Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Serbia/Archive 6

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Movement for unification of Serbia and Montenegro (copy)

I came across the article for Movement for unification of Romania and Moldova and was wondering if it might apply to Serbia and Montenegro's situation as the two topics are closely similar, even more so with Serbia and Montenegro.

There is enough historical evidence and proof here on Wikipedia itself to build a detailed article on the subject. Such as the close relationship historic/cultural/ethnic between the two groups. As well as political parties in both nations, particularly in Montenegro supporting the idea. Let me know what you think. Bluewings 2:44, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

I think its a great idea, particularly since I was looking for an article like that but could not find one anywhere. I'm a new user though so I'm still trying to figure out how this whole wikipedia thing works. Yugo91aesop (talk) 21:03, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Serbian Barnstar of National Merit

Template:Serbia Barnstar of National Merit was created.

Using this () and this (), official barnstar should be created. First who create it, should replace medal that is there now. --Tadija (talk) 17:27, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

I think we need some better image on the barnstar itself. (LAz17 (talk) 02:56, 16 August 2010 (UTC)).

WP 1.0 bot announcement

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Death project

WikiProject Death

Many massacre articles for ex-Yugoslavia were tagged by Wikiproject death (including Talk:Bruška massacre, Talk:Ahmići massacre and Talk:Podujevo massacre). I removed these tags but have been asked to reinstate them. I believe it is insensitive to have the following template on the talkpages of these articles Wikipedia:WikiProject Death/Templates. Many relatives of those killed can look at these pages. Please make your opinions known on this here and keep a watch on this talkpage tagging. I have suggested that it is okay for wikiproject death to keep a view on these articles but that the project banner on the talkpages is not acceptable. Polargeo (talk) 07:02, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

I object to this spreading over 4 or 5 projects - and would ask anyone concerned about this to go to the talk page death project of which this is the scope and issue - and nothing really to do with this project Satu Suro 07:28, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

I object to this being discussed on wikiproject death which will generally only be on the watchlist of wikiproject death members and hence biased. Please feel free to discuss it with me at User talk:Polargeo/death. Polargeo (talk) 10:10, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

serbian political parties deletion

A great many articles on Serbian political parties have been proposed for deletion via PROD as being unsourced: they are listed at [1] under January 26. And they are in fact unsourced, and I do not have the knowledge to source them. They were mostly added by User:Electionworld, who seems to be no longer active. He must have had soime source, but I do not have any idea what it is, nor can I work with the necessary language. All that's necessary to do is have some source that shows more than just mere legal existence, add it, and remove the prod tag, with an edit summary saying you're addingq a source. As you know, any language will do, print or online. DGG ( talk ) 23:48, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

I have sourced a few of them and I urge other project members to source more. A number are inactive right now, but all or nearly all deserve articles. A useful English-language source I have found is book Serbia under Milošević: politics in the 1990s by Robert Thomas that could be searched for party names. For the list, see [2]. Nikola (talk) 11:43, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

GDP of Serbian cities 1991

I have some very interesting information on my talk page of a number of cities in the former Yugoslavia and their GDP per capita. Its pretty interesting because it shows how developed Serbia was in comparison to the other republics, as well as how developed particular cities were in relation to other cities in the former Yugoslavia. I'll post a couple here but you can go to my talk page to see the ones I have.

With the average in Yugoslavia as 100% the Republics GDP per capita went like this

Slovenia 180%

Croatia 128%

Serbia 93%

-Vojvodina 129%

-Central Serbia 96%

-Kosovo 33%

Bosnia 69%

Macedonia 65%

Montenero 78%

Its pretty interesting cause you can see how developed Serbia was before 10 years of sanctions, the NATO bombing, and the mismanaged reforms to capitalism which undoubtedly destroyed much of the economy. what's even more interesting is the cities in Serbia itself.

Belgrade 147%

Novi Sad 172%

Nis 110%

Pristina 70%

Kragujevac 114%

Subotica 133%

I'll compare this with some other main cities in the other republics

Zagreb 188%

Sarajevo 133%

Skopje 90%

Ljubljana 260%

Podgorica 87%

Split 137%

Rijeka 213%

Osijek 138%

Banja Luka 97%

So some interesting statistics there if anyone wants to use them. There are more on my talk page along with the link if you want to cite it. Its interesting because if you compare Serbia's economy with the other republics it was definetly a lot more developed than Bosnia and Macedonia and although poorer than Croatia and Slovenia, it definetly had a strong economy before the war which was devasted completely in the 1990's.

