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Also, this is interesting [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3254890.stm].--[[User:Domitius|Domitius]] 22:02, 12 March 2007 (UTC) |
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:: Most common term used among Bosniaks and official (factual) term is BOSNIAKS. You cannot question facts with google results. My ethnic background is Bosniak. Don't misuse and misinterpret wiki guidelines. Neither you, nor Google, nor any of your sorry little propaganda can deny existence of Bosniaks (read constitution of Bosnia-Herzegovina, even constitution of Republika Srpska, read Dayton Peace Agreement, etc). You are sad example of sorry little Serbian propaganda. I am done, I am not going to waste my time with BS arguments. My time is more valuable. [[User:Bosniak|Bosniak]] 22:05, 12 March 2007 (UTC) |
Revision as of 22:05, 12 March 2007
Bosniaks (also spelled: Bosniacs; sometimes incorrectly refered to as Bosnian Muslims) are indigenous Slavic peoples of Bosnia. Up until the mid 19th century, the term Bosniak (natively: Bošnjaci) was used for all inhabitants of Bosnia regardles of faith.
In medieval Bosnia, Bosniaks were largely members of an indigenous Bosnian Church and were considered heretics by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. As a result, some Bosniaks were forced to convert to Caholicism and Eastern Orthodox religions. During the Ottoman period (15th-19th century) mostly heretic Bosniaks in large numbers converted to Islam.
During the 19th century (Austro-Hungarian period), the Bosniaks of Catholic and Eastern Orthodox faiths acquired Croatian and Serbian national identites and came to be known as Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Serbs.
In terms of religion, today's Bosniaks are overhelmingly Sunni Muslims. Their mother tongue is Bosnian language, which is one of three official languages of modern day Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosniaks are proud of their unique history, tradition, and European roots.
More info: CIA World FactBook
7000 estimate is antiquated
Bosniak, I just added this to the Srebrenica discussion page.
Based on the information available in 2001 the ICTY Trial Chamber stated it "is satisfied that, in July 1995, following the take-over of Srebrenica,Bosnian Serb forces executed several thousand Bosnian Muslim men. The total number is likely to be within the range of 7,000 -8,000 men."
Based on data available now in 2006, it is clear that the 7,000 estimate is too low.
The ICMP has a very strict accounting for Srebrenica victims and only accepts family testimony backed up with DNA samples. The ICMP list of Srebrenica victims is currently at 7,789. http://www.ic-mp.org/home.php?act=news&n_id=175 The Federal Commission of Missing Persons in 2006 is now over 8000. Their method is also strict requiring at least two independent confirmations. In addition to the approximately 8,300 confirmed by the commission, there are several hundred more under review. I have put in a request with a Harvard researcher to give the latest official numbers with primary source material. I hope to have that soon.
I believe the data now available in 2006 collected by internationally accredited institutions will substantiate that the introduction ought to say "approximately 8,000 killed" not the year 2001 estimate of "7,000 to 8,000". I want to thank Osli for inspiring this additional research and given his professed commitment to a rational approach to writing this article, I rest assured that he too will agree to the "approximately 8,000 killed" in the introduction once all the documentation has been presented. Hmmmm... well on second thought he'll probably go running to Seselj to get the latest "controversy" and do everything he can to sabotage putting a reasonable estimate based on ICMP research in the introduction, but so it goes. Fairview360 22:01, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
wasting my time with Osli the vandal
Bosniak , it is clear to me that Osli wants to create controversy or delete items or in one way or another distract from the basic facts of what happened in Srebrenica. I believe that by reasoning with him, I can expose the fact that many of his deletions are unjustified and are in fact meant to destroy the veracity of the article. If I can show that he repeatedly deletes well established and relavant facts, then it will become increasingly obvious to administrators that he is at times engaging in vandalism. Currently, I am focusing on the intro. I know that some of my time is wasted dealing with Osli who I hardly believe is a Swede and who I do not accept as genuinely concerned about anything other than promoting "Defend Milosevic! Defend Serbia" slants, but from time to time, I learn more while researching his specious claims which adds to my knowledge of the Srebrenica massacre and current ultra-nationalist tactics for covering up or distracting from what happened; and perhaps most relevant of all, I injured my back rather significantly recently and have time to burn. Hence my appearance here several days ago and my abundant time available to watch and thwart Osli's oscillations from overt vandalism to re-inventing himself as a reasonable editor. Its at times both pathetic and amusing. Fairview360 20:22, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Osli's vandalism
Bosniak, Live Forever, Bosoni, Emir Arven, HanzoHattori, Dado, Haris M:
I would like to protect the Srebrenica massacre introduction from any further vandalism by Osli. He repeatedly deletes sentences from the intro that are accurate, true, relevant, and well referenced.
If we can all agree on the text of the intro, then it will become entirely clear to administrators that Osli is a vandal.
Please look at the intro as it stands now. It would be great if we could all leave it as it is now or quickly come to an introduction that we all can agree to. Currently, it explains in stark terms what happened. That is why Osli wants to delete the sentences. Make the truth less clear in the beginning, so that he can then throw in his “Defend Milosevic! Defend Serbia!” propaganda and potentially confuse some of the readers.
Please all take a look at the intro. Let’s all come to an agreed upon intro and let it stand. Then if Osli continues to delete sentences from the intro it will clearly be vandalism and if he continues, perhaps he can be banned. Then we can concentrate on the article and let our own differences of opinion be a source for constructive conversation and continuing improvement of the article.
What do you think? Fairview360 00:44, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
keep your cool
Bosniak, I have seen the mass graves, the exhumations. I have friends who are survivors. I myself had a rough time trying to maintain rationality having seen the horror perpetrated by cold-hearted politicians, by willing executioners overtaken by hate and malice, and by those who were told by their commanders either kill or be killed. But Bosniak, you have to keep your cool. It does feel like what you really want to do is go outside and scream at the top of your lungs "The Serbs are murderers!". That statement in and of itself is not accurate. Some Serbs fought against the ultranationalist Serbs. There are Serbs who lost their lives trying to defend multi-ethnic democracy both in Serbia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Some Serbs did everything they could to confront the Greater Serbia project. If some of the Serbs and some of the Croats had not joined the Bosnian Army defending a multi-ethic democratic Bosnia, there would be no Bosniaks left in Bosnia. There are moderate reasonable Serbs who are nationalists who would agree to move forward in a multi-ethnic democratic system while all crimes are looked at openly. There are Serbs today who are not at all nationalist who want nothing less than to have their nation look honestly at what they did. And if we are going to take a deeper look at what generates these conflicts, we need to look at corruption and how it eats away at civil society and allows cold-hearted power-grabbing people to manipulate Balkan history and foster genocidal conflict. And without allowing the "all sides equal" obfuscation, we must look at everything everyone did both good and bad.
This is going to take generations, but we must find common ground with reasonable people so that the killing does not happen again.
Anyone who wants to put his energy into rehabilitating Lewis MacKenzie is obviously a problem, but even Osli can help improve the article. I'm sorry but he is correct that using your blog as a source is not OK. We need to put in the time finding primary source material.
In the free exchange of ideas put forth by honest people, the truth will emerge.
Bosniak, stick with it. Keep your cool. Do not quit. Fairview360 16:33, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
It is becoming clearer to me that Osli73 is sneaky, but still his challenges are indicative of others like him and good practice for refuting revisionist and underhanded tactics. Fairview360 19:54, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Osli may need to be tolerated to a certain extent, but ever since he tried to erase the names of those killed or missing and sneak it by as a minor edit, I would prefer that he was banned. That maneuver shows his true colors. Fairview360 14:44, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Minor Edits
Remember to mark your edits as minor only when they genuinely are (see Wikipedia:Minor edit). "The rule of thumb is that an edit of a page that is spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearranging of text should be flagged as a 'minor edit'." Tuspm Talk | E-Mail Me 01:18, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
Bosniak's Reply:
Okay, I will do that in the future.
References
Hi Bosniak,
I just noticed your edit summary at The Holocaust. For this article you can make the references appear in the appropriate section by surrounding them with <ref></ref> tags. For example, if I wanted to cite www.cnn.com, I would type <ref>[www.cnn.com CNN]</ref>. For more information see WP:Footnotes
GabrielF 01:23, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
Bosniak's Reply
Thank you Gabriel, I finally did it, take a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
Cheers!
- Good work! Happy to help out. GabrielF 01:30, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello
I'm Adrien and new to this encyclopedia, I wondered if we could cooperate on the articles about Bosnia and Bosniaks. I would appreciate it.
And you could also copy my Bosnian history part onto your user page, if you wish. You can read it at my page.
Selam Bosoni
Bosniak's reply
Of course we can cooperate Adrien. You can also visit my blog http://srebrenica-genocide.blogspot.com and in the comments leave me your email address so I can contact you. Of course, I will not publish your comment, so your email will stay private. Please keep an eye on Wikipedia's Srebrenica Massacre article.
Cheers!
external links spam
Please stop spamming Wikipedia articles with repetitive and tangential external links. --Joy [shallot] 02:10, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Bosniak's reply
They are not spam, all three links (Srebrenica Genocide, plus two links of US Government's reward for capture of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic) are directly *relevant* to the topics in question, you idiot.
- No, they are not directly relevant, they are tangentially relevant. Some semi-random blog about the Srebrenica massacre, and articles about rewards for war crime indictees, they simply shouldn't be plastered all over the place, it's insane. Imagine if we did it like that for everything else - post all links to world maps in all geography articles? --Joy [shallot] 11:13, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Adrien here
Hello Bosniak, I left you a comment as suggested. I loved your blog, great work! Bosoni
Bosniak Reply
For Joy(shalot): $5 million reward is being offered by the U.S. government for the capture of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. I don't want to argue with you.
For Adrien: Hi friend, I got your email and I replied to it. But, and this is very important, I cancelled my internet service provider today and currently I am in process of switching to another one; new connection should be established in few days. Currently, I am sitting on my balcony overlooking downtown Vancouver and use free (*open*) wireless connection! It's pretty fast though. I will add your email to my MSN contact list, so I can catch you online. Cheers!
Update: Also my previous email is not working, because of internet service change - but I added you to my MSN; I'll give you my other email when I catch you online. Cheers again!
Bosoni/Adrien here, Hello
It's good that you told me about the ISP-change, because I sent you a reply to your last e-mail but the delivery failed, I see why now. I'll send my reply later to your new e-mail adress then =) (and I added you to my msn list) Good luck with everything, cheers Bosoni
Srebrenica
Thanks for returning the information in Srebrenica article. Unfortunately I don't have time to frequently proof read the entire article. I generally rely on users who are familiar with the subject to keep tabs on this article so that I don't have to be in charge of reading it every day. Also it would be of great help when you make additions to this article to carefully state the source simply to avoid further attacks on the article that waste time for all of us. What some may consider controversial statements such as the statement in your last addition, while it may be completely true, when left unsourced it weakens the credibility of the article and makes it prone to attacks. It does not mean the statement does not belong there but we just need to know where it came from and the fact supporting it. For example this paragraph
"Seven more have been recently put on trial. One person, Nikola Jorgic was convicted of Bosnian Genocide."
