Talk:Kreis Wongrowitz

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The table is completely absurd and lists non-existent "Polish" names. And the very idea behind creating articles on non-notable town halls in some G_d-forgotten towns in the middle of nowhere escapes me. //Halibutt 08:37, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Linkspamming issue

The external links are not intentional linkspamming, at least not in sense the term is used. It's not practical to add the 10,000 articles, that these links point to, on WikiPedia. Yet the data in each of these 10,000 articles is very important to a few researchers, and to hundreds of thousands of researchers en masse. Unless you are willing to copy the articles over from the Birchy.com wiki and maybe even expand them, please don't destroy access to that data. For example, suppose you find a letter in your attic to your great-great-grandmother, from her family in the old world and the only clue to its origin is the word "Gollantsch". So you Google it, and find this article. You see the town name has a link and click on it and get a page that tells you all sorts of interesting and useful things, including maps and history.

I wish there were a way to provide this info without using external links, but until one is found, let's think of the user.Bwood 18:19, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Sure there is a way, as your site is under the GDFL anyway, its not hard to move the information to wikipedia, along with the reliable sources that that information came from. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 22:54, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Ok, let's say it were even technologically possible to move the 10-20,000 articles. That would be a one-time move, and then the wikiPedia articles would stagnate, while the source articles will continue to grow. Why? because it takes four times the time to maintain the wikikPedia versions from every ignorant "Danziger" out there as it does to add new material. ("Danzig" is a wikipedia term referring to the POV wars).

The reliable sources of the original data are cleared stated at the head of the tables. wikified footnotes can be added by someone who cares, but for the material that I've contributed there's just the one source.Bwood 23:06, 5 May 2007 (UTC)