Talk:Trzemeszno

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[edit] POV issues

Sorry, I was interupted when I went to go see how to assign the POV thing to a scetion only. In short, this material seems to be written from the POV of many modern Poles, whose nationalism tends to minimize and demonize the Prussian and Nazi occupations, and to overinflate (in relation to the world in general) things Polish. In this article, some issues are: "in 1815 it was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Poznań. Development of the town slowed then." What is probably meant is that the German occupiers made if increasingly difficult for the Polish popluation to compete evenly. The Prussian infrastructure improvements alone in the 1800s generally improved the economy, though the advance of civilization probably had a bigger effect. If there were local conditions that depressed the development of the town, what were they? And of course, there is the long-standing use of the term Grand Duchy of Poznan, which was independant in name only, and the entire lack of acknowledgement that the Prussians forced it into an official Prussian province after 1848. "At the end of World War I, the residents of Trzemeszno liberated their town from German occupation on December 29, 1918" This makes it sound like the Germans weren't retreating at the end of war. It shouldn't be German POV either, so don't think I'm from that camp. It just needs a little NPOV tweaking. Bwood 22:04, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree with most of your points. Feel free to make the necessary changes. I will do my bit as well.Balcer 22:09, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Just looked at your edit. Excellent wording IMHO, I think it is more accurate and should be NPOV. Bwood 04:29, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Actually, on further study, the previous wording was ok from a POV standpoint. I was a bit confused between WWI and WWII. I've seen similar wording in articles about towns in Poland at the end of WWII. I *would* still like to the comment about "developement slowing" either expanded/explained/justified or removed, and a NPOV reference to the Province period of 1849-1919.Bwood 13:50, 10 May 2007 (UTC)