Greetings, Ezhiki! I wanted to sincerely thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with a final result of 55/14/3. Your support means a lot to me! If you have any questions or input regarding my activities, be they adminly or just a "normal" user's, or if you just want to chat about anything at all, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers! — Nightstallion (?) 07:38, 4 January 2006 (UTC) |
Hey man, thanks a lot for voting, I see you beat me to the response ;) If you need anything, just give me a shout. :) - FrancisTyers 01:04, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I would say "how do you know he's not a Wikipedian", but I think I'll just tip my hat to you. I figured it would be a while before anyone noticed my edit on Wikipedia:Wikipedians somewhere unspecified in the United States of America, let alone reverted it. If I had the power, I would award you a Barnstar. -- Mareino 20:36, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
happy new year! Template:Infobox_Language seems to be blocked from moving. At least I don't have the move button anymore. I could not find who did it and why this was done / which policy was used to justify this move block. It seems to be there since User:Cyrius moved it the 2nd time. So he has the admin power to preserve the status he thinks is right. With your admin power can you check what happened? Did he block? Where can I call for unblock? Maybe you can do it - but well I don't want to ask you too much here. thx - so long Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:30, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Cont'd at "Infobox:Language issues" section below
Argh, yes. I answered on the basis that people would come and discuss with me, (as advertised, apparently), but people seem to instead treat statements as written in stone, and are just voting.
In fact, you're quite encouraged to ask for clarifications or take the time to discuss issues you agree or disagree on with the candidate. Just not on the voting pages themselvesv I guess.
In any case, voting will be ongoing for a while yet, so feel free to ask any questions where you think I've been unclear.
Hmm, and if you have a minute, maybe point out where and how I could flesh out my statement a bit? <puppydog look>
Kim Bruning 17:18, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
You stated on my ArbCom vote page that my "recent behavior leaves [you] with little choice" but to oppose. Could you please explain to me what aspect of my recent behavior has forced your hand in this manner? Kelly Martin ( talk) 18:25, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Tobias Conradi informally asked me to mediate the issues surrounding the (Infobox) (L/l)anguage template. Since I was not involved into the matter, it took me a little while to figure out what was going on. Below please find a summary of the case as I understand it. If something is incorrect or amiss (or afoot :)), please do not make changes but leave a comment below. Thank you.
At this point of time, I abstained from judging/accusing anybody or taking any actions, as I may still not see the complete picture. Comments would be much appreciated.— Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 20:19, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Tobias posted on
WP:RM back on
Jan 5th. Apparently dissatisfied and impatient, he then
moved the page twice on Jan 6th (around 20:13 UTC) immediately after he orphaned it
between 19:55 and 20:10. Not only did he move the page, but he oddly replaced the redirect with what can be best described as a disambig page -- something that we just don't do in Template-land. I think he did that specifically because he knew someone (me) couldn't move it back to it's original location. I asked on IRC for assistance, and Cyrius agreed with me and moved it back. For Tobias to say that "it was not used anywhere. So it wasn't a disruption" is disingenuous. --
Netoholic
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04:25, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Folks, please remain calm and don't insult each other. No one is incorrect here and/or tries to do any harm on purpose, you just see the priorities differently, that is all.
After hearing out the comments above, it looks that my original summary is mostly correct. I hereby offer you the following compromise:
It is proposed to protect the Template:Language from editing. This measure will address the most important points of WP:AUM—1.2 & 1.3, while preserving the quality and integrity of the articles which already use this metatemplate version. In the meanwhile, the community members currently involved in developing Template:Language should redirect their efforts to assist in development of the Template:Infobox Language. As soon as there is a consensus that the latter template is on par with the former one, all references to the Template:Language should be replaced with Template:Infobox Language.
Please indicate your acceptance of this proposed decision. If you find it unacceptable, please indicate below which portion is not to your liking. Once all involved parties accept it, the decision will be posted at Template talk:Language and Template talk:Infobox Language for the rest of involved parties to see and comment on.— Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 16:32, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Tobias Conradi's comments:
Tobias Conradi (Talk) 17:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
OK, but:
A question for you, Tobias: please tell me what you see wrong with this scenario:
The way I see it, the end result will be exactly what you and other editors want, and the process only requires one mass-replacement that needs to be done anyway. Am I missing anything or not?— Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 18:34, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I integrated my replies. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 23:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Netoholic's comments:
I disagree with protecting Template:Language. There is very little chance of vandalism, it's watched closely, and is only on a couple hundred articles. Other than that, your proposal is exactly the strategy I've been trying to convince this group to follow. Merging the histories is just a "feel good" move, since it's perfectly fine if the history sits under a redirect from Language to Infobox_Language, but I'm fine with it if it just gets this group participating on the single dispute holding the process back, that being whether to keep support for the old color scheme (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages#The bad side of colors). -- Netoholic @ 22:05, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Netoholic's comments, part 2:
Would you please look into the related disruption that Tobias is causing now on a redirect I created? He's repeating the same disruptive behavior as he did with the page move fiasco. We don't use disambigs in the template namespace. I originally created this redirect to prevent duplication of effort and help with typos. I am close to requesting blocks for disruption, so maybe you can help him stop screwing around. -- Netoholic @ 01:50, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Ezhiki's comments:
Folks, would you please lay petty bickering aside for a little while? Does it really matter who created what and when and why and for what purpose, if in the end all we need to sort out is the final result? It is really not that interesting to find out what your (Tobias' and Netoholic's) original thoughts were—what matters is that you were trying to achieve pretty much the same goal in different ways. The resolution of issues outlined in the comments immediately above would go a long way to entertain your egos, but at the same time it hinders achieving the end result you both so eagerly are looking for. The longer you argue about something as unimportant as who should the blame be put on, the more time passes without any real work done. What are your priorities? I sure hope that in your edits and actions you put Wikipedia's interests before your personal satisfaction.
Now that I'm done with scolding :), let's address more immediate concerns. Here are the answers to the questions Tobias asked:
All in all, to repeat myself, it is not a priority to settle personal disagreements you folks have with each other. I trust that as adults both committed to Wikipedia you are pretty capable of settling them yourselves, preferrably in a civil way. All that matters now is to close this incident, hopefully with a compromise solution. The very nature of compromise is that neither side likes it, remember? :) If you think my proposed solution does not benefit Wikipedia (as opposed to "does not make me feel good"), please let know here why. I can see how it does not address personal issues you have with each other, but it looks pretty darn good in the big picture.— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 15:22, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
As pointed out several times the move of the currently applied (official/ true / in use) Language template to a standard naming had originally nothing to do with WP:AUM. Netoholic blocks the move to standard name by having put his template in the way. Template developement can be done in user space or at any other name. Don't mix the two issues. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:41, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
The "CSS method" badly breaks accessibility
In considering a solution, please note that Netoholic's version of the template breaks accessibility of pages by putting junk text into the content of the HTML page, then hiding it from visual browsers using CSS. Examples of page rendering in Lynx can be seen at template talk:Infobox Language#CSS hack reduces accessibility; more relevant discussion is at mediaWiki talk:Common.css#CSS hack reduces accessibility. — Michael Z. 2006-01-16 23:50 Z
Hi Ezhiki,
As per your opposition vote to my ArbCom candidacy due to the lack of questions, I've elaborated on my statement and explanation at the questions page. I welcome any further questions to be asked to clarify any of your doubts, and let me know on my talkpage if it's urgent. Thank you for your interest! :)
- Best regards, Mailer Diablo 02:54, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Ust-Orda Buryatia , thx for the NO landscape info. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:23, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
I would like to express my thanks to all the good people who spent their valuable time time and effort working on my (failed) RfA voting. Especially for those who actually voted to support me :). You put a great effort into it, it was me who mixed up everything. Lets move on and make together our Wikipedia an even greater place abakharev 09:12, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Any reason why?— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 15:51, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Norway#.22Landscape.22 - I have doubts. To avoid unecessary move I voted keep at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Landscapes_of_Norway_to_Category:Districts_of_Norway I would like to discuss this a little more. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 23:19, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Please explain me your revert hedgehog ? If you dare:) because i can make as many edits untill u'll give me proof that, what i'm saying is not true. Otherwise you're nothing more than scared of your nation past. Put your arguments before revert. I can even cite you a statement of kaliningrad mayor, in a kaliningrad newspaper, in which he aggrees that such krimes were commited-- Lokyz 03:04, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
As admin can you
Autonomous Republics ->
Autonomous republic.
Tobias Conradi
(Talk) 21:57, 16 January 2006 (UTC) changed my mind
Tobias Conradi
(Talk)
21:59, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
nice row of articles Kuban Soviet Republic ... merged into ... but what happened to North Caucasian Soviet Republic? maybe you can extend the article. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:10, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
inconsistent: Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic but Russian SFSR. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:42, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I created Adygeya Autonomous oblast I think I have to uppercase the "o". AOs are mentioned at Republics of the Soviet Union, but should probably not be there. To find consistent naming I suggest starting Category:Subdivisions of the Soviet Union - and then step by step put the articles there, resp. in subcats. If there are in the cats we see how they are named now and can fix inconsistencies. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:42, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I thought you might be a good person to ask for help, Ezhiki. I want to link from my own user page to pages in the Russian and German Wikipedias, but I haven't been able to find a document that tells me specifically how to do this. I suppose one could format such links as external links, but surely there's a better way. I'd appreciate any insights you could provide. — CKA3KA (Skazka) 01:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
as admin can you help to undo the 2005-06-11 copy paste move by User:Cedar-Guardian
IMO the dab should be at South Lebanon and the gov at SLG. Compare Category:Governorates_of_Lebanon thx Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:15, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
It was only because there was the possibilty not so much of ambiguïty as some confusion, that I chose the longer name (confusion with Nikolai Sokoloff, which I wanted to avoid as much as possible- Nikolay Sokolov could, so far as one knew in passing, just be an alternative transliteration of the conductor's name. As a check of a library catalog, say, shows, just in music but generally too there are too many authors with that general name ;) ). Even though a dab line- I need to add one to the Sokolov article just as there's now one on the Sokoloff- helps with that it's true... Best Schissel-nonLop! 11:44, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Ezhiki. Your comments are most welcome. -- Ghirla | talk 12:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Ezhiki. Thanks for helping out. Finally the article has the proper heading. Thomas Blomberg 23:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 22:26, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I have difficulty summarizing what I would use, as a native speaker of English. The is almost mandatory with "JAO"; but that is because it is not a geographical name, really, but defined by the two adjectives.
It depends partly on the form of the name. I would generally use "Primorsk District"; but "the Primorsk", because there's only one Primorsk, but many districts. "Primorsky Krai" is a harder problem; there may be no English convention, because it's not an English name. (Is there consensus on Krai/Oblast instead of "Province"? WP:UE would solve so many problems!)
It also depends partly on context. Use of The in article names is to be avoided (unless it's part of the name, like The Magic Flute.
I'm not sure this will help. Can you give a few examples? Septentrionalis 20:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
The AndriyK RfAr has been closed. Until by consensus he has agreed to a suitable and mutually agreed naming convention using the guideline Wikipedia:Naming conflict, AndriyK is prohibited from moving pages, or changing the content of articles which relate to Ukrainian names, especially those of historical interest. AndriyK is banned for one month from Wikipedia for creating irreversible page moves. Andrew Alexander, AndriyK, and MaryMaidan are warned to avoid copyright violations and to cooperate with the efforts of others to remove copyright violations. Ghirlandajo is warned to avoid incivility or personal attacks.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Kelly Martin ( talk) 04:57, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Are you sure that Finnish is not official in Karelia? The republic's site is in Finnish and the very status of "republic" indicates that the титульная нация has special privileges. Kazak 20:56, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Never mind, I just found this link on the subject. Perhaps we should work it into the Karelia article? Kazak 21:00, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Great. I cleaned up the article (removing all the references to Finnish as official) and added a footnote to the "official language" box with a link to the Karelian government site. It's really helpful that they translate their articles into English. Kazak 21:51, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Maybe you will be interested in voting for category renaming here. - Darwinek 14:09, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Concerning your latest move of Pavlovsk to Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, I urge you to discuss such moves beforehand on the article's talk page or with an editor who wrote the page. I don't think that obscure red-linked Pavlovsk you found near Voronezh may be compared in eminence to the imperial residence. 99% searching for the page have the palace in mind, you made them click twice to find the page they need. We don't have Saint Petersburg as a dab page linking to Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Saint Petersburg (USA), do we? Also, the new name is hardly correct: Pavlovsk is situated dozens miles from St Petersburg. Though administratively a part of St Petersburg, it is not its immediate neighbourhood geographically, as your title seems to imply. A solution: move Pavlovsk back to its legitimate name and link another Pavlovsk through {otheruses} template. -- Ghirla | talk 17:46, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
I think it was good to move it. The comparison with Saint Petersburg is not appropriate because the difference in importance is much bigger and Saint Petersburg (Russia) is probably well known, while Pavlovsk is not to that extent. And at least after the bypass work it is now clear that the other refs don't go to Voronezh. Better dab now and fix redirects than to do it later. Having Pavlovsk as dab helps to avoid wrong links, i.e. in an article where Voronezh is meant to link to Pavlovsk. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 03:54, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:53, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
You're the only russian user I know on Wikipedia, so I'll ask you. The russian babel box says:
Русский язык для данного участника является родным.
Wouldn't it be a better to make участник the subject instead of Русский язык?
Something like:
Этот участник может поговорить по-руский на уровне ролнова языкаЭтот участник владеет русским языком как родным corr. by Ezhiki
(There may be spelling or grammar errors there, but I think you get my gist). — Ilyan e p (Talk) 04:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Could you please delete the article BoyZone? I was unaware if there was an article on Wikipedia about this band but later discovered the article Boyzone. This was my mistake. Thank you for your time. — Eternal Equinox | talk 14:48, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
...finally I found what I read long time ago and wanted to tell you once we talked about tranliteration (ref: your talk with nixer). is this of any help? could it be used? maybe write your thoughts about it at the corresponding project page and point me there. best regards ... and honestly: I had no plans to change the current subnational entity scheme for RU! Tobias Conradi (Talk) 00:46, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
i have the WP-project cyrillic page on my watchlist now. So I will see what happens via this page. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 03:37, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ezhiki!! Thanks for the Hello, and great to hear from a fellow Lunar citizen. I couldn't beieve it when i saw the category. I knew that i had to put it up on my page. And, i agree, it will be good when the category starts to fill up ;) The Halo
Ezik please help me, I'm new here.
- Thank you for reading it, Kniaz.
P.S. I don't know how to change word to Russian, Spasibo towarish.
I just created this new article. Would you please have a look over it for mistakes? Thanks. — Michael Z. 2006-02-12 22:56 Z
Hm: 29 languages, you say? Is there an obvious way to subdivide them, say Slavic Cyrillic, Asian Cyrillic, other writing systems? — Michael Z. 2006-02-14 00:01 Z
I added a summary table to Romanization of Russian#Transliteration table. It still has gaps for the old letters, and should be checked for errors. The more detailed tables for each system could be moved to their own articles. — Michael Z. 2006-02-14 15:21 Z
Thanks for the invite, I am only beginning to understand the complexities of this. For the moment, as I said before, I am only changing the transliterations if there is an official Russian government (or regional for governors) website that transliterates differently. So we have identical Cyrillic becoming Alexey's & Alexei's, or Alexandr's, Alexander's, and Aleksandr's. I just wanted to put some meat on these politician stubs. Carlossuarez46 23:07, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
How did a vote of over 75% not succeed???? was it the possibility of sockpuppets? I hope so, because that's ridiculous! Gator (talk) 22:00, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Greetings,
You have requested mediation at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Romanization of the Russian language. The chair of the committee has asked if I'd take the case. This would be my first case since joining the Mediation Committee, however I have been an editor for over a year and an administrator for about seven months. I have no knowledge or opinion of this matter, and shall be fair to both sides. Please respond here to let me know if I am acceptable as a mediator. Cheers, - Will Beback 09:01, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Привет земляк, мне тут прислали сегодня ссылку "Ты из приморья, если..." я по настальгировал значительно. теперь хочется поделиться... http://gorgaz.livejournal.com/1614.html Извини если воспримешь как спам, но я к этому ЖЖ дневнику отношения не имею... -- Morpheios Melas 14:57, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
The page was moved three times over the previous days. Please comment whether the current name is a standard transliteration. -- Ghirla | talk 14:36, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Написал. Поправь, если что не так. Хотя, скорее всего пустая трата времени, собирать в английской вики малозначительные украинские села, для которых никогда и стабов не будет, но попутно сделал и для украинской. Там это нужнее. Еще нашел Community for summer vacationers в Ontario [3] и канадский трактор Sokil, но не уверен, что есть смысл это добавлять. -- Yakudza 17:49, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.
If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very much, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
The resort hasn't been built yet, but it is part of Sochi's bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, and thus I believe it is at least as notable as any other ski resort. eae 22:26, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Ezhiki. I am just writing you to tell you that subcategories of Cat:Cities and towns in Russia should be nominated in WP:CFD for renaming. Wikipedia standard naming convention for cities, towns, villages or other human settlements is XX in YY, not of. - Darwinek 09:55, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Saying that Pavlovsk is "in" Leningrad oblast is like saying that Gibraltar is "in" Spain. While both of these may be true, Pavlovsk is not part of Leningrad oblast, and Gibraltar is not part of Spain. Backspace 23:28, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Italicized Russian looks perfectly legible to me, so I guess I disagree with the consensus. Furthermore, people who do not know the cyrillic alphabet very well can hope to gain little or nothing from whole words written in it. Lastly, italicizing foreign-language words in similar templates seems to be the norm, and I'm not sure that the dubious value of making cyrillic words minutely more legible for the benefit of people whose understanding of a word is hampered by much more than italics, is worth deviating from that norm. Example: Vyborg has its name listed in four languages, the other three of which are italicized. Does not look good.