Will probably need a proper source and I am sure you can easily find it through Google or elsewhere.--Dado 20:41, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
In fact, now that I look at it this statement better fits article Bosnian genocide than Srebrenica massacre since activity of Nikola Jorgic pertains to other regions in BiH. I was unaware of this case. Thanks for the info.
Update on situation
Helo friend, I haven't heard anything from you for some time. What's new and how are you? Is your new internet connection and e-mail adress yet established? I should also tell you that I'm not a "diligent" user of MSN messenger, perhaps we could instead decide a specific occasion to give me the e-mail adress via MSN? (I also made my first edits with this account yesterday, on the Bosnian language article) Bye, Bosoni
Bosniak's Reply
Yes Bosoni! Hi! Few days ago, I sent you my new email address and it bounced! I will re-send it again! Hope it doesn't bounce. Cheers! Check your email.--Bosniak 03:40, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- Hi! I checked it earlier today and replied, greetings. Bosoni
Bosniak's Reply to Dado
Hi Dado, you have my respect friend, as you are one of few dedicated Srebrenica massacre editors. I am not expecting you to be the only one monitoring and protecting the article, I encourage other Bosniaks and other reasonable people to do the same. Srebrenica massacre article must be protected against vandalism. Maybe we could protect the article in a way that only registered users can edit it?
- Zasto si vratio Srebrenicki clanak na Fairview360-ovu verziju u kojem nije nista bitno promijenio osim sto je ostavio otvorena vrata za srpske vandale koji su jedva docekali da imaju razlog za razvaljivanje clanka? Neko je vec spomenuo da bi ovaj clanak trebao da lici na clanak, a ne na ustogljenu sudsku presudu, radi toga se radi parafraziranje dijelova presude, a ne identicno kopiranje, zbog cega cijeli clanak moze da propadne. Zamolio bih te da ne vracas vise na Fairview360-ovu, samo ce nam donijeti belaj. Jesil ti svjestan koliko je truda trebalo da se napravi clanak bez POV taga?! Ovaj clanak je zapocet prije godinu dana, i sada zbog nekih preemotivnih postupaka pojedinaca, a koji nista bitno ne mijenjaju treba da propadne? Nemojte se igrati! --Emir Arven 19:40, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Replika Emiru
Dobro Emire. Ali nemozemo dozvoliti da Osli razvaljuje clanak i mijenja cinjenicne izvore sa diskreditovanim srbijanskim izvorima. Slazes li se? --Bosniak 19:43, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
- Dao sam mu moj odgovor na stranici za diskusiju o Srebrenickom genocidu. Bitno je da su svi izvori pobrojani u clanku, koji su relevantni. To ce diskreditovati svaki propagandisticki pokusaj. Verziju koju sam ostavio je sasvim uredu, a poenta je da ne stvori prostora za vandale koji ce sitnice iskoristiti za stavljanje POV taga. --Emir Arven 19:50, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
For your information, only administrators can protect pages. Adding {{sprotect}} and similar templates does not serve to protect a page. I have removed the template from that page, but you may list it on WP:RFPP if you think it should be protected. Stifle (talk) 23:13, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
No personal attacks
Personal attacks on other users are unacceptable - see WP:NPA. I've blocked you for 24 hours for the attack you made against User:Osli73 on Talk:Srebrenica massacre ([1]). Please refrain from making such attacks in the future. -- ChrisO 18:55, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
- Endorse this, that kind of behaviour on such controversial articles causes far more problems than it solves. Calm down, read our policies on no personal attacks and civility then come back. - FrancisTyers · 19:04, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Srebrenica Genocide Blog
Bosniak, Are you (one of) the editor(s) of the Srebrenica Genocide blog? Just to set the record straight. Osli73 22:49, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Reply to Osli
That is none of your business. Unless you stop poisoning Srebrenica massacre article with moral relativism and already discredited Serbian sources, me and you cannot talk. When you stop your advertisements of discredited Serbian opinions, I will find time to speak to you again. Remember: Srebrenica article is not about Serbs or Serbian claims/politics - it's about 8,000+ victims of Genocide that was committed by Serb forces. Can you comprehed this statement? I am sure you can, but you don't want to. --Bosniak 06:11, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Bosniak,
Going through your personal page I found this statement by you on you user page confirming that you, indeed, are the editor of the Srebrenica Genocide blog. In light of this I don't think it is a very good idea that you, as an editor, use your own website as a source/reference for the Wikipedia Srebrenica massacre article. It is then better to link directly to the original document.
Cheers Osli73 07:27, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Mackenzie smear
That line on Lewis Mackenzie in Srebrenica massacre should not be included. It's sourced to a personal website (which we can't use, per WP:RS). It's a pure ad hominem clearly intended to impeach his credibility - it doesn't add anything to the article. Please do not restore it again. -- ChrisO 23:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- I realize perfectly well. :-) The policy is clear: content hosted on a personal website may not be used, other than in a few special cases outlined in WP:RS (none of which apply in this instance). We don't know that the news article reproduced on that page is reprinted accurately, or even that it was published at all (since it doesn't appear to be on the originating news agency's website). As it happens, this very issue has been discussed recently among editors of WP:RS. Such "convenience links" are considered inadmissible if the hosting website is not a reliable source.
- The paper you cited at http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/femres.htm certainly does include this news article as a reference, but it makes no reference to the Mackenzie allegations and because of the way the article is cited, we actually don't know what the citation refers to. If the paper quoted the allegations then we might consider it a reliable source for those allegations, but it doesn't. The bottom line is that the allegations can't be reliably cited and so can't be included. -- ChrisO 02:51, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi ChrisO
I don't understand what you are trying to say. The article is cited to:
COPYRIGHT PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE 450 Mission Street, Room 506 San Francisco, CA 94105 415-243-4364 Date: 06/04/1993
The fact that someone posted it on geocities has nothing to do with the credibility of the article; this is original article with full copyright notice. It's over 13 years old and was published when internet was only barely beginning to be used.
What's the problem? Is the truth problem again? I would not be surprised if you banned me and all your opponents from wikipedia. Now, I see, we are not even allowed to use this article as a source, but our opponents are allowed to use Lewis Mackanzie's genocide denials as a source ?
Don't you see double standard here? Bosniak 04:16, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Hey
I read through the Bosnian war article recently and found it horrible, it completly neglects the overwhelming majority of serb crimes. It follows up an indirect statement that all three sides were equally guilty, we all know the case isn't like that. It would be like stating that all sides in world war two were equally guilty, ludacris! Please look over the article =) Regards! (P.S, I haven't had the time for mails and msn yet) Bosoni
Consensus
You are supposed to work with the editors of Srebrenica massacre to come to a consensus. You, or the Bosniaks in general, do not own the article. Comments like
- "rv. to Bosniak: other guys, come from time to time to this page and revert to Bosniak, protect article from Osli73, bye..." (summary)
- "I will keep reverting and reverting" (edit summary)
- "Dado and other Bosniak editors - please re-read the whole article and do appropriate adjustments just in case vandals inserted something that we have not noticed lately." (edit summary)
are not acceptable. Please play by Wikipedia's rules. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 04:36, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Response to Jitse
You guys are also not owners of wikipedia. Osli73 will not have it his way, that I can promise. With respect to you Jitse, I have no beef with you man.
I have opposing views - and if anyone is afraid of my opinion, which is heavily based on International Tribunal's rullings, then it's their problem (not mine).
Hope you understand. I will not allow Osli73 to have it his way. That's the bottom line. This is free encyclopedia and anyone can edit it, including me. Bosniak 06:58, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Srebrenica massacre
Bosniak, I'd ask you to be a little more careful when revertying Osli's changes on the Srebrenica massacre article. I made some big improvements to the "Serb casualties" section that you completely ignored whenyou reverted. Live Forever 09:31, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Response to Live Forever
Hi Live Forever, yes you did some changes on one part of the article, but completely ignored changes that Osli73 did. You need to keep changing his changes to keep that article on a level of high quality that was before. If you do changes, revert to my last version and do changes from there, and then when I start editing the article, I will do them from your version. Please do it this way and we will succeed in keeping the article on a level of encyclopedia quality. Thanks bro. Bosniak 03:07, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
number of missing
Bosniak, the latest statement from the Federal Commission of Missing Persons that I can find is from June 2005. At that time they had 500 more names under review with more coming. Do you know where there are updated numbers from the Commission? Fairview360 14:32, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Reply to Fairview
Hi Fairview, updated list is here, with accurate number of dead: http://www.srebrenica-zepa.ba/srebrenica/spisak.htm
Hope this helps. Bosniak 05:37, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Another thing:
Yes, Osli73 is vandalizing Srebrenica article. If you look at the history of his contributions, you will notice that he is obsessed with Srebrenica Massacre article Osli73 Contributions. By entering into discussion with him, you are violating basic principle of common sense - to stay away from unreasonable individuals. He takes a great pride in destroying the article, although he is not succeeding. Hopefully, wikipedia administrators will notice his behaviour and either suspend him, or ban him completely. His only purpose is to vandalize Srebrenica Massacre article, he has no other purpose here @ wikipedia. You should not try to reason with him, you are just wasting your time my friend. There will always be people who will vandalize wikipedia, and that's sad (but true). Bosniak 05:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Block requested
This is just a courtesy message that I requested on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Srebrenica massacre that you be shortly blocked for personal attacks and blind reverts. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 14:30, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I agree that edit wars should stop, but you need to realize that Osli73 (talk · contribs) is primary to blame for edit wars, blind reverts, and full blown vandalism of Srebrenica Massacre article. I would be more than glad to stop reverting article to more civilized versions, but please bear in mind that Osli73 (talk · contribs) needs to stop first, because he is leading a war with at least 10 other editors who refuse to accept his vandalism. In other words, Osli73 (talk · contribs) is vandalizing Srebrenica massacre article, he deletes facts such as the fact that 8,106 Bosniaks died in the massacre (well documented, with names, JMBR numbers, names of parents, etc). In my opinion, and in the opinion of at least 10 other editors, Osli73 needs to be banned from ever editing Srebrenica massacre article. Bosniak 00:00, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Srebrenica intro
Bosniak, I added a message for you in the Srebrenica discussion page, topic #47 Fairview360 16:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
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Hey friend
Just dropping by to let u know I'm still alive =D. However I'm really busy now, barely no time for other things than work =(. Bye Bosoni
Bosniak's reply: hi Adrien, of course I am alive my friend, how are you doing? keep an eye on Srebrenica Massacre article. Cheers! :) Bosniak 02:43, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
hello
Bosniak, I hardly find you objective. I mean, your username is Bosniak, I don't trust people who's username is their ethnic affiliation. Please, keep your nationalism at home, thank you. --Serb talk 03:35, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Bosniak's reply to Boris Malagurski
- I keep my nationalism at home, which is not the case with you. You want to impose your nationalism to Wikipedia's Srebrenica Massacre article, which will not happen. That I can promise you. We had other Serbs in the past trying to destroy Srebrenica Massacre article with thier lies and propaganda, they failed. You will fail too. Cheers. Bosniak 03:38, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Look, I'm sure we can deal with the conflict in a civilized manner. But you first have to face that the article is not neutral because it doesn't tell all sides of the story. All I want is the neutrality tag in the article, thats all. I won't touch the text. --Serb talk 03:42, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Also, since you noticed the declaration on my talk page, it would be nice to donate your bosnian translation on my talk page. Don't forget to sign it, so I know who it's from, thank you. --Serb talk 03:47, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Bosniak's reply to Boris
Hi Boris, of course we can deal in civilized matter. Why do you think that the article is not neutral? Can you at least discuss this in Srebrenica Massacre's discussion page? If you want your edits to stay longer, you need to discuss it before you make any changes. People are very sensitive to any changes to that article. Even when I make a change, they are sensitive to it. Why do you think that the article does not tell all sides of the story? Are you trying to tell that Naser Oric attacked Serb villages and Serbs had to defend themselves from Bosniaks who were under siege? You guys used same argument in the past with Sarajevo, basicly the story goes that you had to defend yourself from Bosniak people in Sarajevo who were under siege. You can try these arguments in discussion page, but it's pointless and offensive to use such arguments as a defence. However, you are welcome to try. Simply go to discussion page, tell people reasons of your edits and sources and then we will all compromise. It's simple as that. No need for personal attacks as we can all deal in civilized matter. Bosniak 03:53, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
One more thing - I already donated my translation to your page, and I copied your translations to my page. I think there is a chance that both of us get along well, because you recognized t hat over 8,000 people were killed in Srebrenica @ Srebrenica Massacre discussion page. That's all I care about. Bosniak 03:55, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Please don't call me nationalist. Lets start from there. --Serb talk 03:58, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Secondly, I do admit that 8,000 people were killed, I do not deny it. I'd like at least this sentence in the article "Some people (mainly Serbs) consider the massacre an act of defense against Naser Oric and his troops that massacred Serb villages of Kravica and others" If that was there, or some variation of the sentence, that would make me happy. Thats all. --Serb talk 04:01, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Bosniak's reply to Boris - If you pay more attention to Srebrenica massacre discussion page, you will see that I do not sympathize Naser Oric, see my comment [Naser Oric is not a Bosniak hero. At Srebrenica massacre discussion page you recognized that genocide happened. At this point, there is no need for further confrontation as you are obviously not denying finall judgements and findings of International Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
If you want Serb side of the story, why not post this statement: "Most Serbs consider the massacre an act of revenge against Naser Oric and his troops who committed individual war crimes during raids into Serb villages."
