Talk:Constantin Tănase

message: I ran across what looks like an interesting German-language discussion that touches several times on Tănase: http://www.karpatenwilli.com/gaeste09.htm. It's in backward chronological order. It led me to a few tidbits (like that he'd made movies). Because it is long, in German, and is only tangentially about Tănase, I didn't think it would make a useful link in the article, but it may have some further material that would be useful for a researcher. If anyone can explain to me the thing there about the censor and substituting Musca-Cioara for mustacioara, I'd appreciate it; I'm sure this is based on secondary meanings of these words, and my Romanian is not fluent.  -- Jmabel | Talk 04:08, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)
:Looked at it a little more. There is what looks like an excellent anecdote giving an alternate account of his death. I'll do my best with that, but someone with better German and/or Romanian should feel free to correct me. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:26, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)
::Musca-Cioara = Fly-Crow; mustacioara = little moustache. If there is any reference to Hitler, that could be it (Hitler beeing famous (between other things) for his short moustache).MihaiC 19:41, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: German-language site

message: :Teoria mea-i uşoară
:Toată viaţa e o scară
:Care, pe rând, ca şi la moară
:Toţi o urca şi-o coboară".
Jmabel's traslation:
:Theory is hard for me
:All life is a staircase
:Which, by turns, death is as well
:All a climb and a descent.
A more literal translation would be:
:My theory is easy
:All life is a staircase
:Which, by turns, just like at the mill
:Everyone climbs and descend
I'm not sure, however, what he means by "like at the mill". Bogdan | Talk 21:56, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In Romania most mills used to be watermills and he must be referring to the movement of the water wheel. Bogdan | Talk 08:28, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  The theory of life 

message: Someone recently added a "cleanup" tag to this article, but without indicating what they though needs cleanup. If no one identifies a specific problem in the next couple of weeks, I'm removing the tag. - Jmabel | Talk 06:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup?

message: According to the Jurnalul Naţional article (Constantin Tănase: A căzut cortina! ("Constantin Tănase: The Curtain Dropped!")), Tănase was born in Bârlad, while IMDB states Vaslui. However, I incline to the Jurnalul source, since IMDB also mentions Berlin as place of death and I don't think the Russians would have bothered to murder him in Berlin when it would have been easier anyway to do it in Bucharest. Does anyone have any other sources? Thanks. Mentatus 12:35, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I researched last night the matter of Constantin Tănase's last days and death, for the Soviet occupation of Romania article, since I think his cabaret act ("Davai ceas, davai palton") is iconic for that period.  So I came over that article in Jurnalul Naţional, which seems the best one to lay out the various theories regarding Tănase's end.  I'm much more inclined to go with this article than with what IMDB says -- that stuff about murder in Berlin sounds like an urban legend to me, and so should be discounted (or simply mentioned as an aside, as it is now done).  It would be good to have another source, but basically everything else I found was gibberish. My hunch is that one needs to go back to articles from that time -- is there an archive where Romanian newspapers from around 1945 would be preserved? (I assume that none have been digitalized yet.) Turgidson 12:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthplace

message: Sorry to disagree, but there are certain rules for WP:ATTRIBUTION. The German source about killing of Tănase is unfortunately invalid. It is a collection of private letters from persons of unknown credibility to the owner of the website with personal remarks and memoirs. They cannot be considered relliable sources in wikipedia. Mukadderat 16:47, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There was already a discussion about this source and its reliability, on this very page, just see above. The author of this article, in accordance with other main editors has deemed this source as reliable, and so it stood all the way long. It will be quite hard for you to impose your POV about the unreliability of this accepted source. Do you really think it’s worth ? Can you make me understand what your real point is ? Please don’t invoke WP policies, since policies are created in order to foster creation of good and informative articles and not to hinder reasonable editing. I really don’t see your point. Is it something behind all this? Are you an edit warrior? Please don’t feel offended, but do you have any idea of Constantin Tănase ? Can you read German ? Are you familiar with the (hi)story of the creation of this article ? This is a more complex and intricate story as you probably guess. If you are just trying to coach some users on wiki policies, I am afraid that this is the wrong place to do it. If you really are willing to help improving this work, you are welcome, but please don’t start with deletions. It is not the best way to cultivate team work. --Vintilă Barbu 17:41, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please don't assume I am a vandal or idiot before looking into my contributions. I touch edits related to Romania because Romania has connections with Ottoman Empire, and I occasionally read  Romania-related articles, out of curiosity. And I sometimes fix problems in them when I see it. Yes, I've seen the talk above. It was more than two years ago when rules about citing sources were not so cleanly defined; wikipedia is still young an evolving. By the current policies, texts from unknown people are not valid sources for wikipedia, plain and simple. My grandfather may tell many interesting things about 1900s and my son may post it on his university website. But this will not make them reliable sources. Likewise, I don't see why you yuorself shall feel violated: the paragraph in question is already referred to from a source valid by wikipedia's rules, so relax and don't look for enemies where there is none. We all working on improving of wikipedia. To make you feel better I asked at User talk:Jmabel for additional input. May be he will have arguments that I am wrong.  Mukadderat 22:08, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

text: If I may, let me interject a couple of observations.  First, I wondered the same thing about the Jurnalul article last night -- before quoting it (for another article), I wanted to put the date, but could not find it.  A bit strange -- and unprofessional about Jurnalul, if I may say so. Second, I'm 99.99% sure that the verses as rendered here (Davai ceas, davai palton, etc) are correct. As I grew up, they were simply part of the oral tradition -- quite risqué to utter, especially the part about De la Nistru pân' la Don -- but in the privacy of the family, perhaps with water running to drown putative bugs, they were passed on.  Now, about the circumstances of Tănase's death, I'm much less sure.  There were hushed rumors about what happened as a consequence of his courageous stance, but of course nobody knew for sure.  By the way, that's why I changed the category today from "dissapeared people", which sounded very odd -- that whole story about the Berlin dissapearance just doesn't make sense, pace IMDB -- and replaced with "Cause of death disputed" which seems to reflect accurately the present state of affairs (and also gibes with what the Jurnalul article says).  Finally, I very much agree with that local vs global point of view that Jmabel brings up. Though still relatively new around here at wiki, the more time I spend, the more I realize the potential for discrepancy between the two -- mercifully, not always, but when the various desiderata clash, it's quite frustrating.  I have no magical solution to propose, except to remind everyone the words of wisdom of Sir Winston, from his Iron Curtain speech (one of my favorite speeches ever, I must confess):  "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."  Turgidson 23:09, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

text: the chronology of the Tănase’s  death report, as it appeared on the www.:
# 5th February 2003, German report
# 4th November 2005,  rowiki report very similar to the German report, however not naming any source
# 20th January 2006, enwiki report explicitly naming its source (the German report)
# 15th January 2007  article in “Jurnalul Naţional” 
All four reports are highly similar.
There is no mention of this version of Tănase’s death previous to February 2003’s version.
For further details, see also this post   --Vintilă Barbu 10:19, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

text: As I said in the first place: "The ring of truth". I don't think there is any question about "Davai ceas" (very characteristically Tănase, and, I gather, rather well-known), and not the slightest doubt at all about him living well into the Soviet Occupation. "El tic-eu tac" seems perfectly likely, and again reasonably characteristic, but could imaginably have been someone's later invention (but, again, it seems very plausible). The exact mode of his death: clearly unknown, probably always will be, but almost certainly at the hands of the Soviet Occupation forces or possibly the local Communists.
The chronology above does not surprise me. It seems to me that intellectual honesty means that we credit not only the "officially reliable" source, but also the earliest known source. But, I suppose, we have effectively done that on this talk page. In any case, it would be interesting to trace any of the steps along the way and ask people what was their source: I seem to be the only person in the chain who acknowledged mine. - Jmabel | Talk 16:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
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