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User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

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

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

and turns it into something like

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

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

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

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

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Belgrade

I have nominated Belgrade for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. (t · c) buidhe 04:35, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Balkan Latinity WikiProject

Hello, I've been thinking for a while of an idea for a new and certainly needed WikiProject. The Aromanians/Vlachs, Megleno-Romanians/Meglenites and Istro-Romanians/Ćiribirci are poorly known peoples in the Balkans, the only ones that are Romance-speaking apart of the Romanians. Tagging pages related to these with WikiProject templates can turn problematic, see this talk page for example , saturated with 7 different templates. I was thus thinking that giving them their own WikiProject could increase organization on Wikipedia about info on these peoples and increase their representation in the project, perhaps even attracting members of these groups into working at Wikipedia. The project could be split into three task forces for each of the three.

If you're interested, please ping me here or message me on my talk page. Expressing your interest in the existence of such a project is enough, you will not be compromised or pressured into working in a topic area you might lose interest to soon. After (if) I recruit enough support, I will start a formal proposal and ping you there. Regards, Super Ψ Dro 20:56, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Todor Vojinović - references need checking

The article Todor Vojinović, about a 18th/19th-century voivode, is currently waiting for a review. It contains references to scholarly sources (such as ISBN 978-86-87479-05-0 - scribd link) which appear on-topic. However, I cannot read Serbian, and therefore the article could be a total hoax and I would not be able to detect it.

Can someone check that source for the basic details (i.e. that Todor Vojinović existed, took part in the First Serbian Uprising, and was hanged in 1813)? If all that matches I’m going to assume it’s OK and mark it as reviewed. (Also, if possible, provide page numbers / exact quotes and make nice inline refs, but I understand that’s quite a bit harder.) Tigraan^{Click here for my talk page ("private" contact)} 14:34, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

AfC review

Draft:Jakov Gerčić has been waiting to be reviewed at AfC for four months. None of the sources are in English and only one is available online. I'm wondering if anyone here at this WikiProject would be able to assist in reviewing the sources. TipsyElephant (talk) 19:30, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

@TipsyElephant: Sorry for the late reply but looks like @Vanjagenije: has already approved this draft. Cheers Боки ^{Talk page ↔️ Contributions} 05:35, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Help on Eastern European languages

Hello!

Our of boredom, I am trying to identify the languages of inscriptions on a fountain located in central Budapest. I could easily identify some languages such as Hebrew, Armenian, Russian, English, French, Spanish etc. but I have trouble with some, mostly Slavic, languages which I do not speak myself. I guess that they must include Czech (or Slovak), Slovene, Croatian/Serbian/Bosniak, Macedonian, Bulgarian and/or maybe others.

Translations of 'The place is ours':

• Trg je naš / Площадьт е наш (pretty sure that's Bulgarian) / Naš trg / Nas trg / [unreadable] naše je námestie

Translations of 'Non potable water':

• Водата не е за пиене / Voda ni pitna / Непитна вода / Nepitná voda / Nepitka voda / Voda nije za piće

Translations of 'Open lawn':

• Ходенето по тревата е разрешено / Dozvoljeno je gaziti (ǧaziti?) po travi / Dozvoljeno gaženje trave

I also do not manage to identify the language in 3 other inscriptions for which glossaries easily available online did not help. Could it be Romani?

• Náj lasó ráji / Ámáro szi o placo / Pécsár saj ustarén

Is anyone here able to tell which is which? Note that many inscriptions (such as in French and Greek) have spelling mistakes and inconsistent respect of diacritics.