The reason these raids cannot be called massacres is the following: Serbs blame Oric and his forces for hundreds of deaths in Kravice during Orthodox Christmas in January 1993. Republika Srpska primary sources state that in Kravica 35 soldiers and 11 civilians died. If we are going to call slaughter of 11 civilians a massacre, then we could apply that term to mostly all killings in Bosnia. What I can agree with you is that individual actions of Oric's troops in Kravica were a war crime and I absolutely condemn these killings. However, they cannot be used for justification of genocide, and I don't believe you are trying to use them as such. Bosniak 04:15, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Listen, I don't believe that Srebrenica was an act of genocide, and of course, nothing you say is going to change my mind. I do NOT justify the killings and think that Ratko Mladic deserves the DEATH penalty for what he did. Neither do I think that Naser Oric's mistakes were justification for the killing of refugees who had no where else to go and most likely had nothing to do with the crimes that Oric's troops comitted. So, I thank you for adding the sentence, and agree to the removal of the POV tag. I would also like to draw your attention to one more thing - the photo on your userpage in not from Commons, therefore you're not allowed to use it. I suggest you transfer it to Commons, or remove it before they protect your user page like they did mine. I would also like to add that I do think you're obsessed with the massacre, and should get out more. I do my fair share of obsessing about what happened, but you're going too far. Enjoy life. --Serb talk 07:32, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Final Reply to Boris Malagurski
You stated that you deny that the massacre in Srebrenica was an act of Genocide. At this point, we are enemies. I am not going to negotiate with you any longer, and your genocide denial edits will be erased swiftly and accordingly. Have a great day. Bosniak 19:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Err, this declaration of intent to hostile editing is inappropriate.Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 03:05, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Ok, you have been blocked for a week for ultimatums to undertake legal threats. Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 03:37, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
- And I would back that up. We don't mess around with legal threats. --Woohookitty(meow) 04:11, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Bosniak is very sensitive to the issue of genocide denial, understandably, and doesn't always express himself in tempered tones. But Blnguyen it seems to me that you've simply responded to the tone of his language rather than the substantive justification for his action.
The ICTY, a member of the United Nations family of organisations and the legal authority in the field, has ruled in the Krstic case that the Srebrenica massacre could be termed genocide in accordance with the provisions of the Genocide Convention. No other international forum has overthrown that ruling. The ICTY is currently hearing cases in which charges of genocide are involved. I think it is fair to assume that the defence will present all current arguments challenging the categorisation of the Srebrenica massacre as genocide to the Court. The Court will then rule as to whether its previous opinion should be overthrown. There is no room for any personal expression of doubt in this article. I might dispute the legitimacy of Slobodan Milosevic's assumption of the presidency of Yugoslavia or equally George W. Bush's election as President of the United States but I cannot change the content of an entry to indicate that they were not President of their respective nations.
Bosniak was right to insist that denials of genocide will be edited out of this article. There is no scope to allow any further denial of genocide unless and until the ICTY's ruling is overthrown. Even though I don't always agree with the way Bosniak expresses his views, in this case he is absolutely correct. Personally I find it a moral outrage that genocide at Srebrenica is denied but for the purposes of this article we're trying to pretend that moral outrage doesn't exist and keep to the facts. Genocide at Srebrenica is a fact established in international law. I ask the moderators of this article to accept that.Opbeith 10:04, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
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Pametniji popušta. Fine, I take it back, happy? --Serb talk 04:43, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
- I have removed the image from your user page. Fair use images are not permitted in user space, and this is not negotiable. If you restore the image I will block you, just as I have blocked Serbian editors in the past for similar acts. --ajn (talk) 08:56, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Origin of the picture: I can't give the precise origin but in case it helps anyone track down the original source I remember this photograph or a very similar one being published in The Guardian in a non-cropped form (more woodland background) in July 1995, as the first women survivors were arriving in Tuzla from Srebrenica. Opbeith 11:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
List of Bosniaks
Regarding this diff of yours. I removed the Medieval figures - as there are unsourced claims for their Bosniakhood and are even far too controversal to consider them as such. Also, the mergetag's suggestion has been refused long ago at the talk page. Cheers, mate! --HolyRomanEmperor 22:37, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
I know that there is a claim - but the same is claimed by Croats & Serbs. This way, while I was fighting Croatian and Serbian POV it might seem I allow Bosniac POV - which is a very bad image. When we come to historical "proving" of their Bosniakhood - we will, sadly, be strictly limited to modern-day claims. --PaxEquilibrium 11:17, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Also, with this diff of yours you again returned the merge-to tag which was I repeat, refused at the talk page a LOOONG time ago. Also, you removed three famous Bosniaks and rm the fact that that's an incomplete list. Why did you do all that? --PaxEquilibrium 11:23, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Uploaded photo - copyright issue
Hi,
I just noticed that in the article Srebrenica Genocide you uploaded a photo of a hanged girl. You did specify the source, I checked it out, but you did not write (copy/pasted) either under the photo or in the discussion section the permission information. You just noted that the permission was given, but without the email in which the permision is specifically given. If you have it, put it up, otherwise, the photo will be deleted. If you really want photo to stay, contact them on the website you provided and specifically ask for permission and then copy/paste the correspondance email under the photo.
Thanks,
Svetlana Miljkovic 09:12, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Warning on removing speedy deletion tags
I would suggest you do not create incomplete articles that look like nonsense, they will get tagged according to guidelines. Speedy deletion means exactly that. When I tag such an article I am not vandalizing, I am doing the correct thing. When you remove the speedy deletion tag, however, it is you that are making the error.
Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles that you have created yourself. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please place {{hangon}} on the page and make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. --ArmadilloFromHell 21:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Disruption warning
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits, such as those you made to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Serbophobia (third nomination), are considered vandalism. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. Thank you. Demiurge 23:37, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Vandalism
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did to Anti-Bosniak sentiment, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. —Psychonaut 11:26, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Please cite your sources
Your recent contribution(s) to the Wikipedia article Srebrenica massacre did not provide specific references or sources. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a drive to improve the quality of Wikipedia by encouraging editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. Editors may choose to remove material you have contributed if it is not verifiable. Please provide specific references in your contributions to any books, articles, websites or other reliable sources that will allow people to verify the content. You can use a citation method listed at inline citations that best suits each article. Thanks! —Psychonaut 11:30, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Stop!
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits, such as those you made to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Serbophobia (third nomination), are considered vandalism. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. Thank you. Svetislav Jovanović 20:53, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Bosniakophobia AfD
Two quick pointers:
- The best place to put new comments (unless they're directly responding to someone else, which yours wasn't) is at the bottom of the discussion in order to prevent grandstanding.
- While AfD isn't a vote, adding two comments saying "do not delete" isn't usually the best form. Indeed, a fair amount of your comments duplicate material you've already posted in that discussion. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 07:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Regarding your votes, I would point out the following. As the AfD clearly shows, you left a comment saying DON'T DELETE at 22:15, 23 November 2006. That counts as your vote, inasmuch as there are "votes" in an AfD. There was another comment (in fact dated earlier, I see now - 21:49, 23 November 2006) which began with the bolded phrase DO NOT DELETE which you'd also left. That makes two votes. Then, at 06:51, 26 November 2006 you posted a third vote headed Don't delete and in fact repeated the exact same information as you had previously done ("In the beginning, Serbophobia returned only 2 matches at Google..."). All I was doing was tidying things up so that only one of your three votes was in fact there and so that one of your two duplicate comments was there. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 07:16, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- And in terms of the comments themselves, you did not "give more detailed explanation second time". What you gave was the exact same opinion the second time. The only difference was that the second time was entirely in boldface. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 07:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I've responded to your comment on my Talk page for clarity. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 07:29, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Vandalism
This is the only warning you will receive.
Your recent vandalism to Anti-Bosniak sentiment will not be tolerated. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. —Psychonaut 14:09, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Block request
As a courtesy, I am notifying you that I have posted a message on WP:ANI requesting that you be blocked for your repeated disruptive behaviour in defiance of warnings. [2] —Psychonaut 14:46, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- for your vote tampering on AFD you have been blocked for one week.Geni 23:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Hej...
