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Belarusian cuisine: concerns about validity

The article Belarusian cuisine was created three years ago, on 1 January 2006, by User:Alies' Biely, who did not provide any sources for the content, although it looked like a straightforward cut and paste job. The content remained essentially unchanged over time, except for wikifying the format, adding pix, and making some substantive changes very recently. As of today, there is not a single reference in this fairly long article. When I started reading through the article, I came across terms that could not be verified (e.g., poliuka, kamy, pauguski). On the other hand, I did not see in the article names of standard Belarusian dishes that are listed on any Belarusian cooking web site (in English or Russian). This leads me to suspect the validity of the entire article. Any comments or suggestions on what to do? Unfortunately I do not know Belarusian, so any help and guidance from the community will be much appreciated. --Zlerman (talk) 04:21, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

I think this article is translation on English of same article in printed "Encyclopedia of Grand Duchy of Lithuania" ("Энцыклапедыя ВКЛ") printed by "Belarusian encyclopedia" (official, existing for long time) publisher in 2005 by same author. I don't see any reason to not believe in authorship, since he also Chrotoem many related articles in Belarusian Wikipedia.

If sources is concern, I could add them from "Энцыклапедыя ВКЛ".

EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:21, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, please do add sources to Belarusian cuisine as needed. Also please provide a link to the "Encyclopedia of Grand Duchy of Lithuania" if it exists on line. Many thanks for your help! --Zlerman (talk) 01:34, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

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Raduń

I discovered the article Raduń, which is about a place in Belarus. Is this the conventional spelling? It seems to be a Polish spelling of the name. If it should be spelt differently to conform with Belarusian conventions, could someone move it? (I would have expected the spelling Radun, but maybe the soft sign at the end ought to be transcribed somehow.)--Kotniski (talk) 09:36, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

According BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian should be Radun'. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:00, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll rename it to that then.--Kotniski (talk) 14:09, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

New Article: Poland–Belarus relations

Hello, I'm from WikiProject Poland, I would like to inform members of this new article and that they are welcome to edit and help improve this new article. Regards Ijanderson (talk) 20:09, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

A ton of Belarus articles up for deletion

Hi project, I thought I would give you all a headsup as to a number of Belarus-related articles currently up for AfD, which are as follows:

• Belarus–Vietnam relations
• Belarus–Slovenia relations
• Belarus–Egypt relations
• Belarus–Belgium relations
• Argentina–Belarus relations
• Belarus–United Arab Emirates relations
• Belarus–Iran relations
• Belarus–South Africa relations

Editors may want to weigh in with their opinions. --Russavia ^Dialogue 14:50, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

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I have identified some copyvios at the article's talk page. Help wanted. Novickas (talk) 14:53, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Spelling

User:Geregen2 is going around to every Belarusian article and changing the spelling to what he calls to "Belarusian spelling". Check out his edit history: [1] . Just in the past day he has probably moved a hundred articles to his "Belarusian spelling". Most Belarusian websites I've visited are in Russian. UEFA uses the Russian spelling for Belarusian footballers. For example Sergei Kislyak is spelled as Sergei Kislyak according to UEFA (link here for proof = [2]), but User:Geregen2 moved the WP article to Syarhey Kislyak anyway. Is there any way we can annul his edits without having to go through tediously one by one? He's literally spent 6 straight hours just moving articles. I think he may be a bot. --Tocino 17:23, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

For the love of God, will someone with credentials in eastern Slavic history clean this up!

I think it is a travesty that no one has simply consolidated the multiple articles concerning Belarus and the many other nations over the last several centuries that this area has been a part of. Everyone is fully aware that the ethnic group that comprises the majority of Belarus for the most part is a language group, and a mixed bag of ethnic groups, there have been so many conquerors and nations who have had sovereignty over this area and this makes it a very touchy subject for those who consider themselves natives of Belarus and a distinct ethnic group. What everyone needs to understand is that what we need here is a historical overview of the area and the different groups that have and still do occupy this nation. Let us not let nationalistic pride get in the way of the dissemination of knowledge. Please can someone with a specific knowledge of the entire history of this nation, and all of the different forms it has taken over the long and rich history this area enjoys come up with a concise factually acurate article so students and the merely curious can get more than a long list of complaints when they look up the nation of Belarus?- Ryan Collins —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.75.27.116 (talk) 19:17, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Polonization in Western Belarus

Dear colleagues,

I have started Polonization in Western Belarus subsection in Polonization article. I think that the materials gathered by me would require a separate article in the future. Information would touch dispersal of legal Belarusian political parties (Беларуская Грамада, Беларускi Пасольскi Клуб, Змаганне, Таварыства беларускае мовы), Belarusian partisan movement in Western Belarus 1921-1939, demolition of Orthodox churches (especially demolition of Alexander Nevsky Church in Warsaw Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Warsaw), repressions among Belarusian politicians (members of Беларускi Пасольскi Клуб, Belarusian senators) et al.

