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Re: File:Konstytucja 3 Maja guide.jpg

Hi Piotrus, extremely sorry for responding so late. I haven't forgotten about your request to redo the image, but I'm still waiting to find some time to do it. Perhaps I should also find a better tool than MS Paint this time. I'll get back to you on this once I'm ready! — Kpalion^(talk) 00:33, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

OK, it's done! Please take a look and let me know, if there are any problems. — Kpalion^(talk) 21:05, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army

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Cute cat theory of digital activism

Argh! I had been saving this one to create for my hopefully-soon 500th DYK but you did it anyway ... Well, you did a good job, and the important thing is that now we have one. I found fit to add a great lolcat image from Commons to it. Once again, thanks ... it's really about the project, not any of us.

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Karl Marx

Hey Piotrus, maybe you should have a look at the recent history. Happy days, Drmies (talk) 02:49, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Samir Feriani

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Errr...

You left A message for Fastily...but they are 100% retired. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 21:06, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Given that, and that the redirect is evidently still useful, I've just restored it. Seems like the least dramatic way to go about things, with a G6 deletion. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:59, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Baptism of Poland

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Anti-Polish sentiment

Hi Piotrus. I'll review the article in the next few days. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 19:37, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Piotrus. Do you think I should leave my thoughts here or on the article's Talk page? — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 14:40, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Okay. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 14:47, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

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Warfare in Medieval Poland

I just added some 20 references, and improved a part of the text. Battle of Yevenes unfortunately, is almost impossible to improve. I will try to do something tomorrow. :) belissarius (talk) 20:48, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

• Thank you! belissarius (talk) 23:00, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Done! belissarius (talk) 02:19, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Signing a post

Thanks for reminding me to sign my posts with four tildes. I post comments so rarely (in fact, almost never) that I forgot. And actually, one of the reasons that I post comments so rarely so rarely is that (to me) it all seems rather complicated. I don't really know where to find the place on a page to post comments. And I don't understand the reason for signing a post with four tildes so it seems uncomfortable to do so. I hope I've got it right on this occasion.Pmccawley (talk) 00:01, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Szlachta's privileges

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Battle of Włodzimierz

 Done — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 18:56, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for help

Piotrus -- (from Jakarta) thanks for your help with the Indonesia work. I appreciate it. Pmccawley (talk) 02:15, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Upcoming Wikimedia Research Newsletter

Hi Piotrus,

the next edition of the research report is to be published on Monday, and as always, your reviews and summaries would be much appreciated - this time we have what might be a record amount of new papers to cover, perhaps due to conference season. (We are still waiting to acquire some of the paywalled papers listed there - e.g. [1] might be of interest to you - but I thought I would rather ping you now already.) The draft is being developed here. Many thanks!

Regards, Tbayer (WMF) (talk) 16:26, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks again for your great contributions, which I added to the draft. I have answered on my talk page regarding Maxfield. Regards, Tbayer (WMF) (talk) 10:21, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Polonsky

Hi Piotrus, I created a short BLP on historian Antony Polonsky. An editor has tagged this article as "multiple issues" including COI and WP:Peacock. I’ve tried to discuss the issue with editor Poeticbent, and I would be interested to hear the opinion of other editors on the Polonsky Talk page. Thanks, Mick gold (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks for swift feedback. I responded with a follow-up query. Best, Mick gold (talk) 17:07, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

File:Stanisław August Poniatowski.jpg

 Done — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:16, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Cute cat theory of digital activism

Very interesting read! --SupernovaExplosion ^Talk 09:59, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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Thank-you for welcoming me and - can you help me with a problem?

Hi There,

First let me thank you (belatedly) for welcoming me and giving me my talk page.

Now to my issue. Yesterday I created a new page: "George W. Byng". This seems to have attracted many edits since. But there is one editor who keeps editing out changes that I now make. In my view, it is good English to refer to someone's name once in a paragraph and then refer to him as "he" after that. What he is doing is changing all the "he's" to "Byngs". So every sentence starts with: Byng, Byng, Byng etc.

I cannot find anyway to contact or email this guy - not even as I have been able to email you on your page. So it is very frustrating for me considering the amount of work that I put into this article. Wikipedia help does not appear to give any clear instructions how to contact another editor.

I don't wish to be too negative, but this is quite upsetting for me right now.