Pictures of the fountain:

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Place Clichy (talk) 15:54, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Vampire

I have nominated Vampire for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 16:46, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Another old draft

Hello again, Draft:Nikola Đurković (musician) has been waiting to be reviewed for over four months now and I was wondering if anyone at this WikiProject would be interested in assisting with the reviewing of the page. TipsyElephant (talk) 13:41, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Greetings @TipsyElephant:,
I see that article was actually approved so I was wondering if this is all you needed.
Please, advise
Боки ^{Talk page ↔️ Contributions} 23:02, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

@Боки: yup! I see it was accepted shortly after I commented here. I was just hoping to bring attention to one of the older drafts waiting to be reviewed. TipsyElephant (talk) 00:29, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Draft:List of Serbian historians

Hello, WikiProject,

I just postponed deleting this stale draft and thought maybe editors here could make use of it, either by improving the draft and submitting it for review or using the content in some other way. Thanks! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:26, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@Liz: - I can certainly edit it after the weekend. My question is, since this article is related to this list of Serbian historians, I am unsure as to what needs to be edited considering this is just a list of Serbian historians. Please, advise. Боки ^{Talk page ↔️ Contributions} 09:39, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Slobodan Šarenac

Hey guys,

Can someone, please, help me with this draft ? I have asked @Greenman: few days ago of what I need to do but I did not receive a clear answer. Can one of you look into this and help me get this resubmitted and approved by English Wikipedia ?

Thanks !

Боки ^{Talk page ↔️ Contributions} 09:42, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Питање

Moved from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Serbia/Members

 – Vanjagenije (talk) 23:27, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Поздрав. Управо сам се уписао у групу едитора. Имам питање везано за чланак Talk:Great Migrations of the Serbs , који је референциран као власништво групе. Од овог чланка који се бави миграцијама Срба 50 посто укупног текста је у последњем поглављу (Modern analysis) и бави се рационализацијом зашто су Албанци аутохтоно становништво Косова. Без икакве жеље да продубљујем ову тему, од свих регија из којих су се Срби исељавали и још већих регија у које су се селили, овакав садржај у сумирању чланка је више него негативно утицајан на Србију. Све ревизије које направим одмах су ревертоване од стране корисника Saintstephen000 , који није овде на листи, не одговара на коректна питања у Talk секцији, само аутоматски ривертује све промене. При том је човек Американац који пише на свакаве теме потпуно невезане са Србијом и њеном историјом. О чему се овде ради и како ово може да се реши? BbBgSr (talk) 21:05, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

@Bbbgsr: Hi! This is English Wikipedia, so we use English language here (see WP:ENGLISHPLEASE). Also, there is no such thing as article ownership ("власништво") here. Every article belongs to the entire Wikipedia community (see WP:OWNERSHIP). What you did is to remove a whole section of text that is referenced to WP:reliable sources just because you don't agree with it. That is not how Wikipedia collaboration works, and of course your edits were reverted. Instead, you should use the talk page to start a discussion and try to reach WP:consensus to improve the page. In the talk page, you should explain why you think the text is problematic. If you think the text is not neutral and one side is favored more, maybe you can provide some reliable sources that represent the different point of views. I see that you started a discussion on the talk page, but you are doing it the wrong way. You are demanding from other editors to explain why the content should be there'. Instead, you should try to explain why it shouldn't be there. Remember, if the longstanding content is properly sourced, the burden is on you to explain why it should be removed. Vanjagenije (talk) 23:27, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

FAR for Macedonia (terminology)

User:Buidhe has nominated Macedonia (terminology) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:18, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

FAR for Macedonia (terminology)

User:Buidhe has nominated Macedonia (terminology) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:37, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

FAR for Macedonia (terminology)

User:Buidhe has nominated Macedonia (terminology) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:08, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

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

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

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:58, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Suva Reka#Requested move 28 June 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Suva Reka#Requested move 28 June 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 00:47, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Battle of Tahtalu

Hi, Talk:Battle of Tahtalu 1458

There is a debate on the talk page. Do you have Serbian history sources about the events of that period? Turkish user claim 50,000 Hungarian army led by the 14 years old king Matthias of Hungary attacked Tahtalu (I do not know where) deep in Serbia and lost against Mehmed. Hungarian sources does not know at all about this. The Turkish user provided 5 Turkish sources, only 1 out of 5 claim Matthias was there, also all 5 Turkish sources write only 1 sentence about this battle (I do not think this deserve a separate article), which seems is a raiding border conflict story when I read all sources. Hungarian sources say Matthias went to south gathering a big army, stayed at Belgrade but later went home and he did not want provokate any Ottoman attack that is why he did not recapture Golubac. Details and sources on the talk page OrionNimrod (talk) 08:50, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

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

Hello WikiProject Serbia:

