User talk:Bogdangiusca/Archive4

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Archive 1 (May 2003 - September 2004)
Archive 2 (October 2004 - November 2004)
Archive 3 (December 2004 - January 2005)

Ceauşescu

I'm hoping you might help in sorting out the remaining dispute at Nicolae Ceauşescu. I've sorted out what I think should be relatively uncontroversial, and I've made comments on the remainder.

Far and away the most serious issues are in the Revolution or/and Coup section of the article, which presents Burlan's claims as if they were uncontroversial fact. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:50, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Distribution of Celts in Europe.png

I put an {{ifc}} tag and left a note about your suggestions for improvement on Image:Distribution of Celts in Europe.png. I don't really know enough about Celtic history to update the image, but please, feel free. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)}

List of Romanian words with unknown origin

hi there Bogdan, is there such a "list of romanian words with unknown origin" ? should we make such an article ?

That would be a rather long list. It would be better to make it in the Wiktionary. Anyway, I'll try to make a program which will create the list, according to DEX (from the database at http://dexonline.ro Bogdan | Talk 10:24, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

a new "dacian connection" just poped-up in my head, i'm seeing a connection between romanian "baiat" and english "boy" :0) -- Criztu 23:44, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I heard about this idea before. :-) The English word "boy" has an obscure etymology and since a Dacian legion of the Roman Army was stationed in Britain... there was this connection, but anyway, there's absolutely no proof for this. Bogdan | Talk 10:24, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Dacia (disambiguation)

Could you have a look at User:CristianTota's recent edit to Dacia (disambiguation). I'm hesitant to just revert, but it seems "cranky" to me, especially the precision of "14%". I'm not sure what he is on about, I'm figuring you are more likely to have a clue. -- Jmabel | Talk 19:47, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

It appears to be just a fan of Săvescu's cranky theories. :-) Bogdan | Talk 22:38, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

For the help with Miyagawa Isshô Haiduc 12:54, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Transylvania region

ok, there are Ardeal, Banat, Crisana and Maramures regions, and there is a "historic Principality of Transylvania", so i think it is wrong(or more exactly Irredentist Propaganda) to have an article saying "Bihor is a county in Transylvania region"... am I right ? -- Criztu 20:38, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The way I understand it Transylvania = Ardeal + Banat + Crisana + Maramures. Pretty much the same way in which Wallachia = Oltenia + Muntenia. Regarding your observation, correct is "Bihor is a country in Romania". Then it can be added that it is part of a historic region. MihaiC 08:07, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Links

Hey, thanks for sorting the links out on my user page!! (Yes - I know I'm hopeless!!!) Selphie 13:37, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) *talk*

when someone sense cannot sense essence.

Wikipedia should be based on NPOV. Do you need a research paper to see what is obviously similar?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rohonczi_Codex&oldid=10649732

It's all about sensitivity, when someone sense cannot sense essence.

Intellact 20:34, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ilfov

Salut Bogdan! Adăugând Template:Wrongtitle la o serie de articole legate de România am văzut şi Imaginile tale despre Ilfov. Ai putea să le pui pe commons:? "Amike" Gangleri | Th | T 07:46, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC)

Copyright

Hi. I want to use the file Image:IE countries.png on my website under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. I need to contact the copyright owners of these files. Copyright owners are usually the creators of a work (and/or their employers). Please contact me using my talk page. Thank you very much, NSK 17:32, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

OK, I agree to put it in CC by-sa as well. Bogdan | Talk 19:20, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Adminship?

Hi, are you interested in being an Administrator? There's no particular obligation to do anything, but it would give you a few extra tools that may come in handy dealing with vandalism and such things. You seem trustworthy and polite, so I would be happy to nominate you if you're willing. Please let me know if you're interested. --Michael Snow 17:58, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

User:Albanau

Hello Bogdan. If you would like to add your vote to Albanau being blocked and even banned, please consider it. He tried to delete your Origin of Albanians article a few hours ago. Decius 10:27, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Geography of Romania

Salut Bogdan! User:Tobias Conradi a mutat o serie de titluri privind judetele din România de la formele "Foo (county)" la formele "Foo County"; vezi si Talk:Alba (county).
Nu stiu ce parere ai tu. Poate ar fii bine ca articolele sa fie sub aceasi forma. Oricum mai e mult de facut vezi Talk:Geography of Romania. Te rog sa raspunzi acolo. Multumesc anticipat. Gangleri | Th | T 15:50, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)

Mersi Bogdan pentru raspunsul tau la Talk:Geography of Romania. De cateva zile prelucrez si lincuiesc articolele judetelor de la en: si eo:. Am gasit atât nl: cât si pl: pe care le adaug acum la de:.

Am vrut sa te contactez pe tine si pe Ronline si privitor la imaginile pe care le-ai facut si care sunt acum si la commons:Category:Maps of Romania. Pe commons nu mai apar ca autor cea ce as vrea sa reluam.

