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The article The position and status of Serbs in Croatia (Open letter) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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hi MirkoS18 thanks for your request re the debate on Serbian place names in Croatia. It is clearly a hotly debated topic. I find it quite hard to intervene, because my instinct as a minority rights activist (I work here Minority Rights Group International) is to support using the minority place names. (and by the way I am sitting here in East London, just 100 yards from here all the street names are signposted in English and Bengali...) But there is clearly also an issue of wikipedia etiquette and policies, which I am not an expert on at all.

It seems to me to be much less controversial to include the Cyrillic name in the individual articles for each locality. So I am surprised not to see it, for example, in the article on Ervenik, the muncipality with the 2nd hightest proportion of Serbs.

I think by the way, if a threshold is used to determine, in national minority policies, when a minority has reached a "significant" proportion of the population, as per Council of Europe minority rights conventions, it is often 20%. But why 20% - clearly it is arbitrary to a certain extent.

Spinach charm (talk) 11:16, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I noticed you've made edits to Serbia articles or that you are in some way connected to Serbia. I thought you may be interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Serbia They are a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Serbia. Please take a look to edit an article or add one of your own. If you would be interested in joining feel free to visit the Members Page! Thank You.

WhiteWriter ^speaks 20:18, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Done. Thanks for invitation. Или једноставно хвала на позиву :D.--MirkoS18 (talk) 20:38, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Always. Нема проблема, ту сам да помогнем ако треба! :) --WhiteWriter ^speaks 20:43, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mirko! Responded to your WWHM comments: Wikipedia_talk:WikiWomen's_History_Month#Seeking_to_help. SO happy to have you on board! :) My brother is from Belgrade! Sadly, he doesn't edit Wikipedia, but, he's my bestfriend and I'm always happy when I can pal up with his fellow Serbs! SarahStierch (talk) 02:08, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe we should create List of World War II monuments and memorials in Croatia, as we have enough material from main article? What do you say? --WhiteWriter^speaks 23:22, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am absolutely in favor of that idea. You will begin to write that article or you will let it to us at WikiProject Croatia?--MirkoS18 (talk) 00:41, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've answered the question about the template at User talk:Sokac121#Re: Joint Council of Municipalities, there's a standard discussion procedure for these kinds of things.

(The rest of the answer isn't in English because it relates to doing something off-wiki in .hr.)

Iako sam ja formalno član udruge Wikimedia Hrvatska, i to koji je svojedobno prvi uplatio 50 kuna u proračun novoosnovane udruge :) nisam nešto aktivan lokalno, a ostali se uglavnom bave hrvatskom verzijom Wikipedije, pa mislim da bi mogao takvo pitanje postaviti na hr:Wikipedija:Kafić. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 08:26, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

hi MirkoS18

sorry to be so slow getting back to you. I have passed on your suggestions to our publications team. I don't think it will be a problem. Do monitor the page and if there is no change, I will try to find out why.

BTW I couldn't find the page you recommended, Template: Serbian minority institutions and organizations in Croatia.

