User talk:Bogdangiusca/Archive5

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David Mertz

Perhaps you can clarify the deletion policy for me. A user, Jguk, added the VFD tag to the article David Mertz, which is about me (at least me outside Wikipedia). I removed that tag since it was obviously put there only out of malice (related to a disagreement on some other pages, about Wikipedia policy). If it is not appropriate for me to edit that tag, I'll refrain from doing so; but it's placement was clarly non-serious. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 21:57, 2005 Apr 25 (UTC)

The Wikipedia policy says that the tag should be kept until the VFD process ends. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 04:26, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Fuck the Border

Thanks for your input on Fuck the Border :), if you could confirm that the Romanian means the same as the English (in meaning rather than direct translation I could move it up to 'Confirmed' FrancisTyers 20:16, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Just a question: is it meant to be about a specific border, or about the concept of border ? It ought to be used the plural, if it is the second one. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 20:30, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The english means something like "fuck the concept of borders", in french this translates to "fuck the borders", so in romanian it would probably translate to the same. Definately not a particular border, more the idea of borders or just all the borders :) FrancisTyers 21:40, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Alba county

Thanks for arranging the list of villages - I'm still a beginner so I don't know all the tricks yet.

COTW Project

You voted for History of Quebec, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Archaeologist

Bogdan, Hristos a Înviat! Ma gândeam ca poate ai putea sa ma ajuti putin. Ieri treceam prin articole si schimbam "archeologist" la "archaeologist" când s-a bagat unul pe fir si mi-a zis sa ma opresc sau ma blocheaza. Pe urma mi-le-a schimbat pe toate la loc. A zis ca e o ortografie britanica, dar nu are dreptate. "Archaeologist" e de vreo cinci ori mai comun in Wikipedia si de vreo patru ori pe Google. Am cautat si cu Lexis-Nexis în ziare americane, si "archaeologist" a fost folosit 84% din timp în ultimele sase luni. Plus ca state americane ca Iowa, Minnesota, Wyoming, South Carolina, si South Dakota au cu totii un State Archaeologist, ca sa nu zic nimic de Archaeological Institute of America, Society for American Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, si Biblical Archaeology Society--toate bazate în SUA. Numai "archaeologist" apare în dictionarul prestigios Merriam-Webster. Deci ideea e ca exista "archeologist" in America, dar e foarte rar, si cred ca tipul asta n-a avut dreptate sa reactioneze cu atâta forta împotriva mea. Ce zici--sa-l las în pace, sau sa-ncerc altceva? --Cristian, 18:40, 3 Mai 2005 (UTC)

În Wikipedia, dacă există mai multe variante corecte ale unui cuvânt, ar trebui să se păstreze grafia pe care a folosit-o autorul original al articolului. "Archeologist", chiar dacă nu este varianta cea mai corectă, pare să fie o variantă acceptată, conform "The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language".

Şi nu, tipul ăla în nici un caz n-ar fi trebuit să reacţioneze aşa. Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 20:25, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Ei bine, multumesc pentru ajutor. Am sa fiu mai atent cu corectarile. 21:36, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Walmart

Stop your bias editing of the Walmart page.

It's not bias. The NPOV policy says to not to divide pages according to POV. You don't write the positive facts to Adolf Hitler article and have a Criticism of Adolf Hitler page where you put the negative things. If you think something is presented not respecting the NPOV, edit in that article, do not move it to another page. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 08:46, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

it was split due to the length of the critism in such a case it is deserves its own page. AS WELL AS A REBUTAL SECTION!

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO A WALMART ANYWAY????

3 Reverts comment(this is not policy, it is hotly disputed practice, keep it off the policy page)GET WITH IT!!

Just wanted to say I loved your Adolf Hitler example on Talk:Wal-Mart. Kept me laughing for 5 minutes… — mjb 19:55, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for Culture of Ancient Rome, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Osco-Umbrian

The reason that there is no Osco-Umbrian article is that Oscan, Umbrian and Volscian each have their own articles linked to from the Italic languages page. --Jpbrenna 19:19, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

GFDL comment

I have already introduced GFDL to my pictures. Cheers, mate! (User:Viosan)

April Fool

You have been temporarily blocked from editing for vandalism of Wikipedia. If you wish to make useful contributions, you may come back after the block expires. 210.54.199.126 08:15, 14 May 2005 (UTC) PS: Ha ha, April Fool!