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

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

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk) 13:42, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia#Requested move 6 September 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia#Requested move 6 September 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. HouseBlaster^talk 22:11, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Siege of Belgrade (1806)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Siege of Belgrade (1806) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Annwfwn (talk) 16:50, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Byzantine Empire Featured article review

I have nominated Byzantine Empire for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:05, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Request for input on post-Yugoslav-breakup election article naming

We had a discussion relisted at Talk:May 1992 Yugoslavian parliamentary election#Requested move 3 November 2023 that could benefit from the input of people who have knowledge of this topic area, please check it out. --Joy (talk) 09:12, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

help reaching out to SrpskiAnonimac

As described at User talk:SrpskiAnonimac, I've had to resort to blocking this person for failure to communicate. Apparently, they don't actually speak English, and seem to have stopped following their user page years ago (!). This probably means they don't know how to go through the block appeal procedure, either. Since this editor does seem to have contributed a significant amount of edits, I'm wondering if anyone could try to reach out to them, possibly through some sort of a more local forum, where they might not be ignoring messages, and try to figure things out. Thanks in advance. --Joy (talk) 14:08, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Dragan Stanojević and sr:Драган Станојевић

Dragan Stanojević (Draft:Dragan Stanojević and sr:Драган Станојевић) is a member of the Serbian parliament, but the English draft isn't very long or well-referenced, and the Serbian article might have been written by one of his supporters. Since a members of a national parliament is considered automatically notable, I would like to see the English draft improved so that it can be moved to article space, but just translating the full text of the Serbian article won't be enough because it doesn't have enough references and seems not to be neutral. Please consider improving both the English draft and Serbian article so that they are neutral and adequately referenced. The Serbian article has been tagged as a beginner's article that might be deleted or moved to draft. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 05:24, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Golubac Fortress

Golubac Fortress has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm _Talk 17:31, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Developing Countries WikiContest

Starting this July, we will see a new contest on the scene - the Developing Countries WikiContest (WP:DCWC)! Think of it as a WikiCup but only for articles and media on developing countries.

Competitors may submit GAs, GTs, FAs, FTs, FLs, FPs, and DYK and ITN entries from/on developing countries to gain points and climb the leaderboard. Points are also awarded to those who review GAs, FAs and FLs.

Serbia is listed as a developing country for the purposes of this contest and articles related to it are eligible to be submitted for points, so I encourage everyone here to sign up and compete with editors from around the world to create high-quality content!

Append your name to the DCWC signup page today!

Best wishes, Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI (^{talk to me!}/_{my edits}) 07:15, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Note

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AFC_Champions_League_logo.svg#mw-jump-to-license

https://sr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%A4%D0%9A_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0#

user refusing to accept sources for changing way outdated article logo. hope someone else, if not him, understands basic english and can fix it. 93.143.139.254 (talk) 21:04, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Dodola and Perperuna#Requested move 22 August 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Dodola and Perperuna#Requested move 22 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 21:14, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Women in Green's October 2024 edit-a-thon

Hello WikiProject Serbia:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2024!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2024, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk) 12:41, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Popular pages, Belgrade task force

Greetings, Today during the November bot processing, I see that the WikiProject Serbia/Belgrade task force/Popular pages was skipped. The last update was 18:55, 4 August 2024 (UTC). Reviewing the config file, I see a fix/update is needed (which I can do). However, I am asking here to keep or to remove this "Popular pages"? In the past 90 days there were only 3 pageviews. I'm asking here where there are more pagewatchers. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 18:36, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

From my perspective, we can remove it, but let's wait for additional feedback. Ty. Joel. — Sadko (words are wind) 19:41, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Unknown Archon#Requested move 22 November 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Unknown Archon#Requested move 22 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Feeglgeef (talk) 02:59, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Concern Regarding Removal of Official Minority Names in Vojvodina Articles

