Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Romania/Archive 5

Made in Romania rewrite
I am note sure if you are following the deletion request discussion for Made in Romania (products), but I would like to invite those interested to a rewrite effort following Made in Germany, Made in China, Made in USA and other similar examples. That would salvage the article. Thanks.--Codrin.B (talk) 22:16, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Romanian cinema task force
I am not sure how many member know about the WikiProject Film/Romanian cinema task force and wondering what is the interest level. This task force is not active yet, but if we could get enough interested contributors, we could jump start it. There is plenty of content to be worked on under Category:Cinema of Romania. Cheers! --Codrin.B (talk) 03:22, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Updating the History of Abortion, Abortion in Romania pages
Hello! I am interested in updating the History of Abortion and Abortion in Romania pages, which cover a very important topic dealing with women's reproductive health in Romania. For being the main pages about the history of abortion, both in Romania and internationally, these pages are very undeveloped: the former covers the medical aspect of abortion and the way society's views changed on the subject over the years, but it has little to nothing written about the effect of reproduction legislation on populations and focuses more on distant history than it does on more recent events. The latter has some current statistics, but has very little in regards to the reproductive policy under Ceauşescu's rule.

I intend to focus on the section on abortion law on the History of Abortion and hope to include more historical information on past legislation, as it is not only not very well organized, but needs to be expanded upon. Neither page goes into detail as to why these laws were implemented, how these laws affected a population, or why they may have been revoked, and I wish to remedy that. I also plan to highlight Romania's history, as well as China and India's, on this page, and will be linking the Abortion in Romania page to it, too. The Abortion in Romania page's section on the abortion during the communist regime will be more fleshed out as well.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me in this endeavor? I would appreciate your feedback and your help, as I would like to represent the country's past policies fairly and accurately. Thank you! Scb3 (talk) 05:34, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Finding old offline sources
(Question also posted on WikiProject Military history)

In 1936, Adolf Ongar was the Dean of the Bar Association in Timisoara; on March 3rd of that year, he was arrested due to allegations that he had committed war crimes during the First World War.

(I have no idea whether the allegations had any merit; the Jewish Telegraphic Agency noted that Dr Ongar was Jewish and that the allegations had been made by the "anti-Semitic Lawyers' Union".)

I'm pretty sure that Dr Ongar meets notability criteria; however, the JTA's archive is the only mention I can find of him online (although future searches will no doubt find this page as well). Would anyone have access to offline sources which might discuss or mention the case of Dr Ongar (was there a trial; if so, was he convicted, etc)? I quite realize that there was considerable turmoil in Romania in the intervening 76 years, but it's worth a shot. DS (talk) 14:43, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Photo request: Int'l departures building at Otopeni Airport, Bucharest
Would anyone mind photographing the Int'l departures building at Otopeni Airport, Bucharest? It needs to be photographed because it is the TAROM headquarters. Please make sure the photograph shows the TAROM offices, as you see in this copyrighted all rights reserved photograph

If the picture is considered fair use, that is fine. It may be uploaded to the English Wikipedia or other Wikipedias which take fair use.

Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 01:04, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Req move Ilie Năstase → Ilie Nastase
Please be advised of move of BLP page rated "High importance" Talk:Ilie_Năstase.  Lajbi  Holla @ me  •  CP  13:10, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi-Q (band)
Hi-Q (band) has been nominated for deletion on the basis of non-notability. I'd appreciate it if some people who know Romanian popular music weigh in (Articles for deletion/Hi-Q (band)); I already have. For what it's worth, the article as it currently stands is pretty useless, so I'm not surprised someone who, by his own account, doesn't read Romanian, would have nominated it. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 16:03, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

