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September 2013
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FAC
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Frederick Russell Burnham -- Born on a Sioux Indian reservation in Minnesota in 1861, he moved to the American Southwest and learned scouting from some of the last of the old cowboys and frontiersmen. After the American frontier closed, Burnham moved to Africa, became Chief of Scouts and a major in British Army, taught scouting to Robert Baden-Powell (founder of the Scouting movement), and was decorated for his heroism by King Edward VII without ever giving up his U.S. citizenship.

I hope you you enjoy the article and we could really use your comments. Please take a look at Burnham's FAC and post a your comments. The article now has four supporters and one opposed. The one person who opposed the FAC refuses to provide any actionable items that we can work on and she also refuses to remove her opposed. If you have any suggestions for improving the article, please post your ideas to Burnham's FAC and I will be happy to get to work on your comments promptly. Thanks! Ctatkinson (talk) 10:45, 18 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your helpful insights on the FAC. I'll be working on the issues you raised later today. Ctatkinson (talk) 13:38, 19 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I believe I have addressed your observations with the article. If you have any further ideas, please post to Burnham's FAC.  Thanks for your help. Ctatkinson (talk) 23:42, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikistress
Helo again, Two months ago you were doing a survey of very active contributors so that the reasons for editors to reduce their contributions could be better understood. I had been lucky enough to contribute without running into controversy and the stress which accompanies it until the last fortnight when one of the articles I have made many contributions to in the past has been taken over by two editors who think they have the right to treat other editors with contempt.Since you have been doing some research on this type of situation perhaps you have some advice to give about this.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 22:29, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your advice; part way through this dispute I resigned from the whole WikiProject and am unlikely to contribute to it again. I have probably been lucky to have been contributing for so long without getting into a dispute like this. --Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 12:16, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXXXX, September 2013
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Wikicup
Sorry I've been a bit slow on helping ye with this - was a bit ill at the start of the month, and I do - as you've probably noticed - do the signpost as well. =)

Think I'm going to need to get someone to write about the technological uses of data from Wikidata. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:37, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

TVS
Hi, Piotrus! You mean the creation of a new article on the Polish channel TVS (TV Silesia) from Polish Wiki to English Wiki? Matti1990 (talk) 12:56, 23 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I think it can be done, but not today. I'm looking forward for the millionth article in the Polish Wikipedia. Maybe I can hit a million today and it's my birthday. Tomorrow we'll take care of the article concerning the Polish channel TVS. I hope you do not mind;) Matti1990 (talk) 16:59, 23 September 2013 (UTC)


 * OK! I did it. I wrote as much as I wanted. As always you can thank me. Now just waiting for the verdict on the millionth article and who wrote the millionth article. Thanks and Regards :) Matti1990 (talk) 15:26, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Battle of Warsaw (1831)
Hi there :) Would you care to take a look at the article on Battle of Warsaw (1831)? You reviewed the original version for WP:Poland and decided it failed the B-class criteria. I submitted it for GA review today, it's already a B-class for MilHist. It's still a work in progress as I doubt any native speaker reviewed it so far, but the content should be pretty much stable now.  // Halibutt 08:48, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Kim Am
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Neo-slavism
Just to let you know, the hook for article is wrong. Neo-slavism(article about which I created on Polish wiki in 2007 I believe) opposed creation of single unified Slavic state. Don't worry, I proposed an alternative one. --MyMoloboaccount (talk) 21:28, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Talk Page

 * Thank You Piotrus for the Banstar, it is very kind of You! I have not been online for a while but slowly back to researching more history, hopefully I can add something of interest in the future. Right now, there is very interesting ongoing research in subject "Ostoja" and one more professor joining forces. Some of this fresh research will be published soon and I hope then to add reference to do some changes in art on Ostoja. There is so much to do and sometimes so little time, I will try to help on other subjects related to history if I feel competent enough to do so. Best regards and wishes,camdan (talk) 19:56, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

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GANs
Be ready for a bunch of reviews. Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:51, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Bohdan Pawlowicz stub
Thank you, Piotrus for your support, warm welcome + suggestions and links to the Wikipedia community + how to list. Much appreciated. Bdieu (talk) 16:32, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

