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Article on Vardun needs a lot of work.
If anyone likes geo projects, this article on Vardun needs a lot of tweaking. Found it on WP:UNCAT.

Royal Helena
A new Bulgarian sailing ship was launched on 29 August this year, the Royal Helena. I've not been able to find much out about her from English language sources. Are there any members of this WP who are able to expand the stub article I've created with Bulgarian sources?

Dolen, Blagoevgrad Province
I translated parts of the History section from the Bulgarian article Долен (Област Благоевград). . I will continue working on translating other parts of it.

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Hristo Popov
Hello to Bulgaria. For your information: Articles for deletion/Hristo Popov. --Vejvančický (talk) 16:03, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  01:21, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

The destruction of Thracian Bulgarians
The article "The destruction of Thracian Bulgarians" has been nominated for deletion:. The chief argument (apart from the easily correctable naming problem, with which I agree somewhat) is the lack of reliable, secondary sources. As this seems to be only article on Wikipedia dealing with the massacre and expulsion of the Bulgarians from Eastern Thrace, it would be a good idea if good sources were found to establish its notability, so the article can be kept, perhaps under a different name. Kostja (talk) 20:09, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

new page
I made a new page, Demographic history of Bulgaria... (LAz17 (talk) 17:39, 4 April 2010 (UTC)).

Category:Lakes of the Pirin
Please note the discussion going on here. Preslav (talk) 09:55, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Valeri Lilov (2nd nomination)
Any and all, please look in on Articles for deletion/Valeri Lilov (2nd nomination). Thanks,  Chzz  ► 15:07, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant
http://picasaweb.google.com/will.m.hale/Istanbul#5363108814457331170

I took this picture from a train on the Romanian-Bulgarian Border. I think it is Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.228.245.33 (talk) 16:18, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

English language resources
The following regularly updated information sources regularly contain material pertinent to this project in English. To date, all the sources listed below are, primarily, general interest and news sources. Other sources on more specialized topics may be added by me later as I find them, if the members of this project indicate they want them.

John Carter (talk) 23:49, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * BNR Radio Bulgaria
 * Bulgaria Gazette
 * Bulgarian Gazette
 * Bulgarian News Agency
 * Bulgaria News Network
 * FOCUS Information Agency
 * Media Times Review
 * news.bg
 * novinite.com
 * profit.bg
 * The Sofia Echo
 * Standart

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A-class review for Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria is open
A WPMILHIST A-class nomination of Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria is open. Any interested editors are invited to participate. Any input is welcome! Constantine  ✍  11:57, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Featured list removal candidates/List of extreme points of Bulgaria/archive1
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Plastic manufacture
Sadova is the home of a rather unusual English owned Polythene film and bag factory Bulgaria Polythene Industries. Operating 24 hours a day it produces about 20 tonnes a week all of which are sent to the United Kingdom, a lorry leaving weekly. The owners seek customers on the route beween Sadova and England. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.11.96.160 (talk) 16:16, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Round Church, Preslav featured article nomination
Hello! I've just nominated the article about the Round Church, Preslav, which I've been working on since October, as a featured article candidate. If you're interested in the topic, you're welcome to voice your opinion, provide your comments and support/oppose the nomination. You may find it here: Featured article candidates/Round Church, Preslav/archive1. Thanks!  — Toдor Boжinov — 18:51, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Stoyanka Kurbatova


The article Stoyanka Kurbatova has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Stub of BLP is well over 2 years old with no non-primary, non-originally-researched sources

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 * Thanks for the heads up, I added inline references :) Best,  — Toдor Boжinov — 15:40, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Photo request in Sofia
Hi! I added a photo request for the Bulgaria Air head office in Sofia: If anyone decides to take the photograph, please let me know WhisperToMe (talk) 10:27, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Bulgaria Air head office at Head office 1, Brussels Blvd Sofia Airport Sofia 1540 / бул. "Брюксел" № 1 Летище София София 1540