GAR
AIR corn (talk) 11:28, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Traduceri
Pentru cei ce înţeleg limba română: ce ziceţi de traducerea în engleză a articolelor de pe rowiki. De exemplu, Racoviţa, Sibiu este articol de calitate. Zic că ar merita să fie mai amplu şi pe enwiki.--MJ for U (talk) 13:00, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Use of S-comma T-comma D-comma
Hi, this is about Talk:Judeţ. Everyone probably knows that S-comma T-comma D-comma show up on many if not most computers outside Romania as "JudeT". Can someone please point me to where the WP:Naming conventions (Romanian) page or similar where this change/problem has been discussed? Thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:27, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * This issue has just - inevitably - been raised on Talk:Nicolae Ceaușescu, where the page title uses an S-comma, but the text uses the S-cedilla. I see that the S-cedilla is also used for the Ceauşescu (surname) page, and all the ones listed on it, so I guess this would be a rather large job to correct, and not one as a non-Romanian speaker I would even like to attempt! Nick Cooper (talk) 11:06, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Unused Romanian election templates nominated for deletion
Romanian Chamber of Deputies election, 1996, Romanian House of Deputies election, 2000, Romanian Senate election, 1996, Romanian Senate election, 2000, Romanian general election, 1937, Romanian legislative election, 2004 and Romanian legislative election, constituency results have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to participate in the deletion discussion. DH85868993 (talk) 10:27, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Cizersj
Template:Cizersj has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. DH85868993 (talk) 13:47, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/List of towns in Romania by Romani population of Talk:List of towns in Romania by Romani population
Ronline is probably the same guy who holds the user Biruitorul. Wolf dressed like a sheep! You have my reasons there. There are also some explications. The Hungarians are working hardly against us on Wikipedia. Saywhaaaaaat (talk) 21:29, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Ronline and Biruitorul are two different persons, afaik. Both are trusted contributors with a long time history on en.wiki. Please stop attacking contributors, don't use offensive language and assume the good faith of other editors. Razvan Socol (talk) 05:25, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Input sought at Roman Empire
At Roman Empire (which this project has bannered), we are seeking opinions about how to fill the "type of government" slot in the infobox. There is a proposal to label it an empire. Cynwolfe (talk) 13:31, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Eustaţiu Stoenescu
Hi, I have created a stub article for the artist Eustaţiu Stoenescu, as I saw enough to see that he was clearly notable, although the huge majority of reliable sources online are in Romanian which I can't read, and online translators aren't really doing a great job. I have linked to a couple of the best-looking articles, there were plenty more interesting looking sources on Google. The English language material I found was mainly blogs (so not really reliable sources) or very tiny little snippet views of printed books. If someone who can read Romanian and has an interest in Romanian art history could take a look and see if they can expand the article further using the Romanian language sources, that would be great, I am happy to return the favour in any way I may be able to. Mabalu (talk) 16:11, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

History of Vojvodina
An editor (who is not a member of this project) has recently added multiple project banners to Talk:History of Vojvodina, including this one. Please feel free to remove it of it is not within this project's scope. See this section of the talk page for further background. Voceditenore (talk) 09:25, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I don`t believe this is related to WikiProjectRO. I will remove it, if it proves otherwise we can always re-add it.Adrian (talk) 11:56, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Dacian fortress of X
I've seen an inflation of one-line articles on "Dacian fortresses" being created mainly by : Dacian fortress of Beidaud, Dacian fortress of Beștepe, Dacian fortress of Telița just to name a few. There are several problems with such articles: on one hand, these settlement where by no mean fortresses, just some more or less fortified settlements, , ; on the other hand, these fortified settlement are classified as Iron Age by the National Archaeological Record (Hallstatt or La Tene, according to the traditional periodisation in Romanian historiography), as current research on such sites does not allow a clear ethnic identification (considering that identification --Codrin.B (talk) 12:11, 15 February 2013 (UTC)of ancient ethnic character through material remains is becoming increasingly obsolete in modern archaeology, such identification may never be established). Finally, and most importantly, the current state of research allows at best a paragraph to be written for most of these "fortresses", thus making the articles perennial stubs. The little info could easily be presented in the article about the commune (most communes are one-liners nowadays, but they have a better chance of being expanded). Giving the inaccuracy of the current titles and the lack of perspectives for expansion, I'm inclined to just redirect and merge these article into the articles about the communes. This is also preferable to using a more accurate, but very long title ("Iron Age fortified settlement of X"). Any thoughts? Anonimu (talk) 01:27, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * If they can't really be identified with Dacians in any way using the material culture, matching the ancient writings etc., I would agree that it would be more accurate to title them "Iron Age settlement of X." But what would we do with settlements which span Bronze Age and Iron Age let's say? I see the point of merging with the communes, but I see a number of disadvantage: 1. It would be hard to categorize them using categories like "Iron Age settlements" for example; 2. Stubs (even though they might seem like perennial - let's be more positive) still have the purpose of inviting contributors; 3. More importantly, these specific articles are used for nice Google Maps/Google Earth meshups (see ).; 4. These individual articles are referenced by lists of monuments and archeological sites. You know my philosophy. Instead of spending the time to merge or delete, I would rather add some content to some of these articles. It's more constructive.--Codrin.B (talk) 12:11, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Romania/Rumania
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football. Is it true that it was not until after WW2 that the country became known in English as "Romania" (as opposed to "Rumania" and "Roumania")? --Theurgist (talk) 19:44, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * See . Razvan Socol (talk) 13:06, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