Richard J. Myers Richard J Myers (talk) 15:57, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

George W. Byng

Hello, Piotrus. Would you kindly join the discussions at the Talk page for George W. Byng? Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:47, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi,

I am concerned that I am accused of uploading an image without permission. Absolutely I did not do this. I emailed the website owner (Marc Shepard) and obtained his permission. I have posted the email on the talk page that gave me this permission. I have again, today, emailed Marc Shepherd and here is the full reply again giving me permission. I am happy to forward this directly to you if you can supply me with an email address:-

---

Hi Richard,

Thanks for writing. You and Wikipedia can use any photo on my website at any time, as far as I am concerned.

Best regards, Marc

On 5/2/2012 5:44 AM, Richard Myers wrote: > Hi Marc, > > I trust you are well. It is a couple of years since your cordial reply to my request for "fair use" of a photo on your website for a Wikipedia article. Somebody on Wikipedia thinks you did not give permission. This reply is to your email to me of 2 years ago where you DID give me permission. I am a little "put out" by this. I trust this will jog your memory and that you will see that you did give me permission. > > Kind Regards > Richard Myers > > Marc Shepherd wrote: >> Dear Mr. Myers, >> >> Thank you for your message, and for your kind words about the site. >> >> I frankly do not recall where I got that image from; it was probably from the liner notes on one of the LP or CD re-issues. I may have scanned it myself, or a correspondent may have sent it to me. I certainly did not seek or obtain permission from HMV, assuming (which is likely) that it originally came from them. >> >> My view on such matters has been that publication of the photo on my website falls within the compass of fair use, and that if it does not, the worst that could happen is that HMV would ask me to cease and desist (in which case, of course, I would readily comply). >> >> I am not suggesting that this should be your view; only that this is my own approach. You are certainly have my permission to use the image on my site for any purpose. >> >> Warm regards, >> Marc Shepherd >> >> On 4/4/2010 5:55 PM, Richard Myers wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I have recently been doing some research into the life of the early 20th century singer Ernest Pike (Herbert Payne) >>> who sung on some of the earliest recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan operas. >>> >>> What I am looking for is a picture of him that I can publish on the Internet. I first contacted HMV, but they >>> wanted a large sum of money to release the few images that they had - and then I would still not be allowed >>> to publish them. >>> >>> Then I noticed that you have a picture of a group which includes him on the "1920 HMV Pirates" page of your >>> excellent site (this site has been very helpful to me). So is this picture in the public domain, or did you need >>> special permission from HMV? >>> >>> Could I use this picture and/or have you any others that I could use? I would be very grateful for your help >>> and any images you may have available in the best resolution possible. >>> >>> Thanks in advance for your help and have a good Easter. >>> >>> Regards >>> Richard Myers (Staffordshire, UK) >> >> >> -- >> Marc Shepherd >> New York, NY >

-- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard J Myers (talk • contribs) 11:19, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

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Stanisław August Poniatowski

Hi Piotrus. I'll review the article sometime in the next few days. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 02:12, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK Pinging

Piotrus, you asked to be pinged if something new was posted to Template:Did you know nominations/Wu Mi. I don't see that this happened, so I'm pinging you now.

Also, in your nomination of Template:Did you know nominations/Twitter bomb, there was an issue with the hook after it was approved, and a few new ALTs proposed. The nom is currently waiting for you to weigh in on whether you are okay with the latest version of the hook.

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Tagging

Piotrus, perhaps you could go a bit easier on the article tagging? See WP:OVERTAGGING and WP:NOTAG, thanks. --Elonka 22:14, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Piotrus, you seem to be on a sweep going through multiple articles, and tagging any which are using a different reference format than you prefer. As we discussed several years ago, it is not required for an article to have inline citations. Having sources at the bottom of the article is sufficient, and tagging such an article with {{nofootnotes}}, is, in my mind, just cluttering the wiki. Especially because you don't seem to be at all interested in improving the articles yourself, tagging does not seem appropriate. See WP:CITEVAR: "Editors should not attempt to change an article's established citation style merely on the grounds of personal preference." Surely there are other things which would be a better use of your time, than re-tagging articles which we already argued about, years ago? --Elonka 22:22, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Piotrus, really, sweeping through multiple articles and posting on their talkpages that they've "failed" is not helpful. Rather than being so negative (especially since these article-writers did not request reviews), it might be better to post something more positive, like, "B-class review: This article is currently at Start class, but could potentially be improved to B-class if it had more citations." That would be more constructive, don't you think? --Elonka 23:13, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

our problem translator

I don't want to take this to an/i now, so late in the day for me, but I will do it if he adds one more such article. I left a formal warning. The best way to stop him will be to stop him--I fear he will just ignore our removing the articles. DGG ( talk ) 04:24, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Former sportsmen

