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Latvian constitutional referendum, 2008 assessment

I'd like to expand this further if anyone can help. Also can someone have a look at the assessment? Someone rated it as start class but the criteria for that says that: "An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and, most notably, lacks adequate reliable sources." The article is reliably sourced so deserves a higher rating. Valenciano (talk) 08:09, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

At the moment, it seems that I am the only active participant of the WikiProject, and it was I who assessed the article to start-class. Without having read the article in detail, yet - I would say that the references section needs a workover. Two dead links, a "black" link to a newspaper and a link to a Latvian language source most probably could be improved this much time after the election occured. Since I am not that familiar with Latvian politics, it perhaps would be better if someone else took a look at the article as well. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 10:16, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Riga GA/FA effort

Moving forward slowly, please see sample outlines of GA/FA city articles in talk. I'm currently working on History of Riga which will then be abridged for the History section in Riga. —VЄСRUМВА  ♪  15:04, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Biographical information of Viktors Lorencs

Hi, everyone. Sorry, I understand that this may not be the best place for this request but I can't think of a better one at the moment. Could somebody please provide biographical details on Latvian film person Viktors Lorencs (1927-1992). Specifically, I could really use the locations of birth and death. A googling marathon found nothing good except the Russian Wikipedia page ru:Лоренц,_Виктор which doesn't feature anything useful besides the dates. I would be really grateful if somebody with access to Latvian printed sources (an encyclopedia, for example) could help me with some data on him. Better yet -- you could start articles on him on Latvian and English-language projects!

Best,

madis from Estonia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.191.197.232 (talk) 22:11, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Terviseks, Madis! If you're watching, I'll take a look around. I'm a bit confused as I found an article from 2004 (in Latvian) which seems to quote Lorencs... a mystery is always good! VЄСRUМВА  ♪  23:41, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

The first theatre and actors in Latvia

What was the first theatre in Latvia with professional actors of both genders? Who is counted as the first professional actor and actress respectively? Thank you in advance for those who can answer!--Aciram (talk) 10:39, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

The net say the first modern theatre in the country was founded in Riga in 1782. What was it called? And who were the first actors and actresses there? I am very interested in theatre history. I would be grateful if anyone could reply on my talkpage. Regards--Aciram (talk) 14:24, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Riga Metro

I have made this page recently... Riga Metro. Any help would be appreciated. Further, it would be useful to add a link to the latvian and russian counterpart on their language wikipedias. Regards, (LAz17 (talk) 00:16, 21 September 2009 (UTC)).

images and some info added MetroDreams (talk) 22:43, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Latvian Week in Russian Wikipedia

Hi! The Russian-language Wikipedia is holding the Latvian Week, a joint effort aiming to expand coverage of Latvian history and culture in the wiki. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Gallus Gallicus (talk) 08:53, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Popular pages

I have requested a list of popular pages for this project at [1]. --Ysangkok (talk) 15:45, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Is there a page about Latvian sprats? I just had a tin of them for the first time - and they were marvelous - not too salty, lightly smoked, altogether lovely. I looked for a section about Latvian foods but did't find it.

I hope I'm not violating any Wikipedia rules here. I've never done this before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.154.118.188 (talk) 01:44, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

See baltic sprat for information about this fish. – Maliepa (talk) 02:13, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I had no idea they're 'Baltic sprats'. Not too surprising, though, once I checked a map after reading your response, and discovered Latvia is right on the Baltic Sea. I think the tin only said they were from Latvia. It was hard for me to read the label, as most of the writing was in - I'm guessing Russian? - Cyrillic characters at any rate. I checked the Wikipaedia article on Latvia, too - what a nice place! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.154.118.188 (talk) 18:26, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Latvia Meteorite

Someone has marked the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite_in_Latvia_2009 for deletion - can you believe that? The event is a hoax, not the page its self - there is a difference! I tried to write something on the discussion page for the proposed deletion but I ended up here. So I hope you guys can stop this happening. It is still an event with cultural significance, even if no metorite fell. Read here: http://www.thelocal.se/22910/20091027/ On the other hand, the article definitely needs more material. Think about that event in US a couple of weeks ago, with a boy supposedly lifting off in a homemade aircraft, it was also a supposed hoax, but it was definitely something to document in an encyclopedia like Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.67.54.99 (talk) 08:15, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

I've expanded the article and also nominated it for "Did You Know"? but it could really use a picture or two. If anyone has any free pictures of the fake meteorite crater, that would be a big improvement to the article. Contains Mild Peril (talk) 04:50, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Article featured today in Did You Know? Proposed deletion to inclusion on the main page in less than 2 weeks - not bad! Contains Mild Peril (talk) 20:09, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

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Importance assessment

I had a bit of argument with User:Philaweb about assessing importance of an article. Thought I have left the project, I have assessed several articles and have my own idea how it should be done. Philaweb suggested we work on assessment criteria to reach some consensus. The assessment scale for importance is not very clear, so there can be several ways how to interpret it, here are some:

