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WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Eastern Europe will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Eastern Europe'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) 21:52, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Perth requested-move notification
A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation), which proposes to move:
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 * Perth, Scotland → Perth, Perthshire
 * Perth (disambiguation) → Perth

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Kingdom of Hungary (1000–1526)
A proposal for size splitting of the above article has been made. All comments are welcome. Borsoka (talk) 06:16, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries and territories of the Mediterranean Sea
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:42, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Baltic states
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Countries bordering the Caspian Sea
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Countries bordering the Black Sea
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List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin
There is a debate over a deletion proposal. All comments are welcome. Fakirbakir (talk) 20:51, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Renaming and moving: Greater Romania > Interwar Romania
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The relation of the Allies with Hungary at the Paris Peace conference
In the article Treaty of Trianon I found the text below:

The treaty was dictated by the Allies rather than negotiated and the Hungarians had no option but to accept its terms.[11] The Hungarian delegation signed the treaty under protest

Aren't the above facts self-implied? As far as I know, after any military conflict the winners dictate the terms of the peace treaties to the losers (and don't negotiate with the defeated side when taking the decisions).

So, is it necessary to include the phrase above? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stugug (talk • contribs) 14:15, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Peer review: Hungarian prehistory
All comments here would be appreciated. Thank you, Borsoka (talk) 12:50, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

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Peer review: Kingdom of Hungary (1000-1301)
All comments, suggestions are welcome here. Thank you for your time. Borsoka (talk) 02:31, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

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Human and Sex Trafficking Article help
For a university level class, I am going to be creating an article that looks at the sex trafficking rings in Easter Europe. The class’s focus is on gender economics of the third world. I will be using a variety of sources, though most will be scholarly. Below is a summary of what I will be talking about and a tentative outline. I would really appreciate some feedback. This is my first Wiki contribution. I am either going to be starting a new article or contributing and editing the existing Human Trafficking article. Is there anything else that I should be looking at? Sex trafficking is a modern form of slavery where people, mostly women and girls are forced, deceived or coerced into prostitution. Human trafficking is the second most lucrative illegal activity worldwide after drug trafficking. The traffickers use psychological and well as physical threats including bondage, serious harm to or physical restraint, and murdering of family members if the victims do not cooperate. Generally the women who are targeted come from lower income areas and desperate situations. There are a number of common patterns for luring victims into situations of sex trafficking traps. Some include; a promise of a good job in another country, a false marriage proposal turned into a bondage situation, being sold into the sex trade by parents or husbands, or being kidnapped by traffickers. Often there is a form of debt bondage where the victims or their family has a debt that must be repaid in the form of service by the woman or girl. They are not freed until the debt is paid. Some of the risks these girls are subjected to are drug and alcohol addiction, physical injuries, malnutrition, sexually transmitted diseases, sterility, miscarriages and/or abortions, reproductive complications and other diseases. In addition to the physical risks, there are many psychological problems that can arise, including shame, grief, fear, distrust, hatred of men, self-hatred, and suicidal thoughts. Outline: 1.	Overview 2.	Physical Risk 2.1.	Abuse 2.2.	Bondage 2.3.	Diseases 2.4.	Reproductive Health 3.	Psychological Consequences 3.1.	Depression 3.2.	Suicide 3.3.	Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome 3.4.	Treatment 4.	Specific Counties 5.	Child Sex Trade/tourism/trafficking (links to the articles) 6.	Campaigns 7.	News Stories and Media Depictions 8.	Further Reading 9.	Sources Bryner2 (talk) 17:04, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

!!!
What a Cold War era thinking! You guys really think that Czech republic has more in common (historicaly, culturaly, geographicaly) with Ukraine, Belarus, or Moldova than, for instance, Austria or any other civilized country?!! For thousand years of its history, Bohemian crown, Czechoslovakia and Czech republic has been definitelly central european country and part of western civilization. For fourty years (period shorter than average human life), Czechoslovakia used to be satelite of certain barbarian half-asiatic empire. Do you really think, that fourty years long unhappy epizode can overshadow thousand years long history?! After all, cold war is more than twenty years over. As Czech by nationality, I find really insulting that someone think that Czech republic is situated somewhere between Romania and Ukraine. Do you know, that Prague is situated more western than Viena? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.176.255.56 (talk) 12:25, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Too fat. --illythr (talk) 21:39, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

New article
New article Women in Transnistria. You might be able to help expanding it. Thanks. - AnakngAraw (talk) 13:33, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Dear xxxxx,

Thank you for your email.