Anonymous Bulgarian Chronicle
I created this article, it is close to being DYKable. Would somebody care to expand it with Bulgarian sources? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 18:49, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Will do, as soon as I'm done with rewriting History of Bulgaria. - ☣Tourbillon A ? 11:09, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Third Bulgarian State
Currently there are three articles concerning the history of Bulgaria since 1878 (History of Bulgaria 1878-1946, People's Republic of Bulgaria and History of Bulgaria since 1989). Since these are not separate national entities, I propose merging the first and the last one into a single article entitled "Third Bulgarian State", and adding some info from the second one while leaving it as a main. Currently History of Bulgaria 1878-1946 and since 1989 are fairly useless, especially the latter. There is no need of such fragmenting. - ☣Tourbillon A ? 11:09, 11 November 2011 (UTC)


 * You are right that there is fragmentation and confusion, especially having in mind that we also have Principality of Bulgaria and Kingdom of Bulgaria. It seems that the practice is such articles to exist, as should People's Republic of Bulgaria exist but all those entities are part of the Third Bulgarian State. Therefore, in my opnion the articles you suggest should be merged by the name "History of the Third Bulgarian State" which would include everything since 1878. The worst part is that there is no logical distinction between Principality of Bulgaria and Kingdom of Bulgaria, just an event in 1908, but I cannot think of an appropriate name for a common article. --Gligan (talk) 13:41, 11 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Principality of Bulgaria, Kingdom of Bulgaria and People's Republic of Bulgaria should stay separate as they represent different forms of government. However, I am supportive of a merge for the 1878-1946 and "since 1989" periods in one article. The first one basically copies Kingdom of Bulgaria, and the second one contains very little information. History of the Third Bulgarian State would be an appropriate title, but it will be better if we hear more opinions on the issue as there might be objections - after all, we're discussing a very large transfer of information and restructuring. - ☣Tourbillon A ? 14:49, 11 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Surely if you go by forms of government, "Since 1989" has to be separate: Republic of Bulgaria. 1878-1946 was a monarchy. SKL1750 12 January 2012  —Preceding undated comment added 15:17, 12 January 2012 (UTC).

Move to disambiguate Icon
At Talk:Icon. I'm notifying all projects. Johnbod (talk) 17:38, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Bulgaria will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Bulgaria's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:53, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

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Kaiserin.JPG
file:Kaiserin.JPG (Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.131.248 (talk) 03:43, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Kyrillofbulgaria.JPG
File:Kyrillofbulgaria.JPG has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.131.248 (talk) 03:48, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Category:Sofia
Category:Sofia, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for renaming, along with all of its sub-categories.. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:17, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Prehistoric town
In which municipality and province lies "Europe's oldest prehistoric town unearthed in Bulgaria"? --84.48.216.254 (talk) 15:51, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Siege of Constantinople (717–718) FAC
The article on the Siege of Constantinople (717–718) is currently undergoing review as a Featured Article. All interested editors are invited to participate in the discussion. Constantine  ✍  09:46, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

History of Vojvodina
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Bulgars
Hello, could I get some knowledgeable folks to take a look at the discussion at Talk:Bulgars? There is a user who is requesting some text be added stating that the article is about the Turkic theory of origin, and that said theory is disputed. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a subject matter expert in this field, and only became involved to assist with editing hatnotes on the article. Thanks, &mdash; KuyaBriBri Talk 21:17, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

File:Bulgarian State Railway 46.20 Locomotive.jpg
File:Bulgarian State Railway 46.20 Locomotive.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 00:42, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Teodosij.jpg
File:Teodosij.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 03:24, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Help needed
Does anyone have time to help in taking WP:Naming conventions (Cyrillic) from current draft to RfC for adoption as a guideline? In ictu oculi (talk) 06:33, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

King Boris III of Bulgaria with M36 helmet.jpg
image:King Boris III of Bulgaria with M36 helmet.jpg has been nominaetd for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 01:45, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

File:Bulgarian cap badge from April Uprising.jpg
File:Bulgarian cap badge from April Uprising.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:01, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

