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I'm on Wikibreak - see above edit for reason why (but most of you are great - keep up the good work!)--Kotniski (talk) 23:46, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

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Illegitimi non carborundum

Hope you return after a nice break. Blueboar (talk) 02:52, 27 January 2012 (UTC)


Regarding http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Nat_Turner%27s_slave_rebellion&diff=next&oldid=466566739 where you stated "(it's "hanged" in this meaning, isn't it? unless it's a GB/US difference)". No, it's a literacy/illiteracy difference. It IS hanged, NOT hung. "(Changed "hanged" to "hung">>> it was a grammer mistake)". Note the user's spelling of "grammer". Oddly, both in UK AND US it's ACTUALLY spelt "grammar". I wouldn't put TOO much stock into someone correcting "grammer"...until they learn to SPELL properly. "Hung" was likely meant to be a double-entendre. "Hanged" rather than "hung" is not a grammer (sic) mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.242.78.142 (talk) 19:59, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Notice concerning an action at ArbCom

A request has been filed for the Arbitration Committee to look at long-term issues with editing in the Article Titles and MOS areas at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Article titles/MOS. I have added your name as a party, since it is clear that you have been involved at pages that are within the scope of the action.

Hoping all is well with you, K.

Noetica 05:24, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Article titles and capitalisation case

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WP Poland in the Signpost

The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Poland for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 08:28, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Ping. The interviews are due soon! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 19:41, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Hope to see you back soon!

I completely agree with Blueboar above. Also, on behalf of WP:POLAND, please accept our wishes of good health. I hope you come back; my suggestion is to avoid the areas that have proven stressful, and enjoy yourself with edits elsewhere - for example, creating Poland-related articles, or helping with our backlogs, from B-class reviews to cleanup tags. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 18:54, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

The Purple Heart Barnstar
For getting wiki-wounded in the course of duty. We hope you'll come back soon! Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 18:56, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

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The request can be found at Misplaced Pages:Mediation Cabal/Cases/27 February 2012/Wikipedia:Verifiability.

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History of Polish

Would you please quote sources confirming the existence old Silesian language? According to my knowledge there existed a continuum of languages between Polish and Czech. The today Silesian dialect is conserved old Polish/Czech mixed with German vocabulary. Xx236 (talk) 13:37, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

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An arbitration case regarding article titles and capitalisation has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:

  1. All parties are reminded to avoid personalizing disputes concerning the Manual of Style, the article titles policy ('WP:TITLE'), and similar policy and guideline pages, and to work collegiately towards a workable consensus. In particular, a rapid cycle of editing these pages to reflect one's viewpoint, then discussing the changes is disruptive and should be avoided. Instead, parties are encouraged to establish consensus on the talk page first, and then make the changes.
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A question for you

Still hoping you'll come back, and in the meantime, there is a question to which you perhaps would know the answer here. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 14:05, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

You were awesome

You were awesome. Probably still are, in your riddance...

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MOS:CAPS

Regarding Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 6#Proper names section I would like a place name section. Recently meridians have been separated by few users from the WP style place naming and have been downcased, even by citing MOS:CAPS, which seems wrong. A place name section could fix that. HTML2011 (talk) 02:12, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

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Requested move of Côte d'Ivoire

There is currently a discussion on moving the article Côte d'Ivoire to Ivory Coast. You are being notified since you participated in a previous discussion on this topic. Please join the discussion here if you are interested. TDL (talk) 02:32, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

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Discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(Vietnamese)#RfC_on_spelling

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(Vietnamese)#RfC_on_spelling. KarlB (talk) 13:49, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

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Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll

This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. I know this happened just recently but no administrator would close these frequent rm's down, so here we go again. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) (talk) 04:58, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Is your wikibreak nearing its end?

We constantly miss you. Come back to us! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 17:10, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

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Just to let you know

I have mentioned you at Misplaced Pages:Missing Wikipedians Ottawahitech (talk) 21:17, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

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Unsubscribed from signpost

I have boldly unsubscribed you from Signpost as it's cluttering your user talk page.

