User talk:Terrakyte
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John McCain
My apologies. I removed it in error. I have restored your comment. My mistake. JodyB talk 00:52, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
Re:Mieczyslaw Jagielski
No problem, I should have waited more so you could've restored it yourself. I can look on Polish net in the future, but for now, check this.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:37, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
- So... why Jagielski? Not the most notable figure out there :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 02:29, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for improving such a marginal article. It is efforts such as yours that truly make this project worthwhile! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 19:07, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
- Google Print is a wonderful resource, I am sure you'll find it very useful in the future.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 19:21, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
- I think there is little more we can do till we get GA reviewers reply, so yes, let's go ahead and do it.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 23:36, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Further collaboration
Have you considered using WP:BABEL to declare languages you speak? Perhaps we can select another figure to destub and DYK based on our common interests? Collaboration is so much more fun than doing it alone... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:39, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
- Further collaboration... I guess I have too many ideas :) As long as is something related to Poland or sociology, count me in :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 22:44, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
- Certainly. That's a much more prominent figure, and we will certainly have a ton of materials.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 22:58, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Ed's Tower
No bad blood; however, I would have expected for you to have replaced my tag with a Speedy Deletion-notability tag given the flimsiness of the article.
ttonyb1 (talk) 21:10, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
- No problem and thanks for the explanation. ttonyb1 (talk) 21:50, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
DYK for Mieczysław Jagielski
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BorgQueen (talk) 13:52, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
I was not aware of specific policy for infobox pictures. The photo you found is pretty good, and you can upload it to commons under commons:PD-Poland and into WJ category :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 17:53, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Re: Disruptive user
Reference to de Zayas, hmmm? Seen it before :( I haven't run into this user before but I've run into some of his friends. Usually I've my hands full of trying to deal with various POV pushers on Poland-related articles (which earns me much wikistress...); if that user becomes more disruptive, you may ask User:Moreschi oder User:AGK for more advice.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 22:01, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Your accusations
Dear Terrakyte,
You wrote:
"When I read the above post, I thought that I should write a statement explaining well why this edit ([4]) to the Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938) article did not comply with WP:NPOV. However, after reading several statements made by other editors on this talk page stating why many of your edits do not comply with WP:NPOV, I decided that there was no point in re-iterating something that you have been told many times."
OK. Please note:
What you are doing, is a very unpolite way of talking to people. "I have told you many times", this is the way that parents speak to their children and i think it is very impolite of you. I am sorry to tell you, dear Terrakyte, but you do not have any right to talk like that. Well, first thing: From now on, please try to remain polite, thank you.
You wrote:
"I was surprised by the fact that, after being reported to the admins for breaking NPOV several times, you were not blocked. However, having discovered the discussion in which that particular period of NPOV violations was discussed by the admins, I can see that you were not blocked not because the admins thought you didn't deserve it, but because the discussion went inactive, though all recommendations posted stated that you should be blocked, some even suggesting indefinetly."
Please stop making offensive personal remarks against me, and again: Please try to remain polite. Speaking of me, "deserving" anything, seems very offensive and abusive to me, and i ask you politely to stop making personal offensive remarks towards me. If this continues, i will have to report you to the Admins. Please try to remain polite and balanced, thank you.
Also, what you are saying is not true. I wonder how you want to know what the Admins think or don't think? Of course they have not blocked me because of any "inactivity" of any discussion as you claim. But because they simply do not seem to share your point of view. I am involved in many other discussions, too, which are not inactive.
You wrote:
"Follow the rules from now on".
When you talk to me, please dont give me orders. You are in now way entitled to talk to me like this. "Follow the rules" is an order. I would appreciate very much, if you add the word "please", and you will see that it is not difficult to always remain polite, thank you.
"I'm sorry that you feel like the warnings are abuse, but the warnings are justified."
Well, they are not and i think you know that very well. Everything i have written is veryfiable, and unlike some authors, i do not interprete facts, but just state facts.
For example, in the article about Czechoslovakia - which seems very controversial to me due to some quite biased authors - one Author wrote that the Lord-Runciman-Report was expression of "Failure" of Britain. Well, this is complete nonsense. If these Authors had taken a closer look at this report, they would have noticed that it is not expression of failure of the British Government, but of the Benes-Government. Lord Runciman delivered a devastating indictment of the then Czech Government, accusing them of "tactlessness", and we all know, that Official Government documents are written in a quite euphemistic manner.