1. The scale is based on how likely the subject would be included in printed encyclopedia. I usually have interpreted this by thinking how likely it would be for the particular article to appear in encyclopedia about Latvia - a good way to determine it seems to be considering if this subject is well known and has great impact in Latvia.
2. As the project covers several different categories (such as Latvian architecture, Latvian law etc.), this could also be interpreted as how important the particular article is within its category. I think I have used this approach when the importance for Latvia in general has been less obvious (I think articles on geography are one such ambiguous category)
3. What Philaweb seems to be suggesting is that it should also be considered how important it is for WikiProject Latvia to develop particular article - his reason for assessing importance of article we were arguing about as high was that it was first article on international court case in scope of WikiProject Latvia

If I have understood Philaweb correctly, I can see some problems with his approach, but I will let him confirm that this is what he was thinking, before I explain my take on this ~~Xil (talk) 20:07, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Ödenpäh, Rappin and Wrangelshof

Resolved

Does anyone know the current names of Livonian Ödenpäh, Rappin and Wrangelshof? Please either contact me on my talk or disambiguate in the landowner section of the Carl Gustav Wrangel article. Thank you Skäpperöd (talk) 17:48, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Help requested in discussion at WP:WSS/P about Latvian geography stubs

Hi -

Your input is requested for advice as to the subdivision of geography stubs in Category:Latvia geography stubs, in a discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals/2009/December. In general, a stub category will be split when there are close to 800 articles into subcategories, each of 60 or more stubs. Geography categories are always split by region (province/district/state, etc). Unfortunately, in the case of Latvia, there are 109 top-level administrative novads, so we're looking at an average of only a handful of stubs per region, so we need to know whether there can somehow be grouped into logical clumps (for example, is there a specific group of novads which together are consistently known as "Northwest Latvia"?). Any help from those who know the country would be appreciated. Grutness...wha? 00:55, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Translation cleanup at Dūda?

I figure the article Dūda (on the traditional Latvian bagpipe) could really give folks insight into Latvian folk music, however it's a pretty messy GoogleTranslation at this point. Is there anyone strong on Latvian who can help to clean it up? I'd be more than happy to help refine any of the technical bagpipe terms (stocks, chanter, blowpipe, etc) if someone can just do a basic layman's stab at it. I've also added links to sound and pic files, since it's a pretty obscure instrument and hard to find examples of. MatthewVanitas (talk) 06:07, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Parishes

The wording in some geography articles hints that someone might be assuming that parishes don't exist anymore. The parishes now are subdivisons of municipalities and most of them still exist in their previous form ~~Xil (talk) 01:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding. Denis Tarasov (talk) 13:51, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

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Votes in Latvia

I was thinking about starting this article (same in Latvian wiki), but what would be proper name for it? Should it be called simply "Votes in Latvia" or something like "Krievins" or "Kreevins"? J.K Nakkila (talk) 15:37, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

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AFD: Riga Salsa Festival

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Ugis Praulins - article in need of translated sources and TLC

We have a new article about a latvian composer that could use some help in translating sources to ensue the article can survive any questions about its Notability. Thanks! Active Banana (talk) 03:31, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Anyone for a featured article?

Does anyone want to collaborate on some article to bring it to FA? There is only one now (FM), which is sad. I looked at the Riga FAC push, but that is a very large topic, and would need all the sub-topics sorted first. So I was thinking of something smaller/manageable, like a smaller city, major structure, some individual, or event? Does anyone want to group up for better motivation/effort? —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 21:54, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

The main issue I see with this is that it is hard to find extensive information on anythig online and without good sources we can't do anything. If you could sort out mess in Riga it would be good to go too, but I figure you are not sure from which end to start either. There is a good number of Awards, decorations and vexillology FAs, which would indicate that these are easy to make. Perhaps some historical article too. You could check out the articles assesed as top and high in importance. If you decide on something leave me a message on my talk at lv.wiki, I'll try to help you out if the topic will be something I'm interested in ~~Xil (talk) 12:07, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Well, I'm off to Riga in a couple days, so I'll have access to all the local bibliography, which passes much better for FAs than online stuff. Riga is a mess indeed, and would need sub-articles sorted before the main article can be polished. That is a serious workload that I don't have motivation/patience for. I don't mind going for a smaller topic though, if I know there is enough material to work with. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 13:00, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

How about Madona? It ranks as number 16 on Wikipedia:WikiProject Latvia/Popular pages. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 13:39, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

You're sure it is from acctual need not from people viewing disambigs for Madonna ? As far as FA goes I've remember considering Brothers' Cemetery (Riga) (too much conflicting information), the flag or coat of arms (but wasn't sure if I could get iformation similar to what simmilar FAs got), some other symolic stuff could e considered e.g Daugava or Order of the Three Stars... Well, Rīga has a bonus of being FA on some other Wikipedias (so we can atleast take it as example for structure), if interested I could try to recruit some help from lv.wiki, there's atleast one person who regulary contributes to Riga related articles and seems to know English well enough too ~~Xil (talk) 13:52, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