cheers Chris Spinach charm (talk) 09:56, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The UB template looks so much better now! I hope our WikiProject will succeed! --Comparativist1 (talk) 10:34, 28 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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		I, FkpCascais, award you with this barnstar for being an exemple of politeness and civility for all Wikipeians. FkpCascais (talk) 22:10, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Despite not having crossed myself much with you lately, I do feel appropriate to present you with this award because whenever I crossed myself with any participation of yours in an any area of Wikipedia it allways passed trough my mind the wish that one day all Wikipedians will have a civil and correct approach as you do. Best regards, FkpCascais (talk) 22:10, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, this is my first barnstar. Thank you very much, I am really happy and proud about this :). You know, it is a nice feeling when someone praise you for good thing. I hope that with raise of my conscience in editing and removal of irresponsibility as a result of anonymity, I will realy deserve this award.--MirkoS18 (talk) 22:27, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, don´t be so modest, you already deserve this one, all you can do now is to keep on having the same positive attitude, and perhaps win some more in the future. ;) Hope everything is fine and that you´re having a pleasent summer. FkpCascais (talk) 23:08, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Looks reasonably safe to me, because: 1) the change is reliably sourced, and 2) the controversy is about whether to change the town's name or not, not whether it has actually been changed officially or not (it has). The article should certainly note the name change and the controversy behind it, but I'd recommend against too much detail, so as to avoid WP:UNDUE issues, as well as attracting POV edits. GregorB (talk) 08:57, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mirko! I noticed your interes in serbian churches in Croatia. The article about Serbian Orthodox church dedicated to Saint Nicholas (Serbian: Храм Св. Оца Николаја) in Vrlika doesn't exist. Maybe you can write it, since some informations are present in the article about Vrlika. Regards, Kebeta (talk) 19:15, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the image. --Kebeta (talk) 22:00, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I inserted the image into the artice.--Kebeta (talk) 22:04, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I created an article about one small church near Vrlika. See Church of Holy Salvation, Marko Četnik. You can expanded more.--Kebeta (talk) 22:34, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you about the name, but there ia already church with that name. See Church of Holy Salvation, Cetina. Maybe some other name??--Kebeta (talk) 22:46, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No it's not a nickname, it is a real surname. Orthodox church of Holy Salvation, Cetina is a very good suggestion. --Kebeta (talk) 22:49, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you. Regards, Kebeta (talk) 22:54, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The easiest, cleanest way: 1) the owner should upload the photo to Picasa, Flickr, Panoramio or some other site, 2) the owner should then change the licensing options for that photo (these sites default to "All rights reserved", but this can be changed by the uploader). Should be Commons-compatible, i.e. by or by-sa.[1] Ask me if you need further advice (I don't actually use these sites, but I'll try to help). GregorB (talk) 23:29, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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--Antidiskriminator (talk) 08:34, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Stop adding Cyrillic to infoobox, You do not have permission Community.--Sokac121 (talk) 21:04, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose you mistakenly said community while you really think IvanOS and you? As I can see, WP Croatia community have nothing against my reasonable proposal. Best Regards.--MirkoS18 (talk) 21:08, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please see WP:Citing sources and use {{cite web}} to format the many links you added into ref tags. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 18:08, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Generally, you can link to reliable sources even if you don't have an online copy; just because something is online that doesn't make it more or less reliable. As for dead links, you can try and use e.g. {{wayback}}. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 14:42, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Where in this source says that the village should be written in Cyrillic [2]--Sokac121 (talk) 20:40, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If I recall correctly, the current consensus is that repeating the same Serbo-Croatian name twice in two alphabets is unnecessary and provocative. I remind you that according to current Wikipedia consensus (and general scholarly consensus), both Serbian and Croatian are variants of a single language. -- Director (talk) 01:56, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Both scripts are used in SC, that's true - but in this particular instance the official name is only in Latin. Like I said before on this subject.. if the official name of the municipality was "Općina Borovo-Општина Борово" then your format would make sense. Cities like Pula really are officially named "Grad Pula–Città di Pola", but I have yet to see any source that actually states Borovo Municipality is referred to in any context as "Općina Borovo-Општина Борово". All there is is your (rather doubtful) WP:ORIGINAL RESEARCH, and your own conclusion that that's the way "it should be written".

In short, please distinguish between 1. a municipality recognizing Serbian as a minority language used therein, and 2. a municipality officially using said language as (part of) its name in some form.

Unless you find a real source for your claims, your edits just look like provocation and nationalist POV-pushing, and as such will be reverted. Please be aware of 3RR and WP:EW and avoid edit-warring. -- Director (talk) 02:35, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your reply is not a reply with regard to my above post. I could not care less what other articles are using. In actual fact, I'm the guy who first proposed the format you are pushing. Its first application was with bilingual towns in Istria, regardless of where its been erroneously copied to.

