User talk:Antidiskriminator/Archive 6

Please comment on Talk:History of Vojvodina
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Maps of "Albanian principalities"
Hi, how reliable is this user-made unsourced map of the "Principality of Muzakaj" and some other statelets?--Z oupan 15:35, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Herero and Namaqua Genocide
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DYK for Moneta family
The DYK project (nominate) 08:07, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
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Please comment on Talk:John Calvin
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The Bugle: Issue LXXXIII, February 2013
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WikiCup 2013 February newsletter
Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:
 * , primarily for an array of warship GAs.
 * , primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
 * , due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with, this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:
 * , whose Portal:Massachusetts is the first featured portal this year. The featured portal process is one of the less well-known featured processes, and featured portals have traditionally had little impact on WikiCup scores.
 * , whose Mycena aurantiomarginata was the first featured article this year.
 * and, who both claimed points for articles in the Major League Baseball tie-breakers topic, the first topic points in the competition.
 * , who claimed for the first full good topic with the Casting Crowns studio albums topic.

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by : did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 11:38, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

1942 raid in southern Bačka
Rsloch (talk) 15:03, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination for Tayyare Apartments
Hi Antidiskriminator! I see that you helped to fix the problem with the ref for DYK. First of all, I wasn't aware of that criteria before. "You never know". Furthermore, I wasn't at home when BlueMoonSet posted his/her claim. Sorry for the inconvienence and thanks a lot for your contribution. Cheers. CeeGee 20:02, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

DYK confusion
Hi,

I was a little confused in trying to verify the hook at Template:Did you know nominations/Independent International Commission on Kosovo. Could you clarify for me? Best, Star767 (talk) 23:47, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Aromanian? Greek!
Hi Antidiscriminator. Would you like to pay attention to the dispute on the article Petar Ichko. Pyraichmes claimes that Aromanian and Greek were and are one and the same people, speculating he can not open provided by me source, which denies this theory. Please, share with us your opinion. Thanks in advance. Jingiby (talk) 18:43, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Rape culture
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DYK for Independent International Commission on Kosovo
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:03, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
WhiteWriterspeaks 22:55, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Slavery in Africa
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Dickran Kouymjian DYK
Added some ALT's...check it out. Proudbolsahye (talk) 09:01, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Added ALT1a. Proudbolsahye (talk) 18:35, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Sanjak of Kruševac
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:03, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Baltic states-related articles
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Nerodime
Dear Antidiskriminator, could you give me a rationale and proof of why you edited the name of the Nerodime archaeological site in the Roman Period Sites in Kosovo article page. I gave proof of my writing, and it is an academic publication, not just any nationalistic slander, which evidences what I wrote. Could you please respond and tell me what gives you the right to take such a step, being that I don't understand it. Regards, --Atdheu (talk) 02:10, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your response:

Here I pointed to the WP:COMMONNAME policy and provided links which prove that Nerodimlje is the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources. Please don't continue to replace English common names with Albanian because it is against wikipedia policy.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 02:16, 17 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Regardless, I have not edited anything that is not proven. If the WP:COMMONAME policy states that that settlement should be named as such, then I think that we should start a discussion page where we could forward a discussion on how these places should be called. Note that you are referring to a place of inhabitance and not an archaeological site, as I have referred. Please make your edits objective, because the stance that you have taken does not reflect that, --Atdheu (talk) 02:21, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Voynuks
The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:16, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Northeastern United States
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DYK nomination of The Building of Skadar
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The Bugle: Issue LXXXIV, March 2013
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DYK for The Building of Skadar
Chamal T •C 08:02, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Old Rashko
Chamal T •C 08:02, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Karl Marx
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Barnstar
Thank you very much for this. It is appreciated. Perunova straža (talk) 12:42, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Novo Brdo Fortress at DYK
I've just nominated Novo Brdo Fortress at DYK. You can check the nominantion here. Perunova straža (talk) 13:34, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, I've already noticed that several editors tend to taunt with disruptive editing and veiled threats. Every project of this scale is bound to have some disruptive elements. Thanks for the concern. Perunova straža (talk) 15:29, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2013 March newsletter
We are halfway through round two. Pool A sees the strongest competition, with five out of eight of its competitors scoring over 100, and Pool H is lagging, with half of its competitors yet to score. WikiCup veterans lead overall; Pool A's (2010's winner) leads overall, with poolmate  (a finalist in 2011 and 2012) not far behind. Pool F's (a finalist in 2010, 2011 and 2012) is in third. The top two scorers in each pool, as well as the next highest 16 scorers overall, will progress to round three at the end of April.

