User talk:TodorBozhinov/Archive 13

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Chiprovtsi
Hi Todor, I'm glad it's OK. If you need anything else, just say. I'm not as quick as you, but I try to write my articles and other contributions as good as I can, always based on facts and expert sources. Regards, Silverije (talk) 17:09, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Skender Muco in DYK
Responded Template_talk:Did_you_know. Thanks for the very good review as always. --  S ulmues (talk) 18:21, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

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Shirgj Monastery
Thanks for vetting again! I would leave Victuallers' suggestion : it seems like I did a lot of DYKs recently and annoyed everybody with Albania, Albania: let's have the people look at the DYK without any clue where this Shirgj Monastery is and they'll find out, :-). --  S ulmues (talk) 18:57, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, that's entirely up to you, of course, and your argument does make sense. Though, on the other hand, I've been spamming DYK with "Bulgaria, Bulgaria" for quite a lot of time now and it never occurred to me to stop :) Balkan articles remain rare and there's still American and English domination and DYK, so let's keep annoying everyone! :)  — Toдor Boжinov — 22:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Okey doke, then done deal .--  S ulmues (talk) 15:02, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Solomon Goldstein
The DYK project (nominate) 06:05, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Nikolay Bozhov
 — Rlevse • Talk  • 12:02, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Димо Казасов
Hello again my friend. I have written an Hebrew article about Dimo Kazasov. I have translated via google the article in bulgarian language, and noticed that the fact that Kazasov was declared Righteous among the Nations in 1966, was not mentioned there. maybe someone could add it. (I can add more facts about his strugle for defending bulgarian jews, if needed. {in english}).

There are 20 bulgarians who were declared Righteous among the Nations, here is alist of 19 of them: Righteous among the Nations from Bulgaria".The 20th is Владимир Куртев who was recently added. thanks --Assayas (talk) 18:51, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Church of St Demetrius, Patalenitsa
The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Patalenitsa
The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Music Project, thanks for your time
--  S ulmues (talk) 16:12, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Nikopol
Hello, your nomination of Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Nikopol at DYK was reviewed and comments provided. --NortyNort (Holla) 13:12, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

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Name of Kazanlak
Why did you make the change you did? It is perfectly normal for alternate names/spellings/transliterations to be placed, in bold, after the normal/usual/standard one; cf. Regensburg ("historically also Ratisbon"), Tver ("The city was known as Kalinin ... from 1931 to 1990"), "Telmessos or Telmessus, also Telmissos," etc. etc. I don't want to get into an edit war, but there is no reason to hide common alternate names in parentheses; it is against Wikipedia norms and is not helpful to users. I hope you will agree so that my change can be restored. Languagehat (talk) 14:53, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your prompt reply. I will leave the "redundant transliterations" in parens but move Kazanlik out again, because it was historically the standard name of the city in English -- search on it in Google Books and you will see. I'm sorry you found my wording unpleasant; it wasn't meant to be. I didn't mean the emphasis to be on "my [precious] change" but on the restoration of what to me was a more helpful presentation. Languagehat (talk) 15:18, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Nikopol
-- Cirt (talk) 18:02, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Most Ljubavi
I fixed entry. You may see it now. Thanks! -- WhiteWriter speaks 10:03, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * But i don't understand. Did you see that material is not protected by any copyright law? It is written on the board near the bridge. It is clearly in the public domain, WP:PARAPHRASE is not useful under that circumstances. -- WhiteWriter speaks 11:43, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * anyway, maybe i didn't understand it quite well. So, i rewrite it. Hope that now you can verify it. If you think that something should be fixed, please do so. That would be useful addition to this article. All best! :) -- WhiteWriter speaks 12:50, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Ahaha, yes, i know, it still needs some fixes... I will give my best, thanks for your good and useful help. Be good! -- WhiteWriter speaks 14:45, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Church of St Nicholas, Sapareva Banya
 — Rlevse • Talk  • 06:03, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Looking for Greben mountain
Hi. I'm maintaining the List of mountains in Serbia article, and I stumbled upon the case of Greben (dab page created by myself). List of mountains in Bulgaria lists the mountain "Greben", but without a reference. Greben Hill in Antarctica is named after a Bulgarian mountain. However, I cannot find it in this website, nor anywhere else in the internet (my limited Bulgarian notwithstanding). The only thing I know about is Greben in Serbia, near Dimitrovgrad (Tsaribrod). Can you please verify if there is another Greben in Bulgaria, or is there only the one near Dimitrovgrad (which probably belonged to Bulgaria before Balkan Wars)? No such user (talk) 14:23, 11 October 2010 (UTC) (please reply here)


