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Permission to reproduce photograph

Hi I'd like to ask permission to use your photo of Kiev Arsenal to accompany an article in the English magazine ArtReview. Could you possibly email me on oliverbasciano@artreview.com Many thanks, Oliver — Preceding unsigned comment added by Olibasciano (talk • contribs) 11:07, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

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Do prostego człowieka

If you could expand it a little, it would make a good DYK. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 00:05, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

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Hi Halibutt, I've declined the speedy for being replaceable, however I've added a tag for missing rationales. PhilKnight (talk) 11:41, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

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Thank you - have a rest! Lots of time to get a Halloween hook Victuallers (talk) 21:29, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Kazimierz Fajans

Hi Halibutt, you started the article on him back in 2005, and you decided to write his name Kazimierz. I found a lot of his publications and all of the ones I looked at were signed with Kasimir. I think this is the name he self used for the most of his life. He is recognized also mostly under that name, I think. The article should reflect this, I think. A comment would be nice, you might have more knowledge on him. --Stone (talk) 17:41, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! The naming of articles is very critical. The Copernicus example is a bad example for me. The wikirule that the most comon name should be used is sometimes a problem for the nationalist lobby groups. --Stone (talk) 12:02, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Rules which are 100% followed are always ending up in a stupid solution for a non existing problem. The German wiki uses a book with the mostly used German expresions and if the article name is above level 20 (I never remember the numbers right) it is a German expression and has to be written in a way done in Germany. If the expression is below 20 it is a foreign expression and has to be written like in the original language. This led to changes in the article names and some edit wars due to the changes. Stupid and time consuming, but this is always when people have to follow the rule without thinking. The Coperikus, Fritz Pregel and Kazimierz Fajans case have a easy solution, use both names and make clar which name was used by the person and which one was in general use.--Stone (talk) 10:01, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Erika z Rumii

Dear Halibutt,

Thank you very much for making available the English language translation of Erika z Rumii by Piotr Szubarczyk and Piotr Semków from the Gdańsk office of the Institute of National Remembrance.

It helps a lot to understand the current debate around her person both in here Germany and in Poland.

While most of the article looks factual and well researched, there is one detail which looks odd to me.

On the return of Erike Steinbach's mother Erika Hermann to Germany in early 1945 the article says:

>>she packed her belongings and returned to Hanau in January 1945. The informations of her miraculous salvation from the Wilhelm Gustloff disaster are false. Erika did not want to obtain a ticket for Gustloff since she reached Germany two months before Gustloff started her first voyage on the Gdansk-Germany route.<<

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hannibal the Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed and sank off the Pomeranian coast, (with possibly as many as 9,400 fatalities), on January 30, 1945, as part of the hasty evacuation operation started by the Nazis on January 23, 1945. So the Gustloff can't have made the fatal trip two months after January 1945.

Erika Hermann may have made her decision to leave before the general evacuation operation was ordered on January 23rd, but the calendar tells us that it was very close to it.

This doesn't make her an "expelled" or displaced person of course. She was just a soldiers' spouse evacuated from a war zone.

It seems that the original in Polish language contains the same error on the date of the Gustloff journey, although I can only guess (see http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/getdocument.aspx?logid=5&id=289071383a874b20b95e8e8b41ba9c5d):

>>Nie czekając na najgorsze, spakowała się, zabrała dzieci i w styczniu 1945 r. wróci- ła do Niemiec, do Hanau. Nieprawdziwe są informacje o tym, że cudem uniknęła śmierci, nieskutecznie zabiegając o miejsce na statku „Wilhelm Gustloff”, który został zatopiony przez sowiecką torpedę w marcu 1945 r. i pociągnął na dno kilka tysięcy uchodźców. Erika nie starała się o bilet na „Gustloffa”, wyjechała co najmniej dwa miesiące wcześniej<<

Maybe you forward this information to the authors, Piotr Szubarczyk and Piotr Semków

Best Regards

Michael Schmidt mschmidthrcd@cs.com 84.154.60.206 (talk) 02:49, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Cadet Corps

The articles you created: Fryderyk Józef Moszyński, Józef Zeydlitz, Krystian Godfryd Deybel de Hammerau, refer to "Cadet Corps". Was it Cadet Corps (Russia) or something Poland-specific? Please disambiguate. I could not figure this out from the correspondig Polish wikipedia pages. - Altenmann >t 04:16, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Authority to use some of your work

Hello Halibutt,

I would like to request your authority to use some of your maps about Poland as I have an interest in Poland and have started my own website about the country. [1]

The site is mainly for education but hopefully it will generate some income for me in the future, but that will be a bonus if it happens!