I have a question. I have quite a number of newspaper article cutouts I inherited from my grandfather (fortunately he kept the header so I have the name of the publication and date). However, my article is in English and most of these articles are in Polish from newspapers which are no longer published. I'd like to use them in the citations and was wondering whether I could attach a scan of them when possible, the brief notes I have made in English, which sum up the info pertinent to the citation and a link to http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov or other archives where some of these newspapers can be found. Is it possible and if yes, how can this be done? Bdieu (talk) 13:28, 26 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Indented line Answer to you question: It's Bohdan Pawłowicz - but as the article is in English and I do not have the Polish clavier, I did not use it. I have corrected it though. I am away from home and in a cybercafé, pressed for time. I have no idea what is needed to change the page from its current status. If you think it is ready to go and can do it, I would be grateful. If not, I will read the instructions when I get back home.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdieu (talk • contribs) 15:55, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

OK, Piotr. Finally back home and ready. I'd like you to check whether all is right and I need help on how to move the page and go through the process of nominating it for front page exposure through T:TDYK. Thanks Bdieu (talk) 13:30, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Liberum veto
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Our new friend
The latest reviewer on the Kosciuszko FA nomination has brought up a couple of minor issues which needed attention and which I have fixed, but overall, and frankly, I think he's all over the map. He starts off by saying the article is "excellent" and then carries on, at length, about many fuzzy and opinionated items in such serious tones. For example, he feels that mentioning that the 'Targowica Confederates were shocked' doesn't belong in this "excellent" article. He seems highly argumentative and opinionated over things that are not even issues. I fear if we start entertaining all of the fuzzy and perceived issues he has brought up that he will keep the page bogged down in petty and opinionated debate for a long time, given his conjecture on a lot of things. I was all set to tell him so but I figured maybe I had better confer with someone first, and you're it. What say you? -- Gwillhickers 06:15, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * So far no major disputes. Some fixing of things that aren't broke going on. We'll see. Hope I'm wrong about my initial assessment. -- Gwillhickers 08:20, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Reference removal
Ping! -- Gwillhickers 04:02, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

GANs
Did the first just now. Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:15, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Liberum veto
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October 2013
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My contribution on the FP 7 Project EUFODOS
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DYK for Ryszard Siwiec
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Nazi crimes against the Polish nation
Hi there. Waiting for a GA review of the Battle of Warsaw (1831) I decided to do my very first GA review myself, but stumbled upon a huge problem. The nominated article, Nazi crimes against the Polish nation, seems like a poor-mans-version of World War II crimes in occupied Poland. The latter reads much better, has better structure, more references (and higher-quality sources at that), and generally is what the nominated article should look like. I mentioned that in my GA review, but I'm not sure where do I go from there. Any ideas?  // Halibutt 09:02, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

FP 7 Project EUFODOS
Dear Piotrus, please explain what Euro-Spam means. Do you not want reference to EU Programmes and Financing? Regarding your concerns on the general notability guidelines: everything which is published about this project is cited in my contribution. So far we have no more publications. But I have referred to the official EC site http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/files/eufodos_en.pdf and to the project website www.eufodos.info. I have also made an interwiki link to the German wikipedia contribution on EUFODOS. This is already online since several month and no such comments. We have made several presentations at major conferences as well. Do you want me to cite this as well? Thanks for a soon reply. Best regards, Stefanie LinserStef (talk) 09:05, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Jørgen Olufsen's House
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DYK for Kenneth A. Bollen
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Your GA nomination of Sikorski's death controversy
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I agree, automated message "from me", it was good work, though I did leave a couple notes about things that really need fixed before FA, preferably sooner. Biggest concern is the one about the bag being sucked out - unless there's another source for that, I'd strongly suggest prefixing that section with "According to", instead of stating it as fact. In fact, I'll do that now.

On the Wikicup front, by the way, I'm finally about to make some progress - I spent pretty much all of September restoring a giant, complete set of images. Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Set: Puck of Pook's Hill is worth 700 points, and is passing. God, that was a lot of work, still, I've been trying to be more completionist about these things, so I'm glad I got the whole thing done.