Please those who have an access to more detailed info on these affairs help to contribute to the content. Your review is appreciated.

One small request, maybe someone has old Polish passport (Dowod osobisty) issued by Polish authorities within 1921-1939 in Western Belarus, especially those where Polish authorities were not filling in citizenship of Poland, depriving of citizen's rights. The passport which I have is very old and I don't know whether I could scan it in better quality.

З Новым Годам!!!! Vlad fedorov (talk) 13:58, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Bereza Kartuska

Dear All,

I have suggested renaming of the article from original research "prison" to "concentration camp'. Please put in your opinion here. Vlad fedorov (talk) 05:41, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Anthony Sawoniuk article

Why is this article within the scope of project Belarus? Sawoniuk wasn't Belarussian and as far as I can tell he never even visited the country!Varsovian (talk) 20:21, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

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Most common way of romanizing belarusian?

Which is the most common you guys use for transliterating? Scholarly, National 2000, or BGN? --Львівське (talk) 19:15, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Please see WP:CYR#Belarusian. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 5, 2010; 19:35 (UTC)

Belarus: TFA for 27 July 2010

Just a friendly notice to let you know what is up. I would also be a good opportunity to create a book for Belarus, such as Book:Canada. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:13, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

A book? Hmm...I'll pass. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 16:47, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

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Harry Lewinsky Belarus former boxer - can you help?

The article on former Belarus boxer Harry Lewinsky has been tagged as an unreferenced biography of a living person since March 2009, which is the current focus month of the Unreferenced BLP Rescue project. I have tried, and failed, to find any reliable sources to support the text in this article. Nothing on Google, apart from wiki mirrors and a few Red Hot Chili Peppers fan forum posts (which are not reliable sources). I'm posting here in the hope that someone might like to take an interest and provide at least one reliable source (which is all that is needed to take it out of the "unreferenced BLP" category). Searching in Russian might generate something, perhaps. If it remains unreferenced much longer, it will probably be proposed for deletion.--Plad2 (talk) 08:06, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Article now proposed for deletion by another editor, so the clock is ticking.--Plad2 (talk) 23:35, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Augustów Canal/GA1

A GAN has started on Augustów Canal, and was put on an initial hold to allow prose issues to be addressed before sources and coverage were looked at. The nominator has not accessed Wikipedia since the review started, and has not responded to an email. Would anyone from this project be prepared to work on the article to bring it up to GA status? SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 10:16, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Belarus will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Belarus's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:52, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Belarusian nobility

Comments appreciated. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:17, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Potential Volost relation to antien slavic Volchs (magicians, caldei, priests) etc., etc

Potential Volost relation to antien slavic Volchs (magicians, caldei, priests). From that relation to proto slavic god Volos-Veles (god of merchant, humidity, etc. antipole or better counterbalance of the highest gid Svarog). From that relation to Vloch-Loch-Lach-Vlach-Walach and Walachia with its relation to Romania foundation. Other potential relation are Volos-Veles-Velas-Pelas thus antien Macedonian Pella and its citizens Pelas-gians. The same for Veles-Filis- with relation to antien Filistines nation meant also in Holy Bible. Western relation to Wales is also possible. For further referrence please write to janvalachian@yahoo.com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.197.226.118 (talk) 17:43, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Banknote.jpg

image:Banknote.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 06:37, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Belarus example missing from Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)

I wonder if someone could please provide a suitable example of a notable/stable article lead for WP:BELARUSIANNAMES. The Kazakh example is Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Russian example Vladimir Putin, the Serbian example Ivan Andrić. Thanks in advance. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:12, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

No response so I added Francysk Skaryna as the example. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:47, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

FAR Rus' Khaganate

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Boris Pavlovich Demidovich

I just created a -discrete I suppose ;)- article about the great Belarusian mathematician. Friends, could you give me an hand to improve it translating sources, creating a bibliography, and whatever you can. This is the first article about Boris Demidovich, no other article about him are present on any other wikipedia, so why don't work it out? - Theirrulez (talk) 17:02, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Renaming regional categories