User:Koertefa and User:Csendesmark
Can somebody open sockpuppet investigation about accounts Koertefa and Csendesmark? I think there is enough evidence for sockpuppetry. Account Csendesmark was not active for whole month since 15 December 2012 and now appear only to assist account Koertefa in two articles: Banat of Temeswar and Hungary. In 13 January 2013 in article Banat of Temeswar User:Csendesmark reverted article to version of User:Koertefa and in Hungary both accounts appeared to edit in same time (about 22:14 - 22:27 in 12 January 2013‎). Is this enough evidence for sockpuppet investigation? 113.229.65.134 (talk) 23:41, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * You can do it by yourself if you have any suspicions; the procedure is simple, see WP:SPI. Click show near If you are an anonymous (IP address) editor, please click "show" to the right and use the box below and respect the indications Transerd (talk) 08:43, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Romanian translators needed at Leonard Oprea
We could use the assistance of people who can identify reliable sources and translate the content at Leonard Oprea. The sourcing has been a matter of discussion for a while, but there is a new urgency as an editor claiming to be the subject of the article has now entered into the discussion. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  13:01, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Child's Pose
Is anyone here a film buff that wants to have a go at expanding the article Child's_Pose? It won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, but this story can't be listed as in the news, because the movie's article is really brief. Anyone??? Aaadddaaammm (talk) 15:15, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Any guideline for MOS in Romania articles?
In ictu oculi (talk) 03:40, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (regional) - nothing for Romania.
 * Category:Wikipedia naming conventions / Category:Wikipedia naming conventions proposals

Caroline Lacroix Baroness Vaughan.jpg
file:Caroline Lacroix Baroness Vaughan.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 05:10, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Category:1965–66 in Romanian rugby union
Category:1965–66 in Romanian rugby union and 45 other similar categories, which are all within the scope of this WikiProject, have been nominated for merger to parent 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) 19:09, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Tudor Ciortea.jpg
File:Tudor Ciortea.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 04:11, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Voivode of Transylvania: request for peer review
I think members of this project could contribute to the second peer review of the article "voivode of Transylvania" in order to improve its comprehensiveness and neutrality. Thanks in advance. Borsoka (talk) 03:45, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Archaeogenetics of the Cucuteni–Trypillian culture
Hi all

A discussion has started due to recent edits that have been challenged.

Would any interested parties please join the discussion.

Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 14:46, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Sources for Romania-related articles from World Digital Library
Here are a few sources related to Romania from the World Digital Library. There is also a new WDL project with a long TODO list, including one for Romania.--Codrin.B (talk) 09:23, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Dan Bucșă
Is this an orthographic reform issue in any way? In ictu oculi (talk) 04:42, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

A little grammatical sense needed
I have no connection to Romania, but I am a linguist (language researcher), and in Manele I found the following sentence:
 * The Romanian present participle [of "manea"] is manelizat that always has a pejorative connotation, giving a sense of "rough".

This is nonsense: nouns don't have participles. I've written my comments in detail at Talk:Manele. Will someone who knows Romanian and understands grammar please fix that? You can put any questions for me on my talk page. Even better, put them in that section of Talk:Manele and Template:Ping me. Thanks.