Yugo91aesop (talk) 22:52, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

That is very nice from you, but I am not sure your intention here. You didn´t knew it? I lived in the 1980s in Belgrade, I traveled around, and, as the majority of people, I know very well all of this. Who said that Serbia was weak? In what position were you expecting to see Serbia, worste then 3th? Vojvodina was even better than Croatia. We were proud of Belgrade in general. Only the newer young generations, that only lived the sanctions period may think about Serbia as weak as it has been recently. In the 1980s (but also before) Serbian economy, and general economical indicators were very much similar to a large number of regions in Spain, Central and Southern Italy, Greece, Ireland or Portugal (where I actualy live), and way better than any regions of the former Eastern block countries, and even some from the Western Europe. I´m not sure if you know, but in 1990, when the elections were preparing, and prior to the wars, there was a serious talk about Yugoslavia being the next to enter to the EEC, todays European Union. So, it´s nice for you to remember us of this, but I think it is not here, in the Serbian project, that you need to point this out. All older Serbs, from 30s on, know this (I supose). If this information is new for you, please, at least avoid to show surprised publicaly, because this way you are embaracing many other Serbs wich know this quite well. :) FkpCascais (talk) 21:02, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Well I think that is the reason we need these stats here, because the younger generations do not know this. Its very important to have this information public because it shows how much more advanced the Serbian economy was before the 1990's. The fact that today our economy is only slightly worse off than Bulgaria's or Romania's even though Serbia went through a decade of sanctions and 78 days of bombing which targeted every single city and destroyed an estimated amount of 30 billion dollars worth of infrastructure shows to investors abroad that the Serbian economy today has not reached its full potential. War-torn regions are not an attractive area of investment while there is a war going on obviously or when theres political instability, but if the government and economy is stable then these areas become very attractive. Yugo91aesop (talk) 02:29, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Of course, you´re right. Don´t forget mentioning that the bombing unfortunatelly destroyed almost the entire industrial sector, or what was left of a decade of sanctions... It is very sad to me that younger generations don´t know this... Also, one more thing, beside the economy not having reached its full potential (its quite enourmosly far from that), it also didn´t reached it back then, so it means that it could (theoretically) go even much better. But, I find also a problem in a people´s mentality. People in Serbia tend to exagerate:"We are the best!" or "We are nothing"!, and the trouth is somewhere in between. But I trully feel sad that younger generations are so badly informed about our quite recent past... It was not that long before, and much of it still remains as some kind of unfinished economical work. FkpCascais (talk) 03:51, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Draža Mihajlović

I´m urging some help in putting this article in a NPOV point. I´m currently experiencing an edit war with a Croatian editor about some minor wording, that he insists in keeping, this way putting him in the same line of collaborators, as Nazy Pavelić. Can someone please help solving the edit-war? Unapred hvala. FkpCascais (talk) 19:03, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Nomination

Just to inform you that Žiča photo has been nominated for Featured picture.

Page is here.

Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Žiča

Spread the word. --Tadija (talk) 13:09, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Translation needed

An WP:ANI report on User:Иван Богданов needs someone who can read Serbian. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Possible use of userpage for some sort of attack in Serbian. Thankyou. Polargeo (talk) 17:16, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Merge of Republic_of_Serbia_(federal)

Someone nominated Republic_of_Serbia_(federal) to be merged into Serbia. just letting you guys know. see This page for discussion. Thank You. Gman124^talk 03:54, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Genealogy source wanted

Guys, Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich needs some attention. IPs from the Balkans regularly append his name with unsourced Rabrenovich (in various permutations: от Рабреновича, Rabrenovich i Dubrava etc.) and fancy titles like Princely Count (which is the English rendition of German Gefürsteter Graf).

The case of Miloradovich himself is quite clear: neither he, nor his father, nor the imperial government ever used a double-barreled surname in public. He had the title of count (граф, graf) of the Russian Empire since 1813. But his grandfather and earlier ancestors could very well belong to the family so favored by IPs, and maybe the "princely count" bit is not as nonsensical as it seems (maybe his ancestors indeed had valid claims to some German Fuerstmark?).

