Talk:List of Latvians

message: Call Karlis Ulmanis what you will, but he was _never_ President of Latvia.  He came to power via coup d'etat dislodging the sitting Prime Minister Blodnieks, and later dismissed President Kviesis.  By no legal or constitutional means did Karlis Ulmanis ever become President.
:As far as I know, after the coup, Kviesis completed his term. Ulmanis did hold both the primary offices, of President and Prime Minister, subsequently. There are equally many or more that would argue that Ulmanis took his action in an ultimate act of patriotism only after the Latvian government was so fractured as to be dysfunctional. Peters 07:41, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Karlis Ulmanis 

message: Some sort of coherence when it comes to spelling of names would be appreciated. I suggest names are written in Latvian or as Latvian exonyms. --Philaweb 15:27, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just added Paul Schiemann (Pauls Šīmanis), the journalist and politician. A simple question, any thoughts on which alphabetical order we are following? According to Wiki article surname or according to Latvian surname? The order can change. —  Pēters J. Vecrumba 17:07, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess collation in order of the Latvian (exonym) surname in the list would be fine. --Philaweb 17:41, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps collation according to the Latvian alphabet can be acchieved? ;) --Philaweb 17:47, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I see some collation has already taken place :-)  —  Pēters J. Vecrumba 17:26, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: I thought I would make the introduction a bit crisper in terms of defining who makes the list.  —  Pēters J. Vecrumba 17:26, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction 

message: While I understand the rationale for not having lists which can expand eternally, there are not, frankly, that many prominent Latvians. (Latvian meaning ethnic or from territory of.) It's not like it's a "List of Germans" or a "List of Russians." If the list becomes quite a bit longer, I have no problem splitting it according to arts and sciences or politics versus other. But deleting the list just as it has finally achieved some slow modicum of attention is completely unwarranted. I see absolutely nothing constructive in the proposed propagation of "Wikipolicy" cited. All I see is a proposed deletion of an extremely worthwhile effort on the part of many editors for the sake of conformity to a standard to prevent a danger (runaway list) which will never happen. —  Pēters J. Vecrumba 01:45, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion notice for non-conformity deletion 

message: I noticed the ref to speedy delete of "Fridrihs Briedis". Just curious, I looked him up in the Latvian encyclopedia and his name was spelled "Frīdrichs Briedis" -- with the "c". Thoughts, other refs? —PētersV (talk) 14:34, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions 

message: I would like to suggest a removal of all names that does not have a Wikipedia article. The list has enough names with interwiki links to make it sustainable as a list. Furthermore, it bothers me that people have begun adding living relatives, school teachers and boy/girlfriends with no notability at all. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work 18:46, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Red link "articles" removed. Be bold, create an article before adding it to the list. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work 21:27, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elimination of red links