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He was born in Prussian part of Poland so his last name was Kasprzak. Kaspshak is a transcription of Russian sources.Xx236 (talk) 07:45, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
The article is poorly written, "controversions" have been removed. Karski "fails in" convincing the Allied governments (so he is guilty rather than the governments). "Henryk Gawkowski, who drove one of the trains while intoxicated with vodka". Xx236 (talk) 13:20, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
I suggest ((Immigration to Poland)) should be renamed. It includes Belarussians, Czechs, Germans, Lithuanians and Ukrainians, who are autochtonic national minorities. Labelling them indirectly as immigrants is grossly POV, harmful and simply incorrect. I suggest the template being renamed to "Ethnic and national groups in Poland" and editing the template to indicate autochtonic minorities and immigrant groups. - Darwinek (talk) 22:09, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
That reminds me. There's an interesting article there to be written about the Scottish immigration to Poland in the 16th-18th centuries. There's a little bit about it in Polish Wikipedia [2] which quotes a British historian mentioning that there number was in tens of thousands, which would probably be more than some of the other groups listed. Remember Ketling! Of course, most of them Polonized fairly rapidly so this would be a historical ethnic minority.Volunteer Marek (talk) 09:14, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
The real "Ketling" was German.Xx236 (talk) 12:46, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Th earticle does not inform about the period after 1989.Xx236 (talk) 12:53, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
With Wikipedia we don't base importance on the significance to communities, or to things being important in themselves. We rely on things being reported in Reliable Sources as a measure of importance. When things are in High Quality Reliable Sources: academic publication for the field of history; we use the HQRS account instead of accounts in merely reliable sources like newspapers. If an academic book (or academic journal article, academic chapter, academic conference paper) discussing religious history, or history of ethnicity, or the history of reactions to the holocaust in Poland mentions that a rabbi working for the first time in Poland for 22 years is significant, then it is significant at the highest level of verification for wikipedia. We rely on academics for history, so that we can edit the encyclopaedia from a neutral point of view. So finding histories published by academic historians, or by University Presses (Oxford, Cambridge, etc.) is a good start for writing about your area of interest. Where such sources aren't available, then we go to lesser sources, like broadsheet newspapers, or news magazines, or popular books. Fifelfoo (talk) 09:06, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
I think there are two things here. First is that the History of the Jews in 20th-century Poland needs to have more information on the post-1989 period incorporated into it - which it obviously does since currently there's nothing there. The second is whether we should start an article on something like Jewish Renaissance in Poland. The term is a bit confusing since it can be mistaken for the other renaissance, and Jews' part in it, so maybe something more specific. But there does seem to be significant coverage at least in the press [3] [4]. If you want something more academic then here it is [5], [6]. Here some more brief mentions [7] - and all that just from looking up two very specific search phrases in English language sources only. Volunteer Marek 16:22, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Did he really fight? I don't know the subject. Polish Wiki article describes his deeds and later accuses him. Xx236 (talk) 08:30, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
It seems that the Museum of the Polish Army has an interesting online initative: http://www.muzeumwp.pl/emwpaedia/alfabetycznie/ I've uploaded one of their pictures as File:Portret-general-broni-lucjan-zeligowski-8230-mal-r-kawecki,340,duzy.jpg, but there are many more that could be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. I may not have time to do so myself, but perhaps somebody else would like to tackle this. Also, it may be beneficial to contact the museum and ask them if they'd be interested in donating their media to Commons, this would automate this procedure, and could generate some good publicity for them and us. See commons:Commons:Partnerships. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 22:15, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Poland contains two Cite errors. The article contains also a numbe rof obsolete informations, eg. the Top500 list of 2009, even if the one 2010 is available and very different.Xx236 (talk) 10:54, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
We can use some eyes over at the Voivodeships of Poland article. User Nihil Novi has introduced some notes into the lede that are basically a rehash of his arguments on the talk page for changing "voivodeship" to "province", against long-established consensus. The notes are POINTy and irrelevant, as the article already uses "province" as an alternative. I feel it is an abuse of article space to continue a deadhorse argument that one has lost on the talk page just to make a POINT. Please check. Thanks. Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 07:52, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
The article Voivodeship describes also Vojvodina.Xx236 (talk) 09:28, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Senate voting method has changed, several articles should be corrected, including Poland.Xx236 (talk) 09:59, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Domeyko didn't know he enrolled at Vilnius University. Poor guy...Xx236 (talk) 13:34, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Czech geographical names are older than the Polish one, so probably any Polish name from the border region should be replaced by the Czech one. The problem is that Polish editors are more active, they write articles using Polish names and finally someone changes the names of the articles to better ones. Xx236 (talk) 12:49, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
I have added several names of composers, but I'm not an expert. I'm almost sure that Alexandre Tansman declared strong connection to Poland (and was rejected as Jewish by some nationalistic writers).
