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My Apologies

I would like to assure you that I am a fan of Wikipedia and its content. I have just signed up today after a long time of using Wikipedia as a resource. I hope to contribute to the site. The links to the sites were only temporary as I was collecting and revising some content such as history and finding an Image to put in. Yes I do work for TipTopJob.com but as I had seen that Monster.com had done so I assumed that I could and I realise that I may have over stepped the mark. I am yet to master the coding on this site and am now left wondering if I am using the usertalk properly. Heres hoping.

My Apologies. --Tputna 14:01, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

request

Please see Talk:Arvanites if you can. talk to +MATIA 14:59, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I'll look. :-) bogdan 14:42, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Krashovani

This page is slowly turning into the Moldova of Serbs and Croats. I don't like the article as it is now, since it tilts towards Serbs (did whatever I could do to tone it down, but some things I just cannot point out as objective or biased). And then the Croats come in and write: "The Krashovani wisely chose to be Croats" (and I suppose they expect not to be banned). What is really funny about such people is that they come in and change part of the article, and you have halves that express two distinct biases. Or you get a non sequitur/fallacy: check out the Armenian edits on the Miklós Horthy page (it's also that they seem so stream-of-consciousness, and that the man did not bother to check were Nalbandian leads). Oh, Boy. Dahn 15:02, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Also see this: from Croathood:

The culture of Croats is so different from Serbs that one can hardly beieve that Serbia shares a border wih Croatia.

bogdan 15:18, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Cornel Trăilescu

Thank you for correcting the accent!

I wonder if you would be able to write the article as well? We have a number of Romanian composers listed but none of us on the Opera Project are really qualified to write about them. How about having a go?

Kleinzach 16:59, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia

Wikipedia pushing the agenda of 16 year old girls, which haven't yet grown up.

But try to re-write history to suit their view of the world.

Grow up along with your friends....

Wikipedia has no agenda. It tries to be a source as neutral as possible and for that we include the views of all sides. (Please see WP:NPOV) bogdan 14:08, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Pastrama

Dexonline says the word is of Bulgarian origin, but Dictionary.com says the word is of Latin origin. Which is it? Btw, I removed a stupid message from your talkpage. --Candide, or Optimism 14:04, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Well... I'd say that is often the case with some words. :-) I know there were some words which Hungarian sources say they were borrowed from Romanian and the Romananian sources said they were Hungarian. bogdan 14:08, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Ghilimele

Salut Bogdan. Ştii cumva care este forma normală a ghilimelelor în scrierile româneşti îngrijite? Articolul Quotation mark spune una („text”), Pruteanu spune alta („text“, vezi aici). Dicţionarul de neologisme, versiunea online, spune aşa: „text“, dar nu ştiu dacă aceeaşi formă apare şi în versiunea tipărită. Poţi să faci puţină lumină? — AdiJapan ☎ 14:34, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Hm... I'm not sure about that. I have a copy of the "Îndreptar ortografic, ortoepic şi de punctuaţie al limbii române", but I have no idea where it is now. :-)

I see that books published by Polirom use „text“ and books published by Humanitas use „text”, so... bogdan 14:49, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I'd say books printed after 1990 are not all reliable, because more often than not the editing software used for them was not carefully adjusted for Romanian. A book I have here (Alecsandri, "Chiriţa în Iaşi"), published in 2001 by "Editura Litera Internaţional", has no less than three styles of quotation marks, plus lots of spelling mistakes.

Microsoft Word settings for Romanian use the 99-shaped form: „text”.

If you turn to books printed before 1989 I think you'll find more uniformity. A collection of Caragiale's writings published by "Editura Dacia" in 1988 uses „this“ kind of quotation marks, and that's how I remember them from school, in the shape of both 99 and 66. But after I googled a bit I found in a discussion forum people saying that books published before 1989 use both variants. What a mess... — AdiJapan ☎ 16:37, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, it's just like the s-comma/s-cedilla problem... bogdan 16:59, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi.

Hi. My name is Jimbo Wales. In case you don't know, I own Wikipedia. I can do what I want, right? Nothing wrong about a bit of fun :) (and I haven't even done anything. Yet...) By the way, could you keep any comments about this off my talk page (the one on my real username)? It would be better if I kept it quiet. :) ♠ 15:55, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, right! And I'm an authorized sock-puppet of Elizabeth II, Queen of England. :-) bogdan 16:01, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Should I take that as nice (you are comparing me to the Queen) or nasty (you are ridiculing me)? ♠ 16:05, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

You're bored and have nothing to do, right? :-) bogdan 16:20, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Transylvanian Revolution of 1948

Bogdan, I noticed you have it on the to-do list. I think that an article for it is unnecessary - the article you linked it to covers it, and it should be expanded. But the events'll be 95% covered when a proper Blaj Assemblies article would join the edits I made on Avram Iancu. The other 5% can be covered by more biographies of participants (see what I did on Andrei Şaguna). Otherwise, the event cannot be separated from an Austrian or Hungarian context, and it was promoinent for only a month or so after June-July (or, at most, until Bem took over). The rest is covered with Iancu. Dahn 16:25, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

You're right. Connecting the pieces could be done in Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas. bogdan 16:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Why Did you change my article?

Why did you unedit my edit on the Saint Joseph Page? That is the way that it is supposed to be in the bible. He is really called that, haven't you ever read a bible? If you do, you will see that God says on line 27 on page 673 "And Herby, you, Saint Joseph, will be Nicknamed Joseph the Breast." Really, I am being fully honest. Please offer some mercy to the truth and not the false truth that you communists have thought up about the bible. Please change the article!

Yeah, right. :-) bogdan 22:02, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Maps

Hi again. I'd like to ask you a copyright question about maps. I came to you because I know you've uploaded various maps to Wikipedia so I thought you might be able to help me.

The question is: Are altitude data copyrightable? Specifically, if I extract the altitude data from an otherwise copyrighted map, and use nothing else from that map, can I include that information in my own map and distribute it under the GNU licence? My guess is that nobody can own such information, except maybe the governments of the contries that are involved. As a comparison, I don't think anyone can hold a copyright on the air composition, or on atomic masses, or on the Sun-Earth distance.

The actual process of altitude data extraction consists in calculating the altitude from the colors in a physical map, while removing fancy shadows, rivers, cities, labels, etc. When I create my own map I assign those altitudes my own color scale.

A map rendering can be copyrighted, but pure data or information cannot be. In the US, there's a law precedent with lists of phone-numbers being not copyrightable. In Romania, the law is rather clear that data is excepted from copyrighting, and I assume this is the case in most other countries. bogdan 12:03, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

And since I'm at it, do you know any website that can create copyright-free maps? I suppose that would be asking for too much, but if not, customizable maps would be a plus. Thanks. — AdiJapan ☎ 11:48, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Try this flash application from http://www.demis.nl: it uses 100% public domain data so it's ok to use the maps. :-) bogdan 12:03, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Great! I knew I was asking the right person. Thanks for both answers! — AdiJapan ☎ 12:26, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

To Do

Salut,

I've just created this: Wikipedia:Romanian Wikipedians' notice board/to do. If you can, would you please help with populationg the lists?

Multzam Mihai -^talk 13:07, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Rugaminte

Sunt nou pe wikipedia, nu ma pricep la mare lucru in ceea ce priveste partea tehnica, dar trebuie sa recunosc ca am niste surse destul de bune de informare.V-as ruga frumos sa ma ajutati oleaca la partea cu folclorul romanesc/mitologie romaneasca, ma chinui sa fac acolo o extindere, dar este nevoie si de cateva pagini de dizambiguare, pe care sincer, nu stiu cum sa le fac. Va multumesc anticipat user:Macedon19

Manele

Ha ha. I never heard a manele song. Do you have an audio sample? Or am I going to regret listening to it? Alexander 007 18:43, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

You lucky bastard! --Candide, or Optimism 19:17, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Heh. I'll try to search for one. bogdan 18:57, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

On second thought, maybe I shouldn't. I'm one of the lucky few who has been spared by dwelling outside the zone of detonation. :-)Alexander 007 18:59, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Smart choice. But, in case you change your mind, here's what I found on google: Copilul de aur & Sorina - Bărbat de şapte stele (it's archived, you should unpack with WinAce or something) bogdan 19:06, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

It is a difficult choice. If I unpack those files, I can no longer say "I have never heard even one millisecond of a Manele song; not the merest wisp of it has met my ears". Mm. No. I will not unpack those files. Alexander 007 19:26, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Intrebare

Salutare,

According to this, if I undrestand correctly, official symbols of the Romanian state and its institutions cannot be copyrighted, so they should be in the PD. From this I have 2 questions for you:

1. Should we make a copyright tag template for the images which are in this category (coat of arms of Ro, of different cities etc.)?

