User talk:Matalea

Welcome to Wikipedia!!![edit]

Hello Matalea! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 00:41, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Jewish ghettos in Europe[edit]

In the Poland section of the article, other wartime ghettos could also be included and discussed if only with a few brief sentences. Additionally, I think there should be some discussion of the resistance and uprisings that occured in the ghettos. Obviously there was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising but there were also others and we have some Wikipedia articles on them. The tricky part may be how to deal with ghettos in what was pre-war Poland, but not post-war.

Check the articles in the category Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland and the two sub-categories (these could use some clean up and streamlining). Volunteer Marek (talk) 21:16, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An internal link would probably be useful, however, Wikipedia doesn't have an article List of Jewish ghettos in Nazi occupied Poland. According to USHMM website: "The Germans established at least 1,000 ghettos in German-occupied and annexed Poland and the Soviet Union alone."[1] Therefore, to mention just a few seems rather inadequate one way or the other. — Matalea (talk) 19:54, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your Poland-related contributions[edit]

Hello and welcome Matalea! Thank you for your contributions related to Poland. You may be interested in visiting Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland, joining the project, joining our discussions and sharing your creations with our community.

--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 00:33, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Central Committee of Polish Jews[edit]

On 12 May 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Central Committee of Polish Jews, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Central Committee of Polish Jews, formed in 1944, was instrumental in organizing and implementing the free immigration of Jews to the new State of Israel? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

License tagging for File:SS Captain Hermann Schaper.jpg[edit]

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Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland[edit]

Please don't hesitate to nominate your work for front-page exposure (see WP:DYK and T:TDYK). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 23:28, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Check it out. — Matalea (talk) 16:17, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland[edit]

Brilliant! Hoops gza (talk) 13:13, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. — Matalea (talk) 16:17, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I plan to go through this article with a fine-toothed comb. By chance, are you a history major? Your article rings with that much professionalism.Hoops gza (talk) 01:06, 26 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I admire your contributions too, H g! Thanks for the good word. — Matalea (talk) 04:40, 3 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland[edit]

On 5 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that among the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland the most populous was the Warsaw Ghetto (pictured) with over 400,000 inhabitants crammed into an area of 1.3 sq mi (3.4 km²)? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 16:03, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your impressive article is now featured on Portal:Germany, please feel free to add more Germany-related DYK there, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:23, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

re: Białystok Ghetto[edit]

Just a quick note, in your edit summary you stated that the article was a copyvio, that's incorrect, see the talk page. -- œ ^™ 07:59, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note. I read the disclosure in talk. However, the so called OTRS ticket can also be misleading, thus giving the impression that the information covered by it is bona-fide accurate and complete, which in this case it was not. It was disappointing for me to follow the link in reference section only to discover that omissions and oversimplifications originated at source and not in Wikipedia. The article had to be improved for style, accuracy and the logical progression of thought. A routine copy-paste job from www.ushmm.org didn’t change a thing. I take back the claim of unauthorized copyvio though. — Matalea (talk) 14:41, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Good job improving the article. -- œ ^™ 02:21, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]