You're about a month late. :-) bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 10:24, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Viking territories

Bogdan, you have made a most beatiful map at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vikings-Voyages.png, but I object to sweden beig named as viking territory, since it was swedish apart of the period of the union with denmark and norway. As for now, naming sweden, and other countries as viking territories, is very confusing for people who knows those countries even had a speciallly organized defence forces against the vikings. This has been a dispute between several persons, including me, on different pages, including Viking Age.

Presently, Your map is actually being used as a source that sweden was viking territory, which it never was. Can you see the dilemma here? regardlless with what people may with, or without reasonable reasons may associate as vikings, our history is clear here: Sweddish kingdom was NEVER conquered by vikings, although the old capitoal once was burnt by hem, and Birka was atacked several times. What can we do about this? Dan Koehl 13:46, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

OK, I will update it. However, I have a question: were there any settlements/colonies of the Vikings anywhere in Sweden ? bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 12:04, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

I think the only settlement of vikings, which can be backed up by sources, mentioning this term, was Jomsborg. There is a grey zone of peoples, tribes, etc, which on and off is interpreted as vikings, (which your map shows) based on the 1800-romantism, where the icelandic sagas made the term viking heroic. Allt his only contributes to confusion, calling a varyag viking, when no source ever mentioning him as viking etc. I belive some islands north of scotland was occupied by vikings until king Harald I of Norway was forced to make an expedition to the west to clear the islands and Scottish mainland of Vikings. Numbers of them fled to Iceland, which grew into an independent commonwealth, while the Scottish isles fell under Norwegian rule., but again, the sagas are a vague source, and Im not sure its correct to call any settlement a viking settlement, except for, probably Jomsborg, and eventually, the islands Dagö and Ösel. (Not on your map?)

Adam of Bremen records in his book Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum, (volume four):

Aurum ibi plurimum, quod raptu congeritur piratico. Ipsi enim piratae, 'quos illi Wichingos as appellant, nostri Ascomannos regi Danico tributum solvunt.

engl:There is much gold here (in Zealand), accumulated by piracy. These pirates, which are called wichingi by their own people, and Ascomanni by our own people, pay tribute to the Danish king.

So wether that was a "viking" settlement or not is difficult to interprete. If they were paying tax to the danish king, I guess they were living in Denmark, and '#danish settlements. Theri viking activity was surely performed elsewehere.

My suggestion for the map; aviod any terms which can not be backed up by sources, so the the map itself does not become a source, which it was used as during previously deep discussions.

The whole era of viking age, is at last slowly getting analyzed in neutral ways, but it will take time to clean out fifty years of establishing a false meaning and interpretion of the word viking.

Thanks for your help. Dan Koehl 13:43, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

are you an admin yet?

hey bogdan, are you an admin yet ? there is this fictional article about Battle_of_Gatae that i have to ask an admin to speedy delete it. i want to vote you for admin, how can i do that ? -- Criztu 08:20, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

You are not supposed to speedy delete these things. You should nominate it at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion and tell which are the reasons. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 11:36, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

people & people's language page separation

hi. i see that you are separating languages from their respective people pages. if you do so, then perhaps you should create a separate stub for the people rather than having these pages redirect to the language page as having language in the title discourages someone from writing something of the people (i.e. culture, history, etc.). my decision to put language information in a single page with both culture & language is because that this is much faster & more simple. also, remember Boas: language is, after all, the 4th branch of anthropology, inseparable from culture. peace. — ishwar  (SPEAK) 15:37, 2005 May 28 (UTC)

Suspect Persian Etymology for Narcissus

According to Plutarch's possibly incorrect folk etymology, νάρκισσος is derived from νάρκη which has an established Homeric pedigree -- if that's the case, then a Persian origin is unlikely. Merriam-Webster's has it as being possibly derived from a pre-Greek substrate language as it contains the the tell-talle -ss (-tt) and -nthos endings - again, making a Persian origin unlikely.

