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We don't have many conflicts with Belorusians, and I hope it stays that 
way. Still, when some issues cross into revisioning/controversial 
history and threaten to compromise Wiki, this becomes a problem.

Take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:History_of_Belarus_by_period
I wonder if we can seriously talk of Belarusian history pre-19th century?

I also have problems with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Belarusian_nobility
and adding Belorusian people category to various people alive before the 
19th century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Siemienowicz

It seems to me that some Belorusians tend to see anybody who ever lived 
in modern territory of Belarus as Belorussian.

Czalex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Czalex) is 
one of the few active Belorusian Wikipedians, and he seems reasonable 
(although this may be due to the fact that he hasn't edited 
controversial issues before), but I find this ongoing categorization of 
articles with the above Belorusian categories disruptive.

What are your thoughts on the content issue, and on how best to deal 
with it? I am half-tempted to nominate a bunch of those categories at AfD...

-- 
Piotr Konieczny

"The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in 
theory."

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