Eugen Ivan

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Salut

I've made your user name blue. --Moldo 19:40, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

choosing the article for the info

Hi, Eugen Ivan. Please give a thought to what info to add to what articles. Sometimes, even factually correct additions are better left out. For example, in your recent edits to Bukovina article, you added too much detail (such as names of NKVD officers, etc.) This may be appropriate for narrower articles but not the name of the officers with detail about their orders in the articles about thousands years history of a historic region. Please check talk:Legnica for a similar discussion. I hope you agree. --Irpen 05:14, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Bukovina

Hi Eugen,

Great job so far, your work is appreciated. I guess I have two main things to tell you, always follow Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. (not that you've done anything wrong) We're required here to state both sides of an issue. See the Hugo Chávez article for a good example. Also, to aviod edit wars, you might consider reading Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary. I used to get into a lot of edit wars, but in the past month or so I've beeing following the one-revert rule. (if someone reverts my edits, I only revert once, and discuss it with them) Unfortunately, not everyone follows this. You may have seen me revert more than once on the Bukovina article, but this is because there are no restrictions when dealing with banned users. In this case, it was User:Bonaparte, a supporter of Greater Romania who has been extremely disruptive lately with his use of open proxys to vandalize pages, but I'm going a bit off topic. :p Anyways, that's pretty much it, if you need any more help just leave a message on my talk page. I'm not sure what nationality you are, so I guess I'll just say, "good luck!" :) —Khoikhoi 00:31, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Hehehe, I checked out some of your contributions, and I am guessing that you are Romanian, am I right? :) This is just based on the fact that you had the Romanian names as the titles for your articles about Ukrainian villages. However, you seem to be a very neutral and reasonable user, so keep up the good work. You might want to ask Irpen what he thinks about the article titles however. Your latest cotributions look very good, and are also well-cited.

BTW, the correct way to link to an external link is like this: [http://www.google.com/ Google]. As you already know, an internal link goes like this: [[Google]] —Khoikhoi 04:03, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I searched for the articles that you gave me, and they all worked fine. I don't see any link at all to Cernauca on Chernivtsi, did you remove it? You can tell what links to what article by going to Special:Whatlinkshere. (you can find that link on the left of your screen) Examples: Special:Whatlinkshere/Hurmuzachi brothers, Special:Whatlinkshere/Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi, and Special:Whatlinkshere/Cernauca. —Khoikhoi 23:00, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Ah, what you need to do is create a redirect page. Here's how:

Search for Hurmuzachi. (or just click on the link) If you searched, click on create this article. Once you're there, copy the following to the page and save:

#redirect [[Hurmuzachi brothers]]

And then you're done.

P.S. Don't forget to sign your name like this: ~~~~ or like this: --~~~~

—Khoikhoi 23:13, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

copyright

Hi Joe,

Thank you for the edits on some of the articles that I started. I have some general questions about copyright.

What can be considered fair use, what can/should be put in quotation marks?

Does this apply to other wikipedias as well, or are they public domain (e. g., can one of their articles be translated into English entirely and put on the English wiki, as I have seen done?)

How about copyright for text/images from websites?

Thank you, Eugen Ivan 17:52, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Fair use is an extremely tricky area of law; see Wikipedia:Fair Use for an introduction as it applies to us. Fair use only applies to copyrighted materials; it is distinct from using the materials under license, including free license. This is complicated stuff: it's much easier to talk about individual cases than generalities.

Remember that copyright is on the expression of an idea; ideas and facts cannot be copyrighted.

Almost always, if you are using someone else's words, you want to put them in quotation marks. There issue here isn't so much one of copyright as of (1) academic/intellectual honesty (acknowledgment of authorship) and (2) if the words express an opinion, accurately attributing that opinion. If you are paraphrasing someone, just a footnote (or other similar note) will do.

If you are planning on translating material from other Wikipedias, you might want to see Wikipedia:Translation into English. Probably the most relevant paragraph there is:

Please do indicate in the references section of the newly created article that an article in a foreign-language Wikipedia was among your sources. For example, the references section of the article "Paragraph 175" begins, "Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent German-language wikipedia article (retrieved September 30, 2004). The following references are cited by that German-language article..." Note that something like this (without that last sentence) would be in order even if the German-language article did not cite any references of its own.

Other Wikipedias are not public domain, nor is the English Wikipedia; they are all licensed under GFDL, which allows material to be copied for our purposes, as long as there is acknowledgment and a link back.

Pictures are much trickier. Because one doesn't normally paraphrase a picture, or use just part of it, you are almost always using the equivalent of direct quotation. If the picture is licensed under GFDL, or under Creative Commons share-alike license, or any of several others, we are generally OK. If not, there needs to be a specific fair use justification. For example, it is almost always legitimate to use a band's publicity photo for an article about a band, or a politician's or party's campaign poster to illustrate an article about that politician or party, etc. But generally, you can't grab a wire service photo or a photo off of a random web site. Many web sites are very casual about doing this, but they get away with it only because because they are flying under the radar. Wikipedia, as one of the most-visited sites on the web, is firmly on everyone's radar.

