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Piotrus,

I've run out of things to say about treecats that won't give away everything. You might want to cast an eye over the article and see if there's anything you can think of. ww 19:04, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

--- Piotrus,

you may want to add links to polish wikipedia like this ] at the end of article. Hope this helps! Szopen 11:07, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Nice job, Piotrus :) If i my suggest, you my want to add

( like this: {{msg:battles}} ) in info about battles; also, i think that battle of Kircholm should be separate page from info about city itself; I alway wanted also to create separate page on hussaria, since hussars, despite similarity of the name and common ancestry, have not much common with Polish hussars - but, judging from your link collection, already know it :)

Szopen 06:25, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)</nowiki>

Hi, about the articles on Weber's books, you don't need to add the articles in the "see also" section, because they're already linked in the article text. See Misplaced Pages:Manual of style for more. Yours, Meelar 16:00, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hi Piotrus, I´m not too sure that my articel is dood for an encoclopedy - it was an essay for the university. However, I have read the english one and its different and that is good becaus I loke the difference. On the other hand is my english not good enough! --Ot 14:38, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hi again, I think really that it is better a native english speaker should translate something and however, the differenc in the articles is not to bad!--Ot 15:38, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Copyrights of paintings

In response to yours IM inquiry, I believe that, basically, reproductions of paintings for which copyright expired are in Public Domain. On Misplaced Pages:Public domain image resources it is said: Accurate photographs of paintings lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the painting's copyright has expired (95 years after initial publication). Przepla 19:14, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Redirects

This may be a mistake you just didn't add, but at Patrimonialism, you put redirect ] when it should have been #redirect ]. Just letting you know, you may have just been in a hurry.--naryathegreat 22:34, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)

Likely that. I know the rule and checked my latest redirects - they work. Tnx for correcting that one though. Hmmm. Setting aside the tech stuff, patrimonalism is the same thing as patriarchy right? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 11:27, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

yep, patrimonalism is the idea, patriarchy is the government, same thing, just different word forms. anyway, i just corrected it because I saw it on the new pages (i check them often for speedy deletion candidates ;)--naryathegreat 01:38, Jul 25, 2004 (UTC)

Partisan

Please take a look at Talk:Partisan and Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/CVA. ] 12:51, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

Naming wars

Since you were either directly or indirectly once involved into edits revolving around "proper" naming of cities like Gdansk/Danzig etc i thought you may be interested in my proposition in User:Szopen/NamingWar. I would want to create a way aimed at stopping the revert wars in future - through creating something like a msg (in see also list or header) explaining that's there is compromise and why, and by linking to the article explaining changes of the statuses of the Royal Prussia province (I would prefer it ot have it as separate article, not scatter it in plethora other articles). I would be happy to hear from you. Szopen 09:22, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

A very good idea - both as a naming wars container and as a good separate article in its own rights. I definetly support the idea and if you need any help let me know - although my knowledge of that subject is pretty limitted. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 09:44, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I noticed that you wrote some dictionary entries Commercialize and Commercialization. Dictionary entries like these are really more appropriate for Wiktionary, so I moved them there. Encyclopedia entries should begin with a definition, but need to go on to talk about the subject. If you only have a definition, then it's usually better just to add the definition in an appropriate place in the article that you're linking from, and not create the new article yet at all.

For now, I've redirected Commercialize (the verb) to Commercialization (the noun), and left the latter as a substub. But if you know enough about commercialization to write a good stub article, then that would be nice.

Of course, you created those articles a while ago. So perhaps you've already learned about stubs and Wiktionary! Then I apologise for wasting your time trying to teach you what you already know. ^_^

-- Toby Bartels 00:01, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)