Talk:University of Pristina/Archive 1

message: Atention: Serbo-Milosheviq Propaganda  
No fiction, please.
This is getting more and more ridiculous with every passing day. Are we going to have the University of Barcelona in Belgrade soon? Grow up! 
The University of Prishtina, is in Prishtina, it is named after the city where it is located and the staff who teach in it name it. If they decide this is the University of Prishtina, so it will be. Nobody, not me nor you can change it's name just because you don't like it. 
You got away with too many things, but not with this one. -- Kosovar 00:25, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: I don't see why it is so hard? There are two Univieristies of Pristina in this moment. This article should describe both of them in NPOV manner. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 05:08, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly, they only split off when the article gets too big, not when we have a difference of opinion. See POV fork. Sam Spade 13:18, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Both universities should be described here 

message: Please don't bulk revert like this. "A more objective view" is a very subjective thing. Instead, and by way of trying to take the least conflict-prone route to your goal, drop a note on this talk page, explain what is wrong, what you'd like to see changed and how you would suggest changing it. Simple reverting of someone's work is rather insulting: there is a human on the end of the work you summarily remove without discussion and it doesn't exactly leave them feeling encouraged. So, User:Pjetër Bogdani, I'm going to ask you to explain here in detail why you bulk reverted. By way of a gesture, you might consider reinstating the reverted text whilst it is discussed. -Splashtalk 14:14, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bulk reverting 

message: I have reverted Pjetër Bogdani's revert because his revert removed a lot of material. As I'm unfamiliar with the subject and I see nationalist icons with regard to Κοσσυφοπέδιο (I'm using the Greek name so as to avoid taking sides) on the userpages of Nikola Smolenski and Pjetër Bogdani, I suspect that this is a revert war of a nationalist nature please forgive any of my ignorance.
*This page should be moved to University of Prishtina as that is the English and is easy for non-Slavic users (who won't have the letter š on their keyboards) to type.
*Both universities should be mentioned and described explaining fully the current position: that one is recognised and one is not, but they both exist.
*The officially recognised by UNMIK university should be dealt with first on the page and the Serbian university after it.
--Latinus (talk (el:)) 00:11, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am glad that you are willing to help with this article.
* I believe that the article should remain here, as "Pristina" is more used in English than Prishtina (=407,000; =87,500), and since Wikipedia moved to UTF-8 we are using correct diacritics in names (for example, article on Pjetër Bogdani is at Pjetër Bogdani and not Pjeter Bogdani despite the fact that nearly all non-Slavic users won't have letter ë on their keyboards). For the record, I think that the practice is stupid, but as long as it exists, we should follow it.
* Both universities are recognised. As I wrote, according to, in 2002 UNMIK recognised Serbian university. Serbian government recognises only Serbian university. Nikola 07:30, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert warring 

message: I have reordered and added information on the Univ.of Prishtina. This information was added using a document that was sent to me by the international office of the University of Prishtina. Should anyone want to see the email, I can provide it on request. Thank you. Ilir pz 16:48, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  My edits 

message: ALL I CAN DO HERE IS QUOTE THIS GUY:
Good job Kosovar! We have to tell that Serbian nationalist User:Nikola_Smolenski that “University of Pristina” does not exist. The United Nations administer Kosova and they have accepted the university with the name shown on the main article "University of Prishtina". Also, no one is supposed to add a Serbian name for the university because it does not offer studies in Serbian, and a Serbian official name does not exist. This is like adding to Harvard “(Serbian: Harvard Univerzitetu)...”. Forgive me for comparing Havard with Prishtina, but in this case it is not a miss-leading comparison.
Once again, please do not vandalize with those claims that the university was moved somewhere else in Serbia and a parallel university was founded then in Prishtina. If Serbs really need a high quality university like Prishtina, I wish their government could offer them scholarships to study in Kosova’s capital. It would be a very good experience, not only for Serbs, but for nationals of other countries as well to study or work in a city like Prishtina. They would be fascinated by the geniality of its people.--Getoar 05:47, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  PLEASE