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[edit] Featured content

Hello and welcome to our new WikiProject! Do we have any Czech-related featured content on EN Wiki? From what I can recall, I don't know about any. There are two Good Articles dealing with the Polish minority there (both written by me) and one photo is now nominated at WP:FPC. Anything else? - Darwinek 13:08, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't know about any :( ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 13:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to list Featured or Quality images on Commons? Jan.Kamenicek 20:47, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I think it could be possible somehow. - Darwinek 21:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I failed to find Featured ones, but here are some Quality: Jindřichův Hradec, Olomouc Trinity, Haná Easter eggs. Jan.Kamenicek 23:36, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Nice pics. I really like the Easter eggs one. I am from Silesia, so we really celebrate Easter seriously. :) Haná is nice, too :). I study at UPOL, so I like it a lot. - Darwinek 00:09, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] proposal for images transfer

It would be very usefull to transfer images from Czech Wikipedia especially from Catagory cs:Kategorie:Public domain obrázky vytvořené úřady České republiky to commons. There are many images so they can be renamed uniformly now. I think without diacritics is better for commons but it is not necessary. Examples:

I know that there are many small images. But there are not available better images now. It will help wikipedias in other languages (especially German wikipedia) too surely. Images of Coat of Arms and of Flags are only images available for many cities now, it is much better to see any image in the article, see for example Uničov article. --Snek01 15:22, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello. Sure, go ahead, it will only help. Next step is to insert infobox to those articles, they then look totally better. See Opava, for example. Don't forget to use {{PD-CzechGov}} template. - Darwinek 15:45, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] second version of barnstar

  • Second version of barnstar. Typing this: {{subst:BoNM-Czech|message ~~~~ }} gets you this:
The Czech Barnstar of National Merit 
This is a test of the barnstar system. Had this been a real barnstar, you would have been notified. Ling.Nut 20:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Looks pretty sharp- good work. Does the yellow on the ribbon symbolize anything? Olessi 20:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Not that I know of. It is just the combination that came out when I was playing with the colors. I can change it, but it would be a pain. If the colors aren't somehow unacceptably offensive, I would prefer to leave them alone. But if some color has some strong negative connotations, I can change it. --Ling.Nut 21:07, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
No problem. Colours are just fine. :) Good work. - Darwinek 21:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Cool. :-) Later! --Ling.Nut 22:17, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Looks pretty cool ;) ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 08:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
I inquired about the yellow since the red and white symbolize Bohemia to me. It is my understanding that the barnstar has to go through Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals to become official. Olessi 18:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Very nice graphics, but I have to ask why to feature only Bohemian colours and Coat of arms? – Yarp 16:13, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
For modern Czech Republic we can use the first version of barnstar representing all three colours. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 16:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
This "first version" might be better, but I cannot see/find it anywhere(?) – Yarp 16:54, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Check the project page ;-) ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 17:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

(undent) As I said repeatedly earlier, I can change the colors. But whatever! ;-) --Ling.Nut 16:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I checked it and it doesn't need to go through the official proposal. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 23:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion

Prosím, jak se zde navrhuje článek ke smazání? Tenhle nesmysl tu nemůže zůstat: Ivan Špaček. Zajímalo by mne, jestli ten pán vůbec existuje? Na české wikipedii to jasně vypadá na smazání. cs:Wikipedie:Hlasování o smazání/Ivan Špaček.

Please, How is possible propose article for deletion? This nonsense can not be here: Ivan Špaček. Does he exist? In cs: wikipedie is going to deletion clear. Voting for deletion on cs. wikipedia. Cinik 20:35, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello. I have nominated it here: [1]. Please vote. - Darwinek 20:52, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New articles

May I recommend splitting them into a subpage (you can include it where it is now as a template) and tagging it with Category:Wikipedia new articles? You could also employ User:AlexNewArtBot to make finding Czech-related articles easier.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  00:46, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I will take a look on it, thanks for suggestion. How to employ AlexNewArtBot ? ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 23:26, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:CzechProjectBarnStar.gif

Nice. But there already is Image:BoNM – Czech Republic.png. May I suggested moving the gif to commons and adding it to the BoNM category? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  00:53, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

That png is much more better, but as Olessi suggested, it is in medieval colours so I propose to use it for medieval history and the gif for the modern history deserts. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 23:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I would also rename it to Bohemian Barnstar. Jan.Kamenicek 06:17, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Which one ? ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 08:07, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
This one. It is very nice, I really like its design. Despite this it would be great if some symbols representing the whole Czech Republic could be added. (Although it is true that the so called small coat of arms of the Czech Republic contains only Bohemian lion). I also have to admit that the regular coat of arms of the Czech Republic would not look so well on the ribbon. Does anybody have any idea how to make it look less Bohemian and more Czech without any loss on the quality of its design? Jan.Kamenicek 20:45, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
What about completely new design – something like on this sketch?. It would contain all three major CoA's if someone makes to draw it… – Yarp Talk 11:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Yarp, that looks great. But I would like to keep that barnstar because it simply looks great. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 11:36, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

(undent) Hi again..I can probably make (almost) anything you want, if you tell me exactly what it is.. I don't check these pages often, sorry... I'll look at the sketch above and see if it's something I can do.. but let me know what exactly you want etc. I'm pretty busy but can do things once in a while. later! --Ling.Nut 19:50, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

