User talk:Peterkecs

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 * Thank you for creating the article. Hope to see you do many more edits on Wikipedia. Kind regards.Calaka (talk) 04:47, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you Calaka for the welcome note and for the improvements. I plan to add more edits/new articles.Peterkecs (talk) 20:09, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Not a problem at all! If you need any help, don't hesitate to ask (either on my talk page or anyone else for that matter, we are all more than happy to help). Furthermore, if you run out of articles to add to Wikipedia, we got a whole list of articles that need to be added. If you want the link of this list, just let me know. Cheers.Calaka (talk) 09:02, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Bio articles
Hey there. The articles you created are great! My only small suggestion would be to add more references (re: the first you created) and once you do, you might need to add footnotes within the article. But as they stand they are fine and you are more than welcome to keep creating articles! Keep up the great work!
 * You might also want to consider adding an infobox, see for more details. Calaka (talk) 09:13, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Note on citation
Hello. Let me say that you've been making some very good contributions here. However, let me also encourage you to cite sources! After adding in details (or in new articles), be sure to put in, at least once per paragraph, informing the reader of the precise source for the information. And good luck going forward. - Biruitorul Talk 17:46, 24 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Allow me to echo Biruitorul's encouragements, and to join him in urging you to cite the sources you use, using any format you feel comfortable with. This not only has the advantage of "cementing" the info you provide, but it also allows others to compare or back info if they should chose to edit the articles further. To give you an example: after reading the Alexandru Iacob article (which was, by all accounts, an extraordinary contribution from a new editor), I wanted to see if I could help expand it here and there. At the moment, I am looking into two very interesting sources, one of which (Vladimir Tismăneanu) backs details already in the text, the other (Iacob's friend G. Brătescu) furnishing some detail on the lesser known aspects of his life. It would however be exceptionally awkward to detail those sources around an article that currently cites nothing - in the sense that it does not use notes and page numbers. Particularly since most bio details on people like Iacob etc. are bound to be relatively obscure, and most sources I can see myself adding can't possibly verify everything about what's already in the text - whereas, I am to understand, your sources do. It would be very helpful if you would consider taking the time to detail what is verified by the sources you used and where. There really isn't any rush in doing this, but some improvement in this area is needed if these articles are to move forward.
 * Thank you, and kudos. Dahn (talk) 20:02, 25 June 2009 (UTC)


 * One more thing. The practice on wikipedia is to render Hungarian names too as "personal name-family name", in cases where they are article titles or are casually referred to in the text. The one exception I can think of is exactly the one in, say, Alexandru Iacob - I left the one mention as "Jakab Sándor" instead of "Sándor Jakab" because it seems like an ad literam rendition of his birth name, order included. For cases where the Hungarian simply is the Hungarian name, and the native name can't be reflected otherwise, one could go with the system used for instance by György Frunda - note the caption template at the top of the article ("The native form..."). Dahn (talk) 20:45, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello again. Unfortunately, wikipedia has some strict guidelines, as outlined by WP:OR, WP:V, WP:RS and WP:ATTR. The sources do need to be published in order to be cited. Are you sure there isn't harder evidence for this? For instance, you provided a reference to Hodos: how much of the text is validated by it?

I'm afraid that, unless the info does turn out to be published by a reliable source (peer-reviewed etc.), the info would sooner or later have to be reduced to what is verifiable from such sources, and perhaps reworked starting there. As I have said, some of the info in one of the articles can be verified by sources I have handy, but it should take much more than that. Dahn (talk) 23:50, 28 June 2009 (UTC)