User talk:Svajavan

Welcome!

Hello, Svajavan, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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About Stasys Šilingas

Hi. You appear to be a scholar and historian, which is great! Wikipedia needs more of you. I do want to make sure you are aware of the implications of posting articles here. Mainly, that you agree to license your contributions under the GNU Free Documentation License and Wikipedia's Copyright terms. This means that other editors can edit articles that you start. These edits may be helpful, or they may seem unhelpful. But once you post an article, you do not own it, and you can't control the content except through persuasion and consensus. I am a scholar myself, and getting rewritten by strangers takes some getting used to. A couple of people to whom I gave this notice ended up withdrawing their contributions, as they were unwilling to accept the copyright terms and to have their words edited by others.

Hopefully you are already familiar with wikipedia and are happy (as I am) to have your contributions made available in this way. Wikipedia is a great experiment to see if knowledgable people on all topics are willing to basically give away their knowledge. Good luck and have fun. Thatcher131 02:27, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whoever edited this page recently is not fluent in English.

You should be aware of neutrality requirements in Wikipedia. That means such phrases as "learned Lithuanian to perfection" or "failed but great Uprising" should be avoided. Sticking to the facts is the best option; there is no need for editorializing. At first the article read as a very emotional account of his life: the greatest man alive, all alone restored independence of Lithuania and all alone suffered in a Russian prison. Wikipedia is here not to praise people, but to write a neutral and scholarly biography about them. Thanks, Renata 02:03, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your comments, Renata. I get your point, but I think you are a bit emotional yourself. Best, Svaja