Proposed at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_August_11#Provinces_of_Belarus. East of Borschov 06:45, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

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John Carter (talk) 23:35, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Masherov article contains unsourced speculation

Where is the source that the KGB may have caused his death? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gwgoldb (talk • contribs) 14:34, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Will somebody pls look at Kalduny

I'm danish, writing on danish wikipedia and are participating in the Danish variant of WikiProject Lithuania, and wants to translate the artickle about Kalduny. But .... I am sorry to say, this artickle is of so low quality that I will have to rewrite it totally! Pls. look at my critic on the talkpage! PerV (talk) 12:32, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Pan

May you write Pan (title) article ? (Idot (talk) 04:45, 6 March 2011 (UTC))

Current economic crisis

Are there any WP articles dealing specifically with the current economic crisis in Belarus, particularly the recent currency devaluation? Nsk92 (talk) 22:05, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Removed tag

I removed your WikiProject tag from Bais Rivka, which was tagged in 2007 by the blocked User:BetacommandBot as I see it without justification. Debresser (talk) 14:05, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Folklore??

Greetings - I just created an umbrella category for Slavic folklore‎ and was quite surprised to discover that there is no category for Belarusian folklore. I presume this is just an oversight, so I'm hoping that one of you folks will make a point of creating & populating that category in the near future. And of course, be sure to include Category:Slavic folklore as one of the parents! Regards, Cgingold (talk) 00:35, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

PS - Please be kind enough to leave a note on my talk page if you reply here or create the category. Thanks! Cgingold (talk) 00:37, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Eurasian Union/

Please, join the discussion. --Wustenfuchs 23:15, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

West Belarus or Western Belarus ?

See Western Ukraine.Xx236 (talk) 09:28, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Help needed

Does anyone have time to help in taking WP:Naming conventions (Cyrillic) from current draft to RfC for adoption as a guideline? In ictu oculi (talk) 06:35, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

BLP and POV problems

I just saw Vladlena Funk and tagged it for deletion due to a lack of notability and severe WP:OR/WP:NPOV/WP:BLP problems. The article is almost exclusively sourced to documents hosted by russianlaw.org, an obscure law firm and/or advocacy organization with ties to Funk. According to ImmortalPanda who told me of this article, it's not the only one of this "quality" and relying on russianlaw.org, though he couldn't immediately recall others. The article hasn't been edited significantly since 2010; it may be worth the effort to look for similar articles in the old editors' contributions. Huon (talk) 04:11, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Belarus article seems to have heavy use of the "www.Russianlaw.org" site. I so far found 25 sources out of 60+ sources used is from RussianLaw even in the lead. ImmortalPanda (talk) 05:09, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Luch (watch)

Please see Luch_(watch) which I recently created; there is a Russian version that seems more complete and seems to have sources, but since I don't speak Russian it's a bit hard for me. Any help expanding would be most welcome! --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 19:29, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

English exonyms for place names

English_exonyms#Belarus. English_exonyms. No section? Is that right? Can someone check this please. See also article Talk. Many thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:25, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

WP:BELARUSIANNAMES

this edit looks okay to me but can others just check please. See also RM at Talk:Michajił Karčmit. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:06, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Viktar Kopach

Please, help me. My article about the Belarusian sculptor Viktar Kopach want to remove. --Tatiana Matlina (talk) 17:08, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Uładzimir Katkoŭski

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Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)

Hi everyone. These guidelines still have a "proposed" sticker on the head, but they appear to be in use across all the Cyrillic languages:

Is there any debate about any of the language sections? Does it reflect correctly and completely this WikiProject? If there's a language where there isn't agreement, then shouldn't an "under discussion" sticker be on the individual language and we can work to remove the the "proposal" header above all of them? In ictu oculi (talk) 08:50, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

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Vselyub

Hello! I have many family members who came from this town and I am very curious to see this place but unfortunately it is not very easy to find information. If you have photos please upload them! I really want to see this place, especially the churches and the manor. As many photos as possible if you can! THANK YOU! -Nadja O. ( from Canada :) ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by NadyaAlexis (talk • contribs) 22:15, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

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This proposal was evidently rejected, and has been archived. --Thnidu (talk) 07:23, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Names of chairmen of the National Bank

The article National Bank of the Republic of Belarus has a section listing all the chairmen of the bank since its inception. It gives all their names as transcriptions of their Russian forms, followed by transliterations of their Belarusian names, e.g.,

• Tamara Vinnikova (in Belarusian: Tamara Vinnikava; 1996–1997)