Today has seen a number of Easter-themed did you knows from WikiCup participants, and March has seen collaboration from contestants with WikiWomen's History Month. It's great to see the WikiCup being used as a locus of collaboration; if you know of any collaborative efforts going on, or want to start anything up, please feel free to use the WikiCup talk page to help find interested editors. As well as fostering collaboration, we're also seeing the Cup encouraging the improvement of high-importance articles through the bonus point system. Highlights from the last month include GAs on physicist Niels Bohr, on the European hare , on the constellation Circinus ( and ) and on the Third Epistle of John. All of these subjects were covered on at least 50 Wikipedias at the beginning of the year and, subsequently, each contribution was awarded at least three times as many points as normal.

Wikipedians who enjoy friendly competition may be interested in participating in April's wikification drive. While wikifying an article is typically not considered "significant work" such that it can be claimed for WikiCup points, such gnomish work is often invaluable in keeping articles in shape, and is typically very helpful for new writers who may not be familiar with formatting norms.

A quick reminder: now, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 22:31, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Mohamed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti
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Advice on naming issue
Tell me in all honesty, do you find this acceptable? We have a town called Đakovica per WP:AT and in reliable English sources, we know of the town to have been called Yakova in Ottoman times because that is the Turkish name. Yet Bobrayner here claims to choose 'Gjakova' purely because three reliable sources use the term, two are publushed in Albanian and the third is Noel Malcolm. Note that the Albanian publications go back to 1969 at earliest so even that could not be used as proof that Gjakova was even known a hunder years earlier. What is your recommendation here? Evlekis (Евлекис) (argue) 22:32, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I saw this edit and prepared a notice to him, but before I clicked on the Save page button I gave up because I realized that this massive Albanization of the English language place-names on wikipedia is done by numerous editors lately. It coincides with the actions of the Government of Kosovo to organize and award editors to use wikipedia to promote Kosovo government's political agenda. It is explained at this website and with this comment. I simply concluded that it is the real issue here and unless it is resolved there is a little point to deal with its consequences. I believe you are familiar with reality here so it would not be easy for you to conclude what are the chances to resolve the real issue anytime soon. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 23:07, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Certainly acts like an agent does our mutual friend. My only limitation however is 1RR, there are a few instances on that page and not all in modern Albanian either, there is the odd Serbian form which needs to revert to its Turkish title if we are describing events pre-1912. To be honest, I have been cleaning up these articles for years and I can safely say this is the first time I have faced opposition from a seasoned editor if we disclude my incorrect move of League of Peja and two similar examples. I'm not frightened of that lot and I don't care about conspiracies. So long as I edit I shall obide by the rules. If a lobby seriously believes it can promote Albanian names into widespread English, let them have a go at shifting WP:AT. I mean, the Kosovar Albanian nation shot themselves in the foot here when they decided to make Kosovo famous in 1998-1999 when names could only filter into English via Serbian/Serbo-Croat. The English speaking world knows Kosovo, not Kosova. Evlekis (Евлекис) (argue) 23:24, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * There are numerous wikiacademykosovo editors who violate wikipedia guidelines trying to circumvent the normal process of consensus regarding Kosovo place-names. Many of them appeared because of this campaign aimed to promote political Kosovo government's political agenda. Bobryner's editing pattern coincided with some of their edits. With all due respect, you alone can not deal with it, even if you would not be on 1RR. I believe that only attention of users who have been granted the technical ability to perform certain special actions on English Wikipedia could resolve it, although I am not very optimistic about it.
 * Per Naming conventions (geographic names): When a widely accepted English name, in a modern context, exists for a place, we should use it. This often will be a local name, or one of them; but not always. If the place does not exist anymore, or the article deals only with a place in a period when it held a different name, the widely accepted historical English name should be used. There are widely accepted English names in a modern context for all municipalities on Kosovo which are practically equal to the historical English names, except of some exceptions in case of Turkish language names. To promote a certain POV one can always find some sources using some other names but generally it would not be "widely accepted historical English name" per above guideline.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 09:03, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks AD. The guidelines you present only further strengthen my case here. I mean, what the hell is Gjakova?! Per WP:AT it is Đakovica and the historically accurate name for the 1869 period is Yakova. As for not being able to deal with something alone, you'll be surprised, there are ways of sniffing out dirty edits and so far I have been successful, more to the point, I have faced no challenge. Bobrayner would lose if it came to the crunch because his sources simply pertain to the point raised, naming conventon is a separate matter and if his sources are good enough to report Gjakova on an article then he need have no problem having the Đakovica article moved. But laying easter eggs and setting them at random the way the propagandists are doing is not going to help their case. Anyhow, in my opinion I don't think Bobrayner is a mercenary (he denies being Albanian so I take his word for it), I genuinely think he is just being his stubborn self and playing disruptive. Still, after 37,000 edits one must know that when messing about, there is only X-number of times one will get away with it. His is one of a handful of accounts I am watching closely, one fewer now User:Keithstanton has been confined to history. Cheers. Evlekis (Евлекис) (argue) 17:41, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Got one!. See? Always a way. That article is a shambles but I've straightened the naming issues along with each error the eye could catch. As I said, the presentation is diabolical and most of it is probably a load of crap anyhow but atleast if I get reverted, anyone will be able to see that the restored version is evidently substandard. Evlekis (Евлекис) (argue) 19:01, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