2. Are any depictions of these symbols PD? Such as images from different websites?

thx Mihai -^talk 13:11, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

1. I made Template:PD-money-Romania, maybe we can extend that one.

2. Actually, if they are accurate, i.e. there's no originality involved, then they are not eligible for copyright and they are PD. bogdan 13:15, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok, the template should be extended to contain also Art9 letter c: simbolurile oficiale ale statului, ale autorităţilor publice şi ale organizaţiilor, cum ar fi: stema, sigiliul, drapelul, emblema, blazonul, insigna, ecusonul şi medalia; (btw how do you translate stema, emblema, blazonul, insigna, ecusonul). Mabye the template could also be renamed, to something like PD-Romania-symbols (I can't find something more appropriate). Mihai -^talk 13:24, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Ah, and one more small question, what does organisations mean? Who fits there? Mihai -^talk 13:31, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

I've made this: Template:PD-RomaniaGov after the model of Template:PD-CzechGov. If you can spare some time please take a look at it, and if you consider it's OK I'll add it to the list and start adding it to the appropriate images. Mihai -^talk 14:53, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Alekos

Thanx for the eds. I believe the translation of the text in other languages merits a try. Is it feasable to translate it in Romanian? Bst rgds, Laonikos 21:07, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Arvanitic again

Hi Bogdan, I'd be grateful for your input on my proposal for Arvanitic language, currently at User:LukasPietsch/Arvanitic. By the way, you'll notice that I exchanged your image (Image:Arvanitic IE.png) with another one (Image:Arvanitic.png). The reason is I was concerned the source (B. Joseph's paper) was rendered in a somewhat misleading way, as "Shqip" was included on that lowest branch, which really should say "Standard Albanian". Joseph himself says in his paper that he adopts the designation "Shqip" in this narrow sense only for expository purposes of that paper, and that it isn't standard terminology. I also left out the upper bits, about "Ancient Balkan language" and "Romanian substrate". Not that it's wrong, but it's really not very relevant to Arvanitic, is it? --Lukas ^(T.|@) 12:34, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Patience

Bogdan, give me a few minutes before you edit over, i'm over a slow connection, and I'm trying to leave a nice page when I edit, but it's difficult when someone jumps right in. Thanks. Qyd 22:05, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

OK. Sorry. :-) bogdan 22:06, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

no problem; that template {{Infobox City in Romania}} is smarter that i thought, it took a while to figure it out. Qyd 22:17, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Locator maps of cities in Romania

Hello Bogdan,

Small question, do you have a bigger map for the Locator maps of cities in Romania? I know that you are the original mapmaker, and I plan completing the maps from Category:Cities in Romania and category:Municipalities in Romania in the (approximately) near future. Mihai -^talk 23:01, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I have. Let me just search for it. bogdan 23:04, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Image:Romania_counties_blank_big.jpg bogdan 23:14, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

or even better, in PNG: Image:Romania_counties_blank_big.png bogdan 23:15, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Many many many thanks. Are you leaving it PD, because you've tagget the other ones GFDL. For me PD is better. :D Mihai -^talk 23:20, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Why not? :-) bogdan 23:21, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Blocking someone who's already blocked

Hi, I've just come across this and I thought I should point out that when you block a user who is in the middle of a block (i.e. the block hasn't expired yet), whichever block is shorter overrides the other one. So although you meant to make it indefinite, it's actually going to be for a week. If you want it to be indefinite, you have to unblock first, and then reblock. I'd do it, but I'm not sure of the grounds for the block, so I'd rather not get involved. Just thought I'd let you know. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 00:48, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

List of Archeological Discoveries in Bulgaria

What are you doing i wrote it myself ages ago in the bulgaria article it was removed because they said it didn't fit so i created another article. the text is not copyrighted and even it were you should go through the standard procedure on wikipedia which is to label it as a copyright violation. Thanks happy editing Kingstonjr 13:52, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

oh, sorry. I'll fix it. Anyway, it should be better named Archeology in Bulgaria. bogdan 13:53, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it is a copy&pasted from http://www.standartnews.com/archive/2005/07/18/english/arts/index.htm bogdan 13:57, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Meccanismo_di_Antikytera.jpg?

Hey-

You posted the image on the Antikytera mechanism article and stated it was public domain, citing Wikipedia Italy. But Wikipedia Italy doesn't have any source listed for it. The only logical orgin for the image is from one of Derek de Solla Price's articles. He first published his drawings of the workings in the 1959 Scientific American article. Do we know for sure that that article is now in the public domain? Or is the source of that image something different? Thoughts?

thanks,

Antikyterasearcher 05:09, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Spelling

Bogdan, my apologies. As you've noticed I broke the (correct) spelling of Egyptian. I have a script that I'm using to fix some common spelling mistakes, and I accidentally swapped a correct and incorrect spelling of Egyptian in my list of words to watch.

I've reverted my mistakes, gone through the article manually with a spellchecker, and done a little copyediting. Hopefully this will make up for my mistake! Cheers, Cmdrjameson 14:19, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. You should also check this in other articles, such as [1], [2] bogdan 14:24, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

svg -> png

Being almost null in graphics, I have a small qestion: How do I make from an *.svg a *.png. I am intrested because I want to use this map to replace all these maps. :D Mihai -^talk 10:12, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Morgan-Mar

Hi, you voted to keep Ook, what makes it special/notable? Look just like brainfuck with slightly different syntax to me. Cheers, —Ruud 16:16, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

It's the only one that I heard about outside wikipedia. bogdan 16:41, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Limba romana si gramatica ei

Un hotoman a spus ca limba sarba e mai apropiata de limba latina, la gramatica, decat limba romana.

"Grammatically modern Serbian is closer to ancient Latin than modern Romanian."

Link

Ce parere ai? Daca imi dai o parere buna, cu surse, am s-o postez pe forum. --Candide, or Optimism 17:10, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Even if that were the case (I haven't read the link yet), they are not claiming a Serbian-Latin connection, rather a case of parallel evolution. Romanian derives its grammar from Latin, Serbian does not. Statements of being "closer" to Latin are probably contradicted by other sources. And note that there may be other languages whose grammar---due to parallel evolution---is even closer to Latin than Serbian allegedly is, according to that one source you quote. Who knows, maybe Lithuanian is even closer :-) But such findings are irrelevant: those are not Latin languages, so the Serbs shouldn't shit themselves with joy even if that statement is true. Alexander 007 17:43, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

From the Romance languages (the actual descendants of Latin), I don't think anyone disputes that the grammar of Romanian is closest to Latin, and that's what counts. Alexander 007 17:49, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

That statement was made by a Romanian from Vojvodina. --Candide, or Optimism 17:52, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

A statement made in an "Illyria forum" message board (I just clicked on it). Who gives a shit what he/she said, unless he has references. Alexander 007 17:54, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

That's what I told him, but still, I'm hoping that Bogdan will put him in place. This is his chance to improve the image of Bucharest. lol --Candide, or Optimism 17:59, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

His claim is absurd. Most of the features of the Romanian grammar cam be traced to Vulgar Latin. Even most of the conjugations are simply Latin that followed the Romanian regular phonetical changes:

for example, here's the present tense of audīre / auzi(re):

audiō -> aud

audīs -> auzi (palatalized d -> z before "i", we have a stressed "i", so that remained unchanged)

audit -> aude (note the i > e sound change, as "i" is in an unstressed position)

audīmus -> auzim(u) (ending u was lost rather late; older Romanian alphabets still had a mute "u" at the end of some words)

audītis -> auziţi (palatalized t -> ţ before i)

audiunt -> aud

(the ending consonants were already lost in Vulgar Latin and as such, also, in all the other Romance languages, the ending diphthongs were also lost in a later phase)

As you see, it fits perfectly from a phonetic POV. It is true that there are some original features (most of them part of the Balkan linguistic union), but most of the features are derived from Latin. bogdan 23:17, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, but he didn't deny that the grammar of Ro derives from Latin. He just said that Serbian language is grammatically closer to Latin than Ro. He said the following:

My thesis is that modern Slavic languages are structurally closer to ancient Latin than are modern Romance languages. I mentioned the absence / presence of the definite article and the presence / absence of case declension of nouns among other things.

He was not trying to say that Ro derives its grammar from Slavic languages, nor did he argue phonetics. Still, if you got anything that dismisses his argument, I would like to know. --Candide, or Optimism 23:52, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Why you delete Thalmin

He very good man. You no delete him. He is famous so don't do again that. He did many research in science. Why you delete him?!!!!

Hello. The Wikipedia standards for biographies require you to give in an article reasons why he is notable enough to have an article. Simply saying "he works at science lab" is not enough. If you re-create the article, add more information about him, what research he did, what scientifical papers he published, etc. bogdan 14:07, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Geografie in Banat

Buna , si iertare de deranj. Fiind "banatan falos", nu m-am putut abtine sa nu fac cateva articole despre Banat. Am realizat despre Tarcu Mountains, Bistra Valley dar se pare ca sunt o seama de probleme. Plus sa nu mai punem la socoteala ca sunt straini de termenii geologici din limba engleza (si din pacate asta ma limiteaza enorm).As dori sa va uitati peste ele cand aveti timp.Cu respect. Macedon19

Good job! Am făcut câteva mici corecturi. :-) bogdan 21:22, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Plant page names

Hi Bogdangiusca - there's a very strong move among the Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants participants to have most plants at their scientific name, as the scientific names are far more precise. Many plants have no common name at all, or if one is listed it is an invented name that is rarely used (e.g. Berberis darwinii has ten times as many google hits as "Darwin's Barberry"), while many others have several common names, some of which are often shared by other plants. Generally, when a page about a plant is at its scientific name, there is a good reason for it. Please don't move them into common names without consultation! - thanks, MPF 13:42, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

OK. Thanks. I know that formerly the policy was to put the page at the "common" name. bogdan 13:45, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

BTW, I noticed that there are some redirects from names of individual species to their genus or even family. I don't think they are useful, as you don't know if the topic is missing or not. What is the policy about them? Should they be deleted? bogdan 13:50, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! On those redirects, I'd say the best course is to start a stub (even if very brief) and flag it somewhere for expansion. You're right, they are a bit of a nuisance and certainly not useful as they stand! Though I have to admit to creating one or two myself (when expanding a stub about a species to a page about its genus, when the genus didn't even have a page - I reckon orphan species pages are even worse!). Drop me a note of the ones you've found too and I'll put them on my list of things to do - MPF 13:57, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the list; one or two of them (e.g. crab apple) are correct redirects as they are generic names, but many do need dealing with (Prunus domestica is an obvious one). The two chokeberries I'll leave, as they are closely related and I think better dealt with together on the same (genus) page as it gives better options for comparing them (compare also the similar case of Liriodendron). One or two are such obscure minor species that I might just quietly get rid of them; they can always be re-created if someone decides to do a page in 5 years time - MPF 18:23, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

POV

Thank you for your input. Please note that the article, as it read previously, was very POV anti-Hungarian. Not that they are guiltless or innocent-not by a long shot-but the paragraphs could really stand to be written in a way that didn't communicate to the reader that the writer just oozed with hatred for Hungarians. I am a native speaker of English, and it was clear to me that there was a seriously non-neutral-poin-of-view in the article. Could we perhaps look at the offending sections and come to an aggreement about wording?