Polish emmigrants Ignacy Domeyko, Ernest Malinowski, Benedykt Dybowski.Xx236 (talk) 13:40, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
A GAN has started on Augustów Canal, and was put on an initial hold to allow prose issues to be addressed before sources and coverage were looked at. The nominator has not accessed Wikipedia since the review started, and has not responded to an email. Would anyone from this project be prepared to work on the article to bring it up to GA status? SilkTork ✔Tea time 10:15, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Isn't it a light rail system?Xx236 (talk) 07:36, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
From Light Rail: under the law of many countries such systems are legally tramways, although the vehicles which run on them are sometimes designated "supertrams". Xx236 (talk) 11:52, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
I left a few comments on the article's Talk page. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:05, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Can use some help on LOT Polish Airlines Flight 016 keeping it up to date with live updates. Ajh1492 (talk) 14:26, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Could not have had the article up faster than the "major western news services" without the help of EmadIV. Ajh1492 (talk) 15:40, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Need a photo with a cleaner fair use agreement that the current one being used. Current photo appears to be a Reuters stringer's photo. Would someone be interested in going through the photos on http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=SP-LPC&distinct_entry=true and asking if the photographer would be interesting in allowing use at Wikipedia with appropriate controls and credit? Ajh1492 (talk) 23:20, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Can use some help defending fair use of the following image (File:Z10572853X,Kapitan-Tadeusz-Wrona--To-on-mistrzowsko-wyladowal.jpg). It was provided by the Captain's family to the press - http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114871,10571773,Kapitan_Tadeusz_Wrona_bohaterem_Polakow___Lataj_jak.html. Ajh1492 (talk) 11:50, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
There are a pair of editors who are taking an extremely minimalist view of the article and deleting significant passages of referenced material in the article w/o any discussion. I've started a threat on the article discussion page, would appreciate additional contributors to the discussion. Would really like to get a wide-as-possible consensus. Ajh1492 (talk) 20:56, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
I really thing the two editors who seem to be from WPA ought to step back for a little while and let us finish translating material before they make nit-pick edits. My 2 cents is to get relevant, sourced information up in the article and do rough edits on the fly. There is a reason to use the CURRENT EVENT tag. Ajh1492 (talk) 02:28, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Note that I started the article on the pilot Tadeusz Wrona (aviator). Volunteer Marek 18:39, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Totally uncontroversial, but we need more brainpower to figure out what to do: Talk:Lordship of Hummel. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 21:41, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
I was looking at the Outline of Poland, and the lack of judiciary of Poland article struck me as the biggest missing topic. For an overview of how this is done for other countries, see for example judiciary of Germany. Useful template is Template:Politics of Poland. The pl wiki equivalent is pl:Wymiar sprawiedliwości w Polsce. Does anybody feel like stubbing that? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 02:08, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
It has been proposed that Tadeusz Wrona (aviator) be merged into the article LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16. Your comments would be welcomed in the discussion at Talk:LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16#Merge proposal. Volunteer Marek 21:10, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
This is an article about a new Polish car manufacturer which plans to release a supercar in a year's time. I userfied it for the author, who thinks references could be found to show notability but does not want to do any more on it, so I have put it into the Incubator and am posting here in case anyone is interested in developing it. I am also posting at WT:WikiProject Automobiles. JohnCD (talk) 21:57, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
What does this phrase mean? It was added right at the bottom of Polish alphabet (it's a test sentence containing all Polish diacritics), but I'm not sure my translation is correct - can a native-speaker correct or confirm?--Kotniski (talk) 07:45, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Hbsggo2019 (talk · contribs) has created a series of articles on castles, presumably in Poland, but under German names, with little information on where the castles are now. Assuming they are no hoaxes (references are offline or 404), those articles need a c/e and a rename:
This suggests he translated the articles (machine translation?) from de wiki.
