Talk:Mitică/Archive 1

Massive deletion in the lead

I do not answer to "I never heard of thisun" arguments (especially when, as part of this project, editors have the opportunity to find out things they did not know much about - such as Christian Rakovsky having asked for Bessarabia to be awarded to Romania...). I also remind Dpotop that the lead is a place to summarize info, not to source it (at least, for the cases were the info is discussed further in the article), and the parts he deleted are very much sourced in the body of text, with both primary and secondary sources (in the "Cultural and political symbol" subsection, if it is difficult to find). This is the case no matter how little time he spends reading wikipedia policies or the very text he is "correcting". Dahn 10:25, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Dumitru

An interesting thing is that Dumitru is currently the most common last name in Ilfov County. (at least in the phone book database) In Bucharest, it's not, presumably because of the massive migration from all over the country during the 20th century. The last names are mostly derived from personal names, so I presume that back in the 19th century, it was the most common personal name in Ilfov/Bucharest. bogdan 11:56, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Interesting indeed. Also consider who the patron saint of Bucharest is (this may be the source for the spread you mention, but may also be something on its own - Caragiale may have alluded to this symbol). I may be repeating myself, but there is also something to note about the common family names in the area (including those Mitică has from time to time): Ghica and Asachi indicate that, at a time when people started picking surnames for themselves, "-escu" was only rarely used outside of Wallachia. Dahn 12:01, 26 September 2007 (UTC)