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Hello there Bogdangiusca, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. MB 15:44 14 May 2003 (UTC)

Hello,
I am one of the contributors from the Polish Wikipedia.
Could you possibly create and upload also a blank map of Romania (with no lettering) so that help other language Wikipedias benefit from your hard work. Thank you. See also Wikipedia:Image use policy.
--Kpjas 15:41 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi, I uploaded them as
* Media:Romania-administrative-blank.png
* Media:Romania-administrative-blank-large.png
I kept the county names, as in most languages there is no translation. If you need a version with without this text, just reply to this.
Bogdan 18:25 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Great! Thanks a lot. I suppose the map will do. However we, in Poland, have some "our" names of Romanian cites - Braszów, Krajowa, Konstanca. Still it will be much better than the CIA map with only English names.
Kpjas 19:12 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)


I really like that map you use of Romania. I wish every province/state/country article on Wikipedia had one that like that. What software did you use?

I used XaraX from [1] (a vectorial graphics program)
About how it was made: First I got a public-domain administrative map and imported it in XaraX, then used the pen tool to create poly-lines of each county. It's pretty easy in Xara, I think it took me between a half an hour to an hour the effective drawing time.


Hi, you cast a vote in the TEMP5 debate. The Temp5 proposal was voted down by 61.3% to 38.6%. We seem to be going around in circles on the whole issue of the main page. A new vote is now taking place to clarify what exactly we want, namely

  1. Do we actually want to have a new page?
  2. If so when (immediately, after a pause, timed to the press release, etc)?
  3. What do people want on the front page and what do they want excluded?

As of now, the whole issue seems surrounded by complete confusion. This way, finally and definitively, we will know what we want and when we want it. So do please express your opinions. The vote is on the same page as the previous votes. FearÉIREANN 20:31, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Your series of articles on Romania could, and IMHO should, be reduced to a single one. Most of them would form a single paragraph in a consistant history, whereas now you have to jump from article to article to learn it. Given the way the 'net works, I assure you that your readers will stop after the first one.

The idea was to include a brief history on History of Romania, that will be expanded in separate articles, the way History of the United States is organized.


Bogdan 18:17, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)

No, actually its YOUR view that are not accepted by moden historians. There is not one shred of proof to support continuity, and every evidence against it. What youve written on this topic is idiocy - truly. I am not Hungarian and have no preference for hungarians. If you are an educated person, you will reflect on the crap you post and take out any other lies youve added to wikjipedia.

User:Tridesch

Why did you put ? by the birth years for Austin Clarke and Seán Ó Ríordáin in Irish poetry? The years given are correct. Bmills 10:09, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I didn't. I just replaced Irish with Irish language.
Sorry for getting that wrong. Somehow the ?s are showing up as changes that appeared in your revision, or so it seems. If fixed them anyway. Thanks very much for the disambig change you made. That's just the kind of thing newcomers miss. Bmills 10:32, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hello! Could you please take a look at Talk:Romance languages? Thanks! Boraczek 16:19, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I saw you changing the Rumania spelling so I ran a query on an old dump: User:Dori/Queries#Rumania. In case you were using google to find them, you might have missed some (obviously some will have been fixed already). Dori 21:42, Nov 26, 2003 (UTC)

Yes, there were some that I missed. Thank you! Bogdan 13:15, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
You're welcome. Are you done with them so that I can delete those entries? If not, just delete them when you are done. Dori 17:20, Nov 27, 2003 (UTC)
Yes, I'm done. Bogdan 18:02, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Bogdangiusca, i presume you are online at present. I started writing more about one of your countrymen but was involved in an editorial conflict with you. So i will just leave it you to find out and write more about this musician. Norwikian 14:10, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

It looks like we were editing it in the same time. Sorry. :) Bogdan 14:18, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the help on the Dacian words. Your English is obviously better than my Romanian. I had translated the article from the Romanian-language site, which could (of course) presume that the meanings of these words were self-evident. I obviously should have been looking things up instead of assuming I know meanings. Normally I do better than this, honest. Jmabel 19:18, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Bogdan, te rugăm să votezi cu da sau nu dacă vrei ca Wikipedia românească să folosească un logo pentru Crăciun, pe pagina ro:Wikipedia:Vot_Crăciun --User:Danutz 19:30, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Bogdan, could you have a look at my questions/comments on Talk:B.U.G. Mafia? -- Jmabel 01:02, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the diagram for Zeeman effect, it needed it :) --AstroNomer 06:21, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for checking the Lord's Prayer on the Dalmatian language article! I thought it was wrong somehow, but I couldn't figure out how. I just thought it a nice idea to make it in 3 columns instead of simply writing it one after the other, and now, I guess, it's even correct :) --denny vrandečić 21:18, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)