Probably going to have to go to LoC stuff for a bit, though. Was having some issues with the scanner for a bit, but was able to get around it with rescans. However, I think it's time to replace it. It's my longest-lasting scanner to date, so it's not really unexpected. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:18, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Piotrus, I'm not sure I've said this, but - I can't guarantee the timescale; I'm kind of busy, but once I finish this one old GA review, I intend to work through all your unclaimed GA reviews. And possibly the one someone claimed and then did nothing for two weeks. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:13, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Could you do me a favour and list everything that needs reviewed in WP:Wikicup/Reviews? Is it just the one unclaimed left, and the one claimed but unreviewed, or are there others? Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:05, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * As for 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash - this isn't currently up for GAN; do you just want me to pre-review the article, and see whether I agree about a merger, etc? Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:53, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Piotrus? Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:21, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * @Adam Cuerden: sorry, been a bit busy. Yes, I'd appreciate your comments about the merger, and whether you think the article would be a valid GA candidate. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 07:38, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

GOCE request
Hi Piotrus, given that Tadeusz Kościuszko is undergoing FAC at the moment, is the GOCE request still effective? --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 09:33, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
 * User:Sp33dyphil: I believe the article has been c/e enough for the moment. Perhaps you'd care to look at the related Casimir Pulaski instead, which I plan to FAC after TK is passed? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:07, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll give it a look.I have to say though, there are editors who are much better at copy-editing than I am. Anyway, I'll remove TK from the request page -- if you want to keep it on there, feel free to revert my removal. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 06:39, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I've now completed my copy-edit. I will have another look at the article tomorrow to see if I have missed anything. In the meantime, please go over the requests for clarifications and my changes to make sure they comply with the references. Regards, --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 09:27, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Bohdan Pawłowicz
Thank you Piotr for your explanation. As to the answers you say you are still waiting for, I provided them on this same page some paragraphs above in the BP stub thread. I must confess I find it a bit confusing to follow the thread between user pages.

On Bohdan Pawłowicz submit article process: When I finished editing the article, I clicked on the submit button. However, I noticed it was placed on the wrong page. Later someone moved it and also opened a Project Page next to the sandbox, the function of which I do not understand. Am I expected to copy and paste the article there or should I leave it where it is? What is the purpose of the Project Page? Also, how to I go about creating a new stub for a different subject now that the sandbox is taken and it will take about a month to review? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdieu (talk • contribs) 13:58, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Józef Piłsudski Monument in Warsaw (Piłsudski Square)
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New Infobox
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Templates
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Piotrus, were you planning to revisit this review now that the issues you raised have been addressed, or should I add it to the list of older articles needing a reviewer? Please let me know. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:44, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * @User:BlueMoonset: I am leaning towards failing it again due to still unsufficient and unformatted references, but perhaps a new reviewer would be more lenient? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:06, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Piotrus, it has to be failed due to the bare urls as refs, if for nothing else. But you're right about the inadequate referencing: the whole first paragraph has a single reference early on, which satisfies the rule of thumb, but there's so much information after that without any source that I'd definitely withhold approval until it's been rectified. BlueMoonset (talk) 13:41, 2 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Piotrus, could you please take another look? The references have been formatted and other work done; I've also made further fixes to a few of the cite web templates. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:26, 6 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Pinging one more time. If no response this weekend, I'll call for a new reviewer. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:08, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Brzeg Castle
Hi there. I thought Brzeg Castle might interest you, but if you're busy with other things, no worries! --Rosiestep (talk) 19:52, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

I didn't stub it as the plan is to expand it within 5 days; Nvvchar and Dr. B will probably participate. Just thought you might want to participate in that. There's a corresponding article on the pl wiki and I'll work on the translation, but as I don't speak the language, can you spot check? --Rosiestep (talk) 15:39, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for working on this one. I'll nom it on the 10th, in case you want to make any further edits. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:45, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Roman Dmowski Monument in Warsaw
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DYK for Fedor Solntsev
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File:Anas al-Liby.jpg on Commons
I'm a bit surprised that you couldn't see why that photo couldn't have been taken by the FBI. However, I've nominated it for deletion on Commons at. --  tariq abjotu  22:03, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Józef Piłsudski's cult of personality
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DYK nomination of Rominten Hunting Lodge
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Thank you!
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Your GA nomination of Polish–Prussian alliance
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DYK for Józef Wybicki
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DYK for Rejtan (painting)
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A beer for you!