If no references or clarification are provided, I am tempted to prod those, as potential hoaxes/poor and mostly uninformative translations. I'd prefer to rescue them, but we would need a German speaker for that. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 19:14, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
This "famous in Poland" blogger does not have an article on the pl wiki, and references look dubiously unreliable (other blogs and such). Thoughts? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 22:12, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Well Ur ignorance in Fashion is not an excuse to say she is not notable. Talking about why she did not have a article in pl.wikipedia. I din know polish i liked her so i wrote about her. i was just working on the translations. Tell me about the links tat u find not upto the standards. I have plenty more which i can add. -Americanpatriot1 —Preceding undated comment added 12:29, 11 November 2011 (UTC).
There's enough reliable sources there to establish notability sources. Please look at the polki.pl sources. This web site is owned and written by the "Edipresse Polska S.A." publishing house, which is probably the bigges house in Poland. Look here all the magazines they write and sell: http://www.edipresse.pl/index.php?/pl/produkty_i_dzialalnosc/prasa
What about the other sources. Let's take an example: http://alemodelki.pl/id,3160,galeria,backstage.html http://alemodelki.pl/id,3188,galeria,backstage.html The site http://alemodelki.pl/ is held by Wirtualna Polska which is the most important and biggest in Poland Portal and search engine.
And let me add this. Just the fact that she has an article written by the Redaction of Sophisti.pl is the most reliable source ever in the fashion field. You should know that Sophisti is the most important organization in Poland and thanks to Sophisti and the main director stylist Dorota Wróblewska, in Poland there are each year events like Warsaw Fashion Steet in Krakowskie Przedmieście - organized by Sophisti as well as Fashion Week Poland organized with the help of the City of Łódź. I am sure you will consider it as it should be.
Regards Pikks —Preceding undated comment added 13:53, 11 November 2011 (UTC).
This is potentially a broader issue. For example, when looking through the Category:Fashion by nationality one can find a Wikipedia Category:French fashion which includes Category:French female models listing 63 names. Meanwhile, in the parent Category:Polish fashion there's no such sub-category for models from Poland at all, because the Category:Polish female models exists on its own. The whole subject is underdeveloped, listing just 14 entries. More articles could be written. By the way, Glamourina is a pen name that shouldn't be used for a title per WP:NCCN and WP:CRITERIA. The real name is Natalia Grytsuk, a young fashion model that needs to be referenced here. — A. Kupicki (talk) 20:57, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Read what it says above: "This page is within the scope of WikiProject Poland, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Poland on Wikipedia." The categories are important for the Project. I'm not sure though, if the subject of this article is known well enough, to have a common name other than her real name, but I'm willing to work with you on that. — A. Kupicki (talk) 00:06, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
There has been a brewing issue at WP:RM over WP:HOCKEY recommendations and how they should be applied over WP:COMMONNAME and WP:UE. Basically the hockey recommendation is that Diacritics shall be applied to all player pages, where appropriate as for the languages of the nationalities of the players in question. This is in fact a mandate that does not allow consideration of any other policy on naming. I think we need to resolve the issue of which naming convention we use for ice hockey players. Is it the one for the names of everyone else based on existing policy and guidelines, or do we have a blanket exception for one project? Please go to Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(use_English)#RFC_on_hockey_names Vegaswikian (talk) 00:53, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
We have ten articles redirecting to a non-existing article about the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy in Warsaw. Perhaps somebody write a stub at least? Debresser (talk) 21:33, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
A mass nomination to move articles about sportsmen based on diacritics in their name has been filed at Talk:Dominik_Halmosi#Requested_Move --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:51, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
I added a line about Poland: Supercomputing in Europe. If anyone wants to expand it, please do. History2007 (talk) 17:09, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion of notability and potential merge at Talk:I Corps in the West (Poland). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 23:44, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
[I can't tell if anyone of you follows the mailing lists or the Village pump at the Commons, so I am (re-)posting this announcement here directly, thought you might be interested.]