I agree with your position about attempts to change widely accepted historical English names. They rarely, if ever, correspond with Albanian language names from several very simple reasons:
 * 1) Many major toponyms on Kosovo existed before the end of 13th century when Albanian language was mentioned for the first time in history.
 * 2) Albanian language remained almost unused in written documents, sources and works composed before the beginning of the 20th century. It is not a surprise since its script was standardized only in 1908 at the Congress of Manastir.
 * 3) Many years after this congress many literate Albanians continued to write on Turkish language using Ottoman Turkish alphabet. Even the Albanian Declaration of Independence in 1912 had to be written on Turkish language in Ottoman Turkish alphabet also so its text could be readable for all of its signatories. It would be absurd to force 21st century wikipedia editors and readers to write Albanian language place-names if 19th century Albanian nationalists did not do it. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 00:23, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Correct, correct and correct. Point 2 is especially interesting, it completely slipped my mind but I knew this. Prior to 1908 Albanians did not even use the Roman alphabet if my knowledge serves me accurately. I actually know a young lady in Belgrade of Macedonian descent on her mother's side and whose great-grandfather lived in Bitola and played a role in the standardisation of Albanian. I can't use that here! But I atleast have first-hand knowledge on the 1908 event. Evlekis (Евлекис) (argue) 18:14, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Not quite correct regarding Latin alphabet:
 * starting from 15th century a couple of Catholic priests wrote several texts on Albanian language using Latin script.
 * at the end of 19th century a small circle of Albanian nationalists (led by Sami Frasheri) under influence of Austria-Hungary switched from Ottoman to Latin alphabet
 * Their works had no influence to widely accepted historical English names of place-names on Kosovo. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 19:57, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Albania
I have noticed that you reverted one of my edits regarding the inclusion of WikiProject Albania in an article regarding Kosovo. As you know, Kosovo is not territorially a part of Albania. It does seem rather hypocritical that the Wikipedia community would have Wikiproject Albania included here simply on the grounds that Albanians live in this location, while Republika Srpska locations are not included in Wikiproject Serbia. If the ethnic makeup of a location is the criteria for including a certain Wikiproject on that location's article, then by all means please explain to me why locations in Croatia, BiH and Montenegro with Serbian ethnic majorities don't have Wikiproject Serbia written on their talk pages. 23 editor (talk) 20:58, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

AN/I - Bobrayner
Hello AD, I have mentioned you several times in this latest case involving Bobrayner. If you have experienced anything not included, please provide details. It is time the admins saw the full scale of this editor's disruption within the ARBMAC field. Evlekis (Евлекис) (argue) 04:57, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

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Hisar
Hi Antidiskriminator, Hisar in the compound name Alacahisar (capital of Sanjak of Kruševac) means "fort" rather than "town". Cheers. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 14:21, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Rujm el-Hiri
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warning request
I know this is not the right page to turn to but ... i think User talk:Scrosby85 who already has his page fille dup with warnings, needs another serious warning for bad behaviour against me on talk page regarding his edit warring and unreasonable dissagrements on Serbs article; some of his bad behaviour words:

"I don't know are you blind or just slow?" ... "Do u get what i'm sayng?From this shitty link you are stating and lying all those people." ... (Правичност (talk) 23:55, 10 April 2013 (UTC))

Thanks for the answer, now is more clearly :)--Sokac121 (talk) 09:42, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