 * Ah, forget it, there is apparently only one: Гребен (планина). I was looking all over the internet, but not on bg wiki. No such user (talk) 14:29, 11 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm reasonably sure about the coordinates (of the highest peak), because those are the only ones in the vicinity that match the 1337 meters altitude stated in the sources. If you see the Google Terrain view, the greben extends southwest, all the way to Vrabcha (see bg:Врабча). So I suppose that's it. No such user (talk) 14:44, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Jean-Claude Faveyrial
I would really appreciate the Bulgarian view on Faveyrial. A DYK maybe? --  S ulmues (talk) 20:52, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your help there. Now I know it'll take awhile, because the conflict of interest won't let you review. Could Zjarri or another Albanian editor review these articles, in general? --  S ulmues (talk) 20:18, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

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Jovan Ćirilov
Any maybe, you can see one more entry of mine? I am almost sure that it is flawless? :) Thanks in advance!


 * Jovan Ćirilov

All best! -- WhiteWriter speaks 14:03, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Ahahaha, there was some flaws! :) But they were minor. I removed intro, only remained "significant contributor to Serbian culture", and that is obvious, and for the years, well, bitef main site have who is who, so... It can be tracked for the past three years. And other sources can be easily found. Well, now i will talk to you exclusively when i nominate something for DYK. I must create one flawless nomination. Just to let you know! :) -- WhiteWriter speaks 22:16, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- WhiteWriter speaks 20:54, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Church of St George, Kyustendil
 — Rlevse • Talk  • 06:03, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Mosques
The Muslim immigrants up to now have to make do with basements and rented halls, so a dedicated mosque is, as you say, vital. The old mosque in Monastiraki (18th century I think) is a Folk Arts Museum today, previously it was even used as a prison for a time. Funny how most Greeks are indignant that Turkey holds fashion exhibitions in the Hagia Irene, but don't give a damn about the mosques in Greece. The greatest disgrace IMO is Thessaloniki however: some the few surviving Ottoman structures, mosques and baths, are utterly decrepit and hidden behind billboards... Constantine  ✍  12:45, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Jean-Claude Faveyrial
The DYK project (nominate) 06:03, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Bulgarians
Смяташ ли, че Матей Казийски и Елена Йончева са най-подходящите примери за българи в статията Bulgarians ? --213.145.115.162 (talk) 12:11, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Kutmichevitsa
I have translated the article from the Bulgarian Wikipedia where there are no more citations. I can add citations only from Andreev's Bulgarian Khans and Tsars which I have at home. I will also try to put some notes from the well-referenced Bulgarian article for Devol, if they can be appropriate for Kutmichevitsa. I can also search for citations from Zlatarski's work in the Internet but that can be at Sunday or Monday because I don't have enough time now. Best, --Gligan (talk) 18:45, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