Na polskiej Wikipedii toczy się ostatnio dyskusja nad określeniami "były", "obecny", "obecnie występujący" itp w odniesieniu do sportowców (zwłaszcza piłkarzy). Większość z nas uznała, że encyklopedia jest ponadczasowa, a więc takie sformułowania nie mogą mieć miejsca. Tymczasem na anglojęzycznej Wikipedii te same artykuły obarczone są określeniem "former" (podobnie jset na ru-wiki, es-wiki, de-wiki itd.). Mógłbyś coś z tym zrobić? belissarius (talk) 04:58, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

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• First Battle of Grodno (1920) expanded and sourced. //Halibutt 22:09, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army

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DYK for Twitter bomb

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 08:04, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vicente Locaso

Hi. Expanded all of them, I think it would be more productive now to withdraw the AFD.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:29, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

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First Polish Army (1944–1945)

What do you think should be given a citation -- I did not see any "citation needed" indications in the article. Cheers, W. B. Wilson (talk) 18:08, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth army

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DYK for Samir Feriani

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Epom

The article Epom has been re-created, that you nominated for deletion G4? Begonia Brandbygeana (talk) 13:24, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

I am aware of the previous nomination. I came across it while doing research and clean-up of Ad serving. Made substantial improvements to the one that was nominated for deletion. Maybe not? Let me know what you think after comparing the two. From the comments on the previously deleted page was for little covered and no notability. I agreed until I researched a little more. The notability that I saw deals with the invention of the single ad platform. I also tried to make the article "non-advertising" and more objective. Not that big of deal, though if you still think it needs deleted. Let me know. --Morning277 (talk) 15:53, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Also, trying to search for citations was hell. Everything that you try to search for about ad serving comes up with some type of affiliate site or promotional website. I was able to find a few articles but the technology about the single platform seems to be relatively new. --Morning277 (talk) 15:55, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Last but not least......I went to the person who deleted the article to obtain a copy of it. I did not realize that you were involved or would have come to you before re-posting. I always do this before resurrecting an article as I like to keep people involved who were part of the original. For that, I apologize. --Morning277 (talk) 15:59, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

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Looks like I had less than 7 days. It was deleted last night. --Morning277 (talk) 13:09, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

PZL.50 Jastrząb

Aktualnie jestem daleki od samolotów, ale w ciągu dwóch dni zobaczę - mam parę artykułów na dysku (z których pewnie pisałem). Jak rozumiem, chodzi o zaznaczone miejsca. Pozdrawiam. Pibwl ←« 18:31, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

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Renata3

I don't know that you'll get a response soon. The source I mention has been cited as the official Lithuanian position, unfortunately, it's not something in my collection. VєсrumЬа ►TALK 00:23, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Passports Infobox

Following your comment at 'Russian passport', which is valid IMO, I've raised the question at Template talk:Infobox Identity document#Date of Issue. Feel free to add your own comment there and hopefully the ambiguity can be resolved. Best. RashersTierney (talk) 08:13, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Re: Constitution painting

There were two reasons why I decided not to include the girl in the yellow dress in the painting guide:

1. You can't see her face, so "identifying" her necessarily amounts to wild speculation;
2. Even if this is Marianna Dekertówna, she doesn't seem to have been particularly notable. I doubt she would meet Wikipedia's notability criteria.

However, if you really think she should be included, I can try to add her. But for now I don't suppose it's necessary. — Kpalion^(talk) 18:32, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

The anonymous figures at least play some symbolic roles in the painting. But what role could Marianna play? Do the sources you used say explicitly that it was Marianna that Matejko had in mind or is it rather the "there's a young girl standing next to Dekert, and Dekert had a daughter, so maybe it's her" kind of reasoning? — Kpalion^(talk) 19:20, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Army of the Duchy of Warsaw

Casliber (talk · contribs) 01:18, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

58th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

all the modern regiments (articles), are based on Sawickies linage and honors/heraldry compilations. which is available at librarys, unfortunatly if the unit was not brought forward to the modern system, its gets real difficult. another words all I know is whats in sawickies:) I think most of the National guard units that were brought forward, were the numerical "Firsts" IE- 1thru 10. 65th NY and 71NY. are anomlies, that kind sliped thru the cracks. I quit doing it because after houres of transcribing them, some commie would use some lame excuse to delete everything. Brian in denver (talk) 18:21, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