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M or m
Hi! First to congratulate you on excellent recent DYKs. As for the word "monastery", if it is part of the proper name of the building and the monastic comunity, I think it should be with the capital M. Checking Google Books: Donskoy Monastery, Strahov Monastery, Rila Monastery, Pantaleon Monastery, Ching-te Ch'an Monastery, etc. In some books, though, it's with m: a list of Athonite monasteries, Mar Saba monastery, Saint Anne-d'auray monastery, Dochariou monastery. I think we should be consistent and always use the (presumably more correct) capital M: Gračanica Monastery, Visoki Dečani Monastery, etc. That is, if someone doesn't come up with a good argument for the use of the lower case m. Vladimir  (talk) 14:35, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll agree to this. We'll have to start applying this to the Serbian Orthodox monasteries. Also, regarding churches, should it be "Church of St. X" or "St. X Church" (in case there is no preferred English name)? What do you think? I personally think "Church/Monastery of X" when the church building is known by its saint dedication and not location ("Monastery of the Holy Archangels" vs "Holy Archangels Monatery", "Church of St. Achillius" vs "St. Achillius Church").--Z oupan 19:38, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Its explained here. It is the same principle like with monasteries: "if it is part of the proper name of the building and the monastic comunity, I think it should be with the capital C". It is not always easy to conclude if the monastery or church are parts of the proper name or not.
 * Yes, List of Serbian Orthodox monasteries should be checked. I propose to request renaming of multiple pages (as explained here) to small m (or without monastery word?) the following articles on monasteries: Crna Reka Monastery, Ćelije Monastery, Gornjak Monastery, Gradac Monastery, Kalenić Monastery, Koporin Monastery, Kovilje Monastery, Ljubostinja Monastery, Mileševa Monastery, Poganovo Monastery and Pustinja Monastery. Any thoughts? --Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:33, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Good point, Zoupan. "Church/Monastery of St. X" should be used in most cases. "St X Church/Monastery" could be used in cases when such a name is common in English-lang literature. Antidiskriminator, "monastery" and "church" are part of the proper name of a building/community whenever these words are joined to the name of its location or saint dedication, or any other qualifier (like in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery and Stanford Memorial Church [featured articles]). So, all the examples you enumerated are proper names, and they should retain the capital M. All pages with the lower case m and c should be renamed to the capital M and C. Lukovo church should be renamed to Lukovo Church, Banjska monastery to Banjska Monastery, etc. Also I think that "Church" and "Monastery" should not be omitted from the titles of such articles. Vladimir  (talk) 11:53, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarification. In that case multiple m/c pages should be moved to "Church/Monastery of St. X" version unless another name is widely used by English sources. If I am right the list of such articles should be prepared? --Antidiskriminator (talk) 14:38, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * First the articles with "church" and "monastery" should be moved to "Church" and "Monastery". Then we could see which "St X Church/Monastery" to move to "Church/Monastery of St. X". For example, I would leave St. Mark's Church, Belgrade as it is, but I would move St. Basil of Ostrog Monastery to Monastery of St. Basil of Ostrog (the latter even gives more google search results), and St. Achillius Church, Arilje to Church of St. Achillius, Arilje. Those churches from Western Europe and USA should probably remain as they are (mostly in the "St X Church" format).


 * Articles for which "church" and "monastery" should be moved to "Church" and "Monastery": Pećinska church, Štava church, Lukovo church, Gračanica monastery, Visoki Dečani monastery, Bukovo monastery, Kalenić monastery, Manasija monastery, Mileševa monastery, Rača monastery, Studenica monastery, Zemun monastery, Ostrog monastery, Savina monastery (Montenegro), Dragović monastery, Krka monastery, and all articles in the Category:Monasteries on Fruška Gora (which should be moved to "Category:Monasteries of Fruška Gora"). Morača (monastery) to Morača Monastery. Maybe Uspenska church, Zrenjanin to Church of the Assumption, Zrenjanin. Vladimir  (talk) 19:32, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:25, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

I listed the ones at Category:Serbian Orthodox monasteries at Requested moves/Technical requests. See Talk:Bazjaš monastery.--Z oupan 23:10, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

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I must say I'm quite surprised, as I didn't expect that backlog - which was quite big - could be fixed so quickly...

I'm not that familiar with the inner dynamics of WP:Serbia, so it's not easy to say what I'd do next.

The project's main page is important. Looking at it, I'd say I'd try to make it more compact, while still keeping the full detail in subpages.

The project should perhaps consider reviving the Announcements section. It is a very important section, because it lets editors know about important things that are going on. The worst thing one can do is to create an impression that everything is stagnant and that nobody cares. Content-wise, there is actually very little one can do except motivate people to do more of what they would have done anyway, and, occasionally, to show them a new and better way of doing things. (A recent WP:CRO example: introduction of the six-item WP:BCLASS assessment checklist.)