Ne razumijem zašto nam treba taj članak. To nije pozitivno o Bosni i Hercegovini. Već postoji "Anti-Bosniak Sentiment" što, koliko ja vidim, je isti pojam. Ako hoćete, ja ću vas podržavati ako mi vi pomognete oko infokutije za BiH opčine. Dovoljno je imati jednu infokutiju koja bi imala u sebi entitete. Trenutno imaju dvije ("Infobox BiH" i "Infobox RS"). Ja vam odmah kažem da to je totalna glupost. Nama ne treba "RS Infobox" infobox ako entitet piše u BiH infokutije. Dakle, zamolio bih vas da se učlanite na Wikiprojekat BiH, ja sam "headmaster", i da vidimo ako možemo promijeniti ovaj problem. Ja ću vas rado podržavati za "bosniakophobia", ali lično mislim da je ovo preci problem koji se mora riješiti. Hvala i pozdrav, Vseferović 16:47, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Copyright violations
You have uploaded a number of images without sources and/or copyright information. You have been warned about this, and asked to provide such information.
You recently uploaded the image Image:Flag_of_Bosnia-Herzegovina.gif and claimed that you were the creator of this image, and that you released it into the public domain. However, this image is a bit-for-bit copy of an image on a flags website. Given your past image contributions, I suspect that the source and licensing information you provided is incorrect, so I have tagged the image for deletion. If I am wrong and you can prove that you are the original creator and copyright holder of this image, please contest the deletion by using the {{hangon}} tag.
You also uploaded the image Image:Mladic Karremans Toast.jpg, which you claim is licensed under a CC license. However, this photo appears on various news websites credited to AP. As far as I know, AP does not release its photos under CC licenses, so I have nominated this image for speedy deletion.
Given the above, could you please provide evidence that you are the photographer or copyright holder of Image:Srebrenica-Massacre-Wall.jpg? That photograph appears on various news sites, such as this article from Al Jazeera. Please also provide evidence for your images Image:Srebrenica-Genocide-Memorial.jpg and Image:Bosniak_flag.gif. —Psychonaut 17:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Bosniakophobia
Sorry, I don't see the point of having two separate parallel articles. I'm gonna have to vote merge. --PaxEquilibrium 18:11, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Bosniakophobia Protest
Hi Blnguyen,
Other admin has censored my vote for article Bosniakophobia. He crossed "delete" two times, and this way, he has taken my vote, he has censored it not once, but twice! Please serve as fair mediator, here is the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bosniakophobia Bosniak 07:11, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Hey Bosniak, looks like things have been rectified but it seems obvious that the article will be deleted anyway. Are there still any outstanding issues? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Come on Geni, you must love to block people, don't you?
Bosniak (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
your 7 days is too long
Decline reason:
Based on the evidence here, you're lucky that you weren't blocked for longer. Khoikhoi 04:29, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Serb nationalists on the go, again!
Please help, there's problems with the article List of Serb war criminals, serbs are calling it POV just because it lists! And are voting for deletion because they obviously want to hide the crimes. Ancient Land of Bosoni
Getting community attention
I notice you've made a large number of very similar posts to user talk pages, recently. Instead of doing that, you might consider a quick post to the village pump or another community noticeboard, so that interested editors can comment if they so choose. It saves both you and other editors time and effort to keep discussion centralized and cohesive. I'd prefer to consider this a friendly note, but please do see WP:SPAM#Canvassing to see what policy/guideline pages have to say on the matter. Let me know if you have any questions about this. Thanks for your time, and good luck. Luna Santin 08:19, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
re: comment on my talk page
Hello Bosniak.. someone deleted your comment on my talk page before I even saw it! However wikipedia still told me there was a change obviously.. Hm, I wasn't aware that this conflict was going on that you mention, although I agree that a lot of people (especially from the Balkans!) use wikipedia to advance their narrow nationalistic understanding of history. In a way you can't blame people because everyone is raised in a certain society that puts a spin on history. But when you're actively suppressing unpleasant facts, it certainly crosses the line. Anyways I don't know if I would consider either Bosniakophobia or Serbophobia proper words.. It's just an awkward way of creating a word (-phobia) and personally I would rather the plainer way of saying it "anti-Bosniak sentiment" or some other way. Anyways let me know if I can help you sometime. Dan Carkner 13:50, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
True
Sure many articles relating to former Yugoslavia and its people have some strong Serb Pov. The Serb users are very active on Wiki.
You're right articles with so called lies get copied from Wiki onto other websites and before you know it the lie has spread. I think these Users are aware of this wide spread power and that's why they keep making edits or as many edits as possibe to articles ...pushing propaganda. Very Sad> Some Serb Users have made over 300,000 edits. This is alarming to say the least. Who can patrol what has been edited???
Not much you can do mate, just keep pluging away and keep fighting them the right way.
First discuss and see why they keep changing facts with no proof.
In most case you will find they sight Serbian propaganda books etc...
Eg Some users keep changing Rudjer Boscovich from Croat to Serb. They keep doing it when it is wellknown the guy was Croat...still doesn't stop someone from editing the article into what they like to believe.
In saying that most Serb users are fine and aware of this problem...+ not all sides are innocent...but yes the Serb users are a fair bit more active.
Keep up the fight.
Jagoda 1 02:46, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
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Bosniakophobia
It is interesting how Serbs promoted invented word "Serbophobia" on the internet. First they introduced the word to wikipedia, and then thousands of other scrapper sites copied content from wikipedia, and now Google yields thousands of matches for this invented word. Of course, while Bosniaks wanted to do the same, and create an article Bosniakophobia, Serbs quickly jumped and voted "NO!". And of course, attempts to create Bosniakophobia article failed thanks to Serbian activism on wikipedia! They don't use wikipedia for educational, but for their nationalistic/politic purposes. It is sickening to see Serbian propaganda and lies poisoning Wikipedia. What we Bosniaks need to do is focus more on Srebrenica Massacre article which is under attack by pro-Serbian vandals and revisionists/deniers on a daily basis.
In hopes that Bosniakophobia article will see light again.
Peace Bosniak Bosniak 01:20, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Removing your comments
First of all, I am an administrator. Secondly, there are policies that deal with mass campaigning on user talk pages: this one and this one, not to mention this one. Bring this up on the Village Pump instead of mass-spamming other editors' user talk pages. --Coredesat 02:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
- It doesn't matter if you're an admin, it's none of your business deleting material from userpages. Dan Carkner 02:39, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Bosniak, just to let you know that I removed your comment from Talk:Srebrenica massacre. As it says on top of that page: "This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Srebrenica massacre article", see also the talk page guidelines. Your message was not about the article, it was only complaining about the behaviour of some other editors. Yours, Jitse Niesen (talk) 04:13, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
- I have reverted your personal attacks here: [3]. Do not call other good faith editors vandals, and do not make insinuations about the motivations for their edits based on ther POV or ethnicity. Reinsert them and you will be blocked. Dmcdevit·t 13:18, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Can I trust Yugoslavia articles in English wiki?
Hello.
I am working on expanding articles about Yugoslavia in the Hebrew wiki.
Currently, the main source for information is the English wiki.
Do you think the articles about Yugoslavia in English wiki are reliable and balanced? Are there disputed parts of the articles that better not be translated? I rather not to say anything about a sensitive issue then writing incorrect claims. (I'll start with the article "Yugoslavia" and the articles about Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia).
Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 132.72.45.187 (talk) 18:15, 17 December 2006 (UTC).
Hi my Jewish friend. No you can't trust "Yugoslavia" related articles, they are mostly run by Serb propagandists. Let me get in touch with you, so I can help you with it on Hebrew wikipedia. I would like to point some documentation to your attention regarding holocaust of Bosniaks and Jews in Jasenovac, from Bosnian documented sources. Bosniak 21:54, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm sick of people who are pretending to be anti-nationalist while being greater nationalist then those who say it uncovered and loud.
People who were killed in Jasenovac were of Serbian (most of them), Jewish, Muslim (Bosniak), Roma nationality and other nationalities, not just Jewish and Bosniaks.
I would advice our Jewish friend that, if he thinks that he can't rely on wikipedia's data, then should find some Hebrew book about Yugoslav history! --S T E V A N (talk) 00:46, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Stevan, I suggest you start learning about holocaust of Jews and Bosniaks in Jasenovac by purchasing books here www.interliber.com . And I do agree that Jasenovac victims came from all backgrounds. Bosniak 06:04, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- Bosniak, I'm glad you are admitting that Bosniaks are Serbs, because only Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and Croats died in Jasenovac. Bosniaks are merely weak Serbs who would have rather converted to Islam then to stay who they were in defiance of the Turks. BTW, i know where you live in Vancouver, see ya soon ;) --Zombir 10:12, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Prestani vise
Dobro te je vise Bosniak. Taman se jedna verzija stabilizira clanka o Srebrenici i onda ti zaseres svojim manijakalnim vracanjem!!! a na taj nacin se izgube i korisne promjene koje su unesene i slike koje su postavljene. Nauci da promjene vracas tako sto pogledas link "history", tamo kliknes datum na verziju od tog datuma i spasis stranicu, ako vec to do sada nisi naucio. Ako ne prestanes sa ovim licno cu te prijaviti za blokiranje. Emir Arven 18:00, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- Bosnjak je inace srpsko prezime. Look it up. Eee, Bosniak, kad su se i bosanski muslimani okrenuli protiv tebe... --Zombir 10:10, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Stanley Park
Please do not make empty threats in an attempt to justify your actions at Stanley Park. If you had read the edit history first, you would be aware that your material duplicated text that was already in the article, and more appropriately placed. Furthermore, if you had investigated, you would have seen that I made an effort to incorporate your material into the existing text. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you blindly reverted back to your last edit, completely ignoring the fact that you obliterated a lot of work by several other editors. Please use more caution, and consider discussing your concerns on the talk page first. Thank you. --Ckatzchatspy 06:21, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Stanley Park again
If you have issues about the content of the article, please participate in the discussion on the article's talk page. I have tried to work with your additions, not destroy them, in my subsequent edits, and have tried to explain myself on the talk page in an effort to achieve consensus on the content. Edit warring is not helpful to the quality of the article. Neither is disguising reversions as "restructuring"; please keep in mind the Three-revert rule, or more importantly, the spirit of the rule and Wikipedia generally. Thank you, Bobanny 21:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Please don't post trollish comments on user talk pages. Thanks, Khoikhoi 07:17, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for that. Khoikhoi 06:51, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Do not repost deleted content
I note from your comment on HanzoHattori's talk page that you propose to recreate the Bosniakophobia and/or Anti-Bosniak sentiment articles which were deleted in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion procedure. You should be aware that it is not permitted to repost deleted articles, and that given your recent behaviour you could be blocked or even permanently banned for doing so. —Psychonaut 09:45, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Re ethnic maps in BH
OK, if not posted already, use the OHR maps. Mir Harven 23:16, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
My name
I did not convert to Christianity, I was born a Christian, because my father was a Christian. My mother was Moslem and she gave me my name - Avdo. --GOD OF JUSTICE 05:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
- Promoting? Which side? What are you talking about?? I'm Yugoslav, I love Serbs, Croats, Bosnian Moslems, Slovenes and Macedonians alike. Am I promoting the "Serbian side" just because I love my current country - Serbia? Jesus, man, grow up. --GOD OF JUSTICE 18:15, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Nemoj tako
Šta zašto? Prvo, izvini. Drugo, vrlo sam bio zauzet i trenutno sam.