"You're sure it is from actual need not from people viewing disambigs for Madonna?" — *ha ha* I find it funny too, but did you visit the article to see what mess it is in? ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 13:56, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Hehe, Madona — awesome. It's a mess, I'm not not sure why translation work would be done with live edits. Anyhow, the problem of choosing a history-related subject is all the controversy just a few editors can stir up, which is really not something anyone wants to deal with. That's why I suggested structure/body of water/body of land/city or similar. My personal favourite is currently Saulkrasti. It would also be cool to write up about a river or lake, but I fear nothing except Daugava/Gauja has enough notable coverage. If all fails, I can always expand Š. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 14:05, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

With history I would consider pre-WWII articles. Daugava or Gauja would be fine, probaly Lake Burtnieks or other large and mythic lakes also have good sources (for starters lakes have ezeri.lv database) I must say that of cities I favour Riga for such colaboration - it is the most important city, one of most popular articles too, has allready been subject to such proposals (so people allready have idea what to do), besides I tried to sort it out once and it really isn't job for one person.

The text on Madona originaly was commented out, someone unhid it recently, otherwise it is your avarage article on Latvian city, I may have pissed off half of comunity on lv.wiki by tagging the same articles there for being big fat listcruft yesterday, therefore I must say they are mess everywhere and I don't really support translating them from Latvian either ~~Xil (talk) 14:38, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Possibly one of the many depressing historical events. I noticed recently for example that Rumbula massacre is quite detailed and well sourced yet bizarrely is only classed as start class. There's probably others along those lines which are of greater interest to a wider audience than (no offence to it) a large village like Madona. Valenciano (talk) 17:07, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm not really into WWII, it has proven to be highly controversial, besides that article is quite good already, probably should be peer reviewed first ~~Xil (talk) 17:28, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Well then what shall we do ? ~~Xil (talk) 11:35, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Personally, I'm going to choose a city, like Saulkrasti or some notable structure. I don't like history (read: controversial) topics. Riga, Latvia, and such are all too broad. Daugava, Gauja, or some lake also seem OK. Do you have any proposals for a larger group collaboration? I wouldn't wish to start something that even a group wouldn't be able to finish. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 11:53, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

I left a note to person who appears to be main author of Rumbula massacre, let's see what happens, but despite anything WP:OWN says I think we will do more harm than good in article which is allready being worked on by someone else. I like Riga despite the mess - there is plenty information availale and it is on of the most viewed articles. Daugava also is OK with me ~~Xil (talk) 12:32, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Since Riga is my passion of heart, it is obviously going to be that article for me. But, I think your choice of Saulkrasti is good also, so if you go ahead, I will help you as much as I can, perhaps assist on the history parts. When it comes to Rumbula massacre, I am certainly out. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 12:36, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

As for notable structures - I'm happy with that, I find it would be easier to wrap my mind around such topic and I allready have some expieriece with that, but I dunno what's important enough to go for it - Riga Castle, Rundāle Palace or some church ? ~~Xil (talk) 12:37, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

It is possible to boost Riga Cathedral quite a lot, and I would be able to contribute as well. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 12:45, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Also St. Peter's Church, Riga has some information and structure allready. There is a slight problem with Doms that is has three diffrent names, has been subject to some controversies and the last time I heard it is closed to visitors or something (I suppose we will want good interiour shots ?). And in any case I'll try to recruit the guy who wrote FA on Riga at lv.wiki (sorry, but this seems to be going nowhere, i still am into doing a structure, if we can agree upon one) ~~Xil (talk) 13:16, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

A structure on Riga? ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 15:17, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Acctualy I think the current one is thorough as far as major sections go, some amends in content and susections should be made. Also I figure I will write new section cityscape and I like lv.wiki's section on fauna (in fact there should be enough meaterials to add something on geology and flora as well, so we could do nature section) and probably we still should have short section on adinistrative divison ~~Xil (talk) 15:58, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

The most important is prose and content, and - that we don't work on the same piece ;o). When we have got that we can always decide on structure. The current structure is good for starters — we can always expand later. Sounds good what you have picked, looking forward to see the result. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 16:20, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Rumbula massacre may need some work.

• There are no contemporary photographs that survive.
• A map would be helpful, as this event occurs not just at Rumbula, but in the Moscow Suburb and all along the highway to the forest. Also, one important survivor, Max Kaufmann, went all the way down to Salaspils trying to track the destination of the marching columns, so the map should go a bit furtther than just the forest itself.
• The basic English source is the work by Ezergailis, who has the advantage of speaking Latvian. I think it would be fair to say that while he certainly covered the German side, his work was focused on the Latvian role, for example, that of the Arajs Commando, in the Rumbula event as well as the Liepaja, Jelgava and other massacres.
• There is a new source available in English translation by Angrick and Klein (previously only available in German) which covers the event through extensive review of the trial records developed in the 1960s in West Germany. While Ezergailis did review the trial records, from what I have seen on-line though Google Books, it looks like Angrick and Klein have done a more thorough job.Mtsmallwood (talk) 15:07, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

