Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Romania/Archive 2

Communes Categories
Hi all - I am creating commune categories for all the counties that seem to need it. I hope this will improve the organization and accessibility of those articles. If anyone has complaints, comments, questions, etc, please contact me on my talk page. Aelfthrytha (talk) 01:01, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Task Force Transylvania?
Any thoughts on this? It was proposed as a full fledged project at COUNCIL/P but comments there were to make it a task force, as a dual task force of this project and WP:European history it could bring more interest to both projects.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 20:25, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * If interested, please sign up at the proposal link.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 20:35, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Latin Europe
Hello ! There is a vote going on at Latin Europe that might interest you. Please everyone, do come and give your opinion and votes. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 20:57, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Cînde
Hi,

Can anyone please check that the article Cînde is about a notable person?

Thanks in advance. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:29, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Have checked, and it is not. Dahn (talk) 01:46, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Piata Unu Mai
This page doesn't exist. Why not? Basketball 110  20:25, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It doesn't exist because it hasn't been created. Maybe you should... dihydrogen monoxide (H20) 01:28, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I have no idea what this is about. Are we talking about the square in Bucharest? If so, yes, it could be an article (not sure if it should be one). Please note that the proper title for such an article is not "Piata Unu Mai", it is Piaţa 1 Mai - the diacritic, and the fact that dates in Romanian are almost never spelled out in letters (it literally means "1st of May Square" - similarly, one doesn't use "Calea Treizeci Septembrie" for "September 30 Avenue", but the more obvious "Calea 30 Septembrie"). Dahn (talk) 01:43, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Nu'i "Calea 13 Septembrie''? ;) OIandezu (talk) 15:55, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Mayors of Bucharest
Time Out Bucureşti has started a series on the historical mayors of Bucharest. See, for example,. Might be useful source material for some articles, or simply for adding citations to some existing articles.

Communes
I'm planning on starting articles (pitiful stubs, really) for each of Romania's 2686 communes. Once complete, this will allow us to merge extraneous articles. Let's put check marks next to the counties as they are completed, and double-check everything at the end. Biruitorul (talk) 18:04, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Ciprian Porumbescu
I was browsing RC a little while ago, and a Romanian anon turned this into this, which had a heckuva lot more information, so I copy-edited to this, which is lacking in citations and involves a little bit of synthesis from the source text. It still isn't pretty, though, partly because it's very hard to find many sources in English.

So, fyi: I expanded a well-known Romanian composer from stub status to ... well, something. And now I'm at a loss. Much of the text at the moment is a copy-edit of the source text provided by the anon, so not much has changed aside from format and grammar (a bunch was removed). The talk page elaborates a bit on the things that could be added. Just thought this would be the best place to go. Xavexgoem (talk) 13:12, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Also, a lot of things in that article may be plain wrong. I didn't remove all of the peacock terminology, and sometimes mass attributed to make ends meet.

New naming convention
Mostly Hungarian and Slovak editors are discussing a new naming convention for places in the former Kingdom of Hungary at User_talk:Elonka/Hungarian-Slovakian_experiment. Your input will be greatly appreciated. Since these new rules might be later regarded as a precedent by non-involved editors (remember the Danzig/Gdansk case?), I think you will find this ongoing discussion and poll interesting. Tankred (talk) 03:07, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Flag of Romania
Would it be all right if I replace the article here with the translation of the Romanian version? If not, what other solutions do you propose?--Alex:Dan (talk) 23:36, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not seeing a significant problem with the current article? dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 09:23, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Not so much info, perhaps? Not to mention about the lack of bibliography. --Alex:Dan (talk) 09:33, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, well, you can import that info from the Romanian article, if you like. Remember to cite the sources you import. dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 11:08, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

WP:Romania showing up in Stub Categories
DYK that your Project is showing up in your stub categories? This can be remedied by putting a semi-colon : before the word Category. Kathleen.wright5 23:38, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Draft Guidelines for Lists of companies by country - Feedback Requested
Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 (talk) 13:58, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Please review request for new link
Please review Talk:Tourism in Romania. Thank you. --Gutza T T+ 17:49, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
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Marius Fekete check
An IP recently tagged the Marius Fekete article as vandalism without giving a reason. Could someone here have a look at the article and give their opinion? Just to be sure... /Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 18:15, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Iancu de Hunedoara
please see the last edit summaries of this article John_Hunyadi, the hungarians are erasing high encyclopedic sources but instead are pushing forward their hungarian propaganda with obscure sources and denieing Iancu's romanian origin. Rezistenta (talk) 11:50, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Romania
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New Userbox
Just to advise there is a new ubx for Wikipedians of Romanian extraction:

Barnstars
The Romania Barnstar of National Merit is awarded to users who have made extraordinary contributions to Romania and Latinity-related articles.

Romania Barnstar of National Merit

BoNM-Romania

SOFTWIN prodded
I deprodded it, but finding English sources to provide in-depth coverage seems quite difficult. I don't think the article will survive an AfD as it stands; if you can find some please add them to the article. VG &#x260E; 22:23, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Florin Constantinescu (photographer)
Another editor quite legitimately put a speedy-delete template on a new substub about Florin Constantinescu (a photographer), a substub that was even less informative than the non-article in its current state. I was just about to delete it when instead I hesitated and googled for this person. Though I can't read Romanian, I got the impression that Constantinescu could verifiably be a person of some encyclopedic substance. (And, although this ought not to be an issue, I thought that some of his photos look good.)

The Romanian Wikipedia article on him is fairly informative but utterly unsourced. If a photographer has had solo exhibitions of any size, this generally sways me toward declaring "notable", but only one exhibition in that article's list of nine expoziţii personale comes with any evidence (this, which of course I can't read, and whose value I can't judge). Surely it's not coincidental that the username of the author of both the English-language substub and the Romanian-language article is "Crosslight", the nom de guerre of the photographer (see his domain name, etc). All in all both WP articles are very dubious: I'm not convinced that either should survive but probably you who can read Romanian can judge this much better than I can. -- [Posted earlier in sleepy, barely intelligible form; reworked:] Hoary (talk) 10:17, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The Romanian wiki does list a few of his personal expos — all of them seem to have occurred in Romania; the next section seems to consist entirely of group expos. The article talks about him having won some awards, but no specifics are given. No idea about this guy, so I can't be of more help than that. Pcap  ping  11:26, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * My personal opinion doesn't mean squat, but I'll bore you with it anyway: I'm not perturbed in the slightest if all his significant exhibitions/publications have been in Romania and all the writing about him has been in Romanian. My problem is far simpler: I just can't read this! (Well, since it's a Romance language I can very often figure out roughly what the topic is; a contrast to Finnish, say, which leaves me utterly blank.) If our friend Mrs Google helps you to add even dribs and/or drabs of sourced info, you'll start to grow wings and/or a halo. -- Hoary (talk) 12:15, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Cris-Tim - is it notable
I'm totally ignorant of Romanian grocery stores, so I came here for help:

Is the subject of Cris-Tim notable? If so, please expand and add references to the article so nobody WP:SPEEDY- or otherwise-deletes it. If it's not, please tag it tb-a7 for immediate deletion. Thanks. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  16:11, 30 December 2008 (UTC)