• to bring you up to speed Infantry Branch (United States) (read Organization) around WWI the state militias were renumbered, and thay started putting togeather Lineage and honors certificate wich is a different office than Heraldry. so you never saw the data in one source. in the late 50's Mr Sawickie compiled all the units. that were brought forward, and published the Infantry, artillery, cav. ADA, and armor, this is the only "complete" resource for these units. now the center for military history will issue a certificate to active units which is kept on file in the unit headquarters, and photocopies will be made to pass out to soldures, to memorize for soldure of the month boards, so theres lots of these photocopies floating around, but its kind of a hit and miss proposition, ok so far? so heres the giant catch 22, sawickies is coppritten. but you cant coppyright government documents. (this is a real hot button for me because theres lots of war profiteers out there scanning manuals and putting there coppyright on them). my motovation in transcribing them was so that obscure units would pop up in cross references my first expermental linage was the 157th Field Artillery Regiment (United States). unfortunatly the coppyright bots flag every thing thats been transcribed to some mom and pop/museum website, which of course are coppwriten. I put up the linage certificate page to try and help people understand what a linage is, and started linking it as the header, in my mind its a no brainer, a Government document cant be coppwritten. it doesent matter what the source is. well I guess that didnt help because then all my headers got delinked. Brian in denver (talk) 19:51, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
• back to new york, I use this page as an index Coats of arms of U.S. Infantry Regiments so what you see is generally what has been brought forward, I fleshed out the "100 series" but theres been an ongoing argument about using the page as an index so I stoped there, if youv studied one of the linages you will note a lot of comings and goings of company size elements, and cross branch redesignations, so 58th NY could be (or a company sized element of it) could be now the 1334th underwater mess kit repair detachment, on the other hand most of the high numbered civil war units were only around as long as there 1 year inlistment. you could write the center for military history and put in a request, but if you ever got an answer it probably would only be a couple of dates and muster places. you might be better off hitting up new york sources like the library, or national guard museum. also getting on a reenactor forum could generate some leads, as well as the geneoligy forums, Brian in denver (talk) 20:35, 17 May 2012 (UTC) (PS the Geneoligists are good at finding muster rolls)
• deleted linages, heres one of the deleted units, 142nd Infantry Regiment (United States) I was about to get myself psyched up to go through and transcribe the national guard infantry linages, but the thot of having to go through this battle every time, gives me a headache, if you look at the 157ths history tab you can see its annexes have all been deleted. I dont own sawickies infantry regiments and have to get it on interlibary loan, which takes a few weeks, I do have a copy of his ada regiments, Brian in denver (talk) 21:35, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

- :) moonbeams reply is what i thot it would be, its deleted becouse its not somewhere else on the internet, meanwhile Mr. shotgun pellets is deleting stuff because its somewhere else on the interweb, my head hurts Brian in denver (talk) 23:28, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Saybusch

Piotr, if you have the time, would you please consider helping us out with Sandstein's request for a second pair of eyes at my DYK nomination of Action Saybusch (here). It is about Silesia... nobody knows more about its history than you. Basically, a second review is needed, by an editor who reads Polish and can give it an actual go-ahead. Thanks in advance. Poeticbent talk 21:15, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Chevau-legers polonaise

Yes, but I have no idea how to do that. I read the instructions, but can not understand it. Sorry! belissarius (talk) 22:15, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

I'll try to help with this (and the general GA nomination), since I've thought of nominating that for GA before, but gimme till the weekend when I'll have a bit of time.VolunteerMarek 22:20, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Technicalities we can help. As long as everything is properly referenced, splitting is just a few minutes. Ping me if anybody has any issues, I just fixed ref/note issue in the Casimir Pulaski article, which is my current B-class project (with GA at some point, hopefully). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 03:42, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Army of the Congress Poland

Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:04, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Polonsky

I've drafted a response to the NPOV tag.

...also some info on Rolling Stone. Mick gold (talk) 17:09, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

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Shoot. Well, I tried again. Homunculus (duihua) 05:10, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi Piotrus. Would you care to take a look at the Bo Xilai page? I thought this may be of some interest to you. There are two issues that I think would benefit from your input:

• First, the page has been the scene of an edit war for the last day and a half. The dispute, as with many previous disputes on this page, concerns a paragraph describing Bo's involvement in the persecution of Falun Gong and consequent lawsuits that were brought against him. Editors previously hammered out a tenuous consensus, which I (regrettably) disrupted with this edit[2]. There is now a lengthy talk page discussion on the matter,[3] which includes some proposed wording for the page. Unfortunately it appears deadlocked, with changes now going undiscussed, and the conversation seems derailed. If you are so inclined, perhaps you could take a look at the various proposals and iterations, and propose a possible compromise.
• The page is a good article nominee, and was passed this morning. Wizardman suggested a second opinion would be in order.[4]

