User talk:TheManiacBG

Armenian Genocide Recognition
Hello, TheManiacBG.

You keep reverting changes to the Wikipedia article Armenian Genocide recognition concerning the official recognition of the genocide as such by the Republic of Bulgaria and its parliament. As the article states "Armenian Genocide recognition refers to the formal acceptance that the massacre and forced deportation of Armenians committed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915–1923 constitutes genocide.". That is to say explicit recognition of the massacre as "genocide" and not any other phrase such as "mass extermination", "mass killing", "massacre" or else. The Bulgarian parliament deliberately and consciously replaced the word "genocide" in the text of its declaration from 24 April 2015 with the more neutral "mass killing", thus effectively not recognising a genocide. Please read carefully your sources, for example this BTA article.

Regards, Goschko (talk) 12:46, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

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My post to the Laszlo Panaflex's talk page with regards to the Serbian Empire article
The following text has been posted on the Laszlo Panaflex's talk page talk page. However, it was deleted from the talk page after 10 minutes or so.

--TheManiacBG (talk) 11:55, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello Laszlo, The changes that you keep reverting are the correct ones from historical point of view.

Current text is suggesting that the Bulgarian Empire was a vassal to the Serbian Empire after the Battle of Velbazhd, which is totally incorrect. The first source "The Fall of Constantinople 1453" ( https://books.google.bg/books?id=CJz8BCdxlfEC&pg=PA37&redir_esc=y ) is just a cover web page for the book and its text are not visible, unless one buys the actual book. The reason for existance of this source is not clear as when you click on it, you cannot actually see the proof for the statement "Bulgaria had never recovered since its defeat by the Serbs at the Battle of Velbazhd,".

Second source "A History of the Balkan Peoples" (https://books.google.bg/books?id=S5TAr1t6_g0C&pg=PA35&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false) is for the statement: "and the Bulgarian czar, whose sister Dušan later married, became his vassal,". The issue with this source is that it is an outdated (1971) work of René Ristelhueber - unknown historian whose work has been put as reference for just one additional sentence in whole of Wikipedia. The source is unreliable and it cannot be a proof for a statement of such historical importance.

Third source is "Churches Of Eastern Christendom" (https://books.google.bg/books?id=zeNFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT228&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false) by B. J. Kidd, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beresford_Kidd) who is a recipient of the Order of St. Sava - serbian/yugoslavian state order awareded for the following reason: "recognize civilians for meritorious achievements to the Church, to arts and sciences, the royal house and the state." and it was " awarded by the king of Yugoslavia.." . This is the only official award that this man has received during his lifetime and it is obvious that his work is not reliable as it is not unbiased.

The changes that I'm doing are the correct historical evidence about the outcome of the battle of Velbazhd and are supported by numerous historical sources that are cited in all other articles in Wikipedia, that are related to this topic.

So, I'm revirting the article back to the correct text and map until you have provided a proper and unbiased historical sources.


 * Your message was moved to the article talk page, which is the appropriate place to discuss your concerns. Laszlo Panaflex (talk) 19:32, 13 September 2018 (UTC)