Judging by your response, this seems to have hit home for you. Are you perhaps from Satu Mare?InFairness 05:06, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

What are you talking about? Are you talking about the Origin of Romanians article? Dude, don't be so clueless. Even if you're talking about a different article, leave that article alone! If we present theories, we don't have to prove that those theories were presented by others, do we? Stop vandalizing articles, especially when you're clueless. --Candide, or Optimism 05:19, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Duras

please see ro:Duras to translate it to Duras .

Request for Moldavia map

Could you redraw the border of common:Image:Moldavia map.png as de:Bild:Karte Fürstentum Moldau.png? It is easy to describe the portion in Ukraine. -- ChongDae 08:16, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Category:Principality of Pindus

Hi. Would you please express your opinion about the survival of this category? Dahn 17:22, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Category:Enemies of Rome who committed suicide

I've re-reverted it, as I've now put more into it Neddyseagoon 22:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC)neddyseagoon

I think all the "Enemies" categories are problematic. Why do we have Category:Ancient Roman enemies but we don't have Category:Enemies of the United States of America? :-) Alexander 007 22:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

paper magazine

hello, i understand that there wasn't much context, but isn't there value to stubs, at least to get the ball rolling?

You should at least tell what was the magazine about, where it was published and who published it. Just telling that it was founded in 1984 is certainly not enough. bogdan 13:39, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Baron Cornett

Fast work reverting the page move vandal Baron Cornett (talk • contribs • Cornett page moves • block user • Cornett block log). I didn't succeed in reverting some of his moves, but it seems you did. I've blocked for 1 week, but an indefinite block might be better. — mark ✎ 11:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Subdivisions of mongolian aymags

Hi, you made links out of all subdivision names in Arhangay Province. Even if it used to be that way (and still is for other aymags), I'm not sure if doing so is really useful. For one, it is unlikely that any one of those will get an article of its own for years to come. I'm already having trouble finding content to write into the aymag articles. And then there's the problem of duplicate names: The one link that you turned blue actually is a redirect to an entirely different aymag. I think it is good enough to just make links out of those names where an article already exists (usually the one containing the aymag capital). --Latebird 13:06, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Translation request

If you could, please translate the paragraph that starts at the bottom of 114 and ends in the middle of 115. If you want to do more than that, feel free. :) — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-14 15:01

If you could also, please translate:

Scopo del viaggio suo era Venezia, la città dove a que'tempi gl'ingegni italiani più quietamente vivessero e ricavassero dai loro studi maggior lucro, a cagione del vasto commercio librario fomentato dalla prudenza del governo; ivi egli rivide il Robortello e contrasse amicizia con quel famoso Pietro Aretino (6); il quale odiato e sprezzato privatamente da tutti, era pur da tutti ed in pubblico, adulato, pagato, esaltato, mentre il furbo, conoscendo di quali e quante cose sia capace l'umana viltà, avverava il detto antico, essere il mondo di chi se lo piglia.

Thanks. — ₀₉₁₈^;BRIAN • 2006-03-15 21:44

And another user was unable to translate:

Codesti cinque primi canti in verità non sono tali da farci desiderare che venissero seguiti da altri pochi o molti: dirò anzi, che se a qualche cosa giovano, gli è appunto a convincerci che il Maggi non era poeta.

— ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-16 01:07

Greier

See also Creier, his earlier account, in case he sockpuppets (if he hasn't already).

From User talk:Ati3414

[3]

Bogdan,

Ti-as fi scris email dar nu ai, asa ca-ti scriu aici. In numele celor 1700 de studenti mai nevoiasi care nu au cei 30 de dolari sa cheltuiasca pe articolele de fizica. Vreau sa-ti "multumesc" pentru ca te-ai lasat inselat de nould membru al comunitatii care a profitat imediat ca sa jumuleasca articolele mele. In fiecare luna, cam 1700 de oameni citeau ceea ce am scris , explicatiile unor fenomene mai vechi, care nu sint descrise bine nici in carti (care costa de la 100 de dolari in plus) , nici in articolele originale. Noul tau "protejat" a profitat de naivitatea ta si, ca prima (si unica) "contributie" , a scos toate articolele in cauza. Uita-te la http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/gregory9 . Eu am scris atit descrierea wiki cit si articolele atasate pe timpul meu, ca sa ajut pe toti cei care nu-si pot permite sumele exorbitante. Nu am vazut nici o alta persoana sa faca atit efort ca sa explice lucrurile in detaliu. Am pus totul pe wiki gratis nu ca sa-mi fac reclama ci ca sa ajut alti oameni. Acum ca stii, fa ce-ti dicteaza constiinta.

Un fost bucurestean

PS; poti sa-mi dai email, discutam mai bine asa si-ti pot explica mai pe indelete. --Ati3414 17:58, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

The gist of it for those that don't speak Romanian:

Bogdan,

I would've e-mailed you but you don't have an email address, so I'll tell you what I think here, on the behalf of the 1700 poor romanian physics students who can't afford 30 dollars to pay for the physics articles. I want to "thank" you for letting yourself be deceived by the new member of the community who took advantage and ripped me off of my entries. Every month, about 1700 people were reading what I wrote, explanations of old phenomena, that are not well explained neither in books (whose cost start at 100 dollars), not in the original articles/entries. Your new "protegee" took advantage of your naivite and, as his first and only "contribution", took out all my entries. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/gregory9 I wrote the wikipedia entries as well as the attahced articles, in my own time, just to help those who can't afford exorbitant prices. I never knew of someone who'd put so much effort in explaining things in so much detail. I wrote the entries for free not to publicize myself but to help some people. Now that you know do what your conscience dictates you.

a former bucharest citizen

ps: you can email me, we can talk more at large then

I am sorry, but if you feel Wikipedia is lacking in some areas, the appropriate thing to do is put work into the articles. Instead you link to papers with your name prominently displayed at the top. Why put your name there? Because it matters to you that they know it was Adrian Sfarti. Wikipedia is not for selfpromotion.

And I don't know how you can even try to claim against self promotion after repeatedly adding yourself to the list of notable Romanian-Americans. You also tried adding your name to the list of notable Romanians, and in your anger for being removed as non-notable you blanked the entire page (List of Romanians,edit history, posting from your home address: 67.170.224.36). With this kind of irrational behaviour, I don't think you are drawing much sympathy for your claim of linking "not to publicize myself but to help some people".

Again I stress, if you want to add infromation, add to the articles. Do not just link to your own papers. This allows Wikipedia to be what it was meant ... a collectively worked on encyclopedia.

Besides the selfpromotion reason, I have also been removing your links because:

• Your papers are often not on the topic of the article and sometimes not even relevant in any manner (you add them just to increase the presence of your work... spam).
• Your papers often contain large direct copies from other works / plagarism.
• Some of your papers contain misunderstanding of the material and should not be included as a information source.

Gregory9 06:19, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Good "hatchet job", Kevin.

Now the students know who to "talk" to for your "great contribution" to wiki (read "defacement") To your points:

1. The articles were written long ago. They were never intended for publication, as such they are uploaded on a free website.I can very easily remove my name.

2. I challenged you to prove them wrong, in front of the whole community, you came up with ...nada.

3. Yes, wiki is a commonly worked encyclopedia. Your "contributions" have been only deletions. Not ver valuable.

I hope that you have a fun time on wiki. Adios Ati3414 15:19, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

"Your "contributions" have been only deletions. Not ver valuable." Removing misinformation is quite valuable to Wikipedia. Socrunchy 18:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello. Sorry, but I do not want to join this dispute over the external links: I don't think my knowledge in physics is enough to tell whether the links are apropriate or not and it would be better to ask for an arbitration at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics. bogdan 00:39, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Bogdane

Acum te speli pe miini, felicitari. Studentii romani de la fizica sa-ti multumeasca si ei de consecinte.Ati3414 04:56, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Helen Tardent - again

Salutare,

Last days, between the tens of articles you have deleted, you have deleted also an article about Helen tardent as CSD A7. User:Olympic, the creator, was so upset that he made you a woman-hater and vandalised your userpage (don't think you've noticed ;) ). Also he has recreated the article, with a slightly different orthography Helen Tardent. According to WP:BITE I have spared some time and explained him that what he did was wrong and that an article about HT has little chance of being kept. Also I've listed Helen Tardent for deletion to see wether or not it will pass. If yo're intrested you can check the AfD page to explain to him the reasons which made you make the cruel decision of deleting his beloved "valid entry". Thx! Mihai -^talk 12:13, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Well... I deleted as A7 and as "recreation of deleted material". It was already deleted twice before. :-) bogdan 00:39, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Redirect

Thanks. You wouldnt believe how long I spent looking for that article, I couldn't believe we didn't have it. Rich Farmbrough 16:31 17 March 2006 (UTC).