 * @Hawkeye7Thanks. I can't blame anyone, AGF and all that, plus the edits are helping the article... it is however unfortunate that certain editor's pet ideas took over two months to iron out in the article, sigh. This certainly killed any chance for me getting a good score in the final round of the CUP :/ How're you doing? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 02:51, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Back for a while ...
Real life just keeps intruding. We'll see if I can contribute. Will probably be working on Captain Wrona article. --Ajh1492 (talk) 12:20, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

About project
I made Sampo generation for our project. I wrote few sentences in there. Is it right to make an article?--Dhtpgus90 (talk) 12:31, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Bab burger
...your point being? Every Wikipedia has a different notability requirement. WP:Wikipedia is not a reliable source. I have, however, restored the article. GiantSnowman 08:39, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

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Dual baptism
Hi Piotrus, Novickas and I are discussing Kosciuszko's dual baptism and would like your opinion. -- Gwillhickers 00:11, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Advice regarding WP:PLACE
Hello! You are one of the contributors who edited the text of this policy, so I'd like to ask your opinion about the way of application of WP:PLACE guideline. More exactly, I tried to apply the general guideline no.2 for at least 3 alternative names, but some editors (all of them being Hungarians who support the keeping in the first phrase of the alternative Hungarian name) are claiming that this is not "a widely accepted approach". Please submit a comment at Talk:Alba Iulia to help us to settle the dispute. Thanks in advance 79.117.183.29 (talk) 06:16, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Notability concerns with Arraiolos meeting
Hi Piotrus, I notice that you've just tagged this article, putting its notability in question. Could you please elaborate a bit more why you think that WP:GNG is not met? This would help me to improve the article so that any converns are ruled out. I had been under the impression that, covering a regular meeting of several heads of state, the article would have some kind of encyclopedic value. Best regards--FoxyOrange (talk) 07:27, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. Just want to inform you that I've added a few more secondary sources, maybe you want to have another look at the article?--FoxyOrange (talk) 09:51, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Gwyn Pritchard
Thanks for the heads up. I helped the original creator to get this to the stage where it wasn't a speedy, and indicated some doubts about notability, but I'm no expert on this area. I probably won't comment at the AfD, I'll let the main editor make his case if he wishes  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  09:54, 15 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I have recommended on the AFD page WP:Articles for deletion/Gwyn Pritchard that it be speedily deleted as a copyright violation in 24 hours unless it is re-written as an acceptable, copyright-free, article which uses reliable sources to demonstrate that this person meets Wikipedia's notability criteria. I also summarily removed all obvious copyright violations from the primary source.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  17:06, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

I have a question about user page.
Hi! While i am adding some banners<?> on my userpage what we learned from today's lecture, I have a question that "How do i make new userpage template which is not existed on wikipedia now?" Eventhough there are already existed template that i coudln't find out but if it is not existed, what should i do then? Jeff Byung do jung (talk) 13:14, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Brzeg Castle
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Minshat Abu Omar
Hi. Thx for your messages, I will take care of the discussion page. But unfortunately I don't know how to set up a DYK-candidate in en.Wikipedia. Would you do that for me? Best Regards;--Nephiliskos (talk) 15:54, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thx for your reply. I took care of the references and here is a hook I think to be useful: Did you know... that Minshat Abu Omar was one of the most important strategic and economic places of Protodynastic Egypt and was re-used in late Roman Period?. Again, thanks for your help! Regards;--Nephiliskos (talk) 08:59, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I put a infobox for antique sites in it. Unfortunately, no photograph of this site extists yet. Regards;--Nephiliskos (talk) 12:09, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Neo-Slavism
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 * Hi there Piotrus! I've passed the nomination. Just a comment: please check the first entry in the ″Further reading″ section, as there is "NaN undefined NaN" after the name of the author that I believe shouldn't be there. Regards.--Jetstreamer $Talk$ 10:58, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

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zapytanie o artykuł w języku angielskim
Dzień dobry Panie Piotrze, dostałam informacje od Pana Tomasza Ganicza z Wikipedii, który poinformował mnie, że jest Pan odpowiednią osobą do zredagowania artykułu "Elżbieta Chodorowska" w języku angielskim. Artykuł "Elżbieta Chodorowska" w języku polskim istnieje w Wikimedii. Zgodnie z zasadami Wikipedii zabronione jest umieszczanie artykułów o samym sobie. Dysponuję tłumaczeniem na język angielski swojego artykułu.

Czy mógłby mi Pan pomóc w zredagowaniu wersji angielskojęzycznej?