Da li ta riječ zvanično postoji? Shvataš, nije dovoljno nekome pokazati "google search results". Te stranice većinom raspravljaju o Bosnjakofobiji. To nisu stranice kao Britanica, itd. da možemo reći da su pouzdane. Već postoji "Anti-Bosniak sentiment", dakle, ja mislim da "Bosnjakofobija" bi samo ponavljalo isti članak.
Pozdrav, (Možda griješim, objasni dalje...plus, objasni zašto srbi hoće da ostave Serbophobia) Vseferović 08:50, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Bosniakophobia
Bosniakophobia is also an English word, and your continuous deletion of this word is considered vandalism. Please stop.
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=bosniakophobia&meta=
Bosniak 08:22, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
- You might consider the deletion vandalism, but you would be wrong. If you'd like to test your theory that I'm vandalizing, feel free to ask on WP:ANI or WP:AIV.
- I have once more removed your addition of this word to Anti-Bosniak sentiment. A google search is not a legitimate external link, per WP:EL#Links normally to be avoided, and none of the sites shown in that link qualify as reliable sources. We covered this extensively in Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bosniakophobia.
- I have removed the libelous comments about Lewis MacKenzie from Srebrenica massacre. Do not add this unfounded allegation back to the article unless you can find an unbiased reliable source -- which you won't; this nonsense was discarded as a complete fabrication a decade ago.
Once more, no personal attacks
Bosniak, I see from reviewing this talk page and your block log that you have repeatedly been warned to assume good faith and comment on content, not on contributors. I was prepared to ignore this ridiculous edit summary ("rv. Jim Douglas is a Serb apologist"). But then you started an entire thread on the talk page (Talk:Srebrenica massacre#Serbian provocateurs: Nikola Smolenski and Hadzija) dedicated to attacking the motives of anyone who posts to this article in a way that you disagree with. And you repeated your personal attacks on me:
- Not to mention "Jim Douglas" who quoted Srebrenica genocide denial and revisionist web sites as "sources".
Are you under the impression that this behaviour is acceptable? You've been warned about this repeatedly; you've even been blocked specifically because of your personal attacks in that article (User talk:Bosniak#No personal attacks). Please consider this a final warning. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 15:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
warning tags
Please do not add warning tags on my page for no reason. [4] Thank you. // Laughing Man 22:56, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Your behaviour is not constructive
Bosniak, you have been warned repeatedly about blindly reverting to your preferred version of an article, destroying intermediate edits (here, here, here, and here). I'm going to repeat that warning. You just blindly reverted multiple edits -- not just mine -- presumably to your own preferred version, and labelling my edits as vandalism. Please think hard about your behaviour here. You know that my edits aren't vandalism; I spent two hours last night explaining my serious concerns on the talk page. It is not acceptable for you to simply continue to revert my changes like this. So I'm asking you to go to the talk page and respond to my concerns, with citations to reliable sources. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 21:53, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
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MacKenzie rape accusations
I'm not sure whether the rape accusations deserve to be mentioned, but now that an investigation has apparently be opened by the Bosnian prosecuting office, you may have a case. I also dislike contributors who hide behind an IP address so I reverted to your version, which does notice the accusations. However, I did keep the spelling corrections that you erased with your blind reverts. I also changed your text, that MacKenzie is "accused of raping of Bosniak women in camp Sonja by a Bosnian court" by "is under investigation by a Bosnian prosecutor following rape accusations" (emphasis added); I concluded that your version is incorrect after reading the statement by the Congress of North American Bosniaks.
I went out of my way to make it easy for you. However, I will not accept it if you reintroduce by blind reverts or if you again resort to personal attacks. Best wishes, Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
WP:ANI report
A report concerning you has been posted to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Bosniak - POV pushing, WP:POINT, and bad faith assumptions. I thought it would be fair to inform you about it, since the original poster has apparently forgotten or declined[5] to do so. —Psychonaut 19:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. Rather than reverting, discuss disputed changes on the talk page. The revision you want is not going to be implemented by edit warring. Thank you. -- Merope 07:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three-revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future. -- Merope 07:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
I have discussed my changes thousands of times. Psychonaut is the one deleting important paragraphs of the article and not discussing them - you should block him temporarily. He is here on a mission (there were several Bosniak users blocked as a result of his activism and complaints). You should block user Psychonaut immediately. He has a bad faith. And you also reverted article to the worst form possible, to the "Hadzija" user revert. And he doesn't even accept genocide, the guy is Serbian, we have had problems with him in the past. You should definitely block Psychonaut - based on his activist-complaints agains Bosniaks, and his open pro-Serb stance - he is biased, in bad faith, one-sided, and he deserves to be blocked. He has been editing my edits tonight repeatedly, and you refused to block him. Are you neutral? I don't think so. If you are, then act and block him. Bosniak 08:08, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Which paragraphs did I remove from the article? —Psychonaut 08:14, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- You have removed most important chunks and factual information from Srebrenica Massacre article. It can be described as a total desecration of the facts. I have viewed the article few moments ago, it's a disaster, catastrophy. It couldn't be worse. Although I have discussed all my changes on discussion page, you did not discuss any of your changes before you deleted huge chunks of data from Srebrenica Massacre article. You accuse me of bad faith and being on a mission? You are the one on a mission and with bad faith constantly (like a toddler) complaining against Bosniak editors to administrator notice board and trying to either block them or ban them. Hundreds of editors were involved in building Srebrenica Massacre article, and you deleted tons of information in few minutes! This is not your personal page man. Plus, this is not your first vandalization of wikipedia editors' hard work. Psychonaut had been blocked for vandalism in the past, here is are details http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=&page=User%3APsychonaut and you should be blocked again, now ! You deserve it! If there is no bias and one-sidedness on wikipedia, you must be blocked to preserve integrity of this website. You should be ashamed of your actions. Bosniak 08:22, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, I still don't see where I have removed any information from the article. Could you point to a specific paragraph that has disappeared, or better yet, provide a diff? (And with respect to my blocks, those were accidental, as you can see by the following "oops" unblocks.) —Psychonaut 08:28, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Psychonaut, please, please, please, please don't use word "Sorry" and don't portray yourself as a nice guy who wants to make things right. You have showed your face in the past, you have showed it tonight, you are in bad faith and you are on a mission - same things you accused me of. Your childish behavior and constant toddler like complaining and a mission and bad faith against Bosniak editors (you named several of them in your latest complaint) is just terrible. You had been blocked for vandalism in the past, and if there is any justice and fairness on this wikipedia, you ought to be blocked again. I have more respect for person I disagree with the most, which is user Hadzija, than I will ever have for you. At least, Hadzija does not go and does not complain about every single thing to administrator notice board. It's because Bosniaks and Serbians share one important value - we hate complaining. We hate going and talking behind people's back. Your behavior is just despicable, oh my god, I can't believe that people like you exist in this world. You accuse me of inventing false word "Bosniakophobia", when you know well that "Bosniakophobia" is as false and as invented as "Serpophobia". If you go to Bosnian wikipedia, you will see that Bosniakophobia has been there for a long time, which speaks about the fact that people use it. But the fact is, I don't care about either Bosniakophobia or Serpophobia, both words are nonsense as Bosniaks and Serbs are numerically "small" people and not that significant for explanation of "phobia". Again, that's another story, not a significant one. What's significant is to preserve facts about Srebrenica Genocide. Serbian and leftist-apologist (socialist) websites have been involved in defence of General MacKenzie, and the most sources that jump into MacKenzie's defence come from those revisionist sources. I have seen some edits that you made on a topic of socialism, so it seems you are interested in those sources, so no wonder you acted against me for a very long time with your threats and edits. It is just sad, just very sad to see such a bad faith in human being such as yourself. Even Serbs don't have such a huge amount of bad faith as I have been able to see in you. It's just sad, it's a catastrophy. Bosniak 08:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- I have never read anything about the Srebrenica massacre, including the Wikipedia article. I'm not interested in third-party sources about it, socialist or otherwise. You seem to be, though. You have observed that I have made several edits to articles relating to the Socialist Party of Great Britain. If you are curious as to what those socialists have to say about the violence following the breakup of Yugoslavia, there are at least two online aticles: The Yugoslav War—Myths & Realities and Their Country Needs You. Both articles defend neither the Serbs nor the Bosniaks, but rather deplore ethnic nationalism on both sides. —Psychonaut 09:17, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Psychonaut, please, please, please, please don't use word "Sorry" and don't portray yourself as a nice guy who wants to make things right. You have showed your face in the past, you have showed it tonight, you are in bad faith and you are on a mission - same things you accused me of. Your childish behavior and constant toddler like complaining and a mission and bad faith against Bosniak editors (you named several of them in your latest complaint) is just terrible. You had been blocked for vandalism in the past, and if there is any justice and fairness on this wikipedia, you ought to be blocked again. I have more respect for person I disagree with the most, which is user Hadzija, than I will ever have for you. At least, Hadzija does not go and does not complain about every single thing to administrator notice board. It's because Bosniaks and Serbians share one important value - we hate complaining. We hate going and talking behind people's back. Your behavior is just despicable, oh my god, I can't believe that people like you exist in this world. You accuse me of inventing false word "Bosniakophobia", when you know well that "Bosniakophobia" is as false and as invented as "Serpophobia". If you go to Bosnian wikipedia, you will see that Bosniakophobia has been there for a long time, which speaks about the fact that people use it. But the fact is, I don't care about either Bosniakophobia or Serpophobia, both words are nonsense as Bosniaks and Serbs are numerically "small" people and not that significant for explanation of "phobia". Again, that's another story, not a significant one. What's significant is to preserve facts about Srebrenica Genocide. Serbian and leftist-apologist (socialist) websites have been involved in defence of General MacKenzie, and the most sources that jump into MacKenzie's defence come from those revisionist sources. I have seen some edits that you made on a topic of socialism, so it seems you are interested in those sources, so no wonder you acted against me for a very long time with your threats and edits. It is just sad, just very sad to see such a bad faith in human being such as yourself. Even Serbs don't have such a huge amount of bad faith as I have been able to see in you. It's just sad, it's a catastrophy. Bosniak 08:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- I am attempting to be neutral. I didn't know very much about this horrible tragedy until this article was brought to my attention. However, after spending several hours reading the article, its reversions, and the sources provided, I have to say that I believe that the changes proposed by Jim Douglas and other editors are the most in-line with Wikipedia's policies concerning WP:NPOV. I do not believe that the people reverting the article to the version that contains the neutral POV language (which also removes the BLP violations) are breaking WP rules. I recognize that what happend was a horrible, terrible thing: I don't think any of the people editing the article would disagree with that assertion. However, editors of Wikipedia have agreed to maintain a neutral point of view, which means that we cannot write an article strictly from one viewpoint. I cannot tell you how much it hurts to recognize that humans are capable of carrying out such a horrifying action--reading this article made me shed more than a few tears. However, Wikipedia is not a memorial, and thus we must write articles that are neutral and contain reliable sources. Your stance, as a person directly affected by this tragedy, is understandably biased. Perhaps you should back away from this article, and trust other users to do their best in reporting all the facts associated with this horrible event. -- Merope 08:24, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Merobo, thank you for your kind words regarding Srebrenica. I honestly did not expect them. But thank you. What I am trying to point Merobo is the fact that I did discuss my changes. But Psychonaut (who had been blocked in the past for vandalism) did not discuss his changes before he started editing large chunks of Srebrenica Massacre article. It's a sensitive topic and it must be addressed thoroughly in a discussion page before major changes are made, do you agree with that? Yes you do. Having said that, he had not right to edit/delete large chunks of information before first discussing them with us. As I said, he had been blocked for vandalism in the past, so it would not be his first block. On Admin Notice board, you will notice his constant toddler-like complaining, usually against Bosniak editors (he has listed some of