I am delighted to announce that Wikimedia Polska, the Polish chapter of the WMF, is organising a travelling exhibition of the winning POTY contest pictures. 16 images chosen by Wikimedians from all over the world in the annual POTY contests from 2006 onwards are going to be shown at exhibitions in various places around Poland.
As some of you may recall, the exhibition premièred during the 10th anniversary of the Polish Wikipedia conference, having been visited by a few hundred visitors in just two weeks; some images from the pubic viewing of the exhibition are available on Wikimedia Commons at <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Picture_of_the_Year_exhibition_-_Pozna%C5%84_2011>.
Our first stop is Przystanek Książka (a Polish wordplay for "Book Break"), a media library of the Public Library of the district of Ochota in Warsaw. The exhibition starts on Monday, November 28, and will remain until the end of the year. 16 pictures, the best of the best of the Wikimedia movement, will be shown in an exhibition open for the public, with descriptions available in Polish, English and German.
For those of you currently living in Warsaw or going to visit the capital in the upcoming weeks: the library is located at 42 Grójecka Street, just two four tram stops (and 8 minutes) away from the Warsaw Central railway station (tram lines "9" and "25"), and is open on working days from 10 AM until 7 PM (2 PM-7 PM on Wednesdays).
We hope to have a great event, and even if you can't visit the exhibition, please keep your fingers crossed that it goes well, and spread the news!
PS For those going to take a peek at the exhibition _in real life_, there's also a Facebook event: <https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100219446762276>.
Regards, odder (talk) 10:23, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
I have been planning this article for a long time, and finally wrote it: 1979 Warsaw gas explosion. Help is appreciated for a possible DYK nomination. Tymek (talk) 05:47, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi everyone, please come and take a look at Medal of the 10th-Anniversary of People's Poland to find a better, more suitable name. Thank you. Gryffindor (talk) 22:56, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
I just discovered Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/WikiProject desk. Signpost have indeed featured numerous WikiProjects over time (see list here). I think our project is active enough to be featured for the community, but I don't want to find out that I am the only one thinking so :> So, I'd ask you if any share my opinion and wouldn't mind participating in a short interviews like this one when the time comes? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 06:27, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Two articles are waiting for reviewers for B-class. As they are my articles, I cannot review them myself... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 05:51, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Review needed. Usually I don't care if it takes long, but this is the December 13 (martial law in Poland) anniversary DYK I wrote, and it needs to be reviewed this week, the sooner, the better. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 23:56, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
I was very surprised to see that Polish Wikipedia does not have an article about the 1971 Łódź strikes. This is a forgotten event, as it was overshadowed by the December 1970 protests, but unlike what happened on the Coast, the Łódź strikes were a victory of the protesting workers. Help is appreciated for a DYK nomination. Tymek (talk) 21:20, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
I expanded an article about very typical Polish nobleman from 17th century: Justynian Szczytt (d. 1677). It is ready to be B-class article and what should I do to improve it to GA? Kmicic (talk) 23:50, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Szczytt family in 16th century belonged to the category of panięta. It was higher-class of Lithuanian szlachta. We can find 9 biographies of members of this family in Polski Słownik Biograficzny. There is no small unnotable family, like there are tousands in herbarz's. It was very prominent family in Połock's Voivodeship. In 18th century members of Szczytt family had their own soldiers and court. Kmicic (talk) 01:17, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
As they are not annouced on Article Alerts: please see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2011 December 8. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 18:23, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated this article Karlino oil eruption to DYK, and there are some issues, see here [16]. If somebody has time in this busy pre-Christmas season to take care of the issues, help is appreciated. Thanks. Tymek (talk) 05:08, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
SlavPoland is constantly adding external link to sztetl.org.pl to every possible article about Polish city. Shouldn't someone stop him? For me it looks like spam.. Danim (talk) 13:16, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
A day or two early but I dunno if I'll have time to log in again before New Years, so happy wishes to everyone. Now back to cooking. Volunteer Marek 16:14, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
On the main page of website for Aftenposten, part of a headline is Polsk politi kritiserer norsk politi.
