Talk:Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski

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"After the war, Krzyżanowski served as the first American administrator of Alaska."

This may not be true; let's locate references. (Anchorage Daily News, Dec 17, 2002, "Poland honors second 'ski' to lead Alaska") -- seemed to indicate there was no evidence to support that claim—Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.63.91.167 (talk) 17:55, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Spelling

Is his last name really spelled Krzyżanowski and not Krzyżanówski? --Angr (tɔk) 22:03, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the current spelling is correct. See here: http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/38950_1.html Gdabski 20:24, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

If either of you guys has proficiency in this, would you be willing to add the pronunciation of his name to the article in IPA format? (You should hear how many variants American Civil War guides come up with for this.) Hal Jespersen 22:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Governor

Really he served as military governor of Alabama, Virginia nad others southern states? He isn't listed as governor alongside others military governors after Civil War in lists in wiki 83.24.252.7 21:44, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

B-class review

This article is currently at start/C class, but could be improved to B-class if the one missing ref was added. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 00:10, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Did he participate in the Third Battle of Murfreesboro?

This claim was added by an anon ([1]); I cannot find any ref for it and therefore I am removing it. Feel free to restore with a ref. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 00:13, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

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Requested move 9 September 2024

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Fathoms Below (talk) 03:02, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

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Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski → Wladimir Krzyzanowski – See WP:ENGLISH. Warner's Generals in Blue uses "Wladimir Krzyzanowski" without any diacritics to refer to this general, as does Welcher's The Union Army: Organization and Operations and Tagg's Generals of Gettysburg, as well as the vast majority of the other standard works on the Civil War that I have read. Hog Farm _Talk 00:25, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

• Object. This is not his real name but an error due to old style of translating names (and to add insult to the injury, Wladimir is Russian, not Polish, compare Włodzimierz). We don't do this except in very rare cases justified by COMMONNAME, I think Casimir Pulaski is the only such case. Many books and other reliable sources use his correct Polish name (link, link, link, link...). Polish variant is used in the Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945 (link).

I would be interested to see if James S. Pula explains why he chose Wladimir in his book For Liberty and Justice: The Life and Times of Wladimir Krzyźanowski (link) - but note he retains diacritics in his surname (Krzyżanowski, not Krzyzanowski, as the nom proposes). The snippet on p. 273 implies (as expected) his birth name was Włodzimierz, not Wladimir. An earlier edition of this book used Polish first name and subtitle (perhaps it was a dissertation?): Na polu chwały: The life and times of Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski (link). A review of his book (link) consistently uses Włodzimierz, not Wladimir. Perhaps it was just the old style of writing (here, for example, around the same time (1970s) Pula refers to Tadeusz Kościuszko with his Americanized first name Thaddeus). But what I presume is a revised version of this, he uses Włodzimierz (For Liberty and Justice: A Biography of Brigadier General Wlodzimierz B. Krzyzanowski, 1824-1887, 2009 ). And here, in his 2018 article, Pula uses Włodzimierz, not Wladimir.

This days on Wikipedia we prefer to use original, correct names, not latinized/americanized versions, and it is fortunately a trend in academia as well (using badly translated names is both incorrect and insensitive). It seems pretty clear to me that Wladimir is used by old sources, and modern common name is Włodzimierz. Hopefully one day we will de-translate Kazimerz Pułaski, too. _{Piotrus at Hanyang| reply here} 02:52, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose per detailed research by Piotrus at Hanyang. In the 19th century, with Poland partitioned out of existence, Polish names were commonly Russified in the English-speaking world. Although Krzyżanowski spent the last 40 years of his life in the United States, he was born into Polish nobility, received a Polish education and fought for Polish independence. Since there is no question as to his Polish identity, even with his achievements as a U.S. general and administrator, his name in his English Wikipedia entry should be rendered in its Polish form. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 07:41, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose per Piotrus explanation. Marcelus (talk) 07:42, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose strenuously, for the excellent reasons given above by Piotrus at Hanyang and by Roman Spinner. Nihil novi (talk) 16:58, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

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