Wikipedia talk:Baltic States notice board

message: Tere, labas dienas, sveiki! I would suggest replacing the geographical limitation at the outset of the page with "those people contributing articles related to the Baltic States." --Pēteris Cedriņš 00:33, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course. Much work needs to be done to get this ready. What's your ideas? Renata 01:22, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

message: Any ideas how to spread the word? Also, I suggest we keep it abc order: estonia, latvia and lithuania. Renata 02:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Labas dienas! I will mention this board here and there, for instance at Latvians Online. I append a link to my user page in the signature to my e-mails lately (and will link this board at my user page, too) ...but I haven't had much luck with getting people I think would make valuable contributors and good editors involved (as I'm sure everybody contributing has noticed, articles can take an awful lot of time, and participation can be intimidating). A hearty ačiū to DeirYassin for coming up with this idea for Baltic co-operation and acting upon it so quickly! --Pēteris Cedriņš 13:21, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I had posted invitements to join Wikipedia in Lithuanian history forums once, but as well did not get much luck it seems. Anyways, it is easier to help people who are already in Wikipedia to stay/contribute more than to attract completely new people I guess. So, once we decide that thing sare done with this board, we could write informative messages to tell Baltic contributors of Wikipedia about this board, using the talk pages (taht informative messages could be written in Lithuanian, Latvian and English – it seems we have no Estonians here still to write the Estonian version. As well, we could write welcome messages in Baltic langauges, which we would send (via talk page) to every new presumable Baltic member; we would encourage them to stay here, explain some things, tell to ask us in case they'd have some questions, and tell about this board too. In order not to get too much into details (if we will wait until this board will be perfect before advertising we will never start), how about setting a date for "official opening", it could be for example next Monday (13th of February). And no need to thank me, I was thinking about such board for long, but did not seen enough active contributors, as I think Renata and me would be not enough to start such a board (especially as I don't plan to spend much time on wikipedia), while 3 people might be good for start, and 4 (if User:Vecrumba will take part) will be even better. It will take some time for it to start up I believe so that many people would come, but a few enthusiasts can already make the board alive for enough time. So, the best what we can do now is to use it by reporting things and such, if other users will join and report – check the articles they report so that the board would seem useful to them. For now we are setting it up, and when it starts we will see – if we will use it, it should come up eventually. DeirYassin 14:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: People know abot wikipedia, but they are not craving to edit. Anyway beside user talk pages maybe note on articles (talk pages) about Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania should be left – I think that article about ones country is one of the first things a newcomer will read. -- Xil/talk 19:11, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marketing 

message: I think we would benefit from such thing – there defenetely are things that deserve article, some things are already covered in other articles or there already is article named diferently so they don`t need article and proper naming in english is important, so I think that maybe this board should have section for that (or something) -- Xil/talk 19:11, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree -- "Articles needed"? Any other comments? --Pēteris Cedriņš 07:11, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Be bold :) Renata 18:04, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I was. I hope you are comfortable with result – I've seen such sections named "Requested articles" elsewhere so I picked that name -- Xil/talk 14:02, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion about un-written articles is needed 

message: I was expanding the article and I came upon the image gallery of pics from early independence movement days and there is a number of pics about Baltijos apkabinimas (hugging Baltic Sea). It looks like it took place in 1989 either early spring or late fall and was not that much political (i.e. was more about ecology). But it seems somewhat similar to the Baltic Way (human chain hugging the Baltic Sea, all three states participating), so if is was before it... I could easily draw parallels. Any thoughts? Renata 17:28, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no Idea about this event, but it reminded me another thing – there is an event called "prayer to sea" in Latvia so I googled a bit and found out that it dates back to september 3. 1988. as that webpage I found said "live chain of people encircled largest part of Latvian coastline. Interesting that exposition at museum of popular front begins with similar large scale photograpgy".  As far I know This event is still held once in a while. And in fact Latvian ecology movement in the eighties was pretty much political. Image depicting event(s) -- Xil/talk 02:20, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baltic Way 

