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A cupcake for you!

I've only just found out you'd been through the wars! Something full of sugar to get your energy levels up and back into your good work might do the trick. If not, I'm sending a big hug (although that has to get to you via snail mail)! Iryna Harpy (talk) 00:07, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you.Volunteer Marek (talk) 00:08, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed

Could you offer an opinion here please: [1].Faustian (talk) 00:56, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Minor note

Here is a study on the Svoboda party by Osrodek Studiow Wschodnich-practically a neo-nazi group[2], they named their research center after Goebbels.And yes, they are part of the self-imposed government in Kiev--MyMoloboaccount (talk) 13:45, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Blue Army peer input request

I'd like to ask for third party assistance on several issues regarding the Blue Army article. In particular the greatly over-expanded Controversies section, which was significantly enlarged to include big chunks of text dedicated to subject matter not directly associated with the Blue Army. Also, I would like to point out that most Wiki article admins control the size of content as not to have one user come-in and dump larger amounts of text in one section, and in the process completely shift the balance of the article, by creating un-due weight issues by simply over expanding one section.

Redundant statements re-emphasize similar points: (the two phrases are only one sentence apart).

many ethnic Ukrainians and Jews generally see its conduct during the war in a negative light.
As a result, Jews perceived Haller's Army as particularly harmful to their interests.

Overstating wrongful claims; as those made by historian William W. Hagen. If his claims were soundly disproven, why include them? More importantly why does the paragraph go into such detail about the events of the pogrom when the Blue Army was not even there in the first place? Also, as noted by historian Edward Goldstein, the Blue Army was accuse of several pogroms; that they had nothing to do with, so Hagen's wrongful accusation is nothing unusual. Finally, other editors proposed to remove the text in the past.

Also, you agreed above that it'd be a good idea to remove Hagen. Can we do that? Volunteer Marek 19:31, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Blue Army was wrongly accused of committing the Lviv Pogrom of 1918. Historian William W. Hagen claimed that after helping to capture Lviv, some army units together with Polish civilians, engaged in three days of violence against the Jewish and Ukrainian inhabitants of the city, resulting in hundreds of civilian deaths.[29] But the army's participation in the pogrom is highly disputed, and according to the Cambridge History of Poland, when the Lviv Pogrom actually took place the Blue Army was still in France fighting on the Western Front. Also, it has been documented that the first units did not reach Poland until the spring of 1919, nearly five months after the actual pogrom had happened.[30] The Kronika Polski lists 14 April 1919 as the start of the first transports form France to Poland,[31] and historian Kay Lundgreen-Nielsen stated that the first units of the army did not leave France until 15 April 1919; its departure having been delayed by opposition from Britain and the United States.[32] Thus, requiring a special protocol before the Blue Army was allowed to return home to Poland.[33]

Over emphasizing individuals not directly linked to the Blue Army. The entire paragraph about Hugh S. Gibson, and his opinions about the Jews are completely irrelevant to our topic. Also, the American envoy did not come to Poland to look after Haller's troops. Finally, his reporting on the "food riots" is also not directly related to this article, as the events primarily occurred during civilian unrest, and not done by the army.

The United States sent an envoy to Poland, Hugh S. Gibson, a man who stood out for his antisemitism.[25] Hugh Gibson along with Dr. Boris Bogen, who was the general director of European relief operations of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), were tasked by the United States Government to investigate the situation.[26] Throughout their stay in Poland, Gibson and his colleagues ridiculed Jewish traits, customs, and appearance.[25] The official report sent back to Washington stated that many of the newspaper reports in the American press had been inflated, and Gibson himself wrote in his correspondence that he was concerned about separating fact from rumor. In his investigation, Hugh S. Gibson also addressed the issue of "food riots", and after investigating the circumstances reported that an even larger number of Christian shops had also been ransacked, thus disputing the claim that all the violence was strictly a product of anti-Jewish sentiment. Gibson also claimed that Zionists were conspiring with Berlin; according to historian Carole Fink, Gibson emphasized Jews' "social, economic, and ideological transgressions" and described the victims of the pogroms as "exploiters." [27] Gibson also expressed the opinion that Jews in Poland ought to "reform themselves" and assimilate into general Polish society.[28]

