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Hi Jmajeremy, I'm Nenad.

I was reading the article Vlachs of Serbia, and i saw it is baisicaly not true. I am Vlachian, and as is, most of the Vlachians will consider as an insult to be called Romanians. So i clicked on button of the botom of the page that i didnt find what i was looking for, and tried to leave a comment, but every time a validation error message apears and it wont send. Can you help me? This is what i was trying to post:

Sorry, but: "?????/Vlasi) are an ethnic minority of Serbia,>> culturally and linguistically related to Romanians.[4][5][6]<<" is not true. We, vlachians dont understand Romanian language. Vlachian language dont have wrightings, most of external links and citenotes are in Romanian language. Picture at top is romanian traditional folklore of southeastern Vojvodina, not eastern Serbia where we Vlachians are located. Picture from referances no.15 http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/tema-dana/Dragojevic-Vlasi-nisu-Rumuni.sr.html is our traditional folklore that we are proud of ( http://static.politika.co.rs/uploads/rubrike/210048/i/1/vlasi.jpg ). Most Vlachians will 

consder as an crude offense to be called "Romanians" except those who live very close to the Romanian border wich are mainly assimilated to Romanians. Vlachians live in harmony with our physical neihbours Serbs. Physical, not political because we belong to a same nation. I cant post any citenotes or referances in vlachian language,

beacause we dont use wrightings, our language is totally based on werbal comunication. Our enthnonym "Rumani" as metioned above in section "legal status" is misspelled in translation. Our enthonym, as we call ourselves is, " Rom"n " similarily pronounced in english as for ancient Roman. Our enthonym name comes from Roman-Dacian wars in 1st century AD. Roman Legio IV Flavia felix in 86. AD was stationed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singidunum , and one of its vexillationes in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viminacium (near modern-day Kostolac, Serbia) In preparing for war, notables from vexillation of Viminacium (which today has population of some 2000-2500 Vlachs 7000 Serbs), asked for volonteers for mercenaries among Vlachian tribes, and there vas suprisingly high response, therefore neighbouring tribes called Vlachians Rom'(a)n, or true Roman. Note that this was ancient history for a nation that dont use wrightings, and scarse evidences was found in viminacium archeological excavation, due to lack of funding. Also, there is legend that Vlachians worked as paid workforce on building http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan's_Bridge in 103-105. AD which was located in northern borders of our tribes, althouth there is no clear evidence of that. Under section, "subgroups" is mentioned ungureni, from homolje. I'm a Vlachian from Homolje. In Serbia, Hungary is called Madjarska, so we Vlachians call it the same way. I have newer heard for such word or classifications, and Vlachian is my mathernal language. I have visited Transylvania, and Romanian Walachia to study the claims that we Vlachians orginated from there. Diference was obvious, diferrent folclore, different customs, diferent langage, and totaly diferent traditional suits(compare picture from this site, the south Vojvodina Romanian folklore, and picture http://www.glassrbije.org/srbija/sites/default/files/u3/homoljski-motivi.jpg, the traditional folklore outfit from Kucevo, Homolje, eastern serbia. Note that Kucevo has relatively high mountains, so outfit includes short light yelow coat made of same woolen material as pants, which is not shown on this picture because it was pictured in mid-August, on 40C deegrees celsius, and where coat is imposible to wear becouse it is made to keep body warm on coldest winters. As you can see on the picture, the player under the white flag tried to wear it and his shirt is cowered with swet. Next photo represents Vlahian traditional outfit from Zagubica, Homolje, where you can see the thick coat on male players, womans dont wore thick garderobe because they were mainly at home, wile man is supossed to work outside on farming, and with animals. http://www.radio-bingo.com/KUD%20Vlasko%20kolo%20srednja%20folklorna%20grupa%20resized.JPG. 

Folowing picture represents traditional Romanian Wallachian costume http://www.romanianmuseum.com/Romania/GorjOverlappingPage.jpg (source http://www.romanianmuseum.com/Romania/RomaniaFolk.html see Wallachia)

Next picture is an example of transylvanian outfit. http://www.muzeul-etnografic.ro/_Images/Content/portul-popular/07port03.jpg The next link is to transylvanian traditional outfit http://www.muzeul-etnografic.ro/en/permanent-exhibition/traditional-folk-costume.php. In the section for "Tarani", the saying "Nu dau un leu pe el" is In romanian language, not Vlachian. There is several dialects of our language, but every Vlachian understand all dialects. Subgroup Ungurjane-muncani, mountjanne translated from Vlachian to English means dense forest. I'm studying Vlachian culture in all municipalities for over a decade, and no Vlachian refers to belong in any of mentioned subgrups, first time heard of such classification about seven years ago. Exception is population of Bufanni who lives within 10km from Romanian border in Serbia, and majority refers to be Vlachian-Romanian but their culture and language is the same as Romanian. Vlachian language is far more similar with Itallian then Romanian. Sinceirly, Nenad

It is long, i suposse but I was trying to point out on some, for Vlachians important facts that in this Article, Vlachs of Serbia, are incorrectly pressented. Is there a way to correct this? If you have any questions, i will be ready to help. pecicvlaski@yahoo.com thanks, mate ;-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.245.1.132 (talk) 21:44, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Nenad. I'm not super familiar with the subject area so I wouldn't want to edit it myself. I would invite you to go ahead and make the edits on your own and see how others react, or bring it up for discussions on the article's talk page: Talk:Vlachs of Serbia. —JmaJeremy✆✎ 20:25, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 03 December 2012

The global jury of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the world’s largest photo contest, announced its results on 3 December.
Three articles, two lists, and four images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
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This week, we went searching for white roses in the lands of WikiProject Yorkshire. The project began in May 2007 as a way to improve articles about the historic English county of Yorkshire and its modern-day administrative divisions and cities. Since then, the project has accumulated 31 Featured Articles, 14 Featured Lists, 91 Good Articles, and a monstrous list of Did You Know entries. Despite all of the effort improving Yorkshire articles, the project has experienced waning participation in the last few years. The project still publishes a newsletter each month, monitors the popularity of and recent changes to its articles, maintains a portal, and collects resources for contributors to use.