Am contactat o serie de utilizatori priviind commons:Category:Maps of Romania, modificarile minore privind denumirile si formatul Template:NowCommons.

Te rog sa semnezi imaginile sau sa lasi un scurt comentariu. Multumesc anticipat. Salutari din München Gangleri | Th | T 17:58, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)

Deoarece am remarcat cât de greu pot fii gasite imaginile la commons: am întrodus

This image was created by ro:Utilizator:Bogdan — en:User:Bogdangiusca.
Search: România Romania | Mehedinţi Mehedinti

Te rog sa vezi si marcajele la Category:Maps of Romania. Sper ca astfel sa avem mai multe sance.
Vezi schimbarile efectuate la Special:Recentchangeslinked Category:Maps of Romania. "Amike" Gangleri | Th | T 11:06, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC)

Bogdan am adaugat un link interesant cu harti. sunt publicate in 1905 si cred ca au copirughtul expirat: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/se_europe_1700.jpg http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/se_europe.html CristianChirita 10:06, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ancient Greek words borrowed by Dacians

Hi Bogdan, in a recent addition to Origin of Romanians you wrote that some ancient Greek borrowings are considered to be words that Dacians borrowed from Greeks, something that I agree with and an idea that I use as well. I'm just wondering what linguists affirm that, so I can read up on their works. Some ancient Greek words are also considered to have entered via Classical/Late Latin (as you probably know). Decius 05:33, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sorin Olteanu wrote something about ancient borrowings from Greek.

Anyway, there are some phonetic corespondences, such as Greek "s" -> Romanian "ts", which could be a paralel Albanian "s" <-> Romanian "ts".

sigalos / ţigaie (DEX: et. nec.)

selinon / ţelină (DEX: ngr.)

syrinx / ţur (+suf. ţurloi, ţurcă, ţurţur, etc) (DEX: et. nec.)

Of them, ţigaie and ţurloi/ţurcă are related to the life of a shepherd.

Bogdan | Talk 08:07, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

What Sorin Olteanu is arguing in most cases is that the correspondances are cognates, and are evidence for the theory that Daco-Thracian was akin to Greco-Macedonian. In other cases he states that words such as syrinx were borrowed by ancient Greeks from Thracian shepherds. Decius 08:23, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It's hard to know exactly what was the direction of the word interchanges. Anyway, a linguistic contact existed. Bogdan | Talk 08:29, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I've just reread Olteanu's essay again to double-check, and unless I'm mistaken, he doesn't suggest that any one of the words he is discussing was borrowed from Greek, so Sorin Olteanu cannot be used as reference, because he's saying the words are either 1) cognates, which show Daco-Thracic & Greek linguistic relation; 2) or he considers them as words that ancient Greeks borrowed from Thracians (for example, according to him syrinx cannot be native to Greek). At the top of his essay, he says that there are three already accepted layers of Romanian-Greek lexical relations: and these three consist of Romanian borrowings from Greek (indirectly or directly); he's saying that a fourth older layer of lexical relations (not borrowings) must exist, and from the examples that he then gives, he doesn't say that any of those words originate from Greek, so the fourth old layer is not just another layer of borrowings like the newer three. Decius 10:50, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'm wondering about your source because I don't know of any such source (though it may well exist), and because I'd like to read such a reference myself. Decius 11:08, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Map

Bogdan, Seems that your ethnic map of Transylvania is deleted. Can you upload this map again? I found this map interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ethnic_map_transylvania.png User:PANONIAN

It's not deleted. I can still see it. :-) Bogdan | Talk 16:29, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Bucharest

Is it really "Adriean Videanu", not "Adrian"? -- Jmabel | Talk 21:39, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)

I checked. I is indeed "Adriean Videanu". And you were right to ask - it isn't such a common name in Romania. MihaiC 06:17, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it's "Adriean". Bogdan | Talk 16:29, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Getting down to business

Greetings Bogdan, I made some much needed revisions to the Thracian language page. It was time to represent the Thracian-Albanian theory more, to get into details about the Balto-Slavic models, and to make public some of Sorin Paliga's work. Hope you can help the article to improve also. It is time to apply precision and detail and not let certain schools sway this Wikipedia article, when in fact there is plenty of data in favor of other views. Decius 12:05, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Basically, I thought maybe you could insert some of Rosseti's (and others, etc.)Albanian-Thracian connections into the article, since I don't have his work. That Rosseti file you gave me unfortunately didn't download. Decius 12:26, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Of course, I still personally reject the view that Daco-Thracian was Albanic (or Albanic was Daco-Thracic), but nevertheless some affinity existed (as I always suggested anyway), and relevant Albanian-Thracian info should be added. I mentioned what I thought was the best stuff. Decius 12:49, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Rosseti's work is mostly centred on the Romanian and Albanian "Dacian" words, trying to find the phonetical changes (from PIE to the "common ancestor" and from the common ancestor to Albanian and Romanian) and not much about the actual Thracian language. When I'll have some more free time, I'll go to the library and see what I can find. Bogdan | Talk 16:29, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, just that information alone is important and gives me an idea of Rosseti's views, which probably chime with Vladimir Georgiev's splitting of Dacian from Thracian. I didn't know whether Rosseti considered Dacian and Thracian as very close languages (the view held by many, including Olteanu) or as rather separate languages (Georgiev, etc.). Decius 16:52, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Romanian Help