I want to bring to your attention recent attempts to remove all official minority language names from the infoboxes of cities and regions in Vojvodina, including Novi Sad, Vršac, Sombor, and Šid... This goes against Wikipedia consensus, as established in the 2015 Request for Comment (RfC) on Minority languages in geographical articles, which confirmed that co-official names should be included when supported by reliable sources (WP:RS, WP:VER). Further discussion at Template talk:Infobox settlement reaffirmed that the native_name field is the appropriate place for such names. The involved editor in a newcomer and our attempt at discussion is HERE. Since it is a new user we should both expect some initial lack of familiarity and tolerate it, but also be careful about potential trolling. I believe WikiProject Serbia is a natural first stop at which to ask for assistance with this situation and I hope you can take some time to assist us with this situation.--MirkoS18 (talk) 09:17, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

I've undone this editor's changes multiple times. He's probably a newbie. If it keeps happening, report them. — Sadko (words are wind) 12:06, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I wanted to highlight the situation here to avoid any misunderstanding and to ask for a third party opinion (since I am generally inclined to include "minority/marginalized" contents - so potentially somewhat unconsciously biased). I was not entirely sure if this is just a new editor (where it is certainly good to show some leniency and tolerance towards well meaning newcomers) or potentially troll account. Thank you for reverting some of the more recent changes and time invested to deal with this issue.--MirkoS18 (talk) 12:17, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

The European Destubathon

Project members are invited to participate in The European Destubathon in April. Almost $3000 in Amazon voucher prizes, including a prize for articles from your project, which can be used to buy books for content, though it can also be treated as an editathon if you're not interested in competing! Minimum content to be added to each article just to ensure that they're over a stub, though longer expansions also welcome. Entries at the end of the contest will be tipped into the 50,000 Destubbing Challenge and European Challenge. Previous contests were really enjoyable and I'm hoping this one will be too! Sign up if interested. Thanks! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:58, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Lazac#Requested move 28 March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Lazac#Requested move 28 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 12:30, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Attack on Prekaz#Requested move 9 April 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Attack on Prekaz#Requested move 9 April 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 16:31, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Mining Code

This stub is only technically a Start because someone else has put an image on it. Please fix the issues tagged. Bearian (talk) 01:47, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

The DCWC is back!

The Developing Countries WikiContest Gold Belt Buckle

WikiProject Serbia, the Developing Countries WikiContest will be returning for a second year, and sign-ups are now open! The contest will run from 1 July to 30 September, and the objective remains the same: improve as many articles relating to developing countries as you can to help fight systemic bias on Wikipedia.

In other news, we have a new face on the coordinator team this year: last year's sixth-place finisher, Arconning (talk · contribs)! The coordinators would like to extend a sincere thanks to Ixtal (talk · contribs), who is leaving the team, without whom the contest would not exist. After feedback from contestants last year, the scoring rules are undergoing some modifications; the new rules and a summary of the changes made will be posted to the contest talk page shortly.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page, use the {{@DCWC coordinators}} template, or contact one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove this talk page from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 12:15, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 21:36, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

History of legal education in Serbia

Please add reliable sources, and rewrite to be less essay-like. Thanks. Bearian (talk) 09:02, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Skopje

Skopje has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 18:38, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

Republika Srpska discussion

There is a discussion about Republika Srpska (1992–1995) at Talk:Republika Srpska (1992–1995) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Coleisforeditor (talk) 22:41, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

19th century source reading

In the article Antonije Orešković, we have a citation to a Serbian Cyrillic article from 1862 that doesn't quite look like modern-day Serbian Cyrillic to me, at . Could someone read what it says and confirm that it actually matches the caption:

List „Srbski dnevnik“ je hvalio »Srbina katoličke vere« Oreškovića, koji je »za kratko vreme svog bavljenja u Srbiji obšte uvažavanje i poštovanje stekao«

TIA --Joy (talk) 11:35, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

That appears to be Slavonic-Serbian. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 11:42, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. Do we need a proper translator for this? Ultimately, the issue here is that this is an odd claim that can't be easily confirmed elsewhere in reliable sources, so I'm wondering if it's even worth the effort, or should we just dismiss it as a non-secondary source that doesn't match the standard of WP:EXTRAORDINARY anyway. --Joy (talk) 11:53, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

