User talk:Brifyjek

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 21:51, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Brifyjek,

Thank you for creating Khamar-Daban incident.

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Please find a more reliable source than a Medium blog.

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ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 00:55, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to Tears of Tragedy. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and see WP:BAND and sources accordingly.. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Hitro talk 14:31, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Brifyjek. Thank you for your work on Collision between a car and a submarine. Another editor, Broc, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Nice page! Have you considered expanding it slightly and nominating it for WP:DYK? I think it would make for a perfect candidate :)

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Broc (talk) 10:39, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Brifyjek. Thank you for your work on Khamar-Daban incident. Another editor, SunDawn, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Good day! Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia by writing this article. I have marked the article as reviewed. Have a wonderful and blessed day for you and your family!

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✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 05:14, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved content from Clark Ashton Smith deities into List of Great Old Ones. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content (here or elsewhere), Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. Diannaa (talk) 13:58, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Brifyjek. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Tears of Tragedy, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 22:06, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! DreamRimmer bot II (talk) 21:24, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Just a heads up, I've nominated your Darth Vader in Ukrainian politics article for the April 1 Did You Know. You can find the nomination page here. - ZLEA _T\^C 17:30, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

I don't know about a couple of sources, see WP:RSN#Is the Polish website hist.org a reliable source? Meanwhile, this might help. Doug Weller talk 13:24, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

On 27 July 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Denis Cameron (photographer), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that photographer Denis Cameron covered the Lebanese Civil War, the Iranian Revolution, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Gulf War? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Denis Cameron (photographer). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Denis Cameron (photographer)), 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.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:03, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi Brifyjek. Thank you for your work on Vsevolod Ivanov (painter). Another editor, Northernhenge, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thanks for creating the article. I’m marking it as reviewed, but please add a reliable source (maybe an existing one) for Ivanov’s date of birth before reinstating it.

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Northernhenge (talk) 21:00, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your change to this article. Would you also be able to update the IPA template for the new town name? Thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 22:30, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

Just in relation to this edit, and the similar one you did to Petrykozy-Osiedle, how do you determine the characters for any given Polish town name to use in the IPAc-pl template? I have noticed that many Polish town and city articles either do not have this template, or use a slightly different one. I would like to standardise them, if at all possible. Thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 23:03, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

@Kiwipete All I did was change the order of letters in the template. Doesn't matter if the name is "Petrykozy-Osiedle" or "Osiedle Petrykozy", both words - Osiedle and Petrykozy - are pronounced the same way in either order, so I assume the characters in the IPA transcription also stay the same. But I apologize if I'm wrong about this. I do have some knowledge of IPA, but it's rather limited.

Thanks. That's quite obvious, now that you've pointed it out to me :) I have also asked the same question here, but have received no reply :(

As far as I've seen, most pages use {{IPAc-pl}} but some use {{IPA|pl|[text]}}. I don't know which one I personally prefer.

WP:POLAND has this - "The {{IPAc-pl}} template can be used to produce representations of Polish pronunciation." so I think this is the preferred template.

I had a look at {{IPAc-pl}}, but I can't see, for example, why the "si" in Osiedle is transcribed as "ś" in the template. Can you please explain this? Thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 03:38, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

@Kiwipete I think it's because "si" and "ś" are pronounced the same way. Same case with "rz" and "ż", "ó" and "u", "ni" and "ń", "ch" and "h", etc. For example, the transcription template for Biedrzychowice, one of the pages I linked below, is {{IPAc-pl|b|j|e|d|ż|y|h|o|'|w|i|c|e}}. Biedrzychowice and Bjedżyhowice would be pronounced the same way (note that "i" and "j" are pronounced the same only in combinations like bie, nie, etc.). But also, Stróże Wielkie shows that there is a difference if you use "j" or "J" in the temple, as they generate different characters. I don't think it'd be easy for someone who doesn't know Polish to transcribe those names for this template as I don't think I could do it as a native speaker. And I don't know how to determine where the ' symbol goes. It looks like the transcriptions were generated by a bot which hasn't been active since 2011. I'm not sure if my explanation is easy to understand but I hope it helps. Brifyjek (talk) 08:38, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

Another thing I noticed is inconsistent inclusion of former German names in western Poland. For example, many villages in Opole Voivodeship have official German names in addition to Polish ones if they are inhabited by German minority. Biedrzychowice includes the official German name in the "other_name" section of the infobox. Góreczno, which is in the same gmina as Biedrzychowice but does not have an official German name as it is not inhabited by Germans (according to Polish wiki), has its historical German name included in the infobox. Both Biedrzychowice and Góreczno also have German names listed in the lead, with no distinction whether they are official or historic. Kosorowice includes the official German name only in the lead. Another one - Ogiernicze - has an official German name, but it is not listed anywhere in the article. In Gostomia, the official German name is bold and cursive, unlike the unofficial Silesian name, which is just cursive. Zielina lists both Polish and German names in the first "name" section of the infobox. So, yeah, I think these could use some standardizing. Also, for other voivodeships, for example Grotniki, Łódź Voivodeship has a German name used for only two years during the Nazi occupation listed in the lead, which I don't think is necessary.

This is also something I have noticed. I'm far from being an expert in Polish-German history, but what I would say is that all of these references should have a citation to a reliable source, otherwise they should be removed. Kiwipete (talk) 03:38, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

Just in this regard, I've noticed several articles (see, for example, Skrzatusz) which have a reference to this book - Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder und Neiße by M. Kaemmerer, possibly added by Renewal6? I don't have a copy myself, and it's hard to know if there is an electronic version or not. Kiwipete (talk) 09:24, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

@Kiwipete It should be rather easy to find these old German names. This site I found has detailed descriptions of German administrative divisions before 1945. Over the next few days I'll go over villages in western Poland and try to add/verify the names. I'll also try to standardize how official additional names are introduced at the start of the articles. I already did so in Strzeleczki and Biedrzychowice, Opole Voivodeship (also expanded these articles). The standard I came up with is "[Polish name], additional name [in language]: [additional name]". I might also create articles for some villages that don't have pages on English Wikipedia yet. Brifyjek (talk) 12:59, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Apologies for the long response, I tried to explain my point about the German names with as many examples as I could quickly find. I might attempt to standardize them a little later but I would really appreciate your (or anybody else's) opinion on how those official and unofficial/historical German names should be introduced in the articles. Brifyjek (talk) 23:46, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi Brifyjek, just an FYI regarding the new articles you're creating. I asked a question here about the location of towns. Because of the answer, I'm now going through and removing these statements. Do you want to want to leave these statements out of the new articles you're creating? Thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 01:51, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

@Kiwipete Thank you for letting me know, I will leave them out in the future. But is it fine to include them if they are sourced? Like in Strzeleczki and Moszna, Opole Voivodeship. Brifyjek (talk) 07:37, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Yes, absolutely, sourced distances are welcome. When I first started looking at this, almost none were sourced, and the few that were, were just to online maps, with no indication of distances. Kiwipete (talk) 10:06, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

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

Thank you for creating the article! Have a blessed and beautiful weekend!

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✠ SunDawn ✠ Contact me! 04:16, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi Brifyjek. Thank you for your work on Tempel Synagogue (Żywiec). Another editor, EytanMelech, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thanks for creating this article!

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EytanMelech (talk) 17:09, 7 December 2025 (UTC)