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The Signpost: 10 December 2012

At the time of writing, this year's election has just closed after a two-week voting period. The eight seats were contested by 21 candidates. Of these, 15 have not been arbitrators (Beeblebrox, Count Iblis, Guerillero, Jc37, Keilana, Ks0stm, Kww, NuclearWarfare, Pgallert, RegentsPark, Richwales, Salvio giuliano, Timotheus Canens, Worm That Turned, and YOLO Swag); four candidates are sitting arbitrators (David Fuchs, Elen of the Roads, Jclemens, and Newyorkbrad); and two have previously served on the committee (Carcharoth and Coren). Four Wikimedia stewards from outside the English Wikipedia stepped forward as election scrutineers: Pundit, from the Polish Wikipedia; Teles, from the Portuguese Wikipedia; Quentinv57, from the French Wikipedia; and Mardetanha, from the Persian Wikipedia. The scrutineers' task is to ensure that the election is free of multiple votes from the same person, to tally the results, and to announce them. The full results are expected to be released within the next few days and will be reported in next week's edition of the Signpost.
Eight articles, four images, six lists, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The Visual Editor project – an attempt to create the first WMF-deployable WYSIWYG editor – will go live on its first Wikipedias imminently following nearly six months of testing on MediaWiki.org. A full explanatory blog post accompanied the news, explaining the project and its setup. Once a user has opted-in, the editor can handle basic formatting, headings and lists, while safely ignoring elements it is yet to understand, including references, categories, templates, tables and images. At the last count, approximately 2% of pages would break in some way if a user tried the Visual Editor on them; it is unclear whether any specific protection will be put in place beyond relying on editors to spot problems.
In celebration of Human Rights Day, we checked out WikiProject Human Rights. Started in February 2006, the project has grown to include over 3,000 articles, including 12 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, 66 Good Articles, a large collection of Did You Know entries, and a few mentions "in the news". The project monitors listings of popular pages and cleanup tags. We interviewed Khazar2, Cirt, and Boud.

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The Signpost: 17 December 2012

Seven days after the close of voting, the results of the recent Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) elections have been announced by two of the four stewards overseeing the election, Mardetanha and Pundit. Of the 21 candidates, 13 managed to gain positive support-to-oppose ratios, and the top eight will be appointed to two-year terms on the committee by Jimbo Wales, exercising one of his traditional responsibilities.
In the past year, we've tried to expand our horizons by looking at how WikiProjects work in other languages of Wikipedia. Following in the footsteps of our previously interviewed Czech and French projects, we visited the German Wikipedia to explore WikiProjekt Computerspiel (WikiProject Computer Games). The project dates back to November 2004 and has become the back-end of the Computer Games Portal, which covers all video games regardless of platform. Editors writing about computer games at the German Wikipedia deal with unique cultural and legal challenges, ranging from a lack of fair use precedents to the limited availability of games deemed harmful for youths to strong standards for the inclusion of material on the German Wikipedia.
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This week's big story on the English Wikipedia is obviously the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (which, by the time you read this, may be renamed 2012 Connecticut school shooting). Quickly created and nominated for deletion not once but twice, and both times speedily kept, the article saw the expected flurry of edits (a look at the history suggests an average of at least one a minute over the first day and a half) and more than half a million page views on the first full day.
Four articles, three lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week, including a picture of a three-week old donkey (also known as an 'ass').
MediaWiki users (including Wikimedians) can now organise themselves into groups, receiving recognition and support-in-kind from the Wikimedia Foundation. The project, backed by new Wikimedia technical contributor coordinator Quim Gil, has seen five proposals lodged in its first week of operation. The idea of MediaWiki groups mimics that of Wikimedia User Groups.

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The Signpost: 24 December 2012

As part of its new focus on core responsibilities, the Wikimedia Foundation is reforming its grant schemes so that they are more accessible to individual volunteers. The community is invited to look at proposals for a new scheme—for now called Individual engagement grants (IEGs)—which is due to kick off on January 15. On Meta, the community is once again debating the two new offline participation models—user groups (open membership groups designed to be easy to form) and thematic organizations (incorporated non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work on a specific theme within or across countries). In a consultation process on Meta that will last until January 15, the community will be discussing WMF proposals for a new guideline on conflicts of interests concerning Wikimedia resources. The draft covers COI issues for both volunteers and organizations across the movement.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject A Song of Ice and Fire, which focuses on the eponymous series of high fantasy literature, the television series Game of Thrones, and related works by George R. R. Martin. The project was started in July 2006 and has grown to include 11 Good Articles maintained by a small yet enthusiastic band of editors.
Seven articles and two lists were promoted to 'featured' status this week, including List of battlecruisers. The article covers all of the battlecruisers—which were a type of warship similar in size to a battleship but with several defining characteristics—ever planned or constructed. The last British battlecruiser built, HMS Hood, is pictured at right.
Efforts were stepped up this week to sow a feeling of trust between the major parties with an interest in the future of the Toolserver. The tool- and bot-hosting server – more accurately servers – are currently operated by German chapter, Wikimedia Germany, with assistance from the Foundation and numerous volunteers, including long-time system administrator Daniel Baur (more commonly known by his pseudonym DaB). However, those parties have more recently failed to see eye-to-eye on the trajectory for the Toolserver, which is scheduled to be replaced by Wikimedia Labs in late 2013, with increasing concern about the tone of discussions.

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