Привет, не за что. Я на самом деле не понял, к чему некоторые поля относятся, например, nickname - это имя жителей или прозвище города. Надо будет проверить.
Ответы по пунктам.
А, вспомнил, высоты посмотрю по SRTM (~Shuttle Radar Topography Mission). Ъыь 15:46, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
I just spotted this stub, and also noticed an already existing link to Yelena Produnova. Now I'm undecided whether to create a redirect, or move the stub according to naming conventions. What's your opinion? Cheers, -- Nikai 13:52, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
In connection with the new article Battle of Krasny Bor I noticed that Krasny Bor mentioned in the article cannot be the one in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. I also doubt that Savicheva was buried that far from Leningrad. As you are an expert in Russian geography and disambigs, I believe you could investigate this issue. Thanks for your time, Ghirla -трёп- 17:21, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
I would appreciate your comments. -- Ghirla -трёп- 16:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
I think what happened is the page you had edited Height 611 UFO Incident was vandalized and caught by Tawkerbot2, for reasons still unknown to me (that I'm working on) it's grabbing the wrong editor for the vandal notice, its a fairly rare bug, I'm trying to determine if its a bot bug or if Wikipedia is giving the bot bogus info, its just weird but I'm working on it. Sorry about that -- 20:17, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ezhiki. I am writing a college essay about Soviet Union. Can you tell me names of a few cities or towns like Mednogorsk, built during the Stalin's rule? Thank you. - Darwinek 10:50, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Fiss started this duplicative category today. Should it be posted for deletion? -- Ghirla -трёп- 17:02, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. Could you, please, exclude the "xxxx in Fooian television" series (such as 1930 in television) from the Smackbot's delink list? These series is one of the few places where linking months makes sense (due to the way tables are laid out). I reverted the changes made so far. Thanks.— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 13:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
To be fair if you really want to continue it then by all means do, but I will agree to revert the -IYE to -YE for -ЫЕ, whilst keeping all of my other edits (-YI,-IY, I for Й, ye for E only in start of words. Also I just noticed how you edited Lyublinskaya Line, do explain to me why Maryino when there is no Й in Марьино? Also why Dostoyevskaya, when the article is titled Fyodor Dostoevsky. Why not then Kiyevskaya? (Sorry for being a pain in arse, but then you know the feeling of constantly pressuring someone about a logical correction, and WP policy does say use the most common words, I do dare you to google the latter - Kiyev) :) [37,800 google hits— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) [vs 23 100 000 for Kiev Kuban Cossack On the positive side, I have compleately recategorised the wikicommons on Moscow Metro (link from the Metro page). I do need as many high-quality images that can be found. Would it be too much to ask you to snap a few? Particulary of the newer addtions Delovoi Tsentr, second exit of Mayakovskaya, Vykhino after reconstruction... Also all of the Metro templates now have actual links from the station bullets. -- Kuban Cossack 00:17, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Пишу по-русски, так как дело касается нашего раздела. У нас тут несколько накалилась ситуация с админами, вандалами, троллями и прочими дрязгами (см. ru:ВП:ВУ). Ты человек опытный, и как я уже не раз убедился дотошный и справедливый. Не мог бы ты уделить немного внимания нашему мини-сообществу, мне кажется что тебе как человеку незамешанному в этих скандалах будет проще дать дельный совет (анализ). Не уверен, какой он может иметь статус, но для меня лично это будет очень важным мнением. Как знать, возможно что немного поучаствовав в нашем сообществе ты принесёшь бОльшую пользу Википедии, чем отредактировав 100 статей здесь. Ну а нет, так нет, ничего страшного. Заранее спасибо. MaxiMaxiMax 09:55, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
«Стало понятно, отчего в английской Википедии там и тут начали появляться сбежавшие русские википедисты.»
Здорово сказано, чёрт возьми. В точку. :-))) --exile
The Wrong Man
18:03, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
You're welcome, and it looks like you have done most of the work. Nothing was left for me :) Conscious 06:52, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
I reverted your edits in Ostafievo International Airport because Ostafievo is the official name and used in the official website of the company [6] as well as other English sources, documents and promotional materials.-- Nixer 06:28, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Привет! As I have found out and i am sure that you are a reliable and fair person, I 'll ask: Why so many people from Russian Wikipedia go to English(American?) Wikipedia. Почему?—This unsigned comment was added by Kniaz ( talk • contribs).
Hello, Ezhiki! So you would prefer I keep the towns in Category:Cities and towns in Kaliningrad Oblast for now?
Also, I noticed your corrections to the Kaliningrad Oblast articles with .ogg files I had uploaded. I have been applying your style to my .ogg inclusions in other articles now as well. Would you mind taking a look at the intros to some Polish cities with IPA to see if you can improve upon my changes? The ones I have edited so far are: Wrocław, Toruń, Gdańsk, Bydgoszcz, Olsztyn, Malbork, and Elbląg (I think that's it). Olessi 22:17, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Per your request to reassign this mediation, I've listed it as unassigned. As it has been open for some time without any activity, I'm asking that the parties re-confirm that they are still interested. Please do so on Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Romanization of the Russian language. Once both of you have signed, I'll find someone to take the case. Essjay Talk • Contact 01:56, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
I do agree that english is language that isn't as complicated as russian (try reading the poems, expessioly Alexander Pushkin). Thanks for pointing it out for me, but I have been to russian wikipedia only few times, since I'm not exactly russian(look at my page). And the explanation about english wikipedia instead of american I must disagree(no disrespect). You see, Wikipedia was created in USA and originnaly was english only(the first time i went on wikipedia it was said wikipedia was created due to 9/11. ?!). Good luck with you're future work and имейте хорошее здоровье(I should stop writting in paretisees). Dosvidanie dorogoy drug. P.S. Pushkin's poems are actually easier to learn and memorize, unlike other ones. kniaz march 31, 2006 10:35 pm.
Hi. I'm doing a survey of Wikipedia editors as part of a class research project. It's quick, anonymous, and the data will be made available to the Wikipedia community later this month. Would you like to take part? More info here. Thanks! Nonplus 01:20, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
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Hello Ezhiki, how are you? Thanks for your support in my RFA. The final vote count was (88/3/1), so I am now an administrator. I am very humbled by your comments and your vote of support. Please let me know if at any stage you require assistance, or if you have comments on how I am doing as an administrator. Once again thank you and with kind regards Gryffindor 18:57, 2 April 2006 (UTC) |
I don't think it correct to give "Дальний Восток России" as the Russian equivalent of "Russian Far East" since the term is fairly rare in Russian. While in English the term "Far East" usually refers to the larger region, "Дальний Восток" is never used in Russian in that way - it always refers to the Russian Far East. Note that if you search in google in Russian, for "Дальний Восток" you get 6 million results, while "Дальний Восток России" gets you only 40,000. Qaramazov 17:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I've been assigned your mediation case. What we need to do now is firstly decide via what means we wish to conduct the case. We have three options: via Wikipedia, via e-mail or via and IRC channel. I would favour the wikipedia route but am happy to do any of the three. I look forward to hearing from you. -- Wisd e n17 13:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Great to know we understand each other. I too know the difference in usage of both the Nazi and the Soviet slogan. However, my main problem was that it's not the broadness of the usage that is important here, but rather the sarcasm/cruelty behind them. Any way, perhaps the matter could be expanded someway-somewhere. Any ideas? // Halibu tt 15:35, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
I just found this "Radio Liberty on Irkutsk" reference. As you asked for a citation, do you think it's good? -- Nikai 09:48, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello Ezhiki. I am writing to you, cause you as a Russian Wikipedian can help. Do you think categories such as Cat:Uzbek society or Cat:Uzbek people should be renamed to "Uzbekistani"? Uzbeks are an ethnic groups, many people from Uzbekistan are not ethnic Uzbeks, so I think it is wrong to have for example ethnic Russian resident of Uzbekistan under "Uzbek people" category. What do you think? - Darwinek 13:22, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_April_4#Category:Subdivisions_by_country_to_Category:Political_divisions_by_country , IMO the rename should be taken with more care. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 06:28, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm in a potentially awkward position with an Administrator. I have read the Wiki pages on dispute resolution but I'm still not sure how to proceed.
The Admin ContiE has a personal grudge against me for reasons I do not fully understand. He has been this way since I began frequenting wikipedia.
I have done work improving the furvert article. He has basically gone on a crusade against any edit I make. He controls every furry category article and several others ruthlessly. He is an iron fist and bans anyone he edit wars with. I had uploaded pictures and he deleted them with no talking. He seems to believe I am every person he has had an edit war against. He is always using personal attacks, calling me troll without reason. I uploaded them again and he voted them for deleted, but to his surprise the person who runs the images, thank you Nv8200p, found they were acceptable once I tagged them properly. Just recently he removed both the images without himself discussing it in the talk page (unless he was the same person who discussed only one) with the edit here [7] Then ContiE assumed bad faith, added his constant insult of troll in the talk page. It appears on a completed different wiki, a comedy one in all things, somebody else stole my username and I believe this was Conti himself and uploaded them. ContiE showed it as his reason. While vandalism like his, I would revert and mention it, he would ban me permanently if I undid his edit. That is why I am asking admins for help. He holds a couple of accounts on wikipedia and I think they are administrators so I have to be careful who I tell about this. Arights 06:30, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Category:Former country subdivisions - i collected some cats there to see what exists and how naming is done. I found lots of other "Former ..." cats. FYI, you did not write HistoricAL. The cats I found use AL. Maybe your english is poor as mine : [8] Some German speaker with poor English skills has corrupted the correct "Administrative Divisions" into "Subdivisions". :-) The term is used by ISO 3166-2. LOL Tell no one they are based in Berlin (IIRC) Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:00, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Привет помоги, пожалуйста, не могу перевести предложение.
Yet more complexity is introduced here than might be expected. The programmer (especially the functional programmer) will pick up right away on the significance of introducing time and state (memory).
Что значит выделенный фрагмент?
Навреное, не мешало бы поправить текст, т.к. по словарю это разговорный, а не литературный.
Ъыь 07:11, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Tobias sometimes does this, to be more objective. Or to look so - this is not very clear to him. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:19, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
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I loved the "Участники за букву ё" on your Russian user page! I support it too. See reply about Altay on my talk page.-- Amir E. Aharoni 21:17, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ezhiki! Someone at the Language Reference Desk could use your help. Would you please take a look at Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Language#Question_about_Russian? I would be very grateful if you could contribute to the discussion. Thank you in advance. Daniel Šebesta ( talk • contribs) 16:47, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I supposed you weren't a linguist, but I still decided to ask you for help as you are a native speaker. I think you've given a helpful explanation, though! Thank you! Daniel Šebesta ( talk • contribs) 17:20, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I thought you might like this:
[9]. And this
[10]. Don't worry it is the site that needs permission not you actually quite a lot of pre-1973 stuff there. --
Kuban Cossack
21:53, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello Ezhiki! Would you have any objections if I restylized the .ogg formatting on the Kaliningrad Oblast towns to the following (using Pravdinsk as an example)?
It removes the lengthy "pronunciation" while still having links to Help and Info. Olessi 19:17, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm confused by your preference for the lang-ru template. It is my understanding that the lang templates exist to make things a tad easier for contributors to type; there's no visual difference in the actual article. Aside from consistency with using {{ lang-lt}} for Romuva and {{ lang-pl}} for Frydląd, what is the advantage of using {{ lang-ru}}?
Here are some of the various formatting styles I have seen used:
The middle choice (currently used at Pravdinsk) looks ok if it is the only "alternative" name listed, but when multiple names are listed "pronunciation" and the extra parentheses clutter everything up. I don't have any experience with coding templates myself, so I'm not sure how to design a better template. It seems to me that improving the article's visual flow would be more important than maintaining internal consistency that only editors would see, not readers. Olessi 19:46, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ëzhiki, Olessi: Great to see you're already well into sorting out what occurred to me when I came by the Prussia article (also Sambia, maybe one other... need to check contribution history), i.e. combining the language and pronunciation links. My next thought is whether a combined template is possible, one that produces the " German: " kind of format and carries the metadata Ëzhiki mentions above. What do you think? Regards, David Kernow 01:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
OK, I drafted the {{ Audio-ru}} template, which is for Russian only. To use it, type:
{{Audio-ru|Правдинск|RU-Pravdinsk.ogg}}
which produces:
{{Audio-ru|Правдинск|RU-Pravdinsk.ogg}}
To make a similar template for any other language, just copy the template source to an appropriate place and replace of instances of "Russian" with the name of the language you need (e.g., "German"), and all instances of "ru" with that language's code (e.g., "de"). Hope this helps.— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • ( yo?); 15:35, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Great work, Ëzhiki! I have already made Template:Audio-de, Template:Audio-pl, and Template:Audio-uk. Olessi 19:34, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
[[''X'' language|''X'']]
or [[''X''ian]]
and html tags to be substituted? I can only think of using something like #if
(about which I currently know little) to select the correct language... which ultimately might make the template unwieldy (too many languages) – but perhaps you (or someone you know) might know a much neater solution... Thanks for your work,
David Kernow
22:05, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Category:Wikipedians by number of edits Toby / Tobias Conradi (Talk) 00:37, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Awesome :) Renata 03:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks!— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • ( yo?); 11:51, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
You deleted my bios on Moskovskyy Pyasatel. The people are real and are notable as they are prime ministers or leaders of the village. Abc85 11:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Привет! Или я ошибаюсь, или же.. в википедии нет статьи про такое понятие как Райцентр. -- Untifler 15:37, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Why you don't upload it to commons? It will be very usefull and in other language chapters... Sory for my broken enlish. -- Morpheios Melas 06:12, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
I think AndriyK just got himself a sock
[11]. --
Kuban Cossack
16:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't much believe in blocks for incivility and normally do not block people for that. I also don't quite understand why Kuban Cossack's behavior is such a big deal for you, KPbIC; you weren't even targeted. Apart from instant momentary gratification, incivility provides no benefits. In general, if someone is uncivil, it only shows that person cannot exersise proper self-control and is probably an oafish boor in real life. It is so much easier to make a case against such people and to not take their claims and opinions seriously—they unsuspectingly hand you all the weapons. In future, if you feel someone's incivility is out of control, please report such a person at WP:AN/I, or file an RfM/RfC/RfAr instead of soliciting random admins personally. I have no desire whatsoever to host petty bickering on my talk page—I have an encyclopedia to work on.— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • ( yo?); 21:48, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Wow, the whole shebang is here! Anyway, even though it's a bit late as the discussion developed beyond this point, I'd like to add that just like Irpen noted, I did not unblock Kuban Cossack because I thought his behavior was not in violation of WP:CIV. I unblocked him because he was blocked twice for the same offense, and because the amount of time that passed between Cossack's last contribution and his block effectively rendered the block useless. As a reminder—uncivility blocks are mainly used to get a party cool down during a particulary heated debate. This is not a punishment, but rather a time-out tool. Of course, a time-out six hours after the incident is pretty much meaningless.
To answer KPbIC's other question—no, I was never called any of those words by Kuban Cossack or any other editor, but I can assure you that if I had been, I would have just reminded the offender about the civility guidelines and shrugged that off. I really don't care what other editors think of me personally, and I certainly would not block (or request a block of) anyone who would call me an idiot or anything along those lines. I realize that others may not take personal insults as lightly as I do, though. Hopefully I was able to explain my attitude, but feel free to let me know if you have further questions.— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • ( yo?); 14:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, Ezhiki! I noticed that in your articles about administrative divisions of oblasts the tables say "сельские населённые пункты без населения". Are these ghost towns? Why does it sound so weird "населённый пункт без населения"? I'm sure this is an official формулировка, but could you clarify this for me, since you're so into it? This is just my curiosity :). Thanx and keep up the good work! KNewman 07:42, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Privet, Ēzhik, I noticed you made an edit to Bratva. What do you say we merge it to Russian Mafia? - CrazyRussian talk/ contribs/ email 19:52, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Actually it is Bonny who you have to thank, that is the inspiration:
[13]. I thought it was too well done not to forget it... --
Kuban Cossack
22:48, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
The Wilno Uprising nasty conflict needs more attention, if you please. Also, check talks and edit Histories of Lviv and Battle of the Lower Dnieper. This may take time though.
I would like to request some attention at Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and Baltic portals, re Vilnius issue but for now, I am requesting the attention of several editors who've could quickly inderstand what the problem is. -- Irpen 02:45, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
I have joined Commons, as you suggested, and I have uploaded more pictures of Vladivostok. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kaspersky_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B5
Also, I did a gamma correction on this picture: 250px
Please inform, is Wikipedia supposed to be transparent, or is it normal to be forced to resolve disputes by email? I would like to know why I am blocked, but nobody will tell me. For two weeks, I have been asking the simple question, "How have I offended?" Nobody will give me an answer. pgk keeps deleting my {{unblock}} request, telling me to contact the person who blocked me by email. As someone who has lived in Communist Russia, this suggestion sounds to me like meeting the KGB in private to ask why I have been targeted. Can't we do things out in the open? -- Kaspersky Trust 22:18, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the information. I'm now somewhat confused, since I always look at the block log to check the situation when looking at unblock requests (e.g. history of blocks, are they currently blocked etc.), So I can't see how I missed the unblock. I'll make my own apologies. If you want to check for autoblocks you can take a look at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~pgk/autoblock.php which is slightly easier to search on but only updates every few minutes. Any autoblock in the last 24 hours could still be in effect. -- pgk( talk) 08:39, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm going to have to re-block. He's a sockpuppet of Zephram Stark. Jayjg (talk) 20:57, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Jayjg is lying to you and I can prove it, if you are interested. -- Kaspersky Trust 21:59, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm leaving a message for you because I don't want you to think that I ignored you. I have left messages for you twice on my user discussion page, but they were both deleted by User:JW1805. Thank you for everything you did. You're one of the good guys. -- Kaspersky Trust 19:39, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Interesting article - ru:Википедия:Проект:Муниципальные образования.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ochkarik ( talk • contribs).