Please see my reply to your comment on Wikipedia talk:Translation -- Jmabel 22:55, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi Bogdangiusca, I'm just dropping you a note to let you know that I've completed the translation of Picard language (as well as I could).  :) fabiform | talk 20:24, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I'm a little unsure about the edits you made to Dagestan. Could you take a look at the talk page and explain? Thanks, Isomorphic 05:46, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Pretty much completed the translation of Romain Rolland, although I'm uncertain on a few book titles. -- Jmabel 07:26, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I've completed your requested translation of fr:Hêtre to European beech. Nathan 15:04, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

There was an interesting comment a few days back at Talk:Dacian language, basically: "vjeverica is squirrel in Croatian". This is probably worth integrting into Dacian language and maybe some other related article. I'm currently dealing with back problems, not able to go to work, only on line about 50 mins a day (hence lagging by several days even on monitoring my watchlist) & don't have time to follow through, but thought you might. -- Jmabel 21:50, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

On the heads of state pages, I've generally put not fully sovereign rulers indented (**) within the state to which they owed allegiance. Thus, Wallachian rulers ought to go under Ottoman Empire (which, of course, does not yet exist on most of these pages). Romania did not become fully sovereign until 1878, did it? john 07:54, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Actually, it kept its full autonomy (in exchange of an anual tribute) and voivodes were not always allegient to the Turks, as they would often even fight against the Turkish armies. So, it's pretty hard to say when it was independent and when was a not. Bogdan | Talk 08:07, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Yes, autonomous, certainly. But they were not considered sovereign, as far as I am aware. I mean, Bulgaria was de facto independent from 1878, but it was still considered to be technically part of the Ottoman Empire until 1908 - the liberal government of that year was even going to have Bulgarian reps in the new Ottoman parliament. So, autonomy, yeah, maybe even de facto independence, but de jure the regions were considered (at least by the other European states) to be part of the Ottoman Empire. john 08:12, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Agreed. The European states recognized Romania only after the Independence War of 1877. Bogdan | Talk 08:20, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Have a look at my most recent comments in Talk:Bucharest. -- Jmabel 20:54, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Some comments on your Nicolae Paulescu article.

1) Paulescu was definitely NOT the "discoverer of insulin", by any definition. The nature of insulin, although it was not called this at the time of course, was first discovered by Oscar Minkowski in 1889, and further developed by Eugene Opie in 1901.

2) Paulescu was not the first to use insulin. This honour belongs to Georg Ludwig Zuelzer in 1906, followed up with similar studies by E.L. Scott and Israel Kleiner in the pre-war era, all predating or being contemporaries of Paulescu's work. In fact it appears that Paulescu's methodology was a copy of Scott's.

3) Paulescu's method could not be used for the treatment of diabetes. Like the other teams, his methods extracted the insulin by essentially grinding up the pancreas. This makes it impossible to extract the pure insulin from the other biological material, thus making it essentially useless for injection into anyone but the person it came from. It was Banting's idea to naturally "kill off" the rest of the pancreas that was the key to successful extraction, something no-one else suggested before.

4) Banting and Best did NOT duplicate his experiments. Banting's notebook on his unique method predates Paulescu's publications by well over a year. Moreover the experiments are completely unlike each other. There appears to be no evidence that he was even aware of Paulescu's experiments until after he won the Nobel in 1923. Later that year Paulescu wrote to Banting including his papers, assuming he had read them.

I know there are a lot of Romanian sites claiming Paulescu to be a "victim" of some sort of conspiracy, but the historical record is pretty clear on this: Paulescu was one of many steps on the long road to the successful extraction of insulin, but certainly by no means was he the first (discoverer) or last (successful) step.

Maury 22:14, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

Bogdan, you may notice I have recently done some copyediting on several of your articles on Romanian topics. I hope you like what I've done. --Gary D 07:02, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Nice map

You did a great job on the map, and by the way I'm from Iasi.

Thank you.