Z góry dziękuję za odpowiedź Pozdrawiam Elżbieta Chodorowska 16:32, 22 October 2013 (UTC)EllaCh (talk)
 * Deleted meaningless . -- 레비 Revi Discuss SUL Info 03:47, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

thanks for helping me!
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Studia Socjologiczne
Hi, I didn't forget your request to look at this journal article, it just took me a while to get around doing it :-) Unfortunately, I couldn't find too much to add. Strangely enough, although the journla has an impact factor and is listed in the JCR, it is not listed in the Thomson Reuters master journal list (I searched for ISSN, complete title, or just "Studia"). Given that it is in the JCR, it must be in the Social Sciences Citation Index, those two go together. So I added that to the article. Nevertheless, it's not really a problem that I couldn't find anything more, because having an IF and being in the SSCI show notability without any doubt. --Randykitty (talk) 20:49, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Minshat Abu Omar
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Flying Wild Hog
Hi, I don't understand why Flying Wild Hog should be deleted? It's bigger and more known gamedev company than e.g. The Farm 51 (e.g. widely known and well recived recent Shadow Warrior (2013 video game)). Please advice what should be added to article to keep and improve it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michal.szustak (talk • contribs) 18:54, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Twilight Zone tragedy for deletion
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 * I wish I'd noticed this AfD or I'd have weighed in. This tragedy was the subject of two books! Nominating this article for deletion was insane. Piotrus, thanks for creating this article. I had been meaning to do so myself. I have one of those books and will try to expand. Coretheapple (talk) 12:34, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Battle of Warsaw (1831)
Hey, I believe I replied to all issues you raised at Talk:Battle of Warsaw (1831)/GA1. In most cases I fixed the problems, in others I added some explanation. Please let me know if there's anything more I can do.  // Halibutt 16:01, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot mate, it was fun. I get the impression we created yet another article no one will ever read, but what the heck :)  // Halibutt 12:37, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue XCI, October 2013
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DYK for Neo-Slavism
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Featured Article Process
Personally I think it's a rather arbitrary and capricious process ... Białystok was a well-written article in better shape than a lot of other FA articles and it was completely savaged and trashed when I put it up for FA review in 2011. I see no motivation for submitting any other articles for FA. Ajh1492 (talk) 06:54, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * We should try to make articles as good as possible. There seems little benefit, per se, to picking up "Featured Article" medals.  Nihil novi (talk) 10:50, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * @User:Nihil novi: it's not about medals as about visibility. Featured Articles get 24h Main Page placement, which means ~100+k views. Good Articles, unfortunately, only quality for the same visibility as DYKs (~5-30k views). So there's an incentive to get content Featured, if one wants it to be widely read (and I like to educate the world about Polish history). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:56, 25 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Medals, hardly! It's about consistency in the review process and having something other than tenuous standards that are arbitrarily applied. Other than a front-page view for the article, it's be better to get a number of articles to GA quality. Ajh1492 (talk) 15:26, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Killing Us Softly
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Can this be copied in some way?
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I have no idea how to do it, the map is very interesting. --MyMoloboaccount (talk) 02:42, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes please. --MyMoloboaccount (talk) 09:22, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

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Re: Forerunner Saga
Haha, you travel some odd alleys of Wikipedia then :P It's somewhat close to being good to migrate, but I've been holding off because I want to make sure it's pretty much complete before posting. Since the constituent novels are notable and have a lot in common (including a dearth of useful commentary in some areas) my plan was to merge them into a single higher-quality article like I did for The Myst Reader; just want to make sure I'm not obliviating some useful content in the progress (plus the plot section needs a hacking). Thanks for reminding me about it though, I can add it to my todo list--sadly I've had less time for article-work recently, but hopefully that will change soon. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 13:12, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

artykuł w języku angielskim Elżbieta Chodorowska
Dzień dobry, dziękuję za odpowiedź. Według Pana wskazówek umieściłam swój artykuł w języku angielskim w piaskownicy EllaCh/Sandbox. Co jeszcze powinnam zrobić? Z góry dziękuję za odpowiedź. Pozdrawiam E. Chodorowska — Preceding unsigned comment added by EllaCh (talk • contribs) 15:58, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

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Kraków Cloth Hall
hello there, the format I chose was based on the cloth hall in Ypres. Either way I am fine with it, I do wish however that there is some consistency in the naming format. I noticed however that there are a large number of articles that have not been written yet about places in the city, and a lot of information is missing on the ones that do exist, such as the cloth hall. I wish there was more translation work going on from the Polish articles' side. Thank you. Gryffindor (talk) 16:03, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Piotrus, what a surprise. Thank you very much for your medal, I am very touched and I really did not contribute much but will keep trying. Gryffindor (talk) 11:13, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ryszard Siwiec
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Changed hook
On Template:Did you know nominations/Tomás Menéndez Márquez, you accepted the neutrality of the hook with the word "Indians". I see that it has been changed to "Native Americans" in the queue. I felt that being rescued by "Indians" after being abducted by pirates was more catchy than being rescued by "Native Americans". There is an element here playing off of children's stories. Do you know if there is any way to address this? -- Donald Albury 13:54, 30 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the response. I was surprised at how quickly the item was promoted. I think the change took away a lot of the punch of the hook, but it's done. -- Donald Albury 12:45, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