Cite help.

Thanks for your message. I'd appreciate your thoughts here. Regards —Encephalon 20:39, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Translation problem

I think there is a typo in the source biography, but I can't be sure (because I don't know Italian :)). On page 112, I think it says that Chiapino Vitelli was informed about Maggi in February 1551. Then on page 113, I think it says that Maggi gave up requesting help from Vitelli on December 10, 1550. Can you confirm that one of the years must be wrong? — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-19 02:19

Pan and Ban in Chinese

Compare Romanian ban (also in Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Iranian unless I'm mistaken, etc.), jupân, and stăpân to Chinese terms such as Tai-Pan, Lo-Ban, etc.; Pan and Ban in Chinese mean "leader" or some such. Probably all those Romanian terms (which the DEX gives as et. nec.) are from an Asiatic source, most likely post-Slavic, though possibly came into Dacia with the Scythian tribes before the Slavs. Contrary to Paliga, I do not expect these terms to date back to the Daco-Thracians. Alexander 007 08:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

The â in "pân" in the last two show that they're rather early borrowings, before the Slavic contact, so maybe they were directly from the Asiatic language? BTW, in Modern Turkish, the word baş means "head", "leader" -- could it be related? bogdan 09:46, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't know. My next step is to trace the distribution of the term some more. In Polish, it is found as pan; I think in Iranian it is ban, and so on. Ultimate source---Chinese? Will find out. Alexander 007 09:50, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

IIRC, this word is found in the Baltic languages, too. The ultimate source would more likely be some Turkish language or Mongolian, as they had contacts with both the Chinese (Mongol Empire, which was based on a union of Mongol and Turkish tribes) and the Europeans. bogdan 09:57, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Obviously, it was broadcast throughout the area by Turkic-Mongolic peoples and other migratory peoples; however, they may have taken the term from the Chinese---or vice versa. This has to be settled by the linguists, of course, and I want to read what they have to say. Alexander 007 10:00, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I'd say that the Chinese theory is less likely, as the Mongols were not very keen to learn about Chinese language and civilization. :-) bogdan 10:10, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Some terms---such as these---were learned by force or social contact. Just like the people of ancient Syria learned what imperator meant when the Romans came. Alexander 007 10:13, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that's true, but in this case, it was the Mongols who conquered Chinese land and not the other way around. bogdan 10:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the Great Wall, etc. I'm not favoring a Chinese origin, I'm waiting to consult the references. There may be simple linguistic reasons why it must be or cannot be indigenous to Chinese. As I pointed out though, it was not necessarily by military force; it could have been social prestige or influence (social contact, etc., another type of force, which can operate like water on a rock) which caused Mongols to adopt a Chinese term. Alexander 007 10:18, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

And there seem to have been two "waves": one that brought stăpân (sta- doesn't look like it would be from Chinese, may be a hybrid) and jupân, and a later one that brought ban. Alexander 007 10:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

This is not Las Vegas, nor are we vying to see who can replace Miss Cleo. I can only put it at 50-50 whether 班 (pan, ban, baan) is indigenous to Chinese or whether it is a loan from a non Sino-Tibetan language. And it is only 50-50 whether these Chinese words even have anything to do with ban (title). Alexander 007 10:51, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

You imply that if -pân comes from an earlier -pán, this shows that it must be pre-Slavic. I'm not sure what you base that on. The DEX suggests that Romanian smântână may derive from Ukrainian or Bulgarian (not even Old Slavonic) smetana (á-->â?). If that's possible, I see no reason to expect a pre-Slavic origin; though not necessarily from the Slavs, it could well derive from Asiatic hordes that were either contemporary with Slavs or later than the Slavs. But it would have to be centuries before ban entered Romanian. Alexander 007 12:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

The non-Slavic Bulgars are a likely source; they fit the time-frame and zoapan is a frequent element in their inscriptions according to this site, not sure how scholarly it is. Alexander 007 13:05, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Merging history?

Hi Bogdan! You've stated here: Wikipedia:Romanian Wikipedians' notice board#Diacritics that you've merged the history of two articles. How would one do that? TIA! --Vlad|-> 13:00, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

This can be done only by admins. There's an explanation at Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page#Fixing cut and paste moves. bogdan 13:10, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Bogdan, thank you! I imagined it could be done only by admins, I was interested in doing that on ro.wiki, where we recently have similar situations. --Vlad|-> 13:17, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Seeking advice

Re: Moldavian wine

Hi Bogdangiusca- I'd like to cleaned up this article, or at least help do so. What would you suggest? Many thanks.David Justin 17:27, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Moldavian_wine"

Thanks for fixing August Bachmann page

Hi, thank you so much for fixing the redirect from August Bachmann to Rivinus. By the time I wrote the page on Bachmann I did not know how to use redirect. Thanks to you and Brya I learned how to do it. Your help is very much appreciated. Alexei Kouprianov 20:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)Alexei Kouprianov

New articles

Yes, I know, I have a project to expand all my new articles. If any are flagged for deletion, I shall of course give them priority. They're all Fellows or overseas members of the Royal Society so are pretty notable. - Newport 12:45, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

banning

Please ban this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Salmosus also read hes edits. a lot of STUPID edits.

templates substituted by a bot as per Wikipedia:Template substitution Pegasusbot 07:59, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Dacian sound laws

I'm going to need some help. Would you like to add your input on the best format. I have a proposed solution on Talk:Dacian language. Alexander 007 17:54, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Compare Dacian language now to how Gaulish language looks. Which is a more readable article? :-) Alexander 007 18:01, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Alinei

...*groan* I'm not sure what I should do with this Alinei and his hypotheses. They are pseudo-science under the veneer of science. I removed his musings from Thracian language. Thracian language is a mess; a major reason for this mess is all these variant hypotheses in the history of Thracology. Alexander 007 13:17, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

To clean up Thracian language, I'm even considering starting a sub-article: Classification of Thracian or something, from August Fick's early (outdated) Thraco-Phrygian grouping, to Thraco-Phrygian-Armenian, to Thraco-Illyrian, to Thraco-Albanian, Thraco-Greek, Thraco-Baltic, Thraco-Slavic, Thraco-Burushaski, etc. etc. ad nauseum Alexander 007 13:23, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

I'll go one day (maybe next week) to the Central University Library in here in Bucharest and make copies of all the things I can find on Thracian and Dacian and I'll try to add some actually sourced information. :-) bogdan 13:33, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

A little problem

I`m having problems with user KIDB, who keeps vandalising this article. Maybe you can do something about it. Thanks! Greier 15:13, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Origin of Ro

I added a new section to that article with loads of new info and sources. Check it out and make sure it's alright. --Candide, or Optimism 18:20, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

RE:Images

OK, da sper ca nu o sa imi sterge-ti imaginile, am petrecut 2 ore jumate ca sa le uploadez. NorbertArthur 1 Aprilie 2006

Eu nu ţin neapărat să le şterg acum, dar până la urmă tot vor fi şterse de alţii pentru că sunt Copyright infringement... bogdan 22:08, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Pantelimon

According to [4], Pantelimon has a population of 16,019. Would this be accurate? If so, then it could be considered a city. I think there's a problem over how to translate "oraş", since in English we have both "city" or "town". I think we should stick to one phrase, since it is a particular legal status (I agree that town is more general). Ronline ✉ 09:17, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

It could be. Anyway, "city" usually refers in English to a large urban agglomeration, "town" for a smaller urban locality and "village" for rural areas. I use "town" for "oraş" and "city" for "municipiu". bogdan 09:22, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Deletion submission

Please do not mark adding a TfD submission to the entry as a minor edit.[5]. Also, mentioning "TfDed" in the edit summary would also be helpful for other editors. Thanks, --Irpen 18:17, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

OK, sorry, I missed that. But I did notify the creator at User_talk:DDima#Templates. :-) bogdan 18:24, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Republic of Moldova

Hi. Try to see Talk:Republic of Moldova#Official language when you have time. Alexander 007 23:30, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

email

How do I email you? I need to ask something of you. --Candide, or Optimism 00:53, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

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Romania in the Dark Ages

Hi there. You protected this about two weeks ago. Since WP:SEMI is for dealing with serious, current vandals, I figure it's been more than long enough to unprotect it now. Can I ask you to check your other recent protections and lift them as necessary, also to remember protections in general? CAT:SEMI is nearly 100 items, most of them seem to have been forgotten by the protecting admin. Thanks. -Splash^talk 22:32, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof 1.1 is Now Available For Download

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In legatura cu descrieri la List of Romanian companies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Romanian_companies#IT_and_web_design - asta e linkul Am adaugat niste firme si am inceput descrieri ale lor, evident am inceput cu cea la care lucrez si ma apucasem sa "compilez" prezentari pentru restul adaugati (unii din ei, logic, clienti, altii firme ale caror produse pur si simplu imi plac) - ai sters pagina respectiva si as vrea, te rog, sa imi spui unde am gresit - am incercat sa fiu cat se poate de obiectiva si mi se parea relevant ce am scris... sunt noua pe aici si sunt usor in ceatza :) Merci. Messa 17:08, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Category:Foreigners in Turkey

Hi. I am unhappily surprised that you nominated this category for deletion without checking out the articles included. If you look at carefully, you will realize that all the people who are named foreigners in Turkey, are people either who are born and grew up in Turkey or have lived in Turkey for some time for business purposes.