The law for protection of the nation.jpg
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1894 elections
According to The Times, the "Unionists" won 27 seats in the 1894 elections. The only "Unionists" I can find that existed during this period were the Bulgarian Social Democratic Union. However, that party merged into the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party before the elections were held, so I'm not sure if they still existed. Were the Times referring to the BRSDP or to another group? Cheers, Number   5  7  19:59, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Hey, I was trying to dig up something on this the past couple of days. Unfortunately, there seems to be no data on said elections, available online that is. You're right that the Social Democratic Union members were called "Unionists". And again, they did indeed merge into BRSDP, together with the other socialist party of the time. The resulting Union got two MPs (Yanko Sakazov and Nikola Gabrovski) in the next parliament, at least that is what every single Bulgarian source I go to claimed. The Bulgarian Socialist Democratic Party website claims the same. Bulgarian sources also suggest that just 149 MPs were elected. Could it be that the NY Times is wrong?-- L a v e o l  T 22:47, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay in replying - I was away on holiday. Erm, no idea if the Times were wrong, but they are generally a fairly reliable source. I've checked again and that is definitely the figure (27 seats). It also mentions that they were an opposition party. Number   5  7  18:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Countries bordering the Black Sea
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:54, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Bulgaria example missing from Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
I wonder if someone could please provide a suitable example of a notable/stable article lead for WP:BULGARIANNAMES. The Kazakh example is Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Russian example Vladimir Putin, the Serbian example Ivo Andrić. Thanks in advance. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:14, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Well I went ahead and added Boris Christoff. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:52, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

ChiprovtziPlate150.jpg
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LiturgicalBookCase.jpg
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GoldJugVratsa150.jpg
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BeltBuckle150.jpg
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Preslav-chariot.jpg
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Preslav-earings.jpg
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Preslav-neckless150.jpg
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Lukovit-wiki.jpg
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Lestniza-fight-wiki.jpg
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Proposed deletion of Plaza West (Sofia)


The article Plaza West (Sofia) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * it is a non existing building in Sofia, no indication of encyclopedic importance, deleted from bg Wiki after a consensus that the sources are not reliable

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English exonyms for place names
English_exonyms. Can someone check this please. See also article Talk. Many thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:21, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

WW1 Reparations
Hi, I am working on the World War I reparations article. I am currently expanding the information on the Bulgarian reparation demands and payments. Thus far, I have established the following:

1 - Treaty of Neuilly established that Bulgaria had to pay 2.250 billion Gold francs in reparations.(Treaty of Neuilly, Article 121) 2 - In 1923, the Bulgarian reparation sum was "revised downwards" to 550 million gold francs "plus a lump sum payment of 25 million francs for occupation costs".(Marks, Myths of Reparations, pp. 234-5) 3 - Between the treaty signing and April 1922, 173 million gold francs were paid (1) 4 - Between 1925 and 1929, Bulgaria paid a further 41 million gold francs, before reparations were abandoned at the Lausanne conference of 1932.(2)

Can anyone provide additional information (including sources)? Such as:

1 - Do the above figures represent total Bulgarian reparation payment, and if not what was it? 2 - Did an event, such as the Dawes Plan for example, occur to revise down the Bulgarian reparation payments?

Thanks for any help provided.EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 03:56, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

RM notification for Dobre Dobrev
If this project is inactive, I may be talking to an empty room, but if anyone sees this, your participation at Talk:Dobre Dobrev, dealing with the relative notability of a Christian beggar and a footballer, would be appreciated. --BDD (talk) 21:38, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Electoral system
Could anyone confirm the electoral system currently used in Bulgaria. There seems to be confusion over whether the single-member constituencies still exist, or whether all seats are elected by proportional representation. The IPU claims the former, whilst the IFES claims both... Cheers, Number   5  7  08:22, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * All seats are elected by proportional representation. They tested out a mixed electoral system in the 2009 elections when 31 of the seats were elected from single-member constituencies. The next elections (2013) did not feature any form of majority vote. However, there is a motion to once again amend the Electoral Code in the near future. -- L a v e o l  T 11:19, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Number   5  7  19:33, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The article: Elections in Bulgaria has now been updated. I noticed how badly outdated it was! There is still some more work to do here. Kndimov (talk) 14:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Greater Romania (political concept)
Would you please tell us your opinion on this matter? The concept concerns Bulgaria. All comments are welcome.Fakirbakir (talk) 08:06, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

