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Hello!
Thank you for your contributions on Talk:Arvanites. If you need any help when dealing with Greek nationalism, don't hesitate to ask me. I'm very experienced. There is nothing they can throw at you that I have not yet seen. Just remember, they never have any sources, so the are always in violation of Wikipedia policy. REX 16:07, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Bomac, I wouldn't attack Greece unjustifiably. I know it has its dreadful points, but lets not be unfair. I know that in your country you probably don't think highly of Greece, probably because of that trade embargo (which I happen to think was unnecessary and malicious), but let's not get carried away. Moderation is a virtue, something that Greek extremists and Al-Qaida lack, but so do Macedonian, Albanian, British and Turkish extremists. REX 20:49, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Welcome Note
Hello Bomac, I didn’t really want you leave this message on your talk page because I wanted to avoid Theathenae prying through it and coming up with racist comments (as usual) but as you have provided no e-mail address so that I can contact you through the website, I didn’t have a choice. I think that I should give you the briefing on the dispute that “everyone” has with the Greek nationalists. These are the universal truths in these circumstances whatever the Greek extremists may say: the Greek extremists NEVER have any sources; they will just imagine one and keep talking about it. What I (and certain other users, such as FlavrSavr, GrandfatherJoe, Zocky, Macedonian etc) are seeking to achieve is to reduce the influence of Greek nationalists on Wikipedia. In other words to make many articles, such as “Macedonian Slavs”, “Republic of Macedonia”, “Arvanites” etc use phrasings that can be found in numerous sources such as UNESCO Reports, the Helsinki Human Rights Reports, Ethnologue and various encyclopaedias, most notably the “Britannica Encyclopaedia”. Everything the Greek nationalists want to do is to “change” the meanings of the words so as to make them promote Greek nationalists ideas. The Greek nationalists never have sources, so the obvious thing to do is to keep asking for them. Just know that if the Greek nationalists start being rude, then you’re winning because they are feeling uncomfortable. I’m assuming that you’re over 18 because you should be prepared that Chronographos (another Greek extremist) will be making some very personal and improper comments about you and you should just ignore them. He is trying to distract you. If you are under 16, then you should seek permission from your parents before participating in Wikipedia; although I can certify that Wikipedia is perfectly safe, I must emphasise that as always when on the Internet, don’t trust anyone, EVER. I sincerely hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia and participating in its discussions. Again, welcome! REX 22:03, 30 September 2005 (UTC) Note: This is not a hate note. Reasonably moderate centrist Greeks are great people. I have nothing against Greece. Only against the nationalists who seek to deny people their identity. REX 22:28, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

But ofcourse I have nothing against Greece. You just can't generalise things - not everyone in Greece is like, for example, Theathenae. Just like you, I'm highly against the violent greek nationalism and I don't want it to interfere in wikipedia. Bomac 10:31, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

So we can agree that we are all of the same mind. Good. You know that Mediation is on the cards for Talk:Macedonian Slavs, let's hope that it passes. Theathenae has indicated that he doesn't want Mediation. Obviously this is due to the fact that he has no sources. Aha! He has been caught out. REX 10:47, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Hey Bomac, have you ever seen the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding? REX 14:59, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Yeah :-)))))) But in this case, it's more like The big fat Greek extremism (or, in other words nationalism and propaganda- spreadingnessss...). By the way, the series of the film that followed, were not so succesfull anyway :-) Bomac 18:50, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Bomac perspective
You are such an actor and a sockpuppet master! I admire you, honestly. You really should go to Hollywood, because everybody want's in Hollywood! Bomac 22:19, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I have to let you know, that while I still have few hesitations to report REX's personal attacks, I want hesitate one minute to report your personal attacks, so don't tempt me. +MATIA &#9742; 22:50, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

warning
Well, look what you got here. Interesting stuff. If I ever see you again attacking me or using labels like Greek extremism I'll report you a.s.a.p. Have a nice day. +MATIA &#9742; 22:53, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Calling me mad or labeling me (or others) as greek extremists is against the official NPA policy. You have been warned. PS you really should mentioned where you copied your user page from. +MATIA &#9742; 11:39, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

about your explanation
I have my opinion and other people may have their opinion. Talking about it, or disagreeing, or proving with facts what is true and what is not, has nothing to do with "violent extremism". Was Aristotle, Diogenes and other philosophers who argued about various issues, extremists when they prooved that someone or some argument is false? I thought that was called dialogue. I told you before that labeling other people is against WP:NPA.

