Talk:Jan Piłsudski

Answer to Query
Been busy lately, but I did want to answer the question posed to me by user:Piotrus on April 10, 2007, with his edit summary, regarding my calling Jan Pilsudski, a Polish politician. It reads ... (hmm, are you sure he was a Polish politician? Not a Lithuanian one, like you claim Jozef Pilsudski was?). Since I'll assume good faith and that you weren't being snide, let me give you the courtesy of an answer. Yes, I'm sure, just like I believe that Fujimori is a Peruvian politician. Regarding the Marszalek, maybe you're confusing me with Norman Davies. He writes of Jozef Pilsudski, He was a Lithuanian of Polish culture, born in 1867, the son of a landed family... I know you are fond of Davies. He states this in more than one of his works, White Eagle, Red Star and Heart of Europe, the Past in Poland's Present are two examples. Dr. Dan 18:41, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Berlitz
The question regarding this particular Pilsudski's place of birth, or his brother, concerns whether or not we need to teach the Polish language to our readers on English Wikipedia? Should the lead sentence actually read (Zułów), or rather "Like his famous brother, Piłsudski was born in Zalavas (Zułów), in Lithuania (Litwa), in what was then the Russian Empire (Imperium Rosyjskie)"? Or leave it as Zalavas? Any argument for the former such as Polish manuscripts, and "Google hits", should not be accepted as a reason for its inclusion couched under some nationalistic, chauvinistic, belief that this somehow changes the ethnicity of the Pilsudski family. The village is in Lithuania, there is an article about it on Polish Wikipedia with its Polish geographical name. Right click on the Polish link to the article and it's easy to settle. Let's not have the same people cropping up to play games and regurgitate this old stuff up again. Especially now that they have been rehabilitated. Dr. Dan (talk) 04:55, 26 February 2011 (UTC)