Could you please check his ancestry through genealogy RS and, if positive, append the section on family roots.

Regards, NVO (talk) 12:32, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Afd for Albanian Colonization of Kosovo

This article is being considered for deletion, and anyone who has anything to say should point to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albanian colonisation of Kosovo. Thank you.Alexikoua (talk) 19:27, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Omladinski

I made OSD Beograd and OKK Beograd articles just now. Just a heads up to you folk. (LAz17 (talk) 04:43, 27 April 2010 (UTC)).

.yu -> .rs etc

We still have a considerable amount of unfixed old .yu external links. Here are some simple searches that may help find them:

Please fix up anything you can find. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 21:47, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

The User:FrescoBot did some work on this previously, there are useful links there showing the remaining broken .yu links. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 14:40, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject tag

Great User Starzynka created hundreds of Serbia-related articles. But those articles are not tagged with {{WikiProject Serbia}}, so we should do that. Find articles regarding Serbian town and villages, and tag them. --Tadija^speaks 19:16, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

BOT?

Maybe i have better solution? As all of those articles are in the Category:Serbia geography stubs, maybe we should create bot that will add tags semi-automatically? --Tadija^speaks 19:39, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK

Museum of Vuk and Dositej appeared today on Main page! just to let you know! :) --Tadija^speaks 18:14, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Xenobot Mk V to tag articles in project scope and/or auto-assess unassessed articles

A request has been made at User:Xenobot/R#WP:SERBIA to tag & auto-assess articles in the scope of this project based on these categories and/or auto-assess the project's unassessed articles.

To auto-assess, Xenobot Mk V (talk · contribs) looks for a {{stub}} template on the article, or inherits the class rating from other project banners (see here for further details).

Feel free to raise any questions or concerns regarding this process. The task will commence after 72 hours if there are no objections.

–xeno^talk 14:20, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Task complete. 2547 edits. –xeno^talk 13:30, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons

The WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 32,665 as of May 16. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

Your Project's list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Serbia/Unreferenced BLPs. As of May 17 you have approximately 39 articles to be referenced. The list of all other WikiProject UBLPs can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/WikiProjects.

Your assistance in reviewing and referencing these articles is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions, please don't hestitate to ask either at WT:URBLP or at my talk page. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 17:10, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

I had contributed with the football related articles (mostly Serbs, but not only), here is the list of all articles I referneced: User:FkpCascais/List of saved unreferenced football biographies. FkpCascais (talk) 20:08, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Move to replace the word "Serbs" in Wikipedia categories

Following the discussion here which resulted in the replacement of the container category "Serbs" with Category:Serbian people (for people of Serbia) and Category:Serb people (for ethnic Serbs), there appears to be a move to replace "Serbs" for "Serb people" throughout the Wikipedia categories (if the way the issue has been dealt with in similar cases in anything to go by). In the discussion taken place here, which would have seen the Category:Serbian Austro-Hungarians replaced by Category:Austro-Hungarian Serb people. I have suggested a change instead to Category:Austro-Hungarian Serbs. Davshul (talk) 15:11, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Translation needed at Duško Dukić

Can someone do a quick verification that the source I found actually translates to support the content in Duško Dukić‎ and that the source meets our WP:RS guidelines? Thanks! Active Banana (talk) 14:17, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

http://poptoplista.com/

I work primarily on the record charts, keeping track of what charts are reliable and which aren't. I just saw a link to http://poptoplista.com/ which, on the face of it, would appear to be an airplay chart. My question is whether it is an airplay chart for a single station or network, or whether it combines airplay across multiple networks. Can anyone that actually understands the language point me at a source that would explain?—Kww(talk) 19:15, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

List of bridges in Serbia

I created yesterday new article.