This seems backward to me, and for the current chairman (the only one with an article; the rest are all redlinks) I went to his article and substituted his full Belarusian name, with patronymic, in transliteration and Belarusian, followed by the equivalent in Russian:

• Pavel Uladzimiravich Kalaur (Belarusian: Павел Уладзіміравіч Калаур), or Pavel Vladimirovich Kallaur (Russian: Павел Владимирович Каллаур (from 2014)

I think it would be good to present the other chairmen's names the same way. But I don't know Belarusian and I don't know where to look, so I am putting the suggestion here. Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. -- Thnidu (talk) 07:49, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

I just started a stub...

for Vladimir Lomeiko, the list I was working from said Belarus, but the biography information I found looks more like Russia. Help?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 10:45, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

User templates

Hello, dear friends!

I invite you to use the new Belarusian theme templates.

• User:UBX/Belarusian Revival
• User:UBX/Belarusian Revival 2

--Yaraslau Zubrytski (talk) 21:56, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Bobr

Hello. There is an article on Bobr River, but there is/was apparently a town also. I found it here [3], and there are some mentions of it within WP also. Does anyone here know where to confirm this and just create a stub for Bobr, Belarus. MB 02:52, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

I have just found it listed in Urban-type settlements in Belarus, one of about four-dozen red-links! MB 03:13, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

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"chut"

Can someone confirm or deny that Chut (Belarusian mythology) is legitimate? Thank you. DS (talk) 22:14, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Districts of Belarus - deleted categories

Emptied by a vandal and then deleted.

• Category:Zhabinka District 85.179.22.188 (talk) 21:52, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
• Category:Hantsavichy District 85.179.22.188 (talk) 22:13, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
• Category:Malaryta District 85.179.22.188 (talk) 22:16, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
• Category:Kamenets District 85.179.22.188 (talk) 22:25, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Cause for problems related to districts of Belarus identified

269 edits by User:The Blade of the Northern Lights caused all of the above problems and several more. Some now fixed thanks to Admin User:Ymblanter, Admin User:Anthony Appleyard, Admin User:Good Olfactory, Admin User:Ezhiki, User:Retro-redakteur.u12, User:M3G2A1, User:Ryk72 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/The_Blade_of_the_Northern_Lights&offset=20151129202941&limit=269&target=The+Blade+of+the+Northern+Lights

As if admins and editors have nothing else to do :-) 85.179.22.188 (talk) 00:00, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

PS - and more admins and editors will be involved in fixing the remaining problems. 85.179.22.188 (talk) 00:01, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, next time I'll let you handle the cleanup from a globally banned editor. You could have just asked what I was doing (2+ years ago now) or even taken the initiative to read the logs. I neither know nor care about the naming conventions, but the issue at that time was picking up the pieces of an extremely disruptive user. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 03:04, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

You are most likely talking to the same globally banned user.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:30, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Most likely. I'm just trying to make it obvious to passers-by what's up here. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 15:37, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

User:The Blade of the Northern Lights - but why did you decide to change from consensus names to anti-consensus names? Why didn't you just revert controversial edits? 92.229.129.11 (talk) 15:05, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

WP:BELARUSIANNAMES - geographical names

Pietrykaŭ → Pietrykaw (move · discuss) – the project uses romanization based on BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian, compare with other towns 77.180.227.43 (talk) 11:52, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Vasilievičy → Vasilievichy (move · discuss) – the project uses romanization based on BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian, compare with other towns 77.180.227.43 (talk) 11:52, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Pietrykaŭ District → Pietrykaw District (move · discuss) – the project uses BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian, compare with the other districts 77.180.227.43 (talk) 11:42, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Rahačoŭ District → Rahachow District (move · discuss) – the project uses BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian, compare with the other districts 77.180.227.43 (talk) 11:42, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Žlobin District → Zhlobin District (move · discuss) – the project uses BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian, compare with the other districts 77.180.227.43 (talk) 11:42, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Žytkavičy District → Zhytkavichy District (move · discuss) – the project uses BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian, compare with the other districts 77.180.227.43 (talk) 11:42, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

........What is the current state of WP:BELARUSIANNAMES? Is it still accurate or has there been a change in WikiProject Belarus consensus? In ictu oculi (talk) 12:45, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

There was a clear consensus not to use Lacynka, and in this sense the moves seem to be good to me. For more details, I will ping @Iryna Harpy:.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:50, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