Let me assure you, in addition, that I have seen no sources indicating that any one of these municipalities uses a "[Latin]-[Cyrillic]" format. Can you provide a quick link here, with page number if its a document (as required in WP:V)? -- Director (talk) 02:53, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No, look, this is the sort of thing you need. An official document. -- Director (talk) 02:52, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Statutes? Ok, if the statutes of those municipalities actually use the "[Latin]-[Cyrillic]" format, then reference them properly in the article (with a page number) and as far as I'm concerned your format is warranted. But please make 100% sure they do actually use that format.. -- Director (talk) 03:01, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I will definitely try to find an official document that use this version. Such documents are available for all municipalities in Podunavlje (Serbian and Hungarian) but I'm not 100% sure it will be possible for all other municipalities in Croatia. The problem is that very few of these documents are available online so I have to use one that I use in articles. But I'll think of something. I'm glad that I finally explained that it is copy of Istria case. In general, I even personally agree with you about Serbo-Croatian, but practice is very different (I rarely even use Cyrillic alphabet-I just think that in this case it may have "cathartic" and positive effect regardless of all conflicts).--MirkoS18 (talk) 03:13, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Like I said, provide incontrovertible evidence of the official name being in the "[Latin]-[Cyrillic]" format, and I myself am fine with the change. Otherwise, please give it a rest. -- Director (talk) 03:19, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Simply put: yes. That's OR. Statutes would do it. -- Director (talk) 03:24, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