If you think that one or some of them do not fit the category, so let me know. Besides, such a category is not the first one in Wikipedia. Please check Japan and other countries.

I ask you to review your decision and cancel your request for deletion.

CeeGee 17:04, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, if people lived long enough in Turkey to become Turkish citizens, they can be added to Turkish people categories. That category is simply POV because you can't divide the people who just visited the country for a few days from people who stayed longer. Where would you put that limit? At one week, one month, one year? Either of that would be something subjective. bogdan 17:20, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Bună!

Buna Bogdan! You translated my article to Kilometre Zero (Bucharest). From when you speak Dutch? :) Anyway, you're welcome on the Dutch Wikipedia (and translating my articles :P). I already translated a lot of articles about Bucharest, to Dutch (See nl:Categorie:Boekarest, here were only 3 articles!). Greets (Salutari) from Holland, (NL-RO) 82.170.227.98 19:19, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi. No, sorry, I don't speak Dutch, but one can translate an article using Babel Fish and a dictionary. :-) I see you've done a great job on nl.wiki on Romanian topics! bogdan 22:15, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok , lol =P. Salutari, (that IP guy) - Bulă 14:01, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier/Mausoleum

Hi Bogdan, the monument in the first picture of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier article is the Mausoleum of the Communist Heroes built in the '50s, when the Tomb was unjustly moved to Mărăşeşti. IMO this picture doesn't belong here (maybe in an article about the Carol Park in Bucharest). What do you think? Regards, Mentatus 12:50, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

3RRR breaking rule of User:Irpen

Can you block this contributor? He constantly deleted POV tags on that article. --Andrei George 18:25, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Bonaparte, take a break. My comment to your frivolous complaint pretty much makes it clear: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/3RR#User:Irpen.

Bogdan, if you insist on a POV tag, please provide the explanation at the article's talk. We've been through that at Bukovina a while ago. If you view Romanian sources as underrepresented, please add the reference info by all means but please elaborate in the refs what the Romanian sources are actually saying, not just link to them. I indend toi provide the translation of the Ukrainian quotes shortly for the editors who can't read Ukrainian. I think the way to deal with soures underrepresentation is to add the info rather than tag the article. I can't add Romanian sources. I don't know Romanian. --Irpen 18:48, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi, thanks for making that category "Ancient Greek pottery". Good job! Nice to see how many articles on really weird old things there already are! :-) Lukas ^(T.|@) 19:06, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Chiţcani, Moldova

Thanks for making this article better! - Mauco 22:56, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

By the way: I know that you strongly disagree with stub categories and stub sorting, and think they are only a waste of time and resources, but ... there is a discussion on Wikipedia:Stub_types_for_deletion about the Transnistria-stub and I am the only one who is participacing who was even the slightest knowledge of the region. So you may want to chip in with your own view of the situation. So far, I am the only outsider who is replying to the "Stub Gods" and their lack of info on the region leads them to erroneous conclusions. - Mauco 12:44, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

I would say delete with them all..

--Andrei George 12:46, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

vandalism

I don't think, that your blocking reason for User:80.76.67.97 has been correct. Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia (such as the removal of the cartoon images) is not vandalism, even if an incorrect (see WP:VANDAL) comment in the article suggests otherwise. Raphael1 07:54, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Before he was blocked, he removed it nine times, even though he was warned. And yes, that's vandalism, since he removed part of the article without consensus. bogdan 08:03, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Neither NPOV violations nor Bullying or Stubbornness and least of all changing articles without consensus constitutes vandalism. Raphael1 08:12, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

But this is not NPOV, this is deleting part of the article. bogdan 08:16, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

As I've said before a NPOV violation does not constitute vandalism neither does the removal of an image. Raphael1 08:21, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

He could have been blocked for 3RR instead. It's not like it really matters. bogdan 09:00, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Well it does matter. Because of the reason you have given, User:Pegasus1138 might not have violated th 3RR. Raphael1 09:16, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Bosnian Pyramin/Viscocia Hill

After the move, it is probably a good idea to put a redirect at the old heading, as there were links to that page. GRBerry 17:10, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Rousse-Giurgiu bridge

Hi! I've recently taken up articles on bridges in Bulgaria and have already written a few. I'd also like to write an article on the Danube bridge connecting Rousse (BG) and Giurgiu (RO) (that one — [6] [7]), but I only know how it's called in Bulgaria, and not in Romania and internationally. Knowing the Bulgarian name, I believe it's a Friendship Bridge of some kind, like Friendship Bridge Giurgiu-Ruse or Giurgiu-Ruse Friendship Bridge. Do you have any suggestions about the name of the article? Thanks in advance! → Тодор Божинов / Todor Bozhinov → 09:42, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

I think Giurgiu-Ruse Friendship Bridge would be OK. In Romanian,it's named "Podul prieteniei". bogdan 10:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! That seems great. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any free-licensed pictures and am thinking of claiming fair use on some good photo, but even finding one seems a difficult task. Could there possibly be some Romanian free web gallery/archive with a nice photo of the bridge? → Тодор Божинов / Todor Bozhinov → 12:52, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Please fix double redirects

If you're going to move a page as you did with Legion of Honor, please fix the double redirects. Thanks. AjaxSmack 05:04, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Bucharest sector map

Hi Bogdan. I've just completed articles for all of the Bucharest sectors - see Sectors of Bucharest. Each one has an infobox, and that infobox should contain a map highlighting that sector within Bucharest. Would you know where I can find a simple map that divided the municipality into the six sectors so that they can be shaded in for each map? Thanks, Ronline ✉ 07:46, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

OK, I'll make a map. bogdan 10:19, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Done. :-) commons:User:Bogdan/gallery bogdan 10:35, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Many, many, many thanks! :)) Ronline ✉ 01:07, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

La limba moldovenească

Buna,

You removed the "Comparison with Romanian" section on the Moldovan language page awhile back. Do you still think we should remove it? I personally have no problem with it not being on the page. Cheers, —Khoikhoi 19:06, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi. It's unneeded in that page because we say plainly that Moldovan is just a name for Romanian. If the two languages were different, then a comparison would have been ok. bogdan 21:03, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

About Maria tanase

No proof of any jews involved. Sorry. Can you give me some links?

I'm not sure what are you disputing ? That she was a friend with Harry Brauner? If you didn't know, Harry Brauner was one of the greatest ethnologists of the time. see this link. bogdan 07:32, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

No, I am disputing that she was outcast because of her jew friends.That's all.

About Romanian literature

I know literature is not exactly your field, but you seem to be involved in all kinds of projects, including this one (and you seem to be involved in all things Romanian). I couldn't help but notice that the article on Literature of Romania has not been updated since February of 2005! There are many (many!) things to be said about that one. First, that it should be called Romanian Literature (regardless of whether one speaks of writers from the Republic of Moldova, from Northern Bukovina, Serbia, Hungary, and the Western exile - or not). Then, that there are a few errors (the Psalter of Scheia is dated 1482 - where did you get THAT from? - I didn't know it was dated in any way, and the article already says that Neacsu's letter is the first available document in Romanian, some 40 years AFTER the translation of the Psalter in ... 1482; then, any history of Romanian literature can tell you that Coresi's books are NOT the first oness printed in Romanian, and that it was a certain Dimitrie Liubavici who printed a first one in 1541 or so; it is quite a stretched one to say that some MONKS translated the Bucharest Bible -nothing against monks, but it was under Serban Cantacuzino's order, and his elder brother Constantin, the stolnic, was in charge, Radu Greceanu was much help, and the guys used Nicolae Milescu's earlier attempts - so it was rather a lay, intellectual, feat; and so on). Finally, all that follows (National Awakening, Interbellum Era, etc.) is rather poor, to say the least. Maybe three exclamation marks would have been more appropriate than a mere full stop!!! I know what you are going to say: why don't I do something about it. Truth is, although I think I know a lot about Romanian literature (I studied it in Bucharest), I kind of lack sources in my (new) country. By the way, the ones listed at the end of the article (Calinescu and Iorga!!!) are really outdated. Maybe you have a friend whose interests lie in Romanian literature and could help you out. If you don't, just tell me and I'd be happy to help - but only if your friends aren't into it. By the way, you HAVE done a tremendous job here (I've been watching you for a while). I think you've really been Romania's face on the net (more so than any other). So watch it! Good luck! Quatrocentu 04:44, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Vlachs of Serbia

Please take actions against user Telex who keeps vandalising the article Vlachs of Serbia greier 09:11, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I have to be somewhere at about 7:00 am, so quick question: the main conflict seems to be the link to Eastern Romance languages---shouldn't it be, for the Vlachs of Serbia, a link to Daco-Romanian? Eastern Romance is too broad. 69.237.106.144 12:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

And is there a reference for many vs most, most vs many. 69.237.106.144 12:54, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

If Telex gets out of line, he will be reported to CheckUser, though since he is a migratory bird it may not be of much use. Be cosmopolitan, my dear. 69.237.106.144 12:57, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Thracian and Dacian

Hi. You are familiar with Duridanov and Georgiev at al. and you know that not all modern scholars agree that Dacian and Thracian were so close to be considered as one language, etc. Duridanov has stated "Dacian and Thracian were two different Indo-European languages", etc. You may want to revert User:Greier in Thracian language. 69.237.106.144 11:19, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

