Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eastern Europe/Archive 1

Belarusian appeal
Friends, I got this from a brother in Belarus, I don't understand the reason for the removal, but I figure we would be a project to be empathetic with the problem. Chris 04:58, 12 April 2007 (UTC) Konstantin Khadyka kastus_khadyka@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:22 AM To:  KAT kaskad_2002@yahoo.com Subject: Forward: Forward: Belarusian Wikipedia-Undo The Removal!!! Dear Friends, The Belarusian pages of Wikipedia-online encyclopedia, written in the Belarusian classical spelling (Taraskievica) were removed due to the intrigues of the people who support the Stalinist spelling imposed in 1933. Please ask the Wikimedia Foundation to Return more than 4000 articles, the result of more than 3-year effort, and a valuable information resource, By Sending The Letter Below To: info@wikimedia.org

Text of the letter
Dear Friend at the Wikimedia Foundation, I just realized that the Belarusian part of the Wikipedia in the Belarusian classical spelling was removed and is no longer accessible. The Belarusian pages of Wikipedia in the classical (Taraskievica) spelling are a product of more than 3-year work by a devoted team of enthusiasts and authors. It contains thousands of articles with original and irreplaceable information, which is already missed sorely. As a user of the Wikipedia resources I urge you to reconsider your decision, and to return the Belarusian content in the classical spelling back to http://be.wikipedia.org. I appreciate your attention and consideration, Sincerely, [Your name here] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Proposal: WikiProject Europe
Hi, I was wondering what the relationship is between this project, WikiProject Former Yugoslavia and WikiProject Southern Europe. You all overlap on the Western Balkans so I was wondering if you guys had defined your scopes with that in mind. In addition, I was noting down the related projects for WikiProject European Union and number of small European projects as I was going round. How do you guys feel about a parent "WIkiProject Europe" to link together as many European projects at the top (not merge, unless some fell the need to)? It could help discussion and cooperation between projects and possibly reduce overheads for the smaller ones. In addition for areas with no project of their own. Where a project has few members or is inactive, a common peer-assessment could help them move forward. Ideas? For central discussion, see WIkiproject EU talk page -  J Logan t: 11:59, 12 August 2007 (UTC) This seems like a good idea. I was going to proposal a similar thing with this project. Many of the Eastern European country projects have fewer than 10 active members. I think one big group of like 60 active members would be much better. It seems we could coordinate our efforts better if we brought all the wikipedians interesed in Eastern Europe together in one place. Then we could focus on specific articles much easier. Blahblah5555 16:06, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Article check
Would someone mind checking out Anti-Romanian massacres in north Transylvania, 1940-1944 for bias or other madness? There seems to be POV in the 'Background info' section. --Tagishsimon (talk) —The preceding  signed but undated.
 * It's a POV fork full of bias and all kinds of madness. I nominated it for deletion. Thanks for the heads up. KissL 15:59, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Good article review
Music of Hungary is being considered to have its good article status removed.  T Rex  | talk  22:53, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

AfD on Denial of Soviet occupation
This AfD may be of interest to members of this project. Comments are welcome. K. Lásztocska 11:49, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Digwuren
This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. Among the principles passed was At wit's end which states that necessary measures must be adopted by the Arbitration Committee in cases where repeated attempts to stop disruptive disputes have failed. As a result of the case, both Digwuren and Petri Krohn are banned for one year. There has also been a general restriction to all editors working on topis related to Eastern Europe and a warning to all those who may, in the future, attempt to use Wikipedia as a battleground that they may be banned when the matter is reported to the Committee. On behalf of the Arbitration Committee,  Cbrown1023   talk   18:45, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Edward Teller FAR
Edward Teller is currently being subjected to a Featured Article Review. If you want to contribute to this discussion, please do. Regards, Daimanta 20:28, 27 October 2007 (UTC) Edward Teller has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 00:07, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Merger proposal for history projects
There is a proposal at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject European history to merge WikiProject History of Poland into the former. The most appropriate way would likely be to make the latter a joint task force of WikiProject European history and this project (since there is really no Project Poland, only a redirect to Portal:Poland, renaming it as a task force of either project (in the model of WP:MILHIST which would make sense even if the project were active). Comments are needed.  It would be helpful if there were interest enough in reinvigorating the project (whether consensus is to move or not, makes no difference) rather than having languish as an inactive task force or project.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 16:05, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * This happened by the way.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 05:56, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

FAR for Belarusian Republican Youth Union
Belarusian Republican Youth Union has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. – Ilse@ 01:26, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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