artykuł w języku angielskim Elżbieta Chodorowska
Dzień dobry, dziękuję za odpowiedź w sprawie mojego artykułu. Umieściłam tłumaczenie na j. angielski w piaskownicy EllaCh/Sandbox, ale przyznam się, że nie wiem jak postępować dalej. Z góry dziękuję za pomoc w tej sprawie.

Pozdrawiam Elżbieta Chodorowska (EllaCh (talk) 15:42, 30 October 2013 (UTC))

DYK nomination of Rominten Hunting Lodge
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DYK for Anti-Superstition and Black Magic Ordinance
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DYK for Killing Us Softly
The DYK project (nominate) 08:04, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ryszard Siwiec
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WikiCup 2013 October newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is. Our final nine were as follows:

All those who reached the final win prizes, and prizes will also be going to the following participants:


 * wins the FA prize, for four featured articles in round 4, worth 400 points.
 * wins the GA prize, for 20 good articles in round 3, worth 600 points.
 * wins the FL prize, for four featured lists in round 2, worth 180 points.
 * wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.
 * wins the FPo prize, for 2 featured portals in round 3, worth 70 points.
 * wins the topic prize, for a 23-article featured topic in round 5, worth 230 points.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 79 did you know articles in round 5, worth 570 points.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 23 in the news articles in round 4, worth 270 points.
 * wins the GAR prize, for 24 good article reviews in round 1, worth 96 points.
 * The judges are awarding the Oddball Barnstar to, for some curious contributions in earlier rounds.
 * Finally, the judges are awarding the Geography Barnstar for her work on sea, now a featured article. This top-importance article was the highest-scoring this year; when it was promoted to FA status, Cwmhiraeth could claim 720 points.

Prizes will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition. While it has been an excellent year, errors have opened up the judges' eyes to the need for a third judge, and it is with pleasure that we announce that experienced WikiCup participant Miyagawa will be acting as a judge from now on. We hope you will all join us in welcoming him to the team.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. Brainstorming and discussion remains open for how next year's competition will work, and straw polls will be opened by the judges soon. Those interested in friendly competition may also like to keep an eye on the stub contest, being organised by Casliber. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! 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) 00:45, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for the congrats. It was an unexpected honor. Take care. Tony the Marine (talk) 04:06, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Polish nationalism
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DYK for Rominten Hunting Lodge
The DYK project (nominate) 08:04, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Question.
If an article was deleted from Wikipedia is there any way to see its contents afterwards somewhere(cache, some deleted pages archive, etc?) --MyMoloboaccount (talk) 08:19, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Fuck featured article candidate discussion

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1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash
Page numbers added, last sentence rearranged.--C. Trifle (talk) 22:39, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

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Question about submitting to GAN
Hello Piotrus, I see that you are quite skilled at writing good articles. I feel that an article I have written may meet GA criteria, but it is a fairly new article (less than a month old) and I'm the primary author (maybe 95% of it). I don't want to make a fool of myself at WP:GAN. Do you think it would be frowned upon for me to submit the article under such circumstances? Thanks &mdash; <b style="color:black;">MusikAnimal</b> <sup style="color:green;">talk 23:35, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
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Stats
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European Academy of Diplomacy
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DYK for Twilight Zone tragedy
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Elżbieta Chodorowska artykuł w języku angielskim
Dzień dobry, zgodnie z Pana zaleceniami skorygowałam mój artykuł. Jak mam dalej postępować? Z góry dziękuję za odpowiedź. Pozdrawiam Elżbieta ChodorowskaEllaCh (talk) 15:06, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Ping!
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Wikipedia_talk:Reward_board
Given it's been kept at MfD, I've reposted a proposal to tighten it. See header. Cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:43, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Adding references in the article of Kimshin Myongsuk
I added some references, and I will probably be working on more. Thank you for letting me know. Take care.--Db9023 (talk) 03:56, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Samuel Orgelbrand
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Symbols of Poland
Symbols of Poland looked so pathetic that I HAD to do something considering today is Polish Independence Day. I see no reason why we can't get this article to GA status in short order. Ajh1492 (talk) 07:52, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Who's Afraid of Peer Review?
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Template:Did you know nominations/George Strock
Piotrus, could you please return to this, take a look at ALT4, and make sure that the approved hooks are noted and the unapproved ones struck? This has been sitting for a while, and it would be nice to get an approval tick back on it. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:05, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

