Talk:Ivan Mihailov

message: * The follow up sections do not elaborate on why some consider him Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia (i.e. quotes from Mihailov expressing pro-Macedonian views have been removed).
* Weasel words: "but the scholars agreed that he was a defender of the statement...".
* The tone of the article gives the impression that he had always regarded himself Bulgarian without exception.
* The quotes given make the article unbalanced. The quotes given are all of him expressing pro-Bulgarian views while his previously apparent pro-Macedonian views are not represented.
* Judging by their edits, the users Jingiby and AKeckarov (and possibly myself) have a conflict of interest here. An "outsider" needs to review all of the recent edits and attempt to bring the article to NPOV standards.
--AimLook (talk) 04:25, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's nice, but you really need to cite a reliable source. The official WP policy on persons with disputed ethnicity (disputed between Bulgaria and RoM that is) clearly states that if a person clearly self-identifies as a Bulgarian, then he should be mentioned as Bulgarian. --Laveol T 14:23, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Your grandfather died in 1907 and you remember him well? I am impressed, as that must make you about 110 years old!1812ahill (talk) 13:19, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: General cleanup

message: does anyone know the address of vanco mihailov in rome?
where he lived.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.28.4.197 (talk) 11:18, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  address? 

message: The section about Mihailov's cold war days read like it had been machine-translated. I have done my best to rewrite it insofar as I could make head and tail of the incomprehensible sentances and contradictory statements. However, the are still problems. Could someone with knowledge of the subject and/or Bulgarian (and preferably English too!) re-proofread it and correct as necessary. 1812ahill (talk) 13:11, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awful English 

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message: I think the source Andrei Roshkovski you have provided is not credible. Andrew Ross is known for his controversial fringe views and might be misleading to the general public and not neutral.
I would like to undo the "undo" till we find better sources. 
What do you think? 
I am not saying he was not an connected by any means but the question here is to what extent and we need to find better sources.
Do you agree?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kdichev (talk • contribs) 18:03, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, do not delete the text and the source. I will simply provide additional sources, confirming the same info. Jingiby (talk) 18:20, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: can you add more sources then, please? Kdichev (talk) 18:46, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I do this at the moment. Jingiby (talk) 18:52, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there anything else that is not clear from the introduction or needs an additional source? Jingiby (talk) 15:05, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vancho Mihailov  

message: This man is not referred to as Ivan Mihaylov in very many English language sources (if any). He is consistently referred to as Mihailov. On en WP, we use the common name in English. There was also no WP:RM, which should have occurred before such a potentially contested move. The move should be reversed forthwith, and an RM initiated if considered necessary. Peacemaker67  (click to talk to me) 04:09, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent move 

message: I added an information about Mihailov's view that an independent Macedonia cannot be independent because it is a satellite, but even if it gains real independence, it can only be hurtful to Bulgaria, concluding that its "natural place" is in Bulgaria. But the information about this quote of his is from a report by Rayna Drangova to the Bulgarian State Security, about what Mihailov told her at their meeting in Rome. On the one hand I think that the source may not be very safe to conclude that Mihailov meant this - he could have told this to Drangova out of completely different motives. On the other hand, such a view, which still sounds like one he could have had at that time (Mihailov never considered Macedonia to be truly separate from Bulgaria), is an important detail on his views on an independent Macedonia. Идеологист (talk) 12:02, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  A quote of his on Independent Macedonia as harmful