Since, we have had problems like this in the past regarding the Blue Army page; I ask that we all come together to finally create a fair and balanced article. Again, your input on this issue would be greatly appreciated. --COD T 3 (talk) 02:46, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

MkuCr

Did you forget about your unopposed proposal on the talk page? AmateurEditor (talk) 23:56, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sort of, thanks for the remainder. The thing is, only admins can make edits to that page, so after the 'supports' on the talk page I figured some admin actually would. My fault for assuming that.Volunteer Marek (talk) 00:04, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Adding an edit request template to the section usually gets someones attention pretty quickly. AmateurEditor (talk) 02:35, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Alfreda Markowska

On 7 March 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Alfreda Markowska, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Alfreda Markowska, a Polska Roma, was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta for saving Jewish and Roma children from death in the Holocaust and the Porajmos during World War II? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alfreda Markowska. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

I don't know why you did this, but thanks for your comments on my talk page regarding a ban i recieved some time ago. Krakkos (talk) 20:21, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! There is a DR/N request you may have interest in.

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Food in occupied Germany article

FYI, I'm planning on redeveloping the former American food policy in occupied Germany article so that it provides a more neutral and broad discussion of this topic. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 07:18, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the notification. I've been quite busy lately, but I'll try and help out on the article shortly.Volunteer Marek (talk) 10:48, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Discretionary sanctions 2013 review: Draft v3

Hi. You have commented on Draft v1 or v2 in the Arbitration Committee's 2013 review of the discretionary sanctions system. I thought you'd like to know Draft v3 has now been posted to the main review page. You are very welcome to comment on it on the review talk page. Regards, AGK [•] 00:15, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Volksliste

Hi, based on my understanding of a source published in West Germany, Menschen und Grenzen by Alfred Bohmann. I believe the Volksliste figures include about 300,000 ethnic Germans resettled in Poland. Bohmann's presentation of the Volksliste figures shows that cat A & B totaled 710,000 persons, he then goes on to describe the resettlement of 287,000 ethnic Germans in Poland. To me this implies that 710,000 persons from pre-war Poland were in Cat A/B, not the 1 million that appears in the sources cited here on Wikipedia. Alfred Bohmann was an SS officer during the war and a well known supporter of the expellees in post war West Germany. If this is the case, the number of ethnic Germans in prewar Poland has been overstated in historical literature. I need your help. What do Polish sources tell us about the classification of persons on the Volksliste?--Woogie10w (talk) 15:54, 17 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	For helping to protecting the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine page! Thєíríshwαrdєn - írísh αnd prσud 22:44, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Volunteer Marek (talk) 23:22, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Any opinions?

Hello, you and I have worked together on the Blue Army article in the past. There is a discussion here: [3] about the article. Any opinions would be welcome. In my opinion, rather than remove info about antisemitic violence, the article should expand info about other activities. Faustian (talk) 17:16, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Stalking

Please refrain from stalking me and reverting my changes in articles that you have never edited in before. Considering all your recent public attacks against me and edit-war like behaviour, it would not be a hard case to prove if I decided it was worth reporting. LokiiT (talk) 02:07, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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 Hello, you and I have worked together on the Blue Army article in the past.  There is a discussion here: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Blue_Army_.28Poland.29] about the article.  Any opinions would be welcome. In my opinion, rather than remove info about antisemitic violence, the article should expand info about other activities.   [[User:Faustian|Faustian]] ([[User talk:Faustian|talk]]) 17:16, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
+== Stalking ==
+Please refrain from stalking me and reverting my changes in articles that you have never edited in before. Considering all your recent public attacks against me and edit-war like behaviour, it would not be a hard case to prove if I decided it was worth reporting. [[User:LokiiT|LokiiT]] ([[User talk:LokiiT|talk]]) 02:07, 30 March 2014 (UTC)