I put this in User: Jmabel's talk page and he pointed me to you so I will repeat my question here :) Could you have a look at Template:User ro-1 for me? My romanian is about 6-7 years rusty, and I was never too good writing things without awkward wording. I do a lot better speaking and translating from romanian into english, but I wanted to use that template. Dalf | Talk 05:34, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Done. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 07:30, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, now if I can just figure out why it did not add me to the catagory when I used the template :) Dalf | Talk 07:48, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Now it is. I just saved again your user page to refresh the cache of the category. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 09:54, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Dalf | Talk 10:09, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Vote for deletion

Hi, see the {{vfd}} ("Vote for Deletion") concerning the various sub-categories for Jewish people at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Re:Sub-Categories of Jewish people [1]. Thank you. IZAK 10:13, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sicilian language

I note that you started this article (according to its History). Maybe you'd like to add some more to it. Decius 01:30, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Quebec

If you are interested in Quebec-related collaboration, there is a Quebec wikipedians notice board and a Quebec collaboration of the week. Circeus 19:16, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

Confusion

Your edit on Sunday to Mount Ceahlau said something about the mountain being in Moldova and having {{Romania-stub}} after it. Which country is it in, Moldova or Romania? NazismIsntCool 11:57, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC) PS: And thanks for correcting some mindless vandal who called Romania a you-know-what. People like him shouldn't be around, considering I'm a Romanian expatriate.

The mountain is in the "Moldova" region of Romania, not in the Republic of Moldova bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 12:13, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

How can there be an independent country called Moldova and a region of Romania called Moldova? Are they close together? NazismIsntCool 23:36, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Excuse me for intruding, but I couldn't resist: how can you be born in Romania, and have immigrated from Romania in 1999, yet you do not know about Moldova, the large region in Romania, and the independent Republic of Moldova immediately adjacent to it, which is populated by a majority of Romanians? I'm sorry, but that is impossible, so I'm inclined to believe that you are not being "candid" about your actual background. Decius 08:13, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

But it's okay Julia, as long as "you do no harm" (and as long as you don't misrepresent Romanians), I'll look the other way. Decius 08:24, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Dear Bod: Hi! Thank you for asking me tom provide an article on the page I originated about the Neighborhood watch. It seems that they changed their name since I wrote it, without much public hoopla. I found them still, it's called The Minuteman project now.

Im against the group. Not because Im illegal here; I am legal because I was born in Puerto Rico. But, #1, as a Latin American, Mexicans and those coming from other Latin countries are my brothers in language and culture, #2, They come to the United States because of our own fault (Im including myself in this). Eusually, when we go back to our countries, we built a dream on them that this country is filled with gold, telling them how many cars, tv's homes, etx we own, and these people starve in their countries so what are they going to want to do? Come to America!!! #3 and the biggest reason I oppose the group, is that the Minutemen are nowhere to be seen around the Canada border. Canadians are White, like them, and so, yeah I think its a racist group. I hope you understand why I wrote about them then. I feel its important that people know about them, but I left my opinion out.

Well, your input was vry valuable in my talk page. Otherwise I wouldnt have noticed they changed their name. I found a link with the new name too. It will be easier now to find them on the internet.

That said, thank you for everything and [[God] bless you! Let me know when I can collaborate on any article with you! By the way Id love to visit Romania. I heard Romania is beautiful and Tarom (I originated that article, I think) awesome!

Sincerely yours, "Antonio Lost mind Martin"

Hi Antonio and thank you for updating the page. Actually, the reason I asked you about this was because I posted a link to the article on a forum and I got a reply about the lack of references and something like "you know that the wiki can be sometimes unreliable". :-)

About the immigration to the US: well... I think that Chomsky is right when he says that racism still has an important part in today's international politics. The contradictory official policy of the US is that they agree with hiring foreigners ("outsourcing"), but as long as they stay in their own countries. This contradiction is perfectly explainable by racism: they don't want funny-looking people speaking with strange accent in the US! bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 22:10, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Project Transnistria ?

Hi ! As I have realized there is few on Transnistria, including the fact that the category Transnistria does'nt have a single part of transnistria in it. Now I am suggesting the start of a Wiki Project Transnistria. Kind regards, Sarcelles 21:49, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I think it would be a good idea. There is surprisingly little information about Transnistria on the Internet generally, although it would diserve more attention as it is one of the few remaining "hot spots" of Europe. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 22:10, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I have now started a Wikipedia:WikiProject Transnistria. It is registered in the list of Wiki Projects.

Sarcelles 23:44, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)