List of bridges in Serbia

Please, can some of you, guys go, and check it, and write on article's Talk page which new bridges should be added, and i will create pages for that bridges. Little cooperation! :) Be good, pozdravlja vas Tadija^speaks 19:45, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Serbian Cyrillic

When writting the cyrillic form of the names on the articles I have been using Serbian Cyrillic, but I see that many times simply Serbian has been used. I find wrong using simply "Serbian" because that way is given the impression that the name of the article, usually written in Serbian Latin script, is of some other language, and only the cyrillic version is "Serbian" (language). For exemple, if we write, Dejan Stanković (Serbian: Дejaн Cтaнкoвић) , we are obviously by that giving the wrong impression that Serbian language version is the one in cyrillic, and the latin (article name) is then in some other language. Any touths on this? FkpCascais (talk) 04:13, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm obviously not a member of this project but from the point of view of someone who often reads articles related to Serbian people, I'd say Serbian Cyrillic is more appropriate. Titles of biographic articles are usually already using the spelling as it is used in the Latin script version, and that version is obviously no less Serbian. Using the tag "Serbian" for the cyrillic version would imply that Serbian language is written only in cyrillic script, which a) is simply not true, and b) would lead to the paradoxical conclusion that the article's title (for example, let's say Dejan Stanković) is therefore neither in English (as it uses diacritics) or in Serbian (as it is spelled using Latin script). If one would hypothetically insist on claiming that only the Cyrillic version is true Serbian, then article titles would require transliteration, as is already the case with Russian or Bulgarian, and Dejan Stanković would have to be spelled something along the lines of Deyan Stankovich. Now that would surely be absurd. Timbouctou (talk) 20:43, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. It should either be

Dejan Stanković (Serbian Cyrillic: Дejaн Cтaнкoвић)

or perhaps preferably shortened to

Dejan Stanković (Cyrillic: Дejaн Cтaнкoвић)

After all, the first spelling is Serbian, so why would we need to say explicitly that the second is Serbian? Doing so still implies that we're somehow also talking about something which isn't Serbian. For anyone who isn't clear on the concept, the link would still be to Serbian Cyrillic.

— kwami (talk) 21:04, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

No-one's objected in almost 2 weeks, so I'm starting to switch over. There are 4580 articles to go through! I'm switching to 'Cyrillic' since both are Serbian. Please let me know if that shorter form is a problem. — kwami (talk) 06:34, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Here's an article that can maybe left as is: Bosnia and Herzegovina. It would be nice to shrink it down to the name of the over-all language, but that would probably produce a firestorm. — kwami (talk) 06:41, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm not changing instances of {{lang-sr}}, which have the same effect if used improperly, as at Aleksandar Dunđerović. — kwami (talk) 07:27, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Radovanjski Lug

Radovanjski Lug had requested a copy-edit. Someone with knowledge about this topic please check it. My edited version and the original text. I have left notes on the article's talk page. Thanks, Davtra (talk) 10:59, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Bosnian Genocide

Guys, don't you think the article should be added to the scope of WikiProject Serbia? It is in the project Yugoslavia, but I guess Serbian "factor" is relevant to the article and it is currently being edited out of its scope. I think it worths paying attention to the edits. Aregakn (talk) 00:03, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Most popular Serbian articles

There is a new tool which can produce a monthly list of top most viewed pages for articles which fall in the scope of a WikiProject. I believe it would be very useful to help establish article improvement priorities. An example of how this would look like is here. I will make a formal request. --Tadija^speaks 09:38, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Bubanj Memorial Park

Just now, as we speak on Wikipedia main page, as part of DYK, you can see Bubanj Memorial Park as first article with image. Just to let you know! :) --Tadija^speaks 17:09, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Assessment

I have requested a peer review Wikipedia:Peer_review/International_Court_of_Justice_advisory_opinion_on_Kosovo's_declaration_of_independence/archive1, and would appreciate any and all help.Lihaas (talk) 12:46, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Marijana Mićić

The above page was created yesterday, and clearly is of a notable individual, yet I had to mark it as BLP PROD because the article doesn't have a single reliable reference. In the last day nobody has added a reference to the article in order to reliably remove the PROD and ensure the article's survival. Is someone able to locate some reliable references to demonstrate the subject's notability? -- role^player 13:25, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

back on to croatia

As is known, I have been editing quite a bit regarding croatian articles over my time span here. So, here are somethings that I feel are most important for us Serbs. First of all, a big discussion is literally ready to explode here, Talk:Serbs of Croatia, as we can see that croatian POV needs to be reigned in. We need to get that article into a good state so that it is not reaked of the stench of croatian POV or serbian POV. We need more of our wiki memebers participating on that page, as there seems to be for the most part an absence of us there. So, I ask you all, come forth and join the discussion on the talk page of the Serbs of Croatia page, so to help make the page better. I do not want people comming who are going to spew serbian POV. We simply need a better article. CCCC. (LAz17 (talk) 03:04, 16 August 2010 (UTC)).