In general, because the English-language Wikipedia is hosted in the U.S., U.S. copyright law applies. This means, for example, that any image or text published in the U.S. before 1923 is public domain. (By the way, so are almost all publications of the U.S. Federal Government.) We can use public domain materials freely, but still intellectual honesty requires acknowledgment.

I hope that's a good enough quick introduction; you can let me know if you have specific questions, although this next month or so I will be very busy (I'm attending a conference later this week, then headed for 2-1/2 weeks in Bucharest on business). - Jmabel | Talk 18:35, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Romanian resources

I don't know if anyone has pointed out to you Wikipedia:Romanian Wikipedians' notice board or Portal:Romania/New article announcements. - Jmabel | Talk 18:37, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

manuc

Interspersing in your remarks from my talk page:

I saw your talk notes about Manuc's Inn -- I could translate some .... But to me, the personality of the founder is much more fascinating -- I heard/read that he was a double agent, both for the Russians and the Turks (rumors that he was evenpolkovnik in the Tsarist army) --certainly his actions seem to confirm that. So I started an article about him. My question is: how much of this article [1], after editing and correcting for errors etc. can I place in wikipedia? I know that RRI is trying to promote Romanian culture abroad, so they probably wouldn't mind that (or shouldn't), but still copyright is copyright, no? Eugen Ivan 00:54, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

You can use them as a reference for facts (you might look at an example of how comparable materials were handled on Casa Capşa, which uses RRI as one of its sources), and should certainly cite them as a source if you are using them as such, but unless you get their explicit permission, you should try not to get too close to their wordings. The fact that they might not mind being plagiarized is neither here nor there; without explicit permission, copyright is copyright, and we try not to violate it. If you really want to use their text, you need their permission (and in this case I bet they are too much of a bureaucracy to give it). I've often had good luck getting permission from non-profit NGOs, bands, even schools or private individuals, but radio stations (especially government radio stations) usually aren't in any position to waive any rights unless they do so in a general way.

In any case, I'm sure you know that you should never trust just one source, so by the time you are finished there will presumably be a mix of material, even on the level of facts. - Jmabel | Talk 01:11, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

BTW, I saw in one of your earlier posts that you were offended by a Romanian user. Please don't mind him, you probably found out by now (as I have, rather quickly) that the wiki community is a collection of brilliant dedicated people and utter fools ... Romanians, alas, are no exception in this regard! So, please don't be discouraged. Eugen Ivan 00:54, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

I've had a lot of run-ins with ultra-nationalists (and not just Romanian ultra-nationalists). Believe me, I'm aware that the only reason I run into a disproportionate number of Romanian ultra-nationalists is that I work on a lot of Romanian topics. I'll have to admit, it really annoys me when (as in the recent case with Greier, which is what I assume you have in mind) someone assumes bad faith (in our first-ever interaction, he called me "filth"), states that somehow being Romanian gives him a better ability (for example) to analyze international census statistics about the ethnic Romanian population of various countries, or deal with intellectual property issues (like copyright violations). - Jmabel | Talk 01:11, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Re:gala galaction unverified info

See Wikipedia:Citing sources. The article lacks references in general. enochlau (talk) 03:03, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Pace

Man! You have been a whirlwind this last week or so! - Jmabel | Talk 05:34, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Edits

If you are going to make edits on the English-language Wikipedia, please make sure that you use proper English spelling, punctuation, and grammar. CRCulver 21:24, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

The rule here is to use American spelling until the article deals with a British subject. But it doesn't really matter as long as what you write is correct in at least one of the variants. If you find it difficult to spell correctly, I'd recommend installing a spell-check in your web-browser (easy to do with Firefox) and setting the language to English. Then you'll easily see what problems remain before you click "Save page". CRCulver 23:01, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Lazar Edeleanu

Can you provide a source or reference of some sort for the addition you made on this article? Lazar is a common first name and surname in Romanian, though elsewhere in the world it is almost exclusively Jewish. Perhaps this was a misinterpretation? 141.211.251.67 22:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Just wanted to say thank...

... for ID'ing that photo on Strada Lipscani and also for your continued good work all around. I've noticed you more than a few times supplying le mot juste in a translated piece... - Jmabel | Talk 21:13, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help!

I just wanted to say thank you for your help on the Alexandru Papana article. It turns out it did get a DYK on this. I was just a day too early on this. I really appreciate it! Chris 00:44, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome!

Cu plăcere. Dahn 04:50, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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ARTICLE ABOUT ARISTIDE RAZU

Noroc,

Many thanks you for making the page to look more presentable .Aristiderazu (talk) 21:09, 15 June 2010 (UTC) Aristiderazu.I 've also added the translations of Marasti and Oituz Battles at Aristiderazu.

Circassians in Romania

Circassians in Romania/ hi,i was wonder from were is you sources about the circassian in romania. i would like to know about it.thank you.Beco1977 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 10:30, 9 March 2011 (UTC).

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