User talk:Verbatimdat

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February 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you.--Vitriden (talk) 17:11, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Please do not replace Wikipedia pages with blank content, as you did to the page Lapot (senicide). Blank pages can confuse readers, and are overall not helpful to the Wikipedia project; furthermore, blanking a page is not the same as deleting it.

If the article you blanked is a duplicate of another article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If the page has been vandalized, please revert it to the last legitimate revision. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please use the appropriate deletion process. Zhang He (talk) 18:07, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to LGBT rights in Serbia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Jezhotwells (talk) 18:42, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Battle of Kosovo

Do not change referenced information, from 3rd party sources, that gives no indication that Kosovo was a pyrrhic victory. Continued additions will be considered disruptive editing and can result in a block or even permanent ban. Thank you. --Kansas Bear (talk) 03:22, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

And why it isn't? For God's sake Turks had such great losses that they barely won the battle of Kosovo. It is the Pyrrhic victory and I stick to that (Verbatimdat (talk) 22:29, 1 March 2010 (UTC))

Your recent edits

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Severina

Hi. You edited the article on the Croatian singer and stated that she was of Serbian origin. How do you know this to be? Do you have any sources for this remark? There are many who will likely snub that detail because the article has stood for a long time and discussion of her background has never come into question. I'd appreciate your feedback. Evlekis (talk) 22:01, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. I too am of extraction from that country and I know that many individuals are born to parents of mixed ethnicity, in fact the only factor to confirm ones ethnicity is his/her own declaration. That said, it is rather a weak argument to look at ones family name and assign an ethnicity on those grounds. There could be a vast number of reasons why an individual may have a surname typical of another nation and not always because he/she is directly descended from a particular race. How Severina may personally feel towards Serbia is neither here nor there. If she were Serb, she'd have been a Croatian Serb with no affinity with the Republic of Serbia. A Croat doesn't have to have Serb family to embrace the Serbian nation, and at the same time, many of the knuckleheads who engaged in the 90s wars and promoted hatred of outsiders were themselves mixed if the truth be told, even if not known to them. The Croatian institutions continue to play down the popularity of Serb singers in Croatia but large parts of the nation on the whole like the singers and the music. More and more folk/pop concerts by Serb artists have taken place in Croatia and all to a positive reception. And if it were really the case that "Croats don't like Serbs, so Severina being warm towards Serbia means she is Serb", ask yourself the opposite question - why do Croats like Severina? She's caused contorversy because of some of her activities but she is still the most popular artist there, and main A-list celebrity. So either Severina is not Serbian, or Croatians do not hate Serbs, but it cannot be both! Me personally, I have always been more of a realist. I know that Serbian music can be appreciated by Croats because there is nothing rigid about nation and music. Even Turbo-folk is not and never was exclusively Serbian: you had Bosnian Muslims based in Serbia or Bosnia playing the same music, those Bosniaks still play Croatia. You have Croatian artists on City Records performing songs in which Serbs may have contributued either in production, recording, writing, or all; those artists are big in Croatia. Then you have Croats from Serbia such as Zvonko Bogdan; he has performed with Serbian, Hungarian and Roma musicians and his music is Vojvodjanska, but he will appear or HTV but Serbs performing similar music will not. They will however appear on non-institutionalised Croatian television, as will Croatian musicians who play their songs (watch Z-1 from Zagreb on Friday evenings for example). If it were the music one disliked, Bogdan would not perform in Croatia and neither would the folk stars. It is the ethnicity however that upsets some people, espcially those still stuck in the 1990s who cannot bring themselves forward. If you definitely know Severina to have a Serbian father, please direct me to your source. Many thanks. User:Evlekis (Евлекис) 23:49, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

I think you said it very well here Evlekis. Severina was born in Croatia to Croatian parents but identifies herself very strongly as a Dalmatinka. I don't find her surname "Serbian"--just regional (surname exists in region). And the fact that she is warm towards a Serbian audience shows she likes her fans and embraces them all regardless which side of the border they live on (plus more fans = more popularity = more euros), further showing how music is a great uniting force between the countries of the Balkans, bringing people together. I suppose this was prompted by a tabloid article: http://www.index.hr/xmag/clanak/kurir-severina-i-oliver-su-srbi/299448.aspx .

Yes. Money is what it is all about. Offer a pretty face bigger euros than they already have and they'll change their own ethnicity with their name. They'll go from Chetniks one minute, to Ustashe the next and then to Mujahideen when the pirce is right!!!! User:Evlekis (Евлекис) 23:17, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Personal attacks at Srebrenica massacre

This is unacceptable per WP:NPA and I've removed your comment. Please do not attack other editors in the future and please refrain from using talk pages of articles to discuss real world issues and politics. Per WP:TALK, "Article talk pages should not be used by editors as platforms for their personal views on a subject," article talk pages are reserved for discussion relating to improvement of articles.

Thank you! Big Bird (talk • contribs) 18:25, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

LOL And now I'm the attacker. GO AND SEE HE WAS PROVOKING ME FIRST!!! (Verbatimdat (talk) 18:27, 4 August 2010 (UTC))

Blocked

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for a long history of making racial and/or ethnic slurs and attacks directed at other editors. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 17:43, 10 September 2010 (UTC)