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Living people on EN wiki who are dead on other wikis
The following individuals who are in the scope of this project are showing to be alive on the English wiki, but deceased on another language wiki:


 * Ivan Marinov (composer): bg:Починали през 2003 година
 * Radi Nedelchev: de:Gestorben 2007

Please help to find reliable sources to confirm if these individuals are alive or dead, or correct any mis-categorization on the relevant foreign-language article(s). Please see WP:LIVINGDEAD for more info and raise any issues on the talkpage. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 18:03, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles. --Kaiyr (talk) 03:50, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Needing input
On this discussion regarding. The discussion is also here. Hungarian editors claim the map is correct and all of Bulgaria was vassal of Louis of Hungary. Thank you. FkpCascais (talk) 15:39, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Peer review: Glad (duke)
All comments would be appreciated here. Borsoka (talk) 03:28, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Communist Bulgarian technology
Hi. I was recently looking at the Bulgaria article and saw that there was no mention to any of the computers (Pravets, Vitosha...) built in the PRB from the 60's to the 80's. On the People's Republic of Bulgaria page, there is a picture of the Vitosha and a helpful caption about the "Silicon Valley of the Eastern Bloc." Could we add some more information to the Bulgaria article, or at least link the "Science and Technology" section of the Bulgaria page to the "Economy" section of the PRB page? Thanks, DasPig  -  t a l k  13:57, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * "Silicon Valley of the Eastern Bloc." - I remember Bulgarian products (ESER, computer discs) cursed by Polish engineers.Xx234 (talk) 06:58, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Bulgaria imported big numbers of ZSD Nysa.Xx234 (talk) 07:52, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dobromirka and Dobromirka
Dear Bulgaria experts: Both of these pages state that they are about towns in Gabrovo province, but one is in Bulgaria and one is in Ukraine. Are these two different towns, and if so is there and error in description of the location of one of them? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 22:20, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, the second paragraph in the existing article referred to the Bulgarian village while the first paragraph and infobox were about the Ukrainian village. These should be two separate articles, with the current Dobromirka page as a disambiguation. The AfC request refers to this place.  — Toдor Boжinov — 15:09, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Eyes needed on an AfD re: Bulgarian rapper
Please opine at Articles for deletion/Calligraphist (artist). Thank you. Softlavender (talk) 07:28, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Emily Anne Smythe
Bulgarian heroine? on main page Victuallers (talk) 22:17, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

AfC submissions
See Draft:Ivan Sarailiev and Draft:Agop Melkonyan. Thank you, FoCuS contribs ;  talk to me!  22:01, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Black Box International Festival
I have been creating (also in french) the Black Box International Festival's page (it is a theater and dance festival that takes place every year in Plovdiv). It is proposed for deletion because of a lack of external sources showing the event's notability. The user Spiritia added some bulgarian references (see talk page), but may I ask for some input from editors of this WikiProject? Thank you. Trace (talk) 11:52, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Bulgarian National Alliance
This article could use some reliable sources for its information, if anyone interested and knowledgeable in Bulgarian politics wants to take a look. Also a check for accuracy of the claims would be great. Thank you. GermanJoe (talk) 12:38, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Requested move discussion
Hello. The following requested move discussion would benefit from broader input: Talk:Turks in Bulgaria. Thanks in advance for your participation. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:53, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
Hi everyone. These guidelines still have a "proposed" sticker on the head, but they appear to be in use across all the Cyrillic languages:

Is there any debate about any of the language sections? Does it reflect correctly and completely this WikiProject? If there's a language where there isn't agreement, then shouldn't an "under discussion" sticker be on the individual language and we can work to remove the the "proposal" header above all of them? In ictu oculi (talk) 08:49, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Bulgarian Cup
Needs Clarification on the amount of teams competing in the A PFG division 16 or 10, is disputed.
 * I'm not entirely sure what competition you are referring to. Is it the Bulgarian A Football Group, which is the league competition, or the Bulgarian Cup, which is the actual cup competition. There does not seem to be a dispute regarding the number of teams participating in the league - it is 10, though one might soon get thrown out of the competition.-- L a v e o l  T 10:28, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Category:Recipients of the Bulgarian Memorial Medal of the European War 1915-1918 has been nominated for discussion
Category:Recipients of the Bulgarian Memorial Medal of the European War 1915-1918, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 02:27, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Notice to participants at this page about adminship
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Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:40, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Bulgarian nationalism
Has anyone noticed there isn't an article for Bulgarian nationalism? We should probably have one right? Charles Essie (talk) 22:21, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

The 10,000 Challenge
Hi. The WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge ‎ has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. If anybody here would like to contribute to a European one or would rather contribute to a sub one specifically for Bulgaria like The 1000 Challenge (Bulgaria) based on The 1000 Challenge (Turkey), sign your name under the section for Bulgaria and I'll start it if there is enough support. For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Bulgarian and European content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon. If you would like to see this happening for Bulgaria and European nations, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant!♦ Dr. Blofeld  19:29, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Cannabis in Bulgaria needs improvement
We have a new article Cannabis in Bulgaria, but it could really use improvement and expansion, especially from anyone who can read Bulgarian sources. With a little polishing, it'd also be really useful to make a translated version for Bulgarian Wikipedia since it's a topic of increasing interesting these days. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 03:01, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Hitrino train derailment
Assistance in expanding the Hitrino train derailment from Bulgarian language sources is requested. Also, are there any Wikipedians in the area able to take suitable photographs to illustrate the article? Mjroots (talk) 20:21, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Tu(a)rnovo
Hello,

Just passing to say that something could be made to homegenize the transcriptions Turnovo/Tarnovo. Both places (Veliko Tarnovo and the lesser Turnovo) exist but they're not the same. The problem is that in general, outside Wikipedia, Turnovo is used in honorific styles (although the town it refers may be Tarnovo). See: and

At least on the same page, one transcription only should be used.

Greetings, Darthbunk Pakt Dunft (t)  14:14, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Trove of Bulgarian MILHIST Sources
I stumbled upon a trove of quality Bulgarian MILHIST sources (including official histories) covering the Bulgarian War of Independence, Serbo-Bulgarian War, Balkan Wars and World War I (Macedonian Front, Romanian and Serbian Campaigns). I can barely understand anything but hopefuly someone else can find this useful.--Catlemur (talk) 16:59, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Economy -> Miscellaneous
Under Economy -> Miscellaneous, there are strong claims made regarding overall Bulgarian intelligence as well as student performance, but both citations are dead links.

(Stichodactyla (talk) 22:43, 6 February 2017 (UTC)).

Map of Bulgaria
All comments on a map depicting the borders of Bulgaria in the 1250s are appreciated on the Talk page of Kaliman I of Bulgaria. Borsoka (talk) 04:30, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Magura Cave
There seems to be a conflict about the source of "Magura". Is it Romanian, Bulgarian, or something else? I have started a discussion on talk:Magura Cave. As I have zero knowledge on these languages, I will not participate further. Thank you Jim1138 (talk) 01:29, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Bulgaria

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.&mdash; Rod talk 13:55, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

No more perperikon.bg
Please replace wrong links.Xx236 (talk) 12:20, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Ruth Koleva(Singer)
Members may wish to comment.4meter4 (talk) 20:45, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians to be moved to Anti-Eastern Orthodox sentiment. This page is of interest to several relating WikiProjects and interested users may want to participate in the discussion here. Sorabino (talk) 21:45, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Correct Romanization of a name
Looking to find the correct page to merge to over on Talk:Neva Krysteva Klbrain (talk) 22:42, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Title: "Slavic paganism" or "Slavic religion"?
More opinions needed in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Historical_Slavic_religion#Historical_Slavic_Religion,_What_Gives? this discussion].--Eckhardt Etheling (talk) 07:36, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Focus on Bulgaria at Women in Red
In May 2018, in conjunction with m:Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/Article Lists, Women in Red is focusing on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. We hope there will be contributions on Bulgarian women.