First of all, you should read more about "historic" studies during communist Bulgaria. Second: In fact, most historian agree that Dacian was a Thracian language. Third, even if it wasn`t, the geograhpic distribution of Thracian (excludign Dacian) is not that presented in the article version you are trying to put. Forth: Honestly? Cant you see the irony? You claim that Dacian was a separate language than Thracian. Yet, in the article, at the description of the language chapter, you use words of Dacian origin to prove the charateristics of Thracian... greier 11:25, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Greier, I do not support or reject the hypothesis that Dacian was not a Thracian language. Most I think do group them as Daco-Thracian. Nevertheless, the experts are still not in agreement. There was even a recent post-communist paper by I forget who which again argued for much distinction between Dacian and Thracian. And actually, AFAIK, most Thracian examples in that glossary in that article are not Dacian-Getian (?). 69.237.106.144 11:28, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Which words of Dacian origin? bogdan 11:29, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

There has been much crap published in both Bulgaria and Romania during the communist times and afterwards. But, from what we know on the languages, they don't look similar. They have different suffixes for places, different sound-changes from Proto-Indo-European, etc. bogdan 11:33, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

So did the languages of all greek tribes, of all celtic tribes, of all germanic tribes, etc. But they were still Celtic, Germanic, Greel, Illirian, Iranian, etc greier 11:37, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Wherever Celts went, took their suffixes with them. :-) That's why Isaccea was "Noviodunum", having exactly the same name with Soissons, in France. Belgrade was "Singidunum", etc. bogdan 11:46, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I`m not sure I understand where you`re getting at... I was talking about dialects/variances of the same langauage/group of language, not about how they named their cities... Here`s someting funny: Let`s judge by toponimy... Most of the cities of the Moesi have the same -dava termination like the Dacians. The Mysians were said (by ancient authors) to come from Moesia, hence you would aspect to find the same toponimy there. Yet you don`t. Not only that, but you are told that in Mysia (not Moesia) the langauge was.... yes, you get it, THRACIAN, not dacian....12:01, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I`m not so sure it was folklore. Here`s Strabo about Mysians. Also see the same story about colonisation from the Balkans of the Thinians and Bythinians, and some remarks about the Getae here. Also consider the fact that these stories are not found only to certain ancient authors. Also consider the cultural elements: for example the phrygian cap greier 12:17, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Strabo's quote clearly shows that the Moesi/Mysi story was hearsay (whether true or not--probably not), and there was disagreement about the topic. 69.237.106.144 12:21, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Ok, you if want to argue, and don`t judge by reason, do it with someone else... Other proves I can`t get you... Fell free to believe Dardanov instead of Strabo... greier 12:27, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

The connection between Moesi and Mysi is widely considered to have been folklore. Which would explain the completely different toponymy. Same with Dardani and the Dardans of Troy. Who dogmatically states thst Thracian was the language throughout Mysia? Inscriptions in Mysia have been described as Phrygian. 69.237.106.144 12:08, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Serbia was included to be safe. The Dardanians inhabited southern Serbia as well as Kosovo, and the Scordisci (perhaps Thracian or part Thracian) were around there, near Timok in eastern Serbia for example. Yes, I meant part of Serbia. Most of Serbia was Illyro-Celtic-Dacian, unless I'm mistaken. 69.237.106.144 11:41, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm tired of mentioning this Wilkes book, but on pg. 84-86 he presents undisputed evidence via onomastics that Thracian (not named as Dacian) was spoken in parts of Serbia---a number of the names (Eptaikenthos, Auluporis, etc.) look Thracian, not necessarily Dacian. 69.237.106.144 11:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Both Dacian and Thracian were spoken. See this map: http://members.tripod.com/~Groznijat/thrac/THR_LANG.gif bogdan 11:55, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, there's evidence of Dacian as far south as Pulpudeva. 69.237.106.144 11:56, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm off for now----the Thracian language article needs to be improved much (it is skeletal, needs referencces, the glossary needs to be revamped as a wiki-table, etc.; the article probably has some errors, but not the ones Greier perceived) but be careful about the edits. 69.237.106.144 12:25, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

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Re: Old Vlach

Thy wish is my command. It's about a geographical area in Sanjak (Rascia). --HolyRomanEmperor 12:57, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

List of ethnic group names used as insults listed on AfD

Did you see this: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ethnic group names used as insults? --Lambiam^Talk 10:40, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

• Games which are rated or have been rated by the ESRB are known as "Adults Only" rather than "erotic".

• The ESRB is the global leader in the enforcement of video game ratings.

main article for the topic is Adult video games not "erotic"

Migration of Vlahs

Hi. I noticed your map of Vlahs migration on Balkans. Can you tell me something about migration in Bosnia, especialy in Livno Valley and area around mountain Dinara. Best regards. --Pockey 14:43, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Junimea

Hi. See my edits in the text and tell me if they are consistent with what you wanted to add in the article. Granted, the section reserved for "Criticism of guidelines" deserves more info added to it, but I can find few other sources that would have questioned Junimea (outside of mentioned polemics Junimea itself had with others). I suppose Lovinescu did (I, however, did not read much Lovinescu after having finished 8th grade). Dahn 00:43, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Feedback? Comments? Dahn 17:07, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh, sorry. You have done a wonderful job there! I'll try to look over it soon. bogdan 17:16, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Greier

I have to ask: is it possible for Greier to delete repaeated warning without sanction? I say it is high time for banning and delete on sight for edits of a sockpuppet. In the meantime, he has broken 3RR on John Hunyadi, and has used a sockpuppet IP to help him out. Frankly, he is taking a toll on everybody's nerves, and his new edits have made it into history: he has actually managed to unite several distinct points of view in the Balkans against his rudimentary ideology. Dahn 20:05, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I gotchu!!! you naughty little boy! ce`ai uai??? Are you upset because I`ve put Jiji in the picture? Hahhaha... Anyway, I hope that this comment has not determined you even more to bann me... About that: don`t you need reasons, I mean real reasons, for banning a user? I mean yes, I did behave naughty, hahahahhah, but I learned my lesson. As you can see, I stop reverting pages, I stop insulting, I stop everything you want baby.... Speaking about 3RR: you know what I think? I think you were the one who sockpuppeted an IP on John Hunyadi, just to get me banned. A scenario: you were that IP, and then you try to use that episode to ban me? What do you know: the scenario is happening!!! About delete repaeated warning. Well, I`ll do whatever I want with my page until you show me where it says that I can`t. greier 07:55, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

{{PD-art-life-70}}

You may be interested in {{PD-art-life-70}} - a "life + 70" copyright term tag. You were right in pointing out on Image:AHWatercolor1.jpg that a "life + 100" tag isn't appropriate for an image where the creator hasn't been dead for 100 years yet. Hopefully you will find this helpful. TheGrappler 12:05, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Bogdangiusca/Archive11, from the Wikipedia Birthday Commitee!!! Have a great day!

Mr. Turcotte^talk 17:59, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

I was not aware, Bogdan. Happy birthday from me too! Dahn 18:17, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. :-) bogdan 18:20, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:08, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Wineberry

Hello. Why did you move the Wineberry (New Zealand) article to Aristotelia serrata? Is it not more appropriate that the article is listed under its most common name? Alan Liefting 07:32, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

For less known species, instead of disambiguation, it's recommended to use the scientific name. bogdan 08:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

But it is well known in New Zealand under that name. There is no official policy on plant names so I feel that the move was not justified. Alan Liefting 17:23, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I'll stick in support for using the sci name here - I know what Aristotelia is as a genus, but to me, 'wineberry' means a species of Rubus. Even in New Zealand, the common naming appears split according to the article, with the Maori name in use as well. More good case for the sci name. - MPF 20:53, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Discussion moved to Talk:Aristotelia serrata#Scientific name vs common name. Alan Liefting 09:11, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Image:Fruit Stall in Barcelona Market.jpg

Greetings - As regards my "untagged" image (Image:Fruit Stall in Barcelona Market.jpg), I had previously tagged it as GFDL and clearly stated that I had taken the photograph; see my Oct 2005 entry in the image's history. The caption has since been edited multiple times and this information was deleted. I have now gone back and retagged it GFDL with a statement that I took the picture. I understand that you may not want to carefully go through an image's revision history to see if it had ever been properly tagged in the past, but please be aware that proper credits can be present but later removed by editing. Cheers, Daderot 11:19, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

edits

thanks for your concern, the terms Full service and Manual release are terms specific to the sex industry. your edits are not appropriate as they were merged into articles that were health and science based. please do not be offended and thanks for your input!

Exactly. they are slang terms specific to the sex industry and the articles are just dictionary definitions. Wikipedia is not a dictionary: we can't possibly have articles on all slang terms. bogdan 06:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Image:Gheorghiu-dej Ceausescu.jpg

Hi, if possible, please add a source for this photo. Even a year (late 1950s?) would be helpful. Thuresson 01:22, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey...

Hey what's happening. I was just wondering why you are so uptight with the article pictures for the Sarajevo article. There are two images that seem to be causing constant trouble (Koševo stadium and the Grand Media Center building). I located the info for the Koševo stadium photo, but you seem to have issues with it. If the site is the owner of the picture, then what is the issue with it. Please reply to me asap.

