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THIS IS THE LIFE

Hello Renata, I am a newer user to Misplaced Pages but I have contributed several strong pages regarding the Los Angeles underground hip hop movement. There is a major film that has been made about this music collective called THIS IS THE LIFE. I researched and wrote a page about it that you deleted as spam. Perhaps it was so well written that you thought it was a press release or something? LOL. I just can't imagine why it was deleted as spam. I took a lot of time with it. Can you pls revisit this deletion? And if it is still not to your liking, please tell me what I can do to fix it properly? Thank you kindly, MarieMaye —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mariemaye (talk • contribs) 18:26, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Mariemaye (talk • contribs) 18:28, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Lithuanian press ban, was selected for DYK!

On November 3, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lithuanian press ban, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 18:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Pongwiffy

Could I ask why you choose to delete the above article? Many thanks. DWJE 216 13:18, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Military history Baltic states task force

please take a look at this Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history#Baltic_states_task_force --Termer 18:11, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Philomathes

I have created an article on them. I've noticed that lt wiki has an impressive article at lt:Filomatai - perhaps you'd like to translate some of it to expand the article on en wiki? -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 20:35, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Featured List of the Day Experiment

There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 17:51, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Trainmoney = Bloomfield?

Hi Renata, do you think Trainmoney could be a Bloomfield sock? His latest contributions seem to be restoring Bloomfields old creations. Martintg (talk) 19:44, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Klaipeda Airport

Dear Renata, last year you had kindly "baptized" me into Misplaced Pages. I beg for your kind review/interference in the Klaipeda Airport creation/ranking. The topic is bordering on low-importance edge if not for confusion brought in by IATA. Thank you. Ttk371 (talk) 16:15, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Great Seimas of Vilnius GA pass

Hi there! Nice work on Great Seimas of Vilnius, I've just passed it as a Good article. I also left a couple of comments at the Talk page; you may read them here if you like. Congratulations, to you and everyone who helped with the article. Best wishes, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 17:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Józef Piłsudski

I would very much appreciate your opinion, from Lithuanian perspective, on whether this article is neutral. This question has been raised at Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Józef Piłsudski. -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 22:44, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Baltic_states#Rename

Hi Renata,

there is some dicussion about a possible rename. Your opinion is most welcomed. Martintg (talk) 04:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Blood electrification

Blood electrification Oldspammer (talk) 14:51, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Greetings

Laimingų naujųjų metų! Glad you're back. Novickas (talk) 14:28, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Pascual Ortiz Rubio.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 18:33, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Heart attack

Gotcha, eh? :) But seriously, isn't it sad that we now assume the worst when the person does no longer seem to be around, and, sadder enough, "the worst" more often than not turns out to be the reason for leaving?

Anyway, as for me, I will never leave (you can quote me on that). I truly hope you can say the same.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:50, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Tax protester/Request for comment redirect

I restored the redirect, as the links are required for thw RFC process. Please do not redelete without first causing the incoming links to be fixed. I don't have AWB here because my IE is broken, or I'd just fix it myself. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 17:05, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Now handled by a bot. Please disregard in terms of actions on this redirect, but R2 speedies should usually be "followed" before deletion. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 17:36, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Britannica-watch

Hello there. I've spent less than two weeks in Vilnius, and that was over two years ago, but that experience was so happy that I was most interested by what you write on your user page. Since I sometime long for the authority of the EB, a reference source that doesn't always get things right but at least is safe from vandals and twits, I feel like sticking up for them. Furthermore, I'm tired of editing Misplaced Pages and it's a novelty to edit EB instead. So here goes.

• 1. A settlement existed on the site in the 10th century NB this doesn't say no settlement existed there before the 10th century.
• 4. EB's use of the word "dominate" is a stretch; but I think that the word is often used in this poetic (poetastic?) way to mean something like "be looked down on by", and if so then this isn't actually wrong. (See this standard tourist photo.) And then you have a question of the definition of Vilnius: strictly, no, it doesn't include Užupis (etc); but in a way it does, and thus it's hilly, no? (But yes, basically you're right.)
• 5. The cathedral dates originally from 1387... Doesn't this depend on what's meant by "the cathedral"? Perhaps better: "The cathedral that we see now..."
• 6. The only neighborhood with rectangular street plan is Žvėrynas and it can hardly be called "newer." Even if "newer" just means "newer than Vilniaus senamiestis"?

