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PLEASE DISCUSS THE PROPOSALS BELOW AT TALK RATHER THAN HERE!
Joint project: Polish-Muscovy War (1605-1618)
I'd like to propose that Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian (and anybody else who wants to join, you will excuse me if I won't list everyone here, I tried to reach everybody on the Wikipedia:Regional notice boards) Wikipedians join forces and try together to promote some articles to FA, instead of (what seems to be more common, unfortunately) fighting over which name should go first and similar petty issues :>
In this spirit I invite you all to comment on Polish-Muscovy War (1605-1618), an article I (mostly, wiki being wiki) have written over the past few months. It can definitely benefit from introducing Russian/English spelling of some names/people that I added knowing only Polish spelling, adjusting my Polish POV and adding more info from Russian/other sources I have no access to. I believe this article is fairly comprehensive, and we can make it reach FA. In few days I will submit it to Peer Review, and if there are no disputes on PR/article's talk page I will submit it to FA in over a week.
Once again, I invite your comments and edits, and hope this will be the first of many similar projects that proves we can work on together, to show our Eastern European history and culture to English-speaking world, most of whom unfortunately seem never to heard about Muscovy of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. If you like this initiative. For now, I invite everybody to copy their replies to my talk page; if there is enough interest, perhaps we can create a separate page to discuss it (Wikiproject:Eastern Europe or sth like this). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:35, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Games with names
This problem is as old as the Wikipedia itself. Many people (myself included) added/inserted/changed placenames and it caused quite some stirr, bad blood and revert wars. An interesting recent twist of these battles included even rearranging the order of secondary names, like, for example this particular edit which switched the order of Polish and Russian name for a city in Ukraine.
All we have in the policy for now is a WP:3RR rule. Better than nothing but I believe we could do better than that. Amending or adding to official policy is not a realistic option. What I propose is a kind of voluntarily self-imposed ethics code among all E. European editors who agree. The rule would be that to play with names is only allowed when the editor also brings some other useful info to the article, even if just a little bit. On a different, but related dispute, I think that it should almost always be Kiev and not Kyiv, but I do this change only when I am ready to do something else for an article. Such a tradition, will result in faster improvements of many articles, since an opportunity to insert a favorite name would cause enough itching to do some research and extra writing. This rule would not apply to reversions of others' edit. That is if someone, however significantly, contributes to the Warsaw article but adds "Varshava", to the first line, the naming part of the edit may be reverted at once. But the insertion of an extra name is allowed only as a part of an edit that brings to article some improvements. For more on this, please see Talk:Kamianets-Podilskyi#On_adding_relevant_names_and_even_changing_their_order as well as my user talk:Irpen. Please comment at the talk of this page rather than my or any other talk so that we all can keep track. Please edit this proposal and co-sign, if you agree. Thanks! --Irpen 22:36, August 17, 2005 (UTC)
- (Please discuss at talk)
See also Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions/Geographic_names.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 16:19, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Slavic mythology
- copied from Polish NB
Honestly, I don't know who writes most of this (well, anons do), but I have nominated some of this stuff to VfD previously. See especially the Polish_mythology#Slavic_and_Polish_folk_magic and Special:Whatlinkshere/Polish_mythology. There is so much strange stuff there that I don't know what we should do - some of it may be legitimate, some may be bogus - not my area of expertise. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 01:10, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
- I previously attempted to draw attention to these totally unreferenced articles with bogus content. There is little data on Slavic gods, almost all of it derived from Vladimir's pantheon as described in Primary Chronicle, therefore detailed descriptions of their worship are most likely forged by Slavic neo-Pagans. Lada and Lado, for instance, are obviously pseudo-gods. --Ghirlandajo 15:59, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
- So should we do something, or let it be?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 04:54, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
History of Belarus
Input from other editors is needed to stop what increasingly looks like a revert war.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 16:51, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Alternative words for Germans
Do East Slavic language have alternative words for Germans, as in slang? If so please add them, with a small explanation and perhaps translation at the following article: Alternative words for Germans. Thanks in advance, Rex 15:00, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi guys, A bunch of Hungarian Wikipedians are trying to get the article about our 1956 Hungarian Revolution to win on the Article Creation and Improvement drive (shortcut: WP:AID) so it can get all cleaned up and imprroved and ready for featured article status on the anniversary, Oct. 23. The thing is, we need votes! My co-conspirator Istvan originally wanted to appeal specifically to the Czech Wikipedians and form a Czech-Magyar alliance (they help us with 1956, in return we help them with Prague Spring...) but I couldn't find any specific Czech noticeboard. :) So I guess there's no harm in casting a wider net! We would greatly appreciate your votes and assistance, in return we will glady help you on any similar matters regarding Solidarnosc, Orange revolution, Prague Spring, 1905 revolution or anything else you'd need a hand with. Na zdorovie/Na zdrave/Na zdrowie! :) K. Lastochka 15:06, 20 September 2006 (UTC)