No concern? Really??? Even after this came out, [3] ? (LAz17 (talk) 04:07, 31 August 2010 (UTC)).

Pageview stats

After a recent request, I added WikiProject Serbia to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Serbia/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 04:22, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Move proposal: Occupation of Albania

There is a move proposal Talk:Occupation_of_Albania_(1912–1913)#Move_proposal.Alexikoua (talk) 20:11, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Branka Sovrlić

The article on Serbian singer Branka Sovrlić was tagged as an unreferenced biography of a living person in May 2008 (which is the current focus month for the Wikipedia:Unreferenced BLP Rescue project). I've tried to find sources for this stub but am coming up empty. I'm posting here in case anyone in this project might like to take an interest.--Plad2 (talk) 08:09, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

National symbols of Serbia

All of you are welcome to join discussion about this subject.

National symbols of Serbia#Criteria

So we can create one good useful template, and satellite articles. --WhiteWriter ^speaks 20:03, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

And, also. just to let you know, National symbols of Serbia. --WhiteWriter ^speaks

Serbian villages and WP:NCGN

According to WP:NCGN shall the article Boljare (Sjenica) be renamed to Boljare, Sjenica?--Александр Мотин (talk) 08:35, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

I dont know, most of those articles are created with ()... --WhiteWriter ^speaks 09:28, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Serbia articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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Template:Raška municipality

Is this template ok to make similar ones?--Александр Мотин (talk) 19:53, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it looks good.Starzynka (talk) 17:25, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes, great! :) --WhiteWriter ^speaks 17:58, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Nevenka Urbanova DYK

Nevenka Urbanova, one of the most famous Serbian actress is, as we speak, on the Main Wikipedia page. Including image! :) Just to let you know. --WhiteWriter ^speaks 10:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Most Ljubavi DYK

Most Ljubavi in Vrnjačka Banja, enclosed by Love padlocks, is, as we speak, on the Main Wikipedia page. :) Just to let you know. --WhiteWriter ^speaks 12:18, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

List of Serbian NBA players

In case you didn't notice, the List of Serbian NBA players has been turned into a redirect by User:Chrishmt0423 pointing to the more general List of foreign NBA players (the same thing happened with the List of Croatian NBA players and several others). I've reverted the change as I feel that a lot of valuable information was lost in the process (the general list doesn't offer match statistics and drops 5 Serbian players who were drafted but never appeared in an actual game), and I don't see why the two list couldn't coexist (Chrishmt0423 reasoned "separate list not needed; it actually makes updating more difficult" in his edit summary). Furthermore, the move was never discussed in the article's talk page. I've reverted the move and left a message at Chris' user page, but if anyone here shares my concern you are welcome to help in the effort to keep the list. Timbouctou 10:43, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

In the meantime list was taken to AfD. You're invited to voice your opinion there. Timbouctou 19:30, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

A PROD that may affect this project

Bad Copy, an article about a "popular hip-hop group from Belgrade, Serbia" was the subject of a WP:PROD. I just removed the PROD so that you all can participate in any subsequent discussion about the notability of the group. 67.100.127.249 (talk) 08:19, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Stracimir Zavidović

The new article Stracimir Zavidović would benefit from some expert eyes: though an article by that name also exists on several other language Wikipedias, I'm struggling to turn up any references to this person in book sources. Those cited don't appear to mention the name Zavidović at all. Can anyone here point to any good sources for the article?

Also, can any Serbian speakers advise about the username of the editor who created the article? If it means anything like what jebać means in Polish then a trip to WP:UAA may be in order. Gonzonoir (talk) 13:03, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I am not expert in medieval history, but I can answer the second part of your question because I speak Serbian. Jebacz does look very similar to something like this.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 13:11, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Request for help: Peasant fight

Could I please have some help with the article Peasant fight? It appears to be describing a type of martial art popularized in Serbia in the 15th century, but is unreferenced, and I cannot read Serbian in order to find online references myself. Thanks, Top Jim (talk) 09:38, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

I believe that is some kind of joke and should be deleted. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:57, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Lets talk