Your help would be appreciated, though if you're reluctant to wade in, I would understand. Homunculus (duihua) 18:58, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for adding your two cents at Bo Xilai. The discussion seems to be at an impasse. It appears that one of the editors involved has broken the 3RR[5][6][7][8] (and then some[9][10]). I've already reverted more than I'd like, and have therefore resolved to stay away from the 'undo' button altogether. I have tried talking this through, but cannot make sense of the opposing arguments on the talk page. At this stage I don't know what to do, and while I am sorry for dragging you into this, any advice you may have on the most suitable dispute resolution or mediation process would be appreciated. Again, if you're not inclined to get involved, no worries. Homunculus (duihua) 06:01, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

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Non-British personnel in the RAF during the Battle of Britain

Hello Piotrus

You have recently requested that "Non-British personnel in the RAF during the Battle of Britain" be downgraded at the Military History assessment page and my question to you is that are you just going through the articles looking for ones that are rated B-class and are not then just post them to the Mil Hist page or do you first look through the article and seeing if you can fix them yourself being WP:BOLD before you post for it to be downgraded?

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Battle of Grunwald (painting)

Hi Piotrus. I'll take a look at the article some time over the weekend. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 02:10, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Promoted to B class. I left a few comments on the article's Talk page. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 17:24, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

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Polonsky draft

Hi Piotrus, I've posted a draft on Polonsky Talk page for comment. Mick gold (talk) 06:27, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Great Sejm/GA1

I've reviewed the article and left notes on the talk page. I've put the nomination on hold for seven days to allow the issues to be addressed. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, here, or on the article talk page with any concerns, and let me know one of those places when the issues have been addressed. If I may suggest that you strike out, check mark, or otherwise mark the items I've detailed, that will make it possible for me to see what's been addressed, and you can keep track of what's been done and what still needs to be worked on. Ealdgyth - Talk 19:25, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Culture Freedom Day

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DYK for Revolutionary movement

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Copernicus Tower

Basically, this photo is my reference. Per WP:Verifiability, you don't have to reference every sentence, unless it is high chance it will be contested. What else, do you think, can look like the Cathedral at the Wzgórze Katedralne by the Copernicus tower? Staszek Lem (talk) 18:36, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Dyk-nom and B-class stuff

Please take a second look at the nom and also, if there's anything else I can do to help the assessment more specifically, please point it out to me. Thanks again for doing this. Poeticbent talk 22:05, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Racism in Malaysia

That's a good one. Since we don't appear to have an article on the subject, I redirected it to Racism in Asia#Malaysia. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 00:13, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

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Saybusch revisited

Piotrus, would you please put a here, since we already worked on it enough. Much appreciated. Poeticbent talk 13:11, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Stańczyk (painting)

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References

I will add some more references asap. Greetings. Tymek (talk) 00:19, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

King Michael

Hello, Piotrus! It's a shame that you ignore a discussion we had here. It was a proper discussion which resulted in the article being moved. That's what we call a consensus. The article was moved again without a discussion, so the new title is the one that should be discussed - doesn't that make sense? Surtsicna (talk) 15:18, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

OK, let's continue this at the talk page of the article, if you don't mind. Surtsicna (talk) 15:19, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

If you have any ideas on how to improve the article about Elizabeth of Bosnia, a princess of my homeland and queen of yours, I would be really happy to hear them. The article would also benefit from Polish language sources you might have access to; my understanding of them is based only on the common Slavic origin of Bosnian and Polish so I cannot make the best of them. I am sure you are busy but if you find time to take a look at it, please feel free to do so. Cheers, Surtsicna (talk) 15:52, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Karol Boscamp-Lasopolski

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I know, I should be a lot more conscientious about putting project tags on talk pages. I will try to remember. When I came across a thumbnail bio of Lucrezio Gravisi I thought he would make a great DYK candidate - a very colorful life. The problem is, what you see is all I could dig up online. Maybe I did not search hard enough.  ;~( Aymatth2 (talk) 20:35, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

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Casimir Pulaski

I award you with the Casimir Pulaski award for getting all the Pulaski Counties straight. Smallbones (talk) 00:42, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

I'll be travelling for about a week, but will take a peek when I have the chance. Smallbones (talk) 00:48, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Maus

I've added a bunch of information on the Polish translation and reception of Maus (amongst other things) from MetaMAUS, and would appreciate some feedback on it. CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 08:54, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Pan Podstoli

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Mapa Honorverse

Hello,

I saw that you have re-uploaded my map on the Honorverse page. I tried to take part in the talk on this map but Wikipedia beat me. I don't know if you are aware but there is a new version at Honorwerseglossary. It takes into account data from previous books excluding A Rising Thunder which was published in March. Also I would like to ask for a correction in the text under the map. There is information that the Czech side http://harrington.suewebik.net/svet/mapy.shtml is mine. This is not true. My site is Honorverseglossary, there I have uploaded everything that I once put up at Baen'sBar. Now I just update the Internet version. As for the new maps which can be viewed directly here Detailed map after ToF if I have to do anything for it to be publishable on Wikipedia let me know.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sawa 13 (talk • contribs) 08:05, June 6, 2012