Your user page and that user page have many similarities. You could perhaps (as I've mentioned before) leave a note on your page stating how you got inspired.

I hope that answered your questions. +MATIA &#9742; 13:20, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

What I meant (you can read again my previous comment) is that if you talk, disagree, or prove that someone is wrong, it is called dialogue not extremism. Labeling other people doesn't help the process of any dialogue. Dialogue is the foundation of Democracy. +MATIA &#9742; 13:41, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

MATIA's bluffs
Bomac, don't worry about MATIA's empty threats. If you read Blocking policy you will see that personal attacks of any variety, especially of the variety that MATIA often makes against me, are not on their own justifiable cause for blocking. MATIA is bluffing, as usual. It is like when he pretends to have sources while in reality he doesn't :-) MATIA just likes to violate basic Human Rights such as the freedom of expression, the right to privacy, the right to a nationality etc. REX 18:14, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

MATIA is a synonym for bluffing :-) Bomac 18:16, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Bomac, a word of caution though. Don't keep on attacking Greek extremists on their talk pages. While you can't be blocked for it it is not appropriate and an administrator might have to have a word with you about it. Limit your telling them what you think until provoked. REX 18:30, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

OK. By the way, that was all I wanted to say to Theathenae :-) Bomac 18:32, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

3RR
Bomac, don't edit the Macedonian Slavs article again or you will be blocked under Blocking policy. REX 19:05, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

But, Theathenae erased the image and the number of Macedonians in Greece! Bomac 19:07, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

I know, I'll report him for vandalism. Don't edit Talk:Macedonian Slavs] again for today. You are allowed only three reverts every 24 hours or you are blocked. I'll fix the Macedonian Slavs page. REX 19:21, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Miskin, it's none of our buisness how many Slavic-speaking Macedonians there are in Greece. Ethnologue clearly states the figures. REX 10:17, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Macedonians in Greece

 * Do you have any idea why Greek nationalists try to pretend that the number of Macedonians in Greece is unknown? They, like the Greek government are in denial. Ehnologue clearly states the number of them in every country and they choose not to believe it. REX 10:40, 4 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Hello, I see that there is still a lot of Greek POV on Wikipedia. REX 14:14, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

There is a LOT of Greek POV pushing here. I wonder when it stops? :-) Bomac 14:17, 4 October 2005 (UTC)


 * What is interesting is that they never have any sources. That is how all extremists function, POV pushing :-))))) REX 14:20, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Page move
Bomac, you moved Macedonian Slavs to Macedonian Slavs (Macedonians). You can't arbitrarily do that without first leaving a notice on the talk page and gaining some support. I know that you're new and that you're not familiar with the way things work here, but you shouldn't do that. Also, if someone moves it back, don't move it again without reasonable support as that it against Wikipedia policy. I know it's hard, especially when hard-line extremists are involved who never listen, but there is very little you can do about it except talk. If there were a way around it, believe me, Wikipedia would be NPOV now. REX 15:44, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree with REX. Bomac, please don't see our comments as an attempt to patronize you ("you are a new user" etc.). It is a fact that you a relatively new user, and it is normal that you'll be doing erroneus moves. Page moves are a big deal. I am sure that you acted in good faith, but your move was a wrong thing to do, because of several reasons. First of all, because of the reasons stated by REX, you can't do that before gaining some support. It is my firm belief (I'm into this dispute for several months), that all we need to do is attracting neutral observation of this naming dispute - it will take a while, but I believe that they will do that move, eventually. Every other arbitrary move would start an edit war. Second, I don't see how the Macedonian Slavs (Macedonians) does any good in resolving the naming conflict. It can be only a temporary alternative for the name of the article, only. Wikipedia can use either Macedonians or Macedonian Slavs, within texts. There are cases where Macedonian Slavs can be used, as well - in a historical context. When disambiguation is needed, we can use, "ethnic Macedonians", "Macedonian speaking Macedonians", "Slavic speaking Macedonians" etc.

