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[edit] Previous nominations

For October 2007

  • Rainis (of course!) — Zalktis 13:42, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
    • Formal support because it is October allready ---- Xil...sist! 15:59, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Latvian SSR (important to history of Latvia) -- Xil/talk 22:40, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

For October 2007

  • Baltic states‎ (quite long and good writen article, which should be referenced better and improved a bit) ---- Xil...sist! 23:41, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Support. This could even get nominated for Good Article status. --SpeedKing1980 16:29, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Oppose - Too short, and dosn't even exist. Basicly these need to be writen not just improved ---- Xil...sist! 21:28, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

For December 2007

For January 2007

  • Latvian SSR This article should be improved. --SpeedKing (talk) 19:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Selected this one as it was the only nomination and had been nominated before ~~Xil...sist! 03:55, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article requests

(possibly http://www.mfa.gov.lv/lv/Ministrija/vesture/4439/4446/ ?)
Maybe; see: http://www.lv.lv/index.php?menu_body=DOC&id=32701&menu_left=LAIDIENS&PHPSESSID=7d82f444214d94ced3226de5f31e3c — Zalktis 10:30, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! The link comes up broken for me, perhaps you could grab the text? Thanks, Chris 07:51, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
There is a slight problem - the first link dosen't mention scouts, the one Zalktis provaided doesn't mention his name. Here's what it says about scouts: In 1918 outside of Latvia, in Vitebsk, colors of Latvian flag are found in flag of local boyscout troop "Imanta". This troop was established in 1917 by A.Arends on his initiative Fr. Kalniņš made the scout flag which had image St. George on blue field on one side and Latvian flag with full name of the troop on other side. Similary in mid 1918 in Samāra A.Bredermanis established Latvian scout troop, members of this troop wore oval ensign with colors of Latvian flag on left hand sleeve of uniform
In first link it says that in 1919 he joined troop Imanta, but it doesn't say that this troop was a sscout troop and he was born in 1900 (I somehow am under impression that scout troops are established by a bit older people and meant for a bit younger people). I don't think there is place called Samāra in Latvia, I think it's rather Samara, Russia (if so perhaps it's more accurate to say that he established Latvian not in Latvia) ---- Xil/talk 23:22, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
You are right on both points, Xil: 1) Imantas pulks was a military formation during the Russian Civil War, not a scout troop. 2) The Latvian scout troop founded by Bredermanis in Samara, Russia (among Latvian refugees from the German occupation of the Baltics during WWI), as mentioned in the article I cited, was not the first ever Latvian scout troop. I'm also not sure that the Bredermanis who worked for the Foreign Ministry was the same one who helped found the Latvian Boy Scouts. A relative perhaps? Can someone check Konversācijas vārdnīca on Bredermanis and scouting? — Zalktis 06:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Well, then I definitely want to make the article factual and correct, even if I have to rewrite that section. The info in the article was on the Internet, and I had done a paper on Latvian Scouting in college 15 years ago, which likely has totally different info, but I can't find it, and if I could, how do I post it, as original research? It does have footnotes and all, but... Also, if anyone is in the NYC area, their public library has a 1920s Latvian Scout Handbook, that may have some info there, but they will not Interlibrary Loan it, I don't blame them. Chris 21:24, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Having consulted Latviešu skautisma četrdesmit gadi (1960), I am now sure that the scouting pioneer actually was the same person as the later Foreign Ministry official. — Zalktis 16:12, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
And he established his troop in Riga, so it was the first troop founded in Latvia but was not the first troop with a majority of Latvian members. — Zalktis 16:16, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Created. —PētersV (talk) 21:19, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Expansion requests

  • Valdis Zatlers - article is taged with expansion request, also I've request a photo of subject on its talk page ---- Xil/talk 15:31, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Media requests

  • A picture of the monument to Kārlis Ulmanis in downtown Riga, for addition to the article on same. — Zalktis 14:02, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Free photo of Helsinki-86 (preferably depicting their demonstration on 14 June 1987) ---- Xil/talk 00:19, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Note: I need this image mainly to illustrate the article Freedom Monument (Riga). I'd be also happy to have an image of the monument during restoration and the "flower path" (and while I was searching for an example for that, I found another beautiful picture [1], well in short - if you have pictures of the freedom monument that are as unique as those I'm requesting, please upload them and notify me)-- Xil/talk 22:34, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Review requests

  • Rīgas Satiksme - just created this page on the basis of my own personal knowledge of the transport system in Riga and information from the official website. Any views and comments would be appreciated.
  • January 1991 events in Latvia - I just created the article. It should be checked for mistakes by someone, if you think some reference is missing, ask about it so I can add the while I remember where I got that ---- Xil/talk 20:55, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Accuracy problems and missing sources