"што е Србинъ католичке вере" translates to "a Serb of Catholic religion". "Онъ е за кратко време свога бавлѣня у Србии, обште уважениѣ и потованѣ стекао" translated to "He has in a short period during his work in Serbian, obtained appreciation and respect". Both are located in the second paragraph under "Новости изъ Београда / News from Belgrade". I don't think it's worth the inclusion in the article unless this can be covered in other reliable sources. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 12:01, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Note: it's pretty easy to read the language for anyone with knowledge of the Cyrillic script since it combines Serbian and Russian scripts into one, while the language itself is like modern Serbian. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 12:03, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia#Requested move 23 July 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia#Requested move 23 July 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 14:55, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Draginja Vlasic

The article Draginja Vlasic has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tagged as Unreferenced for 13 years. Tagged for Notability concerns also for 13 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate; the Serbian language article has one reference and an external link.

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Evaluation of newly added text in Serb uprising of 1848-1849 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) article

Hello everybody, can someone who is an expert on topic evaluate recently added big chunk of text in Serb uprising of 1848-1849 [], I already found some issues regarding false linking (you can check my talk page, talk page of the article and even teahouse) and removed parts of it [] however there are more issues regarding the style of writing i.e I couldn't find any nation called the Serbian Servians in international scholarship in which this editor is referring to so maybe can someone check it. Thank you. Theonewithreason (talk) 14:57, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

The original source from docplayer.ru (which has succumbed to link rot) is avaliable, if you want it email me FYI. —Matrix(!) _{ping one}^{when replying} {u - t? - _uselessc} 15:22, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Rakia#Requested move 29 September 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Rakia#Requested move 29 September 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 21:22, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Roman Catholic Diocese of Srijem#Requested move 3 November 2025

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Discussion about WikiProject banner templates

For WikiProjects that participate in rating articles, the banners for talk pages usually say something like:

• "This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale."

There is a proposal to change the default wording on the banners to say "priority" instead of "importance". This could affect the template for your group. Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council#Proposal to update wording on WikiProject banners. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 19:49, 6 December 2025 (UTC) (on behalf of the WikiProject Council)

Serbian Cyrillic "romanized"

A large number of articles on Serbia-related topics use the English translation of a name, and in brackets put the {{langx}} template. This then reads as

Nikola Tesla Airport (Serbian: Аеродром Никола Тесла, romanized: Aerodrom Nikola Tesla)

I recently heard the argument that this is incorrect, because Serbian Latin isn't "romanized" anything, the Serbian language is equally written in both. I completely agree — this isn't Chinese, where an unfamiliar alphabet has to be transliterated into English, we have a Latin alphabet that we use.

I propose that we somehow adopt an official stance that Serbian names should be rendered like this instead:

Nikola Tesla Airport (Аеродром Никола Тесла/Aerodrom Nikola Tesla)

Does anyone have any issues with this? If no, is there any practical way to formalise this? JustARandomSquid (talk) 09:49, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Pinging @FkpCascais, because I found out about this from them, but they appear to be on a protracted wikibreak at the moment, so I don't expect a reply. JustARandomSquid (talk) 09:54, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

We've had numerous discussions about this at e.g. Talk:Romanization of Serbian and Template talk:Lang-sr-Cyrl. The default langx template doesn't work well here, lang-x2 was made for this purpose instead, but the default code path in langx still works for the sake of compatibility, yet produces that phrasing that can be very odd in context.

Just edit the articles to use the latter by using the convenient wrappers {{lang-sr-Cyrl-Latn}}, {{lang-sr-Latn-Cyrl}}, etc. --Joy (talk) 13:09, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

BTW a while back, another editor produced a list of all langx/sr-using articles that could be fixed this way. --Joy (talk) 13:13, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Amazing, thank you! JustARandomSquid (talk) 13:17, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Makes sense. But wouldn’t it be like this instead?:

Nikola Tesla Airport (Serbian: Аеродром Никола Тесла, Aerodrom Nikola Tesla)

There is {{<lang-sr-Cyrl-Latn>}} (Cyrillic first), {{<lang-sr-Latn-Cyrl>}} (Latin first).