That was painful ...
That was a very painful event with complete over-reaction and frankly disruptive editing on the part of the reviewer. It's not like citation tags weren't associated with the passages since DAY 1 of the article. The excuse of being overcautious to cover one's own disruptive editing is quite egregious and I'm tempted to open and ANI myself. I'm not surprised that articles like this one are written. Ajh1492 (talk) 06:10, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia research
I somehow stumbled on to User talk:Tbayer (WMF) talk page and saw the work you've done analyzing research on Wikipedia, it's impressive! For example, I was interested in the study that was done, looking at RfAs and social ties, that's an interesting question. So many .pdfs to read now.

Have you come across works that are more historical, looking at change over time, comparing Wikipedia's early years to how things are done today (today meaning whenever the study was done)? Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 04:25, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

artykuł w języku angielskim Elżbieta Chodorowska
Dzień dobry Panie Piotrze! Starałam się dostosować do Pana instrukcji. Wprowadziłam kategorie i linki, ale ponieważ jestem laikiem, nie bardzo rozumiem o co chodzi z tymi paragrafami. Jeszcze raz bardzo proszę o Pana pomoc. Pozdrawiam Elżbieta ChodorowskaEllaCh (talk) 18:03, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK George Strock
Please read the follow up comments to your review of the DYK nom for George Strock Thanks. — btphelps (talk to me) (what I've done) 22:36, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Re:Proposed deletion of Space colony (Gundam)
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 * First, remember to sign your posts so I know who left me a message. This was a minor oops, but I do like to keep track of those who ping me for whatever reason. :)
 * Second, I've removed fiction from the justification for proposed deletion of the article on grounds that there was actual physicist research into space habitat in the cylinders, so regardless of whether or not they appear in fiction the proposal and the use of the colonies is in fact entirely based on facts, or if not facts then at a minimum research by people who know what they are talking about. That said, I have no justifiable reason to amend the GNG argument you raise in the proposed deletion. I'd be open to deconstructing the page by moving relevant information to other pages, but I get a feeling that wouldn't be a solution you or others would be particularly keen to pursue, particularly since the material is largely uncited/cited to fictional series and the external links appear to be all dead (which is a little weird since one of them links to the internet archive).

Sad as I am to say it, I'll repeat my affirmation that Wikipedia is not a place where fiction can long dwell, yet I understand that as time and standards shift we must adjust and accept that not everything can move forward with us. To that end then, I'd be open to moving the material elsewhere, and though I am not happy about the loss of the page, if it comes to that, I will not contest the proposed deletion. I do appreciate the fact that you left me a message about the proposed deletion though, as I hate learning that pages I created were axed because the nominator could not be bothered to notify me of the decision to bring a page of mine into the deletion process. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:39, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
 * It appears that someone else beat me to outsourcing, and added two sources as well. There is a small section on the matter at Universal_Century_technology which summarizes the info in the article you've proposed for deletion. As for as I am concerned, this is good enough for me. As for Wikia, I've saved a copy of the article and I'll add it there if it is determined that they have no relevant page for the material. TomStar81 (Talk) 02:58, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Take a look at this and let me know your thoughts ...
Don't push the button yet, but was adapting the DYK nomination process to B-class reviews.

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Jewish cemeteries of Warsaw
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DYK nomination for Pan Am Flight 923
Hello Piotr,

I have made the change you requested for the nomination of Pan Am Flight 923 (nomination here). Thank you for taking the time to review.

&mdash; Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû  (blah?) 05:43, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Major change in article
You wanted to be notified if there was any major changes. Well, this is major. QuackGuru (talk) 08:17, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Proposed Deletion of Juan Rico
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VisualEditor newsletter for November 2013
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some feature changes, major infrastructure improvements to make the system more stable, dependable and extensible, some minor toolbar improvements, and fixing bugs.

