

A couple of requested moves

Just so y'all know, I requested Karaliaus Mindaugo taurė to be moved to King Mindaugas Cup and Karaliaus Mindaugo taurė MVP to be moved to King Mindaugas Cup MVP per WP:ENGLISHNAME. Thought y'all might be interested in it as both of these articles are covered under Wikiproject Lithuania. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 23:25, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Lithuania Minor map

There is a dispute for which map to use in the infobox at Lithuania Minor. The discussion about that can be found at Talk:Lithuania Minor#Map. – sbaio 17:02, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Flag of Svencionys

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/File%3AFlag_of_%C5%A0ven%C4%8Dionys.jpg

I think this file might potentially be a hoax - the only place where I can find it is https://www.fotw.info/flags/lt-vlsvv.html (which is a self published source). There's also a little bit of the flag shown in [8]. The depiction in the photo shows that the flag might be legit but then again the flag is barely shown on said photo. If anyone has any other sources showing this flag of Svencionys please let me know. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 21:37, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

See Talk:Švenčionys_District_Municipality#Hoax? for more information if necessary. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 21:39, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata project

Hi everybody! I invite you to join d:Wikidata:WikiProject Lithuania too. From time to time I propose new properties related to Lithuania, and it will be good if more people can review them and learn about them. — putnik 19:47, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Photos of the Belarus–Lithuania border barrier

Does anybody know where we could obtain free photos of the Belarus–Lithuania border barrier? -- Mindaur (talk) 15:26, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

AFD at Vichy Water Park

There's an AFD out there at WP:Articles for deletion/Vichy Water Park. I thought y'all at Wikiproject Lithuania might be interested in this. — Prodraxis {talk • contributions} (she/her) 00:29, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Another requested move of interest

There is a request for Utena to be moved to Utena (city) at Talk:Utena. Thought this WikiProject might be interested. — Prodraxis {talk • contributions} (she/her) 21:31, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Old merger proposal from an entire month ago (!?)

See Talk:Temporary_capital_of_Lithuania#Merger_proposal. — Prodraxis {talk • contributions} (she/her) 03:29, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Merge to People of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Further to the 2022 merge/rename of C18 Polish people by occupation to people of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, please see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 August 20#18th-century Lithuanian people by occupation. – Fayenatic London 08:31, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Discussion on CfD regarding the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

On WP:CfD there is an important discussion concerning the categorization of people living in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the shape of the category tree concerning people of Polish nationality. Because of the subject matter, it seemed to me that this discussion might be of interest to participants in this Wikiproject.

Link: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023 August_21#Category:18th-century people from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by occupation Marcelus (talk) 22:29, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Lithuanian Jews#Requested move 30 August 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Lithuanian Jews#Requested move 30 August 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 15:34, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon

Hello WikiProject Lithuania:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk) 13:19, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Józef Abelewicz § Requested move 3 October 2023

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Józef Abelewicz § Requested move 3 October 2023. Cukrakalnis (talk) 12:41, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Request for input on categories

Input is needed to close a discussion on deleting and merging a number of categories at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 19#Category:Russian and Soviet emigrants to Albania. Thanks.  —Michael Z. 05:42, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

X apylinkių Eldership

What should the naming scheme for these elderships be? What is better: Garliava Rural Eldership or Garliava Eldership (rural)? Third option? @Radom1967 and Renata3: pinging you for a comment. —Alalch E. 23:17, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

I dont know there is no good translation. "apylinkė" translates to "neighborhood" in english. There is usually main county in center and surounding county. Maybe just name it "Garliava Eldership" Radom1967 (talk) 23:58, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Garliava Eldership is not the same eldership as "Garliava Rural Eldership". These are two elderships. So, no. —Alalch E. 01:17, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

"Apylinkė" is a weird word without direct translation. It can be translated as "area, surroundings, vicinity". I prefer "Garliava Rural Eldership" as it describes exactly what "apylinkė" is trying to accomplish: eldership for the rural area around the town/city but does not include the town/city itself. I don't like Garliava Eldership (rural) as the disambiguator should be fully in the title (as in Lithuanian original). I don't know if there were any English translations by Statistics Department that we could piggyback on. Renata•3 01:24, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

The problem with "X Rural Eldership" is the implication that there is such a thing as a "Rural Eldership", but all elderships are just elderships, they are not differentiated in any way. There is no similarity to rural district and urban district. There's just "district" (eldership). The "apylinkių" part should somehow attach to the placename part of the name, not to the word "eldership" to avoid this. "X Area Eldership" could be the least bad option. —Alalch E. 01:36, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Maybe "Garliavos apylinkė Eldership" Radom1967 (talk) 09:44, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Assuming you couldn't find any WP:RS with English translations, I suggest "Garliava Area Eldership" or perhaps "Garliava District Eldership". I also agree that "rural eldership" is a poor name: it neither reflects the literal meaning of "apylinkės" well nor it exists as a distinct type of administrative unit. -- Mindaur (talk) 10:42, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

I can not determine from any WP:RS that any form is preferred. The Šiauliai TIC website says "Kuršėnai rural eldership" once. I wouldn't say that that matters. Let's agree on "X Area Eldership". According to that, we would have Garliava Eldership and Garliava Area Eldership.—Alalch E. 17:26, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. -- Mindaur (talk) 12:33, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Kaunas Fortress

Kaunas Fortress has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:09, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Juozapas Albinas Herbačiauskas#Requested move 24 May 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Juozapas Albinas Herbačiauskas#Requested move 24 May 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 11:41, 10 June 2024 (UTC)