You have already proved that you are very skilled in drawing. The Yarp's sketch looks as a good idea to me. It would be very nice, if you could make something of it. I think that the sketch says everything important - the award would contain Bohemian Lion, Moravian Eagle as well as Silesian Eagle in their original colours, as they can be seen inside the Coat of Arms of the Czech Republic. It would be good if the colours of their backgrounds could be kept as well, but my imagination is not big enough to say, whether their combination would look nice. Jan.Kamenicek 20:32, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I have just remembered where this idea had come from to my head – the emblem of the Prague Castle Guard here (top right). – Yarp Talk 22:07, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I'll do the best I can to make something similar to the sketch above. With that many colors and images, it won't be the cloth-style badge of the one I made previously. But I think I can put something together. IT will take a few days, since I am busy with other work. I'll shoot for 1 week to completion. --Ling.Nut 01:30, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Czechoslovak Legions

I left a question there: shall we rewrite the lead to encompass the WWII formation or does it have a better name?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  18:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Czech Republic higher child welfare ranking than US, UK, France, Austria

UNICEF ranks well-being of British, U.S. children last in industrialized world 'The report concluded that there was no obvious relationship between levels of child well-being and per-capita gross domestic product.

"The Czech Republic, for example, achieves a higher overall rank for child well-being than several much wealthier countries including France, Austria, the United States and the United Kingdom."' --Ling.Nut 16:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Guideline

I started a guideline about the article's name, please see it here Article's title and add your comments. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 22:55, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ribbons

I created a couple of ribbons, please review them here. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 13:21, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] barnstar, new version

Ummm, well, not as nice as I had hoped... Typing {{subst:Template:BoNM-Czech2}} will get you this:

The Czech Barnstar of National Merit 
This is another test of the barnstar system --Ling.Nut 21:25, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Looks great, but the star is little bit small, what about this:
The Czech Barnstar of National Merit 
This is another test of the barnstar system --Ling.Nut 21:25, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 21:53, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I like it very much, too. I think it looks better with the smaller star. Jan.Kamenicek 22:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm agnostic with respect to star sizes. :-) Y'all decide for yourselves which you like better... and now I have to write a term paper about reduplication in Amis. :-) Later!--Ling.Nut 22:59, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

(undent) Ooops! I forgot to make the background transparent. Neither of the images have a transparent background... --Ling.Nut 14:57, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

what about changing the yellow background field to white? Cepek 20:08, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
bad idea, the colors would be in wrong order. Cepek 20:11, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minor political figure

I am creating a stub for Hubert Ripka - anyone care to add to it. Jackiespeel 18:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expulsions and forced migrations of ethnic minorities after World War II

Here is a dialogue that occurred on Talk:Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II

==Expulsion of Hungarians should be mentioned==
The same the arrival of Czechs from Silesia.
Xx236 13:03, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I had given this some thought and deliberately decided to omit the mention of other ethnic groups because the title of the article is "Expulsion of Germans...". Can you make a case that we should expand the scope to discuss other movements of people within Czechoslovakia? I think it would change the title of the article. Perhaps a better solution would be to start another article to cover the history of Czechoslovakia during this time period. --Richard 15:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
This is really a difficult subject. I think that the article has been started well. Should we also talk here about the expulsion of Czechs from Slovakia? Cepek 17:44, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
The background behind the creation of this article is that it is a subsidiary article of Expulsion of Germans after World War II. In fact, the text of the first revision of this article was lifted from Expulsion of Germans after World War II. There are "sister" articles Expulsion of Germans from Poland after World War II and Expulsion of Germans from Romania after World War II. The point is that the focus of these articles is on expulsion of Germans as opposed to any other ethnic group. I think the rationale here is that these expulsions are controversial because of public attention focused on them by the Federation of Expellees and historians such as de Zayas, Overmans and Nitschke.
For this reason, I would oppose a widening of scope to cover all migrations of peoples in Czechoslovakia at the end of World War II. However, I can imagine creating an article titled Ethnic homogenization of Czechoslovakia after World War II. The new article would reference this one and also cover the expulsion of Hungarians and the expulsion of Czechs from Slovakia. Does this approach make sense to you? --Richard 18:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Yes, absolutely! Cepek 19:08, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry if I was unprecize. I believe that the expulsion of Hungarians should be mentioned/linked, eg. in "See also", not described here. The arrival of Czechs from Silesia should be described here, because they partially replaced expelled Germans.Xx236 06:19, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

The net of this discussion is to propose a new article titled Ethnic homogenization of Czechoslovakia after World War II. We are seeking your opinion about whether this article should be created and, if so, what the title should be.

--Richard 15:50, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Antonín Dvořák userbox

I created User:Olessi/Userboxes/Dvorak for fans of Antonín Dvořák. Olessi 18:49, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Looks good. But if I add it to my page I will choose a bit different background colour;) – Yarp Talk 19:23, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Does it display incorrectly for you? I wanted to use the colors of Bohemia in it. Olessi 19:46, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
I created some variations at User:Olessi/Userboxes/Dvorak. Which looks best? Olessi 20:22, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
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