message: Copyright page on photo archive of University of Latvia says that you may copy, reproduce and publish pictures found there without premision as long as you don't use them in advertising and put reference to author. Since page is in Latvian I'm not completly sure if that applays world wide, how do you think ? -- Xil/talk 03:29, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "don't use them in advertising" means no commercial use. And such images are not allowed on wiki. If they said something like "use it, but just cite the source/author" – it could be used. You have to claim it under fair use if you want to use it. Sad, huh? Renata 23:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, anyway -- Xil/talk 03:32, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: I have attempted to keep the names of Lithuanian cities first English, and then Lithuanian, in the English Wikipedia. The need of some Polish editors to maintain "mental" possesion of these cities seems to be part of some relentless campaign to revert my efforts. As a compromise, I have left Polish names of towns and cities during the "occupation" of the Vilnius Region alone. My position is that the names of geographical locations in Lithuania do not have to have their "Polish" names included in the leads of articles (especially when there is a link to a Polish article). To see if there was a Quid Pro Quo attitude, I put a few Lithuanian names into Polish articles (Liublinas and Gnieznas), and the response was predictably to remove them. So what was good for the Gander was not good for the Goose. What is the consensus? Dr. Dan 02:01, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like to use this opportunity to invite you to contribute at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) where a policy is being prepared in hope to address the multi-national naming issues that you mentioned in the beginning. --Lysytalk 20:47, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Thanks for the courtesy. I'm ready to begin the more detailed discussion. Where shall we do it? Dr. Dan 15:01, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geographical Names 

message: Is this notable? Should this be translated/transwikied? Please comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jana Seta. Kusma (討論) 00:25, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Jana Seta]] 

message: My dear Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian colleagues, as you might be aware there are thousands of images on wikipedia published in the USSR and because of an action of one person now their future status is under question. Please read this RfC and help to endorse it. --Kuban Cossack  12:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soviet Image tags 

message: Would somebody beso kind as to give English title for the quoted Lituanian sources? I also suspect "Nevėžis" might be a meaningful word, if that is the case, could the English meaning be added?. Circeus 02:41, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation request for [[Nevėžis River]] 

message: I am outraged by the sockpuppetry and its concurrent voting, that has affected many subjects that would be of interest to people concerned with issues dealing with the Baltic States. Recently it has been confirmed that the user:Logologist has "rigged " votes concerning the Jogaila vs. Wladyslaw Jagiello naming debate. The administrator user:Mackensen, has verified this to be the case, and there is no doubt whatsoever, in regards to it. It seems that user:KonradWallenrod, user:Mattergy, user:Anatopism, and some others, are all concocted Sockpuppets. There is an ongoing further investigation as to what's, what, and who else has been involved. Anyone with information or the computer skills to look at this by reading edits and histories to expose this, please contact me by email or on my talk page. Dr. Dan 02:14, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Sockpuppet (internet)]] and "Voting" 

message: Please see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Regional notice boards#A uniform naming scheme. Zocky | picture popups 00:45, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standard naming scheme 

message: I'm currently working on a script intended to create short articles on political parties on a variety of wikipedias simultaneously. However, in order for the technique to work I need help with translations to various languages. If you know any of the languages listed at User:Soman/Lang-Help , then please help by filling in the blanks. Baltic languages includes Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian. Thanks, --Soman 12:14, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help with translations 

message: The DYK section featured on the main page is always looking for interesting new and recently expanded stubs from different parts of the world. Please make a suggestion.--Peta 01:59, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  DYK 

message: There has been an ongoing discussion about what "Memel" should be. Some users prefer that "Memel" be a disambiguation page describing the different meanings of the word. Other users (including myself) prefer that "Memel" redirect to "Klaipėda", which would then use Template:Redirect as a disclaimer for "Memel (disambiguation)". Currently, "Memel" redirects to "Memel (disambiguation)", which goes against Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). There are discussions at Talk:Klaipėda#Memel town? and Talk:Memel (disambiguation). Further input would be helpful. Olessi 22:06, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memel / Memel (disambiguation) 

