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Bukowski's Polish roots?

The last name "Bukowski" is typically Polish. I know that the ending "ski" is generally of Slavic origin, however there is one important thing which is the letter preceding, and it goes like this:

• - usky (Belarusian)
• - vsky (Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Polish)
• - vskiy (Russian, Ukrainian)
• - vski (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Polish)
• - wski (Polish only)

As you see, the surname "Bukowski" is clearly of Polish descent. Now, how come there is no sign of Polish roots in Charles's biography? Was his father's family tree unexplored? 78.8.59.44 (talk) 21:15, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

We work with reliable sources and what can be verified. Misplaced Pages articles are written by volunteers, usually using the strong sources they have to hand. The article says: "His paternal grandfather Leonard had emigrated to America from Germany (the present territories of Poland) in the 1880s."Anna (talk) 00:11, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

In order to the address the IP or IPs who have edited the article. There is a consensus on how to deal with the name of city called either Danzig or Gdańsk. You can find it here: Talk:Gdansk/Vote. Since the time in question, namely when Bukowski's grandmother left the city, has been before 1945, the name is as given in the article. Please refrain from editing that. -- Zz (talk) 15:51, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Sure, but we need to mention that it was behind a different countries border when Leonard was born. Anna (talk) 16:16, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

We could say that Charles Bukowski's grandfather from his father's side (Leonard Bukowski) was a germanised Pole and it wouldn't be a lie at all. It is also possible that Charles's grandmother from his father's side was German, living in Germany (today's Polish lands) and probably having some smaller extent of Polish ancestry from Gdańsk (then - Danzig, a German city with high Polish population). As in case of his grandmother it is nothing more than just a hypothesis, his grandfather on the other hand, had to have some Polish roots for sure, as his last name is of pure Polish origin and no ethnic German could have a surname with the "wski" ending. What's about Charles's mother's family, I guess they were of nearly 100% German stock, however there could be also little of Ashkenazi Jewish genetic admixture. Yatzhek (talk) 19:58, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

POV

There is some POV towards the subject of this article. It promotes his style and story. --Mr. Guye (talk) 22:20, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Can you be more specific? The Interior (Talk) 22:46, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

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