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Re:Church of St. Mary of of the Source (Istanbul)
Hallo Todor

you are right, my hook was really weak :-( . Actually, I think that the predestined hook for this article would be one related to the legend of the frying fishes. I tried to summarize it to an acceptable length, but it comes out always too long. I saw your alternative hooks and the answer of Constantine, for me are OK. If in the meantime I will manage to shorten the fish hook reasonably, I will write it together with the others and then we can discuss what is the best. Otherwise, let's go on with the marriage. Actually, I never saw one father-in-law destroying the marriage church of his son, and the other rebuilding it in so little time :-) Many thanks and cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 08:16, 26 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Hallo Todor
 * thanks a lot again! I made a minor change: if for you is ok, I think that we can adopt it! Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 12:43, 26 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Hallo Todor
 * this was a short Test for you... :-) Look here! One of the nicknames of Constantinople is "The City", that's why I wrote it with capital "C"... :-)
 * Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 13:23, 26 October 2010 (UTC)


 * 1-1, Todor. :-) It should be "The City". What if we do so? conquest of The City . Very sophisticated, and a lot of info in two links...A hook in the hook! :-) It is true that this is a Greek Usage, but on a (beautiful) Italian book on the subject which I bought last week it is named "La Città"...The usage is becoming universal...Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 13:44, 26 October 2010 (UTC)


 * OK Todor, Thanks! Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 05:42, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

re:Belated congrats
Hello Todor (nice new sig, btw). Thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate it. ... No worries, I'll be still the same User:Vejvančický, working on content and introducing missing information :) Best regards. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 17:09, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Round Church, Preslav
The DYK project (nominate) 18:02, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Lazar Poptrajkov
I started the article and according to the sources I found he was a Bulgarian, but an IP changed it to Macedonia, so you might want to verify that.-- — ZjarriRrethues — talk 14:24, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi! This is regular vandalism, though it should be a better idea to follow something like Yane Sandanski for the lead section and the ethnicity qualifier. <span style="text-align: center; clear: both; font-family:Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: small-caps; font-style: normal;"> — Toдor Boжinov — 14:38, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * That's probably the most npov that could be created to approach the Macedonian opinion.-- — ZjarriRrethues — talk 14:54, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Kutmichevitsa
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 06:03, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hallo Todor, many thanks for copyediting the article! Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 15:33, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Reply
Than you for your advice and recommendations, I will keep them in mind :)--Avidius (talk) 17:12, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks
For your nice words in my talk page. It was really awesome to read them. I had lots of relax these weeks, ought to thank Athenean for rapidly reporting and Tim for blocking, but I'm too lazy to go to their talk pages, :-). --Sulmuesi (talk) 03:58, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Alexius Slav
Hello! I too tried to move to "Alexius Slav" first, without success. Then I remembered reading (in Macrides' comments on Akropolites, IIRC) that the name was supposed to mean "Alexius the Slav", and moved it there. I have no problem with moving it to "Alexius Slav" though, it is both more common and more accurately reflects the actual usage as a quasi(?)-surname. I guess that this would fall under WP:RM, but if the admin disagrees, I'll vote for the move in any move discussion. Cheers, Constantine  ✍  01:01, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Patriarchal Monastery of the Holy Trinity
The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Strez
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Hranislav and Roger
Hello Todor! Indeed a weird case, although it would be nice if we could report an actual ghost attack ;). I have Failler's edition of Pachymeres, and can verify the story (Germe/Γέρμη or Soma was a town between Pergamon and Akhisar acc. to Failler's notes). As this is certainly before Roger's death and during his expedition in 1303/4, I guess your source got it wrong... It is not unusual, late Byzantine chronology is usually a mess, everyone disagrees with everyone else (and Failler gets some dates wrong too). If you need me to check anything else in Failler, feel free to ask. Cheers, my friend. Constantine  ✍  22:21, 18 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello again! As you may have noticed, I have recently become interested in the Arab opponents of Byzantium, whose coverage, let alone the quality of the existing articles, is woefully lacking. As I want to throw some spotlight on them, do you have any good DYK hook suggestions for Sulayman ibn Hisham and/or Nasr ibn Sayyar? Thanks in advance, Constantine  ✍  18:08, 21 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Very good proposals. Thanks :) Constantine  ✍  21:51, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Hranislav
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Skanderbeg
Can you please spend a couple of minutes with Skanderbeg? I am little by little trying to get him to GA and am asking Malleus, Cplakidas, Ning-ning and you, if you find too many things which are wrong before I bring it to GA in December. I merged some paragraphs today to make it flow chronologically, and also wrote the long lede, but I am aware that some references are still missing, or are from encyclopedias, in addition wording is far from perfect. Still I would like you to just spend a couple of minutes and tell me what do you see wrong with the article. Thank you for your precious time. --Sulmuesi (talk) 01:10, 22 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Todor: you and Cplakidas are the two admins that would make Balkans an oasis of peace. Your advise and his are extremely precious. I really think I'll follow all of them. One thing we're very weak at as wikiproject are the maps. The article would be much better off with images of all the places that are mentioned, and for now the map of the League of Lezhe, is kind of shitty, forgive my French. The rest of what you say, is very valuable. I'll start making treasure of it, before someone picks the article up as a reviewer. --Sulmuesi (talk) 21:49, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

