Talk:Szczytno

message: Does anyone know if this is where the surname Oertel originated?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.218.145.112 (talk) 21:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Oertel

message: I think we should add old baltic name "Sedone".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Karolis-lt (talk • contribs) 09:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: Any details about the death of Jerzy Lanc ?
(217.184.150.77 (talk) 14:08, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jerzy Lanc 

message: The article, added more on history, locations, added double naming, removed not needed categories.--Molobo (talk) 18:45, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expanded 

message: What has the Polish King done there in 1628/29 ? Was it the official seat of government / exile or anything like that - or did he just sleep there for a night? 84.139.251.208 (talk) 07:48, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polish King 

message: Some strange unsupported statements by anon. Also the sourced info was manipulated.--Molobo (talk) 21:35, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I removed 

message: What does "in extraordinary renditions" mean in ordinary English? Sca (talk) 13:57, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Huh?

message: This edit  (along with several others) uses primary sources, which may be biased, for potentially controversial information. This violates the Wikipedia policy WP:PRIMARY.
The same edit uses a source, Handbuch der historischen Stätten, edited by the Nazi author Erich Weise and with contributions from other authors from Nazi Germany. Per WP:RS this is not a reliable source and should not be used in this or other articles.
Furthermore it looks like an effort is being made to obfuscate the nature of this source, by omitting the fact that Weise was the editor and instead only listing a few of the authors (like Kurt Forstreuter, another Nazi). On top of that the ISBN number of the book is being omitted. Note that previously the same editor included this information in his previous edits, but when concerns were raised about the nature of this source and Erich Weise, began omitting it. This suggests strongly that the editor in question is fully aware that this is a problematic source and is making bad faithed attempts to hide it.
Please do not restore this info without providing modern, reliable, secondary sources.Volunteer Marek 13:38, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources edited/written by Nazi authors, abuse of primary sources by User:Kaiser von Europa 

message: There is also no grammatical or expository reason to italicize former German names of now-Polish localities in the areas given to postwar Poland under border changes promulgated at the Potsdam Conference. In English, italics usually denote foreign (non-English) words for things or concepts, but not place names. Prior to 1945, Szczytno was officially Ortelsburg, not Ortelsburg, and the German name should not be italicized.
The automatic italicization of former German names of now-Polish or -Russian places misleads casual English-speaking readers to think the former, historically actual German names are merely German versions of pre-existing Polish or Russian place-names, which often is not the case. Sca (talk) 21:29, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Improper Italicization

message: As far as I can figure out from Polish WP, Mazurski Przyjaciel Ludu was published during the interwar period in Allenstein (Olsztyn), not Ortelsburg (Szczytno) — thus irrelevant to this article. Sca (talk) 15:21, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Red herring

message: This page is littered with Polish political and nationalist propaganda. Sources cited for this rubbish are, of course, Polish. This should be unacceptable on the English-language Wikipedia, which fanatical polish nationalists now use as a propaganda vehicle for their fantasies. 2A00:23C4:B617:7D01:5D62:4B4F:12B3:2268 (talk) 10:47, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: What Polish propaganda? Could you point it out. And as for this , a source in any language is acceptable on any Wikipedia. and , didn't the Nazis suppress any non-nazi political organization? Bingobro (Chat) 10:52, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Propaganda