User talk:Pofka

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Gotteswerder Castle is a very good article. Well done. BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 16:35, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@BoyTheKingCanDance: Thanks. -- Pofka (talk) 16:37, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

An article you recently created,

On 16 February 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Grammatica Litvanica, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Daniel Klein's Grammatica Litvanica (pictured), the first printed grammar of the Lithuanian language, introduced the distinctive Lithuanian letter Ė? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Grammatica Litvanica. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Grammatica Litvanica), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 16 February 2023 (UTC) [reply]

Thank you for an interesting DYK! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:15, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: I am glad that you like it. Thank you for your kind words. :) -- Pofka (talk) 14:17, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

music

today: the regional festival - DYK of 13 years ago ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:26, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply

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My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:50, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply

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@Gerda Arendt: Hi, it is an interesting information I was not familiar with before. Thanks. However, I have not participated in discussions about such infoboxes problematism, so I don't have strong opinion regarding this question. -- Pofka (talk) 17:04, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

understand, - lucky you! -

today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:04, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply

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@Gerda Arendt: Wow, just one year until 100. Impressive jubilee is approaching! -- Pofka (talk) 16:13, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I've recently done some work editing

Below are the diffs of the revisions I made: [1] [2]

And here are the diffs of the subsequent revisions that occurred after I made the edits: [3] [4]

I decided to notify you as although I have already posted in

As you are no doubt aware, I am the admin who sanctioned Marcelus. I wish to clarify first that the sanction was explicitly for edit warring and not for any other conduct, and second that he is at liberty to edit the topic within the bounds of his restriction. There is no need for you to bring his sanction up in unrelated discussions. In fact doing so, and this comment in particular, are suggestive of a

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A barnstar for you!

		The Turning Wikipedia Green Barnstar
		I've noticed you've made tons of new articles about churches in Lithuania, as well as of the Starlit Sky 22:34, 2 April 2023 (UTC)[reply ]

@Shadow of the Starlit Sky: Thanks for your kind words and a barnstar. Creating such content about Lithuania was my pleasure and I was doing it for more than 12 years already. -- Pofka (talk) 17:13, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You’re welcome. Btw, would you mind if I joined WikiProject Lithuania? I have virtually no knowledge about Lithuania but found that a lot of Lithuania-related articles seriously need copyediting, cleanup or disambiguation (well, I’m already in the Guild of Copy Editors and WikiProject Disambiguation). Also, I think I could act as a sort of “vandalism patroller” for the wikiproject.

Oh, and by the way if you want to know how I ended up finding out that all these Lithuania related articles need C/E, you can look at this user subpage. [5]

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@Shadow of the Starlit Sky: Hi, if you want to contribute to Lithuania-related articles I see no reasons why you couldn't join WikiProject Lithuania. There are plenty of English language sources about Lithuania as well, so knowledge of Lithuanian language is not mandatory. -- Pofka (talk) 09:51, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:RS. -- Pofka (talk) 12:08, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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of the Starlit Sky 12:15, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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@Shadow of the Starlit Sky: Yes the article is definitely very important as it is about the third-largest city of Lithuania, but requires quality input. -- Pofka (talk) 12:18, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, @

of the Starlit Sky 14:47, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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(Just keep in mind that the contest does not start until April 15, and all edits before that date won’t be counted.) --

of the Starlit Sky 14:48, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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@Shadow of the Starlit Sky: I will certainly help. I also commented in the contest nomination. -- Pofka (talk) 07:28, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As a result of this AE thread, you are now subject to a one-way

Further, you should consider this a final warning. There was not a consensus amongst admins for a topic ban this time but if there are any further concerns about your conduct in the Eastern Europe topic area, your previous topic ban will almost certainly be reinstated. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:57, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

One year!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:08, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: Once again thanks for the award and for continuing your support. -- Pofka (talk) 07:30, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, - today is the day, my archive was wrong ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:11, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On 23 April 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gediminas' Cap, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the inaugurations of Lithuanian monarchs, Gediminas' Cap (depicted) was placed on the monarch's head by the bishop of Vilnius? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gediminas' Cap. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Gediminas' Cap), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Aoidh (talk) 00:02, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Gal gali sutvarkyt ta Shadow of the Starlit Sky user. Jis keicia visur zodzius "klaipeda" i "klaipėda" su ė nuotraukose ir taip visur dingsta nuotraukos puslapiuose nes dingsta originalus nuorodos pavadinimas Radom1967 (talk) 19:47, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Talk page

. I will try to be more careful when using JavaScript Wiki Browser in the future.... I am new to using it. Sorry if I caused any inconviniences while doing this.

Also,

of the Starlit Sky 01:25, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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 Comment: @Radom1967:, @Shadow of the Starlit Sky: Hi, I think the issue is already solved. Radom1967, Shadow is a really collaborative user and he clearly made such edits accidentally. -- Pofka (talk) 09:39, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @

of the Starlit Sky 12:25, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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@Shadow of the Starlit Sky: sure I will. -- Pofka (talk) 12:37, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. --

of the Starlit Sky 13:25, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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On 16 May 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Church of St. Jacob, Klaipėda, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Church of St. Jacob, which had been used for centuries by Prussian Lithuanians in Klaipėda, was demolished by soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces using tanks in 1959? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Church of St. Jacob, Klaipėda. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Church of St. Jacob, Klaipėda), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

-- RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The following sanction now applies to you:

topic banned from Lithuania, broadly construed.

You have been sanctioned by a consensus of Arbitrators as an Arbitation Enforcement Action.