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Re: Kapetanovo Castle
Yes, you are right, TodorBozhinov. It is COI. I apologize. - PM800 (talk) 12:50, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Church of St Nicholas, Melnik
Materialscientist (talk) 12:02, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Lovely article, congratulations. Ericoides (talk) 13:32, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem. I used to live in Sofia in the early 1970s (on Marshal Tolbukhin, if you know it) and your articles bring back some very happy memories. Ericoides (talk) 11:05, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Isbul
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DYK for Church of Christ Pantocrator, Nesebar
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DYK for Cosmas the Priest
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Cosmas the Priest
Nice article, Todor, congrats! But I have a question: why is it notable that he was not formerly canonized? (I can't read Андреев...) The formal medieval procedure didn't come into being until 1200 (Elisabeth of Hungary is an early example), and for many, many other (earlier) saints we have no evidence of any kind of procedure whatsoever. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 05:38, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

RE: DYK nomination of Şeyh Süleyman Mosque
Hallo Todor,

thanks for your review! You are right, I added the references (I did not know about this rule, sorry) and changed the hook. I hope that now is ok, otherwise, come back :-)

Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 09:47, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

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Aedava
Let's not get into the who was here first discussion. Aedava is a Dacian town, on a Dacia topic (as you know Dacia's borders were not stopping at the Danube). And Dacia is an integral part of Romanian history. It's ok to have Bulgarian references but please do not remove the other ones. Thanks and looking forward to collaborate.--Codrinb (talk) 02:01, 9 December 2010 (UTC) --Codrinb (talk) 03:04, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Ratiaria - Why remove these categories and stubs?
What is the justification for removing these categories?


 * Category:Ancient cities
 * Category:Ancient Roman geography
 * Category:Roman Empire
 * Category:Former populated places in the Balkans
 * Category:Former populated places in Eastern Europe


 * Romania-hist-stub''
 * AncientRome-stub

I find they are very relevant to the article. At least please open a discussion before removing other people's work.

I think the goal here is to categorize the concept such that people can find it from different kind of searches/interests. Furthermore, the stubs invite people with different backgrounds and interests to contribute.

This cross referencing exercise has nothing to do with nationalism, territorial claims or other ideas. This article about Ratiaria belongs to the world, not to Bulgaria or Romania and it should be objecting and findable. Ratiaria existed long before the two countries --Codrinb (talk) 02:41, 9 December 2010 (UTC) --Codrinb (talk) 03:03, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Klada
Please respond to this discussion.-- — ZjarriRrethues — talk 18:19, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Athoniada
Thanks for your time checking the article. Its really an intersting one, so I can propose a couple of more intersting alt hooks. I've presented one. I also noticed you are interested in M. Athos too and especially with the Zografou monastery.Alexikoua (talk) 00:12, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Aldimir
Materialscientist (talk) 18:04, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Kran, Bulgaria
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Decree of Dionysopolis
Thanks for the formatting and the tip. Yes, I plan to expand the article with more references and ideally a picture of the marble. Regarding references, only two paragraphs don't have them. Are you sure is in the History museum or another museum? But I still don't get the point of removing all the stubs so early? The article is brand new and just in the draft form, requiring more exposure to other editors. Can you point me to the guidelines you follow when removing stubs? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Codrinb (talk • contribs) 19:27, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the detailed reply and clarifications. Makes sense.--Codrinb (talk) 20:26, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Mauros
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Maps
Please respond here-- — ZjarriRrethues — talk 12:02, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
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DYK review of Azerbaijani wine
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Speedy deletion nomination of Mihail Gerdjikov