I reccomend that you read these policies entirely: NPOV, Naming conflict (especially the part How to deal with self identifying names) for the naming dispute. Also, I reccomend that you read the No personal attacks policy. It is a bad thing that you go to user talk pages and personally attack them, even if you believe that the attack is justified. If somebody does a personal attack on you, require his apology or report him. Responding to personal attacks on user talk pages leads you nowhere - you definitely won't change Theathenae's mind if you personally attack her (him), and you'll do a bad thing for your reputation as a serious Wikipedia editor. Again, please accept these advices, they are definitely given for good reasons. Best regards. --FlavrSavr 16:29, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

a question
On the relevant wiki it says that: "The Macedonian language is most closely related to the Bulgarian language. Macedonian also has similarities with Serbian, particularly Old Serbian. Bulgarian and Macedonian share typological similarities with Romanian, Greek, and Albanian". Yet we don't call it bulgarian dialect, nor the article name is macedonian-serbian-bulgarian language. And while I disagree with the term macedonia, I agree and I believe MK (or sil:mkl) should be called a language. Do you think we should call Arvanitika as Arvanitika Albanian, if Arvanitika share a common origin with modern Tosk? +MATIA &#9742; 16:13, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't because UNESCO, Britannica and Ethnologue appear to disagree with that and all call Arvanitika a dialect of Albanian. Who should we believe? Them or MATIA? I think I'll believe the linguists and not the amateur encyclopaedia editor who seem to think that he can POV push just because he feels like it. MATIA, any luck finding sources yet? :-)REX 16:54, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Now either REX is the representantive of Bomac or what? Doesn't Bomac have an opinion? And what is REX doing here? (apart from answering). Could this be wikistalking? +MATIA &#9742; 17:42, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Why shouldn't I express my opinion? You only want to hear Bomac's? Bomac and I seem to be of the same mind most of the time and we are good friends. We both recognise the damage Greek nationalism is doing to Wikipedia. And to answer your other question, it's not wikistalking; I just have Bomac's talk page on my Watchlist like you have mine on yours, MATIA. I just happened to notice the question and I wanted to express my NPOV views as well. You gotta problem with that? REX 18:45, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

MATIA, I think that you are confused again about something that exist somewhere (maybe not in your country) and it is REALITY (Macedonia). I don't understand you: country name - something that doesn't contains the word Macedonia or with some stupid additions, and language that is spoken in this country - Macedonian. I think that this is a clear paradox.

Every Slavic language has similarities with eachother. If you are going in direction to say that Macedonian is Bulgarian (or Bulgarian dialect), first compare Bulgarian and Russian (including their letters).

About Arvanitika, I choose to trust the various linguists, because I believe they are the experts about that question.

Best regards, Bomac 18:41, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Macedonian Slavs
Can someone PLEASE do something about the pictures and the No. of Macedonians in Greece, because if I do something... Bomac 18:45, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Bomac, could you please click on preferences in between my watchlist and my talk at the top of the screen and enter your e-mail. I would like to give you some confidential information about the Greek extr*mists who think that they know everything. REX 18:50, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

3RR no 2
Bomac, don't edit the Macedonian Slavs article again for the next 24 hours, or you will be blocked under Blocking policy. REX 14:22, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Bomac, I mean it, don't edit Macedonian Slavs again for the next 24 hours. You are out on a limb here and you will be blocked if you revert again. I'll fix the article. REX 14:43, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

OK, OK already. I know that and I won't do that. Bomac 14:50, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I'll fix it soon and User:Ninio will be blocked for 24 hours because he did violate the three revert rule. REX 15:05, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree. Bomac 15:08, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

REX, I insist when you rvt. vandalism on Macedonian Slavs, to put the image. Maybe someone thinks that those people are not Macedonians, but most of them, in fact, are. Bomac 15:31, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Bomac, that picture seems to be very controversial. Can you think of anyone to replace Samuil and Cyril with? If you can, do tell me so that we can change the picture and get this thing over with. REX 15:43, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Trust me, they have propaganda for everyone... Other person, very important for Macedonia is Goce Delchev. But then the Bulgarians will uprise... Funny isn't it? Bomac 16:02, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Bomac, you allowed to revert Macedonian Slavs only one more time. After that don't do it again, or you will be blocked. I'm sorry that I am always reminding you of this, but better be safe than sorry. REX 18:56, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Macedonian Slavs
Macedonian Slavs has been temporarily protected from editing. However, you can still discuss the article on the talk page. I urge you to please work out the dispute, using the dispute resolution process. Thanks. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 16:10, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Hey Bomac, isn't it nice that they locked our (the true) version in :-)))) REX 17:05, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I am enjoying very much about that. Bomac 19:42, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Pictures again
Bomac, I think that maybe we should change the pictures again. Tell me, can you think of anyone to replace Cyril with? Those nationalists will obviously not give up and this is tedious. If they persist in removing th pircures, just let them, don't revert them. Let's focus on the naming issue for now. I'd rather have the page called Macedonians (ethnicity) and not have the pictures than the other way round. REX 16:59, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, there aren't Macedonians from Mars you know :-) I think is enough with what we do. It's their turn. We've done enough. Bomac 17:01, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Or maybe Alexander the Great, but you may think of the future situations....baaahhh...... Bomac 17:08, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

