User talk:PolishPoliticians

Hi, Please don't create articles with Polish diacritics in their titles. In English Wikipedia all articles titles must be in ISO-8859-1. See Lech Walesa as an example. You should move Lech Kaczyński into Lech Kaczynski, and use form Kaczyński in the article form itself. Note that ó is an exception as it appears in ISO-8859-1, thus Józef Oleksy works OK. Jeśli masz jakieś pytania nie krępuj się. Przepla 23:08, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. It's me again. I changed L. Kaczynski's photos on all pages. The one you uploaded is very propably copyright violation. Fortunately, the for the media photo is available so please use this one instead. Przepla 22:29, 13 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Szczecin

Hello, (again). I am very unhappy with changes you have made in the History of Szczecin article. Changing all names from English to Polish (Odra river is a redirect to Oder River, duplicated links, etc. I am reverting to previous version from Szczecin. BTW. Are you the same user as User:Szczecin? Przepla 12:09, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hevelius

Listen pal, have you at least tried to read the discussion about Hevelius? There was long revert war about this article and few others and we finally came to compromise. I am Pole myself and i don't particularly like it, but we have made it so we shoudl stick to it!!! Szopen 07:33, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi,

Can you have a look into the articles edited by User:Irredenta: Vilnius, Gabriel Fahrenheit, Johann Reinhold Forster, Georg Forster. Regards.Yeti 10:27, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Linki

Od jakiegoś czasu dodajesz masowo linki do artykułów o miastach. A to do polityków, a to do uczelni. Nie mnie wnikać czy są to informacje istotne. Mógłbyś się jednak postarać i nie robić linków nie działających. Na przykład wiele uczelni ma już swoje strony. Angielska Wiki nie obsługuje jednak polskich znaków i linki zapisane z nimi działać nie będą. Mógłbyś to poprawić? Halibutt 02:03, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)

Dzięki za Twoje uwagi na temat polskich uczelni. Mój plan polega na tym aby dodać listę polskich uczelni wyższych, na podstawie oficjalnego spisu MEN, do stron angielskich i polskich. Drugim krokiem będzie przetłumacznie nazw polskich na angielski. PolishPoliticians 02:18, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

W przypadku większych miast nie obędzie się chyba bez osobnej podstrony albo chociaż tabelki, bo lista kilkudziesięciu uczelni niepublicznych, z których żadna pewnie nie ma własnego artykułu na wiki, zajęłaby za dużo miejsca. Zobacz jak rozwiązałem całą sprawę na stronie Warsaw. Może być? Halibutt 14:29, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)

Pełna akceptacja dla Education in Warsaw

No to świetnie! Halibutt 02:35, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)

Personal insults

Can you watch the personal insults in edit summaries in articles like Gdansk? Calling others Nazis is not acceptable. Pakaran . 01:21, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

In my opinion the Nazis should be called the Nazis. The problem is some editors spread the Neo-Nazi ideas in Wikipedia, and they should be stopped somehow. The example is profanating Polish cities with the Nazi names, another example is calling the Nazi atrocities during WWII, the legal action of the legal German government. The Nazi atrocities should be called Nazi atrocities, people speading Nazi propaganda should be called the Nazis, don't you agree??? PolishPoliticians 01:32, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Your editing someone's user page and slapping the Neo-nazi label on them is out of line. [1]. 147.8.224.157 01:38, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Also, placing additions on others' user pages calling them Neo-Nazis is NOT acceptable. If this continues you're very likely to be taken to the arbitration committee. Pakaran . 01:33, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Dont call people Nazis. See Godwin's Law. -SV 02:28, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Szczecin (yet another consensus proposition)

Co myślisz, o umieszczeniu w nagłówku takiego zdania: formerly referenced in English by it's German name Stettin? Jeśli wyrażasz zgodę, napisz na Talk:Szczecin. Przepla 09:42, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Naming issues

I have made a proposition in Talk:Gdansk/Naming convention#Other_concepts. In short, it's sing most controversial names when first name appears in artcile and making a msg saying that the names are controversial and pointing to article explaining why. Please, contribute your opinion.Szopen 10:53, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

English and Nazi city names

Gdansk, Elblag and Torun are NOT English names. The English names are the same as the German names, and they are NOT Nazi names. Rick K 23:39, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)