I would also like any photographs to do with Poland that are non-copyright.

--Flyerdave (talk) 16:56, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

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Głos

Hello there. I was wondering if I could enlist that "proficient nitpicker" side of your contributions on a Polish-related subject that I would stand no chance of approaching myself. While I was writing the Sămănătorul article a while back, I encountered a reference to Głos, and assume from the context that it refers to either an old avatar of the present-day magazine or a completely unrelated defunct publication. The article doesn't explicitly say either. Here's where you come in: in case it's the same magazine, could you add just a bit there on how old it actually is? and in case it's not, could you suggest under what title the potential article is likely to pop up when it does? Many thanks in advance.

Incidentally, since I only noticed it now, am perplexed, and fishing a chance to comment: it's a shame about Piotrus' (partial) retirement, and I hope he will reconsider (I also hope this project will somehow do away with some of the problems that drove him to despair). Dahn (talk) 13:15, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick answer. It seems we're both on the run, so let me just quickly answer your (implied) question: 1886-1905. Kudos. Dahn (talk) 15:55, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Wow... here I was expecting a stub or some indication on where to point the redlink, and here you give me one full, sound and ironclad article! Congrats, it's simply outstanding (let alone "hope that helps somehow"), and quite simply leaves me in awe. Dahn (talk) 22:33, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Noted, and thank you. I've tried my hand at a slight expansion, feel free to rework it if necessary. I remembered I "caught" the term in the original source, wondered if it was worth a separate article, and then wen "hm, let me think about it later". This is a precious stone for my garden.

If we don't get a chance to talk over the following days, let me squeeze in an anticipatory "Merry Christmas!" Dahn (talk) 15:41, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the words of appreciation (I was actually quite lucky not to have screwed up the article, given that I had only met the term once or twice before and that's as much as I knew of it...; so your validation means a lot) and I'm looking forward to the expansion. Dahn (talk) 13:52, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

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Krystyna Skarbek

Witaj

Z tą agentką to jest pochrzanione coś.

W nawiązaniu do Twojego wpisu w dyskusji hasła parę lat temu, tudzież późniejszego komentarza, oraz sprzecznych informacji w Wikipedii polskiej dodałem swój komentarz - zob. Talk:Krystyna Skarbek#Birthplace; Date of birth/Age at death: Math no worky

Nie czuję się dostatecznie mocno w angielskiej Wikipedii, żeby wkleić odpowiednie szablony z odnośnikami w tekst hasła, zatem pozwalam sobie ten temat podsunąć pod Twoją ewentualną opiekę.

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Mapy II RP

Mam parę uwag do Twoich interesujących map II RP. Narysowałeś ciekawą mapę II RP, którą potem użyłeś w wielu formach do ilustracji różnych wydarzeń politycznych przede wszystkiem z pierwszych lat II RP. Wydaje mi się, że powinieneś przejrzeć jeszcze raz wszystkie te mapy, aby dokonać paru drobnych, ale jednak bardzo istotnych poprawek - lata 1918-1923 to okres, w którym kształtowały się granice II RP i krajów sąsiednich i należy tutaj być niezwykle ostrożnym, bo każdy rok przynosił istotne zmiany (szczególnie Górny Śląsk i Litwa Środkowa obie prowincje przyłączone do Polski w 1922 r.). Oto moje uwagi:

• 1. Granica łotewsko-sowiecka i estońsko-sowiecka była wysunięta bardziej na wschód niż obecnie. W 1945 r. Rosyjska SFRR dokonała aneksji obszaru wokół łotewskiego miasta Abrene (do 1938 Jaunlatgale), oraz na prawym brzegu Narwy na północnej części granicy estońsko-sowieckiej, a na południu tejże granicy okręgu Petseri. Na niektórych mapach dokonałeś poprawek, ale nie na wszystkich. Na jednej z nich widzę, że okręg Petseri jest już dodany do Estonii, ale nie poprawiona została granica na samej północy Estonii wokól Narwy.

Do poprawki:

• File:PBW March 1919.png
• File:PBW June 1920.png
• File:PBW August 1920.png
• File:PBW December 1919.png
• File:Liniadmowskiego.png
• File:Rzeczpospolita 1939 ES.svg (północna część granicy estońsko-sowieckiej na wsch. od Narwy)

• 2. Na wszystkich mapach II RP zauważyłem, że mały obszar Polski wystaje poza Dźwinę. Wszystkie oryginalne mapy II RP, które skonsultowałem pokazują granicę polsko-sowiecką biegnącą środkiem rzeki Dźwiny, nie zostawiając ani piędzi ziemi na północnym/wschodnim brzegu rzeki w rękach polskich.