I took your advice Bomac. Check the page now and tell me what you think :-))) REX 17:33, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, very good. Just wait for the Greek reactions now and watch and learn:-) Anyway I don't think that the picture is a joke, it's reality:-) ! Bomac 17:37, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Page Move 2
Hey Bomac, nice move on Macedonians (ethnicity). REX 14:22, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Yeap. Let's hope that the Greeks & company will not make that page disputed again. Bomac 14:25, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I am. Read my personal page for more info about me. HolyRomanEmperor 20:42, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Bomac, don't edit Macedonia (Slav) again for the next 12 hours or you will be blocked for violating the WP:3RR. Chronographos can't eit either. REX 14:05, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Bomac, please check your e-mail :-) REX 17:54, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Check
Please check your e-mail. REX 08:21, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Hey Bomac, Faleminderit! :-) REX 11:36, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Ah, it was nothing :-) Bomac 11:39, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

What do you think about the Macedonians (ethnicity) talk page. Did I give a clue or two? HolyRomanEmperor 16:26, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Do you agree? HolyRomanEmperor 17:30, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

An analogy to counter what I had said previously about Serbs in Croatia; so that I can speak all-sided (it is my personal belief that nations, actually, don't exist; for more info about this look at my personal page) The only reason that I sometime resort to this nationalism (that means nothing to me) is to fight against it :)) HolyRomanEmperor 19:45, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

response from +MATIA
It can be your choice not to trust me. And we can agree to disagree. But you must also try to understand me, as I try to understand you.

If you start reading from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonians_%28ethnic_group%29#POV_and_inaccurate till the buttom, or if you read the comments by people from Greece and RoM during the poll, you'll understand that there are things to be solved. I believe in fair-play. I've told to FlavrSavr, to go for an RFC or a Mediation back in August. How can you believe that I'm against mediation since I did that proposal? I told those 2 users who are highly involved in the open ArbCom case with me, that I did that proposal on FlavrSavr. But even FlavrSavr seems to have forgotten it. It's here read it with your eyes "I think both mediation and RfC should be done".

You (19 October 2005) have written in a edit summary "there is no need of stressing "Slav", because we all know that these people are Slavs (The same goes for languag.)" I agree with that. But an article which avoids any occurance of those terms is POV and inaccurate. And the inaccurate part of the tag, cannot go away because we don't like it. On Talk:Macedonian_Slavs/Poll there are many information that are missing from the article, for example: "the name of their choise at the beginning of their revolutionary struggle in 1943. The Slav-Macedonian National Liberation Front (Slavjano-Makedonski Narodno Osloboditelen Front, or SNOF) and its military arm, the Slav-Macedonian National Liberation Army (Slavjano-Makedonska Narodno Osloboditelna Vojska, or SNOV)."

You may disagree with me, and you may even dislike me, but that doesn't mean that everything I say is wrong. Don't let anyone mislead you.

Take care. +MATIA &#9742; 21:30, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Hello???

assistence reqiured: Ivo Andric Look at the talk page. It is about whether he concidered himself a Serb or not. HolyRomanEmperor 16:53, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Rudjer Boskovic appeared on every single kuna bill in 1991-94. He is Catholic, was born in the Republic of Dubrovnik, a Serb-Italian, and some sources call him a Croat. What should we do? HolyRomanEmperor 16:57, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

And help me find information about a certain von Czoernig (I think Karl von Czoernig, but I could be wrong). HolyRomanEmperor 17:00, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

There were many nationalist wars over those two, and I really want to finish the discussion; that's what's the problem. If we could find some concrete claims, we could stop the endless wars over there. HolyRomanEmperor 16:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Karl von Czoernig speaks about detailed demographics of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Some people had claimed that Croats lived in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a majority; some that Serbs lived mostly in Slavonia and Dalmatia. As I said, I want to state strong arguements and proofs so that there would be no more guessing on these matters. Do you understand me? HolyRomanEmperor 16:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

My sole interest is because I drew the line of Ljudevit Gaj, that he adopted Serbdom during his reforms, but I was seen only as a Greater Serbian propaganda spreader, a racist and a fascist; because those users claim that Dubrovnik accent became the basis of the Croatian language. But Karl von Czoernig, claims that the Dubrovnik people are an indiginous people related to Serbs (this is how he explains why he listed them among Serbs) HolyRomanEmperor 17:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