That's fine, as long as there are actual live editors on it. see Talk:Žytkavičy District. @Iryna Harpy: thanks @Ymblanter:, as long as the guidelines are agreed and linked somewhere editors can find them. In ictu oculi (talk) 19:31, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

@In ictu oculi and Ymblanter: Just confirming that Lacynka has been flatly rejected, and that there are more than one set of eyes watching the articles in question for the long term. There were a series of discussions surrounding the issue in 2013(?) with a number of editors retaining consensus for BGN/PCGN. I'll try to find the trail for the record. There's only been one fly-by-night editor pushing for its usage on any talk pages. Any other changes to the use of Lacynka conventions have been introduced without discussion (essentially ninja edits). If anyone wishes to challenge it, they're welcome to test the waters... but they'd have to come up with some new and convincing arguments. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 22:25, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

@Iryna Harpy and Ymblanter: another edit contesting the application of WP:BELARUSIANNAMES https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Hoiniki&oldid=801245363 lot of extra work for WikiProject Belarus if each uncontroversial move request is turned into a discussion. 92.229.129.11 (talk) 15:44, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Districts of Belarus - naming inconsistency

District vs. Raion

User:Ymblanter, User:Good Olfactory, User:Retro-redakteur.u12, User:M3G2A1 changed 10 of the 64 districts in Minsk, Mogilev and Vitebsk regions from X Raion to X District, but left the other 54 at their old names, leaving the districts in these regions named inconsistently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Districts_of_Mogilev_Region - 21 districts - 6 changed by Ymblanter between 2013 and 2017

• 2013-10-29 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mogilev_District&diff=579227956&oldid=579227647 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ymblanter
• 2017-03-12 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horki_District&diff=769948602&oldid=693004299 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ymblanter
• 2017-05-11 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mstsislaw_District&diff=779859215&oldid=693004563 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ymblanter
• 2017-07-25 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Klimavichy_District&diff=792240228&oldid=779109235 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ymblanter
• 2017-07-25 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Krychaw_District&diff=792240441&oldid=730900572 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ymblanter
• 2017-08-29 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khotsimsk_District&diff=797820999&oldid=778821405 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ymblanter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Districts_of_Vitebsk_Region - 21 districts - 5 changed by Ymblanter, Good Olfactory, Retro-redakteur.u12 between 2013 and 2017

• 2013-10-30 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vitebsk_District&diff=579404099&oldid=541294668 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ymblanter
• 2015-11-16 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Braslaw_District&diff=690858737&oldid=684388666 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Good_Olfactory
• 2015-12-26 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dubrowna_District&diff=696810829&oldid=693003548 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Retro-redakteur.u12
• 2016-12-29 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liozna_District&diff=741741437&oldid=693003162 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ymblanter
• 2017-03-14 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Verkhnyadzvinsk_District&diff=770248090&oldid=732886920 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ymblanter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Districts_of_Minsk_Region - 22 districts - 1 changed by M3G2A1 in 2017

• 2017-03-13 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nyasvizh_District&diff=770116109&oldid=731356529 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:M3G2A1

213.39.171.32 (talk) 14:18, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

There was a several years old consensus to find everything to District, but I will have difficulties finding it now. I will eventually move all of the remaining articles.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:23, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Dear Ymblanter, thanks a lot for the swift reply and the announcement to eventually move all of the remaining articles. Your recent moves were for districts of Mogilev Region. It is also the one with the oldest move date (2013-10-29) in the lists above. Maybe Mogilev can be finished first. 213.39.171.32 (talk) 14:36, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Found it, Talk:Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script#District vs Raion vs Rajon--Ymblanter (talk) 14:46, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

The process is running since 2013. Remaining 16 in Category:Districts of Vitebsk Region were done today within 10 minutes [4]. 213.39.161.73 (talk) 15:35, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

And in Mogilev Region you messed the things up, making your participation net negative.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:51, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Dear Ymblanter, can you please clarify? What happened with Category:Districts of Mogilev Region? I see 8 raion are left, down from 15 before my initial post on 10 September. That would mean ca. 8 minutes and they are finished too. Do you have 8 minutes? And maybe 20 minutes for Category:Districts of Minsk Region? 213.39.161.73 (talk) 18:13, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Now a move request is open, and I can not do anything until someone closes it. --Ymblanter (talk) 21:11, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Comment: Requests for Mogilev Region have been made by IP 77 (Berlin), not IP 213 (Hamburg). Anthony Appleyard removed them as "done" [5] which means fulfilled. Discussions are marked with "discuss" [6] [7]. Cheers 92.229.98.66 (talk) 02:36, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

See Talk:Cherykaw Raion.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:50, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

What a mess, suggest speedy close since consensus exists.