No, I'm not going to write this any time soon. I just thought it weird that the only Znamenka mentioned in other WP articles (e.g., Strelna) is not mentioned. -- Ghirla -трёп- 16:10, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for invitation to Russian portal: I found a lot of useful information there.
I assume you checked some of my edits - it is always a pleasure to know that one's work is not in vain. Any comments?
--
Alex
talk
19:30, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Ëzhiki. CKA3KA, here. I have been considering nominating the Esalen Institute article for deletion, but since I've never done such a thing, I'd very much appreciate your input. Could you do me the favor of looking at my comments on that article's talk page and letting me know, before I proceed, if I'm all wet on this issue? — CKA3KA (Skazka) 21:31, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
For the formatting tip. I felt like Marcel Marceau, trapped in a box!
Perhaps you could advise on how Wiki writers document their work. I am accustomed to academic footnoting. If I am writing or revising an article based on one or more source documents, each fact I assert is backed up by something on some page or pages of a reference. The references may be books which are rare. Many articles just have a lot of text, then some clickable links, to web pages which may go dead or whose content may change over time. This makes the facts in the article basically uncheckable. If I merely add my new references in the list at the bottom of the article, it would be difficult or impossible for the next person with an interest in the article to verify my work, because the book, journal, or other source may be hard to find, and there is no way of knowing which work in the list contains which fact. A footnote directing the reader to a specific work helps. But my inclination is to insert a note in the text such as (Smith, pp 213-215) since the work may lack an index. Footnotes often only direct the reader to a book, but not to the page. If I edit an article lacking footnotes, the Wiki style guide says follow the practice of the existing article documentation, which means having a bunch of disputable text followed by a bunch of links or references, so there is no way to document. So far, I have sometimes kept my own documentation file with source notes, in case someone disputes my edit. That seems a poor practice, because I would have to stand by forever to defend my edit. Any thoughts?
Also, is there a guideline for how old a copyrighted work has to be to become public domain and fair game for reproducing, such as illustrations from books or other publications?
Thanks again Edison 14:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Maybe we should create templates on all subjects like Ukrainians did on their oblasts. --
Kuban Cossack
19:56, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
Since you made a lot of contributions regarding administrative divisions of Russia, I thought you could answer my question.
I'm in search of maps of Western Russia, preferably black-and-white (you know, just like these old контурные карты in geography class... :)). The only difference is the scale, as I would like a big map of Western russian with roads, cities and so on but with no background or something like that, to be able to draw on it... :)
Any idea where I might find them? (preferably in public domain of course...)
Thanks! Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 16:01, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Central administrative district like the future relevant articles may be moved to Central administrative okrug. However I'm against transliteration such as "Tsentralny administrative okrug" or "Severo-Vostochny administrative okrug", but of course redirects could be made. Admittedly I can't understand why the general term is okrug while its subdivisions are called districts (e.g.: "federal district for federalny okrug, as in Siberian Federal District", as defined). Thanks anyway :) -- Brand спойт 19:51, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Привет. Обращаюсь как к человеку как мне кажется сведущему в Naming conventions. Нужна помощь в решении одного разногласия с User:Irpen. По-моему русское написание здесь совершенно неуместно. Нет совершенно никаких причин его добавлять. Петр Могила - молдавского происхождения, Киевский метрополит, умер до Переяславской Рады. Альтернативное английское имя Peter Mogila в статье приведено. "Pyotr Mogila" можно сказать в английском языке неизвестно совсем [14] 20 линков (включая 16 from Wikipedia). Далее в обсуждении User:Irpen пытается предствить будто я убираю английское написание, сопровождая это оскорблениями в мой адрес и неуместными инсинуациями. -- Yakudza 21:36, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Do you still have an interest in getting this going? I've been thinking about putting a bit of effort in in this area, and thought I'd go and see if a WikiProject existed on it, but alas, found that it was inactive. Rebecca 07:38, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I have seen that you left a message for me on User talk:129.12.200.49. I am afraid i did not realise, which is why i did not reply. I do have this user account, but i was lazily not using for the edits to the table of federal subject types. Incidentally I have recently added a table to Republics of Russia, with lots of information on the Republics, i hope everyone likes it! N-edits 14:22, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I notice you have put the note !--"i. e." is debatable-- after my comment "i.e. ethnic Finnish" for Karelians. I realise that my comment is not entirely clear. I do not intend to mean that the Karelians are actually Finnish. I mean to say that the Karelians have the same origins as the Finnish, and am refering to the fact that they were Finnish (except perhaps in some being of the Orthodox church) until 1917. Perhaps something bracketed like "(Finnish ethnic origin)" or "(closely related to Finnish)" would be preferable to "i.e. ethnic Finnish" ? N-edits 15:01, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Ezhiki. Could you leave your comments here [15]? -- Ghirla -трёп- 06:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
You probably wish to visit the discussion at Talk:Michael of Chernigov - Marrtel 13:36, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Ok. In that case, I'll make a new category "Cities, towns and villages" in the KO. Although it does seem to be a bit nitpicky to include villages from a list of "towns and cities"... Travelbird
I got curious: why do you created template like Template:Cities and towns in Tatarstan when exactly the same category exists, is used and the category is much less distracting for a reader? When I see such colored boxes I really wonder what does make them so attractive on WP. Pavel Vozenilek 22:57, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
As the best expert on the transliteration of cyrillic please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)#Final Proposal. abakharev 08:43, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your alert. I don't know where I picked up the "cite" phantom-tag, but it seems to follow me around like a pathetic puppy looking for a home.
And yes - History21's a bud. He also wrote the "God bless you" statement in my user:talk (ironically, given the motivation for your talk visitation). The only thing that pains me more than seeing "fuck" spelled without the "c" is when people can't grasp there/their/they're and to/too/two. : D—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nugneant ( talk • contribs).
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Ezhiki! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Prodego talk 21:03, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, Ezhiki! Why is it when I point my mouse on the coat of arms of Novgorod, it says "Coat of Arms of Mari El"? And we have this logo in every article on some town in Novgorod Oblast :). My trip to Turkey was excellent, a lot of swimming, drinking, eating, sightseeing and stuff. And tanning, of course. KNewman 10:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi I'm going to write about the central districts, and maybe other districts in the kronstadt, vyborg, peterhof areas. But you can unlink links you think is unnecessary. /Fiss
Hi there. I like your recent participation here. We can edit Russian articles further to present some referenced (or, first of all, common knowledge) TRUTH there. I.e., you're already playing my game. Or, you, as an admin, can make decisions on some Russian editors that would stop me of describing a real Russia (contact me if you want that). A kind of diplomacy you know. Whatever you choose, I'm OK with. Best wishes, AlexPU 19:44, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Надо отнять и поделить :) -- Untifler 09:48, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Ezhiki, can you comment on the status of Povorino? (from my talk page):
Hi, why did you add excessive disamiguation in Template:Districts of Volgograd Oblast? For instance, is there really a need to disambiguate Bykovsky District if there aren't more than one? Now - I don't know if there indeed are several districts named Bykovsky, but at least nothing points there :) -- Punkmorten 16:09, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up this article! I was hoping someone familiar with Russian would take a look at it. Cheers. -- F a ng Aili talk 15:46, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thanks for the welcome message, but i think you may be the one who needs to review npov!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.161.211.139 ( talk • contribs).
Hi there, Ezhiki! I just thought that if I add 10 more people, I will have to add their birth and death dates. Their dates are (or will be) listed in the articles themselves, anyway. You are free to restore them, if you wish. However, you will have to add more dates for other people then in order for a disambig page to look nice :). KNewman 12:57, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I dislike infoboxes intensely, because they encumber the pages without adding anything of value. As most Russian city articles are stubs, I envisage the nightmare which the arrival of infoboxes may cause here. Image jams and template jams are guaranteed. People would start flooding the stubs with silly coats of arms. Actually, I can't see any point in infoboxes. They usually repeat the information given in the text and make the articles, especially stubs, look overcluttered and slovenly. We should improve and expand the articles, add the coordinates properly, before embarking upon this risky infobox affair. -- Ghirla -трёп- 13:35, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you please lock the article from edit wars and participate in discussion as well. --
Kuban Cossack
23:14, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
This is apparently the flag of Kaliningrad Oblast -- can you confirm this? FOTW doesn't mention anything, but then again, they haven't got any flag for Tambov yet, and AFAIK the flag in Tambov's article is correct... Thanks! — Nightst a llion (?) 23:03, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Well I feel that there is no more point to hold on so I made the proposal a policy, I put a note on Portal:Belarus and if, say in 24 hours I recieve no new proposals for re-entering lacinka into Belarusian titles I will begin moving the articles, and for this I will need your help as an admin who can fix redirects. OK? --
Kuban Cossack
14:49, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
File:Motherussia.jpg | Hello Ezhiki, and thank you for your support at my request for adminship, which ended with an awe-inspiring 86/1/2 result. I plan to do much with my shiny new tools - but I'll start slow and learn the ropes at first. Please deluge me with assignments and requests - I enjoy helping out. For Mother Russia!! - CrazyRussian talk/ contribs/ email 05:20, 13 June 2006 (UTC) |
In Administrative divisions of Russia in 1727-1728 is mentioned "Revel Governorate (Ревельская губерния) was considered subdivided into 1 province (Estland)" On the Dutch wikipedia we currently have a debate about the actual name of this governorate between 1719 and 1783 (at nl:Overleg:Gouvernement Estland). As far as I know (from this website) the name in Russian was Ревельская губерния between 1719 and 1783, then Ревельское наместничество until 1796 and afterwards Эстляндская губерния. However the Estonian wiki doesn't mention Revel Governorate at all ( et:Tallinna asehaldurkond). This german pdf-document about Livonia uses the word Estland for this region during this time (and not 'Reval'). Now I was wondering where you obtained the data which is mentioned in the article Administrative divisions of Russia in 1727-1728 (and the other division reform articles of this time referring tot this guberniya). Not that it would change the outcome of the debate, as it is about the Dutch name for this region in this particular time, but because I am curious if the Germans and the Russian state perhaps had a different name for this territory. -- Hardscarf 22:11, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Сохраняющаяся въ Государственномъ Архивѣ роспись губернiй и провинцiй 1727 года (Разр. XVI, д. 11) даетъ возможность подробно очертить областное дѣленiе, какъ оно установилось въ началѣ эпохи...
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::IV. Ревельская губернiя: составляетъ одну провинцiю, совпадаетъ съ Эстляндiей.
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I would welcome your comments on this page. -- Ghirla -трёп- 10:10, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Do you have some more info about this place ( Astapovo)?? It would be great if you can add something more to it. I've created the basic article... It's of special interest as Leo Tolstoy's death place.
:)
Pratheepps 10:56, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ezhiki,
Thanks for your explanation. My point is that the BGN/PCGN publications are not presented as titles (I see quotes nor italics). Instead, the article provides a listing of BGN/PCGN romanizations of a number of languages. That's why I'd prefer to refer to the languages using their common names. Please also not that Lappish is considered to be offensive. -- Benne ['bɛnə] ( talk) 12:36, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Why Igel Herrisonovich Izhakoff? Who is/was that guy? It's just my curiosity. It's your decision anyway :). KNewman 17:37, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
So, having already had some words with you on the matter, I thought I'd toss an idea to you. As you're aware, the names of 2nd- and 3rd-level jurisdictions don't necessarily indicate their administrative center, although they often do. Since part of the project I'm working on (which is what led me to comparing the Komi article to the Komi republic web site) involves me digging up this information, do you think it would be useful to incorporate that information? (Like so:)
It seems the best feasible way to provide that detail -- one which is sort of necessary for someone to get an idea of where the areas are in many cases. (The best way would be getting the articles for each district up, but that's going to be a herculean effort. In a perfect world, every oblast/krai/republic would have the same level and detail of coverage as every US state already does, and every raion would have the same level of detail as US counties. But I digress...) Anyway, since that information is your baby, let me know what you think. I'm perfectly okay with entering it, although I'm sure you'll wanna keep an eye on it and correct my lousy Russian "spelling". ;) JFMorse 06:57, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Ezhiki. I’d like to thank you for your time which you spent for reading and correcting my article. I very appreciate that you valued my work so much:) Lidiab 05:50, 29 June 2006 (UTC)lidiab
I noticed you removed the Category:Cities and towns in Russia. Fine by me, you'll probably know best. Problem is however, that the only category remaining is Category:Human spaceflight, and consequently, no geographical one. Isn't there some workaround, e.g. a Category:Restricted areas in Russia, which could then be put in the geography tree? Errabee 17:34, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your concern. Tobias was actually blocked for disruption (he moved a town page to "Bad (town)"), and for placing "this user is a deletionist" on other people's userpages. Additionally, he began a systematic campaign of disruption by way of open IPs as soon as he was blocked. So unfortunatly, there's a lot more going on than than just his interaction with you (which honestly, I hadn't noticed). -- InShaneee 20:43, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Привет,
вот статья, которую я расширил ( изменения). Нужно, чтобы проверили и подкорректировали, не знаю, где спросить. Посмотрел портал Россия - как я понял, там весьма мало смотрят обсуждения. -- Ъыь ( koo!) 17:48, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to bother you again. Could you please take a look at Olonets Raion. I got there from Administrative divisions of the Republic of Karelia via the redirect Olonetsky District, Republic of Karelia. Is this just plain incorrect, or does it describe a historically other region? Errabee 06:12, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Your have endorsed the summary by Alex Bakharev at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Irpen which misinforms the community. Alex Bakharev wrote about Russian architecture: "There is no discussion on the talk page, no suggestions on improving the article". In fact there was (and still is) a discussion on the talk page and solution has been proposed. (Please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Irpen#Comment_to_the_summary_by_Alex_Bakharev_and_others). I suggest you to withdraw your signature under the summary.-- AndriyK 08:51, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your note. I'd make the following points.
I've only posted this here, do with it as you will, and thanks for making the effort to resolve this issue. jimfbleak 15:21, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for wikifying my Russia-related articles. I am currently working on making pages about the Tver Oblast, especially the area around Kashin and Kalyazin. My ancestors are from that region and I want it to become more well-known. If you can help me out some more in the future, that would be great. -- GoOdCoNtEnT 17:08, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
When is it a good idea to add a 'See Also' section to a page? When is it not? What is your opinion on 'See Also' sections? -- GoOdCoNtEnT 00:30, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Courtesy notice - I prodded. - CrazyRussian talk/ email 03:21, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
WikiProject Central Asia has finally been created! If you're interested, please consider joining us. Aelfthrytha 21:50, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Привет. У меня возникло разногласие с одиним из участников, ты не мог бы помочь?
Предыстрия такова: я поправил в статье про Уму Турман, ставшей избранной, типографику: заменил дефисы на тире, знаки дюйма — на кавычки (“”) и компьютерный апостроф (') на типографский (’). Через некоторое время участник Downwards откатил мои правки по поводу апострофа. Я написал по поводу этого ему в обсуждение, но мы не очень друг друга поняли и мою последнюю реплику он просто проигнорировал.
Скажи пожалуйста, я в чём-то не прав? Спасибо. — fatal_exception ?! 09:12, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
When editing the Savyolovo article, Picapica did make a few good points. Would it be possible that you could rewrite his section to include them? Thanks. -- GoOdCoNtEnT 18:44, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello Ezhiki. I just wanted to ask you if you know there is great PD encyclopedia which we should use, at [16]. It's sad that my generation don't know Russian language so I can't help with translating. But do you know someone who can help? I know that User:Mircea on the Czech wiki translated more than 100 {!} articles on Russian lakes and lakes from former Soviet republics. -- Darwinek 16:13, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a bunch for giving me that warning!!! I'm starting to have enough of this template/userbox war. I copied the template over at my own subpage just in case. Thanks again,
Grafikm
(AutoGRAF)
21:19, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Ok. Sorry. A Russian friend of mine saw the article and suggested that I fix it. — Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 18:58, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Just started this article, and was wondering if you could check the facts and especially the Russian spelling. Thanks in advance! =) -- ran ( talk) 22:52, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello, it seems that in addition to revesal of names of Moscow rail terminals you have made, the Template:Moscow Rail Terminals needs to be reverted.... Goudzovski 16:57, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian instead of initiating a revert war. Circeus 13:19, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
While it may be obvious that Novosibirsk is the largest city in Siberia, it's never pointed out in the article and therefore isn't "redundant". Also, it isn't pointed out that the city is Siberia's capital, which I will also be adding to the article. Please, before you go around reverting information in articles think of an actual reason for doing it. I don't care that you're an administrator, this is a blatant misuse of power. There's no justifiable reason to go around getting rid of perfectly accurate information in articles.- User:LaFagotdeParis
Ezhiki, I see that you've come across Template:Kirovohrad Oblast one of many Ukrainian subdivision templates that I recently edited or created. Please realize that the transliteration used therein is now in place for all Oblast templates. Perhaps we should discuss this at Talk:Subdivisions of Ukraine before we spend time editing around each other. In short, I transliterated the raion names in a modified way because there does not seem to be a consistent standard on Wikipedia. My goal was to make the names easy to read in english. Please let us discuss this further at the talk page. Thank you!-- tufkaa 17:22, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Just a note to alert you. Chevaline has been the target of a vandal who's purpose seems to be to bully contributors to accept a version of nuclear history that omits any reference to the percieved threat from the Soviet Union, real or imagined. A specific reference to Krushchev and the threats made during the Suez Crisis are the latest target. These were referenced to external sources, but to back up those sources I provided additional references to the Nikita Krushchev page and the Suez Crisis page. He seems to have taken umbrage at this, and given his earlier behaviour these pages may well be his next target. I hope not, but my reading of him as a former elected officer of CND in the 1980's, is that he is still firmly in the category of a 'Friend of Leonid Breshnev'. They were a pain in the neck then, and apparently still are. No names, no finger pointing, but you'll know him if he appears here. Regards. Brian.Burnell 19:31, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Ezhiki, actually, could you please fix the Slavutych page that I messed up. Sorry for this. I planned to move Slavutych (city) back to Slavutych, mentioning the other meanings by {{otheruses}}. Slavutych (disambiguation) is already there. But I fail to realize that the move over redirect requires the redirect to refer to the moving page. Or, alternatively, put the dab back, I cannot do it either. Thanks, MapLover 05:10, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Looks nice, but why only Murmansk? where is all the rest??? :) -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 17:12, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi I am new to wikipedia, and the only article that I made my self so far is a small one on Eduard Pleske a russian finance minister during the early twentieth century.