Thnidu (talk) 01:50, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Nicolae Mandrea.jpg
image:Nicolae Mandrea.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:12, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

RM relisted
FYI Talk:Robert Visoiu → Robert Vișoiu In ictu oculi (talk) 02:15, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Lex_Antiqua_Valachorum
Please comment on repeated massive deletions Staszek Lem (talk) 16:37, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Please add proper citations. Borsoka (talk) 16:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Half of what was deleted was probably nonsense, anyway. bogdan (talk) 17:32, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I posted here to attract attention of knowledgeable/experts, not to see "probably nonsense", but to verify and improve the article. I came to the LAW page tracing some other information, and LAW page seemed reasonable and helpful for me. Well, if you don't care, I care even less. Staszek Lem (talk) 16:12, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment — pending merge
There is a proposal to merge Romanian nationality law into Citizenship in Romania (or vice-versa) listed at Proposed mergers. Your comments are welcomed at Talk:Romanian nationality law. Thank you. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 17:42, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Article proposed for deletion
Please express your opinions here Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Romanian_words_of_possible_Dacian_origin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.213.79 (talk) 20:29, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin
The List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin article has been proposed for deletion. Your opinions are welcomed. --Norden1990 (talk) 17:36, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

English exonyms for place names
English_exonyms. Can someone check this please. See also article Talk. Many thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:16, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Question about TAROM Flight 371
Does anyone know if there is a copy of the final report of TAROM Flight 371 online? I did a Google site search of the Romanian CAA site and found nothing WhisperToMe (talk) 06:42, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Romanian traditions - article
Hi everybody! I am translating art. Tradiții din România and it's not allowed as main article. The suggestion was to insert it in Culture in Romania. The problem is that ''Tradiții... presents details, descriptions of the Romanian traditions. The most important holidays, events of human being etc. Everything is very detailed and it doesn't match (Not at all) with general descriptions from Culture.... Romanian contributors and not only them, please, help! A very big thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simona33 (talk • contribs) 23:01, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

More opinions needed
Please submit your comments regarding on-going discussions at Talk:Latin_peoples 79.117.160.159 (talk) 11:52, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Latin peoples article deletion
Article Latin peoples has been nominated for deletion. Please discuss. Diego (talk) 11:53, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 31/03
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Costică Acsinte. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 20:57, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Bartolomeu Constantin Săvoiu
Will someone with a more extensive knowledge of Romania please take a look at this and determine just what is going on with this article? Similar articles have sprung up on various other-language Wikis, (Romanian and French), all seemingly created by the same person:. Could this be a hoax? G S Palmer (talk) 15:49, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Peer review: Hunyadi family
Comments and suggestions would be appreciated here. Borsoka (talk) 05:33, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Greater_Romania
User:Borsoka proposed the move Greater Romania → Interwar Romania

Comments and arguments are welcome. Avpop (talk) 07:48, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Greater Romania (political concept)
Would you please tell us your opinion on this matter? All comments are welcome. Fakirbakir (talk) 08:09, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Europe may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:43, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Bot to automatically add banners
After an Codrinb's request in User_talk:Yobot, my bot, Yobot, will run the next few days to add wikiproject banners in the talk pages of a given list created by Codrinb. Please check for any problems, post any remarks in necessary, etc. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 06:38, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I'll check on the results.--Codrin.B (talk) 13:33, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Codrin.B et. al: Bot started. Please do not do any tagging till is finished. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:54, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Lists given by Codrin.B can be found at: User_talk:Yobot. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:38, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

According to Materialscientist the pages given should not be part of WikiProject Romania. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:41, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 10/06
Draft:Victor Sahleanu. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 20:26, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Romania At Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

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• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost

For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 14:21, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

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:


 * Corneliu E. Giurgea: ro:Decese în 1995
 * Mircea Grabovschi: sl:Umrli leta 2002

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 08:55, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

No image on Palade
We need an image for the article on Emil Palade as the previous image was deleted. --Cei Trei (talk) 13:56, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Infobox pictures at Romanians articles
I invite all editors to participate at teh discussion from Talk:Romanians. I will nominate User:Codrinb and User:Biruitorul, who are more active these days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PersecutedUser (talk • contribs) 11:36, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 07:38, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