• 3. Najbardziej na południe wysunięta część Polski, szpic II RP w Czarnohorze, jest za gruby lub za krótki. W każdym bądź razie jego kształt nie jest dokładnie taki jak na przedwojennych mapach Polski. Porównaj z:

Plik:Poland1939 physical.jpg albo z mapą Galicji - tu granica pozostała niezmieniona od czasów austriackich: Plik:Galicia physical1914.jpg

• 3. Złe umiejscowienie Wołgogradu - w tym miejcu leży Woroneż. Wołgograd jest położony o wiele bardziej na wschód i oczywiście w okresie międzywojennym miasto nosiło nazwę Stalingrad. Podejrzewam, że zamieniłeś Woroneż na Wołgograd. Takie rzeczy się zdarzają.

• 4. File:Rzeczpospolita 1939 ES.svg mapa ta pokazuje Polskę w 1939 r., przynajmniej wg opisu. W 1939 r. Czechosłowacja nie wyglądała już jak na Twojej mapie: Zaolzie było polskie, Słowacja istniała jako osobne państwo, Austria była już niemiecka, Czechy od marca były wcielone do Rzeszy, Polska miała granicę z Węgrami. Okręg Kłajpedy w marcu 1939 r. został wcielony do Niemiec. Na tej mapie Okręg Kłajpedy pokazany jest błędnie, bo ani sprzed, ani po marcu 1939 r: sama Kłajpeda jest przy Litwie, a połowa Mierzei Kurońskiej, która do marca 1939 r. też była przy Litwie, zaznaczona jest jako część Niemiec. Część Estonii położonej na wschód od rzeki Narwy jest tu ukazana jako część ZSRR.

Być może, że pominąłem którąś z Twoich map, przejrzyj je więc, proszę sam i dokonaj poprawek, aby służyły nam wszystkim jaknajlepiej. Najlepsze pozdrowienia, Kiejstut9 (talk) 12:49, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

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General Josef Sowinski

Hi! In my family there was a legend that General Sowinski is related. Our family originated from Warsaw and the name was Sovinski or Sowinski (changed in the 1920s to our current family name, following emigration to England). I read some of the information about General Sowinski, but did not find any mention of being of Jewish origin (as our family is Jewish). Could uou possibly have more information on this matter?

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Henryk Cederbaum

Hi. I've nominated Henryk Cederbaum, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 16:52, 11 July 2010 (UTC) (nominated on behalf of User:Piotrus)

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File:Rossa cemetery.jpg

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Sorry, it's been 6 years since I re-uploaded the file (from PL wiki to EN wiki) and I don't remember who the original uploader was. //Halibutt 08:49, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

(Copied your comment back from my talk) I see that my idea that it is your photo was wrong, too bad. Regretably the file wasnt used in pl:Cmentarz Na Rossie w Wilnie and is also not burried somewhere in the version history. Also people who edited the page have, as far as I looked in talkpage histories and talk archives, no information about the image or its original name. If you find any information please add it to the file on Commons, I watch it, otherwise the file will go it way. --Martin H. (talk) 09:23, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

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ORP Gryf (Hansa class)

Re the ORP Gryf (Hansa class) article, which you created. There are discrepancies with Mitchell & Sawyer's book on the Empire ships. Whilst M&S are reliable, they are not infallible. Where did you get your info from? A precis of the info in M&S's book can be found at List_of_Empire_ships_(Co–Cy)#Empire_Contees. I intend to expand the article in the next day or so, which may mean removal of info that I can't verify, and addition of that which I can which is not currently in the article. Mjroots (talk) 20:38, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

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Help for translation

Hello Halibutt. We'd like to upload on Polish WP an article about an artistic movement founded in Italy. A Polish friend sent us a partial translation of it: can we send it to you ? We'd like to ask you if you can check it, according to WP rules, and - when it is right - upload it on Polish WP. Thanks in advance for your help ! Greetings from Italy--Angler45 (talk) 06:06, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Halibutt for offerring your help. The page has been published, please can you have a look and correct the mistakes (if you find any)? http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine_i_poesia Thanks so much!--Angler45 (talk) 13:56, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

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Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa

Witaj. To chyba Ty jesteś pierwszym autorem tego hasła i to Ty napisałeś, że Ćwierczakiewiczowa jest autorką pierwszej polskiej książki kucharskiej? Spieszę Ci zatem donieść, że pierwsza polska książka kucharska ukazała się w 1682 roku ;-), a potem było ich jeszcze trochę ;-). Usunęłam też informację, jakoby pochodziła z artystokratycznej rodziny, a do innego stwierdzenia przydałoby się źródło - własne doświadczenia owszem, ale skąd wziąłeś to, że posiłkowała się jakimiś XVII- i XVIII-wiecznymi pamiętnikami? Dobrze byłoby to wyjaśnić. Pozdrawiam. Gytha (talk) 23:19, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, lepiej unikać skrótów myślowych ;-), zwłaszcza że zostało to powielone w innych wersjach Wikipedii tudzież w innych miejscach w necie. Nb. pierwszą powszechnie dostępną też nie była - pomijając już nawet Czernieckiego (wznawianego jeszcze na początku XIX wieku, pod dużo przystępniejszym tytułem Kucharka wiejska i miejska), Wielądka czy Szyttlera, wcześniej w Wilnie wyszła już "nowoczesna" i niemal równie popularna Kucharka litewska Zawadzkiej (pomijam Ciundziewicką, bo jej praca dotyczyła bardziej gospodarstwa wiejskiego i książką kucharską była jedynie w części). Ćwierczakiewiczowa jest współcześnie najbardziej znana, bo zrobił jej publicity Prus ;-). No ale mniejsza, grunt, że już jest dobrze. Pozdrawiam. Gytha (talk) 09:27, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

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Lemkos

Some discussion about Polish-Ukrainian conflicts around the time of WWII are here [2]. One of the points of agreement seems to be that there should be a separate article on Lemkos in regard to these events. I seem to recollect that you wrote some stuff about Lemkos way back when which is relevant here. I'm lazy and time constrained though, so I don't feel like pouring through your 2005 or 2006 or whatever edits to find it though, so, despite the fact you're not very active these days, I was wondering if you could point me to some relevant articles which could serve as a starting point for such an article. Volunteer Marek (talk) 22:54, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

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Help Czech translation

Hello Halibutt. I have found your name in the list of Czech translators. Could you please translate into Czech the captions under the images in the Gallery of this page ? (Only a few have been translated). The page exists also in Polish and English. Thanks for your help --Angler45 (talk) 05:43, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

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Artist's work is in the public domain. Noted @ file. PЄTЄRS J VЄСRUМВА ►TALK 04:39, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue LVIII, December 2010

Your military history newsletter – Volume LVIII, December 2010 From the editors • "Military Historian of the Year" • Discussions • The month's new featured and A-class content • Review awards Contest results • A-class medal recipients • bahamut teaches us proper usage of "Jargon and acronyms" To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here. BrownBot (talk) 20:51, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

File:PB DSK CoA.png

Witaj. Zgłoszono zastrzeżenia do Twojej grafiki File:PB DSK CoA.png (partz: [3]). Ustosunkuj się do zgłoszenia (np. z jakich źródeł korzystałeś). Pozdrawiam, Mulat (talk) 15:54, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

File:Bitwa warszawska rano 15 lipca 600px.png ; File:Bitwa warszawska 15 lipca ok godz 13 600px.png

Hej. Nie sa to utwory fotograficzne, zatem pd-polish nie ma zastosowania. Myslalem, zeby dac PD-old (patrzac na date wydania), ale nalezaloby ustalic date smierci autora (lub rysownika jesli podany), jednak tytulu źródła, jaki podales, nie udalo mi sie znalezc w katalogach bibliotecznych, stad nie wiem kto byl autorem/rysownikiem. Masur (talk) 18:21, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jan Nowak (name)

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Content duplicated in Jan Nowak

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The Bugle: Volume LVIX, January 2011

Your Military history Newsletter Project News: From the editors Articles: The month's featured and A-class Milhist content Members: Contest results, A-class medal recipients Editorial: EyeSerene discusses "Writing neutrally for Wikipedia"

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The Bugle: Issue LX, February 2011

Your Military History Newsletter Project News: From the editors Articles: The month's featured and A-class Milhist content Members: Contest results, A-class medal recipients Editorial: Ed talks about real-world collaborations and how you can help

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Service award level

There has been a major revision of the the Service Awards: the edit requirements for the higher levels have been greatly reduced, to make them reasonably attainable.

Because of this, your Service Award level has been changed, and you are now eligible for a higher level. I have taken the liberty of updating your award on your user page.