I am currently doing some substantial research into Chernenko and I would like to expand that article, and maybe totally rewrite it. However I noticed that you deleted my edit about Chernenko's exceptional memory, I have plenty of sources but how do I cite them on wikipedia? Just add a reference section?
Also I would probably change the layout of the page as well since it doesnt currently have much room for personal life and foreign travel info on Chernenko.
Thank You—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Yev900 ( talk • contribs).
Hi Ezhiki,
Thanks for your support for the Vasilevsky FAC! However, since a huge style hunt is in progress by a maximum of ppl available, can you please take a few minutes to read the article and to correct/point out the problems you might encounter?
Thanks in advance, Graf.
Something weird is happening with this page. Please investigate. -- Ghirla -трёп- 06:27, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello Ezhiki! I am from Slovak wikipedia, you can find me there under nick Stibium. The reason why I write to your discussion here, is that I want to ask you what is the purpose of your registering on Slovak wikipedia. Is it adding interwikis? If it is, it would be good to write it on your user page. No offence meant with this comment, it's just some people register on Slovak wikipedia, they are not Slovaks and the do not contribute, only say they can't speak Slovak and that we should contact them on their national wikipedia, and I have no idea why, and I hoped that you would be the one enlightening me on this. (not that I am forbidding you that, I'm actually happy that new people register on our wikipedia, I just sometimes wonder why).
Regards, Stibium
Seventeen images of the "Hero of the Soviet Union" barnstar awards commented out for bandwidth reasons.—Ezhiki | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I, KPbIC, hereby award you this barnstar (one per each Ezhik) for your excellent template " Hero City". Keep it up! |
Hi, KPbIC! First of all, please accept my apologies that you found the template which I created offensive; although your reaction to it is somewhat puzzling to me. From what I remember of my past brief interactions with you, you seemed like a reasonable fellow; definitely not the type who'd start handing out buckets of sarcastic awards before even asking what's going on. Anyway, judging from the discussion on my talk page and above on this one, I think I owe an explanation.
Yesterday, at the Russian notice board, Ghirlandajo asked for community's opinion regarding whether or not a Hero Cities template would be a good idea. It seemed like a relatively useful template to have to me, and as I was the only one who responded, I went ahead and created one. The problem I encountered was that the Hero Cities, as you well know, are located in three different modern countries, and the only suitable title of sufficient commonality I could think about was "Hero Cities of the Soviet Union" (thanks for changing it to "former", by the way, it was an oversight on my part), with further subcategorization into Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. If the "Soviet Union" part irked you, I welcome any suggestions as to what title would be more acceptable.
When I started adding the template to the actual articles, the idea lost some of its appeal. Hero Cities are large cities with rich histories, and although I don't agree that their Hero City status is just a "minor point" as you put it above, having yet another template at the bottom kind of overloads the articles' footers, if only from the aesthetic point of view. Perhaps having just a category would have been sufficient, I don't know. In any case, if you still feel the template is a mistake, please put it on TfD, which, if I may remind you, was an option available to you all along.
Meanwhile, I hope you'll understand if I respectfully decline the award you've given me. To answer your other question, I do not have any further plans for creating similar templates—this one was a one-time deal that turned up unexpectedly. Rest assured, if I ever find myself looking into creating a template along similar lines, I will make sure to request your input before actually creating and implementing it.
Hopefully this closes this incident. Of course, should you have any questions or comments, you are welcome on my talk page. Best of luck to you in your edits.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 13:54, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello my friend. I just wanted to ask you if I am annoying you by creating such a high number of geo-stubs, that you always greatly expand. I would like to continue with this next week. Today I am going on vacation. - Darwinek 15:55, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I never presumed that Kola was officially recognized as a suburb of Murmansk. I'm not aware that there is an official definition of suburb, either, and I never claimed that there is. I regard "suburb" as an informal designation. If you think that "satellite" is a more appropriate term, please make necessary changes, although I believe that the current wording is just fine. -- Ghirla -трёп- 14:12, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Здравствуйте, хотелось-бы узнать, что делать если я создаю скажем статью Dmitriy Puchkov, но хочу чтобы на нее выходили в поиске и по dmitry puchkov, и по Dmitry Puchkow и еще там по какому-нибудь Puchkoff? Если я правильно понял для этого должно быть созданно соответсвующие количество статей с разными названиями и редиректами на главную статью? Или это можно сделать как-то иначе?
Спасибо. P.S. И еще отдельное спасибо за Вашу правку Pole Chudes.
Posse 21:19, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
#REDIRECT [[Dmitry Puchkov]]
Hi, Wallie! Could you please explain me the reasoning behind this edit of yours? I couldn't figure out what the connection between the village and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
These articles are now being vandalized by Nixer:
Russian Empire - Reverts without provides. Rejects official sources and does not specify the sources. Refuses to cooperate.
Naval ranks and insignia of the Russian Federation and Ranks of the People's Liberation Army - multi 3RR violation
Please, help to stop his attack and reverts.-- Oliversi 11:15, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Do you think some template like {{ Arabic}} should be created for Russian language ? - Darwinek 18:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
That's okay; other countries have the naming convention to use the comma even if the other places are not cities (see, for example, Wikipedia:WikiProject Swiss municipalities/Article title conventions), and I wasn't aware there were other standards. But if the Russian ones are already standardized there wouldn't be any reason to change them all.
And this is irrelevant, but I saw the last comment, and if Darwinek asks again you can tell him I'm a huge fan of the Arabic template and think there should be one for all non-Roman scripts. Rigadoun 20:11, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
What do you say to this? -- Ghirla -трёп- 14:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
I just saw you Ghirla's page, and dropped in to say hello. -- Bhadani 15:16, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the clarification as to the city/town status of this (and other towns in Russia). BillC 16:57, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Don't images take up the majority of the space though? -- GoOdCoNtEnT 20:34, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
I have uploaded a map of Kashinsky District to show the location of Kashin. However, the map is in Russian. Can you help me find a map in English? -- GoOdCoNtEnT 20:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
...do you know where can I complain about admin rights abuse? All these ArbCom pages are really a bureaucratic mess. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:41, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
As far as I know, there isn't a way to create a non-breaking space without using the tag. My point was that it doesn't seem necessary and clutters up the editing space. If there's a particular reason for putting it there, I didn't think of it. Dbinder ( talk) 01:46, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
maybe you like Category:Wikipedians who use userboxes for statistical reasons, I use the template now. I am not a big fan of user boxes, but if it helps in statistics it's good. So I will maybe deploy more in the future. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 11:29, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Bolshakovo your review welcome. interwiki ru? improve my english... Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:02, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
ISO 15924 v ISO 639-3 - Template talk:User cyr, Category talk:User cyr Tobias Conradi (Talk) 19:52, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thought it might be easier for you to look it up... can you check if Heixiazi/Bolshoy Ussuriyskiy is a part of Khabarovsky Krai or the Jewish Autonomous Oblast? Google Earth seems to suggest the JAO, but Google Earth really isn't the most authoritative source. Thanks in advance. -- ran ( talk) 16:49, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
I doubt you'll ever get to encounter this elsewhere, but you might want to add Administrative divisions of Tuva to the list of exceptions. "Sumon" here is correct, "summon" isn't. Cheers,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 21:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I was just wondering if you would accept if I would nominate you for adminship. Cheers. -
Darwinek
13:04, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome. Interesting project you got here. Seems like it could be useful. Heard a little bit of bad press a while back, but I hope that's all taken care of now. I look forward to spending some time fixing some little things. Cya. -- Ali'i 13:34, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Remember when I asked you to lock the article, well the dispute continued into an
RfC, since you had some involvement, maybe you can give an outside opinion on the matter.--
Kuban Cossack
00:48, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Ёжики, я тут работаю над статьёй о Википедии (аспирант типа), хотел бы вам пару вопросов задать вне ВП, например по емайлу, или как вам удобнее. Как можно было бы с вами связаться? Я yuri(at)sims(.)berkeley(.)edu. Qaramazov 07:03, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
There is an ISO 15924 conform userbox Template:User Cyrl now. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ëzhiki,
Thanks; as I've just noted at WP:CfD, I didn't realise I'd wandered into an area where the consensus is/was to use non-English terms. Apologies!
No need, but thanks for offer.
I would say that if non-English terms are to be used, then for the sake of consistency (and education) the correct non-English plurals should also be used. Hence I'll be requesting moves to Kraia of Russia and Oblasti of Russia respectively – unless these should be Kraya of Russia and Oblasty of Russia or something else...? (Also, subyekty or subyekti or something else...?) Thanks, David Kernow 13:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Не мог бы ты, как администратор, снять пометку db-empty со статьи Mithgol's Urine, пожалуйста? Пометку поставили, когда там было два предложения, с тех пор её уже расширили. -- Vlad Jaroslavleff 17:45, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ezhiki. Thanks for the tips regarding the "Autonomous Oblasts of the Soviet Union" template. I have corrected the mistakes. Tell me what you think. -- Clevelander 19:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Dorogoy Yozhik, nu razve mozhno tak vezhlivo obraschat'sya s trollyami i kormit' ih filet mignon'om? S glubokim uvazheniyem, - CrazyRussian talk/ email 13:00, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Et tu, Brute? Please, reconsider.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 13:49, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
It's from the official site of Moscow government: [17]
ТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНОЕ ДЕЛЕНИЕ ГОРОДА
Территориальными единицами города Москвы являются районы (123) и административные округа (10), имеющие наименования и границы, закрепленные правовыми актами города Москвы.
About upravas. Uprava is the governing body in raion (e.g. Управа района Измайлово). So there should be bijection between them and raions. -- 87.251.146.100 14:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
It seems that К-Г has never been a raion. It was a territorial unit with a special status (TEOC, Территориальная единица с особым статусом), later territory with a spec. stat. (ТОС, Территория с особым статусом). See [23]. Territory described here mostly belongs to Тверской raion, except of a small "appendix" Знаменка-Крестовоздвиженский-Воздвиженка of Арбат raion (as these raions pictured in my Москва современная. Атлас города. ООО Атлас-принт, 2005). Document mentioned above has many amendments (you can find it on the same server). I think I'll create an account soon and then post it's name for you.-- 87.251.146.73 16:12, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Again me. See Закон о территориальном делении города Москвы (Закон № 13-47, от 05.07.95 95-31 and later editions) Постановление Правительства Москвы О РЕОРГАНИЗАЦИИ АДМИНИСТРАЦИИ ТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНОЙ ЕДИНИЦЫ С ОСОБЫМ СТАТУСОМ "КИТАЙ-ГОРОД" № 479-ПП, от 24.06.03) on the same site [24]. I think that current status of К-Г is the following. It is a territory defined in law (on ТЕОС К-Г, 1996). The Управление К-Г Префектуры ЦАО have some power on this territories. But this territory belongs to raions Арбат and Тверской.-- 87.251.146.122 17:11, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Привет! Случилась ерундовая проблема, но нужен систоп чтобы её решить. Я загрузил в своё время поверх файла указанного выше (нечаянно конечно), женщину просящую подаяние. Как её убрать оттуда и перенести в файл с другим именем? И чтобы оба этих файла не удаляли? А то я вроде загрузил первуб версию файла в [[Image:Luli children.jpg]], но их за что-то удалили :). Хотя точно такую же картинку в файле [[Image:Luli.jpg]] не трогали... Не поможешь? -- Wiki 20:25, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Кстати, нет ли человека, готового помочь с Tatar cuisine, которая просто переведена роботом с русского раздела? Тема-то уж больно вкусная. Все татарские названия я потом и сам поправлю, как они пишутся на английском, но вот собственно с кулинарным английским мне вовек не разобраться! -- Wiki 20:25, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Hey! Thanks a lot for your help and the new template! :) I have grown up in Komarovo and wanted to write about it for a long time. I will probably be adding some of my own pictures to the article a little later... Vlad b 21:23, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
shouldnt we make a link to Notability at our talk pages? To see how the article gets deleted and recreated? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 05:18, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi again Ëzhiki,
Thought you might wish to respond to
this query – apologies if this page already on your watchlist. Best wishes,
David Kernow
01:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for adding your thoughts here; I'm letting some time pass to give Tobias and anyone else the opportunity to respond as well.
Meanwhile, I have returned to the "chestnut" that is (administrative) subdivisions of Russia and read some of the material you commended to me. It's intriguing to note that – so far as I've seen – Russia is the only country on the English Wikipedia not to have some sort of system of English names for its (administrative) subdivisional terms. Furthermore, given the sentiments you reported, this surprises me – coupled with the levels indicated in the rest of the article plus the other Russian subdivision articles, it appears to provide such a system:
voyenny okrug (what level/s?) |
military district |
* The distinction between "province" (oblast) and "historical province" (провинция) can be made...?
I'm not thinking (or advocating) that every "N Oblast", "M Okrug" etc article is renamed, but that English equivalents along the lines of the above might be given at an overview level. What am I missing or have not understood...? Thanks, David 01:02, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
PS I note some of these translations are already in use in e.g. Federal subjects of Russia.
PPS I also note these (?second-level) transliterations given near the bottom of this page at statoids.com: natsional'nyy rayon; ostrov; pgt [sic!]; gorsovet; Natsional'naya Volost'.
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Munitsipalnyye would be a better transliteration for "муниципальные" (as per WP:RUS, as well as for consistency with other transliterations already used in the table). This is indeed "undefined plural" (I wish I knew the precise grammatical term); masculine singular is "муниципальный" (munitsipalny). "Obrazovaniya posyolki" is completely incorrect. "Munitsipalnyye obrazovaniya—posyolki" is literally translated as "municipal entities—settlements", and "obrazovaniya posyolki" literally means "entities settlements", which, of course, makes no sense at all (I understand that you don't speak Russian, so the mistake is perfectly understandable; plus, I should have replied sooner so you wouldn't have to play the exciting game of Cyrillic roulette :)). The singular form for "municipal settlements" is "муниципальное образование — посёлок" (munitsipalnoye obrazovaniye—posyolok). To answer the rest of your questions: "vnutri-" means "intra-" (lit. "inside"), but is usually omitted during translation (I've never seen "intracity districts" applied to Russian cities). Also the term "(vnutri)gorodskiye" is not officially applied to the administrative okrugs of Moscow and to the districts of St. Petersburg, although it can, of course, be used to describe what they are. I would suggest to remove this term from the federal cities' line of the table altogether. Same goes for the districts of Moscow (they are simply "rayony", not "vnutrigorodskiye rayony").— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 16:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
This is great! – and not a little work, so maybe it can find life beyond my (soon-to-be-archived) talk page...? I don't think I'll use all the variations (yes, I had no idea Russian had such a – probably very useful – variety of plural forms) but hope I've used and confirmed the appropriate ones in The Table. I'm planning to move The Table et al into the main encyclopedia sometime tomorrow, at which point I'll also take a copy of all the above for my own (talk-page archive) reference. Thank you for all your mentoring work! Best wishes, David Kernow 02:46, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Could you please support our request in here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages (Belarusian - Orthography Revision of 1959). Thank you! -- 82.209.xx.xx 09:31, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
need your help at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_August_26#Category:Writing_systems_categories
pschemp just set up something for deletion without talking. Category:User Cyrl-N is heavily populated. But proably all the people in this cat are not aware of the deletion. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 01:42, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Whew! -- tyomitch 14:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
C прошедшим и спасибо за приветствие. Sredni vashtar 17:42, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I've taken the plunge – thanks for your support even before I finished putting my trunks on! Chuckle, David 04:50, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
...Thank you for your commendation! Shiny, David 14:51, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Could you please comment? -- Ghirla -трёп- 12:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Conrad! Regarding this, could you, please, refer me to the appropriate page? I am having trouble locating the RFCU you mentioned. Thanks!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 12:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Could you suggest something to prevent such disruptions in the future? -- Ghirla -трёп- 12:55, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Ezhiki! Do you feel there is a need for a separate Yasnaya Polyana (disambiguation)? IMO, Yasnaya Polyana would be best served with a disclaimer link to Yasnaya Polyana, Kaliningrad Oblast at the top. Having a separate disambiguation page to list those two articles and the vague "Yasnaya Polyana, name of a number of other rural settlements in Russia" seems unncessary to me. What do you think? Olessi 16:34, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
OK but all of the Russian oblasts need a raion and city navigation box as is covered in Ukraine. Otherwise vast important info is not present. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 08:33, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Regarding CrazyRussian's edit to Krasnoye Selo, I think "krasnoye" means "red", beautiful is "krasivoye". Where is the truth? - Darwinek 17:35, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
/English/ Why have you unchanged my changes? In comments Administrative divisions of Moscow you wrote please do not mix up the terms of administrative and municipal divisions. The article is about administrative units, not about municipalities. I didn't do anything with municipalities (Kryukovo, Panfilovsky or/and etc.). I'd did 2 corretion:
1) I'd corrected City of Zelenograd to Zelenograd Administrative Okrug. ZelAO (ЗелАО) is one of ten Administrative Okrugs of Moscow (see ru:Административное деление Москвы). Zelenograd (city) is the majority of ZelAO, but it's not whole of them.
