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[edit] Bulgarian politician stubs
Greetings everybody.
User:Barbov has created a new stub template for Bulgarian politicians - {{Bulgaria-politician-stub}} - and listed it on the proposal page of WikiProject Stub Sorting WP:WSS (usually, it is the other way around.) The reason I am writing to you is that I could only find 57 stub articles relating to Bulgarian politicians, and our stardard requirement to approve a new stub template is that it is used on 60 stub articles. So if any of you could, say, create 5 new stubs articles, the template will be sure to be approved. It probably will be anyway, but reaching 60-65 stubs will make it certain. Any new articles don't have to contain much information - e.g. "XYZ is a Bulgarian politician. He / she has been a member of Parliament since ... representing the ... political party."
If any of you create these missing articles, please tag them with either {{Bulgaria-politician-stub}} or both {{Bulgaria-bio-stub}} and {{euro-politician-stub}}. (I've used the last solution myself.) If the template is approved, I will update all articles to use the new template. If any of you create the "missing" stubs, please tell us where the proposal is listed on [1] Best regards from WP:WSS. Valentinian (talk) 00:11, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
- The new template was approved. To use it, just type {{Bulgaria-politician-stub}} Again, good luck with your work from the guys at WP:WSS. Valentinian (talk) 22:58, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- Great! Big thanks for the work and all the best to you too :)
→ Тодор Божинов / Todor Bozhinov → 07:07, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
- Great! Big thanks for the work and all the best to you too :)
[edit] Template:TownBG
Hello! I've been recently trying to make the Bulgarian town template look better by making it a real infobox with optional parameters and so. I'd like to include some space for a coat of arms (герб) left of the map and a Cyrillic name for the town under the {{PAGENAME}} (the PAGENAME I feel should be only displayed when there's no, say, {{{NAME}}} specified), an optional parameter for the party of the mayor displaying it <small></small> and in parentheses (скоби) right of his name, a parameter for the municipality (община) and other optional parameters that one would include in an infobox. Could someone more experienced with wiki and HTML markup make these changes to Template:TownBG or give some hints. I've been looking at other templates' sources and could ultimately cope with the task, but it's not an easy job after all. → Тодор Божинов / Todor Bozhinov → 14:44, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
- Could someone write here how to obtain location maps (the grey ones with red dot) for the town infobox (if not available from the Bulgarian Wikipedia or Commons)? Preslav 10:44, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- Well, there are maps available for all towns in Commons (but they use a different transliteration — they use 'kh' instead of 'h' for Cyrillic 'х' and 'u' for Cyrillic 'ъ'), and the Bulgarian Wikipedia has maps for most villages.
- Here are some instructions on Petko's website explaining how to make such a map if there isn't one available (unfortunately they're only in Bulgarian). Basically, you enter the name of the village above the map and a map would appear illustrating a village with the closest possible name (you can ignore it), then you check the coordinates in GoogleMaps or any other another similar service, enter them in the field below the sample map to the right, click on the button below the two coordinates fields, save the map and upload it. Todor→Bozhinov 10:58, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Featured content
The snow scene at Shipka Pass photograph by User:Psy guy is set to appear on the Main Page on 3 June (a Saturday). Greetings everyone!
Also, the Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria article is currently being peer reviewed and will soon be nominated to become a featured article. Everybody is welcome to express his opinion when that happens. Todor Bozhinov → 18:00, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Categorisation and naming
I think some work should be done on categorisation and naming of Bulgaria-related subjects. I think for artificial lakes (яаэовири), "Dam" should be used for the barrier and "Reservoir" for the lake behind it. "Mountains of Bulgaria" should be renamed "Mountain Ranges of Bulgaria", containing the ranges (planini) and subcategories for each range that contain the mountain peaks of that range. Comments? Preslav 17:33, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
- Indeed, "reservoir" is the better word in my opinion too. As far as I know, only Australian English speakers use "dam" to mean the artificial lake and not the barrier. And Bulgaria is not Australia for sure :) That said, I'd support moving the pages to "_____ Reservoir" titles. As for the mountains, a mountain range is only a type of mountain, but there are also massifs and so on. "Mountains of Bulgaria" fits with "Mountains by country", but creating subcategories for the better known Bulgarian mountains may be useful. That's what I think, hope my opinion was useful! Todor Bozhinov → 18:59, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Provinces of Bulgaria categories
I've now created a category for each province of Bulgaria (e.g. Burgas Province has Category:Burgas Province). Make sure you add any new articles you create to the category in case they have a relation to it. Thanks! Todor→Bozhinov 22:54, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 16:56, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Request for help
Well aware this isn't Wikiproject Romania, but you guys are just over the border... could you please take a look at Transformations imposed by the Soviet Union in Romanian Education after the WW II.. needs some attention and comment. It's listed for AfD right now. Buckshot06 08:56, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bulgarian monarchs
While creating Template:Bulgarian monarchs I discovered that articles on this subject are quite a mess in terms of naming and numbering of monarchs, particularly during the Second Kingdom, and there are discrepancies between the bg and en versions. They need to be taken care of by someone with relevant qualification in history. --Dstoykov 20:27, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- Why do you think they're a mess? User:Imladjov, a historian who works at the University of Michigan, took care of them not long time ago. If there are any discrepancies between EN and BG, then the problem is most likely in BG. Todor→Bozhinov 11:08, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- Well, the article about Kaliman II is titled Kaliman II of Bulgaria, but the first paragraph starts with "Kaliman Asen II" and the Bulgarian page starts with "Калиман II Асен" ("Kaliman II Asen"). Michael Shishman of Bulgaria starts with "Michael Asen III" and the bg article is titled Михаил III Шишман Асен. This is very common, I'm not sure if there's a reason for that. Also, the 1246-1256 ruler is titled en:Michael Asen I of Bulgaria and bg:Михаил II Асен. I know history isn't maths and deals with vague information, but is it that bad? And I'm not talking about the content of the articles here - it seems to be quite good.
