Talk:Lyubomir Ivanov (explorer)

Autobiography
Going off of metadata from the photo on this article, further supported with metadata from the photo on the principal editor's own userpage, this article appears to be an autobiography of that user. While Wikipedia does not have an outright ban on making a biographical article about oneself, the fact the subject is having to write it himself brings up questions of notability. Ref: WP:AUTO --SeaFox (talk) 10:42, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * There was a COI noticeboard thread about this page and User:Apcbg; that editor did not participate in that discussion, but no one had any doubt that it is indeed an autobiography. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 10:33, 10 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Definite violation of WP:COI policy. User Apcgb is no other than Lyubomir Ivanov himself. I'm not sure exactly how notable he is.--MacRusgail (talk) 16:18, 14 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Uh. Yeah, that has been dealt with. It has been re-written by people who /arn't/ Dr Ivanov. He was head of a political group hat held parliament seats, seems notable enough for me. I would also question how you violate a non-prohibitive guideline? WP:COI is a guideline that discourages but doesn't ban it. -- Narson ~  Talk  • 16:59, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

A very bad system indeed
Mr Ivanov is the iniator of the so-called "streamlined system" of romanization of Bulgarian Cyrillic. The anglicised system made "mandatory" (!) by a Bulgarian law in 1995 has to be replaced in the context of the time: in the mid-90es, Bulgaria was in a deep crisis and tried to "go West" by all means. It was the time of "privatisation", and this meant "piratisation" of the economy by the former aparačiki, who wanted to become the best capitalists in Europe and began to anglicize the country in the name of their new ideology, neoliberalism. It was also the time of the "mutri" ("ugly faces"), mafiosi who terrorised the population. The "streamlined system" (why "streamlined" ?) has to be seen in this context and there are many good reasons to boycott it: 1. it is incoherent (the article Romanization of Bulgarian points out some logical problems, but there are others, e. g. why "i" for и and not "ee"?); 2. it is useless : Bulgaria used formerly a coherent system based on the system of slavic languages using the latin alphabet, the scientific transliteration. There was absolutely no need to make another - the only motivation was a political one (the wish to "go West" as radically as possible). As for the argument of electronical communication which doesn't allow the use of diacritics, it is specious, because nowadays, even the cheapest computer allows this use and for instance, you find all latin characters on the bottom of Wikipedia pages when you edit a text; 3. it is culturally cannibalistic: it is a hypocrite and cultureless contribution to the uniformisation of the world (pretexting modernity, of course) and looses the cultural tights with the other slavic cultural areas of the Balkan, especially the Macedonian, which is very close to the Bulgarian. 4. Wikipedia is a scientific (though for a broader audience), not journalistic project. Mr Ljubomir Ivanov, who is the "author" of this bad system, is not a linguist, but a mathematician, and his sense for cultural questions seems to be very limited indeed. He seems in exchange to have a very developped political sense, because he managed to impose this absurd decision on governmental level. Moreover, he has a a very keen sense of publicity: he wrote his autobiography and put it in the English Wiki... --Hubertgui (talk) 08:13, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

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