1. Category:Districts of Brest Region‎ - 17/17
2. Category:Districts of Gomel Region‎ - 21/21
3. Category:Districts of Grodno Region - 17/17
4. Category:Districts of Minsk Region - 22/22 - 2017-09-15 finished via WP:RM
5. Category:Districts of Mogilev Region - 13/21 - 8 deceptively blocked User:Anthony Appleyard
6. Category:Districts of Vitebsk Region‎ - 21/21 - 2017-09-13 finished via WP:RM

77.179.236.12 (talk) 01:14, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

• @Ymblanter: Sorry. My "done 9" was a typo for "discuss 9". I have now made the 9 moves. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:41, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

  Great, thank you.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:35, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Spelling of basename

Seven district article names contain diacritic marks, corresponding district seat article names should be checked too:

• Category:Districts of Gomel Region: Jeĺsk District, Pietrykaŭ District, Rahačoŭ District, Žlobin District, Žytkavičy District
• Category:Districts of Grodno Region: Smarhon' District, Zel’va District

77.179.236.12 (talk) 01:30, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

District fixed but center despite hinting at it not: Smarhon’. 85.179.22.188 (talk) 22:15, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Four out of 100+ districts use Lacynka. Seems like straightforward uncontroversial move. But one user decided to question the romanization harmonization... https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requested_moves/Technical_requests&diff=prev&oldid=800946446 92.229.129.11 (talk) 15:02, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Category:People by district of Belarus

In Category:People by district of Belarus there are X Raion left over, they should be moved to X District? Consensus exists since 2013. What do you think User:Ymblanter, User:Good Olfactory, User:Retro-redakteur.u12, User:M3G2A1, User:User:Anthony Appleyard, User:Iryna Harpy? 85.181.60.244 (talk) 14:01, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject

Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Belarus

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod ^talk 13:46, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

RfC on transliterated and Russian names of Belarus' in the lede

There is currently an RfC about the transliterated and Russian names of Belarus' in the page's opening paragraph. Your input would be appreciated. It can be found here. – Sabbatino (talk) 13:19, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians to be moved to Anti-Eastern Orthodox sentiment. This page is of interest to several relating WikiProjects and interested users may want to participate in the discussion here. Sorabino (talk) 21:48, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Alexander Lukashenko

Hi. There is an empty section in the Alexander Lukashenko article that should be pretty easy for someone from this projects to fill. The article is rated good and generally looks good so it would be nice to keep it updated. AIRcorn (talk) 22:48, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Title: "Slavic paganism" or "Slavic religion"?

More opinions needed in this discussion.--Eckhardt Etheling (talk) 07:36, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Focus on Belarus at Women in Red

In May 2018, in conjunction with m:Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/Article Lists, Women in Red is focusing on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. We hope there will be contributions on women from Belarus.

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Wiki4MediaFreedom

Hi. If you have time, please take a look on meta at this page m:Wiki4MediaFreedom contest. It's an event organized by Rossella Vignola (OBC), there is a list of articles to improve also on English wikipedia.--Alexmar983 (talk) 20:25, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

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Niemen ma już swoje muzeum

Hi there, I have introduced the List of music museums, and the "Niemen ma już swoje muzeum" has not yet been written in English (nor in Belarussian or Russian, but yet in Polish). Is here someone that likes to write this article? When you make use of references, I will translate it to Dutch language too. :-) Best regards, Ymnes (talk) 19:40, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:34, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Invitations to External Discussions

Article titles for rivers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

You are invited to participate in the discussion about article titles for rivers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus at WT:RIVERS#Article titles for rivers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Markussep ^Talk 14:41, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

The conclusion of the discussion is that articles about rivers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus should be titled "X" if they're the only or primary topic (for example Volga, Yenisei, Irtysh, Berezina) and "X (river)" if disambiguation is needed and they are not obviously the primary topic (for example Kostroma (river), Don (river), Pripyat (river)). If there are more rivers with the same name, parentheses will be used for disambiguation, see WP:NCRIVER. I will start moving articles soon. Markussep ^Talk 08:59, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Displaying Russian names as footnotes in former Soviet Union locations?

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Kyiv/Kiev in territorial articles

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Activity Report

Post edits you've made to Belarus-related articles/templates/etc here!