Wiki4MediaFreedom
Hi. If you have time, please take a look on meta at this page m:Wiki4MediaFreedom contest. It's an event organized by Rossella Vignola (OBC), there is a list of articles to improve also on English wikipedia.--Alexmar983 (talk) 20:24, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:27, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Balgariyo mila
I came across this article per this Wikipedia Teahouse discussion. The article was directly added to the mainspace without being vetted by WP:AFC, so it's not clear if the subject is actually notable enough for a stand-alone article. Anyway, the creator is looking for someone to help him clean up the article. Would someone from this WikiProject mind taking a look at it and assessing it? Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:51, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Blagoevgrad Province
Following a recent decision to merge a category into Category:Blagoevgrad Province, I suggested that both the category and it's eponymous article be renamed to Category:Blagoevgrad (province). While it is disambiguated in this way (oblast) in the Bulgarian wiki, it is not so in the English wiki. For some reason there is a preference to use "XXX Province". Is this how the province in known in Bulgaria? Or is it just known as Blagoevgrad? What's your opinion? Laurel Lodged (talk) 14:36, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:34, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta
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Wiki Loves Pride!
 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


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A new newsletter directory is out!
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Westernmost point of Bulgaria
I was looking into List of extreme points of Bulgaria and comparing with Google Earth. It looks like the Westernmost point as per Google Earth is in the Vidin province (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8118097,22.3573764,18z) as opposed to the place mentioned in the article in the Kyustendil province (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3118789,22.3606463,17z). Can somebody confirm which is right? Thanks! -- Paddu (talk) 16:04, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Overhauled Ablanitsa, Lovech Province
Just letting you know that I made some major changes to Ablanitsa, a village in the Lovech province. If you've got any suggestions or worries, or if I muddled up, check out the page here. I also added two more references. Thanks! Dibbydib (talk) (contribs) 07:52, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Kate Marie Byrnes up for Deletion
U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia. Career diplomat. Question of sources and citations. WP:BEFORE. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 14:12, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Category:Demographics of the Western Balkans has been nominated for discussion
Category:Demographics of the Western Balkans has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Place Clichy (talk) 14:47, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Cyrillic el
There is a discussion at WP:VPT about the alternative form (Ʌ ʌ) of the Cyrillic letter el, which is used in the Bulgarian language which members of this WikiProject may wish to join. Mjroots (talk) 06:29, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Reorganize Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottoman Empire as a task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries?
Dear users of this WikiProject:

At Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Former_countries I have left a proposal to convert WikiProject Ottoman Empire into a task force of WikiProject Former countries. I asked this project (as all or parts of this country was/were formerly in the Ottoman Empire) and several other projects to get further feedback. Please let me know if you have questions, comments, or objections.

Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 01:58, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Request for comment in this WikiProject
If you are interested, there is a request for comment about an article in this WikiProject. Talk:Tripartite Pact. AnomalousAtom (talk) 10:41, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