Replied at User talk:Sawa 13. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 16:37, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Stefania Wolicka

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DYK for Zawieszenie dzwonu Zygmunta

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piersi/cycki murzynki

Hi Piotrus, on VM's page you said "I don't think we can consider tabloids reliable." I still don't understand why being a tabloid is important :/ The ref is just to show that the cake is notable (since apparently thousands of instances of the cake on the net isn't deemed enough). Can't a tabloid prove that? Tabloids are only dodgy sources on more contentious issues, surely. Not the existence/notability of a cake. Nieprawdaz? Malick78 (talk) 22:08, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Hope my comment on VM's page halps. The translation you offered as content was not appropriate, and if that's exactly what the source had, then it demonstrates why we don't use tabloids as RS. VєсrumЬа ►TALK 02:20, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi Piotrus, I'm well acquainted with RS policy, yet there are grey areas and cases where one should use one's common sense. RS says "Whether a specific news story is reliable for a specific fact or statement in a Wikipedia article will be assessed on a case by case basis" - so, is Super Express reliable for a cake being notable? Being tabloid does not mean it can never be used. Dull, uncontroversial facts do not need exceptional sources, I'm sure you'll agree.

As for the translation, Vecrumba, Wikipedians are allowed to provide their own translations in certain cases. It's acceptable. Malick78 (talk) 10:04, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Simmelian tie

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:04, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:02, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Pan Podstoli

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:03, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Stanisław August Poniatowski

Sorry, it fell off my "to do" list. I'll finish it tomorrow or on Monday.

I think it's also probably at GA level, or will be after some copy-editing. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 02:19, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi Piotr. I finished my run-through. I have two questions that I'll leave on the article's Talk page.

I think the Legacy section could use more work. I don't think it's up to the level of the rest of the article. I'll take another look at it over the next few days and see what I can do. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 17:36, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry that I wasn't clearer. I meant that the prose of the Legacy section needs more work, not that the section wasn't sufficient. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 17:57, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Today's edit is hard to follow, but I rearranged the text while making only minor changes to the wording. I think the article is probably finished, although you might want to ask another editor to read it over. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 17:43, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz

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Polonsky

Hi Piotrus, have your say in the great debate. Mick gold (talk) 21:14, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Piotrus, Malik Shabazz invites your comment. Mick gold (talk) 07:12, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes, could you comment please? I've proposed removing the "unbalanced tag" now that a whole section has been added on "Controversy and academic conflict", but since you were the one who had originally tagged the article as non-neutral, Malik Shabazz would like your input. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 12:52, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Dziękuję

Thanks for your comment at Bombing of Germany. Sca (talk) 14:33, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

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"Wolfsschanze," etc.

Not sure what you mean by "are you planning to write it?" I've added some from Junge's memoir to Wolfsschanze, but the comment at Talk:Strategic bombing during World War II was designed more to generate debate and garner info, if possible.

I suspect there still are things about WWII that Britian and the U.S. are keeping secret until some future date (2015?). This issue might be one of them. Sca (talk) 23:54, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Tips

Thanks for the tips. I made a little rework on the article after that, if you could take a look.-Ilhador- (talk) 23:36, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Łazienkowska Thoroughfare

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DYK nomination of Piotruś

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Bombing of Germany

Piotr, in response to your question, no, I don't have the expertise. I do have a couple of books on the subject (among my 100s of books on WWII, etc.) and possibly could make intelligent editing contributions, but it would be up to someone else to draft a separate article. That someone should be familiar with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, known as USSBS. The existing article doesn't appear to be very detailed.

When I originally referred to Bombing of Germany I was ignoring the fact that it redirects to Strategic bombing during World War II. I guess there should be separate articles on Germany and Japan, and perhaps Britain as well, although the so-called Blitz was nothing like what happened in Germany and Japan.

Sca (talk) 15:58, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Re: References needed (Szczerbiec)

Hi Piotrus, Many thanks for identifying those bits that were missing citations. I have now added them. Would you have any further suggestions about improving the article so that it could be nominated for an FA? — Kpalion^(talk) 17:58, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Still need reviews for the Wikipedia Education Program research project

Hey, Piotr! If you have some time to review the quality of some articles, we're using the results for a really important research project that will help shape the future of the US/Canada Education Program. For a few projects, we're on a pretty tight timeline and are really eager to have many more of these articles reviewed over the next week. However, we think it's most useful to come from experienced Wikipedia editors.