So I think you've been a bit harsh. Still, a lot of your shots hit home and EB should fix the problems fast.

Ah, you've made me want to spend another happy half hour gazing at this excellent book. -- Hoary (talk) 16:15, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Also it looks like the copy that was uploaded was pre-1990. I suspect EB is so vast that it is not subject to regular updates; it is updated more often in print but I suspect they are not as assiduous at editing as you expect them to be. Nevertheless, well done for highlighting how print media - including Misplaced Pages - are often at odds with the facts as people know them to be. Please don't stop highlighting these discrepancies, it is a job which I have become expert at and have in the past assisted public figures to clarify/update/edit their own Wiki articles - it is one of the pitfalls we run into because print media and other sources are often taken to be concrete fact whereas a lot can depend on the knowledge of the original author, political sensitivities and even typos in books. Good luck in your research :). Lstanley1979 (talk) 18:35, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Template:Nazi Germany occupations

Dear Renata: Thank you for the creation of the {{Nazi Germany occupations}} template. You have done an excellent job that will help navigation for an important part of the history of the Second World War. IZAK (talk) 13:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Person of the year

I don't see any Lithuanian women listed as person of the year. — Rlevse • Talk • 18:00, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

That's kinda of misleading. — Rlevse • Talk • 18:25, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Maps

Hi. Nothing is wrong with maps thay are good but I don't think it is good idea to place them instead images. Maybe it is possible to place these maps behind the infobox or in other place but photo should be main picture. We must show nice our rivers not borring maps for readers :) Of course it's my opinion and if other users will say that maps is better when I will not opposite. Regards, Hugo.arg (talk) 10:03, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Isara

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Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania DYK

On 21 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 15:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, the fix to the Baltic tribes map is fine

Renata3, the fix to the Baltic tribes map is fine with me. From what little information I saw this morning when I researched it on the web, yes, the Curonians were a West Baltic tribe and should have been colored green. Thanks, MapMaster (talk) 14:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:Prussian clans 13th century.png

@ Renata, the main mouth of river Vistula is very young.

Furthermore the local name of Pruszcz is seen as a hint, that Old Prussinas lived in the whole delta region, probably mixed with slavic people, as the left side of lower Vistula is undoubtedly old Pomerania, i.e. Slavic coastal region. Yours' sincerely, Ulamm (talk) 19:44, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

@ Renata, I have found a mistaken name in the map: South of the coloured ares you have written "Masuria". That is wrong:

• Mazuy/Masuren is inside the former Prusai area. It was settled by Mazovians in 15th and 16th century, after the original population had been killed or settled elsewhere by the Teutonic Order.
• Where you have written Masuria, there is Mazovia/Mazowsze/Masowien. Yours' sincerely, Ulamm (talk) 09:20, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Civil war in Lithuania (1700)

I am not sure if the name of the article, which I just translated from pl wiki, is most appropriate. What do you think? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 05:27, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

From my readings it appears there was a little more to it, through indeed not that much in term of military activity (zajazdy, etc.). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 04:58, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

I believe both articles are notable; on pl wiki the battle has a separate article.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 20:47, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Warmia

Hello Renata! Last year you had redirected "Persecution of Poles in Warmia" to Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles. Molobo has since readded it to Warmia. Olessi (talk) 03:33, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

DYK: 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état

On 29 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

(on MainPage with a picture of Kazys Grinius). --PFHLai (talk) 09:58, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi Renata, heh, you caught me on an unusually leisurely Saturday morning. Couple of comments. GA reviewers would probably like to see more EN references; here's one . Also "The new government lifted...", could you specify that government some more? Probably more q's soon, on article talk, but will begin ce now. Best, Novickas (talk) 14:49, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Military cout

Drumhead court-martial would be the closest equivalent, I think (although it has some connotations that may or may not be relevant to the original). Kirill 18:42, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppety goodness

Many thanks for your help; I'll let you know if/when he is back. Experience is apparently that he surely will be. Tb (talk) 16:03, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Diffs I was collecting

In case it's later needed, I collected some diffs in order to make a report on the user you blocked. Thanks for taking care of him so quickly.