them, Bosoni, Bosniakk, etc, etc). He accuses me that I am on a mission and in bad faith, when he is exactly the who is on a mission to ban Bosniak editors from wikipedia; he is in a bad faith with his constant complaining and desecrations of Srebrenica Massacre article. His point of view is biased, as he openly sides with leftist opinions and does not aknowledge that a person who denies genocide is a genocide denier/revisionist, not a critic (this is not a movie). Imagine calling Holocaust deniers "critics"? Come on. He portrays his edits to be in good faith, but they are not, they can't be, he deleted large chunks of important data, just because he wants to impose his views onto the facts. He plays with the international judgements regarding Srebrenica Genocide.. The Srebrenica Massacre article is neutral as it can be, and it's a work in progress (not a finished product yet!). There are problems with the article and they are being fixed, but they cannot be fixed with people such has Psychonaut or Hadzija (Serbian guy who is totally biased and wants to equalize genocide with other war crimes). Having said that - we are still working on these issues, but they cannot be solved by simply repeatedly deleting large chunks of data that editor does not agree with. These issues need to be addressed on a discussion page and editors need to find a compromise and solution. That's a fair way to do it, and that's the way Srebrenica Massacre article has been edited for a very long time. Psychonaut's approach is wrong and goes in the face of hundreds of honest editors who discussed their changes thoroughly. He is just a bad faith editor who constantly complains. It's simple as that. Just go to Administrator Notice board and read his latest commplaint, which is totally one-sided with absolutely biased point of view. Bosniak 08:39, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Bosniak, you still haven't identified the "huge chunks" of information I supposedly deleted from the article. Could you please let me know what they are so that I can replace them? Also, my latest complaint to WP:ANI concerned a death threat against a user. I don't see how it was one-sided and absolutely biased. —Psychonaut 08:45, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Merobo, thank you for your kind words regarding Srebrenica. I honestly did not expect them. But thank you. What I am trying to point Merobo is the fact that I did discuss my changes. But Psychonaut (who had been blocked in the past for vandalism) did not discuss his changes before he started editing large chunks of Srebrenica Massacre article. It's a sensitive topic and it must be addressed thoroughly in a discussion page before major changes are made, do you agree with that? Yes you do. Having said that, he had not right to edit/delete large chunks of information before first discussing them with us. As I said, he had been blocked for vandalism in the past, so it would not be his first block. On Admin Notice board, you will notice his constant toddler-like complaining, usually against Bosniak editors (he has listed some of them, Bosoni, Bosniakk, etc, etc). He accuses me that I am on a mission and in bad faith, when he is exactly the who is on a mission to ban Bosniak editors from wikipedia; he is in a bad faith with his constant complaining and desecrations of Srebrenica Massacre article. His point of view is biased, as he openly sides with leftist opinions and does not aknowledge that a person who denies genocide is a genocide denier/revisionist, not a critic (this is not a movie). Imagine calling Holocaust deniers "critics"? Come on. He portrays his edits to be in good faith, but they are not, they can't be, he deleted large chunks of important data, just because he wants to impose his views onto the facts. He plays with the international judgements regarding Srebrenica Genocide.. The Srebrenica Massacre article is neutral as it can be, and it's a work in progress (not a finished product yet!). There are problems with the article and they are being fixed, but they cannot be fixed with people such has Psychonaut or Hadzija (Serbian guy who is totally biased and wants to equalize genocide with other war crimes). Having said that - we are still working on these issues, but they cannot be solved by simply repeatedly deleting large chunks of data that editor does not agree with. These issues need to be addressed on a discussion page and editors need to find a compromise and solution. That's a fair way to do it, and that's the way Srebrenica Massacre article has been edited for a very long time. Psychonaut's approach is wrong and goes in the face of hundreds of honest editors who discussed their changes thoroughly. He is just a bad faith editor who constantly complains. It's simple as that. Just go to Administrator Notice board and read his latest commplaint, which is totally one-sided with absolutely biased point of view. Bosniak 08:39, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- You are very manipulative. Oh my god, you are playing Mr Nice Guy now. Wholly smoke, you change your face as clock ticks by. Why do I have to idenitify every single edit of yours when every edit has a history? Everything has been recorded here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Srebrenica_massacre&action=history . I have also posted reply to your previous reply, it's in this conversation on top. You need to change man, your behaviour is just ridicolous. Imagine yourself horsing with Holocaust article like you horsed with Srebrenica Massacre article tonight? They would ban you just like that. I refrained from complaining against you and I had tons of great reasons to do so, but I don't waste my time on complaints. I am not a toddler. I discuss my issues with other editors. And your anti-Bosniak stance, mission, and bad faith are visible from your last complaint on admin notice boards. The way you wrote your complaint is biased, it's in bad faith, it's distasteful because it's totally one sided, and you even forgot to mention that you were blocked for vandalism in the past, and yet you accuse me of vandalism. Duh! Busted! Bosniak 09:07, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Bosniak, don't waste your time and breath. Just remember the reality behind these people. --Opbeith 19:56, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- The "reality behind these people" is that they're editors trying to improve the project. -- Merope 20:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Second Montenegrin Wikipedia proposal
I have started up a second proposal on the Montenegrin Wikipedia, I think it should be time to restart it. If you want to vote, the link is: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Montenegrin_2
Just wanted to let you know. Thanks again. --Crna Gora 22:11, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
" I CrnaGora, vow to never to return to Wiki again". Wow, you changed your mind fast, you're like John Kerry, flip-flopping all over the place. Jedi Svinje 01:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey
Long time no see, I've been very busy myself, and still am :) How are things? I see you've had quite much drama on wikipedia. I Hope things are better now. Ancient Land of Bosoni
- Nice to hear my friend, I've had some problems of my own on the other hand, recently in the Bosnian "war" article. An anonymous user reverts my UN cited statement on rapes. Isn't it vandalism to revert substantially sourced statements? Take a look will you? I will not be on wikipedia for the weekend, me and a couple friends are off to a casino to try our luck with both the chips and the ladies ;) Cuje mo se :D Ancient Land of Bosoni
Disruptive behaviour
Please do not disrupt Wikipedia to belabour a point, as you have done by moving Serbophobia to Anti-Serb Sentiment. You already nominated the article for deletion at least once. In a subsequent deletion vote you attempted to produce a result in your favour by changing other users' votes, and you have also performed edit warring on this and related pages. You have been repeatedly blocked for this disruption. Unilaterally moving and retitling the page is just as unacceptable. —Psychonaut 23:20, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
I note that you are continuing to make comments or judgments about editors and their contributions on the basis of what you believe to be the editors' ethnicities.[6][7] This behaviour was responsible in part for your recent blocks. Please remember to assume good faith, and comment on the contributions, not the contributors. No one chooses their ethnicity. Whether or not an editor is Serbian, Bosnian, or Bosniak imposes no special obligations or restrictions on that editor, and has no bearing on any argument relating to their participation on Wikipedia. —Psychonaut 00:28, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
AfD nomination of Bosniak Canadian
I've nominated Bosniak Canadian, an article you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that Bosniak Canadian satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion; I have explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bosniak Canadian and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Bosniak Canadian during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. —Psychonaut 21:56, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Ustašoidi u akciji
Želim te upozoriti, da korisnik Ivan Kricancic, pogledaj njegovu korisničku stranicu u svom suludom fanatizmu ide od slike do slike koja si teče Bosne i predlaže je za brisanje. Često to radi nepotpisan: 58.165.115.192. Znam da je sa šupcima teško, ali degen je bolestan i na taj način je izbrisao mnoge članke na Srebrenici. Emir Arven 08:00, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- Please use English for all talk page discussions on Wikipedia. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 17:46, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Improper use of "You have new messages" box
Bosniak: Normally, I'm very reluctant to modify another editor's talk and user pages. However, in this particular case, I feel that it is a serious misuse of the "You have new messages" display to have the link go to an external web site - especially since there is no warning given. This is also a potentially dangerous precedent, as a vandal may well be inspired to use the same method to create links to external pages with dangerous or malicious coding. Again, there would be no warning to the average user, who would believe that they were just responding to a message on Wikipedia. You might want to discuss this with an administrator who could better explain why such a link setup is not desirable. Thanks - please feel free to message me if you want to discuss. --Ckatzchatspy 05:31, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- I somewhat agree with you - and I will change it (no problem), however I wanna show you something. Make sure your anti-virus is up to date. Go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ivan_Kricancic and then click on "You have a new message". Cheers. Bosniak 07:34, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- I've removed that box from the user's page for being disruptive. -- Merope 14:49, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Građanski rat u Sarajevu :D
Bošnjačino, vidim da pravo radiš na ovoj en wikipediji, tako treba svaka čast. Vidio sam da si ostavio poruku Seferoviću o Sarajevo Civil War, slažem sa članak treba brisati, ali nit znam nit želim da znam kako ga nominirati. Ako ti znaš bujrum. Prije svega, opsadu sarajeva niko ne zove tako, drugo, članak nema referanci ni vanjskih linkova i treće postoji opsežan članak o tome pod Opsada sarajeva. Et... Ja sam obavijestio Bosnija, ali nema rekacije. Pozdravi --Kahriman 20:16, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- Aferim buraz :D --Kahriman 20:44, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
AFD nomination
The nomination was malformed, but I have fixed it. Please remember that canvassing is not permitted within the community, and that you should use English on users' talk pages. -- Merope 20:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Please also note that it is standard practice to inform the original author of the article about the deletion vote by placing a note on his or her talk page. You can do this with the template {{subst:AFDWarning|Article title}}. —Psychonaut 21:07, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- OKay guys, thank you for your advice. I will do it next time. Bosniak 08:11, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey Bosnjo
I would like you to enter a link to your blog on my user page. Pick a nice place, will you ;) Cheers Bosnjo! =P Ancient Land of Bosoni
Siege of Sarajevo
You are 100% correct about the Sarajevo Civil War article. I was recently in New York and came back yesterday to Chicago. I did have internet connection in the hotel room, however, some user (user:Nalco?) redirected the article to Siege of Sarajevo. At the time I was confused since I did not notice the redirect, so I found it strange why you would want to delete the article Siege of Sarajevo. Lol...Sorry, I would have reacted much earlier. What about our friend Emir Arven? On je meni poslao e-mail... Pozdrav, Vseferović 16:29, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Here are the details. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:43, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi
Hi Bosniak, you recently suggested, as a 'compromise', deleting the Alternative/Revisionist views section alltogether (or was it only the Mackenzie section, I'm not sure). As I mentioned in my reply on the Srebrenica Talk page, I would support such a 'compromise' if it was part of a 'package deal' for the entire article. I set out a couple of principles, which I believe are necessary if any true compromise is to succeed. Any thoughts? Regards Osli73 08:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Canvassing
Your contributions history shows that you have been aggressively cross-posting in order to influence Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Osli73. Although the Arbitration Committee has ruled that "[t]he occasional light use of cross-posting to talk pages is part of Wikipedia's common practice"1, such cross-posting should adhere to specific guidelines found in Wikipedia:Spam. In the past, aggressively worded cross-posting has contributed towards an Arbitration Committee ruling of disruptive behavior that resulted in blocking2. It is best not to game the system, and instead respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building, by ceasing to further crosspost, and instead allowing the process to reflect the opinions of editors that were already actively involved in the matter at hand. You should also be aware that at any rate, non-arbitrators are not permitted to vote on arbitration motions. Thank you. —Psychonaut 11:18, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Reverting and edit warring
You have been rather persistently revert warring on Srebrenica massacre over the past few weeks; the only respite has been for a brief period during which you were blocked for precisely this behaviour. I suspect from your latest edit summary that you may not understand what the word "revert" means. You wrote, "Please when you revert articles, don't destroy my changes and contributions." However, you should know that when someone deliberately reverts your changes, it is (by definition) their intention to remove your changes and contributions. To revert your changes and contributions means to remove them.