• I've recently updated Template:Leaders of Belarus since 1918 to include Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya as President (contested). Arianna the First (talk) 11:36, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
• Cleaned up the names in the Zianon Paźniak article to all use Belarusian Latin alphabet instead of a mix of several systems in one name. Sennowa (talk) 20:10, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
• Added an NPOV tag to Belarusian nationalism as it is presently quite one-sided Arianna the First (talk) 20:56, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

RfC about Nikolai Lukashenko

Talk:Nikolai Lukashenko § Should content cited to social media posts and WP:OR be removed from this article? I dream of horses (Contribs) Please notify me after replying off my talk page. Thank you. 23:47, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Changing the WikiProject logo

I'm under the impression a lot of us would be happier using the 1991-1995 Coat of Arms of Belarus as the logo for this project, rather than the present National Emblem of Belarus. I'll request that change if we have consensus that this is the case? Arianna the First (talk) 14:40, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

agreed blindlynx (talk) 13:23, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Support. Sennowa (talk) 10:04, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

First women MPs in Belarus

Hello. I'm compiling a list of the first women MPs in each country, but have been unable to find the answer for Belarus. I'm guessing they would have been an early member(s) of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian SSR, the Congress of Soviets or the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. If anyone can point me to a definitive source, it would be much appreciated. Cheers, Number 57 17:58, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Infobox flags.

It feels inappropriate to use the green and red flag in infoboxs of people associated with the protests and teh coordinating council. Some of us have been using the red and white one. There should probably be a discussion about teh best way to address this. blindlynx (talk) 00:30, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

FAR for Belarus

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2021 IIHF World Championship

Good day

I have been attempting to add content to articles related to the 2021 IIHF World Championship in ice hockey, scheduled to partly take place in Minsk this year. As you may be aware of this is a highly controversial issue and touches upon the legitimacy of Lukashenka. So far I have met rather staunch resistance and accusations of not being neutral in my approach.

What I would like to achieve for:

• IIHF: there be a brief summary of the controversy surrounding the Championships with reference to the earlier 2014 championships under Controversy. This is an accepted way of describing controversies, which this is.
• 2021 IIHF World Championship: a detailed discussion of the various actors at play, these include politicians, international organisations and large companies (event sponsors)
• Rene Fasel: president of IIHF who is doing things in a very bumbling sort of way and seems to want to have his cake and eat it too (here is an interview where he goes into detail)

I would recommed you review the talk pages of those articles to see the slow progress being made. In particular I think that the 2021 IIHF World Championship has gained political significance which in a sense makes it not only a sports event, but a political prize. If it is held in Minsk then Lukashenka scores a point. If not his opponents do. Why else all the fuss? Jabbi (talk) 12:04, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

FAR notice

I have nominated Hero of Belarus for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm _Talk 01:46, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

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Proposed MoS addition on optional stress marking in Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, etc.

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#RfC?, for a proposal relating to optional characters/marks for indicating vocal stress, used in some foreign languages, include "ruby" characters for Japanese and Korean, and znaki udareniya marks in Ukrainian and Russian. The short version is that, based on a rule already long found in MOS:JAPAN and consonant with WP:NOTDICT policy, MoS would instruct (in MOS:FOREIGN) not to use these marks (primarily intended for pedagogical purposes) except in unusual circumstances, like direct quotation, or discussion of the marks themselves. Target date for implementation is April 21. PS: This does not relate to Vietnamese tone marks.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  19:30, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

WP:BELARUSIANNAMES

Hi everyone, I am proposing some changes to this policy, please join the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(Cyrillic)#Belarusian_geographical_place_names,_Part_2. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 18:46, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Not a policy, and would never be one. It's a draft guideline, long dormant. Might make a good guideline, though. Anyway the distinctions between policies and guidelines matter.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  19:34, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

FAR for constitution of Belarus

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Rename articles about uezds for consistency

I’m proposing renaming every article in the form of, for example, Akhtyrka Uyezd → Akhtyrka Uezd, to match the spelling of the renamed main article Uezd. Please discuss at talk:Uezd#Rename articles about uezds for consistency. —Michael Z. 22:16, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

FAR for My Belarusy

I have nominated My Belarusy for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 16:48, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Lukashenko articles on Belarusian Wikipedia

This was posted to my talk page, but I don't speak any of the relevant languages and am not in a postion to help.

Issues on be-tarask

Hey there! Thought I'd message you about some concerns of mine regarding the lack of neutrality on the be-tarask Wikipedia. ...

