User talk:Turaids

The King's Ring
Hello, regarding your latest edit to The King's Ring article, please read WP:USERG. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work 11:52, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Mėnuo Juodaragis
I have restored Mėnuo Juodaragis and moved it to draft:Mėnuo Juodaragis. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 22:31, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I will fix up the article. –Turaids (talk) 22:33, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Ethnicity
According to WP:ETHNICITY, we're not supposed to include a person's ethnicity in the lead section "unless it is relevant to the subject's notability". That's why I removed that info about Diāna Ņikitina. But please add the information to the Personal life section if there's a reliable source about this. I have not seen her confirm her ethnicity but I don't know Latvian or Russian. Thanks! Hergilei (talk) 14:30, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

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Sounds of Angkor photos
Hi, I noticed you have been adding photos from the Sounds of Angkor exhibits. I wanted to thank you. I have wanted to visit Cambodia for some time now, with musical instruments as my fascination. I wonder if you had the chance to meet Patrick Kersale while you were there. I understand he has much to do with the exhibits and runs the Sounds of Angkor website. Thanks again and best wishes, Jacqke (talk) 15:56, 21 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, nice to hear from a fellow musical instrument enthusiast! I wish I could have met Patrick Kersale, but unfortunately, it was just a quick stop at Тheam's, even though I spent most of my time in the room with musical instruments. It's truly fascinating how one man can have such an impact on restoring the musical legacy of a country. –Turaids (talk) 14:53, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Unexplained reverts
I reverted your edit to Bánh mì as non-constructive. Edit summaries are not required when reverting vandalism. Your edit summary was a link to someone's social media profile and your changes removed List of sandwiches from the See Also and replaced it with a red link to Num pang (already discussed in the article as the Cambodian term). Spudlace (talk) 06:27, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Would be a good idea to read WP:VANDAL before referring to an edit of more than a decade-long veteran as "vandalism". Littering the "See also" section with general lists is debatable and not necessarily a common practice. There's already a sandwich template at the bottom of the article. The claim that Cambodian num pang and Laotian khao chī are a derivative of Vietnamese banh mi is questionable and definitely not proven by a vague and passing mention in a newspaper article. And reverting just because the edit summary contains "a link to someone's social media profile" is a pretty absurd reason for reverting anything. –Turaids (talk) 16:32, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

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no edit summary?
Hey, there was no edit summary with this edit, and it doesn't look like a better image to me. What was your reasoning? —valereee (talk) 22:09, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Resolution-wise, yes, but the previous image was a bad representation of fish amok, because a proper fish amok should have a mousse-like consistency, not a soupy mess. –Turaids (talk) 22:14, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

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February 2022
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March 25
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Kampong Speu palm wine moved to draftspace
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Zinkevičius revert
You said: that what most of you've written should be discarded instead as a non-neutral duplicate, first of all the duplicate is the part copied by @Cukrakalnis to the section of "Reception and legacy" from "Anti-polonism", my input is primary. Secondly, it was he who introduced the non-neutral elements such as Jundo-Kaliszewska simultaneously denied the existence of polonized Lithuanians and forced polonization in Lithuania's past (she never did that, which I explained in the discussion) or However, the Polish linguist Mirosław Jankowiak concluded that most self-declared Poles in the Vilnius Region actually spoke Belarusian simple speech instead of Polish., he never said that. He said, which is true, and nobody denies that, including me, that many Polish people in Lithuania speaks Belarusian dialect or Polish-Belarusian mix, Polish-Lithunian mix, many also speaks Russian etc. But they also speak Polish, qoute from the interview with him: Do you talk differently in different places in the Vilnius Region? Yes. In Podbrodzie or Niemenczyn people talk more in Polish. The Polish language is also dominant in Święciany, but Lithuanian is also used there. On the other hand, Dziewieniszki and the areas near the border with Belarus are more Belarusian. The second important factor shaping identity is education. People who went to a Polish school before the war feel more Polish and there will be more polonisms in their simple speech.