In fact, I suspect that the Persian name could be derived from the Greek via the Hellenistic diffusion. When is the first occurence of the word in Persian? What was your source for the etymology? The narcissi article on Wikipedia, or somewhere else? --Jpbrenna 18:36, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Szekelys and Szekelyfold

Hi Bogdangiusca, I noticed you follow the changes on the article "Szekely", so i guess you would be in a better position to referee a discussion that started. I saw some of your edits and consider you of good moral honesty. Here my remark to user Criztu following the discussion:

Dear Criztu, unless proven otherwise, you should consider the edits of someone as made in good faith. It seems you have set up your mind for an edit war, which i'd have no pleasure to pursue. You keep deleting objective reference to Szekelyfold on the basis of your perception that there is no such historical region. I just wonder if you would delete reference to, say, Oltenia based on the same argument. (Or would you "lol" at the statement that Olteans are inhabitants of Oltenia?). Indeed, there is the same strong connection between Szekelyfold and a geographical region in the mind of every hungarian, as for Oltenia in Romanians.

You say, "cuz i look at the map of Austria-Hungary in 1918 and i see no "historical region Szekelyfold".. Do you think this is enough argument to suppose it didn't exist? In fact, there was an administrative region, Szekelyfold, too. It lasted until 1867 when new counties were drawn after a compromise with the hapsburgs. You may even find maps of it (and see that its shape has nothing to do with today Harghita, covasna, mures) on the Hungarian national library site [[1]] or on [[2]]. But I'm not historian, I'm sure there is even more reference to it than that. Akiss 06:17, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Arabic

Current policy (proposed by me, admittedly, but unopposed for nearly a year) is to keep all varieties of Arabic at * Arabic, rather than * Arabic language. Neutrality is thus maintained between those who view them as dialects and those who view them as separate languages. - Mustafaa 18:45, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK, then, I'll let the Arabic alone. Apparently the policy (I don't know whether it is written or not) for Romance languages and dialects is that the titles must be "* language" (afterall, a dialect is a language). The reason is that "*" is often the name of a region and needs a disambig. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 18:56, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Proto-Norse

Hi Bogdangiusca. I see that you have moved Proto-Norse to Proto-Norse language and that is fine. However, I doubt that it is correct to define it as a Proto-language, because it is well-attested from runic inscriptions.--Wiglaf 19:50, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

A proto-language is a language which is the ancestor of other languages and it does not makes any assumptions whetever it is known or just theorized. For reconstructed languages, of which we have no written records, such as the Proto-Indo-European, there is a different category: Proposed languages. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 19:57, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Then, I think Proto-language lacks that definition.--Wiglaf 20:02, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well... it may be in this part: A relative proto-language is a language that reflects an earlier state in a language family. I'll try to make it more clear. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 20:08, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks :).--Wiglaf 20:10, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Your first name

Hello,

I was curious what the meaning of your first name was, because there is a Hungarian word Bogdán which means god's gift. --User:Hottentot

Well, the origin is Slavic and it indeed means "god's gift" (bog = god; dan = gift). Romanians and Hungarians must have picked it up from the Slavs. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 22:58, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, thanks. I was wondering, because you speak Romanian and all, I was wondering if you would be able to help me out with this word. My great-grandfather was from a village in Sălaj (Szilágy) county which was either spelled Stârciu or Stirciu, I'm not exactly sure, but when he grew up it was part of Hungary, and it was called Bogdánháza (home of god's gift, háza means house). I was wondering how the name Stârciu/Stirciu correlates with Bogdánháza, for example, what Stârciu/Stirciu means in Romanian for one thing. Thanks.

---User:Hottentot

Stârciu (alternate older spelling Stîrciu) is most likely derived from "Stârc" (meaning Stork), with suffix "-iu". bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 08:03, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 23:26, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Megleno-Romanian language

Review the edit history. User:Theathenae "redirected" it to "Meglinitic language". It's been restored to Megleno-Romanian language. I'm trying to get more Romanian users to watch these pages. Decius 01:52, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Rutabaga

I think you have made a mistake. That photo you have put on the rutabaga page shows WHITE turnips. See the disambiguation page turnip.