-( Saw that nice exchange - people should not comment if they have no intention on helping with problems being put forth. So to your request - Have you looked at Wikipedia:Requests for comment - see if you can get more (outsiders) involved?.Moxy (talk) 16:34, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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I blocked IvanOS because it appeared that he was vandalising pages. It's clearly a content dispute this time and not such an obvious situation; as such, I don't think that I want to become involved. Nyttend (talk) 13:04, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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EUROVISION monthly Issue: Issue XXX ESC 2013 HOME • TALK • PORTAL • NEWSDESK • ARCHIVES • UNSUBSCRIBE Editor's Message Bienvenue! Välkommen! Welcome! Well we have a winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013, and the 2014 article is already up and running. However, the work on the 2013 edition is still not complete. Over the next few weeks many editors will be doing the final clean-up operation on the article, and we hope to achieve yet another GA classification on the article in the coming months. We will of course keep you all updated of the progress via the newsletter. But if you are already starting to get Eurovision withdrawal symptoms, then don't panic. We have the ABU TV Song Festival in Vietnam to look forward to, as well as the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev. Your contributions to both of these articles are gratefully appreciated. Remember it is teamwork collaborations that help to make this project a success. As always, be on the look out for potential new members to the project. Post {{subst:EurovisionInvite}} (which will produced this template) on any user page you think is interested to join the WikiProject, to officially invite them to join. Happy editing! Wesley Headlines Page Milestones There are no new milestones to report this month. Project Alerts Please remember to keep checking the project articles that have been flagged up as an alert. Since our last publication the following are listed as alerts: Bonnie Tyler failed to achieve GA status on 8 May 2013, see here for the rejection reasons. If anyone can help to improve the article based on the reasons, then feel free to do so. Click here to view the full list of new and existing alerts. Eurovision Song Contest - Malmö 2013 Just in case you've been sleeping under a rock recently, "Only Teardrops", by Danish singer Emmelie de Forest won the 58th Eurovision Song Contest with a score of 281 points. 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ABU TV Song Festival - Hanoi 2013 The second ABU TV Song Festival is scheduled to take place on 26 October 2013, in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. The host broadcaster will be Vietnam Television. The article is already up and running. Your help to improve the article is gratefully appreciated. Keep a look out for news articles regarding participations etc. So far only Vietnam and Indonesia are confirmed. ABU Radio Song Festival - Colombo, Sri Lanka 2014 ABU Radio Song Festival 2014 - The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) have confirmed that the 2014 Radio Festival will take place in Colombo, Sri Lanka hosted by national broadcaster MBC Networks. As it is too soon to start work on the new article, can we please try and avoid creating one. Unless of course, there's enough information out there that would warrant an early creation. 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Hi Mirko: thanks for your work. Please note that on en.WP, years, dates, and common terms are not usually linked. Best. Tony (talk) 11:41, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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EUROVISION monthly Issue: Issue XXXI HOME • TALK • PORTAL • NEWSDESK • ARCHIVES • UNSUBSCRIBE Editor's Message Bienvenue! Velkommen! Welcome! Another month has gone by and with plenty of ups and downs within this project. An RfC has been rebooted on the project talk page (see Project Alerts below for more details). The OGAE articles are undergoing a complete rewrite to make these articles look more presentable and give more encyclopaedic value to them. They were in a disastrous and neglected state previously, so it is about time they got some well needed TLC treatment given to them all. Eurovision Song Contest 2013 is looking near completed, and in preparation for a GA-class submission. A huge thank you to all those who have contributed on that article in the last 12 months - some WikiLove to everyone for your continuous teamwork. For those of you who have got Eurovision withdrawal symptoms, then don't panic. We have the ABU TV Song Festival 2013 in Vietnam to look forward to, as well as the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Kiev. Your contributions to both of these articles are gratefully appreciated. Remember it is teamwork collaborations that help to make this project a success. And as always, be on the look out for potential new members to the project. Post {{subst:EurovisionInvite}} (which will produced this template) on any user page you think is interested to join the WikiProject, to officially invite them to join. Happy editing! Wesley Headlines Page Milestones There are no new milestones to report this month. Project Alerts Please remember to keep checking the project articles that have been flagged up as an alert. Since our last publication the following are listed as alerts: There is a RFC taking place on the project talk page which could do with as many members contributing to it. 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Eurovision Song Contest - Denmark 2014 A semi-protection has been placed onto the article to prevent further disruptive and unsourced editing from IPs. The protection expires in September 2013. Remember to use reliable sources at all times. Anything unsourced and/or is using an unreliable source will be removed. A list of some reliable sources can be found by clicking here. Avoid using the term "possible debut", "possible return", and "possible withdrawal". The term possible makes us sound speculative and is prohibited per Crystal Ball guidelines. Any such information should be added to the "Other countries" section, with a citation for verifiability. Also make sure that you regularly communicate with fellow project members via article talk pages. Communication is a natural human skill, and we should be trying our best to discuss things with each other, so that we all know what is going on. None of us are mind-readers. 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ABU Radio Song Festival - Colombo 2014 The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) have confirmed that the 2014 Radio Festival will take place in Colombo, Sri Lanka hosted by national broadcaster MBC Networks. As it is too soon to start work on the new article, can we please try and avoid creating one. Unless of course, there's enough information out there that would warrant an early creation. See also Eurovision Young Musicians • Eurovision Young Dancers • Eurovision Dance Contest Articles that need improving The following is a list of ProjectEurovision-related articles that need some extensive improvement work doing them. 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Hello MirkoS18, I'm contacting you because we need some Serbian translators to help with the deployment of the new VisualEditor on sr.wikipedia. There are help pages, user guides, and description pages that need translating, as well as the interface itself. The translating work is going on over on MediaWiki: Translation Central. I also need help with a personal message for the Serbian Wikipedians. If you are able to help in any way, either reply here, or head over to TranslationCentral. Thanks for your time, PEarley (WMF) (talk) 22:54, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. Would you please stop adding Category:Linguistic controversies every article related to Croatian/Serbian/Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian? There is actually very little controversy about it outside the Balkans, and even within the Balkans many linguists don't see the topic as controversial. Thank you. Timbouctou (talk) 17:42, 11 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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This template's name isn't {{Serbs of Croatia}}, so you're breaking guideline #2 of WP:NAVBOX. You should move it first. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 20:43, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Also, it's really crowded, and on my window and font size, it causes a horizontal scrollbar. You should use nested navboxes instead. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 20:44, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need to change all the transclusions immediately, redirects to templates work. Thanks. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 20:01, 3 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My understanding is that what was said in the WP Croatia talk is more or less the position of the project. While it is not binding on anyone, it carries certain weight.