2) I'd inserted the widly used acronyms of Administrative Okrugs and their lat. transliterations. Is this information uninteresting or mistaken?
/Русский/ Почему вы отменили мои исправления? В комментариях вы написали ---. Я ничего не делал с муниципалитетами (Крюково, Панфиловский и/или другие). Я сделал две коррекции:
1. Исправил город ru:Зеленоград на ru:Зеленоградский административный округ. ЗелАО - это один из десяти округов Москвы (см. ru:Административное деление Москвы). Зеленоград же - большая часть ЗелАО, но не вся.
2. Ввёл широко употребляемые сокращения названий округов и их латинские транслитерации. Моя информация неинтересна или ошибочна?
-- Alex Spade 19:36, 14 September 2006 (UTC) See also (см. также) ru:Участник:Alex Spade
Why do you keep reverting the addition of human feaces to the disambig page on log? I think I should be there. I know wikipedia is not a dictonary, but the edit applies to a wikipedia article. It is not just a defination, but a redirect to a page that may be hard to find by someone who does not know the correct article name. Think outside the box 12:17, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
May I just comment here to tell you I am seriously fangirling your revert to Hedgehog? It gave me a good giggle. :) Mhari 03:14, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
Thank You for Your attention. However, I still wonder, why then Wikipedia uses the (right) name Peterhof and not "Petergof"..?
Please, read from here: "They may be names borrowed from Russian through another language, e.g., Petergof→Peterhof."
So, same with the German name Shlisselburg→Schlüsselburg.
Sincerely,
PKo, 25. September 2006, 17.06 (UTC)
It seems as though, once again, I am in desire of your native-speaker services; this time in the Russian grammar article. I'd like to refine the IPA but I don't know the stress to all the words. If a word has two stresses, don't be afraid to mark both of them. It doesn't look like it should take you more than a few minutes, but there's no rush. Thank you in advance. AEuSoes1 09:33, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I just wrote the Pyrohiv (Kiev) and created the Pirogov dab. Now, my question is what to do with Pirogovo.
There are several locations in RU with this name, along with the Pirogovo Reservoir near Moscow. How notable are they. Should Pirogovo be a redirect to a very notable Pyrohiv (Kiev)? Then Russian settlements should be added to Pirogovo (disambiguation) page. Another option is to have two separate disambiguations: Pirogov (disamgiguation) and Pirogovo being a disambiguation too. I am kust not sure how many Pirogovos are in Russia and whether any of them are particularly notable. -- Irpen 21:49, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
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I need your opinion about this. -- Ghirla -трёп- 16:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Grigori Rasputin: vandals tend to flock. Always check prev edit as well, not just hit rv button. Look even deeper in pages that attract vandals, as this one. `' mikka (t) 18:26, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I saw you tend to edit Russia-related articles. If you are familiar with Viktor Khristenko, a former Prime Minister of Russia, please do your best to expand the article or add references to uncited content. Thanks, DRK 21:51, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Something must be done to reduce the size of the article. Do you find nice the pictures with peasants? As if Russia is a country of peasants.-- РКП 18:32, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
I have a strong suspicion that this user is a seasoned troll. Right now he is contributing nothing, only making nuisance with frivolous tags and arbitrary splitting of articles. `' mikka (t) 19:53, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I did it manually. I don't know how to revert articles. I'd like to know how. -- jno 09:44, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Could you please comment on this? Thanks, Ghirla -трёп- 14:06, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, if the Russian town Schlüsselburg (Шлиссельбург) is in English "Shlisselburg", will then the 'new-old' name of Kaliningrad possibly be, not Königsberg (Кёнигсберг) but "Kyonigsberg"..?
Sincerely.
-- PKo 16:37, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
There is another transliteration dispute where your comments are welcome. See this, for instance. -- Ghirla -трёп- 06:44, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Please visit the Talk: Armenia and Talk: Armenians pages http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Armenia&action=edit§ion=3 http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Armenians&action=edit§ion=36 please voice your view on the current discussion, there is a small minority that are promoting and point of view that Armenia is geographically in Europe and Armenians are a European people. It is best to serve the factual truth and your support is desperately needed.
I am new on WikiProject Cities. I have added considerable content to the first city I am working on, which happens to be the city of my residence, Taichung City. Would you mind taking a few minutes to look it over and leave comments on how you think I can make it better to bring it up to WikiProject Cities standards in a section of the discussion page for the city’s article page that I have set up.
Thank you. Ludahai 03:53, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for copyedit of my ugly article, now you know why usually I don't write articles here :) Sorry for inconviniences and thank you for your help! MaxiMaxiMax 13:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ezhiki,
Thank you for pointing out my mistake. I was, however, referring to WP:MOSDAB. I have been reformatting disambiguation pages since January, at which time I read through the Manual of Style for disambiguation pages very thoroughly. I have not referred back to it very often since then. Apparently the guidelines have changed. Now having read the section "Examples of individual entries that should not be created", I agree with your assessment that the people named "Nikolay" or "Nikolai" should not be mixed with other entries. The entries should be moved to List of people named Nikolay.
If this change is made, the only entries left on Nikolay will be Nikolai, Alaska and Prince Nikolai of Denmark. I would suggest that Nikolai be switched from a redirect page to a short disambiguation page with these two entries and a "See also" section with a link to Nicholas and List of people named Nikolai. Nikolay could then be switched to a redirect page to List of people named Nikolay. Let me know what you think.
Neelix 15:04, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Ezhiki, Thanks for editing help on Kstovo. Uniformity is indeed important. I was wondering though why you thought it desirable to remove the link to the wikimapia.org page? Having the new "coordinates" link was very good of course -- it gives links to all kinds of maps -- but it does not (yet) gives one a Wikimapia link. Which, in my view, is rather unfortunate, as Wikimapia is a unique resource that allows the readers not only to view an annotatted map, but also to participated in a collaborative annotation process, much in the spirit of Wikipedia itself. Also, their UI is nicer (I think) than that on maps.google.com, even though of course the maps come from the same database.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vmenkov ( talk • contribs).
Добрый день!
Я тут промахнулся. прошу переименоловать Википедия:Interwiki Report/ruwiki обратно в User:MaxSem/ruwiki - я промахнулся с проектами... Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 16:04, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Blacksmith Institute - need your help in checking spell for russian places. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:13, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
By assuming that most copyright page have an anti right click lock and by also assuming that it does not have a copyright insignia on the bottom right, I assume it to have no copyright, but that is in my opinion, I interpret the Copright rules loosely, so if its no there then its not copyright. You of course maybe have stricter interpretation.
needed: Nahia into Nahiya. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:31, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Rich! I've just spotted this edit of yours, and I thought I'd ask for a favor.
Linking single years is a habit I acquired in the past two years, and which is very hard to get rid of. I often catch myself linking single years without even thinking that I really shouldn't be doing it. One example is the dates of the Censuses, such as those you corrected in the diff above.
There are currently mighty many references to the 1989 Soviet Census and to the 2002 Russian Census. All of them are constructed as follows:
Since you are obviously not making all the changes by hand, would you consider adding an algorithm replacing the formatting above with this:
I'll make an effort to switch, too; it's just that I really don't want to go back and change all existing formatting by hand.
This, of course, is by no means urgent, but I'd appreciate if you could let me know if it could be done. Thanks!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 18:26, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
~:::Pleasure. Should all be done now. Rich Farmbrough, 21:29 22 October 2006 (GMT).
I can help you with the map(s) you requested. Only thing is the timeframe - what are you expecting (or when)? I am in class for the weekend, so I can probably get to this next week sometime. Rarelibra 22:50, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ezhiki - how does this map look?
I threw this together quickly tonight. Let me know if you have any changes/updates/etc. Rarelibra 04:15, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ezhiki - because it is my delay, I will guarantee this to be updated and to your liking no later than Friday (my time)... :) Rarelibra 22:18, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ëzhiki, thanks a lot for supporting me in my recent RfA. It succeeded, and I am very grateful to all of you. If you ever need help with anything, please don't hesitate to ask. Also, feel free point out any mistakes I make! Thanks again, — Khoi khoi 04:42, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
I'n very sorry that I expressed my problems in a bad way. I was trying to read articles on Siberia in general and came across that page and could not understand it. Sorry that I know so little about Siberia to express my confusion correctly. Mattisse (talk) 12:27, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
P.S. I would fix it myself if I had any idea how to do so. I would love to, but I would do more harm than good if I tried. Mattisse (talk) 12:27, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
With a few changes of status, most of the Soviet-era administrative and territorial divisions of the Russian Republic were retained in constituting the Russian Federation. In 1996 there were eighty-nine administrative territorial divisions: twenty-one republics, six territories (kraya ; sing., kray ), forty-nine oblasts (provinces), one autonomous oblast, and ten autonomous regions (okruga ; sing., okrug ). The cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg have separate status at the oblast level. Population size and location have been the determinants for a region's designation among those categories. The smallest political division is the rayon (pl., rayony ), a unit roughly equivalent to the county in the United States. Source: U.S. Library of Congress
Uvazhaemye ezhiki,
No objections on your reverts. I agree that it is more consistent for us to stick with OKATO. As the Wiki article on OKATO says, OKATO indeed is not set up for expressing the 4-level subordination (Oblast | City | City district | posyolok or selsovet): "Для незначительного количества объектов (объекты, подчиненные администрациям районов городов республиканского, краевого, областного подчинения) их кодирование осуществляется на 6, 7, 8 разрядах, однако исключается одна ступень подчиненности, а именно подчиненность администрации района, и указывается их подчиненность администрации города."
As to the terminology: the Nizhny Novgorod City Charter [26] indeed says:
"Статья 7. Административно-территориальное устройство города
1. ... Город состоит из
* Автозаводского, Канавинского, Ленинского, Московского, Нижегородского, Приокского, Советского, Сормовского районов; * Березовопойменского сельсовета, входящего в Московский район; * деревень Новая, Подновье, курортного поселка "Зеленый город", входящих в Нижегородский район; * деревень Бешенцево, Ближнеконстантиново, Луч, Ляхово, Мордвинцево, Ольгино, входящих в Приокский район; * деревни Кузнечиха, входящей в Советский район.
(formatting mine, words theirs). So if one just reads this, one has reasons to interpret this "входящего" not as being "under jurisdiction" but being "located within [the] territory" of Nizhegorodsky city district. However, OKATO obviously talks about the same concepts in terms of "подчиненные администрациям", i.e. settlements "under jurisdiction" of the district governments.
And finally, as to the facts on the ground (and thanks to Wikimapia I could check the borders of Zelyony Gorod, as given in the same charter), this "resort settlement" sits a long way off Nizhegorodsky District, smack dab in the middle of Kstovo District. Vmenkov 06:17, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
I have added you to my list of Wiki-friends. -- Ineffable3000 19:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
I speedied Actuate, though upon further research it probably doesn't qualify for speedy deletion, so I've restored it. — tregoweth ( talk) 21:20, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
If I tried to fix your "bunched up edits" on History of the administrative division of Russia? I could always revert it back if it didn't work. Mattisse (talk) 18:28, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ëzhiki!
I'm sure now that if I ever have the misfortune to be conscripted, I will try to join the air force, as I don't think I'll survive any minefields I meet! Thanks for confirming that everything else seems okay; I'm nearly ready to start believing in miracles...
As you may've guessed, I'd hoped "autonomous area" would be a globally-neutral term, but, of course, that's asking too much (!) so I'm now thinking of:
Dare I ask what you reckon...?...!
...and, more generally, Autonomies of X. I like the compact nature of "autonomies", but I wonder whether most folk reading it would know to what it referred...?
This is a lazy description I forgot to remove/improve before submission; I'll amend now. I've also just seen another...
Thanks for the alert,
David (
talk)
19:21, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
PS tasc seems to've gone quiet; I hope it's nothing more than a wikibreak.
As someone editing Geography articles, you may like Talk:Hyderabad,_India#Requested_move Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
On Federal subjects of Russia there is a problem with the image Image:Federal subjects of Russia (by number).png overlapping the info box. I would like to try and fix it, and I could always revert it back to the way you have it now if things don't work out. Thanks! Mattisse (talk) 00:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Not really; btw, are the any cities in Russia besides Moscow and Saint Petersburg (and possibly Kronstadt) with established English names different from transliteration? And one more question: what's the mysterious Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division as amended by #102-2006, Code 53? It could be used to make the list of cities and towns really exhaustive. Conscious 15:11, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
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Hello. My friend just sent me a short Russia-related PowerPoint presentation. I want to know if it is some kind of russophobic joke or a reality. Can I send you an e-mail? - Darwinek 18:04, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ëzhiki,
What do you make of this proposal (and my request there)...? Thanks, David Kernow ( talk) 21:47, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
As you're the king of all Year in Television pages, I thought I'd ask your opinion on this - someone's going round adding pricing games on the US version of The Price is Right to the year in television pages ( [28], [29], [30]).
Surely this isn't notable? I was going to remove them all, but thought I'd ask you first so I know I'm not wasting my time doing so. Billy H 22:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Ezhiki, I have a question to you regarding a reversion you made at 17:51 on 31 Oct in "Moscow".
1. 23:38, 1 November 2006 Alex Bakharev (Talk | contribs) m (Reverted edits by 166.113.0.122 (talk) to last version by SDC) 2. (cur) (last) 19:55, 1 November 2006 166.113.0.122 (Talk) (→Demographics) 3. (cur) (last) 19:55, 1 November 2006 166.113.0.122 (Talk) (→Demographics) 4. (cur) (last) 21:18, 31 October 2006 SDC (Talk | contribs) (clean up, Replaced: privately-owned → privately owned using AWB) 5. (cur) (last) 17:51, 31 October 2006 Ezhiki (Talk | contribs) m (rv to Anthony5429) 6. (cur) (last) 17:24, 31 October 2006 83.237.13.237 (Talk) (→General) 7. (cur) (last) 17:18, 31 October 2006 83.237.13.237 (Talk) (→General) 8. (cur) (last) 06:02, 31 October 2006 68.166.31.155 (Talk)
The question concerns edits that I made on 31 October 2006 68.166.31.155 and not those made afterwards by others.
The edits were motivated by offering respect to nations who were part of the early Rus state and who do not enjoy being generalized as Russians. I am sure we would agree that the idea of a single Russian people consisting of three brotherly nations of Belorussians, Russians and Ukrainians is undeniably controversial. I am sure that this debate can continue and that cutting and reverting can see its end in eternity, but I hope we can find a better solution.
The edition I tried to make substituting Russian for Rus' does not infringe on the rights of any people that were part of the *early* Rus period of our lands. You may notice that my substitutions of Russia for Rus' were only made to the early period section. That way, we leave room for people to decide for themselves if Rus and Russia are one and the same. In that sense, to stay true to the spirit of the Internet and the *public* encyclopeadia, is this not what our role is about?
I do not want to make the debate political; I hope you would support the idea of staying as objective as possible to all peoples involved in the history of the early Rus state in the context of Wiki, for the benefit of those who lived through the history and those who are reading about it now.
Respectfully, Andriy
p.s.: one typo in the syntax used for references is a very fair edit.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Geolog7 ( talk • contribs)
Ezhiki:
Why did you change the name of Krasnoi to "Krasny" in the battle article? I'm not sure that is the best thing to do, because throughout the west, this encounter is known as "Krasnoi".
For the perspective of writing style, using "Krasny" in the article when the title reads "Krasnoi" may be problematic.
Are you a Russian native?
Thanks.
Kenmore 21:38, 7 November 2006 (UTC)kenmore
Also, titles of subheadings of articles, in English at least, are written with the first letter of each word capitalized. Is there a reason why you reversed this? I'm not sure it is a good thing to do.
Kenmore 22:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)kenmore
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I, Darwinek, hereby award you this beautiful barnstar for your tireless work on the Russian administrative divisions and towns. Your hard work in this area helps keep it clear and consistent. Darwinek 14:34, 8 November 2006 (UTC) |
Btw. hope you've got my last e-mail. :) - Darwinek 14:34, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I am, apparently, a newbie at this kind of dispute resolution. I have no idea what to do, but ask you, since you have dealt with Mr Conradi before, to please see [31] and advise me what the correct procedure is. I have endeavoured to correct material errors in his edits, as well as to remove inappropriate references to myself, and he simply reverts every time. He is well over the three-reverts rule. I am probably also over the rule, but my reverts have in every case attempted to correct and improve the article, while his have simply been gainsaying. Please help. Thank you. -- Evertype· ✆ 13:35, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Ezhiki, I wonder if your questions were an abstraction or do you have a particular situation in mind? Tobias? Alex Bakharev 11:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Russia of Justice could use your assistance -- we require the Russian name of the party and a *CORRECT* translation of the name. I've seen about half a dozen possible translations: Fair Russia, Just Russia, Russia of Justice, Russia of Fairness, Balanced Russia, ... Thanks! — Nightst a llion (?) 20:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
I hereby confirm that this vote to support closure of sib-wiki was cast by me.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 21:06, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
I won't mind if you implement your proposal. -- Ghirla -трёп- 09:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Regarding my edits to "Administrative divisions of Chelyabinsk/Ivanovo Oblasts". I counted them sober and really get numbers 31/18. Do you count also the administrative centers? - Darwinek 23:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Your the earliest writer on the above place.