I have reported you to WP:ANI for the disruptive behaviour you have continued to engage in following your recent block.[8] If I am correct that your edit warring is the result of a linguistic misunderstanding, then it would probably help your case greatly if you could confirm this here and make a statement that you endeavour to refrain from further edit warring. —Psychonaut 11:29, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Your comments are requested here – [9]. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 16:20, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Bosniak, I hope I haven't made trouble for you. I spotted this notice and followed the link. I discovered an accusation there that you'd been meddling with the current consensus - of course this made no reference to where the current consensus actually comes from. I'm afraid I lost the attempt to keep my cool in the face of I regard as more promotion of moral equivalency. I hope that I've expressed myself in a way that it's only me that gets done over again. --Opbeith 00:10, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Straw poll on Srebrenica massacre
As a result of persistent edit warring on Srebrenica massacre, I have proposed that a straw poll be taken regarding one of the issues involved—namely, how to title the section currently named "Alternative views". This will help us to determine whether there is a consensus on what to title this section, or at least a consensus on what not to call it. The straw poll can be found at Talk:Srebrenica_massacre#Straw poll on "Alternative views" section. I have posted this announcement to each of the 19 users who have made multiple edits to Srebrenica massacre this year. —Psychonaut 13:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Although I have accepted "Alternative View" term
which was imposed by admin (Ckatz), I think we should not waste too much time on it. However, I accept your invitation to participate in poll. Bosniak 20:43, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Bosniak, please stop claiming that I "imposed" the term - all I did was change it (much as you have repeatedly changed the wording yourself). I've no authority to "impose" anything on Wikipedia, I've never claimed to have such authority, and I've certainly never told you I was an administrator. If you're going to refer to me or my edits, please ensure that you are using the correct information. Thank you. --Ckatzchatspy 21:06, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Okay Ckatz. No problem. You did revert it to "alternative view" and I cannot go against administrator. Let's not fight over this. Bosniak 21:10, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- I'm not "fighting" - I'd just like to know why you insist on describing me as an administrator when I'm not one. --Ckatzchatspy 21:16, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- My bad. I must have mixed you up. Okay, so I'll put this on record - you are not an administrator and therefore you did not impose alternative view term, but you did revert it and loan your support to it. Bosniak 21:24, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- While you're dishing out the apologies, can I have one for your repeated statements to other users that I am a "Serb who defends Serb interests" and that I have been "blocked repeatedly for disruption"? Neither of these statements is true. —Psychonaut 22:14, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- I am not dishing apologies to you and I never will. Your actions have spoken and still speak for themselves. Bosniak 22:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Fine, then; I'll settle for a simple retraction. Will you then kindly retract your statements that I am a "Serb who defends Serb interests" and that I have been "blocked repeatedly for disruption"? —Psychonaut 00:12, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Fresh start?
Hi! Given that the Srebrenica massacre article seems doomed to get stuck on endless discussion on details (such as the current unproductive discussion on the peripheral issue of what to call Mackenzie et al.) I've proposed a 'Fresh Start', setting out some basic principles which should help us to make some real progress with the article. Unfortunately, so far no one seems willing to support such an initiative. I would much appreciate if you took a look at it and gave some comments. RegardsOsli73 10:20, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- Osli, I support honest compromises and fresh starts, but this cannot mean that everything must be your way or Psychonaut's way. My opinion must be given equal weight. Bosniak 19:31, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- Since when have I ever tried to change "everything" on the Srebrenica massacre article? In fact, since when have I changed any content at all besides the name of the "Alternative views" section? Please don't mischaracterize my involvement on that article. —Psychonaut 20:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Again, I'm trying to avoid having to compromise over opinions by starting off with a bare bones recap of the ICTY findings. If we can all agree that the ICTY is a good source then basing the article on that should reduce the chances for opinions and disagreements about opinions. Given that the ICTY judgement against Krstic is soo thorough and widely accepted it really shouldn't be that hard to write an article based on it. What do you say? Cheers Osli73 20:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Attempts to discredit User:Psychonaut
It has come to my attention that you are repeatedly making the claim that Psychonaut has been blocked for vandalism and disruption. While it is true that Psychonaut has blocks on his record, both blocks were removed within minutes of the initial block owing to mistakes on the part of the blocking admins. Psychonaut and at least one other user has attempted to correct your understanding of the situation, and yet you persist in posting this in an attempt to discredit Psychonaut's contributions. I am thus asking you to stop making these accusations: they are baseless and irrelevant. Continuing to repeat this information in your arguments with this user may constitute a personal attack, and are most certainly a breach of civility. Please remember to criticize content, not other editors. -- Merope 16:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- Okay, no problem. Bosniak 21:43, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Serbs who converted to Islam?
Serbs who converted to Islam? and then a very HUUUUGEEEE laughter.
- Are you saying that no Serb (in whatever possible meaning of the word) whatsoever ever converted to Islam and thus, became a Muslim? --PaxEquilibrium 00:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Bosniak's Reply: No. That would certainly been false statement. I am sure there were cases of Orthodox Serbs converting to Islam, and Muslim Bosniaks converting to Orthodox religion. What I am saying is that Bosniaks are not Serbs who converted to Islam. I have one very nice Serbian friend. He has made a poem for Srebrenica genocide victims. There are still nice Serb people, and I am glad not all of them are same. Do you have any Bosniak friends? If not, you should find one and realize that Bosniak people don't bite. They are not better or worse than anybody else. Bosniak 01:38, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
- Why do you connect Bosniacs' alleged descent from another ethnic group to the Srebrenica massacre?
- Yeah, I have 3: Dino, Emir & Edin (although only the last, sadly deceased one, was actually from Bosnia, I think). --PaxEquilibrium 01:50, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
- Bosniacs are a very large nation of diverse ethnic origins (kindah like Americans, although are bound by Islam and Slavic origin to an extent, unlike economy & statehood with the Amers - although I think most Bosniacs are atheists and even more agnostics). I think that it is possible that many families are of Serb, Croat or even Albanian origin. Sokolovic's a typical Serbian surname (and very often amongst Bosniacs), for example. "Ljajic" and "Ugljanin" are of Albanian descent. --PaxEquilibrium 01:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Bosniak's Reply There are certainly nice Serbs. I accept that genocide has been committed against Serbs in the 2nd World War, but I also expect you guys to acknowledge genocide against Bosniaks. Both Ustashe and Chetniks were certainly not nice guys (as they like to portray themselves). I am not an enemy of the Serb people, although I will continue to oppose Srebrenica genocide denial, as well as claims that Bosniaks were Serbs who converted to Islam. Things are more complicated than they appear, and simplifying things to the point that Genocide did not happen or that Bosniaks are Serbs is immature. If I had power to kill and rape Serbs without being legally responsible for it - I still would not do it. In fact, when I was in Bosnia I was a child (during war) and my mother helped a lot of Serbian civilians by giving them food and milk powder that was used exclusively for the Croatian army. Anyways, I come from a peaceful family, but that doesn't mean that I should sit and peacefully accept genocide denial. These people in Srebrenica died under UN watch. What did UN do? Nothing, absolutely nothing. They even produced so called "NIOD Report" to wash their hands from genocide. When Dutch president came to Bosnia (I think his name was Mr Cock or Vock or whatever name he had), local reporters asked him whether or not he would apologize for Dutch troop involvement in the massacre, and he replied: "Never!". It's obvious that these people refuse to accept any serious responsibility. They even awarded Dutch troops with medals. Netherlands is a small country, and they are proud for getting so much attention with regards to their "heroic" involvement in the Balkans. Before massacre, nobody even knew where the Netherlands was. But after the genocide, they became very famous. You know what they say - no publicity is bad publicity. Netherlands never apologized. Their shameful NIOD report is full of inaccuracies. They should be ashamed of themselves. I debated few Dutch people on other online forums and whilethey fully accepted that genocide was committed, they never wanted to acknowledge any wrongdoing with respect to Dutch troops. Instead, they justified Dutch troop actions by stating they were lightly armed, etc (excuses, excuses, and more excuses). I will stop now...
Update: Yes, but the problem with Sokolovic is that there is no clear primary source evidence that he was Serbian. Please read this local article --- http://www.geocities.com/famous_bosniaks/MEHMED_PASA_SOKOLOVICH.html As you can see from this article, it is very rather doubtful that he was of Serbian origin. There is no strong evidence that he was either Bosniak or Serb. Please read that source, you will learn more about his history (father, mother, sister, etc)... There is no "Serbian" or "Bosniak" or "Croat" last names. We all have "Slavic" last names and most of our last names end up in "-ic". For example, there are Bosniaks and Serbs with last name Obradovic. There are Croats as well as Serbs and Bosniaks with the last name "Bosnjak" (Bosniak). I would not be surprised to find Bosniaks and Croats with the last name Milosevic, as well as Serbs and Croats with the last name Izetbegovic. Cheers. Bosniak 02:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
- Actually, I studied genealogies of tribes a lot. My expertise are the Montenegrin-Herzegovinian-Highland-Albanian-Serbian clans. I just gave an example about the Sokolovic surname, taking to granted that there are very little Serbs who still bear the name, whereas most are Bosniacs (over 60%-80%, I'd say). I can't remember of a typical Croatian surname worn by Bosniacs (implying Croat descent), but I already mentioned you the Albanians; and for Turkish origin you know yourself (I even know one Bosniac family of Hungarian descent [as emphasized by their family name]). --PaxEquilibrium 21:30, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Image copyright problem with Ethnic composition before the war 1991.gif
You recently uploaded Image:Ethnic composition before the war 1991.gif and placed a copyright tag on it claiming that it was your own work, and that you release it into the public domain. However, the source you list is a website which claims that it holds all rights to the image. I have therefore listed it for speedy deletion.