I commend to your attention this gem, and:

Decategorizing LGBT people and oganizations, possibly WP:VAND: , , , , , , , , , , , &

WP:NPA: ,

Judging from his first edit, he's been around here a while. His editing style sounds familiar, but I can't specify it. --SSBohio 00:01, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

You are invited!

New York City Meetup Next: Sunday March 16th, Columbia University area Last: 1/13/2008 This box: view • talk • edit

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, and have salon-style group discussions on Misplaced Pages and the other Wikimedia projects (see the last meeting's minutes).

Well also make preparations for our exciting Misplaced Pages Takes Manhattan event, a free content photography contest for Columbia University students planned for Friday March 28 (about 2 weeks after our meeting).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.

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This has been an automated delivery because you were on the invite list. BrownBot (talk) 03:26, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Britannica.

Hello, thank goodness I found you (thank goodness for google :P). I needed someone with access to the online Britannica encyclopedia, to see if the Tsar Cannon article there says anything about it being the largest howitzer. Think you could help (it's for the cannon article, which we're trying to improve to FA quality)? Thanks, · AndonicO 20:52, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Wow, that's disappointing; I guess I should have expected that though. :/ Well, I guess I'll have to keep hunting for a source, else have to remove the claim... Thanks anyway. :) · AndonicO 00:47, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Anon recategorizer seems to be back

Not on a big scale yet, but... Special:Contributions/87.74.16.171 seems to be him. Note the comment on the change to User:Tvarkytojas. Tb (talk) 18:19, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

A star for you

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		Wow. That looks like it took some time; I really think that I would have had to take it to Word or something—I also really think that you deserve this barnstar for it. :) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  03:26 9 March, 2008 (UTC)

Still, it took about 1% or 2% of the time it would have taken me. :) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  03:44 9 March, 2008 (UTC)

Re:Coins

Hmm. Ok, stay tuned for progress, M.K. (talk) 19:41, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

But those look too ugly. Compare, M.K. (talk) 20:15, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

What exactly you have in mind? Photos? M.K. (talk) 17:02, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Did you try looking some pic in Bank of Lithuania museum? M.K. (talk) 17:24, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Request for translation

I am looking for a Lithuanian speaker to translate a part of a Lithuanian article into English or Polish; it is relevant to a RfC discussion on English Misplaced Pages. See my request on Polish Misplaced Pages here. Thanks, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 22:29, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 16:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Dmochowski's Laboratory

Renata, I appreciate your helping pursue my query. It did occur to me that the 1932 Wilno content might be better directed to Polish history editors, and I'll follow up that way. Actually I don't (yet) have more details on the institution, but expect to find more resources over time that will shed light on the various streams in Jewish secular education there in the 1920s and '30s. Thanks for your support! -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 23:08, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

NORTH OR EAST

Hi Renata, I'm fresh to Misplaced Pages, but my edits are far from being wrong. I tried to contact you earlier, but I couldn't find any private messaging system on the site. It is a disputable subject whether Lithuania is a part of eastern or northern Europe. The source you provided (UN Clasification) is not the only and final verdict on the subject. For example, according to the CIA Factbook, it belongs to Eastern Europe -> http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Europe_colour_coded.svg My edit allowed different viewpoints on the subject, as it is a very disputable manner, and should not be described in such a cathergorical manner as in your entry. In fact, I am quite sure, that most of the world perceive Lithuania as located in Eastern, not northern Europe. This is why I propose a change in article, which provides the information that doesn't sound so final! Regards Kubster —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kubster (talk • contribs) 20:09, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Paper Clips

How callous that you would delete this information. Did you possibly think that someone would make up all of these names and the years they worked on this YEARS. There is a source and I will find it. OneMarkus (talk) 07:02, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Polish ultimatum to Lithuania 1936

That redirect can be deleted, I presume (wrong 1936 date)? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:01, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for help on my page, M.K. (talk) 13:54, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Personall attacks

That's wasn't personall attack, because M.K has ever learnt Polish history, and you regulary write hoaxs about polish history. And I have Piotrus on one's good side. So if this sytuation to be contiuned I will this matter carry in an Arbitration Comitee. Regards. Alden or talk with Alden 14:22, 18 March 2008 (UTC)