The "Official languages" section in the infobox is fine as far as I'm concerned because it makes the issue clearer. GregorB (talk) 17:35, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MirkoS18. In case you are not aware, there is an upcoming campaign to improve coverage of LGBT-related topics on Wikipedia, culminating with an international edit-a-thon on June 21. See Atlanta's Wikipedia:Meetup/Atlanta/Wiki Loves Pride 2014 for more information. We are expanding the LGBT Atlanta, Georgia pages. This would be a tremendous help to Wikipedia and coverage of LGBT culture and history. Thanks for your consideration, and please let me know if you have any questions! --tdempsey (talk) 06:59, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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This is my response. Joy has been notified too.[3] Please keep an eye on the articles - I've just made a ton of reverts, but it is impractical to revert all, so some intervention may still be needed. GregorB (talk) 17:44, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You have probably noticed that some of my reverts have been reverted back by FDrago77. I'd ignore it and put all co-official names right back. If you happen to notice more undiscussed reverts by any of these two, please let me know - in 10 years I've never raised a complaint against anyone, but I'd be more than happy to make this my first. Also don't worry - I know this is upsetting and time-wasting to say the least, but if being nice and patient didn't work, there definitely is an approach that will. GregorB (talk) 19:00, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hvala! GregorB (talk) 13:00, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've notified Joy once again.[4] I hope this is the quicker and easier way. Failing that, IvanOS is going to get reported. I'm going to wait for 2-3 days, please do not make any reverts in the meantime, they are probably going to be of no use anyway. GregorB (talk) 16:34, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Case closed.[5] GregorB (talk) 20:27, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There's also the issue of FDrago77, who also did a number of reverts lately. I suppose you can show him the above diff. Also, from what I can see, WP:SPI could lead to interesting discoveries... Anyway, let me know if there are problems. GregorB (talk) 18:03, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FYI: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/IvanOS. GregorB (talk) 20:41, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was hoping more people would join the discussion, but there it is... We'll conclude our discussion there with concrete actions. I'll post something by the end of the day hopefully. GregorB (talk) 07:07, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I will respond to your question within 24 hours, but not now. Where I am, it slightly past midnight. Thank you for being patient. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:22, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My advice would be that the place for a statement that the name of a place should be in all of the Minority languages of the region would be on WP:Manual of Style/Lead section to say that the names in all of the languages should be listed in the first sentence. If you have any more specific questions, I will try to help. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:28, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi MirkoS18. You added large sections of tect to the history section of Serbs in South Africa. besides the fact that this looks copied from elsewhere, it needs a lot of work to bring in line with wiki style. Please address this. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 15:51, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Mirko!

As you may have noticed, the URL to Peto izvješće (https://vlada.gov.hr/UserDocsImages//Sjednice/Arhiva//125.%20-%2023.pdf), appearing in quite a few articles, is now dead. Fortunately, the same document can be found on the Council of Europe's website, so e.g. this fixes it. Copying {{cite web}} invocation from there is probably the easiest way, only the page number will change from article to article.

The list of pages to fix is here (130 at this moment). I'm going to begin fixing them, and if you could help me with it I'd appreciate it (no hurry, of course)... GregorB (talk) 21:09, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I'm going to do it from time to time, depending on what other things pop up. GregorB (talk) 10:00, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You beat me to it, I managed to fix no more than half dozen or so... Thanks! GregorB (talk) 18:57, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I don't really see the value in this list. Certainly, the head does not suggest why it is important, and although the citations do testify to the notability of some of the institutional foundings, they do not suggest that the splitting of a university as a phenomenon has been given any attention. A google search shows that the phrase "split up university" is not in current usage. I know a bit about the history of Cambridge and Dundee, and think that these are two such different stories that there is little to be gained from putting them under one heading. If we did, we would have to add many hundreds of others.

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Thank you very much! I really like writing about the topic as it's rediscovery for me as well. Hopefully it may be useful for Wikipedia readers and motivate other editors to improve my initial contribution.--MirkoS18 (talk) 10:21, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Mirko. I noticed you undid my edit of the Hrvoje Klasić wiki article in english. Within my edit, I removed adjectives meant to subjectivelly glorify a person. Also I've removed statements Hrvoje Klasić never said yet for some reason were quoted as his statements. Lastly, Klasić's personal opinion on certain topics were, within the article, depicted as fact rather than what they actually are, his opinion. Using terms as "underlined", which are meant for statements with factual basis, instead of terms as "claimed", which are meant for ones opinion, was also a problem within the article as they give a wrong impression of what's factually correct and what's merely ones opinion.