I think I will (personally) work on Saulkrasti after all. I will have access to some good material, including old copies of significant articles from local newspaper. I can probably get my hands on some books from local library. Besides, I will be able to take some good photos, like the local Estrade. Anyone want to join for this? I think Philaweb wanted to chip in. I am out on historic topics, such as the Rumbula, I just can't make myself work on tedious history ever since school. I may post some stuff for Riga-related articles if I come across any. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 19:49, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Count me in on Saulkrasti. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 06:48, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Article structure - Riga

Did a little browsing for some ideas on how others have solved the challenge of creating some sort of guidelines and conventions as to the structure of an article about a city - this is what I initially found: WikiProject Cities#Article guidelines and conventions, and I find the structure guideline on Canadian communities to be short and sweet for starters. I do not have the time today for further contributions to the Riga article, but do have a look and let me know what you think. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 17:45, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

The approach to large articles should be bottom-up; that is polishing the sub-articles first and then making Riga a perfect overview of the topics. In principle, every section of Riga should have enough material for a separate article. Recent example is separated administrative divisions, which can be expanded greatly with stuff about each one, but the main Riga article should only provide a broad overview about earliest regions, development, culture, whatever. I think it is best that efforts are directed at individual sections one at a time. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 19:49, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Agree. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 06:48, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments about Rīga. I think it must be featured article. And I plan to make article about Liepāja featured too. I will finish Liepāja soon. You must rewrite Rīga article completely and don't remove panarama picture of the city center. Denis Tarasov (talk)

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So has any work been commenced yet? Riga and Rumbula M. are both quiet at the moment. Has anyone else thought of a good article for future FA candidacy? Just, please, no depressing history :) I'm willing to help out in one way or another if someone wishes to start work on an article or two. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 11:41, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Since I found that my sources don`t mach to Philaweb`s more recently pulished source (we had a discussion about some architect), I later started doubting accuracy of what I`ve got and decided that the article might be better of without errors I could accidently introduce. I guess we could as well wait until something just comes to us ~~Xil (talk) 19:34, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Free pictures from Saeima

FYI The Saeima has an account on Flickr, it appears that many of the images are liensed under CC-BY-SA ~~Xil (talk) 16:10, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Quite a scoop and many photos of good quality. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 17:47, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Assistance needed with Eastern Europe

The Eastern Europe article is fraught with errors, mislabels and slanted facts as if much of it was written by ultraconservatives during the Cold War from an ethnocentric position. If you agree with that Latvia is a Central/Northern European state rather than a Soviet satellite, please assist in rewording/correcting the article lead and body. Gregorik (talk) 06:16, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Why ? The article allready calls this definition out dated and mentions that Latvia is otherwise considered to be in Northen Europe. This seems like canvassing ~~Xil (talk) 16:24, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Whatever the concerns, I'm sure this wasn't canvassing. WikiProject is probably the best place to bring such matters up. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 16:28, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

This would be concern for WikiProjects with broader coverage (all I can think of are allready listed in discussion of that article). Asking on national project and the wording of request seems more like an attempt to attract people who dearly hate Soviet Union ~~Xil (talk) 17:38, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Xil, canvassing means sending message to individual wikipedians, not wikiproject pages. I was not being disruptive. Please stop criticizing if you don't feel like contributing to the article. Gregorik (talk) 18:56, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

I would feel like it, if there indeed was a problem. I did check it out, also noted that you`ve been reverting a lot and have`t tried to ask for help on WikiProjects, which just made me question your intent more. I merely figured that anyone`s time would be better spent dealing with real issues, instead of trying to pretend that Soviet Union has had no influence on anything ~~Xil (talk) 19:16, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

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Elina Ringa

Could anyone help improve this new article a little? Thanks,  Chzz  ►  10:12, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

People, addition information needed with references! Please, upgrade our article! Thanks, Sandis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.115.118.71 (talk) 16:07, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Diplomatic coverage

Mārtiņš Lācis, the Latvian ambassador to Ireland, is proposed for deletion (or merging). Anyone who can help either establishing notability or with a merge would be welcome. Rich Farmbrough, 16:00, 19 October 2010 (UTC).

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Additional opinions requested - Baron Munchhausen

Additional opinions would be appreciated at Talk:Baron Münchhausen#Unsourced Material. Thanks. Doniago (talk) 16:55, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

new page

Here, Go Blonde Festival, please help improve it. (LAz17 (talk) 20:41, 28 May 2011 (UTC)).