My general questions are, what if anything has been the most notable cooperation between police services of Norway and Poland?
What (if any) notable criticism has there been between these 2 police services, historically speaking.
What criminal acts performed by Norwegian individuals in Poland, are the most notable? --62.92.255.199 (talk) 14:17, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Dear all, following a discussion at User talk:Buckshot06/Archive 17#People's Armies and User talk:W. B. Wilson#Eastern European Armies, the two of us decided that it was inappropriate to have separate articles on the Communist military of states such as Poland or Yugoslavia when all the other countries of the world had consolidated entries : British Armed Forces, Belgian Army etc. Now User:Piotrus has rather strongly expressed his dissatisfaction with the merge of People's Army of Poland into Polish Armed Forces, made in accordance with this conversation of ours. What do people think? Please make all your comments at WT:MILHIST for ease of a single discussion. 19:34, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Xx236 (talk) 10:46, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
The current article is based on a Russian blog. Either the life of Sat-Okh was a hoax or the accusations are.Xx236 (talk) 11:05, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Sta-Okh existed and wrote many books, but his origins aren't clear. His mother allegedly produced false document. The article has been rewritten on the basis of Олег Фочкин blog, so maybe it should be restored. Xx236 (talk) 08:23, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
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Another article I think merits a B-class. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 22:05, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure as to the best way to handle this. We have an article on "Labour Party (Poland)" which is a short stub - in need of expansion, btw - on the Polish "Stronnictwo Pracy" party (pl wiki). Various articles link to it (for example Polish Underground State). The problem is that there was another party in the interwar period, "Partia Pracy" (pl wiki). The first one was Korfanty and Popiel the second one a PSL-Wyzwolenie split off. A "standard" English translation of "Stronnictwo" is in fact "party" but it seems like if anything, the title "Labour Party" should be reserved for the literal "Partia Pracy", not "Stronnictwo". One problematic aspect is that articles like Polish Underground State talk about SP but end up linking to an article that is actually PP (as a bit of aside grumpy grumbling, this is what happens when people who have no idea of the subject matter get involved in moving pages for the sake of misguided "use English" crap).
Additionally whoever moved SP from its original "Stronnictwo Pracy" title to "Labour Party (Poland)" salted the redirect (presumably accidentally) so the article can't be moved via normal means. Rather than starting a "request-move" I thought I'd bring this up here first. Once sorted out, I plan on creating an en-wiki article on the Partia Pracy Labour party. Volunteer Marek (talk) 21:54, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Anyone know what the English (or possibly German) equivalent of the office/position of a "Piwniczy" would be? Volunteer Marek (talk) 03:06, 5 January 2012 (UTC) pl:Piwniczy lacks references.Xx236 (talk) 09:28, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Perhaps here is the better place to ask this question (better than ref desk). I stumbled at a photo of a most curious (and spooky) statue in Poland - children soldiers (??) - it's the 11th thumbnail on this page, or 8 MB full res photo here. Is it "just a statue" or is there a real-life story behind it? TIA, 91.76.100.255 (talk) 08:04, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
You may want to ask User:Halibutt. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 13:19, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Assuming anybody cares, which given the growing backlog of B-class reviews, I am having increased doubts... (and no, I cannot and will not review my own articles, rubber stamping them that way). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 21:26, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Another B-class review request. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 23:07, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Anyone want to contribute and maybe get a DYK for this? I just started it but have no time to get more info from other sources. Thanks :) Malick78 (talk) 13:46, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Anyone know what is the translation (or type for that matter) of the ship "sznika", as found here [17]? I checked on pl wiki but nothing there. The word "sznika", "sznik" itp. appears in other contexts out there as well (for example as a crossword clue [18]).VolunteerMarek 22:21, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Is it a "snigga" - "snigga, bałtycki okręt żaglowy z XV wieku" - as in that crossword?VolunteerMarek 22:22, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Can anyone suggest something nice for Template:Did you know nominations/Scipione Piattoli? Thanks, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 02:17, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Should 2004 Zakopane earthquake be nominated for deletion? It seems like a minor event not worthy an article here. - Darwinek (talk) 18:48, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