Thanks, Greetings from Chicago Kseferovic 22:00, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

The site is not clear at all about the copyright of the pictures: "some are widely used on the Internet without clear copyrights" bogdan 22:26, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Constantin Stamati

Since Constantin Stamati already exists and has the same contents as Constantin Stamati (1786-1869), could you please delete the second one? Mulţumesc. Biruitorul 15:59, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Done. bogdan 17:05, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Berserk mess

I do not wish to start an edit war, however, I wish to know why you insist on changing the Berserk page to a redirect to the Berserker page rather than either of the related disambig pages. It has no real advantages so far as clarity or speed goes, and the Berserk page is both notable and definitely not fancruft. --tjstrf 16:23, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I'd also like to ask a question I should have asked weeks ago -- why did you move berserk to berserk (manga) in the first place? The fact that you never left a reason always struck me as very dubious. I'd like to point out, that in the English language, not only is the word "berserk" rarely used as a noun, but most people aren't even aware that it can be used as a noun! I'd also like to point out that had you merely tried to put Berserk on WP:RM in the first place, insead of going all out rambo style, you may have found that there would be no consensus. How do I know? Because a request to move it back to berserk achived just that result. I'd like to ask you to look at the top of the page that is currently located at talk:berserk_(manga). I just knew that if it was a disambiguation page, berserk would be vandalized on a regular basis (as it was back in late 2004), but I am sickened to see that it was an admin who did so. I'd also like to point out that early in this month when you moved berserk to berserk (manga), you broke countless links. How an admin coulden't even bother to check "what links here" is beyond me.... I'm sorry if this sounds like a personal attack, but I just don't know what to say when I see such unadminlike behavior from one who is given such power. -Aknorals 08:27, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Template:User satanist

Based on your discussion on Template:User Christian at TfD, I listed Template:User satanist at Wikipedia:Deletion review. I thought you'd like to know. --Disavian 03:30, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your help in reverting the linkspam on national football team pages. Oldelpaso 18:44, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

It seems that the spammer also added a lot of links to the same site (footballdatabase.com) on players' articles... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=footballdatabase.com&fulltext=Search bogdan 18:47, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Yikes, not sure I can face trying to sort that lot out right now, but thanks for the heads-up. I've bookmarked the search for use next time I'm terminally bored. Oldelpaso 19:13, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

well bogdan

If you want to play it funny or whatever else on Greek Macedonian articles, I'll see that you get a nice and long RFC. Please do me the favour and edit with respect, don't use again misleading edit summaries and do check the updates (which I think you 've missed) on those articles that seem to be both in yours and in mine interest. Take care and be good, please. talk to +MATIA 07:43, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

:-) What Matia meant to say was that on the understanding that the article on Thirteen Years' War, the city can be referred to as Danzig, despite the fact that the article is aty Gdansk, there is no reason to use the name explicitly not recognized by the state in question. --Telex 13:30, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I think it's different: in there we're talking about historical eras. It would be silly to use "Istanbul" instead of "Constantinople" in an article which refers to the 5th century, right? bogdan 13:51, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Likewise, it would be silly to refer to the Republic of Macedonia as FYROM in events before 1995. --Telex 13:53, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't understand why there should be two standards on Wikipedia: "Greece-related articles" (using FYROM) and "the rest" (using Republic of Macedonia). Nobody owns wikipedia articles and there should be one single set of standards. bogdan 14:00, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Because the double naming solution what the government of the Republic of Macedonia keep proposing. "Republic of Macedonia" for the world, "Republic of Macedonia-Skopje" for Greece. Of course, the Greek government don't want to place their country in diplomatic isolation, so they rejected it. It will be interesting to see what happens, as both governments are pressured by the populatity contests - if the concede, they'll lose votes. --Telex 14:14, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

No this ain't two standards. Check the article Republic of Macedonia and then read the helpfiles about redirects and why they can be used. And please don't write edit summaries like cleanup when you are reverting. Thanks. talk to +MATIA 05:57, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

On a different issue, does Romanian have a vocative case? --Telex 14:14, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it has. :-) Vocative_case#Romanian bogdan 14:23, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Userpage

Salut ! Mersi in primul rand pt ca mi-ai deblocat pagina de talk. Te-as ruga mult de tot sa imi deblochezi si userpage-ul, pt ca vreau sa ma intorc pe wikipedia. Mersi inca o data si numai bine! Arthur 8 Iunie 2006

Why did you delete smartqatar

I dont understand why you deleted smartqatar by giving summary spam. Ameinfo is also a site and it is in wikipedia so why not smartqatar.com can be in it. did u check smartqatar.com before deleting the article.

Please read the Wikipedia notability criteria for websites. bogdan 16:27, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Updates?

"66 percent [of Americans] said they would not be bothered if NSA collected records of personal calls they had made." I think that is changing. Or has changed. I am an American who still believes in the fundamentals of the 4th Amendment (of the US constitution) and why it was written.MollyBloom 00:10, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Talk:List of Transylvanians

Please share your opinion on whether List of Transylvanians should be included in . Dahn 13:40, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Where they right in removin it from Category:Romania-related lists? Because that is what they did, saying they agree with you: and I'm not sure if that was your point. Dahn 20:28, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

It seems common sense to me to have it Romania-related lists. Not because people on that page are Romanian, but because Transylvania is nowadays part of Romania (which is the criterion and policy on wikipedia). Please read my points on the talk page again and tell me if you agree. Dahn 16:35, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Could you please clarify your position, Bogdan? Dahn 09:01, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Istro-Romanian

I edited (again) Template:Eastern Romance languages and moved Istro-Romanian to the southern dialect group. The similarity here is not really the determining factor. In fact, DEX defines Daco-Romanian as the Romanian dialect spoken in the north of Danube. As such, placing Istro-Romanian in the northern group could be misleading. — AdiJapan ☎ 07:50, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Well... The DEX is just a dictionary, not the ultimate reference in dialectology... But yes, there is some tendency to make two groups: Romanian and "the rest". I think we should use linguistic classification criteria rather than popular usage. bogdan 11:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

If you have any other sources that classify the Romanian dialects from a linguistical perspective, I will certainly agree with having them grouped otherwise. As it is, I don't know of any such source, and frankly speaking I see little use in classifying four dialects. The natural, though Romanian-centric classification tends to be "us and all the rest" as you say, that is, a fully-developed language on one side, and its more or less endangered dialects on the other.

My own personal choice would be to put all four languages together in that infobox, with no "North" and "South" sections, which make little sense anyway. — AdiJapan ☎ 14:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Mersi pentru ca m`ai deblocat. Incepuse sa`mi fie lehamite sa incerc sa explic ca nu sunt Bonaparte, si sila de Wikipedia si de toti adminii romani... Tu parca ai mai "calmat" din impresie... Mersi inca odata. greier 16:40, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Deleated information

Hello, Buna ziua/Noapte buna! I want you to move these deleated information to my talk page, such as below way. These information was useful. :

• Roth (onomastics) > User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/Contribution List/memo/R (I was shocked)
• Grossman > User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/Contribution List/memo/G
• Pringsheim > User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/Contribution List/memo/P
• Heinemann (Older my article) > User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/Contribution List/memo/N
• Aaron Miller (older version about rabbi and musician) > User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/Contribution List/memo/M
• Dubinsky > User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/Contribution List/memo/D
• Köhler > > User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/Contribution List/memo/O
• Lustig > User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/Contribution List/memo/U
• Lustiger > User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/Contribution List/memo/T
• List of Hispanic and Romance-speaking cultures surnames > User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/Contribution List/memo/I

--Sheynhertz_געשׁ״ך 10:38, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Done. bogdan 10:46, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! Multumesc very much! --Sheynhertz_געשׁ״ך 10:55, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Tănase

Per our discussion at Talk:Constantin_Tănase#Swearing, I've tried editing the passage in question in the article. Could you have a look and tell me if you think I've got this right? I simply cannot follow the syntax of those two lines in the original Romanian. - Jmabel | Talk 06:14, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

RfC about Irpen's conduct

Hi! We filled a request for comment concerning the conduct of User:Irpen. Your comment is kindly invited.--AndriyK 16:49, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

We need your support

Me and Dpotop need your support for launching the "pre-1918 spelling Russian Cyrillic wikipedia", which would answer to the needs of those who might want to read articles in that version (we figure there are thousands of Old Believers out there). Could you help, and would you contribute? Dahn 09:43, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Hm... Most likely it would not be successful because it's much harder to get approved a new wikipedia than to close an old one. bogdan 21:05, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Vlach

Hey, the Serbian Medieval House of Balšić was Vlach. --HolyRomanEmperor 19:41, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Interesting. I wonder whether Balša has anything to do with the Romanian name "Bălaşa". bogdan 21:05, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Bakery-products.jpg

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Hello

Thank you for Pringsheim etc.