PROD - Dan Pavel
Can someone help with determining whether this political scientist is notable? There is a PROD tag on the article, but I notice that he has an entry on the Romanian WP. Seems to have written a few books and it looks like the Romanian entry has a few external links but no properly formatted references. I am having difficulty determining the depth of any coverage because I do not speak the language. Thanks in advance. EricEnfermero HOWDY! 08:22, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Gelou: peer review
All comments would be appreciated here. Borsoka (talk) 03:01, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I've noticed a minor grammatical mistake in the lead section and I've corrected it. Bagnume (talk) 06:28, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Romanian Revolution template
Hey everyone! I was looking at Template:2014 Ferguson unrest and thought it was pretty crazy that there wasn't one for the Romanian Revolution. I've started one at User:Yaksar/Template:Romanian Revolution but before I put it into any article space I thought it would be good to get some help in fleshing it out more to make it more logically structured. If you want to help out, feel free to do so there, or discuss it on the talk page. Thanks!--Yaksar (let's chat) 00:40, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Menumorut: peer review
All comments are appreciated here. Borsoka (talk) 07:47, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Political parties
I've just started creating articles on some historical political parties in Romania, and was wondering if people could help with some queries? With regards to the Democratic Nationalist Party (Romania), Google translate suggests this source mentions something about integration into the People's Party or possibly the Romanian National Party, but I have no idea what exactly it says. If anyone could clarify, and update the article, that would be great. Thanks, Number   5  7  21:45, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Native Romanian speaker help needed
Hello Romanian brothers, would anybody be able to translate this article for me? --Steverci (talk) 01:57, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Translate into English? If so, sure, I'll help. Mihaister (talk) 05:55, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Peer review: Bolokhoveni
The article is about a medieval ethnic group dwelling in present-day Ukraine or Moldova. All comments here would be appreciated. Borsoka (talk) 05:51, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Category:Romanian mountain resorts
Category:Romanian mountain resorts, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. 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) 23:58, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Arcul de Triumf (1878, 1922 and 1936)
Would anyone here be able to help answer a question related to the Arcul de Triumf? Over on Commons, there is a category and a page on this arch. The current structure was inaugurated in 1936. There was a temporary structure in 1878 and another temporary structure in 1922. I suspect that shows the 1922 temporary arch, and that  shows the 1878 structure (the two structures depicted look different). On Commons, the page says that they are both the 1878 structure, but I think this is incorrect. I'm posting here to get some help to make sure this is all correctly sorted out. Carcharoth (talk) 22:25, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I think I have found a picture of the 1922 structure. It is an image in use on the Romanian Wikipedia's article ro:Arcul de Triumf din București, and uploaded over there (i.e. not on Commons): . The Franz Mandy photograph must be the 1878 structure, as Mardy died in 1910. Am now trying to work out the best way to get a copy of that image uploaded to Commons or en-Wikipedia... Carcharoth (talk) 00:24, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Peer review: Glad (duke)
All comments would be appreciated here. Borsoka (talk) 03:29, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Cotroceni Palace has since been updated
Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I've significantly updated the Cotroceni Palace article. I am wondering whether we should re-assess its quality on this Wikiproject, and perhaps discuss what would make it a better article on its talk page. Meşteşugarul -  U  12:39, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Peer review: Basarab I of Wallachia
All comments and suggestions would be appreciated here. Thank you for your time in advance. Borsoka (talk) 19:05, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

GA: Ion Agârbiceanu
Hi! Can anyone please review the article Ion Agârbiceanu, which is about a relatively uncontroversial, largely forgotten Romanian person? I have nominated the article for GA and it has been so far a month without feedback. Can someone please review the article? Gug01 (talk) 13:45, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Traian Săvulescu
Hi, I have attempted a google translate of Traian Săvulescu to Traian Săvulescu but I'd appreciate a native speaker's review and copy edit. I also came across an obituary from Sydowia which may provide more useful material and references for both articles. --KenBailey (talk) 07:07, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

The singer Celia
I learned that there is a Romanian singer named Celia. As of 2015 Her article on the Romanian Wikipedia is now a "good article" but I do not know if the sources shown here count as "reliable sources" for Wikipedia. If they do, we can revisit establishing her article.

See the 2011 AFD: Articles for deletion/Celia (singer) - It does mention that people saw many sources cited in the 2011 Wikipedia article for Celia but they weren't reliable.