Romanian Greek-Catholic Uniate Church

There seems to be some disagreement regarding the proper english translation for the name of this church. Perhaps you may wish to weigh in on the article, seeing as you introduced the current name? ——Preost ^talk contribs 02:55, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Rutherian/Ruthenian on your map

Hi,

On your map, I think, the name Ruthenians should be used instead of Rutherians. Adam78 18:25, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I must have been thinking of routerians. :-) bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 18:38, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Or maybe Rotarians... -- Jmabel | Talk June 29, 2005 01:11 (UTC)

Spam removal

Hi Bogdan - I've replaced the external link from Mozambique to Yellowikis. Yellowikis publishes under the GNU Free Doc License (Like Wikipedia) - it is not-for-profit organization and doesn't sell anything to anyone - so it is wrong to think of it as commercial comment spam. In fact some Wikipedians use it a place to transwiki commercial spam (see the discussion Votes_for_deletion/List_of_taxi_operators_in_Greater_Toronto_Area. Let me know what you think.--Payo 28 June 2005 11:46 (UTC)

Hungarian versions of place names in articles pertaining to Romania

Hi! There is a bit of a controversy evolving about the Hungarian versions of place names in articles pertaining to Romania. Criztu has started to delete the Hungarian (and in one case, German) variants of place names from the following articles, claiming that they were irrelevant: (Harghita, Covasna_(county), Cluj). I feel this move is unjustified. I would appreciate if you could have a look at the problem and give your opinion on Talk:Harghita.--Tamas 28 June 2005 15:21 (UTC)

If a place is known under different names by different nations, it should be written. As long as the official name is the first and all other variants are in brakes, I see no problem.MihaiC 30 June 2005 07:00 (UTC)

The problem is a bit more complicated. Everyone agrees that this should be the policy inside the appropriate articles, e.g. in the Miercurea_Ciuc article, (Csíkszereda) should be given too after the official Miercurea Ciuc. The question is, what to do in other articles. Like in the Harghita article, Mierucurea Ciuc is mentioned. Now should we give the Hungarian version in parentheses here as well, or only in the Miercurea Ciuc article itself?--Tamas 30 June 2005 09:39 (UTC)

Romania in the Middle Ages

Please see my question at Talk:Romania_in_the_Middle_Ages#Large_removal. -- Jmabel | Talk June 29, 2005 01:10 (UTC)

Northern Dobruja

hi Bogdan, i seee you've created a Northern Dobruja article. Since the name Dobrogea is used only as a historical term in Romania, not as a current administrative unit, info from Northern Dobruja should be merged with Dobrogea. Wha', do you see any "Western Transylvania" or "Western Banat" article, about the western parts of Transylvania and Banat that went to Hungary ? -- Criztu

Viking territory

Dear Bogdangiusca, there is still your map, showing sweden as viking territory, which, as far as I know, never was. Presently, that map, does not really give an NPOV picture about the swedish kingdom, (as well as with Norwegian, and danish kingdoms) I thought you meant to change this. If not, and you claim another opinion, could you please name a written source claiming that sweden was overtaken by vikings? (exept for the burning of Sigtuna town which was a raid over a couple of days) Dan Koehl 3 July 2005 09:27 (UTC)

Double redirects

You made the move to Argeş River, but did not fix double redirects. I suspect you moved many pages since the permission to use any chars in page titles, so this is just a warning to double check your moves. mikka (t) 5 July 2005 04:09 (UTC)

Broken link

Plaese note that the link "The Independent / Found: Europe's oldest civilisation" is broken :-)

Pietro 5 July 2005 17:13 (UTC)

Found another link :-) bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 5 July 2005 17:49 (UTC)

survey about providing hungarian names for counties of Romania in Transylvania

sal Bogdan, pls look at the text of the Survey about providing the names of the counties of the Kingdom of Hungary as alternates for the names of the counties of Romania on Talk:Harghita. if this matter if of interest to you, offcourse -- Criztu 9 July 2005 15:41 (UTC)

Romania: a deletion you made

Could you possibly answer my question at Talk:Romania#History_site.3F? I'd like to understand a deletion you made. -- Jmabel | Talk 17:55, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Irod

I'm guessing you might be able to answer the question recently asked at Talk:Irod. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:08, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Cedilla

This is becoming a theme: could you please see my comment at Talk:Cedilla#Removed? I'd like to understand a deletion you made. (I wouldn't have so many questions if you left edit summaries on your deletions of material.) -- Jmabel | Talk 00:37, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

misterious fonts

sal Bogdan, i come across a lot of Romanian place names that have these weird "ț" in them. like Bistrița . I see your name the same way, as "bogdan ʤjuʃkə" . What's going on ? What is this encoding ? Im afraid people pretty much don't see these font -- Criztu 09:23, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

do you see it like a square or something like that ? it's probably because you don't have the unicode fonts installed. I see "ț" as t with a comma bellow. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 09:30, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

You may need to install this [3] (13 MB) bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 09:40, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

thanx for lnk, i had unicode-UTF8 -- Criztu 10:02, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Romanian dynasties

sal Bogdan, i'd like to indicate the lineage of the Moldavian rulers and Wallachian rulers . e.g. Mircea the Elder, Vlad Tzepesh, Stefan the Great, Dan I and Dan II were all from Basarab lineage. should we call them Dynasty of Basarab ? or should we simply indicate their common lineage ?