PFC Ludogorets Razgrad
Two users have been fighting over this. Insults, notice board posts, everything but talking it out-- irreconcilable differences. Could someone sort this out with reliable sources and calm discussion? -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 22:55, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Other sources: All sources you could find state that the club was founded in 1945. Even yesterday, they had their 75th Anniversary celebration in front of all the Bulgarian football community. Seimbru (talk) 09:12, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I cite the following sources and explain that there is a difference between incorporation date on September 18, 2010 and the date "The club was founded in 1945". Additionally, there had been some discussion about the year 2000/2001. Translating the only available source about that: "Razgrad 2000 was founded in 2000. Before the start of 2010/11 football season, the club inheritted the history, symbols, name and traditional records of the city's club Ludogorets 1945." I can further explain this source, which was written by a fellow citizen /football fan who owns this website/, because I live in Razgrad and I am able to provide more detailed information. Ludogorets was established in 1945 after the merging of several rural football clubs from the Ludogorie Region. Ludogorets Razgrad was initially participating in the Third football division of Bulgaria. They promoted to the Second division in 1961. In 1997 the club merged with FC Antibiotic Razgrad and was renamed to FC Antibiotic-Ludogorets but then the club defuncted due to financial problems. It is important to note that the club was not registered as a private company. Meanwhile the citizens of our small town, lead by Alexandar Alexandrov who later became the director of the club, created a youth club named Razgrad 2000. In 2009/2010 the club was purchased by a Bulgarian pharmeceutical entrepreneur - Kiril Domuschiev who incorporated the club by merging all previous Ludogorets' and Razgrad 2000' properties, stadium, team management, players, coaches, symbols and making it a private company. This club is the original successor of the traditions and history of Ludogorets 1945 and right now a Professional Football Club. I know it is hard to understand this for people who haven't lived in a communist country. The real thing is that before 1987 Bulgaria's government owned everything. There weren't any private companies. This means that even if the club was later privately, it was actually established long time ago. It is a common situation here and the same happened with other football clubs. Most recently with CSKA Sofia, which merged with Litex in 2016 but kept the history of the club in 1948.
 * Was really hoping for some participation from Wikiproject members. Assessment of sources. Additional sources not available to English speakers. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 12:49, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Full history of the football in Razgrad, Bulgaria Here you are, what I could find. When available, I will go to the Municipality Hall Razgrad and the Ludogorets' "Eagle's Nest" to take some archive photos. Seimbru (talk) 13:58, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Subject matter expert requested at Talk:Bulgars
There seems to be some disagreement about the inclusion of Krum in the article and could probably benefit from someone more familiar with the subject than I am weighing in on the discussion. The discussion is at Talk:Bulgars. Thanks in advance! OhKayeSierra (talk) 07:53, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

First women MPs in Bulgaria
Hello. I'm compiling a list of the first women MPs in each country, but have been unable to locate such a list for Bulgaria. There is also a disagreement between sources of how many there were (various ones put it at between 12 and 16). If anyone can point me to a definitive source, it would be much appreciated. Cheers, Number   5  7  17:53, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Chalga compilation albums


A tag has been placed on Category:Chalga compilation albums requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. --David Tornheim (talk) 15:59, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Compilation albums by Bulgarian artists


A tag has been placed on Category:Compilation albums by Bulgarian artists requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. --David Tornheim (talk) 16:11, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Discussion of interest
Members of this project might be interested in this discussion. Beyond My Ken (talk) 16:24, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Women in Red Europe contest
After successfully completing our Asia and Africa contests over the past six months, we now welcome contributions to our Women in Europe contest which runs for three separate months from April to June 2021. To qualify for the contest, articles have to contain at least 160 words or 1,000 characters of running text and participants need to be members of Women in Red. We look forward to lots of new biographies of women from Bulgaria.--Ipigott (talk) 06:47, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

FAR notice
I have nominated Sviatoslav I for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 23:40, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Proposed move at "Icon"
Please comment there. Johnbod (talk) 01:13, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Help requested
Hi all. I am currently expanding Deaths in 1995. I want to add Boris Aprilov to the list, but I am having trouble finding a reference for his date of death on 10 April 1995. I'm guessing sources will be in Bulgarian. If anyone has luck locating a source please ping me. Also, the article itself needs sources and copyediting. Best.4meter4 (talk) 18:27, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria FAR
I have nominated Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Bumbubookworm (talk) 17:01, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Russian or Bulgarian?
Hello!

I wonder if either Russian or Bulgarian language is used for the last inscription on this picture of an Ottoman-era bakery in Istanbul/Constantinople. The caption says that the name is written in Russian, next to Armenian, Ladino (in Hebrew characters), English, Ottoman Turkish and Greek; however I guess that Bulgarian would have been more likely in this era. My knowledge of either language, and of the evolution of spelling since the early 20th century does not allow me to tell the difference. The sign seems to read: "Американска? пекарня". All help welcome! (Also asked on WT:RUSSIA.) Place Clichy (talk) 09:53, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi there! It should be Russian and I think it says "Американская пекарня". In Bulgarian it would be "Американска пекарна".  — Toдor Boжinov — 13:39, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Any idea why an Ottoman-era bakery would use Russian instead of Bulgarian, next to other native languages like Greek, Armenian and Ladino? I guess that there would have been a much bigger local Bulgarian population in Constantinople at the time than a Russian one. Could it be a spelling mistake? Place Clichy (talk) 09:33, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Please help me
Greetings,

