Talk:Prehistory and protohistory of Poland

message: "Given the absence of written records, the ethnicities and linguistic affiliations of the groups living in Central and Eastern Europe at that time are speculative—there is considerable disagreement." < That makes zero sense. There is this thing called paleontology. Are there no paleotologists in the Baltic Sea region to actually examine skeletons of the earliest found inhabitants of the Baltic region? And, no one smart enough to try to extract DNA? How exactly could it be impossible to know about the oldest found peoples in these areas when science has given us various ways to know this? Frankly, I think either this stuff is known and someone is lying on wikipedia, or the qualified peoples are avoiding the subject because the Nazis would get ticked if someone would point out their propagandas about race were all wrong (they are in fact wrong). Even just for someone to describe skull differences, like they do about Amerindians, Asians, Africans, etc. would be nice. Is there really no effort going into this highly important subject, or is there an information cover up going on to protect non-natives of the Baltic regions self-delussions of being as native as the true natives? Frankly, I am tired of all my efforts to learn about where my matriline comes from being halted with blatant ignorance and a lack of care to research archeology or paleontology before feigning expertise in the subject. Frankly, I think people are keeping this information lost on purpose to protect Nazis.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.98.14.86 (talk) 03:10, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earliest Ethnicities 

message: See Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Poland/Pre-history of Polish lands and its to do list. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 12:24, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Nasz 02:30, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  To do 

message: the sections should be separated .
Evident archeological cultures should be described as archeological cultures.
The speculative, we do not have writen sources in earth, ethnic afiliation scould be in the separated sections. 
Othervise is imposible to give the presentation of conflicting argumentation betwen diferent views linking elements of archeological cultures with proposed ethnic afiliaion.
Scholarly archeology do not speculte on ethnic afiliation, the archeological culture may be absorbed by any ethnic group of people as we can observe today by trade atrefacts or migrating material culture.
Nasz 04:05, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archeological cultures and ethnic afiliatio hiphothesis 

message: This (unfinished, as of the last May 13 version) article attempts a to give a semi-historical presentation, not to technically follow scholarly archeology. Although partially differently organized, it follows its main source, a popular book written by prominent Polish archeologists and historians. The Slavic section hopefully will be worked on further, but it already correctly identifies the majority scientific point of view. Wikipedia is not a place for ideological or nationalistic considerations or sloppy, semi-coherent and disruptive writing.
Orczar 01:00, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Survey of archeology and early history of Polish lands 

message: This article is certainly improving and approaching a WP:GA level, but 1) there are many unreferenced statements that need attribution per WP:V and 2) with over 150kb it is too long, and some parts should be split to subarticles, per WP:SUMMARY. Below I paste some bot suggestions, some may be worth considering.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  19:02, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments before a GA review 

message: I didn't mean to suggest that the article is ready for review, the last section has no references yet etc. Other sections are reasonably referenced as I see it (not every sentence can or should be referenced), but I could provide additional references as needed. Several issues need attention indeed and I intend to work on it. Obviously I decided to sacrifice brevity for a comprehensive treatment of the subject not treated in depth in the English language so far. The reform should start I believe from splitting the article into two parts, e.g. Prehistory of Poland through late Antiquity and Poland in early Middle Ages. Then, gradually as I have time, I could work on further restructuring and bringing the article in line with Wikipedia standards and practices.
(Orczar 17:15, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The above review is not final, it's just something I hope will help you keep on track with our Manual of Style. Do note, however, that per WP:V every sentence should be referenced, otherwise - unless its really obvious knowledge - it may be challenged as OR/false and removed.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  17:17, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving the article 

message: This series of articles on Poland's prehistory is for an encyclopedia purpose basically complete.
Orczar (talk) 18:46, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prehistory of Poland 

message: As there is no logical bases for attaching the "Polish" designation to the lands of present day Poland throughout most of the prehistory of the area, the practice of doing so may seem wholly artificial. Such an approach however is favored by the following practical considerations:
1. The territory of Poland is the principal area of interest and investigations of Polish archeology, and is described by Polish archeologists and historians in various monographs, research publications and books, most often in the Polish language, with Polish place-names and terminology. It is therefore practical and convenient to deal with the subject as a "prehistory of Poland".
2. The area of the modern Polish state is of natural historic interest to the Poles and others with related interests, who are curious to know what happened in the past in what is now Poland, and how the Polish nation and state came into being. 
Such considerations, which may apply equally well to other countries and areas, would seem to justify summarizing efforts such as this one. They should be seen (and make sense only) as a part of the historically and geographically larger context, as described in works appropriate to that more general level, and in works dealing with various historic phenomena in their more fundamental sense, that is without regard to the present day borders or situation.
Orczar (talk) 20:30, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification - justification 

message: Is this so?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Frank Russian (talk • contribs) 08:38, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Zazaban (talk) 05:03, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poland has formed relatively early for other eastern european states 

message: the article's name is somehow wrong. Use something like Poland before/until the Middle Ages. Nergaal (talk) 06:13, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree the name is not right. I think may be "Prehistory and early history of Polish lands" would do. Orczar (talk) 03:39, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: prehistory implies before there are written sources at all for the area, not just until the Poles used writing themselves. Is thedate given accurate forthat (there is also a term: protohistory, for a transitional period.). DGG (talk) 18:21, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

text: The article has been moved to Prehistory and protohistory of Poland to address this concern.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  18:27, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: name

message: The large Jan. 7 edit does not fit well into the subject of this article, as it invokes various extraneous notions. I've ordered David Anthony's book, to investigate its possible relevance to this article's subject matter.
Orczar (talk) 00:31, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jan. 7, 2010 addition