And besides, can you move this way?:

List of Jewish Members of the French Academy of Sciences > (User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/List of Jewish Members of the French Academy of Sciences)

--Sheynhertz_געשׁ״ך 04:16, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Syracuse Move

I must say I highly object to your moves regarding Syracuse. Please see Talk:Syracuse -newkai | talk | contribs 12:35, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

• I must also object. Please read this exchange between myself and another user. Basically, I'm trying to say that Syracuse, NY is much larger than Syracuse, Italy, and the University is enormously popular. AdamBiswanger1 15:30, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

The city itself is not much larger:

• Syracuse: 123,322
• Syracuse, New York: 147,306

bogdan 15:40, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. However, given that Syracuse is a major US city that is larger than its counterpart in Italy, why should Syracuse, Italy be the prime possessor of "Syracuse"? Let's let those who are searching decide. AdamBiswanger1 17:08, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

It seems that you have reverted my restoration of "Syracuse" to the disambiguation page. I had thought that this comment was something of a deference. I really feel strongly about this, so can we continue the discussion, request mediation or progress some other way? AdamBiswanger1 00:38, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I reverted you because you moved the page by copy&pasting content.

from Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages:

Do not move or rename a page by copying/pasting its content, because doing so destroys the edit history.

bogdan 09:18, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

The Italian city is more notable than the American one. It has a much longer history. It has made a larger impact on the world than the U.S. city has. If either is to be kept at an un-disambiguated title, it should be the Italian one. Doing otherwise smacks of enforcement of systemic bias and violates the integral concept that this is the English Language Wikipedia not the USA Wikipedia. Populations fluctuate. If we had to keep moving pages back and forth based on population, we would never achieve the timelessness we are supposed to. If we base it on population size 1000 years ago, the Italian city wins hands down. If we base it on population 1000 years in the future, who knows. The only concrete thing we can base it on is contribution/impact on the world and the cities' history. I think that the Italian city wins. BTW, I'm an American, but that doesn't mean I think that association with the U.S.A. automatically makes something better or more deserving. —WAvegetarian•(talk) 09:41, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Species by country cats

Could you please format the nom properly? I didn't see it on any of the subcats that I watch. Thanks. Guettarda 15:56, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

I come bearing ill news

Greetings. I am HRE's cousin. I have a sad news to announce (as per his brother's wish) - my dear brother-by-aunt is no more in the world of the living... It pains me enough to write this - so I'm just going to point you to HRE's talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:HolyRomanEmperor#As_per_Your_.28Our.29_brother.27s_request. --Sad News 21:15, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Proposed Georgia Move

As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country)#Requested_Move_-_July_2006. Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. --Vengeful Cynic 03:20, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)

sal bogdan.

am revenit pe wikipedia, si primul lucru pe care lam facut a fost sa incerc sa solutzionez problema Talk:Harghita County topicul Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) din paginile despre Counties of Romania. am sters numele magyare ale diviziunilor administrative ale regatului magyar trecute ca nume alternativ pt numele diviziunilor administrative ale Romaniei in paragraful de inceput, in conformitate cu conventziile stabilite de wikipedia. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)

anul trecut am incercat sa solutzionez aceeasi problema dar din cauza ca nu am comunicat bine cu ceilaltzi editori romani, lucruruile au capatat un aspect superficial de "reglementat" (ma refer la Talk:Harghita/Vote)

cred ca ai fost in cunostintza de cauza cu votul acela, cred ca ai avut motivele tale sa nu participi la vot.

te informez (si voi informa si altzi editori romani) despre aceasta intentzie a mea de a reglementa articolele referitoare la Romania in acord cu conventziile enciclopediilor renumite.

de forma "riul Mures are nume alternativ Maros deoarece curge si prin Ungaria, judetzul Mures nu are nume alternativ Maros pt ca nu este impartzit de Romania cu Ungaria" Criztu 08:52, 10 July 2006 (UTC) criztu

Dacă te uiţi şi la diviziunile administrative ale altor ţări, vei vedea că şi acolo sunt trecute numele în limbile minorităţilor:

• departamentul Finistère (Penn-ar-Bed in Breton)
• departamentul Alsace (Alsatian/German: Elsass)
• landul Saxony (Sorbian: Swobodny Stata Sakska)
• regiunea Aosta Valley (in Arpitan: Val d'Outa, French: Vallée d'Aoste)

etc.

da, numai ca acest comportament nu este caracteristic enciclopediilor Larousse, Britannica, etc.. ia in considerare nr de participantzi la votul pt Harghita si poti trage concluzia catzi oameni sunt dispusi sasi bata capul cu acest comportament destul de revizionist. daca ar participa la Wikipedia oamenii care construiesc enciclopedii adevarate, acest comportament ar disparea de pe wikipedia. io stiu ce consum de energie presupune disputa cu editorii care privesc wikipedia ca pe un loc unde sa propage idei revizioniste, si nu ca pe o enciclopedie. anyway, conventia Wikipediei stabileste destul de clar forma paragrafelor de inceput, dar inteleg editorul care nu vrea sasi bata capul cu editorii revizionisti pe aceasta tema. io sunt determinat sa duc disputa pana la comitetul de arbitrare. daca ejti interesat de alinierea articolelor despre romania din wikipedia la standardul enciclopediilor recunoscute si la conventziile wikipediei, ma poti ajuta cu informatzii pe care presupun ca le ai despre procedurile administrative ale wikipediei, in momentul in care va fi nevoie sa recurg la acestea

a, si felicitari pt crearea articolului despre dinastia Basarabilor, despre care am vb anul trecut :) Criztu 09:55, 10 July 2006 (UTC) criztu

Nu înţeleg de ce consideri includerea numelui judeţului în maghiară ca fiind revizionistă! Nu este decât constatarea unui fapt: în judeţele respective trăiesc unguri care numesc judeţul astfel... bogdan 17:44, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

op, acum vad raspunsul tau. e simplu, orice lucru aflat in lead paragraph are un intzeles conform unei conventii. Mures/Maros in lead paragraph semnifica "Romania imparte Mures cu Ungaria". Daca spui Judetul Mures/Maros in lead paragraph semnifica "Romania imparte judetul Mures cu Ungaria". daca scriem in paragraful despre populatia judetului Mures ca magyarii se refera la acest judet cu numele Maros, aceasta e o informatzie aditionala, nu are semnificatia din lead paragraph. atata tot. io nu cenzurez varianta magyara, vreau doar so asez unde ii este locul, cum nici Britannica nu poate fi acuzata de cenzura prin faptul ca nu da o varianta magyara a judetului Mures in lead paragraf asa cum face cu riul Mures. Criztu 15:38, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Vlad III Basarab

Can you move this back to Vlad III Dracula? The "Basarab" name usage is modern and simplistic. Dahn 13:36, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Zamanfou

Weeeeee, here we go, AfD in the 3rd time in 7 months :D let's see if it'll make a pool like the GNAA article has ;>

Hellenization

Please see what you can do there, as Telex removes Vlachs, Arvanites . His reason? That the Vlachs and Arvanites are only "re-hellenised" [8].... what can you possible say when confronted with such abberations? greier 13:41, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Hectorian reverted again. His reason: so?... I was many times blocked for 3RR due to the actions of this pack composed of Telex and Hectorian. Even Fut.Perf concluded that their edits are biased [9], but to no avail... greier 16:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Minority groups in Greece Incă un articol la care aş fi foarte incântat sa intervii. Vezi revertul acesluiasi Hectorian. Nu se cheama weasel words ce face el. Si de ce nu lasa labelul "sectfact" cand e clar ca capitolul nu e NPOV? greier 20:51, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Este asta [10] 3RR, sau edit warring? greier 21:25, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Nu se incadreaza in WP:OR? [11] Da sau Nu? 19:17, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Am văzut că a adăugat ceva referinţe, aşa că probabil că nu. bogdan 23:34, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Cum asa? Au bagat ca referinte niste linkuri catre niste siteuri grecesti obsucure, doar pentru a demostra cum "Re-hellenisation is a term used to describe a cultural change in which something originally Greek becomes Greek again... ...used in connection with governmental policies and exchanges among the linguistic and cultural minorities in Greece in relation to Arvanites, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians....". Dar sa lasam asta la o parte: au vreo referinta pentru exoistenta fenomenului/procesului/termenului de "re-hellenizare"? (nu de existenta a teoriei ca Aromanii sunt Greci). Daca fac si eu un articol depsre "re-romanizarea" maghiarilor, bulgarilor, si a intregii peninsule balcanice? Ce? bag shi eu nishte vrajeli ge genul " describe a cultural change in which something originally Romanian becomes Romanian again"... mai bag si vreo doua linkuri catre dacii.ro shi am rezolvato! Mai mult, bag un link catre www.NapoleonSavescu.com shi www.dacii.org, si cer re-romanizarea Japoniei si Americii [12]... 12:06, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

infobox template

sal, pff, i am not sure how to modify the infobox for counties of Romania, i want to replace Region : Transylvania/Wallachia/Crisana/etc with Development region : Nord-Vest/Central/etc. see Subdivisions of Romania. oh, i managed to do it Criztu 20:05, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

However, the question is: is this a good thing ? For me, as an citizen of Romania, these "development regions" do not say very much. I'd much rather like to see "Dobruja" region (Dobrogea) instead of "Sud-Est development region" (e.g. for Tulcea County). These development regions "do not actually have an administrative status and do not have a legislative or executive council or government. Rather, they serve a function for allocating European Union PHARE funds for regional development, as well as for collection of regional statistics." (quote from Development regions of Romania). Anyway, if you want to add links in the infobox to the development regions, DO NOT REMOVE the existing information about the geographical regions. Bogdan, what is your opinion on this issue ? Razvan Socol 07:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, indeed, i addressed the problem on Wikipedia:Romanian Wikipedians' notice board. it would be useful info i think, to have a "historical regions" section on the Romanian infobox, even if they are not administrative subdivisions of ROmania Criztu 12:33, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Administrative regions of Romania map

sal bogdan, e foarte frumoasa harta cu judetele romaniei in culori rosualbastrugalbenverde. dar. acea imagine sugereaza o impartire a romaniei dupa acele culori, si acest lucru este obsolete. mai ales ca are jumate de moldova originara. te rog daca ai originalul, pe care presupun ca tu lai facut, sa colorezi in rosualbastrugalben verde in functzie de Development regions of Romania, as vrea o prezentare a hartii cu judetele romaniei colorate dupa regiunile istorice, dar aceasta imagine de acum contine de fapt o amestecatura de Transylvania (banat crisana si maramures nu sunt indicate ca regiuni istorice) , jumatate din Moldova, si Tara Romaneasca (fara Oltenia si Muntenia indicate). daca imi trimiti originalul mie, o colorez io dupa aceste regiuni, daca tu nu ai timp Criztu 12:33, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

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