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Hi Davidbernard, I noticed your EU interests. Currently we have a vote for keeping many relevant images in the sections. Would be great to see you voting and commentating there. This is the version to be discussed [1]]. Maybe you want to help to stop the deletion ...all the best & Dziękuję Lear 21 04:46, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Your image caption in Old growth forest article

Hi, Dawidbernard! Maybe I expressed myself confusedly in my edit summary when I changed your image caption. I meant: Also some other european sites (besides Białowieża) in the List of old growth forests are "largely intact" (like Pyhä-Häkki National Park, Biogradska Gora, Virgin Komi Forests and Stužica), but in the list there are also some sites which are perhaps not largely intact (for example, I suspect how intact is Borthwood Copse if coppicing has been done there, as the article says).

So, my point was, that although Białowieża is for sure the biggest largely intact forest patch in Central Europe, it is exaggeration to say it is the only one in Europe. I wrote my opinion also to Talk:Białowieża Forest.

Do you agree? Krasanen (talk) 10:32, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Origin of Slav

Hi David, your links deal with the origin of the English (and of other FL) term slave - that section you added them to deals with the origin of Slavic self-identifying ethnicon. slave derives from Slav, not the other way around. Cheers --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 00:58, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ivan. In Western sources it is not uncommon to claim it was the other way round. The source I give states: <As far as the Slavs' own self-designation goes, its meaning is, understandably, better than "slave"> - so it implies that THE MEANING of Slav is "slave". That's why I believe that the way I put it in the article, i.e. that the name derives from the alleged enslavement of the Slavic peoples reflects the beliefs of some people - whether we like it or not. Check up also this: http://boards.history.com/topic/History-Now/Slav-As-In/520037598 - it seems History Channel also believes that Slav comes from slave. We can debate whether it can be rephrased in a better fashion, but we cannot ignore the fact that some people believe that. Dawidbernard (talk) 20:19, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

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