Oppose for now I think more explanation is needed, at least for non-Polish speakers. I actually have no way of understanding when or why they lost their town privileges, if they had them once. I'm also disappointed by the png format, but it's no reason for rejection here, since it is a quite complex picture. --Eusebius (talk) 07:35, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This could happend to small towns, where actualy most of dwelers where peasants. After en:January Uprising Russian goverment deprived many towns of its rights, as a punishment. Some of the towns were incorporated into other cities. It could have happend that after WWII town, that had f.e. 10.000 dwelers (before war), lost some 80% of them, and became to small, as well as lost its town functions. Changing town into village was decided very rare after 1940s, and happend last in 1973. Most of this changes happend in 19th century, and geographical distrubution shows that most towns lost its priviliages in part of Poland that was in borders of the Russian Empire. --Sfu (talk) 08:00, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I took the liberty to copy-paste the explanation in the image page. If there are WP articles (in Polish, English or whatever) telling about that, it should be linked from the image page. --Eusebius (talk) 09:00, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
