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Lithuanian military history task force

Hello, I noticed that you have recently made edits in articles concerning the Lithuanian Land Forces. I was thinking about creating a Lithuanian military history task force within the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history. Would you be interested in joining? If enough people are supportive of this idea, then I would create it. Cukrakalnis (talk) 13:30, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Cukrakalnis: Hey! My time is very limited in the near future, but I keep an eye on things and try to help where I can. Also, it seems that there is the Baltic states military history task force already. I would suggest to consolidate the effort within the existing initiatives rather than split them off. -- Mindaur (talk) 14:02, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Baltic states military history task force is inactive and lifeless. The last edits of two of its three members were in 2014-2015, while the third member's edits, more often than not, within articles that are disconnected to Baltic milhist instead of those that are connected. The task force's founder, Kirill Lokshin (who isn't even in the task force), last edited in October 2022, and paid most attention to the military history of countries besides that of Baltic states (when he was writing about milhist at all, that is). It would be a futile undertaking to single-handedly try to resuscitate a dead task force, most of whose members don't even edit/care anymore, which was partly my reasoning behind beginning a new task force. Cukrakalnis (talk) 19:49, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Cukrakalnis: The task force is just a place to coordinate the work, right? I don't see why the effort on the Lithuanian articles couldn't be coordinated within the Baltic states task force, even if the other editors are inactive. The Lithuanian part of it would get revived. -- Mindaur (talk) 14:06, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Baltic states task force has the problem that numerous people confuse the Baltics with the Balkans (so there are articles about the latter attached to the Baltics task force despite them being totally unconnected) and some people seem to think that things connected to the Baltic Sea can be put under the Baltics task force, despite milhist of the Baltic Sea not being within the scope of the task force. That task force (besides being almost non-existent in terms of editors) is a mess and it would be better to have a clean start with a more specialized task force concerning just Lithuania instead of cleaning up other people's mess. Cukrakalnis (talk) 20:26, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For your work in various current events articles about Europe, especially about NATO and the Russo-Ukrainian war. Great job! — Prodraxis {talk • contributions} (she/her) 21:35, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK for European Sky Shield Initiative

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RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Occupation of the Baltic states

Sveiki! I saw you did this saying it did not reflect the source. I think it is correct. From the book:

"The very large capital investments made by the Soviet Union in the postwar era were an indication of the importance attached by the economic planners to the Baltic region as a source of energy resources and a wide range of industrial and agricultural products."

"It must always be kept in mind, however, that the Baltic peoples had to pay a high price for the forms of modernisation favoured by their Soviet masters. The initial priorities of Soviet economic policy in Estonia were the reactivation of manufacturing industry and the expansion of the oil shale industry. The latter had been one of the most successful industrial enterprises of independent Estonia. After the war it was 'developed forcefully and wastefully' by the Soviets, mainly as a source of energy for Leningrad."

TamsaVakaras (talk) 20:40, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

TamsaVakaras: 1) It wasn't me who reverted that change. 2) The paragraphs you quote indeed mention that there was an intent to use the Baltics as a source of energy, but I don't think we can conclude that it was solely and the only purpose. So, we can tune the wording to reflect that. I suggest you bring this up in the talk page of the article itself, quoting these paragraphs (again); feel free to also make a change to the article, pointing out that you presented the citations in the talk page. -- Mindaur (talk) 20:55, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh I made a mistake, I thought you made all of the edits. I will do as you suggest. TamsaVakaras (talk) 15:38, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]