Talk:Pysanka

message: I'm sticking this at the top, as someone put a large, (visuslly) loud banner across this article suggesting the same.
It's been discussed before. (See below.)  A lot.  And been decided against. 
IIRC, this was due to the tendency to include more information in Wikipedia rather than less.  Creating a huge bloated "Easter Egg" article would serve no real purpose.  Neither would taking away this Ukrainian "Pysanka" article.  To merge this into Easter Egg would require removing information, or generalizing it and making it less specific and less useful.  Lubap  20 April 2009
:How is the Easter egg the same? I agree that it could be considered as the type of such, yet it has its own special, rich traditional meaning. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 16:50, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging with "Easter Egg" 

message: A pysanka is not some generic "Slavic" egg.  This specific name applies to Ukrainian wax resist eggs.  Different Slavic cultures have different names for such eggs, different color schemes, motifs, symbolism.
Except the Russians.  There is no folk tradition of such egg decoration in Russia.  There are some ethnic Ukrainian areas of the RF where this folk art was practiced.  
And krashanky are simple one color Eater eggs, like those made in the west.  They are not similar or equivalent to pysanky.
Lubap  15 July 2019  —Preceding undated comment added 12:01, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Slavic Egg" 

message: You should also add a link or mention to the world's largest pysanky in Vegereille, Alberta, Canada.  Vegreville, Alberta   (maybe a picture, too?) Kevlar67 18:11, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Good thinking—done.  —Michael Z. 2005-12-15 18:58 Z
Hmmm... I revised the first few paragraphs of the article to accept the more general use of the word pysanka (necessary, to make the Vegreville pysanka fit the definition - otherwise, it's hardly a pysanka), but the changes didn't appear.  I'll have to revisit it this weekend to determine what happened.
Drewtew 23:39, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vegreville pysanka 

message: I removed from the article the ridiculous and unsourced assertion about pysanka's origins in the Cucuteni culture which flourished five millennia ago. This is a sample of nationalist pseudo-science at its worst. I would like to see sources for other strange statements, e.g., "folk tales" about the Ukrainians worshipping sun. --Ghirla -трёп- 12:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pysanka and [[Cucuteni culture]] 

message: Someone went through and changed the usage of "stylus" in this article to "kistka".  I used the english ""stylus" because the Ukrainian term varies widely by region.  Some areas of western Ukraine use "kistka" or "kystka."  Most of the recent Ukrainian language works on pysankarstvo I have read us the terms "pysachok" or "pysal'tse", both of which use the same root as pysanka.
I have also removed the separate section that was added on the "kistka," as it duplicated the information already contained in the section on making pysanky. If someone would like to write a separate article on the "kistka", feel free to do so, but please don't just stick a block of duplicative text into this article.--Lubap 01:10, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stylus vs. Kistka 

message: I have been trying to minimize external links to personal, especially commercial, pages, pursuant to Wikipedia policy.   Wikipedia is not meant to increase traffic to your site.  Unless you have significant additional information to add, in a non-commercial environment, please do not add personal links.  Especially any with loud, blaring music.Lubap 23:38, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

message: In the article it says that there was a pre-christian egg-symbolism, but that no actual eggs survived since the shells are very fragile. So what evidence is there? None? How should anyone know about eggs decorated with sun symbols when there is no evidence left today?
This sounds very speculative to me, just like dating the christmas tree back to pagan traditions. Maybe someone could add some sources for this knowledge. -- 188.195.14.249 (talk) 10:53, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pre-Christian Eggs? 

message: The term “Uniate” originally used derisively by Orthodox Christians to refer to Greek Catholic Ukrainians and Ruthenians, is still considered offensive to many Eastern Christians in union with the Catholic Church and should not be used in the context of the method of writing pysanky. It is - ironically - unnecessarily devisive. Whitefish68 (talk) 04:42, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Uniate”