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 * I have declined this speedy deletion nomination, as the page was a redirect, not an article. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:34, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Award
It is a pleasure for me to award you this barnstar. Your contributions on medieval Bulgarian people and on churches in the last several months are very intriguing and well-made. The research you have done on the Round Church is simply impressive. Such topics are very interesting to me personally and I had a great time reading those articles. I wish you all the best for the new 2011 and to continue with your good work in those areas :) Best, --Gligan (talk) 21:12, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

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Nick Chaldakov
Hi Todor. Please, could you take a look at this article (and perhaps at the AfD)? I tried to find some sources, but I'm not sure whether he meets our notability standards. As a native Bulgarian speaker you could provide a more informed review of the subject/sources. Thanks for any help, and Happy New Year :) --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 12:19, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your input, Todor. Instead of judging the notability and searching for sources, the AfD discussion turned into a "hunt" for a coi editor. Let's wait for the comments of others participants in the debate. Have a good day. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 16:42, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Ник Чалдъков: Здравей Todorе :) Благодаря ти за подкрепата :) Ти очевидно разбираш от изкуство ! Радвам се на всеки неуспех, така както се радвам на всеки успех :) В действителност няма неуспехи, защото Бог най-добре знае от какво се нуждаем и ни дава точно това. Желая ти от сърце късмет през новата година!

Относно "историческата" Wikipedia, аз много добре си знам мястото в историята на фотографията но явно тук не са наясно. Нищо неразбирам от този сайт, най вече не разбирам защо е толкова консервативен и няма ли тук арт специалисти? Те невиждат ли това: http://www.chaldakov.com/gallery.htm но явно не го разбират и се нуждаят някой да им каже че това е нещо добро :) Но това няма значение защото аз съм в историята на фотографията, но Wikipedia не е:) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.190.193.73 (talk) 10:49, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Museum of Mosaics, Devnya
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10 years, etc.
И поздравления за Кръглата църква. :) --Nk (talk) 12:04, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Благодаря ти за поздравленията и за поканата! За съжаление няма да мога да дойда. Поздрави, <span style="text-align: center; clear: both; font-family:Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: small-caps; font-style: normal;"> — Toдor Boжinov — 19:44, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Savoyard crusade
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Prohodna
The DYK submission for this article looks fine (just wanted to let you know). <font style="font-family:Rockwell">Jsayre64 <font style="font-family:Rockwell">(talk)  18:55, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Ticha Reservoir
Hi. Big lake which was missing. Can you expand it?♦ Dr. Blofeld  23:18, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks. Not sure how we missed that one!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld  12:07, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Looks great, thanks!♦ Dr. Blofeld  13:08, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

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Bulgarians
Instead of reverting, which is vandalism, please provide sources and discuss at the Discussion page. Kreuzkümmel (talk) 18:03, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Please don't remove the tag, all information in Wikipedia must be verifiable. You could also make yourself familiar with Wikipedia's policies against original research. I would ask you not to remove the sources provided regarding some historians' opinion about the classification of the Bulgarians as slavic people. These are two renowned historians, not fringe science. Kreuzkümmel (talk) 13:54, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Online Ambassadors
I saw the quality of your contributions at DYK and clicked on over to your user page and was pretty impressed. Would you be interested in helping with the WP:Online_Ambassadors program? It's really a great opportunity to help university students become Wikipedia contributers. I hope you apply to become an ambassador