I am putting the Pope John Paul II article up for peer review if anyone is interested in participating -- Marek.69 talk 02:56, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Related to the Constitution of 3 May, I am looking for author, title, date and a better quality version: [19]. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 22:20, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Another major figure related to the Constitution of the 3 May. Within the next few weeks, I plan to use my scans of PSB to similarly expand and improve articles on Staszic and Poniatowski. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 05:16, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Poland will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Poland'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) 21:54, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Poland for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 08:22, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
I've begun a draft at Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Newsletter/2, but frankly, we have little news to report. It is currently a copy of the April'11 newsletter, with few tweaks. Any ideas what to add? Perhaps we can report the interview after the fact? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 18:50, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
C'mon, people, isn't there anybody who can review a few articles? Sigh. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 05:59, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Done.VolunteerMarek 03:33, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to VM for helping with a number of issues, but it is clear that the two of us do not have time or will to fix all of them. Does anyone else care to help? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 17:38, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
I intended to write an article about king Stanisław August Poniatowski, but I scanned wrong bio in the PSB. So here you go, Poniatowski's father, an interesting figure himself (creator and major figure in familia). If anybody could scan and send me SAP's bio from PSB, I'd gladly work on it in the near future. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 19:33, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
This time, an article on a more general concept. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 20:32, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Kotniski (talk · contribs) seems to have taken a leave of absence from Wikipedia. I think we should show him how much we appreciate his contributions on his talk page, and urge him to come back. He is (was...) one of our most active members. Let's show him we care! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 19:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
I generated list of stubs about villages in Poland, without image in infobox on enwiki, but with image on plwiki - maybe somebody will be interested Bulwersator (talk) 20:32, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
I have recently written some articles about Communist Poland, feel free to improve them.
More to come. Tymek (talk) 23:54, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I was looking at our most popular pages, and I noticed a number of Russian tsars there. It appears that articles of Russian rulers of Congress Poland are tagged with WP:POLAND. I don't think this is helpful; they are topics of importance to Russia project, but not really to us. For the same reasons, Polish monarchs are not included in the scope of Ukraine, Belarus, Prussia or Silesia WikiProjects. And neither Napoleon nor Hitler are included within the scopes of most the countries they conquered. G
Articles affected:
For the record, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, ruler of Duchy of Warsaw, is not included in our project. Neither are Austro-Hungarian and Prussian rulers (Kings and Queens of Galicia and Lodomeria, and Grand Dukes of Posen, respectively).
Going further, if one was to argue that the period of partitions makes the partition rulers important for our project, why not the partition country governments, and all the myriad articles about their economies, culture, and so on? It's a slippery slope that I think should be fixed before it gets worse.