I have gone through each class to prioritize for various projects, and everyone on the Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation would be extremely grateful if you could participate by reviewing a few articles ('pre' and 'post' versions). If we can rally a lot of editors to review one or two articles each day, we will be able to make the most use of this research for our tight timeline. As many of our Ambassadors have requested it, we are really eager to find out which classes have been successful according to the Wikipedian standard.

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DYK nom: Afrasia

I have replied at Template:Did you know nominations/Afrasia djijidae. The material you requested was in the article, but took some careful reading. If you need it stated more plainly, just let me know. Anyway, please see my reply at the DYK nom. Best, – Maky ^« talk » 02:06, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

William Henry Squire

Hi Piotrus,

I have completely re-written the article on William Henry Squire (cellist) as the original had no references and was not well structured/written. However I note that its talk page is still rating it as a stub. Presumably the status of this article can now be uprated?

Richard J Myers (talk) 22:05, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

To let you know...

I removed this request as the editor is indef'd for the past 1.5yrs, and will be unable to participate. You might want to check a little more closely before inviting comment from blocked editors :-) (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:22, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Too bright!

Glanced at your user page. Suggest you change the background color in the "To translate" box. Sca (talk) 13:00, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Cultural organizations

The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America and the Polish American Historical Association would be worth contacting.

The latter publishes Polish American Studies, edited by James S. Pula, who can be reached at jpula@pnc.edu.

Best, Nihil novi (talk) 22:17, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Żeby Polska była Polską

Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:04, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Stanisław August Poniatowski

Promoted to B class. Sorry I forgot to finalize that. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:36, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for reviewing, but...

Thanks for reviewing the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union article, but as you may have noticed, I'm not entirely finished. Would it be possible for you to wait a day or two, so I could finish my work on the article? Everything is ready, I just haven't found the time to edit the article in a long time. Is it okay or not? Bye. --TIAYN (talk) 14:51, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Old entry from 2004

Greetings. I run into contributions by User:Emax today. Emax was a prolific contributor before he quit Wikipedia in February 2005. He used to correspond with you. While I was looking at the history of his stub on Jan Szczepanik created in 2004 (and its possible source), I discovered that there's a chance of some serious copyright issues in his early submissions. Would you please look into it, just to make sure that we're OK with everything he did by now? Thanks. Poeticbent talk 15:13, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Geoff Charles

Does the new ALT hook solve the problems you had with this DYK, or has something not been addressed that needs to be? Please stop by the nomination. Thanks! BlueMoonset (talk) 05:22, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Kabaret TEY

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:03, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Siege of Smolensk (1632–1633)

The article Siege of Smolensk (1632–1633) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Siege of Smolensk (1632–1633) for things which need to be addressed. GoP_T^C_N 16:53, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Siege of Smolensk (1632–1633)

The article Siege of Smolensk (1632–1633) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Siege of Smolensk (1632–1633) for comments about the article. Well done! There is a backlog of articles waiting for review, why not help out and review a nominated article yourself? GoP_T^C_N 18:35, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

DYKs

(You wrote)

I expanded Pod Egidą and Olga Lipińska, so they are both DYKable now, I think. You can nominate them if you'd like :) --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 19:00, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Let's split it between you and I, why don't we. Please nominate Pod Egidą if you want, and I will nominate Lipińska with a few touchups. Would that be OK with you? Poeticbent talk 21:54, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

RE: Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Thanks for giving me the time to finish off the article... I've responded at the GA review page to you're comments. --TIAYN (talk) 12:43, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

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Copied from my talk page. A.J. (talk) 16:28, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Utwór nie jest fotografią, a ściśle rzecz biorąc: jako fotografia nie stanowi osobnego utworu, a jedynie kopię (reprodukcję) utworu oryginalnego. PD-Poland dotyczy wyłacznie fotografii; a i to nie wszystkich, tylko nie zastrzeżonych (a jak ktoś udowodni, że była zastrzeżona choć w jednej kopii, to i tak trzeba kasować, pamiętam już 2 takie przypadki, ale był też przypadek, gdzie autor odpuścił). A.J. (talk) 16:51, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

PS. Coś nie tak z opisem "The purpose of the image is to highlight a historic NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event." A.J. (talk) 16:53, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thanks for your review & constructive suggestions for the Public sociology article. Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 16:55, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

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Nomination of Closed community for deletion

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re: your GAN 1919 Polish coup d'état attempt in Lithuania

Hi,

I have started reviewing your nomination and made a list of comments at Talk:1919 Polish coup attempt in Lithuania/GA1. I'm interested in your feedback! Regards, MathewTownsend (talk) 20:06, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

I'm back again to say that I think the article is ready to pass GA now. I hope my copy edits are ok. I've noted a few comments at Talk:1919 Polish coup attempt in Lithuania/GA1. It would be wonderful if you could provide a map. Anyway, it's a really interesting article and a glimpse for me to see into some history that I knew nothing about. I hope I didn't cause you too much trauma as I'd like to read through some of your other articles. Good work and congratulations! (After you reply on the GA1 page I will pass the article.)

