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Hi, in this edit to Bleiburg you introduced several {{sfn}} references. Unfortunately you did not provide the sources for those references. This means that readers cannot look them up, and the article is added to Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. The missing sources are:

• Geiger 2012
• Geiger 2015
• Goldstein 2008
• Portmann 2006
• Portmann 2010
• Slovenian Commission 2005
• Tomasevich 2001

If you could supply the missing sources it would be appreciated. DuncanHill (talk) 15:46, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. Here are the full references.

Geiger, Vladimir (2015). "Stradanja Hrvata u poraću 1945. godine". Časopis za suvremenu povijest. 47 (3): 705–748.

Geiger, Vladimir (2012). "Vrijeme zločina, vrijeme prikupljanja podataka: Demografske i statističke procjene gubitaka". Radovi Zavoda za hrvatsku povijest. 44: 339–362.

Portmann, Michael (2010). "Communist Retaliation and the Postwar Mass Killings in Yugoslavia". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. 58 (3): 381–411.

Portmann, Michael (2006). "The Repatriations from Austria in 1945 and the Post-War Mass Killings". Contemporary European History. 15 (2): 229–248. doi:10.1017/S0960777306003211.

Tomasevich, Jozo (2001). War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration. Stanford: Stanford University Press. p. 755.

Goldstein, Ivo (2008). Hrvatska 1918–2008. Zagreb: Novi Liber. p. 744.

Poročilo Komisije Vlade Republike Slovenije za reševanje vprašanj prikritih grobišč. Vlada Republike Slovenije. 2005. OyMosby (talk) 23:05, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I've added them to the article, and all seems good. Best wishes, DuncanHill (talk) 23:13, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

I saw your recent edits in the Balkan Wikipedia article regarding Slovenia and the northern boundary of the Balkans. I noticed there was some confusion about how Slovenia can be considered part of the Balkans if the Kupa River is its southern border because by that logic it might seem like no part of Slovenia is in the Balkan Peninsula.

Changing the description to just “lower southern potion” is a bit too general and can be misleading especially since the Kupa river is mentioned as a border for Croatia. To be more precise, the region of Bela Krajina in southern Slovenia actually falls south of the Kupa and can reasonably be included in the Balkan Peninsula according to geographic sources.

I’ve also opened a Talk page discussion on the broader Balkan boundaries and you’re welcome to join. I thought it might be helpful to reach out directly so we can coordinate and make the text more accurate.

Looking forward to your thoughts! GerardSpel (talk) 18:21, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, no worries. Yeah I was confused by the previous wording whenlooking at the sources to compare to what was in the article. Given Northern Croatia is geographically outside the peninsula, the southern border of Slovenia would not fall within the Balkans but the Southwest part partly does by the coast. But again technicality. So instead of lower southern part of Slovenia for the greatest extent it should be lower southwestern corner? Given Croatia’s Slavonia and portion of Croatia proper isn’t fully within the peninsula classification at the fullest extent and for Slovenia, just a small corner near the coast. Before it made it seem as much as a third of Slovenia and all of Croatia was in the Balkans which is not correct. I will take a look at the talk page at a later time when I can. Cheers! OyMosby (talk) 23:08, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

Thanks for such a fast reply! I definitely agree the earlier wording was misleading and made it sound like a much larger part of Slovenia and Croatia was included than the sources really support.

On the “southwestern corner/coast” point: I’m not sure that works well geographically since Slovenia’s coastal area is part of the Istrian Peninsula which is generally treated as a separate peninsula rather than part of the Balkan Peninsula proper. So describing Slovenia’s Balkan inclusion as “southwest/coastal” might actually point in the wrong direction.

If we follow the river based delimitation already used in the article (Danube–Sava–Kupa) it actually becomes clear that relying only on rivers doesn’t really work for Slovenia as the rivers are too far north so technically no part of Slovenia falls south of them. That said, the only clearly definable Slovenian area commonly included in the Balkan Peninsula for cultural or historical reasons is Bela Krajina, which also makes the wording consistent with how Croatia is described (“up to the Sava and Kupa rivers”).

So I think a more accurate phrasing would be something like:

“the area of Bela Krajina in the southeast” instead of “lower southern portion”.

If you’re okay with this I can update the article text along these lines

Let me know what you think! GerardSpel (talk) 17:23, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]