You have previously been warned about contributing content which cannot be freely used on Wikipedia. Falsely claiming to be the author or rights-holder of a work is very serious and could result in your being blocked. —Psychonaut 04:02, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- I don't know which tag to use for the image. Can you find appropriate tag? I have provided the source (Office of the High Representative, non-copyrighted, public domain).
Bosniak 04:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- The proper tag is {{db-copyvio}} because there is no indication that that image is in the public domain. —Psychonaut 04:15, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- I placed the tag you gave me, and the problem with that tag is that it places map for an immediate deletion, which is wrong. There is no copyright violation, as the map is not "copyrightet", but of course, whatever I do on wikipedia, you keep checking and checking, you are stalking me man. Get off my back. Bosniak 04:18, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- All works are copyrighted unless specified otherwise. There is no otherwise specification on the website you cite as the source. Quite to the contrary; there is a copyright notice indicating that all rights are reserved. —Psychonaut 04:22, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- I have changed the copyright tag, now please stop stalking me and get off my back. Bosniak 04:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you for fixing the tag. I'm not trying to be rude, and I'm not stalking you. You might want to read WP:STALK, which discusses stalking and harassment. Checking up on an editor to fix errors or violations of Wikipedia policy is not stalking, nor is reading a user's contribution log. However, if you feel that I have done something else which violates that policy, or any other policy, you should bring it to my attention, and if I persist in what you believe to be a policy violation, you can report it to WP:ANI or to one of the dispute resolution fora (WP:RFC, WP:RFM, WP:RfAr, etc.). —Psychonaut 04:43, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm not so sure about the copyright situation. The image comes from the website of the Office of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is a government-like organization. It is in the section "Press & Public Info". It is well possible that it was released in the public domain.
As Psychonaut said, the metadata of that page indicates "Copyright © 2001 QSS Ltd., All rights reserved." However, I find that dubious; QSS wrote the content management system used to power the website and I guess that the meta-data is some default in the software.
It seems to be a useful image (not so much for Srebrenica massacre, but possibly for other articles). Bosniak, where did you want to use it? Perhaps we can write to the OHR and see what the situation is. But Psychonaut is right that you should be more careful not to violate any copyrights. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 05:02, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for clarifying the relationship of QSS to the web page content—I agree now that the copyright notice may have been placed there by mistake. However, even if the Office intends for the maps to be reprinted by third parties, that doesn't necessarily place them in the public domain, nor under a free licence acceptable for use on Wikipedia. We need written confirmation from an authorized representative of the OHR that the images are provided under a GFDL-compatible licence. Since such confirmation is nowhere to be found on the website, someone needs to write to the OHR to request it. Bosniak, if you want to do this, you should follow the guidelines at Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. —Psychonaut 12:54, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- This insistence on policing copyright issues is reminiscent of Osli73's campaign about quotations from ICTY judgments when it was pretty obvious that that sort of material had been released into the public domain. It took me ages to get confirmation from the ICTY but when I did they told me (I can't remember the exact words) something along the lines that they were delighted for it to be used as long as there was proper attribution. Quibbling in the face of common sense is not necessarily unreasonable, but when it's almost always in one direction then its objectivity comes into question. The map is directly relevant to the Srebrenica Massacre article in that it provides the explanation for why ethnic cleansing and genocide took place. --Opbeith 13:03, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- Lemme jump in: in my opinion, and according to the BiH Copyright law (emphasis mine):
- Article 10.
- 1. Copyright protection shall not be afforded to:
- b) official texts from legislative, administrative and judicial areas.
- c) professional reports, referrals, official acts or works like these made during the performance of working obligations in economic or other activity.
- 2. Translations of the texts from Paragraph 1. b) shall be protected by copyright protection, unless they have been published as official texts.
- the image is not subject to copyright, ergo PD. I used a similar rationale to "lift" several images from official web pages of Serbian government (commons:Template:PD-SCGGov, {{PD-SerbiaGov}}).Duja► 13:39, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
- Provided that the maps in question were indeed created by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian government, and not merely reproduced by it, then you're correct. Thanks for doing this research—I suggest that you create a new template {{PD-BaHGov}} which references the law you found. This will help eliminate any future confusion about the copyright status of such images. —Psychonaut 14:58, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
- That's what I call helpful. --Opbeith 15:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Civility
Please grow up and stop taunting your fellow editors. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 04:29, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I think someone who doesn't see anything wrong with deleting a reference to the murder of probably more than 80 children under sixteen at Srebrenica should take a look at the video of Azmir Alispahic being killed before pontificating about "growing up". --Opbeith 11:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- Bosniak, you're getting over the top again with comments such as this, this, this, and this (lazy to search further). You have proven that you're able to make constructive comments and edits when you manage to avoid foul language, but you're walking the line (and well over it) of WP:NPA. Can you please manage to learn to bite your tongue from time to time? Duja► 16:29, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Out of curiosity...
Would you consider changing the top banner color to a bright yellow? It would still grab people's attention, but wouldn't provide that momentary confusion about whether they have new messages. I can help you change it if you'd like. -- Merope 21:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Please don't encourage further deterioration in his colour sense! --Opbeith 23:51, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey
I'll be brief. If the International Court of Justice determines in 6 hours time that a genocide did in fact occur throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1992-1995 (regardless of whether Serbia and Montenegro are found directly responsible), then great efforts will have to be undertaken to improve the current Bosnian genocide article and prevent the inevitable wave of deniers and revisionists from utalizing it to their own ends. I believe that this responsibility will rest largely on those few of us who have defended the Srebrenica massacre article from similar assaults in the past. That is all. Live Forever 02:48, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Whatever the findings of the ICJ with respect to proving genocide in Bosnia as a whole, genocide of the Bosnian Muslims of Srebrenica was proved in Krstic. Whether or not the ICJ finds genocide proven in the case before it, unless the judgment specifically refutes the Krstic judgment and finds that genocide did not occur at Srebrenica the ICTY's finding stands. --Opbeith 10:00, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Can't think of a good title, so poke.
I did get the idea from skimming the talk page that people were arguing about the title...I wouldn't want to get involved, but at least you agree lots of people died...I was saying more that the article was really good, one of the best I've seen. And I'm sure you are quite handsome. *grin at userbox* Lady BlahDeBlah 15:23, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Dr. Mitov
Hi Bosniak,
I think we both agree that Dr. Mitov's comments are disgusting, but there is no need to stoop to his level. Please keep in mind Wikipedia:No personal attacks.
Best regards,
Djma12 03:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- Okay Djma12. I agree. Bosniak 03:35, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Kosovo - are you feeling alright?
It's just a great feeling to watch Albanian Kosovo become independent. It's a wonderful, fullfilling, satisfying, feeling. It's like an orgasm, in political sense of the word. Bosniak 20:34, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Bosniak, with regard to your comments on Talk:Kosovo, you might want to review Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines, particularly this point:
- The purpose of a Wikipedia talk page is to provide space for editors to discuss changes to its associated article or project page. Article talk pages should not be used by editors as platforms for their personal views.
Note the comment at the very top of Talk:Kosovo. It seems like a really bad idea to post disruptive comments to an article that's currently on Arbcom probation. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 00:16, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Moj odgovor
Hehe, unlikely. The precedent is too significant, no country in Europe with recognize it that's for certain. Not even Albania and especially not BiH (if Kosovo can go independent then why can't the Republika Srpska -- get what I mean?). I expanded on this issue more here.--Domitius 22:33, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
- You're missing my point. Any unilateral bid for independence for Kosovo will certainly result in a so-called "de facto state" like Taiwan or Transnistria. The reason is that no one wants regions to be able to unilaterally declare independence. As for your assertion that control makes a difference, let me point out that it doesn't; Kosovo's legal status is the same as that of the RS, and independence for either would be done on the same legal principle. If Serbia loses Kosovo, then BiH should begin preparing to lose the RS, FYROM should be preparing to lose its Albanian-populated districts, Turkey should prepare to lose its Kurdish-populated provinces etc... etc... You say you dislike genocide, but with such an increased possibility of losing territory, let me tell you that the scale of ethnic cleansing currently underway in Kurdistan and Tibet will double.--Domitius 08:28, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- PS I think it's a bit rich taking alleged statements by "high-placed Kommersant sources in the UN" over that of the Russian government. I guess we'lll just have to wait and see what happens. I and some friends of mine are betting over what the likely outcome is, I went for no independence. Do you think I'm likely to lose my money? :) --Domitius 08:28, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Fail to see
I don't understand why you are so emotionally/erotically overjoyed by the very act that might cause further suffering, problems and perhaps even dissolution to your country. --PaxEquilibrium 12:50, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Bosniak 22:00, 12 March 2007 (UTC)== Question ==
What are your thoughts on the use of the term "Bosnian Muslim" for Bosniaks? Khoikhoi 21:24, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Bosniak's reply
Bosnian Muslims = religious group
Bosnian Catholics = religious group
Bosnian Orthodox = religious group
Bosniaks = ethnic group
Bosnian Croats = ethnic group
Bosnian Serbs = ethnic group
Is anything unclear about this? Bosniak 21:31, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks. Do you think the terms can be used interchangeably? Khoikhoi 21:34, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- Britannica certainly does. Even User:Bosniak's precious ICTY ruling calls them "Bosnian Muslims" - the word Bosniaks doesn't appear once [10].--Domitius 21:42, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- Western media uses term "Bosnian Muslims", but the Bosniaks themselves don't use that term and the constitution of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Dayton Peace Agreement clearly state official names of constitutive ethnic groups of Bosnia-Herzegovina, among which are Bosniaks. For western world's use of improper term one can also blame Bosniaks for not making sure that the courts use proper name. Actually, it's clearly fault of Bosniaks and their incompetence. My position is that we need to stick to official name - Bosniaks. Bosniak 21:56, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Also, would ya looka [11][12]. Perhaps wiki's guidelines on using the most common name for articles' titles should be reflected on the article Bosniaks as well.--Domitius 22:00, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Domitus, you are wrong, the term Bosniak appears in UN documents http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=+site%3Awww.un.org+bosniaks&meta= including ICTY
So does the term "Bosnian Muslim". In fact, the term "Bosnian Muslim" appears more often [13].--Domitius 22:02, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Also, this is interesting [14].--Domitius 22:02, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- Most common term used among Bosniaks and official (factual) term is BOSNIAKS. You cannot question facts with google results. My ethnic background is Bosniak. Don't misuse and misinterpret wiki guidelines. Neither you, nor Google, nor any of your sorry little propaganda can deny existence of Bosniaks (read constitution of Bosnia-Herzegovina, even constitution of Republika Srpska, read Dayton Peace Agreement, etc). You are sad example of sorry little Serbian propaganda. I am done, I am not going to waste my time with BS arguments. My time is more valuable. Bosniak 22:05, 12 March 2007 (UTC)