So I thought I might ask you to vist the publisher named above and see if you can tell be about the Russian name, term I have there regarding the pl ace as it was in 1917, especially under the Bolsheviks--who would routinely change place names, especially if they were in any way connoting a religious meaning--as in the case of Saint Petersburg becoming Petrograd.
Thanks, Ludvikus 16:58, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
For your convenience, here's my question:
v.
I require assistance regarding Russian history and Language about "THE TOWN OF SERGIEV." What was this place in 1917 called, etc. And is "Town" a correct translation from the Russian of the time? Yours truly, Ludvikus 17:06, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello Ezhiki. I noticed Russian Census website is down. Could you still get the population numbers? - Darwinek 23:23, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Ezhiki, thanks for your comment. My opinion is at User_talk:Vmenkov#Reservoirs. Vmenkov 19:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
I am sorry but I do not believe I have edited that article...I think I may have reverted vandalism since the same the name sounds familiar. I may have accidentally reverted by a mistake if I did. Sorry. Cheers!__ Seadog ♪ 22:16, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Okay I glad that was sorted out...I make mistakes like that a lot two. Once this IP address got really mad at me for giving him a last warning, it turns out that what happened was I was filtering my watchlist and accidently warned him instead! Oh and as for the confusion I am so sorry. What happened was I created a template wishing everyone a happy diwali but it was when I did not know how to subst templates! I am sorry for any confusion. Cheers!)__ Seadog ♪ 23:23, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the prompt response. I re-read Caucasus, and it's now my understanding that (purely geologically speaking) the North Caucasus are part of Europe, and the south are part of Asia. Is that correct? - TheMightyQuill 18:19, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Translated. I am not registered there so I hope nobody will revert me as a vandal :). - Darwinek 20:06, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
I think those marks must be deleted. The correct pronunciation is given in the article right after "Росси́йская Федера́ция". Some foreigner, seeing this sample of spelling, could think that there are diacritical marks in Russian. -- CodeMonk 18:14, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Can you please create disambig page based on ru:Бузулук (река). Thank you. - Darwinek 10:46, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Привет, я тут начинаю делать карты районов Татарстана, так что если появится желание у кого либо создать статьи про эти районы, то какрты доступны на: commons:Category:Maps of Tatarstan -- Üñţïf̣ļëŗ (see also: ә? Ә!) 12:29, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your kind words. I really appreciate them. Thank god drinking age in the Czech Republic is 18. Still in many pubs they are selling alcohol even to the kids. I am kind of exhausted now cause of all these parties. :) - Darwinek 15:43, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
You're not right!-- Element of the order №1361 23:18, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Please unlock this user user:Mr Lord for i want work to article Perry Rhodan and Atlan. fr:user:Mr Lord. Thx Mr Lord
Bonjour,
je souhaiterais que mon compte soit débloquer car je veux prolonger l'article anglais sur Perry Rhodan et Atlan. Merci 193.55.175.15 15:45, 5 December 2006 (UTC) alias user:Mr Lord
Why delete infobox? Is it an error or something? --Yuriy Lapitskiy 18:49, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Вот окакзывается что даже было. как я понимаю, на английском это не охвачено. И кажется уникальная в своём роде штука была... -- Üñţïf̣ļëŗ (see also: ә? Ә!) 20:43, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
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Всё-таки хочу внести ясность, что такое Идель-Урал. Такое название в последние годы применяли (по крайне мере в татароязычной литературе) по отношению к 6 республикам Поволжья. У тебя насколько я знаю есть заготовки с разными картами России, Приволжского округа. Можешь изготовить карту на которой бы выделены были эти 6 республик? И поместить её на Idel-Ural (но не на Idel-Ural State - там были совершенно другие границы). -- Üñţïf̣ļëŗ (see also: ә? Ә!) 14:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
зы. Я займусь картами, но наверное после сессии, в конце января-феврале. Сейчас просто не до этого :( -- Üñţïf̣ļëŗ (see also: ә? Ә!) 14:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Should Griboedov Canal be moved to Griboyedov Canal ? - Darwinek 09:18, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
See [32] and especially document [33]. I guess it's the most contemporary list of subdivisions. I tried to find something even more reliable, but failed. May be it will help you. MaxiMaxiMax 10:52, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
I have initiated a move request for an incorrectly named article. If you want to participate, go HERE and check it out. The name in wiki is "Lake Scutari", which is totally incorrect. The name is supposed to be "Lake Skadar". Check out the article I referenced. Rarelibra 16:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
On the subject the birth rate for Russian federal subjects, I got the birth rates for 2000-2004 from the link - http://www.demogr.mpg.de/databases/cdb/downloads/r_1_Demography.xls . For 2005 and 2006(Proposed/Estimate) I got from geo-positioning a bitmap image which was present in the 8th page of the powerpoint document Chernysh.ppt, which I got from the link www.hse.fi/NR/rdonlyres/E00C4A70-4EB5-4E42-89DA-7F10E6B6E7E3/0/Chernysh.ppt—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Anandks007 ( talk • contribs).
I assume you've read it yourself, but just in case you haven't: The next referendum has been set. http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11085109&PageNum=0 — Nightst a llion (?) 16:50, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ëzhiki,
Not so much continued confusion – with your help, I think that's now dissipated – but preoccupation elsewhere (mostly re countries and their templates). Once I've dug my way out of that quagmire, then it's back to the country subdivision quagmire – which I staggered into via subdivsional maps, that somehow distracted me from Nazi war victims, to which I was led because... <fade sound>...
Hope all well. Did you know that nobody escapes from here with their sanity? Chuckle,
David (
talk)
03:55, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, sorry for delays. I should have removed the wikibreak template... Anyway, first let's deal with the easy part and that's the suggestion on your list so I could vote "support" on the WP:FLC.
That's that. As for cite web, I insist on it just bacause it's an easy way to teach people to cite references in a professional manner. I am just tired of seeing references like this Lost of info on Russia from Wikipedia. What it basically needs is:
So the OKATO template could look like this (just remove caps and translate in English):
ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КОМИТЕТ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ ПО СТАТИСТИКЕ (1997-01-01).
"Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division". database name maintained by the Consulatnt if any. Консультант Плюс. Retrieved 2006-12-20. {{
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I know it looses the link to the Wikipedia article :( I cannot figure a way to include it. It does not include the amendments (which I believe are not needed any case). Dunna if that helps in any way. Renata 07:26, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
ZOINKS! Thanks for the correction. Hmmm... anyway, I am updating Adygea as I type... should be done in an hour or so. Rarelibra 16:25, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey - have you ever seen this article? Thought you might find it interesting. Rarelibra 20:55, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ezhiki! I just want to say Merry Christmas to you! Have a nice holiday time. If you don't observe this event then I hope you don't mind this greeting. :) - Darwinek 19:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
A chego eto Vam vdrug zahotelos nas vitesnit iz Evropi?Vi zhe ne polskiy/ruminskiy krestyanin, pravilno ;) Evropa, uvazhayemiy, eto ne tam, gde mnogo babla, ibo yego nigde ne bivayet mnogo, i dazhe ne tam, gde sobaki, prostite, ne srut na asfalt (ibo dazhe u nas na Zapade Germanii sobaki srut gde popalo ;)), Evropa - eto istoricheskaya i kulturnaya prinadlezhnost.Dazhe yesli bi mi bili buddistami i u nas bi vmesto barocco stoyali bi pagodi, mi vsio ravno bili bi chastyu Evropi, ibo mi - ethnicheskiye evropeytsi, slaviane.Nu a vse ostalniye narodi mi evropeizirovali, rasprostraniv na nih snachala nashu slaviano-germanskuyu kuturu, a zatem i kulturu Zapada.Ili Vi so mnoy ne soglasni;)?YA - NE NACIONALIST, I UZH TEM BOLEYE NE NACIST!Ya prosto govoriu vsio, kak yest.EVROPA - ETO MESTO RASSELENIYA EVROPEYCEV, poetomu granica Evropi vsio vremia i peredvigalas... (Naprimer, v 1951 godu ona "peremestilas" azh na Baykal.Posle etogo tak nazivayemoye Evropeyskoye Soobshestvo (Specialnaya kommissiya - togda Evropeyskiy Soyuz tolko-tolko zarozhdalsia) vipustilo specialnuyu rezoluciyu, v kotoroy ukazalo na to, chto granici Evropi ne mogut bit geograficheskimi, granici Evropi - eto granici rasprostraneniya evropeyskoy KULTURI.Rezoluciya, kstati, bila specialno vipushena dla Sovietskogo Soyuza).Teper pogovorim o Zapade i Vostoke (Evropi, yestestvenno).Kak Vi znayete, granici Imperii Karla Velikogo postoyanno rasshirialis.No s samogo nachala (do Karla) sushestvovalo nichtozhnoye po razmeram gosudarstvo Frankov, kotoroye postoyanno rasshirialos. Kak Vi znayete eto i bil zachatok kulturi tak nazivayemogo "Zapada".Tak vot snachala v nego ne vhodil dazhe Ruhrskiy Rayon, kotoriy segodnia raspolagayetsia nedaleko ot granici s Gollandiyey.Pro Bavariyu i Saksoniyu ya dazhe i ne zaikayus: na ih territorii bil les, v kotorom obitali germanskiye plemena... Chehia voshla tuda tolko v nachale 9 veka nashey eri (Posle 40 let sovietskoy izoliacii vospriyatiye Evropi izmenilos i u nih... U nas eto bezobraziye dlilos 60 let i za eto vremia evropeyskoye samosoznaniye u nas prakticheski ulituchilos...).I tak tak nazivayemiy "Zapad" vsio vremia rasshirialsia.V konce koncov on dostig Rossii.Teper mi yego chast.Uzhe kak 300 let.(Kstati, v techeniye 100 let posle priniatiya hristianstva, do raskola cerkvey (snachala, kak Vi znayete, oni raskololis na pravoslavnuyu i katolicheskuyu, a potom, cherez sto-dvesti let, na protestantskuyu, katolicheskuyu i pravoslavnuyu.Kstati, greki tozhe pravolslavniye, i rumini, i makedocni... I serbi.A bosniaki i albanci - musulmane.I ot etogo oni evropeycami bit ne perestayut) mi tozhe bili "Zapadom".Eto potom, posle raskola cerkvey, mi pogruzilis v izolaciyu... Eto k voprosu Zapad li mi, ili net.A Evropoy, kak Vi, nadeyus, ponimayete, mi bili vsegda ;).Kstati, Rossiya vnesla nemaliy vklad v obshuyu evropeyskuyu kulturu, hotia dla nas eto bilo sovsem ne obiazatelno, kak ya uzhe i govoril... Eto to, chto u nas seychas vsio govno, eto konechno zhe uzhasno, ya ne sporiu.Sostoyaniye nashey ekonomiki yavlayetsia tochnoy kopiyey sostoyniya ekonomiki Germanii v 20-ye godi.I sostoyaniye obshestva - odin k odnomu.I antisemitizm i gomofobiya i rassizm v obshem... Yesli hotite, mozhete poiskat v google material na temu "Veymarskaya Rossiya" - eto ochen interesno, poverte mne ;) Nu a yesli vozniknut voprosi, to pishite :) Kstati, islam tozhe stal evropeyskoy religiyey i chastyu tak nazivayemogo "Zapada" (sm. Bosniya, Makedoniya, Bolgariya, Turciya, Azerbaydzhan etc.) Uuu87 20:37, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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As far as I understood there is a trend in Commons to rename all categories like "Cities and villages in Xxxxx" to "Cities in Xxxxx". I personally appreciate this change, since it will make the system simpler, but I'm still not sure about name of such categories. May be you have any time to talk about it with people who want to make this change to not roll back this changes in future. Thanx in advance! MaxiMaxiMax 03:32, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look at this discussion and offer any insights you might have? Thanks in advance! Errabee 18:41, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
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Yes, I know... It has been siting at the back of my mind for a while now, just that it requires some digging and thinking, which I am not up to at the moment :) But since my procastination usually means that I will get back to you a month late or never, now is a good time. So.
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Greetings, Ezhiki! I wanted to sincerely thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with a final result of 55/14/3. Your support means a lot to me! If you have any questions or input regarding my activities, be they adminly or just a "normal" user's, or if you just want to chat about anything at all, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers! — Nightstallion (?) 07:38, 4 January 2006 (UTC) |
Hey man, thanks a lot for voting, I see you beat me to the response ;) If you need anything, just give me a shout. :) - FrancisTyers 01:04, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I would say "how do you know he's not a Wikipedian", but I think I'll just tip my hat to you. I figured it would be a while before anyone noticed my edit on Wikipedia:Wikipedians somewhere unspecified in the United States of America, let alone reverted it. If I had the power, I would award you a Barnstar. -- Mareino 20:36, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
happy new year! Template:Infobox_Language seems to be blocked from moving. At least I don't have the move button anymore. I could not find who did it and why this was done / which policy was used to justify this move block. It seems to be there since User:Cyrius moved it the 2nd time. So he has the admin power to preserve the status he thinks is right. With your admin power can you check what happened? Did he block? Where can I call for unblock? Maybe you can do it - but well I don't want to ask you too much here. thx - so long Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:30, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Cont'd at "Infobox:Language issues" section below
Argh, yes. I answered on the basis that people would come and discuss with me, (as advertised, apparently), but people seem to instead treat statements as written in stone, and are just voting.
In fact, you're quite encouraged to ask for clarifications or take the time to discuss issues you agree or disagree on with the candidate. Just not on the voting pages themselvesv I guess.
In any case, voting will be ongoing for a while yet, so feel free to ask any questions where you think I've been unclear.
Hmm, and if you have a minute, maybe point out where and how I could flesh out my statement a bit? <puppydog look>
Kim Bruning 17:18, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
You stated on my ArbCom vote page that my "recent behavior leaves [you] with little choice" but to oppose. Could you please explain to me what aspect of my recent behavior has forced your hand in this manner? Kelly Martin ( talk) 18:25, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Tobias Conradi informally asked me to mediate the issues surrounding the (Infobox) (L/l)anguage template. Since I was not involved into the matter, it took me a little while to figure out what was going on. Below please find a summary of the case as I understand it. If something is incorrect or amiss (or afoot :)), please do not make changes but leave a comment below. Thank you.
At this point of time, I abstained from judging/accusing anybody or taking any actions, as I may still not see the complete picture. Comments would be much appreciated.— Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 20:19, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Tobias posted on
WP:RM back on
Jan 5th. Apparently dissatisfied and impatient, he then
moved the page twice on Jan 6th (around 20:13 UTC) immediately after he orphaned it
between 19:55 and 20:10. Not only did he move the page, but he oddly replaced the redirect with what can be best described as a disambig page -- something that we just don't do in Template-land. I think he did that specifically because he knew someone (me) couldn't move it back to it's original location. I asked on IRC for assistance, and Cyrius agreed with me and moved it back. For Tobias to say that "it was not used anywhere. So it wasn't a disruption" is disingenuous. --
Netoholic
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04:25, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Folks, please remain calm and don't insult each other. No one is incorrect here and/or tries to do any harm on purpose, you just see the priorities differently, that is all.
After hearing out the comments above, it looks that my original summary is mostly correct. I hereby offer you the following compromise:
It is proposed to protect the Template:Language from editing. This measure will address the most important points of WP:AUM—1.2 & 1.3, while preserving the quality and integrity of the articles which already use this metatemplate version. In the meanwhile, the community members currently involved in developing Template:Language should redirect their efforts to assist in development of the Template:Infobox Language. As soon as there is a consensus that the latter template is on par with the former one, all references to the Template:Language should be replaced with Template:Infobox Language.
Please indicate your acceptance of this proposed decision. If you find it unacceptable, please indicate below which portion is not to your liking. Once all involved parties accept it, the decision will be posted at Template talk:Language and Template talk:Infobox Language for the rest of involved parties to see and comment on.— Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 16:32, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Tobias Conradi's comments:
Tobias Conradi (Talk) 17:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
OK, but:
A question for you, Tobias: please tell me what you see wrong with this scenario:
The way I see it, the end result will be exactly what you and other editors want, and the process only requires one mass-replacement that needs to be done anyway. Am I missing anything or not?— Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 18:34, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I integrated my replies. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 23:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Netoholic's comments:
I disagree with protecting Template:Language. There is very little chance of vandalism, it's watched closely, and is only on a couple hundred articles. Other than that, your proposal is exactly the strategy I've been trying to convince this group to follow. Merging the histories is just a "feel good" move, since it's perfectly fine if the history sits under a redirect from Language to Infobox_Language, but I'm fine with it if it just gets this group participating on the single dispute holding the process back, that being whether to keep support for the old color scheme (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages#The bad side of colors). -- Netoholic @ 22:05, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Netoholic's comments, part 2:
Would you please look into the related disruption that Tobias is causing now on a redirect I created? He's repeating the same disruptive behavior as he did with the page move fiasco. We don't use disambigs in the template namespace. I originally created this redirect to prevent duplication of effort and help with typos. I am close to requesting blocks for disruption, so maybe you can help him stop screwing around. -- Netoholic @ 01:50, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Ezhiki's comments:
Folks, would you please lay petty bickering aside for a little while? Does it really matter who created what and when and why and for what purpose, if in the end all we need to sort out is the final result? It is really not that interesting to find out what your (Tobias' and Netoholic's) original thoughts were—what matters is that you were trying to achieve pretty much the same goal in different ways. The resolution of issues outlined in the comments immediately above would go a long way to entertain your egos, but at the same time it hinders achieving the end result you both so eagerly are looking for. The longer you argue about something as unimportant as who should the blame be put on, the more time passes without any real work done. What are your priorities? I sure hope that in your edits and actions you put Wikipedia's interests before your personal satisfaction.