I'd be inclined to include Frederick Augustus within our scope, but remove all the Russian rulers. Thoughts? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 21:57, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Just to cause a bit of trouble, take a look at List of Polish monarchs (I recently redirected List of kings of Poland into it, and cleaned it up [21]. What should the criteria for inclusion be there? Should the Waclaw's be included (IMO, Waclaw II for sure, Waclaw III maybe)? What about folks like Zbigniew (Krzywousty's brother)? Or Bezprym, this "Otto Bolesławowic" fellar, the famous "Boleslas the Forgotten" or Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor? I'm going with the usual "Poczet Krolow i Ksiazat Polskich" on this one, but it's the same sort of question.VolunteerMarek 04:03, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Has been published. Thank you for participation, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 04:22, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
You can use ((subst:User:Piotrus/w|Poland)) to welcome new editors and invite them to our WikiProject at the same time. Change Poland for other keyword to invite them to a different project. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 21:03, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
If anyone has any sources about this person?? Krystyna Branicka could not be born in the 17th century because her mother was 7 years old in 1700. raziel (talk)
Anyone, please? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 20:26, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
The text of History of Poland (1569–1795) has been merged with the text of History of Poland in the Early Modern era (1569–1795). What remains to be done is the technical merge process, which will eliminate History of Poland (1569–1795). Orczar (talk) 17:45, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
German names introduced in 1938 are illegal in Poland. A standard note informing about it would be useful to apply in the 1500 articles: 1938 renaming of East Prussian placenames.Xx236 (talk) 10:39, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm working through the images that are suggested to add to en.wikipedia at User:Bulwersator/Echo/Images/People, and many of them are Poland-related images without sufficient source information to determine their copyright status, and I am accordingly nominating these images for deletion at commons instead of adding them here. Of course, it would be better for everyone if they could be properly sourced! I've tried to do so, but obviously my Googling is limited by my non-existent Polish abilities. So I'll keep a running list below of some of the images I have nominated for deletion, and if anyone can find pre-1994 evidence of publication without a copyright notice, please add it so the images can be saved! Thanks, Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:00, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
A new article, which still needs a lot of work. My time is more limited than ever, so if somebody has some time, I would appreciate expanding the article, working on references and style. Polish civilian camps in World War II. Thanks. Tymek (talk) 00:44, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
The lead of the History of Polish may contain OR. I don't know about any old Silesian language influencing Polish. There was no border between very similar Polish and Czech. Modern Silesian dialect preserves partially Old Polish, even Czech. Polish evaluated and Czech language was quite recently recreated.Xx236 (talk) 13:45, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello, it seems to me we have a major dating problem post 1900- on Polish articles.
Let's start from the beginning; Congress Poland - As of the English Wikipedia, Congress Poland lasted from 1815 to 1915. As of the Polish Wikipedia, Congress Poland lasted from 1815 to 1918. We need the correct dating fix.
Second Polish Republic - as of the English Wikipedia, Second Polish Republic lasted from 1918 to 1939 As of the Polish Wikipedia, Second Polish Republic lasted from 1918 to 1945. We have to consider the fact, Poland [b]did not[/b] surrender during the Second World War, Poland fought till the end, therefore it is wrong to consider the dissolution of Poland in 1939.
(Wrong Links - Second Polish Republic links to Nazi General Government (Polish-occupied lands) and Polish Government in exile, whereas the People's Republic of Poland flag-links preceding refers to Second Polish Republic)
People's Polish Republic As of the English Wikipedia, People's Republic of Poland lasted from 1944 to 1989 As of the Polish Wikipedia, the same years are presented. The problem here is, the are absolutely no Polish Nation History links to this page. The preceeding, Second Polish Republic, only directs to Polish government in exile. (Third Republic of Poland does not have country-preceeding links).
Third Polish Republic As of the English Wikipedia, Poland lasted from January 30, 1990 - As of the Polish Wikipedia, Third Polish Republic lasted from 31 grudnia 1989. The date shall be changed from the current January 30 to December 29th or 31st, as on 29th the 'Balcerowicz' plan came to effect, and the consitution renamed itself to 'Rzeczpospolita Polska'.
Please find out as much as you can about these dates, and we'll try to figure it all out and change it altogether. PantherBF3 (talk) 17:16, 14 March 2012 (UTC) Please find out as much as you can about these dates, and we'll try to figure it all out and change it altogether.
See discussion here. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 19:44, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Obviously, I would love to do both, but my time is too limited. I have been writing new articles for some time, with all the ideas I have in mind. But recently I looked at several Poland-related articles, which already exist, and to my surprise I see they are short, and miss a lot of information. Good example are articles on numerous Polish towns. Short, with basic information, if any. What is your opinion? Tymek (talk) 21:54, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Do whatever is more fun for you. Both expansion and new topics are needed. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 16:22, 15 March 2012 (UTC)