Is anyone familiar with Romanian newspapers and magazines? Which ones are considered "reliable"? If/when I get this list I can do a site search to see if there are articles about Celia. All it takes is two, and the topic should meet WP:GNG WhisperToMe (talk) 16:50, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Szeklerland / More opinions needed
Could you tell your opinion about this matter? Thank You! Fakirbakir (talk) 07:15, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Peer review: Foundation of Moldavia
All comments are welcome here. Thank you in advance. Borsoka (talk) 03:09, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Should Kingdom of Hungary be a child category of History of Romania?
With User:Redbluelighting I've had a discussion here among others about the question whether Category:Kingdom of Hungary should be a child category of Category:History of Romania (and more generally whether Kingdom of Hungary should be a child category of the history of all of Hungary's surrounding countries). The discussion hasn't led to consensus. Could you please share your opinion on this issue? 07:44, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Iron Guard
The following was recently removed (at my suggestion) from the article on the Iron Guard, the radically antisemitic political party in Romania in the 1930s until its suppression in 1941:

"The internal situation was favouring the Jews, as they were in direct charge of Romanian press, politics and public life. As the First World War ended, the Jews turned to pro-communism, an attitude strongly condemned by the population, as the Soviet Union was growing more and more aggressive."

I don't have time at present to work on the article, but given that that statement had stood there for quite a while it looks to me like the article could use some serious attention. It won't surprise me if whoever added that also may have removed some worthwhile content. The claim of Jewish cultural domination read like something out of the Iron Guard's own propaganda and the claim of Jewish support for the Soviet Union read like a justification of the Iași pogrom. Probably further discussion should be at Talk:Iron Guard, I just wanted to raise a flag here and call for some attention to the article. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 04:49, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Romanian nationalism
This article has been a stub since it's inception exactly one year ago. Does anyone want to help expand it? Charles Essie (talk) 00:45, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Vive, Viva listed at Requested moves
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Romanian subdialects listed at Requested moves
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Peer review: Kingdom of Hungary (1000-1301)
All comments, suggestions are welcome here. Thank you for your time. Borsoka (talk) 02:33, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Gelou
, has been for months attempting to write the following sentences in the article about Gelou: " The 19th-century French historian, Edouard Sayous, also mentioned Gelou and his Vlach land." or "French Edouard Sayous wrote a History of Hungary where affirmed that Gelou land was a Vlach land." I would like to understand Eurocentral, but he has been making quite strange declarations (all can be read on the relevant article's Talk page under several subtitles). Why is this 19th-century French historian is so important? Did he write a well-known monography of Gelou? Or was he the last non-Romanian scholar who believed that Gelou had been a real person? Borsoka (talk) 12:56, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Cupa Ligii
Wonder if the two previous editions are considered official? This looks to confirm those titles, if google translate is correct. What does "Astfel, echipe deloc răsfăţate cu trofee, precum Gloria Bistriţa şi FCM Bacău, au punctat la acest capitol." translate to correctly? Those two teams have shown the trophies to the Football Association? -Koppapa (talk) 18:57, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

(talk) Alexiulian25 (talk) 11:07, 10 July 2015 (UTC) "Probabil că ar fi intrat într-o uitare deplină, dacă în vara anului trecut LPF nu hotârea repunearea pem tapet a competiţiei, devenind astfel oficiale." The translation of this is : Perhaps, it would be gone in a complete oblivion, if in the last summer (of 2014), LPF (Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal) would not decide to reinstatement the competition, becoming official (all the editions)"

"Astfel, echipe deloc răsfăţate cu trofee, precum Gloria Bistriţa şi FCM Bacău, au punctat la acest capitol." = Thus, teams who usually not have the opportunity to win trophies, like Gloria Bistriţa and FCM Bacău managed to win this competition.

Conclusion, all the editions are recognised by FRF (Romanian Football Federation) as being official. Also RSSSF has the list with all three finals played in the history. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesr/roemleagcuphist.html