What did I do to insult REX? He ignored all my posts. I am starting to think that he misunderstood me in some way... HolyRomanEmperor 13:30, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

3RR
Hi Bomac, Do NOT revert Macedonians (ethnic group) again for the next 12 hours or you will be blocked. See WP:3RR. I'll keep an eye on the article for now. REX 09:59, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Miskin's Paragraph
Bomac, I'd like you to not remove Miskin's paragraph: ''This article is about the Slavic ethnic group that adopted the name "Macedonians" in the 20th century. For information on the unrelated, ancient Macedonian civilisation see Macedon and for the greater modern region of Macedonia, see Macedonia (region).'' He has explained to me that now that the article is called Macedonians (ethnic group), a specific qualifier is needed to avoid confusion with the Ancient Macedonians. As they are allowing us to keep the article at Macedonians (ethnic group) we have to give them something (consideration). REX 22:40, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

FYROM denar
Could you please vote at Talk:FYROM denar if the article FYROM denar should be renamed Macedonian denar. GrandfatherJoe (talk &bull; contribs) 14:24, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Signature
Hi, click here and copy-paste

Bomac(talk)

into the Nickname box and check the Raw signatures (without automatic link; please don't use templates for this) box. Then click on Save. If you do that, your signature will become Bomac(talk) Nice, huh? (Note that the Bold talk is like that just because it is on your talk page, elswhere it woudn't be like that) Please leave a message on my talk page and sign it so that I can see if it works. REX 23:09, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Bomac, I see mk:Корисник:Boyan has been active, very very active. Well done :-) Rex(talk) 19:55, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Theathenae
User Theathenae is spreading Greek propaganda in expense of the Albanians and Macedonians. . Can you protect the articles Theathenae is vandalizing through reviewing and editing them. Many thanks in advance! --Albanau 09:39, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Albanau
FYI, User:Albanau is banned for life on Swedish Wikipedia, see e.g. sv:Användardiskussion:Albanau and sv:Wikipedia:Begäran om kommentarer/Albanau. He has abused several users on sv: and has been banned indefinitely. Probert 09:55, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Votes needed
There is a poll going on at Talk:Arvanitic language to move Arvanitic language to Arvanitic (linguistics), to reflect the fact that its status as a language or dialect is disputed. This is done in all other similar cases (Flemish (linguistics), Mandarin (linguistics) etc). Please vote support if you support the move. Rex(talk) 15:47, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your vote! Rex(talk) 23:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

These's another vote on at the bottom of Talk:Arvaniticlanguage, please vote. Rex(talk) 15:10, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Urgent votes needed
Hello, there is another vote going on at Talk:Arvanitic language. I'd recommend Arvanitic as it is the English name, it does not prescribe whether it is a dialect or not (it also doesn't offend anyone) and above all, it is only 9 letters long (very easy to type in an address bar) and very easy to link to. Rex(talk) 19:19, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Moving pages for POV reasons
Please do not move pages for POV reasons, as you just did with the three provinces of Greek Macedonia. The article names properly reflect the names of the provinces. They are not a POV issue on Wikipedia, any more than the name of Republic of Macedonia should be. Please see Naming conflict for the policy on the subject. -- ChrisO 22:41, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

From Macedonian
Check out the comments that I added as an answer to your comments at my talk page. Macedonian(talk) 05:37, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

an idea
In that case, if you want to have a category only for newspapers from your country rename the category accordingly. I don't have any problem with your people and your thanks are welcome. Please keep in mind that I have a problem with seeing Greeks being called far-right-etc or nationalists, while they aren't. Take care. +MATIA &#9742; 20:16, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

I removed "Macedonian Sun (magazine)" from "Macedonia (disambiguation)" and I hope you agree with that change. +MATIA &#9742; 15:22, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

votes needed Montenegrin language HolyRomanEmperor 13:02, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

votes needed Montenegrin language HolyRomanEmperor 13:02, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Zdravo
Hello, how have you been? Rex(talk) 11:46, 18 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Zdravo, Rex. I'm fine thank you. I was absent because of... er... computer reasons :-) How are you? BTW, I see that I didn't missed so much. On the other hand, MATIA is on his wikibreak etc... ;-) Bomac 11:53, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Florina
Hello, I saw that you actually were in Florina. I have been thee once, long time ago, we were just passing. I have been travelling across the R. of Macedonia many times when it was still Yugoslavia. That time we took an alternate route, travelling from Germany to Athens via Skopje-Bitola-Florina-Kastoria.