Now that I'm done with scolding :), let's address more immediate concerns. Here are the answers to the questions Tobias asked:
All in all, to repeat myself, it is not a priority to settle personal disagreements you folks have with each other. I trust that as adults both committed to Wikipedia you are pretty capable of settling them yourselves, preferrably in a civil way. All that matters now is to close this incident, hopefully with a compromise solution. The very nature of compromise is that neither side likes it, remember? :) If you think my proposed solution does not benefit Wikipedia (as opposed to "does not make me feel good"), please let know here why. I can see how it does not address personal issues you have with each other, but it looks pretty darn good in the big picture.— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 15:22, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
As pointed out several times the move of the currently applied (official/ true / in use) Language template to a standard naming had originally nothing to do with WP:AUM. Netoholic blocks the move to standard name by having put his template in the way. Template developement can be done in user space or at any other name. Don't mix the two issues. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:41, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
The "CSS method" badly breaks accessibility
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Hi Ezhiki,
As per your opposition vote to my ArbCom candidacy due to the lack of questions, I've elaborated on my statement and explanation at the questions page. I welcome any further questions to be asked to clarify any of your doubts, and let me know on my talkpage if it's urgent. Thank you for your interest! :)
- Best regards, Mailer Diablo 02:54, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Ust-Orda Buryatia , thx for the NO landscape info. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:23, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
I would like to express my thanks to all the good people who spent their valuable time time and effort working on my (failed) RfA voting. Especially for those who actually voted to support me :). You put a great effort into it, it was me who mixed up everything. Lets move on and make together our Wikipedia an even greater place abakharev 09:12, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Any reason why?— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 15:51, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Norway#.22Landscape.22 - I have doubts. To avoid unecessary move I voted keep at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Landscapes_of_Norway_to_Category:Districts_of_Norway I would like to discuss this a little more. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 23:19, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Please explain me your revert hedgehog ? If you dare:) because i can make as many edits untill u'll give me proof that, what i'm saying is not true. Otherwise you're nothing more than scared of your nation past. Put your arguments before revert. I can even cite you a statement of kaliningrad mayor, in a kaliningrad newspaper, in which he aggrees that such krimes were commited-- Lokyz 03:04, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
As admin can you
Autonomous Republics ->
Autonomous republic.
Tobias Conradi
(Talk) 21:57, 16 January 2006 (UTC) changed my mind
Tobias Conradi
(Talk)
21:59, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
nice row of articles Kuban Soviet Republic ... merged into ... but what happened to North Caucasian Soviet Republic? maybe you can extend the article. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:10, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
inconsistent: Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic but Russian SFSR. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:42, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I created Adygeya Autonomous oblast I think I have to uppercase the "o". AOs are mentioned at Republics of the Soviet Union, but should probably not be there. To find consistent naming I suggest starting Category:Subdivisions of the Soviet Union - and then step by step put the articles there, resp. in subcats. If there are in the cats we see how they are named now and can fix inconsistencies. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:42, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I thought you might be a good person to ask for help, Ezhiki. I want to link from my own user page to pages in the Russian and German Wikipedias, but I haven't been able to find a document that tells me specifically how to do this. I suppose one could format such links as external links, but surely there's a better way. I'd appreciate any insights you could provide. — CKA3KA (Skazka) 01:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
as admin can you help to undo the 2005-06-11 copy paste move by User:Cedar-Guardian
IMO the dab should be at South Lebanon and the gov at SLG. Compare Category:Governorates_of_Lebanon thx Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:15, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
It was only because there was the possibilty not so much of ambiguïty as some confusion, that I chose the longer name (confusion with Nikolai Sokoloff, which I wanted to avoid as much as possible- Nikolay Sokolov could, so far as one knew in passing, just be an alternative transliteration of the conductor's name. As a check of a library catalog, say, shows, just in music but generally too there are too many authors with that general name ;) ). Even though a dab line- I need to add one to the Sokolov article just as there's now one on the Sokoloff- helps with that it's true... Best Schissel-nonLop! 11:44, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Ezhiki. Your comments are most welcome. -- Ghirla | talk 12:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Ezhiki. Thanks for helping out. Finally the article has the proper heading. Thomas Blomberg 23:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 22:26, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I have difficulty summarizing what I would use, as a native speaker of English. The is almost mandatory with "JAO"; but that is because it is not a geographical name, really, but defined by the two adjectives.
It depends partly on the form of the name. I would generally use "Primorsk District"; but "the Primorsk", because there's only one Primorsk, but many districts. "Primorsky Krai" is a harder problem; there may be no English convention, because it's not an English name. (Is there consensus on Krai/Oblast instead of "Province"? WP:UE would solve so many problems!)
It also depends partly on context. Use of The in article names is to be avoided (unless it's part of the name, like The Magic Flute.
I'm not sure this will help. Can you give a few examples? Septentrionalis 20:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
The AndriyK RfAr has been closed. Until by consensus he has agreed to a suitable and mutually agreed naming convention using the guideline Wikipedia:Naming conflict, AndriyK is prohibited from moving pages, or changing the content of articles which relate to Ukrainian names, especially those of historical interest. AndriyK is banned for one month from Wikipedia for creating irreversible page moves. Andrew Alexander, AndriyK, and MaryMaidan are warned to avoid copyright violations and to cooperate with the efforts of others to remove copyright violations. Ghirlandajo is warned to avoid incivility or personal attacks.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Kelly Martin ( talk) 04:57, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Are you sure that Finnish is not official in Karelia? The republic's site is in Finnish and the very status of "republic" indicates that the титульная нация has special privileges. Kazak 20:56, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Never mind, I just found this link on the subject. Perhaps we should work it into the Karelia article? Kazak 21:00, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Great. I cleaned up the article (removing all the references to Finnish as official) and added a footnote to the "official language" box with a link to the Karelian government site. It's really helpful that they translate their articles into English. Kazak 21:51, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Maybe you will be interested in voting for category renaming here. - Darwinek 14:09, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Concerning your latest move of Pavlovsk to Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, I urge you to discuss such moves beforehand on the article's talk page or with an editor who wrote the page. I don't think that obscure red-linked Pavlovsk you found near Voronezh may be compared in eminence to the imperial residence. 99% searching for the page have the palace in mind, you made them click twice to find the page they need. We don't have Saint Petersburg as a dab page linking to Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Saint Petersburg (USA), do we? Also, the new name is hardly correct: Pavlovsk is situated dozens miles from St Petersburg. Though administratively a part of St Petersburg, it is not its immediate neighbourhood geographically, as your title seems to imply. A solution: move Pavlovsk back to its legitimate name and link another Pavlovsk through {otheruses} template. -- Ghirla | talk 17:46, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
I think it was good to move it. The comparison with Saint Petersburg is not appropriate because the difference in importance is much bigger and Saint Petersburg (Russia) is probably well known, while Pavlovsk is not to that extent. And at least after the bypass work it is now clear that the other refs don't go to Voronezh. Better dab now and fix redirects than to do it later. Having Pavlovsk as dab helps to avoid wrong links, i.e. in an article where Voronezh is meant to link to Pavlovsk. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 03:54, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:53, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
You're the only russian user I know on Wikipedia, so I'll ask you. The russian babel box says:
Русский язык для данного участника является родным.
Wouldn't it be a better to make участник the subject instead of Русский язык?
Something like:
Этот участник может поговорить по-руский на уровне ролнова языкаЭтот участник владеет русским языком как родным corr. by Ezhiki
(There may be spelling or grammar errors there, but I think you get my gist). — Ilyan e p (Talk) 04:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Could you please delete the article BoyZone? I was unaware if there was an article on Wikipedia about this band but later discovered the article Boyzone. This was my mistake. Thank you for your time. — Eternal Equinox | talk 14:48, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
...finally I found what I read long time ago and wanted to tell you once we talked about tranliteration (ref: your talk with nixer). is this of any help? could it be used? maybe write your thoughts about it at the corresponding project page and point me there. best regards ... and honestly: I had no plans to change the current subnational entity scheme for RU! Tobias Conradi (Talk) 00:46, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
i have the WP-project cyrillic page on my watchlist now. So I will see what happens via this page. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 03:37, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ezhiki!! Thanks for the Hello, and great to hear from a fellow Lunar citizen. I couldn't beieve it when i saw the category. I knew that i had to put it up on my page. And, i agree, it will be good when the category starts to fill up ;) The Halo
Ezik please help me, I'm new here.
- Thank you for reading it, Kniaz.
P.S. I don't know how to change word to Russian, Spasibo towarish.
I just created this new article. Would you please have a look over it for mistakes? Thanks. — Michael Z. 2006-02-12 22:56 Z
Hm: 29 languages, you say? Is there an obvious way to subdivide them, say Slavic Cyrillic, Asian Cyrillic, other writing systems? — Michael Z. 2006-02-14 00:01 Z
I added a summary table to Romanization of Russian#Transliteration table. It still has gaps for the old letters, and should be checked for errors. The more detailed tables for each system could be moved to their own articles. — Michael Z. 2006-02-14 15:21 Z
Thanks for the invite, I am only beginning to understand the complexities of this. For the moment, as I said before, I am only changing the transliterations if there is an official Russian government (or regional for governors) website that transliterates differently. So we have identical Cyrillic becoming Alexey's & Alexei's, or Alexandr's, Alexander's, and Aleksandr's. I just wanted to put some meat on these politician stubs. Carlossuarez46 23:07, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
How did a vote of over 75% not succeed???? was it the possibility of sockpuppets? I hope so, because that's ridiculous! Gator (talk) 22:00, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Greetings,
You have requested mediation at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Romanization of the Russian language. The chair of the committee has asked if I'd take the case. This would be my first case since joining the Mediation Committee, however I have been an editor for over a year and an administrator for about seven months. I have no knowledge or opinion of this matter, and shall be fair to both sides. Please respond here to let me know if I am acceptable as a mediator. Cheers, - Will Beback 09:01, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Привет земляк, мне тут прислали сегодня ссылку "Ты из приморья, если..." я по настальгировал значительно. теперь хочется поделиться... http://gorgaz.livejournal.com/1614.html Извини если воспримешь как спам, но я к этому ЖЖ дневнику отношения не имею... -- Morpheios Melas 14:57, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
The page was moved three times over the previous days. Please comment whether the current name is a standard transliteration. -- Ghirla | talk 14:36, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Написал. Поправь, если что не так. Хотя, скорее всего пустая трата времени, собирать в английской вики малозначительные украинские села, для которых никогда и стабов не будет, но попутно сделал и для украинской. Там это нужнее. Еще нашел Community for summer vacationers в Ontario [3] и канадский трактор Sokil, но не уверен, что есть смысл это добавлять. -- Yakudza 17:49, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.
If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very much, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
The resort hasn't been built yet, but it is part of Sochi's bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, and thus I believe it is at least as notable as any other ski resort. eae 22:26, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Ezhiki. I am just writing you to tell you that subcategories of Cat:Cities and towns in Russia should be nominated in WP:CFD for renaming. Wikipedia standard naming convention for cities, towns, villages or other human settlements is XX in YY, not of. - Darwinek 09:55, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Saying that Pavlovsk is "in" Leningrad oblast is like saying that Gibraltar is "in" Spain. While both of these may be true, Pavlovsk is not part of Leningrad oblast, and Gibraltar is not part of Spain. Backspace 23:28, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Italicized Russian looks perfectly legible to me, so I guess I disagree with the consensus. Furthermore, people who do not know the cyrillic alphabet very well can hope to gain little or nothing from whole words written in it. Lastly, italicizing foreign-language words in similar templates seems to be the norm, and I'm not sure that the dubious value of making cyrillic words minutely more legible for the benefit of people whose understanding of a word is hampered by much more than italics, is worth deviating from that norm. Example: Vyborg has its name listed in four languages, the other three of which are italicized. Does not look good.
Привет, не за что. Я на самом деле не понял, к чему некоторые поля относятся, например, nickname - это имя жителей или прозвище города. Надо будет проверить.
Ответы по пунктам.
А, вспомнил, высоты посмотрю по SRTM (~Shuttle Radar Topography Mission). Ъыь 15:46, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
I just spotted this stub, and also noticed an already existing link to Yelena Produnova. Now I'm undecided whether to create a redirect, or move the stub according to naming conventions. What's your opinion? Cheers, -- Nikai 13:52, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
In connection with the new article Battle of Krasny Bor I noticed that Krasny Bor mentioned in the article cannot be the one in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. I also doubt that Savicheva was buried that far from Leningrad. As you are an expert in Russian geography and disambigs, I believe you could investigate this issue. Thanks for your time, Ghirla -трёп- 17:21, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
I would appreciate your comments. -- Ghirla -трёп- 16:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
I think what happened is the page you had edited Height 611 UFO Incident was vandalized and caught by Tawkerbot2, for reasons still unknown to me (that I'm working on) it's grabbing the wrong editor for the vandal notice, its a fairly rare bug, I'm trying to determine if its a bot bug or if Wikipedia is giving the bot bogus info, its just weird but I'm working on it. Sorry about that -- 20:17, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ezhiki. I am writing a college essay about Soviet Union. Can you tell me names of a few cities or towns like Mednogorsk, built during the Stalin's rule? Thank you. - Darwinek 10:50, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Fiss started this duplicative category today. Should it be posted for deletion? -- Ghirla -трёп- 17:02, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. Could you, please, exclude the "xxxx in Fooian television" series (such as 1930 in television) from the Smackbot's delink list? These series is one of the few places where linking months makes sense (due to the way tables are laid out). I reverted the changes made so far. Thanks.— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 13:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
To be fair if you really want to continue it then by all means do, but I will agree to revert the -IYE to -YE for -ЫЕ, whilst keeping all of my other edits (-YI,-IY, I for Й, ye for E only in start of words. Also I just noticed how you edited Lyublinskaya Line, do explain to me why Maryino when there is no Й in Марьино? Also why Dostoyevskaya, when the article is titled Fyodor Dostoevsky. Why not then Kiyevskaya? (Sorry for being a pain in arse, but then you know the feeling of constantly pressuring someone about a logical correction, and WP policy does say use the most common words, I do dare you to google the latter - Kiyev) :) [37,800 google hits— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) [vs 23 100 000 for Kiev Kuban Cossack On the positive side, I have compleately recategorised the wikicommons on Moscow Metro (link from the Metro page). I do need as many high-quality images that can be found. Would it be too much to ask you to snap a few? Particulary of the newer addtions Delovoi Tsentr, second exit of Mayakovskaya, Vykhino after reconstruction... Also all of the Metro templates now have actual links from the station bullets. -- Kuban Cossack 00:17, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Пишу по-русски, так как дело касается нашего раздела. У нас тут несколько накалилась ситуация с админами, вандалами, троллями и прочими дрязгами (см. ru:ВП:ВУ). Ты человек опытный, и как я уже не раз убедился дотошный и справедливый. Не мог бы ты уделить немного внимания нашему мини-сообществу, мне кажется что тебе как человеку незамешанному в этих скандалах будет проще дать дельный совет (анализ). Не уверен, какой он может иметь статус, но для меня лично это будет очень важным мнением. Как знать, возможно что немного поучаствовав в нашем сообществе ты принесёшь бОльшую пользу Википедии, чем отредактировав 100 статей здесь. Ну а нет, так нет, ничего страшного. Заранее спасибо. MaxiMaxiMax 09:55, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
«Стало понятно, отчего в английской Википедии там и тут начали появляться сбежавшие русские википедисты.»
Здорово сказано, чёрт возьми. В точку. :-))) --exile
The Wrong Man
18:03, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
You're welcome, and it looks like you have done most of the work. Nothing was left for me :) Conscious 06:52, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
I reverted your edits in Ostafievo International Airport because Ostafievo is the official name and used in the official website of the company [6] as well as other English sources, documents and promotional materials.-- Nixer 06:28, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Привет! As I have found out and i am sure that you are a reliable and fair person, I 'll ask: Why so many people from Russian Wikipedia go to English(American?) Wikipedia. Почему?—This unsigned comment was added by Kniaz ( talk • contribs).
Hello, Ezhiki! So you would prefer I keep the towns in Category:Cities and towns in Kaliningrad Oblast for now?
Also, I noticed your corrections to the Kaliningrad Oblast articles with .ogg files I had uploaded. I have been applying your style to my .ogg inclusions in other articles now as well. Would you mind taking a look at the intros to some Polish cities with IPA to see if you can improve upon my changes? The ones I have edited so far are: Wrocław, Toruń, Gdańsk, Bydgoszcz, Olsztyn, Malbork, and Elbląg (I think that's it). Olessi 22:17, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Per your request to reassign this mediation, I've listed it as unassigned. As it has been open for some time without any activity, I'm asking that the parties re-confirm that they are still interested. Please do so on Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Romanization of the Russian language. Once both of you have signed, I'll find someone to take the case. Essjay Talk • Contact 01:56, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
I do agree that english is language that isn't as complicated as russian (try reading the poems, expessioly Alexander Pushkin). Thanks for pointing it out for me, but I have been to russian wikipedia only few times, since I'm not exactly russian(look at my page). And the explanation about english wikipedia instead of american I must disagree(no disrespect). You see, Wikipedia was created in USA and originnaly was english only(the first time i went on wikipedia it was said wikipedia was created due to 9/11. ?!). Good luck with you're future work and имейте хорошее здоровье(I should stop writting in paretisees). Dosvidanie dorogoy drug. P.S. Pushkin's poems are actually easier to learn and memorize, unlike other ones. kniaz march 31, 2006 10:35 pm.