But that's not what this is about. Zinkevičius was one of many Lithuanian nationalist politicians who deprived Poles in Lithuania of the right to self-identification and education in Polish. It was based on pseudoscientific theories. This does not mean that everything about them was false, it is clear that the ancestors of most Poles living in Lithuania were Lithuanians or Belarusians. Many, however, came from Poland, from Latvia, from everywhere. But today they have a different self-identification. And this is not the result of "forced" polonization, because Lithuania was under Soviet rule for half a century, where polonization was not carried out. The only period where such a thing took place was the interwar period, but then the Lithuanian community was exceptionally resistant to attempts at Polonization, besides it was a short period of 18 years. Zinkevičius, on the other hand, used his reputation as an undoubtedly outstanding linguist to create theories such as that every Pole with a surname ending in "wicz" is Lithuanian, or that the Polish language in Lithuania is not Polish, but something completely different. Which is nonsense, because most Poles in Lithuania speak beautiful Polish, a northern borderland dialect. These theories are nonsense, because, for example, Vytautas Landsbergis has a German surname, according to Zinkevičius's theory he has no right to be called Lithuanian and to be educated in Lithuanian. Marcelus (talk) 12:32, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Spare your lengthy ramblings. You twisted my words to continue your disruptive editing with a still open report on you. –Turaids (talk) 12:54, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @Turaids Ok, I'm done with you, seems you have personal grudge against me at this point. I just want let you to know that I will not allow you to remove, factual sourced material from Wikipedia Marcelus (talk) 14:30, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hopefully, you'll be blocked from editing that and other articles where you can't keep your personal biases in check and adhere to Wikipedia rules. –Turaids (talk) 14:34, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Yet you failed to point out which Wikipedia rules I have broken. As I said that's a personal grudge against me. As seen here: User_talk:Cukrakalnis Marcelus (talk) 15:11, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I already did it multiple times (WP:SYNTH) and even gave you concrete examples, yet was almost always met with WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT, the last paragraph of which describes you perfectly. Now, stop harassing me! –Turaids (talk) 15:36, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @Turaids I'm not harassing you, we are just talking. You need to point out which exact sentence is against WP:SYNTH. You both pointed out that the first sentence was problematic, and I reworded it. Which one also have issues? Is the section title problematic? So once again, please indicate a name that would be acceptable. Would "anti-Polish sentiment" be better? Marcelus (talk) 16:00, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * You may be talking, but for me, it's like I'm talking to a wall. –Turaids (talk) 16:06, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't understand what you mean Marcelus (talk) 16:13, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Can We Collaborate?
Hello I want to introduce myself and to say I appreciate that you didn’t delete my unsourced edits while I collect references. I see on your talk page you are involved in a few constructive articles about Cambodian culture and I’m truly grateful that you are a seasoned editor and here to help build knowledge on WP. I think we can agree that we have created a certain narrative about each other which I want to dispel. Going forward, I will have good faith in your edits and I hope you will do the same with mine.

My initial edits may have appeared that I was “correcting wrongs” and “having grievances”. Slightly true, but going through the rabbit hole of learning by following the style of other editors gave me false impressions about what is acceptable. I was learning by following; being “Bold” as suggested for new editors and breaking a few eggs. I assumed WP was social media but now I see it’s more analogous to my industry and I can put my objective hat on, however, we are all still human and come with our own experiences that shape our views. If we can both recognze this, I hope we can work together to reach a common ground.

I want to clarify that Cambodians are indigenous people and the false narrative of us being “Cambodian Nationalists” or “nationalistic” fed to foreign media is a potent way to vilify our advocacy to maintain our existence. Our culture is one of the oldest and carries knowledge on how we protect our ecosystem with many biomes. That’s why we have no need to stake claims on other cultures or prove our culture in media. We have no need to falsify or skew our narrative, because our belief is that the truth will always come out whether it takes a year or decades. My goal is to collect the many “puzzles” that international scholars have built for us and piece them together for our younger generation.