Eugen Lozovan
, claims that the Romanian linquist Eugen Lozovan writes that river names of Romanian origin constitute the oldest layer of toponymy in Transylvania, but Eurocentral has not listed any of those river names. Did Lozovan write that statement or it is only a new example of Eurocentral's creative work? If Lozovan did write that statements, did he mention any river and what rivers? All comments are apreciated here or here. Borsoka (talk) 07:37, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission
Could you have a look at Draft:CSM Suceava? Thank you, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 18:09, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen of Romania into Romanian royal family, see Talk:Romanian_royal_family.--Z oupan 14:32, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Meeting in Romania
Hi. This Saturday, August 8, there is a meeting in Bucharest. While some of the issues discussed are specific to ro.wp, we will also talk about offline promotion in Romania and Moldova and organizing a user group for these countries. Even if you don't edit on ro.wp, if you're in town, come talk (and/or have a beer) with us! You can also join online through Skype; contact me for details.--Strainu (talk) 15:23, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Ion Agârbiceanu
I am currently reviewing Ion Agârbiceanu for GA status, but I would appreciate it if a subject matter expert could give feedback on the neutrality of the Literary contribution section to make sure WP:DUE weight is being given to major literary points of view. Thanks in advance! Winner 42 Talk to me!  19:31, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Notability of Leonard Oprea
I'm reasonably sure the article creator was the subject or someone closely associated with him, but nevertheless, Oprea is a Romanian author, who seems to be notable more for being a dissident in the 1980s than he is for writing (not that there's much on that). However, that notability is traced to only one Romanian critic, Tudorel Urian, and all of the sources are also in Romanian. There is zero substantial coverage of him in English. I can't source any of the awards the article claims he won in Romania (nor would I know if they were major if I could). All his books in English are published through XLibris or AuthorHouse (and therefore vanity press), so they can't be used to establish notability even if they were reviewed (which they haven't been). He has absolutely zero coverage in English. All of the other Romanian sources either give personal info (which doesn't establish notability in and of itself) or focus on one work of Oprea's, Radiografia clipei. So I'm not really seeing enough to say for certain whether he is or isn't, but I can't speak to depth of coverage in Romanian. Could someone help out? MSJapan (talk) 16:57, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Freemasonry in Romania
While I'm on the subject of Romanians, we also have this article, which seems sourced to one source, also Romanian. If anyone has any interest in this, help would be appreciated. MSJapan (talk) 17:01, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Romanian Football
Is someone interested to improve Romanian Football : Cupa României old seasons who does not have a page, and Liga II also. If everyone will choose a season and edit, all the seasons will be done in one week ! Thank you.--Alexiulian25 (talk) 20:51, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission 07/08
Draft:Gratian Mihailescu. FoCuS contribs ;  talk to me!  17:42, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Also Draft:Mihai Viteazul Chișinău. Best, FoCuS contribs ;  talk to me!  00:48, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Peer review: Kingdom of Hungary (1000–1301)
All comments would be appreciated here. Borsoka (talk) 02:43, 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) 07:31, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

AfD: House of Dolha and Petrova
All comments are welcome at Articles for deletion/House of Dolha and Petrova. Borsoka (talk) 20:34, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

AfD: Tatomir, Voivode of Ung and Bereg
All comments are appreciated at Articles for deletion/Tatomir, Voivode of Ung and Bereg. Borsoka (talk) 20:43, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Third opinion is requested
Thank you for your opinion about this issue Borsoka (talk) 16:44, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Battle of Kerlés
All comments are highly appreciated here: No original research/Noticeboard. Borsoka (talk) 02:57, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Contevertial question but...
WHY is this anthem considered to be apart of this WikiProject?

It has nothing to do with Romania currently. Sure, it might of COME from Romania, but technically speaking, this should be apart of WikiProject Moldova.

Mind contacting them about this?

Thanks. just a small concern.

Sereniama (talk) 01:44, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Deletion proposed: Ung and Bereg
FYI: the article "Ung and Bereg" was proposed for deletion. Borsoka (talk) 11:13, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Bessarabian Romanians
Feel free to join this category discussion about Category:Bessarabian Romanians. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:48, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

RM related to Romanian river Tulisa
Talk:Tulisa (singer) In ictu oculi (talk) 14:16, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
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Antioh Cantemir and "Antiochus Kantemir"
actually have exactly the same name. "Antiochus Kantemir", with its Latinate personal name and Russified surname, is also almost certainly wrong. China's blocking ngram and Google Scholar (use those, not vanilla Google, since its "hit count" is essentially an asspull) but could someone look into what the Russian prince's actual name is and report back here? Britannica (1878) has "Antiochus Cantemir" and (1911) "Antioch Cantemir", which means that he and his uncle should both be at "Antioch Cantemir" with some form of dab between them. — Llywelyn II   01:44, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at Files for discussion/2016 November 10
You are invited to join the discussion at Files for discussion/2016 November 10. Marchjuly (talk) 05:10, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at Files for discussion/2016 November 11
You are invited to join the discussion at. Marchjuly (talk) 01:18, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

