User talk:Pofka

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DYK for Jonas Vaidutis

On 3 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jonas Vaidutis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Lithuanian duke Jonas Vaidutis was elected as the second rector of the oldest Polish university after its restoration in 1400? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jonas Vaidutis. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jonas Vaidutis), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

Z1720 (talk) 12:02, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 4 § Category:Former churches by populated place

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 4 § Category:Former churches by populated place on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –Aidan721 (talk) 00:11, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 March 20 § Category:Canons of Sandomierz

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Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:32, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Pofka. Thank you for your work on Nicholas of Šalčininkai. Another editor, Moriwen, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thanks for the excellent work!

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— Moriwen (talk) 04:46, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Moriwen: Thanks! :) -- Pofka (talk) 18:07, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Jonas I Losovičius

Hello! Your submission of Jonas I Losovičius at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:52, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The World Destubathon

Hello. You're invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It will be held from Monday June 16 - Sunday July 13. There is over $3300 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning something to save you money in buying books for future content, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for subjects which interest you, sign up on the page in the participants section if interested. Even if you can only manage a few articles they would be very much appreciated and help towards making the content produced as diverse and broad as possible!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:15, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Jonas I Losovičius

On 30 June 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jonas I Losovičius, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jonas I Losovičius's relocation of the main residence of the bishops of Lutsk would last for three centuries? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jonas I Losovičius. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jonas I Losovičius), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

RoySmith (talk) 12:03, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Pofka. Thank you for your work on Aleksandras Olelka. Another editor, SunDawn, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thank you for taking the time to create the article! Have a blessed day!

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✠ SunDawn ✠ Contact me! 11:51, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Aleksandras Olelka

On 8 September 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Aleksandras Olelka, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Aleksandras Olelka was initially a supporter of the Lithuanian grand duke Švitrigaila, but later participated in a coup d'état against him? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Aleksandras Olelka. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Aleksandras Olelka), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 2025

It appears that you have been canvassing—pinging editors on a biased choice of users to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote—in order to influence Serbia men's national basketball team. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you. Theonewithreason (talk) 16:55, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Theonewithreason (talk) 19:59, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 September 30 § Category:Sport in Chrudim

Categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 September 30 § Category:Sport in Chrudim on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 11:44, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stop multilanguage vandalism

You removed article from multiple languages and wikidata, this is pure vandalism Bildete (talk) 19:45, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also I seen you whitewashing Lithuanian SSR, if someone was born during USSR era, he was born in USSR not in Lithuania that get independence in 1990. Stop your vandalism propaganda Bildete (talk) 20:21, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unresolved

I see you hve an unfinished revert war with the creator of "Great Lithuanians" in Lithuanian nobility page. So what the heck with the "Greater Lithuanian national thought" in its lede? also @Marcelus: @+JMJ+: --Altenmann >talk 22:49, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Altenmann: I already explained in my statement of 17:06, 6 October 2025 with many quotes from WP:RS who are "Great Lithuanians" (Lithuanian: "didlietuviai") and per these WP:RS they are "Lithuanians of Lithuania proper". Despite that, all these provided sources were ignored by other users and they continue to restore the article. Not a single source in the article or related discussions was provided stating that the "Great Lithuanians" are not "Lithuanians of Lithuania proper", so the article is actually unsourced with WP:RS and damages the reliability of Wikipedia. First of all, use Google translator to translate Polish words "starzy Litwini" and you will get "Old Lithuanians", while Polish words "Wielcy Litwini" are translated as "Great Lithuanians". So how "Old Lithuanians" become "Great Lithuanians"? It is clear even from the title of the article "Great Lithuanians" that this article is a WP:OR, WP:SYNTH, WP:HOAX. This situation once again demonstrates that the only viable solution is to WP:TOPICBAN users who deny the continuity of Lithuania, Lithuanians, Lithuanian language because currently the Lithuanian topics are starting to drown in WP:OR, WP:HOAX, pseudoscience and if such actions will be allowed to continue soon the English Wikipedia readers will not even understand who the Lithuanians really are. -- Pofka (talk) 16:36, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pofka, I was talking about a huge chunk reverted and re-reverted in "Lithuanian nobility" page in October-December 2024. I mostly agree with your judgement of Great Lithuanians. --Altenmann >talk 16:47, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Altenmann: Ah, yes, I really forgot that I encountered user Haroldicas before. Now I see that user Haroldicas previously dragged me into revert warring as he defended such pseudoscientific statements in the article as "the terms "Lithuanians" and "Lithuanian" have changed over the centuries", etc. I have no motivation to perform endless reverting, so probably I gave up that time and he "won".

There was a long standing status quo of two articles: Lithuanians (about Baltic individuals who are undoubtedly Lithuanians from all centuries, including Gediminid Lithuanian monarchs like Gediminas, Vytautas the Great, etc.) and Polish–Lithuanian identity (for residents of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who cannot be explicitly described as "Lithuanians", for example, Ruthenians who held high-ranking positions in the GDL, and also included individuals like Jozef Pilsudski who lived after the PLC was destroyed by Russia, but his national consciousness was still pre-1795). Now it is possibly going in a such a way that we will also have an article "Great Lithuanians" (who somehow are neither Lithuanians, neither Polish–Lithuanians, despite the fact that there were no such individuals per WP:RS) or an article "Old Lithuanians" (which will probably include ridiculous statements that nowadays Lithuanians ancestors are not Old/Historical Lithuanians which would be absolutely WP:FRINGE because Lithuanians continuously inhabited the same land since at least 1009 and created Lithuania's statehood). If this will actually be implemented, then English Wikipedia in Lithuanian topics will look like WP:TROLLING and a totally depreciated, unreliable source compared to Encyclopedia Britannica, etc. There are ABSOLUTELY no disputes about Lithuania, Lithuanians, Lithuanian language continuity in top-class reliable sources. The European Union, United Nations would not tractate "Lithuania" as "Lithuania" and its residents as "Lithuanians" if there were any significant disputes about who Lithuanians/Lithuania are.

By the way, I added a new subsection Talk:Lithuania proper#Reliable sources about "Great Lithuanians" (Lithuanian: didlietuviai) to a merging proposal, so I suggest to treat the voting as invalid if no WP:RS with an ability to WP:VERIFY (e.g. check online sources) will be provided and remake the page "Great Lithuanians" to redirect to Lithuania proper (per many WP:RS provided by me). It is not possible to simply vote that the Earth is flat, ignore WP:RS, scientific point of view and then rewrite article Earth that the Earth is not round but flat because somebody voted for it. -- Pofka (talk) 18:11, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 15 § Category:Sport in Ballsh

Categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 15 § Category:Sport in Ballsh on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 12:03, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Giedzimin' Cap" and several similar redirects listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Giedzimin' Cap has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 October 22 § Giedzimin' Cap until a consensus is reached. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 20:23, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]