I hope to gain more knowledge from your perspective on Cambodian culture as it is as valuable as my own. Debate is expected and you are probably disagreeing with what I’ve written, but I hope our goals are the same as WP editors and that we can be great collaborators.

If you agree, can it be royal consort? Cerie1914 (talk) 22:22, 12 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Susadei, and thank you for your introduction, ! I have to admit that my contribution has mostly been limited to Cambodian cuisine, creating articles about its chefs (Luu Meng, Nite Yun, Joannès Rivière, the Kimsan Twins and Seng Sothea), businesses (Malis, Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School and Samai Distillery), specialties (Mondulkiri wild honey, Kampot sea salt) and expanding existing articles, including the general article about Cambodian cuisine, which I've been continously working on since 2021.


 * Let's work together towards making Wikipedia a truly informative place about Cambodian cuisine, which means including both the favorable and not-so-favorable aspects. Things in the world are rarely black and white and none of us have been there 300 or 500 years ago to claim the truth, so it can only be theoreticized on the limited information available. If there are reliable sources saying how Khmer cuisine has influenced Thai or Vietnamese cuisine they should be included just like the reliable sources saying how afterwards Khmer/Cambodian cuisine was also influenced by Thai or Vietnamese cuisine.


 * I've met numerous wonderful Cambodians during my many months in Cambodia, but Cambodia has nationalists just like any other country. That being said, I've also had the pejorative "Khmer nationalist" directed at me on more than one occasion by some Thai and Vietnamese editors similarly offended by what some of the sources I've used say. Sonner or later you'll also encounter Thai and Vietnamese editors, so my hope is that even while disagreeing on many things with them you will still be able to have the same common ground of Wikipedia rules and principles.


 * As for the royal consort, it should be specified that they are female royal consorts, because the article defines them as "a person of either sex", while the source only speaks of women participating in the preparation of Khmer royal desserts. Other than that I have no objections, but I would prefer to have an third party be involved in it, so I can devote my time elsewhere. –Turaids (talk) 22:35, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

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Saraman curry
Hi Turaids!

Many thanks for the improvements on the Khmer royal cuisine and the saraman curry. I opened a discussion about the correct spelling of saraman curry, you might want to take a look. Pierrevang2 (talk) 19:37, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

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Journal of Historical Review
You should know that your dear friend Egilus is now promoting the Nazi Journal of Historical Review in the Diary of Anne Frank article and said "Wikipedia and its editors should be neutral and show different point of views." to justify promoting the journal as a source. I ask that you as a fluent latvian speaker have a heart-to-heart conversation with him about way Nazi periodicals are bad and that promoting Nazi propaganda is not ok even if it is the name of so-called "neutrality"--QazyQazyQazaqstan (talk) 23:53, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Seeing that the only non-Latvian editor who even engaged you on that claim concluded that,  I cannot help but to conclude that you've made a mountain out of a molehill yet again. Just like everyone else, I'm not getting involved in your personal campaigns against other editors. If you're still completely bought in everything you say about the "powerful" "fascist"  and the Latvian Wikipedia "hijacked by Nazi sympathizers", you should really take it to the Wikimedia Foundation and see where it takes you, but as  said,  So far you've made a lot of noise with very little actual substance. –Turaids (talk) 20:55, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

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Please accept my thanks
I am writing this to express my graceful appreciation for your dedication time and help of recent cleaning up the article Songkran. Now it looks perfect!. Lately I faced the conflicts with personal-attack editor, Pierrevang3 made me fill sick of Wikipedia social. Please accept my deepest thanks. Quantplinus (talk) 10:37, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! To be fair, I don't think some of your responses like "Just keep rolling your eyes maybe you'll find the brain back there." were very appropriate either, but I'm glad my proposal reached consensus from both sides. The article still has a lot of problems as indicated by the maintenance templates, so hopefully more editors will work on it. As for, I did warn him about the potential undeclared use of multiple accounts almost half a year ago, so his block is disappointing. but not too surprising. Hope you have a nice day and best of luck with your work! –Turaids (talk) 21:16, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

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