But I would assume Cyrillic first would be the version as I believe Cyrillic is the primary written language set in Serbian? Or more common than Latin script? OyMosby (talk) 15:14, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Cyrillic should probably be first. I wouldn't say it's more common, but it's considered more official, yes. JustARandomSquid (talk) 15:39, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Both scripts are used in Serbia, but Cyrillic is AFAIK the official one. Therefore, yes, it should be listed first. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 16:20, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Would it be ridiculous to go through trying to change these? I'll certainly make sure to remove the langx templates where I see them, but is the amount of work worth it? JustARandomSquid (talk) 16:35, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

I'm not really opposed to this. If others agree with such change, then there should be no problem. I can go through articles I've contributed to. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 16:57, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Yes, because this still is the English Wikipedia, where the average English reader typically doesn't care about the order of two foreign strings. Let's not invent busywork for editors. --Joy (talk) 19:28, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

The I assume you answered 'yes' to the first question, but yeah, I wouldn't want to go manually changing everything. I'll change it when I come across it, because I 'romanised' is misleading, but there's not much point it mass editing every Serbia related article to fix it.

P.S. the issue isn't about the order, I think everyone agrees Cyrillic should go first, it's the langx template that reads 'romanized'. But yeah. JustARandomSquid (talk) 19:47, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

I'm just saying if you encounter Latin then Cyrillic in an article, and wrap that in {{lang-sr-Latn-Cyrl}} without changing the order, that is fine. --Joy (talk) 20:38, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

In case anybody is interested, there's a vaguely related move request at Romanization of Serbian. JustARandomSquid (talk) 18:20, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Bela Crkva Airfield

The article Bela Crkva Airfield has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unsourced for 18 years. Tagged as Unreferenced for 2 and 1/2 years. Local aerodrome. Lacks significant coverage in reliable sources.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

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If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 04:13, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Seconded. JustARandomSquid (talk) 16:37, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Materice § extent of the tradition among the Serbs

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Materice § extent of the tradition among the Serbs. -- Joy (talk) 09:24, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Romanization of Serbian#Requested move 11 December 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Romanization of Serbian#Requested move 11 December 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 21:30, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

Categorising Serbian settlements

I want to work on Serbian villages, and one issue I have is that the categories are a mess, even when correctly categorised (and there's a lot that are just randomly placed somewhere or uncategorised). For expample, we have Category:Populated places in Vojvodina, which contains Category:Populated places in North Banat District. This has some, but not all, settlements directly in the category. (It would be 50 settlements total if they were all directly in there, is that too much?) This is further complicated by eponymous categories — Ada, Serbia and Category:Ada, Serbia, which contains stuff about Ada, but also a listing of villages in the Ada municipality, of which there's overlap between this category and the District one. So, if anyone who knows categories reads this, what do we do? Should all the articles for a District be in the District category? Should the categories like Category:Ada, Serbia be renamed to Category:Ada Municipality, Serbia? Maybe there should be another layer (Category:Populated places in North Banat District --> Category:Populated places in Ada Municipality --> Category:Ada, Serbia, but that what would be left in the last category?)? No idea how to standardise this. JustARandomSquid (talk) 13:55, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

50 is not too much by default. Of course, if there is a category for a municipality, then those villages should be sub-categorized there instead. Cf. WP:SUBCAT.

With regard to the name of the Ada category, if there's no reason to deviate from the main space name, it shouldn't be done, otherwise it's a WP:C2D issue. In other words, if the Ada, Serbia article describes both the town and its municipality, which it does, then its category can contain elements of both. It's unlikely readers would be surprised by that. --Joy (talk) 14:42, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

So you'd go with Populated places in [region] ---> populated places in [district] ---> [place/municipality name] ---> and the list of villages goes here? One wrinkle is that not all articles on settlements that have their own categories and eponymous municipalities unambiguously describe both the settlement and the municipality, like Ada, Serbia or Crna Trava do, especially the ones for larger cities. Is Bor, Serbia#Settlements enough to say that the article about Bor, Serbia also describes the municipality? Also, if a "Populated places in [district]" category only contains subcategories for the largest municipalities, might someone think that those were the only settlements in the district? JustARandomSquid (talk) 17:57, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Yes, and if a subcategory doesn't exist then those parts stay at the closest existing level. Categories, like lists, can be incomplete. This is considered normal, cf. WP:Wikipedia is a work in progress --Joy (talk) 20:42, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Yes, — sorry, to which part? JustARandomSquid (talk) 20:58, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Yes to the first two questions. To elaborate a bit more, the only reason to deviate would be if someone actually wrote an article about e.g. Bor municipality and wanted to also make a category for that. I wouldn't necessarily recommend doing that, however, because I've observed in several practical examples in Montenegro that the municipality article ends up badly linked and with less readership that way. --Joy (talk) 21:05, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Request: upload an image of Decorating of the Bride

