[Cz-L] Wikipedia entries

The efforts to honor Traian Popovici through a plaque in Czernowitz
sent me to the English version Wikipedia. I have no information about
the accuracy of the entry on Popovici
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traian_Popovici)
though the more knowledgeable members might want to examine it.

The reason I write is that the entry for Czernowitz - listed as
Chernivtsi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernivtsi) - has no
mention of Popovici at all. Notably, the following paragraph under
"demographics" appears:

"Chernivtsi once had a Jewish community of 50,000, about half of whom
survived World War II thanks to the intercession of a Romanian lawyer
and reserve officer, Theodor Criveanu. However, following the
collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the majority of the Jewish
population emigrated to Israel and the United States."

Anyone can correct or add to a Wikipedia entry, though it is best if
the sources of information are footnoted. Given that Wikipedia is a
prime source of information around the world, perhaps someone can add
information on Popovici to the Chernivtsi article. In addition, I
think that mention of the contribution of the Jews to Chernivtsi (and
their fate in World War II) should be mentioned in the "history"
section of the article, not in the "demographics" section, and in
greater detail.

There is a Russian wikipedia, from which I suspect the school children
of Czernowitz today routinely obtain information, given the prevalence
of Russian as the language of scholarship. Ideally, the same
information could be added to the Russian page -
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%f3%c2%95%cc%d3%92%96%9a - by someone convers=
ant in Russian.

[Moderator's note: The Cyrillic characters at the end of the Russian web a=
ddress just above will probably not come through correctly.
This is likely due to incompatibility with Plain Text posting. Moderator Br=
uce]
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Received on 2008-09-02 01:29:07