Romanization

What rules do we follow for romanization of Latvian words/names? Is there already one or would it be possible to draft a simple Romanization chart, such as Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian#WP romanization table. In essense, what to do with all the "ā", "š", "ķ", etc. letters. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 13:46, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

It is common practice here on Wikipedia only to transliterate languages that are not based on scripts in the latin alphabet. Or in other words – we keep the diacritics. What you probably are really asking about is what the naming convention says – it says to use WP:ENGLISH. Problems arrises though when a person lived and was active during the Latvian SSR-period, then names were not taken directly from the Latvian language into English, but were transliterated from the Russian language into English, since Russian was the official language of those days. Much of this transliteration can still be found in English sources, and according to WP:ENGLISH, is the proper usage since that is what readers can relate to throughout the anglosphere. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 15:36, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Just to clarify, this is about prose, not article name. So, if I need to specify a Latvian name with diacritics, I would simply write it as is? So "The architect was Jānis Kalniņš." instead of "The architect was Janis Kalninsh (Latvian: Jānis Kalniņš)."? What about institution or location names and such? Do they also just get written as is without fear of someone misreading them? By the way, none of the names have common English names or even any English sources at all. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 16:42, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Well, even if only prose, one must consider that a notable person could get an article on Wikipedia over time. I would say – yes; "The architect was Jānis Kalniņš", as long as there is no overwhelming usage in English that tells us otherwise. The same goes for institutions, in Latvian, unless there is trivial usage of translations, i.e. Latvian Ministry of this and that etc. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 17:53, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 18:01, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Diacritics RfC

Discussion is underway regarding the use of diacritics in proper nouns from languages such as Latvian. Comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)/Diacritics RfC. Prolog (talk) 19:26, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Latvijas Balzams and Riga Black Balsam

I would like to ask if I could edit the existing information about Latvijas balzams. I could add to RBB page sections Legends, Manufacture& Packaging and expand the History section. Also the info about the Latvijas balzams should be edited, because they key people and the owner of LB has changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KBLB (talk • contribs) 07:11, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

You don't need permission to edit any of the pages. As long as you follow policies/guidelines, most importantly WP:V and WP:OR, it's fine. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 07:24, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

As long as you do not violate WP:COPYVIO by copying and pasting entire sections of their website, then I agree. Lettonica (talk) 13:22, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Rogatywka military cap

Can anyone identify the rogatywka as also being of the same design as the military caps of the Latvian armed forces? ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 18:41, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

I for one have never seen anything like it, maybe you mean inter war period unifrorms. Here are various pics of current uniforms. In addition I came by a rather short exchange of opinions in a forum on uniforms honour guard wears having Polish caps, so in case that is what you mean here's a bunch of staff batalion soldiers with tops of their hats visible. ~~Xil (talk) 01:03, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer. Well, I was asking generally speaking, since I have no clue. The latter uniform cap is what I was referring to. Does it have a specific name in Latvian? Is it different from the interwar period type? ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 17:00, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Not that I know of maybe in military slang, but the NBS site above refers to it as parade uniform's cap. The honour guard is performed by štāba batajons, if you look up pictures you'll find pics of both modern and interwar soldiers, it looks to me that the uniform is the same. However during the interwar period they wore helmets while performing duties of honour guard ~~Xil (talk) 21:58, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Article request for Latvian Wikipedia

Hi, guys! For those of you who edit the Latvian Wikipedia, the editors have stated that they discourage article requests in most instances: lv:Vikipēdija:Tulkošanas vadlīnijas says:

• "Begging other users to translate for you is also strongly discouraged as this is likely to result in creating of stub on topic that is of no interest to target audience of Latvian Wikipedia, as such will never be improved and would never have been created, if it wasn't for the request."

But I have a case for a particular topic. Latvia used to be an observer state of the Interstate Aviation Committee of the CIS, so there should be a sufficient interest from people who speak the Latvian language. Therefore I decided that I am going to seek a user who knows Latvian and ask him or her if he or she is interested in writing a Latvian language article on this subject.

So with that in mind, is anyone here interested in writing a Latvian language article on the IAC?

Thank you, WhisperToMe (talk) 02:43, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

• Another question: When did Latvia stop being an observer state to the IAC? I asked, because somebody from the Romanian Wikipedia (Moldova speaks Romanian and one of the IAC member state is Moldova) found info about Moldova attempting to secede from the IAC.
• WhisperToMe (talk) 01:19, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
  • I took a quick look around for Starptautiskās aviācijas komiteja (SAK), nothing that mentioned Latvia looking to leave, of course, that could just mean I didn't find it. Perhaps our local Latvian editors have heard something. PЄTЄRS J V ►TALK 04:27, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
    • The reason why I suspect that they left is because the IAC/MAK site used to say that Latvia and Estonia were observer states, but it doesn't say that anymore.
    • Old: http://web.archive.org/web/20010809100851/http://www.mak.ru/make/index.htm
    • New: http://www.mak.ru/english/english.html
    • WhisperToMe (talk) 05:05, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Importance rankings.