You see, some articles in Wikipedia really do need some closer scientific examination. I think many people are very glad, that i am willing to help ameliorating the quality of Wikipedia. We all should strive for the best quality, dont you agree? I am very willing to help you, too, whenever i can. But please, remember to remain polite. Thank you.
kind regards,
Peter
--PeterBln (talk) 00:24, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
- second that Rktect (talk) 04:56, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
I wonder
Have you really joined this project on November 17, 2008? Or are you one of those users who like to change their usernames? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 19:24, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
- Heh. It's addicting... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 19:33, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your Poland-related contributions
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--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:33, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Re:Medal
Thank you. Positive reinforcement is so rare these days :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 01:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. I try not to let certain things get to me too much. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 01:58, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Sure. In the future, try to add categories and interwikis to new articles you create.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:11, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
- DYK nom: could use more ilinks.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 01:25, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
DYK for Tadeusz Pyka
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BorgQueen (talk) 09:17, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Ryszard Reiff
Hello! Your submission of Ryszard Reiff at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! —Politizer talk/contribs 22:49, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
DYK for Ryszard Reiff
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BorgQueen (talk) 04:37, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
- I've expanded the article somewhat, although to late for the DYK readers. How exactly my links led you to him? I know he's not directly listed on my page (I also know I've never heard of him before you brought him to my attention). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:12, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps you would like to take a look at this article, which I think is not far from reaching the A-class status? I am looking for a native speaker to help with some copyediting issues in it as well. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:33, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Merry Christmas
2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak GA?
Thanks for message, and no worries on your earlier comment, I took it in what I assumed was the spirt offered: explaining a procedural point I had somehow missed. There's some work we still have to do on the article, based on some toher comments I got, but I will definitely renominate at some point in the next month or so, assuming no further rapid change. That said, there are still daily updates coming out of the UN, so it might be abit longer. Babakathy (talk) 09:19, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
- Having inputted the latest data (cases up from 22 to 28k since last edit), it seems the rate of increase in cases has not changed since early Nov, I guess this is still "rapidly unfolding". Babakathy (talk) 09:50, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Mario Menendez
Hi, no I think it's great that you created the article, I wouldn't of suggested it otherwise. It looks good too, it would've taken me ages to get around to making it, as I'm currently working on another article. I thought I'd reward you with a barnstar for your efforts, you can decide where you want to place it yourself etc. (Barnstar moved by Terrakyte to Terrakyte's userpage) I also went to the trouble of tagging the article to it's associated wikiprojects and assessing it. If you do any future work on it and want me to re-assess/de-brief, just ask. Ryan4314 (talk) 01:04, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Removing noms from Template talk:Did you know
Generally I do not think it is a good idea to remove noms from Template talk:Did you know, unless they were your own self-noms. Best to let them sit on the suggestions page until at the least a day or so after they get moved to the "expiring noms" section of the page. Cirt (talk) 12:39, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
- Oh oops, my mistake I had not realized they had been sitting at the December 20 date section. I guess let them sit for one more day or so and then they could be removed, yeah. Sorry about that. Cirt (talk) 12:45, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
I just self-reverted, so since they were from the December 20 section - feel free to add them back, or leave them out - I'll leave that up to you. (Generally I just remove an entire old date section, instead of one hook at a time). Cirt (talk) 12:47, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
- No worries. Cirt (talk) 12:56, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
I am looking for a native speaker to copyedit this article, now at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Polish culture during World War II. Perhaps you'd be interested? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:32, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
- Can you be more specific w/regards to the DYK problem? Do you mean the backlog of DYK updates at T:TDYK? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 15:41, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
- I tend to create DYKs, and always felt I should leave selection of them to others (a little bit of conflict of interests here...). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 15:44, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Mario Menéndez
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Gatoclass (talk) 05:41, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Re: Little Sark
