Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Serbia

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Romanization of Serbian#Requested move 11 December 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 21:30, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

I want to work on Serbian villages, and one issue I have is that the categories are a mess, even when correctly categorised (and there's a lot that are just randomly placed somewhere or uncategorised). For expample, we have Category:Populated places in Vojvodina, which contains Category:Populated places in North Banat District. This has some, but not all, settlements directly in the category. (It would be 50 settlements total if they were all directly in there, is that too much?) This is further complicated by eponymous categories — Ada, Serbia and Category:Ada, Serbia, which contains stuff about Ada, but also a listing of villages in the Ada municipality, of which there's overlap between this category and the District one. So, if anyone who knows categories reads this, what do we do? Should all the articles for a District be in the District category? Should the categories like Category:Ada, Serbia be renamed to Category:Ada Municipality, Serbia? Maybe there should be another layer (Category:Populated places in North Banat District --> Category:Populated places in Ada Municipality --> Category:Ada, Serbia, but that what would be left in the last category?)? No idea how to standardise this. JustARandomSquid (talk) 13:55, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

50 is not too much by default. Of course, if there is a category for a municipality, then those villages should be sub-categorized there instead. Cf. WP:SUBCAT.

With regard to the name of the Ada category, if there's no reason to deviate from the main space name, it shouldn't be done, otherwise it's a WP:C2D issue. In other words, if the Ada, Serbia article describes both the town and its municipality, which it does, then its category can contain elements of both. It's unlikely readers would be surprised by that. --Joy (talk) 14:42, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

So you'd go with Populated places in [region] ---> populated places in [district] ---> [place/municipality name] ---> and the list of villages goes here? One wrinkle is that not all articles on settlements that have their own categories and eponymous municipalities unambiguously describe both the settlement and the municipality, like Ada, Serbia or Crna Trava do, especially the ones for larger cities. Is Bor, Serbia#Settlements enough to say that the article about Bor, Serbia also describes the municipality? Also, if a "Populated places in [district]" category only contains subcategories for the largest municipalities, might someone think that those were the only settlements in the district? JustARandomSquid (talk) 17:57, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Yes, and if a subcategory doesn't exist then those parts stay at the closest existing level. Categories, like lists, can be incomplete. This is considered normal, cf. WP:Wikipedia is a work in progress --Joy (talk) 20:42, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Yes, — sorry, to which part? JustARandomSquid (talk) 20:58, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Yes to the first two questions. To elaborate a bit more, the only reason to deviate would be if someone actually wrote an article about e.g. Bor municipality and wanted to also make a category for that. I wouldn't necessarily recommend doing that, however, because I've observed in several practical examples in Montenegro that the municipality article ends up badly linked and with less readership that way. --Joy (talk) 21:05, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Dear WikiProject Serbia members, the article for Paja Jovanović's famous painting, Decorating of the Bride, currently lacks an image of the painting itself. If anybody has a high-quality picture of this painting, which hangs in the permanent exhibition of the National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade, please upload it to English Wikipedia (not to Wikimedia Commons; see Category:Paja Jovanović for info). Revolution Saga (talk) 21:50, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

If a good image can be found online, I assume that's ok to use too, under {{PD-art}}? JustARandomSquid (talk) 22:16, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

You're right; I hadn't thought of that. I'll see about finding one. Cheers! Revolution Saga (talk) 22:56, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Višeslav of Serbia source issues — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-62029-4 (talk) 00:23, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Qurabiya#Requested move 20 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:03, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

 Courtesy link: Template:Welcome-foreign/Serbian

Hello. Can you help verify a brief, English-to-Serbian translation in a welcome template?

Template:Welcome-foreign is a bilingual welcome template used to welcome new users who have written content in some other language besides English. The template welcomes them first in English, then in their own language, as long as it is one of the three dozen languages it can handle. New languages are easily added. I just added support for Serbian, but I don't know Serbian so I used automatic translation to create Template:Welcome-foreign/Serbian from the original at Template:Welcome-foreign/English. I'd appreciate it if a native Serbian speaker could verify or improve the translation. Feel free to edit it directly, or paste a better translation below, if you prefer not to edit a template. Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 00:54, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Oh, by the way, if you speak Croatian (or Bosnian, Macedonian, etc.) we need those translated as well; see Template:Welcome-foreign#Languages, subsection #Adding a new language. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 01:07, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Serbian is  Done , Thank you! Mathglot (talk) 00:01, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Matija Divković#Removal of RS sourced content Serbian Cyrillic part — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-10116-44 (talk) 00:50, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

An anonymous editor was somewhat persistent in adding this big edit at that article. It seems tendentious to present centuries of history in such a contrived way. Could someone please examine the edit to see if it's salvageable? ----Joy (talk) 20:25, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Pavle of Serbia#Requested move 16 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 07:20, 23 February 2026 (UTC)