"dinastia Basarabilor" is commonly used in Romanian historiography, so I think calling them "Basarab Dynasty" is OK. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 20:27, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

I really dislike this formulation on Romania in the Middle Ages : "From the 14th century to the 17th century, the principalities' histories are replete with overthrows of princes by rival factions often supported by foreigners" considering they were actualy "family affairs". -- Criztu 17:55, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

well, there were actually rival factions: see Dan II vs. Radu II Prasnaglava at List of Wallachian rulers. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 20:27, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

ofcourse they were rival factions, but current formulation suggest "anarchy" while stating they were dynastic clashes for succesion would put the facts in a more relevant light -- Criztu 20:47, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Dacian examples supporting Satem classification

I was wondering if you could find some more Dacian examples that indicate a Satem classification of Dacian for the Dacian language article. It's not enough to just say "it is commonly supposed to be Satem"---where is the evidence? I know of as many Centum as Satem Dacian examples. I can see advantages in Dacian being either Centum or Satem or inbetween, so I really am not commited to any option. Decius 06:45, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Here are some examples:

Aizisis (lamb / cf. Greek "aigis")

Apo (water / cf. Sanskrit "apa", Baltic "upe")

Germizena, Germisara (hot / cf. Sanskrit "gharma")

Giri-dava (mountain / cf. Sanskrit "giri", Slavic "gora")

I'll keep looking for more. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 12:36, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Aizisis (a toponym)---a veritable Satem example, which I've already noted, from PIE *aig-, 'goat'.

Apo ---not a Satem example. The PIE root is *ap- (or even *akwa, if *kw became 'p').

Germizena--- Germi- is not a Satem example, it is from PIE *gwher-, 'warm'. -Zena would be a Satem example if it is in fact Dacian and if it is from PIE *gene-, 'to beget'.

Giridava (a toponym) ---not a Satem example. Giri- would be from PIE *gwer-, 'mountain'; while -Dava is from PIE *dhe-.

Decius, you're right that these words seen as "evidence" for the satem theory are not real satem transitions, but simply words theat just have close cognates with words of Satem languages, but that's what I've seen as

However, it would be interesting to see a list with all the toponyms ever found, each with attempts to make the transitions from PIE. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 21:57, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

---Decius 21:24, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to make a list on Talk:Dacian language of the Satem examples we've collected so far. Eventually, we will work them into the article---alongside the Centum examples. Decius 21:48, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

The problem with admitting elements such as Germi- in themselves as evidence of a Satem language is that, not only are they not Satem reflexes, but they can also be found in Centum languages: Gaelic gar, 'warm' (PIE *gwher-), Old Irish gorim, 'burning' (PIE *gwher-). Decius 22:25, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Deşteaptă-te, rumâne!

--Theathenae 16:49, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Pardon me, but what do you mean ? bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 16:52, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Just watch yourself, rumâne. Because I'll be watching you.--Theathenae 16:55, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Every breath you take / Every move you make / I'll be watching you, right ? :-)

Don't you have a job or something better to do ? bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 16:57, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Theathenae threating other users is not allowed, you get free with a warning this time, but next time if you continue tthreating Bogdangiusca you will be temporary banned, and if you don't get your act right together afterwards you will be probably perament banned. Albanau 17:11, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Administrative map of Romania

sal Bogdan. About "Administrative map of Romania" over at Romania article in the "Counties" section. I think either represent all historical regions of Romania (Crisana, Maramures, Banat, Ardeal, Moldova, Bucovina, Oltenia, Muntenia, Dobrogea) or represent the Administrative regions of Romania (N-V, Center, W, N-E, S, S-E, S-W). currently it is ambiguous as it represents Transylvania Moldova Wallachia and Dobrogea, neither a representation of the Administrative regions, nor Historical regions, nor "former principalities of T, W and M). -- Criztu 11:29, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Image:Vikings-Voyages.png