Your reasoning for undoing my entire edit was because I, in your opinion, linked an "unreliable source" although first and foremost the article in question is a purely informative article simply reporting on the Austrian governments decision to ban the Croatian Defence Force's symbol. There is nothing biased, subjective nor unreliable in the article itself as it was a purely informative news article of something the Austrian government did, if you had read it you would've known it but instead bias prevailed. Secondly, the sentence related to that article was a mere 10 word sentence. You had no right to undo an entire 400 word edit due to that. Please, in future use the "Edit source" option instead of reverting everything. Whatever your personal beliefs are they should be put aside in order to have a informative and objective Wikipedia page. PlavaOmega (talk) 14:30, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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For anyone interested, I just added a question on editors page.--MirkoS18 (talk) 22:32, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In case of interest, here's the reply and my follow up question.--MirkoS18 (talk) 22:49, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Please, stop tagging talk pages of numerous Serbian and Croatian villages with {{WikiProject Villages}}. That project is totally defunct, there's no evidence they have ever done anything, so tagging talk pages only floods watchlists (and I have hundreds of those on mine) and clutters talk pages. I've just marked their page as defunct and I'm considering MfD-ing it. No such user (talk) 10:42, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No such user. First of all, thank you for your feedback but I really don't think that I have done any mistake by tagging talk pages of villages with corresponding {{WikiProject Villages}} which explicitly state that they would like to Add {{WikiProject Villages}} to every talk page about some village. You may have marked it now in a certain way (but not at the time of my contribution), but it may actually be more inappropriate (particularly your reverts on my edits) since it would be quite reasonable to assume that I may have some interest in the project. I mean, my hundreds of edits actually contribute to the activity of that project. Wouldn't you agree? Now, I gain nothing by arguing and I see what may complicate editing for you (note taken) but I just think that you should be much more careful with your requests to other editors, and if there is too much information on your watchlist maybe reconsider your priorities. Cheers!--MirkoS18 (talk) 19:54, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize if I came across as condescending; it was not my intention to demean your contributions to the project. My sole intent was to point your attention that this particular task was counterproductive. No such user (talk) 08:01, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hmm, I'm not sure about the future of commons:File:Borovo logo.svg which @EmiliaITČA replaced the above with, I don't think the "does not meet the threshold of originality" licensing really fits this newly uploaded logo on Commons, because they are not exactly basic shapes and unoriginal fonts. -Vipz (talk) 06:34, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Vipz I am quite sure that it does meet the threshold of originality and I don't understand why it was moved to Commons. I haven't noticed it until now so thank you for letting me know. The old, more basic form of logo itself contains original and recognizable font (and in general I think that it is more easily associated with the company to the extent that I was unaware of the new one). Is there a way to "un-import" it back from Commons as a non-free file or once it's deleted the new one should be added here once again?--MirkoS18 (talk) 08:56, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I just updated the old file which is still on Wikipedia with the new logo so that it won't affect the article once the non-free file is deleted.--MirkoS18 (talk) 09:05, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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	Neutral and Non-Aligned European States is a very good article. Well done! BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 04:02, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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	For countless contributions to underrepresented topics on English Wikipedia, including articles about bilateral relations within the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South. Admirable dedication to the project. –Vipz (talk) 20:24, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Vipz:. This is really kind of you. I appreciate it a lot. Thank you very much!--MirkoS18 (talk) 21:49, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for creating Vukovar Plateau, it’s a nice article! Dylan | ✉ | ✓  18:26, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you speak Croatian, right? 🌶️Jalapeño🌶️ Don't click this link! 10:52, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jalapeño:. Thank you for your message. Yes, you are right, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian is my native language so in case you may need some help and I am free feel free to ask.