Best wishes, MathewTownsend (talk) 18:24, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 07:04, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

re GAN Suwałki Agreement

Hi,

See Talk:Suwałki Agreement/GA2

Am I correct in thinking that you are too busy right now? Don't you have an article at FAC? I can wait and you can let me know when you're ready to work on it.

Best, MathewTownsend (talk) 16:52, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Passed! Good work. MathewTownsend (talk) 21:17, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

RE: CEntral Committee

I've responded by fixing the errors in the article.. I've solved all the problems and I'm waiting for you to do you're job... Have you even bother to check the edits I've done to the article??? Have you?? Don't bother failing the article when it is you who has failed in your job! Check out the edits I've done on the article before you threaten with failing the review next time, okay? --TIAYN (talk) 20:51, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

It is your task to be kept updated about the article. Added the article to the watchlist or something.... But who cares, if you review the rest of the article, I'll begin to use the review page okay?? --TIAYN (talk) 06:54, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

We can. Just proceed. I have a bad temper in general; its really my fault for being so aggressive (I'm not that good at being nice sometimes, when i'm irritated). --TIAYN (talk) 11:13, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

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Battle of Grudziądz (1659)

(You wrote) I have expanded the article. If you could provide a cite for the cite needed, I think we can DYK it. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 22:23, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Piotr. Great expansion. Please DYK it for both of us if you will. Poeticbent talk 01:38, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Piotruś

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EW etc.

Hi Piotrus.
This discussion suggested me a following idea. As a result of this amendment request the remaining sanctions per EEML will be (hopefully) lifted. However, informally, some stain still remains on the EMML members, and the discussion of their old sins still starts spontaneously from time to time. I got an idea how to remove all remaining stain from the names of ex-EEML members. Two years ago we discussed some modifications to the EW policy that would make resurrection of the mailing list tactics senseless. I mean this discussion. In connection to that, I propose the following. What if all ex-EEML members will openly come together, discuss this or similar modification to the policy and propose it on the policy talk page? If they would be able to persuade a community to make such changes, that would be so convincing demonstration of their good faith that all remaining memory about their bad faith would be wiped off once and forever. What do you think about that?
That step would be extremely important, taking into account that noone can guarantee that no other mail lists are currently active in Wikipedia.
Sinecerely, --Paul Siebert (talk) 04:49, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Paul, you suggestion here is not relevant to that specific discussion of lifting a redundant interaction ban. Please do me the courtesy of not derailing it by discussing something that is not relevant to that request, you are most welcomed to take it elsewhere. As to your specific proposal, you have not demonstrated that a problem currently exists and adding it to EW policy would be a case instruction creep. In any case the general area is under discretionary sanctions. --Nug (talk) 20:32, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

My suggestion is relevant to the Biophys proposal of some "general amnesty".

Regarding the existence of the problem, the last incident when you and Miacek acted in concert is a demonstration that this problem still exists.

@Piotrus. Thank you for your responce. I have some ideas on how to develop this our old proposal. What is more convenient for you: to discuss it here, or to continue this discussion on my talk page? --Paul Siebert (talk) 20:43, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Biophys' proposal is also irrelevant to the specific amendment request.

No, Miacek and I did not "act in concert", and you already mentioned it at AE but your allegations gained no traction. As Fifelfoo already pointed out to you elsewhere, if some individual chooses to watch-list a particular article and revert that is entirely their responsibility. I'm sorry that you colleague Igny was indef topic banned as was the apparent sock User:UUNC, but please stop this continued baseless insinuation of improper coordination by people you percieve to be your opponents, lest this is seen to be evidence of a battleground mentality. --Nug (talk) 21:01, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Then you should address to Biophys first. With regard to the rest, I have a feeling that Piotrus has absolutely no desire to have any relation to the EEML story, and, frankly speaking, I fully support him. If you want to continue, please, re-post your last text on my talk page.--Paul Siebert (talk) 21:07, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Bajan's list

Thank-you from the DYK helpers and Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:05, 30 June 2012 (UTC)