RfC notice: The naming convention for free royal cities in the Kingdom of Hungary
There is an active RfC about the naming convention for free royal cities in the Kingdom of Hungary. Ditinili (talk) 18:57, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride
 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


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


 * In particular, can someone help verify that it was indeed 1928 when cannabis was first banned in Romania? Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 07:28, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Peer review: Vlad the Impaler
All comments are appreciated here. Thank you for your time. Borsoka (talk) 06:07, 13 December 2016 (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)

Notice to participants at this page about adminship
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Peer review: Edict of Torda
All comments are highly appreciated here. Borsoka (talk) 12:04, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

en.wiki vs. ro.wiki
Observ ca articolele de aici, in special cele despre romani/Romania, sunt mai bune decat versiunile lor in limba romana. De ce romanii care contribuie aici nu o fac si la wikipedia in romana?! Observ ca wikipedia in romana este mai saraca in continut, dar si in calitate, fata de versiunea engleza. Deasemenea articolele bune din versiunea in romana sunt mai mult traduse din versiunea in engleza. De ce nu exista mai mult interes, si mai profesionit, pentru dezvoltarea wikipediei in romana? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.12.134.86 (talk) 16:52, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Recent history
I notice that History of Romania since 1989 seems to stop short in about 2010, and there is barely anything for more recent years in the main History of Romania either. Could I suggest members of this project do some updating there? Noyster (talk),  20:22, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Kurt W. Treptow, Larry L. Watts
, drew my attention to the fact that leading Romanian historians, such as Ioan-Aurel Pop, Ioan Bolovan, regularly published together with Larry L. Watts (who allegedly denies Holocaust) and Kurt W. Treptow (who is said to have committed serious crimes). If this is the case, I think Romanian wikipedians could assist our community to provide a list of unreliable Romanian historians. For further details I refer to the reassesment page of Stephen the Great. Thank you for your assistance in advance. Borsoka (talk) 18:46, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Transylvanian peasant revolt
, has been attempting to add quite strange pieces of information in the article about the Transylvanian peasant revolt.


 * First, he wants to state, based on a books published in 1934, that the Vlachs "were still on a footing of equality" with the Hungarians, Saxons and Székelys in the late 13th century. However, a Vlach knez was not "on a footing of equality" either with a Hungarian nobleman or with a Hungarian peasant. (Because a Hungarian nobleman was exempted of the taxes, but Vlach knezes had to pay special taxes. On the other hand, Hungarian peasants had to pay, for instance, the tithe, while Vlach knezes were mostly exempt of this tax). Neither was a Saxon burgher "on a footing of equality" with a Hungarian nobleman or with a Vlach or Székely peasant. How could we state that Vlachs were "on a footing of equality" with Hungarians, or Hungarians with Székelys, etc., if an individual's legal position was independent of his/her nationality?


 * Secondly, Rgvis wants to state, based on a terciary source, that the Orthodox Vlach peasants were extremly suppressed and regarded almost as slaves in the Catholic Kingdom of Hungary. However, a Catholic peasant always had to pay the 10% tithe, while an Orthodox peasant was to pay this irksome tax only after he/she settled on a land abandoned by a Catholic peasant. Moreover, a Vlach commoner paid only a 2% tax on his/her most common animals (sheep), while a Catholic peasant paid a 10% tax on his/her livestock. If a Catholic peasant was always taxed at 20%, while an Orthodox peasant was taxed at 2-12%, how could we state that Vlachs were regarded slaves?

All comments are highly appreciated here. Borsoka (talk) 16:32, 20 November 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_Romania

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.&mdash; Rod talk 18:27, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

King Michael has died
King Michael has reposed at 96. He was the last living head of state from the Second World War and there is a discussion about putting this on the main page at WP:ITN. Memorie veșnică! -Ad Orientem (talk) 14:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Zimand puszta
Could someone who can read the source material take a look into this? I came across it which reviewing a list of old articles, and while I cannot read Romanian to any great extent it didn't seem to me that the very few book sources I could find (all from the 19th century) contained the information in the article. Mangoe (talk) 17:34, 5 February 2018 (UTC)