--MirkoS18 (talk) 11:59, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Predivno. Hvala jako što ste jedan od rijetkih ljudi koji shvataju da mali Hrvatski otoci zapravo postoje 🌶️Jalapeño🌶️ Don't click this link! 13:40, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Mirko. According to Noel Malcolm's book, Kosovo: A Short History, New York University Press, 1998, pp. 310-313, ISBN 0814755984: "By 23 October the Bulgarians had reached the vicinity of Podujevo, in the north-eastern corner of Kosovo; another Bulgarian force was also closing on Kumanovo, a strategically important town just to the north-east of Skopje. For a crucial period of a fortnight, however, this front remained more or less static. This was thanks to two factors: the disruption of the Bulgarian army by the sudden removal (at Russian insistence) of its old officer corps, and the dogged resistance of the Scholz Group, which was assisted by up to 5,000 Albanians in the Prishtina-Mitrovica area (of whom some belonged to the security force recruited in Albania by Xhafer Deva, and 700 were members of the Skanderbeg division) as well as some local Chetnik formations. The Germans formed a plan for the orderly evacuation of their forces, which they were able to carry out on schedule, abandoning Skopje on 11 November, destroying installations at the Trepcha mine on the 12th and leaving Prishtina on the 19th, from where they retreated north-westwards into Bosnia. Accounts of these events published in post-war Yugoslavia give the impression that the Germans were driven out by the Partisans, who 'liberated' the cities of Kosovo by force. There was some fighting by a combined force of Yugoslav and Albanian Partisans in Western Kosovo, mainly against the remnants of the Skanderbeg division; but these actions were quite insignificant compared with the Soviet-Bulgarian advance. The war diary of the commander of the German Army Group 'E', with its detailed day-by-day record of military actions in Kosovo, contains hardly any references to Partisan actions at all. The general pattern was that the towns in Western Kosovo were 'liberated', i.e. taken over by Partisan forces, only after the Germans and their auxiliaries had left; in Eastern Kosovo it was the Soviet and Bulgarian forces (with some Yugoslav Partisans attached to them) who took over, also after the Germans had got out." Jingiby (talk) 17:55, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Haven’t had a chance to check out Malcolm’s book yet—it might be an interesting read. I think there’s a general understanding of the chronology: the early partisan uprising in western Serbia and how most of the major events in the struggle took place in Bosnia and nearby regions, with strong regional dynamics in Slovenia. It’s actually clear the movement was a less organized in Macedonia, and probably especially in Kosovo. That said, I of course definitely wouldn’t agree with any suggestion that the Yugoslav Partisans played a marginal role overall in the county. They were, after all, the strongest resistance movement in occupied Europe. But honestly, I don’t think any of this is central to the topic of the museum in Skopje. It should probably only come up if it’s really relevant. Also, I feel like people from other parts of the former Yugoslavia (myself included) don’t fully grasp the complexities of Bulgarian-North Macedonian relations. It’s a bit removed from our day-to-day, and sometimes it feels like our friends from this small, friendly country are being unfairly pushed around by larger neighbors. I’m not keen on diving into that (since I don’t know enough), but I do want to help by improving content on important institutions and topics in North Macedonia. The fact that even something as seemingly random as a city museum can spark mini-dramas just shows how we need to be more proactive. We can’t let editors throw in the towel over stuff like this and I am afraid it may happen.--MirkoS18 (talk) 18:21, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You may also look at Jozo Tomasevich's War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration. Volume 2, Stanford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0804779244, pp. 751-752. "For a detailed description of the German withdrawal from Greece through Macedonia and the central Balkans to Bosnia ... see the account by one of the participants, Erich Schmidt-Richberg, 'Der Endkampf auf dem Balkan'. General Schmidt-Richberg was chief of staff of Army Group E, deployed in Greece ... The Yugoslavs' main criticism of the book was that it did not mention the Partisan units that fought the Germans as soon as they entered Yugoslav territory in Macedonia. Schmidt-Richberg only mentioned Bulgarian divisions, which had changed camps and were now fighting the Germans. But the Yugoslavs claimed that the main burden of fighting the Germans was theirs and that the Bulgarians did not have their heart in fighting their erstwhile allies. The claim applies to Partisan operations in the area between the Greek frontier on the south and the Drina River on the northwest – Macedonia, Southern Serbia, Kosovo and Sndjak. It is interesting to note that in a series of maps from Army Group E on its withdrawal through Macedonia and Serbia toward the Drina River and Bosnia, there is almost no indications on Yugoslav Partisan units… The contribution of Bulgarian troops in fighting the Germans in the fall of 1944 in Macedonia and Serbia is still much debated between Yugoslav and Bulgarian military historians." I think these events are a problem in former Yugoslavia, not in Bulgaria, Greece or Albania.--Jingiby (talk) 18:28, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the second reference but there is no need for this actually so I will politely ask you to stop. It's a bit spamming actually – I fully understand and appreciate good intentions. Again, thanks, but I will look on my own to the extent I am interested.--MirkoS18 (talk) 18:31, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]