This sanction is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator under the authority of the Arbitration Committee's decision at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Eastern Europe#Final decision and, if applicable, the contentious topics procedure. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions. If the sanction includes a ban, please read the banning policy to ensure you understand what this means. If you do not comply with this sanction, you may be blocked for an extended period, by way of enforcement of this sanction—and you may also be made subject to further sanctions.

You may appeal this sanction using the process described here. I recommend that you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template if you wish to submit an appeal to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard. You may also appeal directly to me (on my talk page), before or instead of appealing to the noticeboard. Even if you appeal this sanction, you remain bound by it until you are notified by an uninvolved administrator that the appeal has been successful. You are also free to contact me on my talk page if anything of the above is unclear to you. Barkeep49 (talk) 18:47, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:RS-class sources backing such an opinion? I did not recently performed any edits in Wikipedia's articles of this topic which would be questionable and there was absolutely no such evidence provided from outside the discussion (e.g. malicious differences in articles performed by me). Do you prefer a one-opinion discussion or a discussion with multiple opinions? Was it simply imposed for disagreeing with some editors in a discussion and explaining a different opinion than theirs there? Currently, this sanction prohibits me to edit articles in this topic, but recently there was absolutely no violations of Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines by me while editing articles in this topic (per provided evidence in enforcement request). So with this sanction it is expected to protect articles in this topic from a user (me) who did not performed any malicious edits while editing such articles in this topic? So why exactly such sanction is necessary if recently there was no malicious edits in articles of this topic by me? Can you please explain further this sanction and why it was imposed without any violations of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines in articles of this topic? -- Pofka (talk) 14:25, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply

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Multiple arbitrators saw your participation as disruptive and unlikely to contribute positively in the topic area after having mutliple editors, who don't always agree with each other, express concern as well. Rather than reimposing the full Poland/Lithuania topic ban you'd recently had, we just did it for Lithuania. Barkeep49 (talk) 18:56, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:NPOV? If this undefined broadly construed TBAN in all "Lithuania" topic articles will remain without evidence that I actually done something wrong in Wikipedia articles of this topic per Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines

, I'm quitting English Wikipedia right away and there really is no difference in sanctioning extent as 99% I am here for creating quality content about Lithuania.

Even though per provided evidence I haven't done anything wrong in articles related with Jews in Lithuania, would you/committee at least consider narrowing the TBAN sanction to topic "anything related with Jews in Lithuania" instead of "Lithuania, broadly construed" if you/committee consider that I will do something wrong in such Lithuania-related articles (based just on discussion)? Why I cannot continue to write such content as listed here: User:Pofka#Finest examples of my work (e.g. about Lithuanian cities architecture, Lithuanian basketball teams/clubs, etc.)? Otherwise, as I already mentioned, I will quit English Wikipedia completely. -- Pofka (talk) 20:14, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, amateur wikipedian here. I am also of the opinion that Pofka's ban should be reconsidered from a Lithuania to mabye a WW2 topic ban, since most of his high-quality work took place in the area of ​​Lithuania and this is his greatest area of ​​expertise. This is proven by the official wikipedia recognition of beeing a best content creator in the Lithuania topic.

A ban from the topic of Lithuania may equals like a global perma ban to him, which he certainly didnt deserve.

MKW100 (talk) 04:37, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Barkeep49 please, if you can do any exceptions for the ban, please do it. For example, I dont see how Pofka could be disruptive in non-controversial topics when writing about Lithuanian rivers or food.

His finest editor status has not been considered in the committee discussion, which is outrageous to me.

09:44, 24 April 2024 (UTC) MKW100 (talk) 09:44, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The reason that their finest work wasn't considered is because Pofka didn't participate in the sanction discussion. If Pofka would like to make an appeal to create some space to edit things like rivers or food they can. Barkeep49 (talk) 14:31, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Palanga by occupation has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 05:19, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Rokiškis by occupation has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 05:20, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:31, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for everything that you do. I have come across a few of your works and edits, as well as some of your discussions - mostly relating to the history of Lithuania, and the origin of many important misconceptions.

In some of your recent topics I see that you've gotten discouraged and perhaps even quit adding onto the amazing work that you've accomplished. I hope you can come back in due time, as wikipedia is surely better with you in it, than without.

Thank you for your constant truthful statements, and the mountains of well-explained, and well-researched work that you've managed to make accesible to many people, from many different countries over the many years that you've been active.

Kind regards, Lukas from Lithuania. Lukas L20 (talk) 14:03, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See here. I agree with your arguments in general, but this is complicated. My very best wishes (talk) 21:36, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:00, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pofka please check if you can ask for a repeat of the committee discussion. I have read the committee discussion and your status as top contributor was not even mentioned. It was just a lemming train of people saying "ban him". Only because you questioned the continuity of Lithuanias existence during WW2.IN A DISCUSSION.

Maybe the topic ban can be taken back or at least altered if the people in the committee take into consideration what you already contributed.

09:59, 22 April 2024 (UTC) MKW100 (talk) 09:59, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MKW100: Hello, yes, the sanction was applied to me when I expressed my opinion in a discussion, but not for making any confirmed malicious changes in articles related with this sanction and topic. I have tried to ask Barkeep49 about narrowing the sanction (above), but received no response. Currently, I have almost completely left Wikipedia and plan to leave completely in the near future due to this situation. Additional free time in life after years of editing Wikipedia is a benefit as well. :) Anyway, thanks for your positive words and support. :) -- Pofka (talk) 17:12, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]