Dear WikiProject Serbia members, the article for Paja Jovanović's famous painting, Decorating of the Bride, currently lacks an image of the painting itself. If anybody has a high-quality picture of this painting, which hangs in the permanent exhibition of the National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade, please upload it to English Wikipedia (not to Wikimedia Commons; see Category:Paja Jovanović for info). Revolution Saga (talk) 21:50, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

If a good image can be found online, I assume that's ok to use too, under {{PD-art}}? JustARandomSquid (talk) 22:16, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

You're right; I hadn't thought of that. I'll see about finding one. Cheers! Revolution Saga (talk) 22:56, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Višeslav of Serbia source issues

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Višeslav of Serbia source issues — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-62029-4 (talk) 00:23, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Qurabiya#Requested move 20 January 2026

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Discussion at Talk:Matija Divković#Removal of RS sourced content Serbian Cyrillic part

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Matija Divković#Removal of RS sourced content Serbian Cyrillic part — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-10116-44 (talk) 00:50, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Translation help needed for bilingual welcome template

 Courtesy link: Template:Welcome-foreign/Serbian

Hello. Can you help verify a brief, English-to-Serbian translation in a welcome template?

Template:Welcome-foreign is a bilingual welcome template used to welcome new users who have written content in some other language besides English. The template welcomes them first in English, then in their own language, as long as it is one of the three dozen languages it can handle. New languages are easily added. I just added support for Serbian, but I don't know Serbian so I used automatic translation to create Template:Welcome-foreign/Serbian from the original at Template:Welcome-foreign/English. I'd appreciate it if a native Serbian speaker could verify or improve the translation. Feel free to edit it directly, or paste a better translation below, if you prefer not to edit a template. Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 00:54, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Oh, by the way, if you speak Croatian (or Bosnian, Macedonian, etc.) we need those translated as well; see Template:Welcome-foreign#Languages, subsection #Adding a new language. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 01:07, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Serbian is  Done , Thank you! Mathglot (talk) 00:01, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

fresh claims at Catholic Church in Serbia

An anonymous editor was somewhat persistent in adding this big edit at that article. It seems tendentious to present centuries of history in such a contrived way. Could someone please examine the edit to see if it's salvageable? --Joy (talk) 20:25, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Pavle of Serbia#Requested move 16 February 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Pavle of Serbia#Requested move 16 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 07:20, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Student List

Should we create an article about the Student List? I'm not sure if there is enough coverage to satisfy WP:GNG as the list does not exist yet. I've added what I could in the Next Serbian parliamentary election article. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 13:55, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

This one's interesting, because I personally think it is notable, but that there's not much point making a standalone article about it. It's possible that this is irrespective of whether the list actually exists or not, because it'll presumably only be on the ballot for the next election, and it's realistically not a political party per se, it's just a list of people that probably won't have much in the way of political activities outside of that election, so the topic would best be covered in the context of that election. Also, if the article was created, there would probably be a mess a la Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ćaci u školu to deal with. Just my two cents. JustARandomSquid (talk) 15:17, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, I think it's best to wait until the election comes, considering that we'll have more information about the electoral list. To be honest, I don't know whether Ćaci u školu is notable. I think that the term ćaci is, but I'm unsure about the graffiti itself. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 15:40, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2023 Serbian protests#Requested move 4 April 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2023 Serbian protests#Requested move 4 April 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 17:56, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

Commented, thanks for the notification. JustARandomSquid (talk) 05:52, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Mašina

Hello everyone. Last year I created an article in my userspace about the news portal Mašina (link). I'm not sure whether the article currently meets our notability guidelines on newspapers/websites, so I want to hear opinions from others. I've included information that I've found in reliable sources. If I missed something, please provide reliable sources and I'll add them to the article. Cheers, Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 13:17, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