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Stephen Báthory/GA1
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DYK for Tęcza (Warsaw)
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November 2013 GA Thanks
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Concordat of 1925 GA review
FYI, I can't see it making GA without some editor involvement / engagement in the process. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 18:10, 27 November 2013 (UTC) GA reviewer

DYK for Civil war in Poland (1704–1706)
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Your GA nomination of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski
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Battles of Krasnoi and Vyazma (1812)
Hello Sir,

I researched and wrote the Wikipedia articles about the Battles of Krasnoi and Vyazma (1812). I take your criticism and commentary (about the articles) seriously: I am impressed with your knowledge of certain aspects of those engagements: particularly the history of the Polish contingent that participated in these battles. I would like to amend the articles in order to reflect these facts (which are almost never mentioned in English language sources). Please see my replies to your comments on the battles. Also, I have discovered that you are a faculty member at a university, and that you teach a course on writing Wikipedia articles. I sent you an email about my articles, and what steps I can begin taking to improve them. I am eager to read your reply. Kenmore (talk) 17:52, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Corruption in Poland
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Your GA nomination of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski
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DYK for Greater Poland Civil War
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Re:Welcome to Wikipedia!!!
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Proposed deletion of Old train station in Katowice
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Disconfirmed expectancy
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It seems you "rated" Disconfirmed expectancy as a C-class on the Psychology WikiProject's quality scale, but you didn't leave any reasoning or comments for the rating. I can see that you're a rather significant editor here, and I hope this doesn't come across as rude, but I was relatively certain that this was at the very least B-class nearing GA (perhaps a few edits away in terms of cleaning things up). I don't have a problem with you rating the article as such, if you have some kind of rationale for it. It doesn't really help the editors coming along to improve it to not know what needs to be done to better the article.

Just a general observation, but it also doesn't look like you are well-versed in psychology research (forgive me if I'm wrong), which leads me to believe that your main issues with the article center on accessibility to a general audience, maybe?

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Hello Professor
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West Point
Hey there Piotrus, long time -- no talk to. Been working on the various sections of the Thomas Jefferson page and noticed that in the West Point section there is no mention of Kosciuszko's important involvement. Thought you'd might want to get in there and remedy that. -- Gwillhickers 23:28, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

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Ród / House
I would suggest to move the articles of Polish noble families from "family" to "House of". (including the categories) - example: "Potocki family" to "House of Potocki", "Sobieski family" to "House of Sobieski" etc.

The translation of "ród" (Ród Potockich) would be "House of" (House of Potocki) and not family (rodzina) - Rodzina Potockich could be a family of peasants or burgesses. "Ród" / "House" suggests immediately a noble family.

What do you think about it?--Sobiepan (talk) 16:47, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

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VisualEditor newsletter • 19 December 2013
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some toolbar improvements, fixing bugs, and improving support for Indic languages as well as other languages with complex characters. The current focus is on improving the reference dialog and expanding the new character inserter tool.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:

Looking ahead: The transclusion dialog will see further changes in the coming weeks, with a simple mode for single templates and an advanced mode for more complex transclusions. The new character formatting menu on the toolbar will get an arrow to show that it is a drop-down menu. The reference dialog will be improved, and the Reference item will become a button in the main toolbar, rather than an item in the Insert menu.
 * Rich copying and pasting is now available. If you copy text from another website, then character formatting and some other HTML attributes are preserved.  This means, for example, that if you copy a pre-formatted suggested citation from a source like this, then VisualEditor will preserve the formatting of the title in the citation.  Keep in mind that copying the formatting may include formatting that you don't want (like section headings).  If you want to paste plain, unformatted text onto a page, then use Control or Command  (Mac).
 * Auto-numbered external links like can now be edited just like any other link.  However, they cannot be created in VisualEditor easily.
 * Several changes to the toolbar and dialogs have been made, and more are on the way. The toolbar has been simplified with a new drop-down text styles menu and an "insert" menu. Your feedback on the toolbar is wanted here.  The transclusion/template dialog has been simplified.  If you have enabled mathematical formula editing, then the menu item is now called the formula editor instead of LaTeX.
 * There is a new character inserter, which you can find in the new "insert" menu, with a capital Omega ("Ω"). It's a very basic set of characters.  Your feedback on the character inserter is wanted here.
 * Saving the page should seem faster by several seconds now.
 * It is now possible to access VisualEditor by manually editing the URL, even if you are not logged in or have not opted in to VisualEditor normally.  To do so, append  to the end of the page name.  For example, change   to   to open a random page in VisualEditor.  This is intended to support bug testing across multiple browsers, without requiring editors to login repeatedly.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:41, 19 December 2013 (UTC)