Do you have a blank version of this map? Image:Vikings-Voyages.png. without the text. please answear on my norwegian talkpage no:Bruker:Martin. Maradyb 18:41, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

I am sorry, but I do not see why you insist on an erroneous version of the map. For instance on your map, there are no scandinavian settlements in Russia, and there are no portages. Are you an anti-normanist POV-pusher?--Wiglaf 07:05, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Oops... Actually I just wanted to bring up a new version that did not had Sweden highlighted (see request up on this page), but I didn't realized that you modified the map and added the settlements in Russia. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 07:25, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I see :).--Wiglaf 19:49, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

PS, if you do not consider me to be an authority, try to check some historic maps for a start.--Wiglaf 07:11, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Suspicion of original research at Romanian language

user:Node ue cut two of the three versions of the human declaration of rights from the Romanian language#language sample section on grounds of original research. Could you have a look at the thing and confirm whether it can be considered as such? Circeus 21:03, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

There is no original research there. Circeus, you can reference each word in the DEXOnline and it will indicate that each word in the third example is native, and that the highlighted words in the other two are borrowed. Node ue is an extremely annoying troll, and perhaps also a Slavophiliac. Decius 04:39, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Atheist/Leftwing Anarchist

An atheist and a Communist? Who would've guessed. (never understood the point of being an atheist or a communist myself) Decius 21:55, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

You're saying that like it's a bad thing. :-)

I am an atheist, but that's just a personal opinion and has nothing to do with my political opinions: I don't like mixing religion and politics in any way.

Also I don't describe myself as a Communist, because people associate that name with Leninism, Stalinism and our own brand. :-)

I don't militate for an immediate change of the way things work. I just think that the current organization of the society is not the optimum and thus can be improved. And no, I don't boycott the capitalist system, nor the current political system: I work for a multinational and I voted for the Liberals at the last election. :-)

bogdan | ^Talk 21:10, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

I was teasing a bit. In an ideal future society some sort of semi-Utopian communism might give us a better world society than capitalist society has given us. But any attempt to institute such a communist society anytime soon is bound to fail, pure and simple. Decius 00:27, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

About atheism, what can I say. I'd rather not preach (and besides, I have no formal religion to preach; I am an Orthodox Christian more for political reasons and traditional reasons rather than because I feel the Orthodox Church or any Church has it right). Decius 00:27, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Gardening for the Million topics

Hi Bogdan - I saw you uploaded this from the Gutenberg Project. I can appreciate why (it is out of copyright, so free use), but unfortunately it is so badly out of date (100 years!) in scientific nomenclature (and language!) that it will be a nightmare to get it updated. It also doesn't contain any very useful new information. Personally, I'd rather see it removed from wikipedia because it is potentially very confusing to users not aware of the dated nomenclature - MPF 16:22, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Hmm... I think you're right. I converted it to a list of plant names and even if some of them are obsolete, we should have a redirect. bogdan | ^Talk 17:10, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks; I'll check it through - there were also at least one or two that had text scanning errors in, which needn't be made into redirects (e.g. "Cedrus deodora" as an error for Cedrus deodara) - MPF 17:58, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and thank you for the corrections you made to that list bogdan | ^Talk 16:44, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

User name

Hi Bogdan, what's up. I was wondering how I can change my User name to Alexandru (My Real name). I'm going to miss "Decius" but I feel like leaving it behind. Peace, Alexandru 16:27, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

See: Wikipedia:Changing username. It seems that only users with less than 5000 edits may change username using that function (which also would change all your edits from Decius to Alexandru) because of a limitation of the software.

However nothing stops you to use the User:Alexandru from now on. bogdan | ^Talk 16:44, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

My articles

Salut! Am scris doua articole. Daca doresti, poti sa le inspectezi si sa le corectezi. Poti sa adaugi diacritici, etc. Mersi!

• Dragos
• Bogdan I of Moldavia

--Anittas 20:16, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Nice try

But come back in a month or two, and I'll probably have to top off that Wikistress meter of mine. ;) « alerante ✆ ✉ » 17:59, 2 August 2005 (UTC)