User talk:Igrek

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Vital articles
Have you checked out the discussions on the size and scope of the Vital article projects we're having at Wikipedia talk:Vital articles, Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Expanded and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vital Articles? Since you once were one of the most prolific editors in that area, your thoughts would be appreciated p  b  p  14:13, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for invitation. I have plan to make new version of m:List of articles every Wikipedia should have (I work with my version now) and then to start work with Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Expanded. --Igrek (talk) 10:47, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Igrek, I am very appreciative of your input in the vital articles discussion's, you have proposed many good new ideas. I would urge you to look also at the previous proposals for adds, removals and swaps. I know there are loads but we have so few users taking part, it would be great to get another user's opinions on the existing discussions. If you support or oppose any of the proposals it would be great for us to know. Carlwev (talk) 23:06, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * OK. --Igrek (talk) 19:36, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Vital Articles/Expanded
Greetings, Igrek. I am glad to see the interest that you are taking in the Vital Articles lists again. The project really needs the participation of educated, well-read and literate editors, with eclectic interests, such as yourself. By necessity, we must remove more VA/E list topics than we add for the time being, because the VA/E list currently exceeds its limit of 10,000 articles by over 300 topics. It would be helpful if you could scour the various sublists for lower-priority topics that are likely candidates for removal. Until we get the total under 10,000 again, the easiest way to add new higher-priority subjects to the list is to propose a swap with a specific lower-priority subject that is a likely candidate for removal. Regards, Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:12, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Greetings, Dirtlawyer1. What do you mean by "scour the various sublists for lower-priority topics that are likely candidates for removal"? --Igrek (talk) 11:24, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Igrek, the VA/E list is currently 300+ articles over its limit of 10,000 articles. Our first goal is to identify and remove 300 lower-priority (less vital?) articles currently on the list.  That involves going through all of the 12 component sublists and identifying those articles that are likely candidates to be removed, and proposing them for removal at the main VA/E talk page.  I identified about 30 yesterday and posted them for discussion, but that's obviously just a start.  I think we have something like 50 or so pending removals at the talk page; that's only about 20% of what needs to be removed.  The 12 component lists for the Vital Articles/Expanded project are linked here.  11:57, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
 * We all are doing it. For my opinion, we must close old discussion before starting new 300-600 discussions. I want to check of the sublists size by program and to start discussion about size of each sublist before new discussions.--Igrek (talk) 12:26, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I was not suggesting we should have 300+ open topic discussions at the same time!  It's already like herding cats to keep the discussion relatively organized.  LOL  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:15, 20 May 2013 (UTC)