I was surprised to see Richard Wagner listed as a top importance Latvia article. I know he did work in Riga early in his career, but surely his two years there are of only minor significance to the topic of Latvia as a whole? I wonder what other articles have also been misassessed.--Peter cohen (talk) 00:59, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Seems like assigning high according to the "bet you didn't know this famous XYZ was associated with Latvia" criterion. I'd expect something similar regarding Latvian colonies in the Caribbean and on the Gold Coast in Africa, Latvia being the primary shipbuilder for the British navy, etc. There's an ambivalent relationship between the Latvians and 700 years of German hegemony. PЄTЄRS J V ►TALK 03:51, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

I decide to remove your project tag from the article talk page. I thought he might have finished one of his early operas in Riga but he didnt. He was just a jobbing theatrical conductor there who ended up owing lots of people money, but that doesn't distinguish Riga from umpteen other places. If someone disagrees don't expect an answer from me here. I only got reminded of this because the project is still on my watchlist. I'm about to clear it now.--Peter cohen (talk) 23:57, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

RFC ar Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (use English)

There has been a brewing issue at WP:RM over WP:HOCKEY recommendations and how they should be applied over WP:COMMONNAME and WP:UE. Basically the hockey recommendation is that Diacritics shall be applied to all player pages, where appropriate as for the languages of the nationalities of the players in question. This is in fact a mandate that does not allow consideration of any other policy on naming. I think we need to resolve the issue of which naming convention we use for ice hockey players. Is it the one for the names of everyone else based on existing policy and guidelines, or do we have a blanket exception for one project? Please go to Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(use_English)#RFC_on_hockey_names per Vegaswikian (talk) 00:53, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Mass page move request

A mass nomination to move articles about sportsmen based on diacritics in their name has been filed at Talk:Dominik_Halmosi#Requested_Move --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 04:00, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Latvia will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Latvia'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) 21:58, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Wanted Pages

Seems to me that people simply adding to a manual list in alphabetical order would be much more useful. The automated list is generating far too many article titles completely related to Latvia or even that part of the planet. PЄTЄRS J V ►TALK 16:15, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Some input needed

This supposed Latvian cake seems fishy ~~Xil (talk) 03:49, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

I don't think this dessert is uniquely Latvian, but I have sampled it as part of a Latvian meal. It may have originally been introduced as an element of Russian tea culture. – Maliepa (talk) 17:56, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Note that given lack of sources other than recipes and blogs, I've nominated the article for deletion. ~~Xil (talk) 14:35, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Effort to reach consensus on Manual of Style concerning Baltic states-related articles

Hello, Just want to let you know, that an active discussion on how to reach consensus on a formalised Manual of Style concerning Baltic states-related articles is going on here: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Baltic states-related articles. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 16:31, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Pronunciation of Latvian words

Hi! I'm currently trying to improve the coverage of Latvian words at the English Wiktionary. One thing that is frequently missing is an audio pronunciation file. So I'm here asking if there are any native speakers of Latvian here who would be willing to record sound files and upload them to Commons for me to link to the appropriate Latvian entries at Wiktionary. here is a list of the words we're currently looking for pronunciation files of. If someone here is interested in helping, all you have to do is choose one (two, three,...) of these words, record yourself pronouncing it naturally, save the file in .ogg format (programs like Audacity can do that; if you can't, let me know, and I can convert your file format -- .wav, .mp3 -- to .ogg), and then upload it to Commons (here) with a filename in the format "Lv-xxx.ogg", where xxx is the word you pronounced, correctly written in Latvian spelling, taking care to place this file in the commons:Category:Latvian pronunciation, where you'll see a number of files uploaded by other people.

Thanks in advance! --Pereru (talk) 20:36, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Accuracy of Latvian mythology is disputed due to lack of sources

Hello, WikiProject Latvia!

I have been working on clearing articles out of the Wikipedia backlog and noticed that since August 2007, Latvian mythology has been tagged as factually disputed and in need of an expert's attention. I have left messages on the user pages of a number of the editors involved in the discussion and have come to this WikiProject to appeal to you for input into the discussion. I'm not knowledgable enough on the topic of Latvian mythology to make any substantial edits to the article, but you might be able to help. There is a discussion of the issue at Talk:Latvian_mythology#Inaccurate_information. The most important task is to add sources to Latvian mythology. The article is currently entirely unsourced, so the factual disputes are practically impossible to resolve until some reliable sources are added. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Matt (talk) 23:18, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Category:Imperial Russian people

• There is a proposal at CfD to merge Category:Imperial Russian people by occupation into Category:Russian people by occupation. This concenrs the way we categorize 19th-century Latvians.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:11, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Question

Is there a Latvia WP MOS? In ictu oculi (talk) 04:52, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Obviously not :) In ictu oculi (talk) 04:57, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Ērģeļu klintīm

In the English version of this article, Ērģeļu klintīm should be translated as Organ Cliff, not Eagle Cliff. 83.59.144.205 (talk) 10:18, 17 August 2013 (UTC)Nicolas Mertens83.59.144.205 (talk) 10:18, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

{{Baltic states}}

Template:Baltic states (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:48, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

{{Baltic Assembly}}

Template:Baltic Assembly (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 15:09, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Flag: Carmine-red not maroon

See Talk:Flag of Latvia#Carmine red not maroon for discussion. --Bejnar (talk) 20:25, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Mayakovsky (ship)

Can anyone expand/reference this interesting new article? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:46, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Europe may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! --Another Believer _(Talk) 18:45, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ilgvars Zalans

Dear Latvia experts: Is this old AfC submission about a notable topic, and should it be kept and improved instead of being deleted as a stale draft? —Anne Delong (talk) 21:17, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