Hi, I am User:Bookku, my expectations to get expanded Black sea related articles failed miserably. I am expecting and requesting at least some help in expanding the article Draft:List of erstwhile slave trading townships with regions surrounding Black sea. In next steps I wish to have a proper map showing erstwhile slave trading townships across black sea.

Thanks and warm regards

&#32;Bookku, &#39;Encyclopedias &#61; expanding information &#38; knowledge&#39; (talk) 10:05, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

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AFD that could benefit from your review
Hello! I've stumbled into Articles for deletion/Iliyan Kuzmanov which regards a Bulgarian author and entrepreneur. It appears that the subject's notability is hinging on Bulgarian sources, and as I don't know from Bulgaria, it would be greatly helpful to have some eyes with knowledge of the region, its media, etc., to help bring some clarity. Thanks! Tony Fox (arf!) 20:23, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Balkan Latinity WikiProject
Hello, I've been thinking for a while of an idea for a new and certainly needed WikiProject. The Aromanians/Vlachs, Megleno-Romanians/Meglenites and Istro-Romanians/Ćiribirci are poorly known peoples in the Balkans, the only ones that are Romance-speaking apart of the Romanians. Tagging pages related to these with WikiProject templates can turn problematic, see this talk page for example, saturated with 7 different templates. I was thus thinking that giving them their own WikiProject could increase organization on Wikipedia about info on these peoples and increase their representation in the project, perhaps even attracting members of these groups into working at Wikipedia. The project could be split into three task forces for each of the three.

If you're interested, please ping me here or message me on my talk page. Expressing your interest in the existence of such a project is enough, you will not be compromised or pressured into working in a topic area you might lose interest to soon. After (if) I recruit enough support, I will start a formal proposal and ping you there. Regards, Super   Ψ   Dro  20:56, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Help on Eastern European languages
Hello!

Our of boredom, I am trying to identify the languages of inscriptions on a fountain located in central Budapest. I could easily identify some languages such as Hebrew, Armenian, Russian, English, French, Spanish etc. but I have trouble with some, mostly Slavic, languages which I do not speak myself. I guess that they must include Czech (or Slovak), Slovene, Croatian/Serbian/Bosniak, Macedonian, Bulgarian and/or maybe others.

Translations of 'The place is ours':
 * Trg je naš / Площадьт е наш (pretty sure that's Bulgarian) / Naš trg / Nas trg / [unreadable] naše je námestie

Translations of 'Non potable water':
 * Водата не е за пиене / Voda ni pitna / Непитна вода / Nepitná voda / Nepitka voda / Voda nije za piće

Translations of 'Open lawn':
 * Ходенето по тревата е разрешено / Dozvoljeno je gaziti (ǧaziti?) po travi / Dozvoljeno gaženje trave

I also do not manage to identify the language in 3 other inscriptions for which glossaries easily available online did not help. Could it be Romani?
 * Náj lasó ráji / Ámáro szi o placo / Pécsár saj ustarén

Is anyone here able to tell which is which? Note that many inscriptions (such as in French and Greek) have spelling mistakes and inconsistent respect of diacritics.

Pictures of the fountain:

Place Clichy (talk) 15:54, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Vampire
I have nominated Vampire for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 16:43, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Moscopole
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Moscopole that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.Alexikoua (talk) 00:28, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —usernamekiran (talk) 15:09, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Zograf Monastery
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Zograf Monastery that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 14:29, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

FAR for Macedonia (terminology)
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FAR for Macedonia (terminology)
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FAR for Macedonia (terminology)
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Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments are used by Wikipedia editors to rate the quality of articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:45, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

First statute of the IMRO has an RFC
First statute of the IMRO, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. StephenMacky1 (talk) 21:22, 1 May 2023 (UTC)