 * Generally it's two hours mostly in response to the mentees, which you should respond to within 24-48 hours if they have inquiries and if they don't have inquiries looking at their contribution history and giving them feedback. We recommend that their courses be structured in such a way that the students should not be requesting any support immediately for turning something in, instead the request for support doesn't require response for at least a week. Also, we recommend ambassadors who regularly use IRC to help support in IRC office hours if they can. So the hours are mostly of your choosing, though we ask you put important pages on your watchlist and check it regularly for things in need of immediate response, Sadads (talk) 12:07, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

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Albanian Vilayet
"Misleading language. The intro in particular makes it sounds as if the vilayet did actually exist as a formal administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. Did it really?"

Can you help and propose how to improve the first sentence not to mislead the readers about formal administrative division of the Ottoman Empire?--Antidiskriminator (talk) 15:23, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * “Did it really exist, de jure and de facto?” I am sure that you know that one can find source for any claim one can think of. More often than we are probably ready to admit, reliability of the sources is in the eye of beholder.
 * There are some sources that claim that this vilayet was established when representatives of Ottoman government agreed to accept demands of Albanian rebels during Albanian Revolt of 1912. Majority of other sources believe that representatives of Ottoman government are not entitled to change administrative organization of Ottoman Empire, because it is in the hands of the parliament. Those sources see Albanian Vilayet as simply a promise or a claim. Other sources says, yes it is right, but Ottoman parliament was not in function in September 1912 because it ceeded his authority to the liberals, the same liberals that accepted demand for Albanian Vilayet and since they had authority ceded by parliament they were entitled to change administrative division of the Empire. Then other pov might say, ok, if it is created, please present the sources about it (formal text of decision), its governor, insititutions, .... Others might say, wikipedia is relying on secondary RS not primary, and there is an ocean of secondary sources that claim that Albanian Vilayet existed.... Do not forget that it is a period of war with Italy and military maneuvers in Rumelia, rebelions of Arabs in Yemen, Syria, secret treaties of Balkan League...
 * Taking all that in consideration, one can say that it absurd to expect that period September 4 - October 8, 1912 (34 days) can be enough time to go trough full procedure of returning the ceded rights, preparation of the law, constitution of the parliament, and officially change the administrative division of empire? Other can say I don't care if it is absurd, it did not exist de jure or de facto. Other POV then can say that sources says it existed and we will be deadlocked.
 * I did not want to open that box because I estimated that there is "made by Pandora" inscription on it. Therefore I deliberately avoided to insist on any POV in order to keep the article NPOV (I am sure that you know that sometimes you have to be Tom Cruz in mission impossible to do it in topics like this). I propose you to follow my logic and to avoid taking any POV but to simply try to include words claim or promise into first sentence without really suggesting anything about de jure or de facto existence. For now.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 16:03, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

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International Commission of Control
Will you please be so kind to review the International Commission of Control article on the DYK nomination page. It should be easier than Albanian Vilayet, since it is non-controversial and much shorter article.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 11:33, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Елиф Шафак
Here is a link to the story about circles. This story explains the variety of topics and nations that my contributions cover. Have patience and watch the whole story. It is worth it. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 13:45, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Church of St George, Kyustendil
The article Church of St George, Kyustendil you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Church of St George, Kyustendil for eventual comments about the article. Well done! Jezhotwells (talk) 21:50, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Church of St Demetrius, Patalenitsa
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DYK for Ticha Reservoir
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DYK for Prohodna
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Happy TodorBozhinov's Day!
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, click here. Have a Great Day...<small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 05:21, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
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Another GA for you...
Church of Christ Pantocrator, Nesebar – another good piece of work. Rather more colourful than all the churches I'm writing about at the moment, but that might be because the weather's better in Bulgaria! BencherliteTalk 22:36, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
 * In contrast, the average church I write about looks like this... no coloured brickwork here! BencherliteTalk 08:45, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

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