@Anne Delong: I think this could be on the border of notability. Maybe @Xil could give some input here (i'm not the expert of Latvian art). --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 12:32, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Whoa, I am not an expert of Latvian art either! I know some people who I think know Latvian art scene well and they said they don't know who he is, but judging by web search results he has gotten some attention in media. Aren't there art specific notability guidelines? ~~Xil (talk) 18:44, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

@Xil: At least you know somebody who is :) --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 09:01, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Well, I have delayed its deletion for six months. Maybe someone will take an interest. Thanks for your responses. —Anne Delong (talk) 03:31, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shoshana Rudiakov (3rd nomination)

If anyone could look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shoshana Rudiakov (3rd nomination), I'd be grateful. It's an article on a Latvian which has been tagged for notability for over 7 years. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 10:45, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Coming Soon (Latvian band) listed at Requested moves

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English exonyms for place names

English_exonyms#Latvia. Can someone check this please. See also article Talk. Many thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:44, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Does anyone with this project have any issues with this edit? Thanks. Dohn joe (talk) 19:49, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

English removes diacritics for many words, how is it even exonym? ~~Xil (talk) 10:50, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Latvianised names

In Latvia, foreign names are generally "Latvianised", their spelling altered and the endings -s (masculine) or -a (feminine) added to conform to the rules of Latvian grammar (not sure of the exact "rules"). This has sometimes caused offence, e.g. the German woman who objected to her surname "Mentzen" being recorded as "Mencena". In the case of ethnic Germans, Russians, Jews etc who were Latvian citizens, is it appropriate to use the native form of their name, or should the Latvianised form be used? What if they have been widely reported in foreign media using the native form of their name? MaxBrowne (talk) 09:39, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

AFAIK Wikipedia rules are to use most common form. Foreign press usually use the official names anyway, though, since you are concerned with Germans you probably are wondering about interwar period when it seems most people (Latvians included) translated their names to foreign languages and the use of Latvian language was less standardized. Also Mentzen/Mencena wasn't German, but a Latvian and despite her taking offense that is not uncommon Latvian surname ~~Xil (talk) 15:44, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Political party riddle

I'm currently creating articles on political parties in Latvia during the interwar period. My source states that the Kristigie zemnieki un katoli party (which ran in the 1928 and 1931 elections) also contested elections in 1920, 1922 and 1925, but they don't know under what name. I would guess that this was Latgales Kristīgo zemnieku savienība in 1920 and 1922, and then Katolu un kristigo zemnieku partijas in 1925. I have zero knowledge of Latvian, so I was wondering whether anyone could possibly help. Many thanks, Number 57 20:27, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Popular pages tool update

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Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses

Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 07:38, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Soprano Sonora Vaice

Hi all, I recently created an article on the opera La divisione del mondo and came across Latvian soprano Sonora Vaice of the Latvian National Opera in the process. I think wikipedia would benefit from an article on this talented singer. Best.4meter4 (talk) 02:15, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Ventas Rumba - rather waterfall and not rapid

Current name of article Venta Rapid is misleading. Although Ventas Rumba is low waterfall, it is waterfall and not rapid, because here the stream has vertical drop. Rapids are somewhat steeper sections of rivers, but not steeper than 15 - 25 degrees (as far as I remember from my geomorphology lessons). Daarznieks (talk) 18:38, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Mārcis Zembergs

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mārcis Zembergs Joeykai (talk) 03:08, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Help with an editor?

Hi! I need someone who can speak Latvian. Recently I restored a draft article for Nona118 and the article has some issues with tone and grammar, which I think is likely due to a language barrier. They do seem to have a good working knowledge of English, but they would greatly benefit from having a fluent or native speaker that could come in and help with explaining anything that might seem confusing. It'd also likely help with source searching, given that they're writing about a Latvian school and sourcing for this will likely be in Latvian. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:27, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

The 10,000 Challenge

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Olga Jegunova

More sourcing in Latvian, if available, would be appreciated. K.e.coffman (talk) 06:20, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Occupation

Hi, I wonder if anyone here could help me with a question. I recently referred to the Latvian SSR as the Soviet occupation of Latvia, and someone asked me if there is any Wikipedia consensus about this. Does anyone know? It must have been discussed... Thanks Yakikaki (talk) 17:55, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

It's not really a Wikipedia consensus question, it's about State continuity of the Baltic states, which is a real world legal concept, and the main controversy seems to be that Russia disagrees with such interpretation ~~Xil (talk) 06:07, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply! Yakikaki (talk) 09:36, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming "420 collaboration", which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017! The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. WikiProject Latvia participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Latvia. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

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The official Collab has ended, but we could really use a Latvian speaker to help translate lv:Marihuāna#Marihu.C4.81na_Latvij.C4.81. They have a huge section of Latvian history that we lack here at English Wikipedia. Anyone up to translate? Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 00:14, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Or as a compromise: if I do a GoogleTranslate to a Draft article (not publishing it yet), and manually clean it up to smooth English, could someone bilingual take a look at it to make sure no facts went wrong? Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 00:24, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Collab draft now posted at User:Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney/Cannabis in Latvia expansion draft; getting help from a Latvian Wikipedia editor, but I welcome further participation. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 18:32, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

