Talk:Władysław Sikorski

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Contents 1 Incomplete sentence 2 Why did Piłsudski disapprove? 3 Resubmit for FAC status? 4 Pronunciation? 5 De-Irvining 6 Suggestions 7 New development 8 Photograph of his statue 9 Conspiracy

[edit] Incomplete sentence

"Early life," paragraph 3: the incomplete sentence, "attended Austrian Military School, obtaining a diploma of an officer in the .," requires completion and clarification of its relation to the rest of the paragraph. Logologist 07:36, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Fixed. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 15:07, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Why did Piłsudski disapprove?

Why did Sikorski's proposal to reduce the powers of the Chief Inspector of the Armed Forces meet with Piłsudski's disapproval? Was Piłsudski then, or did he expect to become, Chief Inspector? Logologist 06:07, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Pilsudski generaly disapproved of anything that weakended the military, I believe. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 10:09, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Resubmit for FAC status?

How about resubmitting "Wladyslaw Sikorski" for FAC status? The article is informative, reads well, is NPOV, and appears sound. logologist 11:02, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It is already a FA :) Victory! :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 12:33, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

== some possible wording changes ==

"Sikorski was killed in a plane crash into the sea immediately on takeoff from Gibraltar." This sentence would sound better if "in" is replaced by "when" ending with "Sikorski was killed when his plane crash into the sea immediately on takeoff from Gibraltar. "

- I agree, the sentance could use some polishing (haha) 1. it should be 'crashed' (but that is trivial) 2. maybe I'm being a little pedantic, but he died, he wasn't killed. 3. this solution is a little misleading... was it his own plane that crashed? I don't know, but if not, then perhaps something like: "Sikorski died in a plane crash off Gibraltar when the aircraft... blah"

[edit] Pronunciation?

This article is in desperate need of a pronunciation guide for the name. --LostLeviathan 16:31, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] De-Irvining

As Irving is not considered too credible, I think we should try to verify the information tagged as coming from his work, and preferably replace it with more credible sources. See also Talk:Katyń_massacre#De-Irvining.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 00:42, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] New development

It appears that a new development has occurred. I know nothing about the man, so if someone else would add this info that would be great [1] AdamBiswanger1 23:11, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

• Unfortunately the CNN link above no longer works. We'll have to find out about the "new development" another way! Keesiewonder 23:46, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photograph of his statue

Not sure if anyone cares, but Stock.xchng has a photograph of Sikorski's statue here: http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=505414. There are a couple of strings attached to the image (credit is required), and I'm not a copyright expert, but it can probably be used if it's wanted. --Oreckel 22:17, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair use is always an option, as I cannot much of the copyright other than it is copyrighted with quite a few strange restrictions. I have no idea why people upload their images to such troublesome sites; hopefully somebody from London can take a photo of this statue and publish it under a proper copyleft license for us, adding to the commons:Category:Statues in London.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  22:28, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conspiracy

I have finished inline referencing the article, it should be mostly up to today's standards. But the conspiracy section could use more work, I am torn between rewriting and expanding it, or just rewriting and shortening it... Good collection of articles here.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  05:17, 18 February 2007 (UTC)