[edit] Counties of Romania

Hi! Are you going to add the figures about nationalitites to all the county entries? I see you have done it for Bihor, but not for Harghita or Cluj, for example. In fact, I already started to add them for Harghita, Covasna, Mures and Cluj before realising you did it for Bihor. Maybe it would be enough to list only those nationalities wich make up more then 1% of the population, and provide a link to the statistical office for those interested. Tom, 18 June (haven't registered yet)

It wasn't me who added the minorities figures in Bihor, but an anonymous user with the IP 203.109.249.138 Bogdan | Talk 15:15, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hi Bogdan! I asked you the same question on ro.wikipedia, but if you read here before... :)
What is the licence of the small map you upload for judets ?
I use them on the French wiki, but we want to know the licence. Is it GFDL ? Thanks in advance iubito 10:47, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Unrecognized Countries

Hi Bogdangiusca, I noticed you had made contributions to Transnistria. If you're interested in Transnistria and similar places, why don't you drop by the WikiProject Unrecognized countries and help add some more depth to Wikipedia's coverage of these?

Be sure to visit the Project talk page, and if you are interested, you can become a member. Ambivalenthysteria 12:34, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Toponyms

Hi Bogdan, remember the discussion of Dacian toponmys Boraczek, you, and me were engaged in? In the end, we reached a compromise on the text to be included about this argument. However, I just checked the equivalent article in the Romanian Wikipedia, and it seems to have the old version, with Varadia listed as a Dacian name etc. Could you please check and update the version in Romanian? I would do it myself, but unfortunately I do not speak Romanian. --Tamas 15:20, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Transnistria

You've added some sections into the Transnistria article that are unsourced, uncited, and in their present state, could be instrued as being POV. I'd like to see some evidence, please. Ambi 08:00, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Rugby picture

Hi. Can you please re-upload the image of rugby football as a .jpg rather than a gif. also perhaps, while we don't have any pictures on the Football page for other sports, it should be placed on the Rugby football page instead. I would like to see pictures on the football page, but I would prefer to see pages that reflect the content of the article and its emphasis on the earlier history of the game. Mintguy (T) 21:20, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] If it is just a common mistake

Dear Bogdan,

could you please explain your overreaction? Before proposing change, I've checked the sources at hand, and they didn't contradict to what I've written.

As a foreigner, I don't see what's wrong or derogatory in tracing Romania to Roma, so I would be grateful if you englight me.

Thanks!

Dr Bug  (Volodymyr V. Medeiko) 21:06, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Another sensitive ethnopolitical issue for locals, DrBug. I hope you'll show more tolerance and neutrality here than you do on Ukrainian language. Since Romania is not an area of imperial strategic interests (at least not yet).
Bohdan, you should see that article and respective talk in order to make your opinion on DrBug. AlexPU

[edit] Snake Island

Hi, Bogdan. I see you're an expert on Wiki imaging. Would you upload an aerial picture of that isle (and may be other images of our mutual interest) correctly having an HTML link? This is a temporary need, I hope to learn respective rules and procedures as soon as possible. Best wishes, AlexPU

Actually, there is a problem with copyright, as that aerial picture is copyrighted. We would need the author's permission before uploading it to wikipedia. Bogdan | Talk 15:40, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I'll check legal status of that picture ASAP. Actually, copyright in Ukraine is something pretty different from civilized world. Many media companies only require claiming the fact that we took the picture from their resource, without payments or restrictions.
You could also help by looking for appropiate picture by yourself, especially if you read Ukrainian and/or Russian (do you?). Some Ukrainian web-zines have English versions too. Of course, If you have enough time for that. Anyway, thanks for cooperation. AlexPU

[edit] Raul Hilberg

Greetings. I am not finished writing Raul Hilberg, nor am I finished writing the article for his TDotEJ. I request that you refrain from formating these (unless you see something grossly at fault) - the picture you moved dosen't fit yet, though it might once the article is at a more developed stage. Feel free to continue writing the article though (that is something that might be helpful), or make any editorial changes in the discussion field. I Will be happy to review these. This is only a request — you are free to ignore it, I suppose. Incidentally, I like having lengthy bib. at the bottom and most of my article are written in that way, please do not switch the bib. with the ext. links in other articles that I have written. TIA. El_C

[edit] Translation fun

Hi Bogdan!

There are two new translation efforts this week: a wikimedia newsletter, and a global press release. We very much need someone to handle translations into smaller languages, and provide feedback on the wikiprojects from their languages (in the newsletter, under out of the projects). See m:Translation requests for details.

Cheers, +sj+

[edit] Image:Black-sea-nasa.jpg

"Image courtesy the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE"

Sorry, that is not a NASA image and is thus not in the public domain. Could you check to make sure no other images you uploaded have been incorrectly labeled as PD? --mav 23:02, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Apart from Black Sea and Azov Sea, I uploaded from NASA satelite pics for Carpathian Mountains and Danube Delta, that appear to be copyright-free. Bogdan | Talk 12:17, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)