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Category:Recipients of the Commemorative Medal for Advancing Latvia's Membership to NATO has been nominated for discussion

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Project shortcuts

I recommend the project leaders include, WP:LVA as a shortcut. It is currently unoccupied and is a shorter addition to WP:LATVIA. It is also one of the countries international country code abbreviations (as I am confident you all already know of course). I would make a case for WP:LV as well; it is occupied but a replacement to that destination may be possible. Cheers! Savvyjack23 (talk) 19:51, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Upon request, if needed I would be glad to share some knowledge I have acquired over the years in regards to your project. You can find me over at WP:HAITI, which has undergone a complete revamp since 2014. Savvyjack23 (talk) 19:56, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Focus on Latvia 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 Latvian women.

		Welcome to Women in Red's May 2018 worldwide online editathons. File:Soraya Aghaee4.jpg New: "Women of the Sea" New: "Villains" New: "Women in Sports" New: "Central and Eastern European women" Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative
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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) 20:33, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

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At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:45, 30 May 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 15:37, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Does the Latvian Orthodox Autonomous Church exist?

Hello,

An article about a Latvian Orthodox Autonomous Church was created on 17 January. I have serious doubts (A) that this organization exists and (B) that it is worth an article on Wikipedia. You are invited to join the discussion: Talk:Latvian Orthodox Autonomous Church#Does this group even exist? Place Clichy (talk) 16:12, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Minor mistake

Hello there,

I am just a reader who has found a mistake in one of Wikipedia articles. I believe there are more knowledgeable people than me here, so you would correct the mistake in a professional way.

When you look up for Madona town in English version of Wikipedia and scroll down to population section, you can see such sentence "When it comes to age distribution of the Madona inhabitants, the majority group consisting of 50,925 people are registered as "labour-capable"".

The number does not make any sense, as Madona is populated just by 9.3K people. Certainly this is a mistake.

Hope this gets fixed soon.

Kind regards, Roland. RolandLV (talk) 11:21, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Names of Latvian counties and districts

I made a unified standard for numerous pre-existing articles on Latvian Counties (Courland), Kreis'es (Livonia) and Uyezds (Latgale) renaming them all to the Latvian term apriņķis (= German: Kreis). This term was used in Latvian language since the 19ht century till 1949, when was replaced by the new term rajons (= French: rayon, Russian: райо́н).--Pirags (talk) 17:08, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Displaying Russian names as footnotes in former Soviet Union locations?

Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Soviet_Union#Display_Russian_names_in_footnotes_of_locations_in_the_former_Soviet_Union? for a discussion on whether the Russian names should be put in footnotes in articles about former Soviet Union locations (which existed at the time of the Soviet Union)

(I am aware this country was in the Soviet Union for a shorter period than most, only from World War II to the 1990s) WhisperToMe (talk) 08:33, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Helēna Faulbaums

In 1936 the Helēna Faulbaums sank off Belnahua with the loss of 15 lives. I have been improving this island article and there is an apparent discrepancy between the sources.

According to a spokesperson for the Luing History Group only Captain Cughauss's body was repatriated and the other 14 sailors were interred on nearby Luing.

However, earlier this year this was added: "Seven of the perished were later buried in Cullipool cemetery on Luing, but the captain of the ship Nikolajs Cughauss and others were buried in Latvia."

Lacking a command of (what I assume to be) Latvian I am hoping you can confirm that this the latter article definitely refers to other repatriations. (The title hints at this but it's not explicit). Ben MacDui 09:41, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Now kindly dealt with by User:Ivario. Ben MacDui 11:52, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Latvian translation question at the Reference Desk

Hello, wondering if anyone would be interested in helping at Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Language#Russian_and_Latvian_question where a user has asked for help translating a poem from Latvian to English. Many thanks,70.67.193.176 (talk) 16:30, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Seems to have been answered and moved to archives. Ivario (talk) 12:24, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

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)

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)

AfD

Hi. Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arnolds Krūkliņš. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 13:15, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Discussion about a merger Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944 into Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1944)

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1944)#Merger proposal, which is about articles that are within the scope of this WikiProject. --Heanor (talk) 13:56, 28 January 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) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Women in Red focus on the Baltic states

Contributors to this project may be interested to see that in July 2022, Women in Red is focusing on the Baltic States.--Ipigott (talk) 08:49, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate 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) 13:18, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Request translations from Latvian Wikipedia

The following article could be translate here for averyone who have interests, and able to speak Latvian:

• lv:Latvijas pagastu karogi
• lv:Latvijas novadu karogi
• lv:Latvijas pilsētu karogi

-- Great Brightstar (talk) 09:15, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Latvian masked processions

Plz see Talk:Latvian masked processions. Lokys dar Vienas (talk) 19:10, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

FL

List of Latvian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is currently a featured list candidate. If this is promoted, it will be the first WikiProject Latvia article to be of FL. Feel free to engage in the candidacy.

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

Hello WikiProject Latvia:

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) 13:16, 21 September 2023 (UTC)