That said, I hope you come back! --B2C 22:43, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Gora (racial epithet) for deletion

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Darkness Shines (talk) 19:31, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Need help with IPAc-pl

Hi there, I noticed you did some edits to {{IPAc-pl}} in the past. Could you help with adding mouseover tooltips to that template? I prepared a basic list to mirror the functionality of {{H:IPA}}, all is explained at Template_talk:IPAc-pl#Mouseover. Any help would be appreciated. //Halibutt 23:48, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Poland Newsletter • January 2014 • Issue II

WikiProject Poland Newsletter • January 2014 • Issue II
For our freedom and yours

Welcome to the second issue of WikiProject Poland newsletter, the Monitor (named after the first Polish newspaper).

Our Project has been operational since 1 June, 2005, and also serves as the Poland-related Misplaced Pages notice board. I highly recommend watchlisting the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Poland page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions. We hope you will join us in them, if you haven't done so already! Unlike many other WikiProjects, we are quite active; we get close to a hundred discussion threads each year and we do a pretty good job at answering all issues raised. Last year we were featured in the Signpost, and our interviewer was amazed at our activity. In the end, however, even as active as we are, we are just a tiny group - you can easily become one of our core members!

In addition to a lively encyclopedic, Poland-related, English-language discussion forum, we have numerous useful tools that can be of use to you - and that you could help us maintain and develop:

  • we have an active assessment department. As of now, our project has tagged almost 83,000 pages as Poland-related - that's an improvement of over 3,000 new pages since the last newsletter. Out of which 30 still need a quality assessment, and 2,000, importance assessment. We have done a lot to clear the backlog here (3 years ago those numbers were 1,500 and 20,000, respectively). Can you help assess a few pages?
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This is not all; on our page you can find a list of useful templates (including userboxes), awards and other tools!


With all that said, how about you join our discussions at WT:POLAND? Surely, there must be something you could help others with, or perhaps you are in need of assistance yourself?

It took me three years to finish this issue. Feel free to help out getting the next one before 2017 by being more active in WikiProject management :)

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Proposal for merger of Polish morphology into Polish grammar

Hello, since you were a heavily involved user, I'd like to ask your opinion on the merger of Polish morphology into Polish grammar. I've explained my proposition here. Thanks in advance. Dreilinden (talk) 22:36, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Category:Misplaced Pages project disambiguation pages

Category:Misplaced Pages project disambiguation pages, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. SFB 12:18, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Kotniski, I noticed you flagged Rob Stone (entrepreneur) page. I have made edits and I would like it if you could review your initial dispute and remove it. If you still see something that you believe is incorrect, please let me know and I will make the necessary adjustments. All I want is to have this page up and running without any disputes on it. Thanks!

Joycefdm (talk) 15:02, 12 November 2014 (UTC)


Invitation to comment

Given your activity on the WP: Revert_only_when_necessary essay page, I'd invite your input on a recent edit of that essay that was, very ironically, instantly reverted. See the talk page if you wish to participate.–GodBlessYou2 (talk) 18:56, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Majorat

An article that you have been involved in editing, Majorat, has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. MiguelMadeira (talk) 11:26, 6 February 2015 (UTC) --MiguelMadeira (talk) 11:26, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

I miss you

Just remembered you. What a great editor and person you were. Hope you return someday. I don't know if Gerda Arendt remembers you.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:57, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, we had no interaction yet, but there's always Hope - first word on my talk, after passing decency and "despised", with monkeys, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:07, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Intertranswiki

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Moving Burma to Myanmar - new 2015 poll

You participated in a Burma RM in the past so I'm informing you of another RM. I hope I didn't miss anyone. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:34, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Sorry to see that you are gone.

Hi, I've been around WP for a long time, but never really gotten into the thick of things. The last week or so I've realized how completely FUBAR the WP:V policy is. I'd read it hundreds of times, but never really grokked its Orwellian nature until lately, when I've seen how it is used as a force for evil. So I've been buried in old talk page threads ... I can't tear my eyes away -- it's like watching a massive train wreck. this was the most sensible comment I've read in a while. Sorry to see that you're gone. Not too surprised, though. Klortho (talk) 07:43, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

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Your inactive bot(s)

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Gone SIX YEARS????

Wow. Six years. You're missed, and would be welcomed back. FYI.

--В²C ☎ 02:21, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome
Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:41, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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