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An answer from the UN
Seeing all the spats about European sub-divisions (Europe is quite small for dividing!), I have decided to contact the UN and as what they think abou the fact that their geoscheme is so extensively used on Wiki. This is what I received:

Dear xxxxx,

Thank you for your email.

The geographical groupings used by the United Nations Statistics Division follow the M49 Standard for Area Codes for Statistical use, details of which can be found here: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm

The designations employed and the presentation of material at this site do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories by the United Nations.

"Regions" are so drawn as to obtain greater homogeneity in sizes of population, demographic circumstances and accuracy of demographic statistics (another example is Russia -- it is in the continent of Asia but it belongs in the Eastern Europe "region"). This nomenclature is widely used in international statistics but it is by no means universal.

I hope this is useful.

Best regards,

The UN Demographic Yearbook Team.

It seems Wikipedia abuses the geoscheme, while there is actually an openly proposed geoscheme by the Geographical sub-division: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ungegn/docs/23-gegn/wp/gegn23wp48.pdf --131.251.133.25 (talk) 11:48, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Merge to Project Europe
The Projects on: are all in the section Europe. I propose to merge it as well. The logic behind it is as following:
 * Northern Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Northern_Europe&redirect=no
 * Southern Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Southern_Europe&redirect=no
 * Western Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Western_Europe&redirect=no
 * and Central Europe
 * separate project is distracting
 * articles on Central and Eastern Europe are already well developed
 * concentrating on a pan-European project, rather than Central and Eastern Europe would bring these countries on the focus, rather than stigmatise them as "Eastern Europe", and issues arising will be dealt with faster, as they would be written in a larger forum, with more voices, since this this project is almost inactive--Fənɛ́tɪks.fərɛvər (talk) 11:31, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. We have country projects. No need for mostly inactive regional ones. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 14:17, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Carl Bildt
The biography of Swedish diplomat and politician Carl Bildt needs checked for its compliance with WP:BLP, WP:NPOV, and WP:Due weight, even more than usual BLPs. is a 12:25, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Peer review: Kingdom of Hungary (1000–1301)
All comments would be appreciated here. Borsoka (talk) 02:42, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Discussion about the gallery of Romanians
There is an on-going debate about the gallery of personalities from the article Romanians. Any opinions are welcome at Talk:Romanians. Hahun (talk) 07:33, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Which flag did Transnistria use between 1990 and 2000?
Hello,

Article Flag of Transnistria states that the current flag was adopted in 2000, using a version of the 1952-1990 flag used by the Moldavian SSR. Transnistria split from Moldova in 1990.

The article does not mention which flag was used between 1990 and 2000. Is anyone able to put this information in the article? Answers welcome at Talk:Flag of Transnistria. Place Clichy (talk) 13:49, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Remove Central European countries
Why use the Cold War definition and include countries that aren't Eastern European in any sense? The Visegrad Four countries belong to Central Europe, not Eastern Europe. I don't see any purpose in running a wikiproject which groups countries based on unnatural characteristics.--91.119.93.48 (talk) 04:57, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree, it's a joke, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary are Central-European countries, it's a common mistake by Anglo-Saxons and also some domestic politicians who confuse the "Central-Eastern-Europe or "Eastern-Central-Europe" expression (mostly the root is the distinction of communist-occupied countries from non-occupied countries in a false way). The proper is: Eastern-Central Europe. I see also many Hungary related article is put falsely in Wikiproject Eastern Europe, it has to be corrected immediately! The one who is responsible for this should act!(KIENGIR (talk) 03:00, 27 December 2015 (UTC))

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Iazyges
Hello, the article Iazyges is within the frame of your project, and I have made some significant edits to it, kindly re-assess it. Thank you. Iazyges  Consermonor   Opus meum  00:37, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

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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) 20:23, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

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Merge Proposal needs input
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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)

Displaying Russian names as footnotes in former Soviet Union locations?
Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Soviet_Union for a discussion on whether the Russian names should be put in footnotes in articles about former Soviet Union locations (which existed at the time of the Soviet Union) WhisperToMe (talk) 08:32, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Make WikiProject Ottoman Empire 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 much of this region was formerly under Ottoman rule) and several other projects to get further feedback. Please let me know if you have questions, comments, or objections.

Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 02:00, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Proto-Slavic listed at Requested moves
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Fringe Etymologies
Hi everyone,

I've discovered a number of Fringe etymologies at the page Slavicism (see, , and this talk page thread and I was hoping anyone who knows more about Slavic etymologies could help pick out some more (I'm limited to my knowledge of Germanic). Thanks!--Ermenrich (talk) 19:36, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Transnistria listed at Requested moves
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Luhansk People's Republic listed at Requested moves
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Category:Eastern Europe articles needing expert attention has been nominated for discussion
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Georgia (country) listed at Requested moves
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Transnistria listed at Requested moves
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Turkey listed at Requested moves
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Turkey listed at Requested moves
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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)


 * @Place Clichy: Have you tried online translators? Because identifying most of these should be straightforward with them, with exceptions on inscriptions that are fully valid in more than one language:
 * Bulgarian: Площадьт е наш, Водата не е за пиене, Непитна вода, Ходенето по тревата е разрешено
 * Serbo-Croatian: Trg je naš, Naš trg, Nepitka voda, Voda nije za piće, Dozvoljeno je gaziti po travi, Dozvoljeno gaženje trave
 * Slovak: Naše je námestie, Nepitná voda (also valid in Czech)
 * Ukrainian: Непитна вода
 * Hungarian: Náj lasó ráji, Ámáro szi o placo, Pécsár saj ustarén
 * Nothing is lacking behind "Naše je námestie". Some of Serbo-Croatian inscriptions might be fully valid in Slovene or Macedonian as well (except the latter would be in Cyrillic). EDIT: I noticed you posted this exact post to a lot of WikiProjects, you really should just post to one (e.g. here) and link it from others, so other people don't waste time on already solved questions. -Vipz (talk) 00:12, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Ukraine listed at Requested moves
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Iranian peoples listed at Requested moves
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Southern Buh listed at Requested moves
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Talk:Ivan_Maleshoff
I'd like advice on an issue with sourcing. In 1935, several western news sources reported on the conviction of a mass murderer in Kharkiv possibly called Ivan Maleshoff. However, there doesn't appear to be any Russian- or Ukrainian- language, particularly Soviet-era sourcing that supports the claim. Are the reports - which spell his name differently to each other - reliable? Discussion is as in the title of the section, or click here. OsFish (talk) 05:41, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Assistance required to end deadlock in merger proposal discussion
I've been editing the articles relating to the Scythians over the course of several months, and since most editors tend to favour splitting pages after they reach a certain size, I split two further pages, Iškuza and Scythia, covering the phases of Scythian history respectively in West Asia and in Europe, out of the main page covering the Scythians.

However, trying to split it has resulted into three articles, with both Iškuza and Scythia requiring large amounts of material regarding the role of the prior and subsequent histories of the Scythians in the creation and destruction of those states copied from each other and from the Scythians page to exist since they are both about immediately preceding/succeeding states created by the same continuous population group. And because Iškuza and Scythia both cover immediately preceding/succeeding but also partially overlapping parts of the history of the Scythians, multiple sections and sub-sections of each page covering the culture, population, external relations, etc of these states also had to be copied from the Scythians page (e.g. the "Background" sub-section and "Society" section in Scythia, and the "Origins," "Impact," and "Legacy" sections of Iškuza). Moreover, the Scythia page as it exists now also functions as a WP:Semi-duplicate, given that most of the information relating to this polity also is also the same basic information that is required on the Scythians page.

Given this resulting situation, I have started a merger proposal to resolve this issue, per WP:MERGEREASON: Overlap, Context, not because I support a merger for the sake of merging itself, which I do not favour, but because Iškuza and Scythia require too much context and the information on these pages is too intertwined with each other.

The problem is that, despite months having passed, the discussion for the merger proposal is still at a deadlock, with three users opposed to the merger, and three users (including myself) in favour of it. In this difficult situation, I have been advised to bring this issue to the various WikiProjects which are relevant to Scythians as a way to possibly resolve the deadlock, and all good faith assistance to reach a consensus would be much welcome. Antiquistik (talk) 18:11, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Austria-Hungary listed at Requested moves
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Battle of Dragashani listed at Requested moves
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Post-Soviet conflicts listed at Requested moves
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Discussion on CfD regarding the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
On WP:CfD there is an important discussion concerning the categorization of people living in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the shape of the category tree concerning people of Polish nationality. Because of the subject matter, it seemed to me that this discussion might be of interest to participants in this Wikiproject.

Link: Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023 August_21 Marcelus (talk) 22:29, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

List of conflicts in territory of the former Soviet Union listed at Requested moves
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