Hi Terrakyte - you made comments at Talk:Sark#Merge Little Sark about merging the article on Little Sark into the main one on Sark. I've made a few changes to the Little Sark article - could I ask you to have a look at it now, to see whether you still think it should be merged? Thank you, Grutness...wha? 22:34, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for the comments - it was a bit of fun research, and I found out far more about the area than I knew before! Grutness...wha? 22:32, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Taylor
Thank you for contacting me about the Zachary Taylor article, as I posted on the talk page, I agree with your proposed change. --omnipotence407 (talk) 16:14, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
- You can count on me for help. However, im not so good at general improvements. If you give me something specific to work on, id be more than happy to help out. --omnipotence407 (talk) 18:04, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
- Im not so good with history. My major focus was on anti-vandalism. But I guess I would do best on formatting, or link verification, or something alongthose lines. just let me know. -- Omnipotence407 (talk) 20:55, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
- No problem. Just let me know. --omnipotence407 (talk) 01:47, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
GA Review
Thank you for the review! JonCatalán(Talk) 16:39, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the article; don't forget to nominate it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Contest and at T:TDYK. PS. Unfortunately, majority of refs for this event are in offline Polish publications, so I am afraid we may find it hard to expand article any further easily. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 23:31, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Strensham Services
Already partly fixed, as part of my (starting now) attempts to improve UK service station articles, so don't go mad tagging just yet jenuk1985 (talk) 02:39, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you for the barnstar :) My first! jenuk1985 (talk) 20:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
GA for MJ passed
Congrats! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 19:45, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Chesley Sullenberger
Thanks a bunch. In the meantime, I've added the AfD to today's log. 78.34.145.54 (talk) 14:12, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
- Hi. I just wanted to let you know that I offered an alternative hook at T:TDYK. Regards, Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 06:45, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
- Okay, I readded it with more inline cite tags. If there's still any missing citations, please leave it for now, use {{cn}} and comments to ask for sources, then leave a message on my talk and/or the talk of the article. Superm401 - Talk 17:21, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Just wanted to pop by and say great job on the article so far. It is looking much better. Cheers. L0b0t (talk) 15:33, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Copyedit request
If you feel like it, another article to look over for copy editing by native speaker: Talk:Prehistory and protohistory of Poland/GA2. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 19:18, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
- No hurry, take your time! Thanks, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 05:23, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Adoptee Response
You posted on my talk page that you would like to adopt me =D. I gladly accept your offer.=D A few things you should know about me.
- I'm not on all day(an hour or so a day at most) -I have a life.
- I'm fairly new to wikipedia...but I am a tech savvy person.
- I'm a fairly easy going person
- I only speak english=D
- I'm American(Whether thats a good or bad thing...idk)
I'd like to thankyou for offering to adopt me.=D I hope wikipedia will provide to be an interesting place. ^.^ CheersSmallman12q (talk) 21:22, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
- I'm not quite sure where to post questions, so I'll post them here until you tell me otherwise. My first question is mainly out of curiosity... Under my watchlist there are varying numerical values...
- "(diff) (hist) . . Talk:Poverty threshold; 22:21 . . (0) . . Smallman12q (Talk | contribs)
(diff) (hist) . . Talk:Poverty threshold; 22:20 . . (-20) . . Smallman12q (Talk | contribs) (diff) (hist) . . Talk:Poverty threshold; 22:19 . . (+32) . . Smallman12q (Talk | contribs) "
- What do they mean?(0),(-20),(+32). (Thanks again for adopting me ^.^)Smallman12q (talk) 23:29, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
- I would like to create an article for US Air Force Web Posting Response Assessment, but all I have is an image... http://www.webinknow.com/2009/01/us-air-force-web-posting-response-assessment.html Smallman12q (talk) 00:16, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Battle of Rarańcza
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Dravecky (talk) 07:50, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Battle Of Aachen
All the other images are displayed on my screen, but the one named "GI machine gun crew in Aachen.jpg" is not. Using preview, I tried to display it in a different part of the article, but again, I got nothing. So, I assumed the image does not exist anymore and I deleted the reference to it. Q43 (talk) 20:44, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
- I changed the image size from 300px to 301px and now it displays properly on my screen. This is truly a peculiar bug why it didn't display at all at 300px. Q43 (talk) 14:45, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
DYK
Sorry you didn't like the bolding but I place a note before the bolding saying that I did it, not you. I didn't want to interrupt the edit so I placed it 1 or 2 words before and above the bolding. Sorry. Chergles (talk) 17:50, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Request for unblock.
Terrakyte (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
- Additional: I have spoken with an admin, and he asked if I shared a network with people. I do live at a school, and my Internet connection is part of a shared network, and the admin told me to say that in this reasoning. I would also like to note that I feel I am an editor who does a lot of good for this encyclopedia all the time (I got an article up to GA, I have a barnstar, I have adopted a user, and I have several DYKs to my name), and I don't think this shows the type of behavior akin to vandals. Terrakyte (talk) 23:10, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
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