Hi, I have written up a list of issues regarding Kosovo here , User_talk:Mdupont#Naming_and_status_of_Kosovo_pages I would appreciate comments. Let reach an agreement on how to continue. thanks, Mike James Michael DuPont (talk) 11:35, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Help sourcing Obrad Zelic

Can anyone here help find sources for Obrad Zelic? Currently subject of a proposed deletion, he seems to be notable, but we just can't find sources for him. Thanks Hallucegenia (talk) 20:36, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Invention-ifia.ch--Antidiskriminator (talk) 20:56, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

scindeks.nb.rs--Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:55, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

"May Overthrow"

Could someone familiar with the subject matter take a look at the article May Overthrow? The article, or much of it, appears to have been written by someone who has some difficulties with written English, and the article needs to be cleaned up. (And should it really be "May Overthrow" and not "May Coup?") -- Mwalcoff (talk) 03:46, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Which Stefan Uroš is saint?

Please have a look at Talk:List of Serbian saints#Which_Stefan_Uro.C5.A1.3F?. --Ikar.us (talk) 18:09, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

There are five Stefan Urošs, members of House of Nemanjić who are saints:

--Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:55, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Komren

The article Komren has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Neighborhoods generally don't meet the requirements of WP:N, no mention of notability no references

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jeepday (talk) 16:52, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Project name

can we have this cahnged to someething represention Serbia and Serbian people? Currently the kosovo election (and other kosov articles) may not always qualify as serbia but it certainly is serbian, as is Repblika Srpska.Lihaas (talk) 23:14, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

What do you mean? Serbs project? P.S.:You suport the independence of Vojvodina? Do you know that 85% of people from Vojvodina doesn´t? Why do you then? (not a provocation, just a question :) FkpCascais (talk) 00:08, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

I made not statement of vojvodina. Im saying there maybe some controversy to put it on the kosovo pages (note- ive already put this banner up on the kosovo election page), but for Bosnia to get a "serbia" banner would be more controversial if it doesnt say "serbians"Lihaas (talk) 08:43, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

I know. My question to you about Vojvodina was unrelated to your question here (I saw it in your user page, where you do make a statement in a userbox). I understand, since the WikiProject:Serbia has to do with issues regarding the State of Serbia proper, and not Serbs as people. What do you suggest? WikiProject:Serbs? Are there any other similar cases in other projects? FkpCascais (talk) 01:06, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Ah, sorry. it was collected from list somewhere.

Well, i dont think we need another project, just that this one be expanded to include Serbia and Serbs. There has been at least once ive seen somewhere in regards to the people/language and the country/region but i forget which (may have been an unrecognised country. Possible Armenia?)(Lihaas (talk) 10:40, 18 December 2010 (UTC)).

I understand your point, but I doubt that this project will change its name because dealing with Serbia proper has many issue already to cover. I´ll leave it to see what other participants of the project think about it. FkpCascais (talk) 10:55, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Scope is not that much bigger? Or perhaps a taskforce(Lihaas (talk) 09:09, 19 December 2010 (UTC)).

highways

Someone should create Highways in Serbia, based on http://www.putevi-srbije.rs/pdf/serbia_main_and_regional_road.pdf --Joy [shallot] (talk) 21:54, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Is this a joke?--Antidiskriminator (talk) 00:08, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Well, Antidiskriminator, it's definitely not a joke! I will create that article. Thanks, Joy! --WhiteWriter ^speaks 08:31, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

I was afraid that such article would not pass notability criteria. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 12:33, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Michael of Zahumlje

The article Michael of Zahumlje has attained good article status. Regards, Kebeta (talk) 22:59, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josef Schultz

German soldier that dropped his gun to stand besides Yugoslav partisans about to be shot. Help would be needed to find sources offline and in Serbo-Croat, especially about the monument in Lokve.^walk victor falk^talk 07:05, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Ljubodrag Simonović

Basketball star - later a philosophical writer, there is a thread about this guy at the BLP noticeboard here, if anyone could add some comments that would be great, thanks. Off2riorob (talk) 19:50, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

New Serbia related portal

Just wanted to inform you that new Serbia related portal is opened.

Portal:Cultural Heritage of Serbia

You are welcome to see it, fix it, and expand it. All best! --WhiteWriter ^speaks 20:09, 31 January 2011 (UTC)