message: Hi, I am in the trial runs of the User:AlexNewArtBot (see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AlexNewArtBot). The bot analyzes the new articles for a day and puts suspected Baltic-related articles into User:AlexNewArtBot/BalticSearchResult, the articles are suppose to be manually put into the portal page and/or removed if irrelevant.
The list of rules are in User:AlexNewArtBot/Baltic the first pattern between the slashes on each line is the pattern that should be present in the article to trigger the rule (note the case insensitive match. The other patterns on the same line are suppose to inhibit the rule. E.g. for the Russian board /florida/ inhibits /petersburg/ rule as the article is most probably about the American city. If you are reasonably familiar with the regular expressions and know what you are doing, you can edit the rules straight away, but better ask me. In the Russian board I had to remove some rules: e.g. there are a lot of non-Russians named Vladimir and Chita, so I had to remove the names of the cities or have to much false positive. If you are interested why an article went to the list there is log on the User:AlexNewArtBot/BalticLog explaining the rule that sent an article to the searchresults (if the log  is cleared try to look into the history of the log).
That is all. Any suggestions are welcome. Alex Bakharev 10:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:AlexNewArtBot]] – New Article Bot 

message: Hi, I was wondering if anyone could supply free images of Monument of Freedom to ilustrate certaint topics – namely I would like to ilustrate section political issues of article Freedom Monument (Riga) with approporite picture – that means that I need picture depicting some political event related to the monument (e.g. some anti-soviet protests in 80s took place there),  also images like in this page  (i.e. details of the monument, monument during restoration and the somewhat famous path of flowers)  would be nice ---- Xil/talk 15:43, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need images of Latvian Monument of Freedom 

message: Isn't that thing over allready ? I think that section could be deleted---- Xil/talk 02:13, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arbitration information (on top of the page) 

message: I have recently writen a couple of articles about sidecarcross and noticed there is no wikipedia article on Kristers Sergis at all, despite him being a five times world champion from Latvia. Biographical stuff on him on the internet seems rare, especially in English. His own webside is in Latvian and Russian only. Does anyone from this project plan to write about him in the near future? If not, could someone speaking Latvian maybe drop me a little bit of biographical stuff on him on my talk page? Birthdate, birthplace and a bit of background would help me a lot! Thanks for any help, much appreciated, greetings,EA210269 (talk) 02:35, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have decided to write the article after all but his personal biography still has holes. Any one with a bit of proper background information could add a lot to the quality of the article!EA210269 (talk) 10:35, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kristers Sergis 

message: I should like to inform the honourable editors of the Baltic States notice board that I am seriously considering moving Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a featured article, in order to replace the hyphen in this state's name with an en dash. If you wish to comment, please do so in the relevant thread here. I have also notified the Poland-related notice board. Waltham, The Duke of 23:28, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 

message: Just thought that the community would like to know that WikiProject Films has a established a Soviet and post-Soviet cinema task force. Interested editors are encouraged to join onboard! Thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 21:39, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soviet and post-Soviet films task force 

message: Anyone know what are the names of the Baltic affiliates (Lithuania & Estonia) of the Socialist Workers' Sport International, mentioned on http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH2001/JSH2801/JSH2801d.pdf, page 24? --Soman (talk) 18:52, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There were certainly communist agitators in the Baltics—I'm rather incredulous at the numbers, as in 5,000+ from Lithuania, but perhaps someone can find a corroborating source. —PētersV (talk) 19:52, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: But these were not the communists. The communists were organized in the RSI, the SWSI belonged to the socialist/social democrats. --Soman (talk) 19:59, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks, that helps. Unfortunately there are no Latvian chapters which I could check for you, those are the bulk of my sources. —PētersV (talk) 20:10, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Workers sport organisation in 1931? 

message: Perhaps an administrator should have a look at the article Investment and Development Agency of Latvia. It seems like someone from the agency itself has written the entire article, initially as user LIAA, later partly as anon-ID user 195.244.131.222, the latter from the host "sadalene.liaa.gov.lv". I have no idea as what to do about this obvious WP:COI. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work 18:15, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Investment and Development Agency of Latvia 

message: Please voice your opinion in Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2009 July 22#Template:LithuanianSurname. - Altenmann >t 01:19, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2009_July_22#Template:LithuanianSurname 

message: You may be interested in my proposal here. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  20:40, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should diacritics be encouraged or discouraged in article's titles? 

message: Hello,
There is a dispute going on at Talk:Leo Komarov. I think this may have wider impacts on how Baltic sportspersons' birth country should be represented, so the editors here might be interested to join in. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 13:06, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sportspersons' birth country 1940–1991 

message: It seems that most of the activity on this page is from 10 years ago. Is there a successor to this page? --CrasherX (talk) 19:51, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this page dead?