":The underlying issues are actually not that controversial. Chopin self identified as Polish, was a Polish patriot whose friends described him as ""more Polish than Poland"", whose music was to a significant extent influenced by traditional Polish folk music, who was pissed off at the partitions of Poland, etc. At the same time he had some French background and ended up a French citizen - of which he was also proud of (why shouldn't he be - and in fact Poles are quite happy to emphasize his links to France). The facts are not in dispute, this is all about what people make of them and specifically in the Wikipedia context of how people try to use these facts to pursue personal grudges, nationalistic disputes or just plain trolling. 
 :Time and time again we've had various editors who apparently took How to deal with Poles as some kind of instruction manual come to this page and stir shit up for no reason. Well... there probably were some reasons, like if you want to start an edit war under a no-name disposable account with one of the established Polished editors in order to get them blocked or sanctioned this is the perfect article to do it. It sort of worked in the past too. It's a bunch of cynical sock puppeting bullshit from editors who have probably been already banned from Wikipedia for exactly this kind of nonsense giving it another go. And honestly who can blame them? Worst thing that happens is that the no-name disposable account gets blocked unilaterally. More likely the no-name disposable account gets blocked but manages to get some established Polish editors blocked as well by some idiot admin who just sees ""edit warring"" and then the disposable account goes off and brags on the axis or anonymous or stormfront or some of the weirder ""alternative history"" forums about how they played Wikipedia and got a respected editor banned. This happens all the time. This is what is happening now. Just some sanity please.  

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