Talk:Leszno
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I added the NPOV tag to the Leszno article. The article now is about German settlers who created the town of "Lissa" and nowhere mentions that Leszno was ever in Poland - which it was continuously since it has been first mentioned in the sources (1393) to the Third Partition of Poland 1795. Could someone help improving the article? I believe the Polish Wikipedia article is much better and can be used as a template. ProudPomeranian 06:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I actually forgot to add the NPOV tag. That's even better because I have now almost finished writhing the History section of the page. I used the Polish and German versions of the page as sources. My text is only short in info on the German period (1793-1919) because even the German article has only info on administrative changes in the Province of Posen, not very interesting to reader of an English language version of the article. I omitted also similar non-important info from the Polish version (especially for 1945-present). The 2000 European Comission prize comes, by the way, from the German article. I thank here its authiors on a very good job. Danke, Freunde! I tried to give the Germans their due, the German name of the city (Lissa) is mentioned three times in the article which I believe is just right as the city belonged to a German speaking country only for about 20% of its recorded history.
The History section of Leszno article is paying my debt to the family of my father which was resettled from Leszno during the winter of 1939/1940 by the Nazi occupants, especially to my German born grandmother who refused to accept the citizenship of the Third Reich. Cześć jej pamięci!
--ProudPomeranian 16:21, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