I personally don't think it's notable as it stands. None of the sources there are realistically very in-depth — a lot of trivial mentions etc. A few quick searches don't yield any new sources, but I'll be on the lookout. JustARandomSquid (talk) 05:50, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 08:43, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia#Requested move 28 April 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia#Requested move 28 April 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. GuesanLoyalist (talk) 10:35, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Commented, thanks for the notification. JustARandomSquid (talk) 19:33, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Tutorial for Serbian politics

I'm thinking of creating sort of a tutorial on how to edit articles related to Serbian politics. Is anyone interested in helping out? Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 17:20, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

I think that one's best left to you. Not that I don't want to help — please tell me if there's any help you'd like — just that you're kind of the authority on the topic, so I'm not sure how much anyone else could contribute! JustARandomSquid (talk) 19:55, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

That's reasonable. I'll leave a notification here again once I complete the tutorial. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 15:16, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Pink Panthers#Requested move 11 May 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Pink Panthers#Requested move 11 May 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Dudzcar (talk) 01:18, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

N1, Nova, Danas, Radar

Ah shit... Hopefully their editorial stance won't get impacted too much. This is very bad. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:44, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Yep. It's not exactly clear how the deal will work, but "ublažavanje levičarske pristrasnosti" is definitely worrying. JustARandomSquid (talk) 14:46, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

On the other side, we might actually get elections now. JustARandomSquid (talk) 14:53, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Maybe? maybe not... I am leaning towards not getting elections this year. I think 2027 will be the election year.

P. S. on monday I'll post something here that I've been working on for weeks and only finished working on a few days ago. Stay tuned! Or, if you're a creep, look at my edits and you'll find out. :p /j Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 18:17, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

lol. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 18:58, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

"Six Serbian Wikipedia editors are globally banned from Wikimedia projects following controversy over reported political bias"

FYI

 – Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2026-04-21/News and notes#Six Serbian Wikipedia editors are globally banned from Wikimedia projects following controversy over reported political bias

--Joy (talk) 07:07, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

Very interesting and bold move from Wikimedia. Some of these editors were also on the English Wikipedia, though their main hub was the Serbian Wikipedia, of course. One of the users left a presumably AI-generated GA review on one of my articles, though they denied it was AI-generated (see here). Still can't tell why were they exactly banned, we can only guess. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 17:35, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

Ha. I recall seeing them use AI liberally on srwiki too. But yeah, this seems to me like a bit of a WP:FRAMBAN situation, where the WMF probably isn't malicious, but perhaps a bit misguided or overreacting, and they end up side-stepping the community. There are also the concerns from editors about the entire Serbian Wikipedia being left with a rather small number of admins. JustARandomSquid (talk) 19:11, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

That AfD... oh god. Yeah, sr.wiki has a relatively small number of editors and even a smaller number of admins, so they're right. How will they fix that? I don't know. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 19:34, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

Template:Wars and battles involving Serbia is being discussed in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy. Help reach a consensus at its entry.

Template:Wars and battles involving Serbia is being discussed in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy. Help reach a consensus at its entry. Zumzum8 (talk) 04:28, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

The DCWC is back!

The Developing Countries WikiContest Gold Belt Buckle

Hey WikiProject Serbia, the Developing Countries WikiContest is back for a third year, and sign-ups are now open! The contest will run from 1 July to 30 September, and the objective remains the same: improve as many articles relating to developing countries as you can to help fight systemic bias on Wikipedia.

Thanks to everyone who answered the call for coordinators, and please welcome the new faces on the coordinator team: the 2024 Gold Belt Buckle winner Generalissima (talk · contribs); and the record-holder for most India-related submissions in 2024, Magentic Manifestations (talk · contribs)! Following feedback from last year, adjustments have been made to the scoring rules; discussion can be found on the contest talk page.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or contact one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), Generalissima (talk · contribs), Magentic Manifestations (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (Sent via MediaWiki message delivery.) —TechnoSquirrel69 (talk) 16:03, 20 June 2026 (UTC)