Currently, its article on Alexander Lukashenko says in part:

Alexander Lukashenko ... is the head of the Russian occupation administration, a puppet, pro-Russian, authoritarian leader of Belarus who holds power by rigging elections and terrorizing Belarusians with financial, military, and informational support from Russia. ... On April 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned Belarus in the context of an alleged FSB attempt to overthrow the Lukashenko regime as a Russian-controlled territory in which Russia would determine what was a coup and what was not.

(At least, according to Google Translate). A similar descriptor is given on the "Lukashenko regime" article (which also exists in Ukrainian, but seems to use more neutral language).

There also appears to be a "Russian occupation of Belarus" article (does not exist in any other language, including standard Belarusian), which says:

The Russian occupation of Belarus is the de facto Russian occupation of Belarus, an open demonstration of which took place on February 24, 2022, when the Russian invasion of Ukraine took place, including from the territory of Belarus. The Russian occupation administration is a puppet regime of Lukashenko, its head is the proclaimed "president" Alexander Lukashenko. One of the main measures taken by the Russian authorities (the Russian Empire, the USSR, the Russian Federation) and its occupation administrations at different times is the continuous violent Russification of Belarusians. The term "Russian occupation of Belarus" first appeared in the autumn of 1917.

This seems to be promoting false histories and original research (Lukashenko is pro-Russian and democracy doesn't really exist in the country, but it is not an "occupation" in the conventional sense, and the link to 1917 appears novel).

These are just two that caught my eye. I don't know whether this is limited to a few articles, or whether it is a more ingrained issue of ideological bias on the Taraškievica wiki in a similar vein to the Croatian Wikipedia situation. Notably, Taraškievica is spoken by the Belarusian diaspora, who I suspect are statistically more likely to be anti-regime. —AFreshStart (talk) 14:59, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Someone(s) from this wikiproject will be in a better position to help regulate the content over there.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:31, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

FAR for National emblem of Belarus

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AfD

Hi. You may or may not be interested in this AfD. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 08:33, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

I need some sources to add

Hello, I'm looking for some help with my article here. This is what I need:

• Sources
• Feedback
• Pictures

Thank you! DawnTheFirst (talk) 19:27, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Belarusian rubel#Requested move 11 September 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Belarusian rubel#Requested move 11 September 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 04:39, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

RFC on Belarus Section of Coat of Arms of Lithuania

There is currently Request for Comments in the Coat of arms of Lithuania article, regarding the content of the Belarusian section. It seems to me that participants in this Wikiproject may be interested. Link Marcelus (talk) 19:13, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments are used by Wikipedia editors to rate the quality of articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:23, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Wikipedia talk:Stress marks in Russian words#Requested move 23 July 2023

An editor has requested that Wikipedia:Stress marks in Russian words be moved to Wikipedia:Stress marks in Russian and Ukrainian words, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion.  —Michael Z. 19:07, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

Discussion on CfD regarding the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

On WP:CfD there is an important discussion concerning the categorization of people living in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the shape of the category tree concerning people of Polish nationality. Because of the subject matter, it seemed to me that this discussion might be of interest to participants in this Wikiproject.

Link: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023 August_21#Category:18th-century people from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by occupation Marcelus (talk) 22:28, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon

Hello WikiProject Belarus:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk) 12:42, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Request for input on categories

Input is needed to close a discussion on deleting and merging a number of categories at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 19#Category:Russian and Soviet emigrants to Albania. Thanks.  —Michael Z. 05:43, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Vietka#Requested move 4 December 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Vietka#Requested move 4 December 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Bensci54 (talk) 17:11, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Khoiniki#Requested move 2 January 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Khoiniki#Requested move 2 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 11:46, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2022–2023 Belarusian and Russian partisan movement#Requested move 8 January 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2022–2023 Belarusian and Russian partisan movement#Requested move 8 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:30, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Belarusian and Russian partisan movement (2022–present)#Requested move 28 January 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Belarusian and Russian partisan movement (2022–present)#Requested move 28 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. voorts (talk/contributions) 04:13, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Replace the emblem on Template:Belarusians with the 1991-1995 Emblem

Considering Template:Bosniaks uses the 1991-1998 emblem, and considering the template is mostly about topics not related to the Government of Belarus, than id think it be a good idea to add it in. 🤓 WeaponizingArchitecture | scream at me 🤓 19:13, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Stress marks in East Slavic words

Please join the work on the content of Wikipedia:Stress marks in East Slavic words. - Altenmann >talk 12:59, 11 May 2024 (UTC)