I wonder whether you met any slavic-speaking Bulgarians in Florina. (Read the article carefully to see what I mean). Andreas 20:07, 18 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Nope, I've met pure Macedonians in Lerin. They were talking the same language as I do - macedonian. That what you mean is disputed, so actually I can't believe in something that is disputed.

BTW, I've also met Macedonians in Voden (Воден), Ber (Бер), Кожани, Negush (Негуш), Драма, Серез, Кавала, Solun (Солун) etc. Bomac 20:28, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * If you read the talk page you will see that I am the one who disputes this. In fact, the idea that the macedionian-speaking population in the Greek part of Madedonia are Bulgarians is one of the myths many Greeks believe in, in the same way that they believe that their language has been pronounced the same way for millenia (see Ancient Greek pronunciation and Talk:Ancient Greek pronunciation. Andreas 00:20, 19 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah, Greeks are full of myths, aren't they? :-) In the end, they'l create a myth that the whole world is Greek :-)

Of course Macedonians are not Bulgarians. I think that this propaganda that Greeks, Bulgarians etc. made is a bit of annoying.

Sorry for the upper missunderstanding, friend. Bomac 12:30, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

I remember that once during our frequent childhood travels from Greece to Germany by train, there were two men sitting face to face to each other. Both were reading a newspaper. At some point, one of them looked up and saw on the front page of the paper in his fellow's hands the word: ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ. When the other passenger looked up, he could read the word МАКЕДОНИЈА. The two men looked at each other with a friendly smile. Andreas 15:11, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Spurious editing
I just wanted to tell you that there are edits going on like removing Macedonian names from Greek towns, adding FY to RM etc. They are done from changing IP numbers, each change done with a separate IP number. Check Florina, Drama, Greece. Andreas 16:35, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Just thought you should check up on "Macedonian" history. During the 1910s -1940s so-called "macedonian" people living in Serbia/Yugoslavia considered themselves Bulgarians, and even had demonstrations etc to that effect. Tito invented "Macedonianism" in the 1940s and forced it on the Bulgarians living in Yugoslavia. It was recognized at the time as an obvious attempt to grab Greek and Bulgarian land and justify the Serbo-Croats' control over "Macedonia". During the 1940s to at least the 1960s there were massive demonstrations/riots in "Macedonia" by people who demnded that they were ehtnically/linguistically/culturally etc Bulgarian and not Macedonian (by which they meant 'Greek'). Thus the parents/grandparents/great-grandparents of today's "Macedonians" fought tooth and nail to be recognized as Bulgarian, yet today's generation claim to be Macedonian. Also the "Macedonian language" exists only from the 1940s onwards, before that it was identical to Bulgarian, because it was Bulgarian. Rewriting history doesn't change the truth.


 * Dear annonymous, Tito did not invent something that you call "macedonianism". Tito released the macedonian people from the repressions from the neighbouring countries towards the Macedonians and from their struggle who to take Macedonia first. The Bulgarians and Greeks were punishing everyone who will say a macedonian word (dialect), and not to talk about someone stating himself as a Macedonian. Obviously, that struggle continues today. I think that the propaganda that these countries spread is weakening. It will dissapear some day.

Please, stop telling me about how Macedonian ancestors were calling themselves, 'caus my ancestors (my grandfather, grand-grandfather) were and always will be Macedonians (they've told me that in four-eyes). Regards. Bomac 12:34, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Use of "vandalism" in edit summaries
Hi. It may be appropriate for you to refresh your familiarity with Vandalism. In this edit summary you refer to your removal of an ungrammatical tense change as "revert vandalism". Poor grammar, while not something that we want in Wikipedia, does not fit our definition of vandalism, and calling it that could easily upset a new contributor. Thanks for considering it. Jkelly 17:43, 2 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, quite confusing, isn't it? OK, I'll try not to write like that. Regards. Bomac 17:55, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Macedonia (disambiguation)
When you revert my edit without explanation, it makes me angry. Forget about that. The point is that I was following the style guidelines and was reverted without explanation. Do you feel that is playing nicely with others? Please use Talk:Macedonia (disambiguation) to explain. Thank you. Tedernst | talk 23:13, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Minnesota
Hey thanks for the article on Minnesota! -Ravedave 02:39, 6 December 2005 (UTC)