Herostratus (talk) 22:10, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Schneider arms

Are you an expert on identifying Schneider arms? I started an article on Schneider Coast Defense Train. I was wondering if you could match the artillery used on the train to one of the existing Category:Schneider et Cie arms already listed. The article is just a stub now. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 18:11, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Monitor. WikiProject Poland Newsletter: Issue 1 (April 2011)

WikiProject Poland Newsletter • April 2011 For our freedom and yours Welcome to our first issue of WikiProject Poland newsletter, the Monitor (named after the first Polish newspaper). Our Project has been operational since 1 June, 2005, and also serves as the Poland-related Wikipedia notice board. I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions. We hope you will join us in them, if you haven't done so already! Unlike many other WikiProjects, we are quite active; in this year alone about 40 threads have been started on our discussion page, and we do a pretty good job at answering all issues raised. In addition to a lively encyclopedic, Poland-related, English-language discussion forum, we have numerous useful tools that can be of use to you - and that you could help us maintain and develop: we have an active assessment department. As of now, our project has tagged almost 80,000 pages as Poland-related, out of which 1,500 still need a quality assessment, and 20,000, importance assessment. we have also begun B-class quality reviews on our talk page, and if our activity increases, hopefully we will be able to institute our own A-class quality reviews. As of now, we have about 500 C-class articles in need of a B-class review. If you'd like to help with them, instructions for doing B-class reviews are to be found in point 10 of our assessment FAQ. once an article is assessed it will appear in our article alerts and news feed, which provides information on which Poland-related articles are considered for deletion, move, or are undergoing a Good or Featured review. Watchlisting that feed, in addition to watchlisting our project's main page, is a good way to make sure you stay up to date on most Poland-related discussions. you can also see detailed deletion discussions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Poland (which is another good place to watchlist!) also, those articles will be included in our cleanup listing, which allows us to see which top-importance articles are in need for attention, and so on newly created Poland-related articles are listed here. They need to be reviewed, often cleaned-up, and its creators may need to be welcomed and invited to our project we are maintaining a Portal:Poland automated Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Popular pages lists the most popular Poland-related pages from the previous month(s) This is not all; on our page you can find a list of useful templates (including userboxes), awards and other tools! With all that said, how about you join our discussions at WT:POLAND? Surely, there must be something you could help others with, or perhaps you are in need of assistance yourself? You have received this newsletter because you are listed as a [member link] at WikiProject Poland. • Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 21:11, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 21:17, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

File:PBW March 1919.png

Witaj! Na plwiki zgłoszono błąd [4] w Twojej mapce File:PBW March 1919.png. Cytuję: "Cały Górny Śląsk powinien być w Cesarstwie Niemieckim! Ta mapa ma nieprawidłowe granice polityczne w tym rejonie! Zmiana granic nastąpiła w 1922 . 4.5.2007 Są też inne błędy - w tym czasie Grodno nie było pod okupacją bolszewicką, ale niemiecką. Bladyniec(dyskusja) 19:24, 22 kwi 2011 (CEST)"

Czy możesz sprawdzić, kto ma rację i ustosunkować się do tego zgłoszenia na ZB? Z góry dziękuję, Mulat (talk) 08:17, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXI, March 2011

Your Military History Newsletter Project News: From the editors Articles: The month's featured and A-class Milhist content Members: Contest results, A-class medal recipients Editorial: Dank helps you see what article writers want from reviewers

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Sorry to bother you on a non-wiki related mattter...

Hello,

I'm really sorry to bother you on a non-wiki related matter, but I saw on your User page that you are a Polish Jew. I have to write a short story for school, and I'm trying to find out if Polish Jews (particularly Polish Reform Jews) have middle names. If Polish Jews do have middle names, is this a recent custom, or have Polish Jews historically followed the custom of having middle names?
Again, I'm sorry to bother you, but I want so much for my story to be accurate, and I don't know who else to ask!
Thank you so, so much for your time. Good sabbath. 86.26.75.252 (talk) 21:44, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your extremely helpful answer. It's so kind of you to help me like this; I really can't thank you enough. Have a good week. Best wishes. :) 86.26.75.252 (talk) 22:46, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Template:Art-pd listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Art-pd. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Art-pd redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:11, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Zrodla (przypisy)

Buciku drogi, ciesze sie wielce, ze znowu cie widze na watchliscie. Moglbys uzywac WP:INLINE references? <ref>zrodlo</ref> Teraz staramy sie, zeby inline zrodla byly w kazdym paragrafie (a najlepiej, co zdanie). Ot, zobacz taka battle of Budziszyn co wlasnie skonczylem rozbudowac. Dzieki! PS. Czas zarchiwizowac twoj talk, za dlugo sie laduje... --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 00:13, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXII, April 2011

Your Military History Newsletter Project News: From the editors Articles: The month's featured and A-class Milhist content Members: Contest results, A-class medal recipients Editorial: Buggie111 discusses neutral point of view

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