Reviving the Collaboration of the Week also looks like a good idea to me. It needs to be prominently featured in the project's main page to attract attention. Needs at least half a dozen or so interested editors beforehand, otherwise it will probably fail to take off. GregorB (talk) 17:11, 10 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Not sure about redirect sorting - is that Redirect-class assessment or something else is the problem? GregorB (talk) 16:51, 11 May 2013 (UTC)


 * This is odd. The only conclusion I can reach is that this is actually the only Redirect-class article within the scope. Have you tried to add others to see if they would appear? GregorB (talk) 11:06, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay, I get it now. The only reason Building of Skadar was Redirect-Class is that an explicit category was added. WP Serbia template needed a tweak after all. Should be fine now: the category is still empty at the moment but will populate eventually. Individual pages (like Talk:Srbija) look fine now. GregorB (talk) 11:50, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

North Kosovo
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For once, everybody is agreed. remains identified by the ICMP using DNA analysis were handed over - at the administrative border between Serbia and Kosovo - to UNMIK by the Serbian Coordination Centre for Kosovo and Metohija.] Cajkan (talk) 19:32, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * UNHCR: The four Kosovo Serbs, including the Mayor of the town of Vitina, were arrested by Kosovo police as they tried to cross back into Kosovo at the Belja Zemlja administrative border between Serbia and Kosovo
 * UNMIK: We continue to call for increased surveillance of the administrative border, in order to put an end to the extremist activities there and to stop the traffic in illegal weapons.
 * Amnesty: [http://www.amnesty.org/ar/library/asset/EUR70/020/2003/en/20fd17be-facd-11dd-b531-99d31a1e99e4/eur700202003en.pdf On 8 May 2003, the first group of
 * VOA: Several thousand displaced ethnic Serbs and members of other minorities gathered at Kosovo's administrative border (Rudnice-Jarinja) to protest the U.N. plan and demand a return to their homes.
 * Helsinki Committee: The police check-points at the administrative border with Kosovo as well as houses of Serb civilians were targets of artillery attacks launched from the territory of Kosovo, mainly from Podujevo municipality.
 * CNN: Elsewhere in Kosovo, NATO peacekeeping forces seized an arsenal of weapons along the administrative border with Serbia.

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Yes former...
Yes he was the former because the Bolsheviks took over and therefore Azerbaijan lost its independence. Proudbolsahye (talk) 21:21, 26 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Well it makes more of an impact for the hook because killing someone of such high rank as a Prime Minister is eye catchy for a reader. Proudbolsahye (talk) 21:26, 26 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Addressed your concerns at DYK page. Proudbolsahye (talk) 21:48, 26 May 2013 (UTC)


 * The massacres were in Baku and not in the Ottoman Empire. Don't get mixed up with the Armenian Genocide. These events were separate incidents done by two different governments. It was conducted by the nationalist Musavat with Prime Minister Khan Khoiski at its head. 30,000 Armenians were massacred in Baku. No justice was reprimanded until Yerganian and the Operation Nemesis team decided to assassinate the Prime Minister. Also, the Interior Minister of Azerbaijan, Behbud Khan Javanshir, was also assassinated by an Armenian avenger for the very same reason. Proudbolsahye (talk) 22:58, 26 May 2013 (UTC)


 * How about I change the hook to...that Armenian avenger Aram Yerganian assassinated the former Prime Minister of Azerbaijan for his alleged role in massacres against Armenians? A lot more neutral and in the end that is what it entirely was. Proudbolsahye (talk) 07:09, 27 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Okay hook and article will be changed. I don't think people care about WHEN or WHERE it happened. They just like the...BAM BAM BAM! part :D Proudbolsahye (talk) 07:20, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

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Why don't you try to have some fundamental trust in me, I've been editing for quite a while, instead of writing unbalanced edit summaries where you accuse me of having removed sourced content (which I had, awkwardly enough, originally added myself?!). I don't think the full quote fits because it introduces theories either refuted or still unsuitable for the depth of the article, but I've decided to keep it as to get you off my back. It is just a quotation after all. Try to have a look at the edit summary next time. Additionally, knowing you from earlier, the reason you want to preserve the full quote is obvious: because it mentions the Orthodox population in turn appealing to your personal opinion on the Bosniaks as "Orthodox Serbs". May I then remind you that Orthodoxy was roughly limited to Herzegovina prior to the Ottomans, and would make its way into Bosnia only during the subsequent centuries. In fact, the Islamization of Bosnia was largely complete by the end of the 16th century, whereas Orthodoxy became prevalent only later. Masarechi's account on the Orthodox is limited to Herzegovina and southeastern Bosnia and, and I will expand the article on this in due time. I just don't like to see you abusing the source, if yet only mentally. :) Praxis Icosahedron  ϡ ( TALK ) 17:39, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

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