Please see for example www.gdansk.pl , www.elblag.pl and www.torun.pl to see that the cities's authorities use these names (Gdańsk, Elbląg, Toruń) in their ENGLISH language subpages, so this means that they think they are the English names of the cities. In all English language publications I have seen these names are used. The German names are rarely mentioned, but always as German names (nothing more). The German people did much hurm to the Polish people during WWII. Since that time the German names are considered to be extremly offensive (like painting the Nazi swastikas on Jewish graves. Please be informed and try to understand. Thank you. PolishPoliticians 23:47, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Just because people in Poland use these names in English-language websites doesn't mean that English speaking people use these names. Those are Polish people speaking English. English speaking people say Danzia, Elbing and Thorn. Rick K 23:49, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)

All native English people I know speak and write Gdansk, Elblag and Torun. At least as soon as they are informed the Nazi names are offensive. PolishPoliticians 23:53, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Since those names were known long before anybody every heard of National Socialism, to refer to them as Nazi names is offensive. And guess what? Now you've met a native English speaker who doesn't think they're offensive, but does think that your characterizations of them as Nazi is offensive. Rick K 04:07, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)

The Swastika symbol was also known long before the Nazis, and today it is considered offensive in certain situations, don't you agree?

Yes, the Nazis liked certain city names. They also liked blonde hair and Protestants. This does not make Hillary Clinton a Nazi symbol. Pakaran . 04:31, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Blondes are not offensive, swastika and Danzig is offesive - that's the difference. PolishPoliticians 04:34, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Vladislaus I of Poland

Stop moving things without discussion. You are trying to turn the English Wikipedia into the Polish Wikipedia. Why don't you go work on the Polish Wikipedia and quit your POV edits? Rick K 05:22, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)

He ings' ame ere ladislaus (n atin ersion) nd ładysław (n olish ersion). on't ee hy e hould rop he irst etter rom he ing's ame.

The kings' name were Vladislaus (in Latin version) and Władysław (in Polish version). I don't see why we should drop the first letter from the king's name. PolishPoliticians 05:25, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Because, as you seem not to have grasped, this is the English Wikipedia, and the names you are moving them to are not the names as they are known in English. 05:27, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)

As a matter of fact I've never heard the Vladislaus version in any language. Perhaps you were referring to Romanian name Vlad? Halibutt 06:04, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)

Moving Ladislaus II to Vladisluas in English Wikipedia is like moving pl:Elżbieta I to pl:Elizabeth I in Polish Wikipiedia with arguments: that Elizabeth never had ż in her name, and you don't see reason for insertion such strange characters into it. Please, try acknowledge that English names differs from Polish. Przepla 09:22, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Naming wars

Since you were either directly or indirectly once involved into edits revolving around "proper" naming of cities like Gdansk/Danzig etc i thought you may be interested in my proposition in User:Szopen/NamingWar. I would want to create a way aimed at stopping the revert wars in future - through creating something like a msg (in see also list or header) explaining that's there is compromise and why, and by linking to the article explaining changes of the statuses of the Royal Prussia province (I would prefer it ot have it as separate article, not scatter it in plethora other articles). I would be happy to hear from you. Szopen 09:16, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Sock Puppets and Cliques

Hi, I'm just trying to figure if there is any way to identify sock puppets. The assumption seems to be that puppets only do small numbers of edits.

Last Apr/May while Wik & John_Kenney where edit warring the West Papua articles to dumb down Melanesians in the articles; I found where John was instructing Wik on how to prevent Tannin or myself from editing the pages. Upon checking their Wikipedia activity at the time I got the impression they were both pro-Palestine in Israel articles, and pro-Indonesian government in West Papua articles - or in other terms anti-jewish and & anti-Melanesian (black). It looked to me that they had formed a very small clique to enforce their POV though John was intelligent enough to be careful how he did this, but he did also jump to Wik's defence.

A few weeks ago upon my return to the West Papua page, John starts reverting again, then Gzornenplatz waged in just like Wik use to. Later, when John was lossing ground in the discussion page & Jmarbel was not accepting his POV, suddenly this OneGuy jumped in to break up that discussion and get it back under John's control.

To me OneGuy sounded like John when he's upset, then I checked their contribution lists and it looked more like someone who sometimes switched between two accounts. For a new user, OneGuy seems very active just like John was last year. So is OneGuy John's sock puppet? And dare one mention it?

John's activity last year was typically 1600 edits/ month (1100 to 2400); it will be interesting to see if John & OneGuy can both maintain their levels at the same time. But how can one show proof of a sock puppet if the puppeteer is intelligent ?--Daeron 04:36, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

BTW: I notice OneGuy is defending Gzornenplatz, just like John use to defend Wik. But how to know who is who ?--Daeron 04:36, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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