Hi. I'm doing a survey of Wikipedia editors as part of a class research project. It's quick, anonymous, and the data will be made available to the Wikipedia community later this month. Would you like to take part? More info here. Thanks! Nonplus 01:20, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
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Hello Ezhiki, how are you? Thanks for your support in my RFA. The final vote count was (88/3/1), so I am now an administrator. I am very humbled by your comments and your vote of support. Please let me know if at any stage you require assistance, or if you have comments on how I am doing as an administrator. Once again thank you and with kind regards Gryffindor 18:57, 2 April 2006 (UTC) |
I don't think it correct to give "Дальний Восток России" as the Russian equivalent of "Russian Far East" since the term is fairly rare in Russian. While in English the term "Far East" usually refers to the larger region, "Дальний Восток" is never used in Russian in that way - it always refers to the Russian Far East. Note that if you search in google in Russian, for "Дальний Восток" you get 6 million results, while "Дальний Восток России" gets you only 40,000. Qaramazov 17:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I've been assigned your mediation case. What we need to do now is firstly decide via what means we wish to conduct the case. We have three options: via Wikipedia, via e-mail or via and IRC channel. I would favour the wikipedia route but am happy to do any of the three. I look forward to hearing from you. -- Wisd e n17 13:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Great to know we understand each other. I too know the difference in usage of both the Nazi and the Soviet slogan. However, my main problem was that it's not the broadness of the usage that is important here, but rather the sarcasm/cruelty behind them. Any way, perhaps the matter could be expanded someway-somewhere. Any ideas? // Halibu tt 15:35, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
I just found this "Radio Liberty on Irkutsk" reference. As you asked for a citation, do you think it's good? -- Nikai 09:48, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello Ezhiki. I am writing to you, cause you as a Russian Wikipedian can help. Do you think categories such as Cat:Uzbek society or Cat:Uzbek people should be renamed to "Uzbekistani"? Uzbeks are an ethnic groups, many people from Uzbekistan are not ethnic Uzbeks, so I think it is wrong to have for example ethnic Russian resident of Uzbekistan under "Uzbek people" category. What do you think? - Darwinek 13:22, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_April_4#Category:Subdivisions_by_country_to_Category:Political_divisions_by_country , IMO the rename should be taken with more care. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 06:28, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm in a potentially awkward position with an Administrator. I have read the Wiki pages on dispute resolution but I'm still not sure how to proceed.
The Admin ContiE has a personal grudge against me for reasons I do not fully understand. He has been this way since I began frequenting wikipedia.
I have done work improving the furvert article. He has basically gone on a crusade against any edit I make. He controls every furry category article and several others ruthlessly. He is an iron fist and bans anyone he edit wars with. I had uploaded pictures and he deleted them with no talking. He seems to believe I am every person he has had an edit war against. He is always using personal attacks, calling me troll without reason. I uploaded them again and he voted them for deleted, but to his surprise the person who runs the images, thank you Nv8200p, found they were acceptable once I tagged them properly. Just recently he removed both the images without himself discussing it in the talk page (unless he was the same person who discussed only one) with the edit here [7] Then ContiE assumed bad faith, added his constant insult of troll in the talk page. It appears on a completed different wiki, a comedy one in all things, somebody else stole my username and I believe this was Conti himself and uploaded them. ContiE showed it as his reason. While vandalism like his, I would revert and mention it, he would ban me permanently if I undid his edit. That is why I am asking admins for help. He holds a couple of accounts on wikipedia and I think they are administrators so I have to be careful who I tell about this. Arights 06:30, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Category:Former country subdivisions - i collected some cats there to see what exists and how naming is done. I found lots of other "Former ..." cats. FYI, you did not write HistoricAL. The cats I found use AL. Maybe your english is poor as mine : [8] Some German speaker with poor English skills has corrupted the correct "Administrative Divisions" into "Subdivisions". :-) The term is used by ISO 3166-2. LOL Tell no one they are based in Berlin (IIRC) Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:00, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Привет помоги, пожалуйста, не могу перевести предложение.
Yet more complexity is introduced here than might be expected. The programmer (especially the functional programmer) will pick up right away on the significance of introducing time and state (memory).
Что значит выделенный фрагмент?
Навреное, не мешало бы поправить текст, т.к. по словарю это разговорный, а не литературный.
Ъыь 07:11, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Tobias sometimes does this, to be more objective. Or to look so - this is not very clear to him. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:19, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, there were 3 more autoblocks that pgk unblocked.-- Commander Keane 20:13, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
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I loved the "Участники за букву ё" on your Russian user page! I support it too. See reply about Altay on my talk page.-- Amir E. Aharoni 21:17, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ezhiki! Someone at the Language Reference Desk could use your help. Would you please take a look at Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Language#Question_about_Russian? I would be very grateful if you could contribute to the discussion. Thank you in advance. Daniel Šebesta ( talk • contribs) 16:47, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I supposed you weren't a linguist, but I still decided to ask you for help as you are a native speaker. I think you've given a helpful explanation, though! Thank you! Daniel Šebesta ( talk • contribs) 17:20, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I thought you might like this:
[9]. And this
[10]. Don't worry it is the site that needs permission not you actually quite a lot of pre-1973 stuff there. --
Kuban Cossack
21:53, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello Ezhiki! Would you have any objections if I restylized the .ogg formatting on the Kaliningrad Oblast towns to the following (using Pravdinsk as an example)?
It removes the lengthy "pronunciation" while still having links to Help and Info. Olessi 19:17, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm confused by your preference for the lang-ru template. It is my understanding that the lang templates exist to make things a tad easier for contributors to type; there's no visual difference in the actual article. Aside from consistency with using {{ lang-lt}} for Romuva and {{ lang-pl}} for Frydląd, what is the advantage of using {{ lang-ru}}?
Here are some of the various formatting styles I have seen used:
The middle choice (currently used at Pravdinsk) looks ok if it is the only "alternative" name listed, but when multiple names are listed "pronunciation" and the extra parentheses clutter everything up. I don't have any experience with coding templates myself, so I'm not sure how to design a better template. It seems to me that improving the article's visual flow would be more important than maintaining internal consistency that only editors would see, not readers. Olessi 19:46, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ëzhiki, Olessi: Great to see you're already well into sorting out what occurred to me when I came by the Prussia article (also Sambia, maybe one other... need to check contribution history), i.e. combining the language and pronunciation links. My next thought is whether a combined template is possible, one that produces the " German: " kind of format and carries the metadata Ëzhiki mentions above. What do you think? Regards, David Kernow 01:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
OK, I drafted the {{ Audio-ru}} template, which is for Russian only. To use it, type:
{{Audio-ru|Правдинск|RU-Pravdinsk.ogg}}
which produces:
{{Audio-ru|Правдинск|RU-Pravdinsk.ogg}}
To make a similar template for any other language, just copy the template source to an appropriate place and replace of instances of "Russian" with the name of the language you need (e.g., "German"), and all instances of "ru" with that language's code (e.g., "de"). Hope this helps.— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • ( yo?); 15:35, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Great work, Ëzhiki! I have already made Template:Audio-de, Template:Audio-pl, and Template:Audio-uk. Olessi 19:34, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
[[''X'' language|''X'']]
or [[''X''ian]]
and html tags to be substituted? I can only think of using something like #if
(about which I currently know little) to select the correct language... which ultimately might make the template unwieldy (too many languages) – but perhaps you (or someone you know) might know a much neater solution... Thanks for your work,
David Kernow
22:05, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Category:Wikipedians by number of edits Toby / Tobias Conradi (Talk) 00:37, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Awesome :) Renata 03:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks!— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • ( yo?); 11:51, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
You deleted my bios on Moskovskyy Pyasatel. The people are real and are notable as they are prime ministers or leaders of the village. Abc85 11:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Привет! Или я ошибаюсь, или же.. в википедии нет статьи про такое понятие как Райцентр. -- Untifler 15:37, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Why you don't upload it to commons? It will be very usefull and in other language chapters... Sory for my broken enlish. -- Morpheios Melas 06:12, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
I think AndriyK just got himself a sock
[11]. --
Kuban Cossack
16:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't much believe in blocks for incivility and normally do not block people for that. I also don't quite understand why Kuban Cossack's behavior is such a big deal for you, KPbIC; you weren't even targeted. Apart from instant momentary gratification, incivility provides no benefits. In general, if someone is uncivil, it only shows that person cannot exersise proper self-control and is probably an oafish boor in real life. It is so much easier to make a case against such people and to not take their claims and opinions seriously—they unsuspectingly hand you all the weapons. In future, if you feel someone's incivility is out of control, please report such a person at WP:AN/I, or file an RfM/RfC/RfAr instead of soliciting random admins personally. I have no desire whatsoever to host petty bickering on my talk page—I have an encyclopedia to work on.— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • ( yo?); 21:48, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Wow, the whole shebang is here! Anyway, even though it's a bit late as the discussion developed beyond this point, I'd like to add that just like Irpen noted, I did not unblock Kuban Cossack because I thought his behavior was not in violation of WP:CIV. I unblocked him because he was blocked twice for the same offense, and because the amount of time that passed between Cossack's last contribution and his block effectively rendered the block useless. As a reminder—uncivility blocks are mainly used to get a party cool down during a particulary heated debate. This is not a punishment, but rather a time-out tool. Of course, a time-out six hours after the incident is pretty much meaningless.
To answer KPbIC's other question—no, I was never called any of those words by Kuban Cossack or any other editor, but I can assure you that if I had been, I would have just reminded the offender about the civility guidelines and shrugged that off. I really don't care what other editors think of me personally, and I certainly would not block (or request a block of) anyone who would call me an idiot or anything along those lines. I realize that others may not take personal insults as lightly as I do, though. Hopefully I was able to explain my attitude, but feel free to let me know if you have further questions.— Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • ( yo?); 14:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, Ezhiki! I noticed that in your articles about administrative divisions of oblasts the tables say "сельские населённые пункты без населения". Are these ghost towns? Why does it sound so weird "населённый пункт без населения"? I'm sure this is an official формулировка, but could you clarify this for me, since you're so into it? This is just my curiosity :). Thanx and keep up the good work! KNewman 07:42, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Privet, Ēzhik, I noticed you made an edit to Bratva. What do you say we merge it to Russian Mafia? - CrazyRussian talk/ contribs/ email 19:52, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Actually it is Bonny who you have to thank, that is the inspiration:
[13]. I thought it was too well done not to forget it... --
Kuban Cossack
22:48, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
The Wilno Uprising nasty conflict needs more attention, if you please. Also, check talks and edit Histories of Lviv and Battle of the Lower Dnieper. This may take time though.
I would like to request some attention at Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and Baltic portals, re Vilnius issue but for now, I am requesting the attention of several editors who've could quickly inderstand what the problem is. -- Irpen 02:45, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
I have joined Commons, as you suggested, and I have uploaded more pictures of Vladivostok. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kaspersky_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B5
Also, I did a gamma correction on this picture: 250px
Please inform, is Wikipedia supposed to be transparent, or is it normal to be forced to resolve disputes by email? I would like to know why I am blocked, but nobody will tell me. For two weeks, I have been asking the simple question, "How have I offended?" Nobody will give me an answer. pgk keeps deleting my {{unblock}} request, telling me to contact the person who blocked me by email. As someone who has lived in Communist Russia, this suggestion sounds to me like meeting the KGB in private to ask why I have been targeted. Can't we do things out in the open? -- Kaspersky Trust 22:18, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the information. I'm now somewhat confused, since I always look at the block log to check the situation when looking at unblock requests (e.g. history of blocks, are they currently blocked etc.), So I can't see how I missed the unblock. I'll make my own apologies. If you want to check for autoblocks you can take a look at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~pgk/autoblock.php which is slightly easier to search on but only updates every few minutes. Any autoblock in the last 24 hours could still be in effect. -- pgk( talk) 08:39, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm going to have to re-block. He's a sockpuppet of Zephram Stark. Jayjg (talk) 20:57, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Jayjg is lying to you and I can prove it, if you are interested. -- Kaspersky Trust 21:59, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm leaving a message for you because I don't want you to think that I ignored you. I have left messages for you twice on my user discussion page, but they were both deleted by User:JW1805. Thank you for everything you did. You're one of the good guys. -- Kaspersky Trust 19:39, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Interesting article - ru:Википедия:Проект:Муниципальные образования.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ochkarik ( talk • contribs).
No, I'm not going to write this any time soon. I just thought it weird that the only Znamenka mentioned in other WP articles (e.g., Strelna) is not mentioned. -- Ghirla -трёп- 16:10, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for invitation to Russian portal: I found a lot of useful information there.
I assume you checked some of my edits - it is always a pleasure to know that one's work is not in vain. Any comments?
--
Alex
talk
19:30, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Ëzhiki. CKA3KA, here. I have been considering nominating the Esalen Institute article for deletion, but since I've never done such a thing, I'd very much appreciate your input. Could you do me the favor of looking at my comments on that article's talk page and letting me know, before I proceed, if I'm all wet on this issue? — CKA3KA (Skazka) 21:31, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
For the formatting tip. I felt like Marcel Marceau, trapped in a box!
Perhaps you could advise on how Wiki writers document their work. I am accustomed to academic footnoting. If I am writing or revising an article based on one or more source documents, each fact I assert is backed up by something on some page or pages of a reference. The references may be books which are rare. Many articles just have a lot of text, then some clickable links, to web pages which may go dead or whose content may change over time. This makes the facts in the article basically uncheckable. If I merely add my new references in the list at the bottom of the article, it would be difficult or impossible for the next person with an interest in the article to verify my work, because the book, journal, or other source may be hard to find, and there is no way of knowing which work in the list contains which fact. A footnote directing the reader to a specific work helps. But my inclination is to insert a note in the text such as (Smith, pp 213-215) since the work may lack an index. Footnotes often only direct the reader to a book, but not to the page. If I edit an article lacking footnotes, the Wiki style guide says follow the practice of the existing article documentation, which means having a bunch of disputable text followed by a bunch of links or references, so there is no way to document. So far, I have sometimes kept my own documentation file with source notes, in case someone disputes my edit. That seems a poor practice, because I would have to stand by forever to defend my edit. Any thoughts?
Also, is there a guideline for how old a copyrighted work has to be to become public domain and fair game for reproducing, such as illustrations from books or other publications?
Thanks again Edison 14:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Maybe we should create templates on all subjects like Ukrainians did on their oblasts. --
Kuban Cossack
19:56, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
Since you made a lot of contributions regarding administrative divisions of Russia, I thought you could answer my question.
I'm in search of maps of Western Russia, preferably black-and-white (you know, just like these old контурные карты in geography class... :)). The only difference is the scale, as I would like a big map of Western russian with roads, cities and so on but with no background or something like that, to be able to draw on it... :)
Any idea where I might find them? (preferably in public domain of course...)
Thanks! Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 16:01, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Central administrative district like the future relevant articles may be moved to Central administrative okrug. However I'm against transliteration such as "Tsentralny administrative okrug" or "Severo-Vostochny administrative okrug", but of course redirects could be made. Admittedly I can't understand why the general term is okrug while its subdivisions are called districts (e.g.: "federal district for federalny okrug, as in Siberian Federal District", as defined). Thanks anyway :) -- Brand спойт 19:51, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Привет. Обращаюсь как к человеку как мне кажется сведущему в Naming conventions. Нужна помощь в решении одного разногласия с User:Irpen. По-моему русское написание здесь совершенно неуместно. Нет совершенно никаких причин его добавлять. Петр Могила - молдавского происхождения, Киевский метрополит, умер до Переяславской Рады. Альтернативное английское имя Peter Mogila в статье приведено. "Pyotr Mogila" можно сказать в английском языке неизвестно совсем [14] 20 линков (включая 16 from Wikipedia). Далее в обсуждении User:Irpen пытается предствить будто я убираю английское написание, сопровождая это оскорблениями в мой адрес и неуместными инсинуациями. -- Yakudza 21:36, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Do you still have an interest in getting this going? I've been thinking about putting a bit of effort in in this area, and thought I'd go and see if a WikiProject existed on it, but alas, found that it was inactive. Rebecca 07:38, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I have seen that you left a message for me on User talk:129.12.200.49. I am afraid i did not realise, which is why i did not reply. I do have this user account, but i was lazily not using for the edits to the table of federal subject types. Incidentally I have recently added a table to Republics of Russia, with lots of information on the Republics, i hope everyone likes it! N-edits 14:22, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I notice you have put the note !--"i. e." is debatable-- after my comment "i.e. ethnic Finnish" for Karelians. I realise that my comment is not entirely clear. I do not intend to mean that the Karelians are actually Finnish. I mean to say that the Karelians have the same origins as the Finnish, and am refering to the fact that they were Finnish (except perhaps in some being of the Orthodox church) until 1917. Perhaps something bracketed like "(Finnish ethnic origin)" or "(closely related to Finnish)" would be preferable to "i.e. ethnic Finnish" ? N-edits 15:01, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Ezhiki. Could you leave your comments here [15]? -- Ghirla -трёп- 06:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
You probably wish to visit the discussion at Talk:Michael of Chernigov - Marrtel 13:36, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Ok. In that case, I'll make a new category "Cities, towns and villages" in the KO. Although it does seem to be a bit nitpicky to include villages from a list of "towns and cities"... Travelbird
I got curious: why do you created template like Template:Cities and towns in Tatarstan when exactly the same category exists, is used and the category is much less distracting for a reader? When I see such colored boxes I really wonder what does make them so attractive on WP. Pavel Vozenilek 22:57, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
As the best expert on the transliteration of cyrillic please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)#Final Proposal. abakharev 08:43, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your alert. I don't know where I picked up the "cite" phantom-tag, but it seems to follow me around like a pathetic puppy looking for a home.
And yes - History21's a bud. He also wrote the "God bless you" statement in my user:talk (ironically, given the motivation for your talk visitation). The only thing that pains me more than seeing "fuck" spelled without the "c" is when people can't grasp there/their/they're and to/too/two. : D—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nugneant ( talk • contribs).
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Ezhiki! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Prodego talk 21:03, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, Ezhiki! Why is it when I point my mouse on the coat of arms of Novgorod, it says "Coat of Arms of Mari El"? And we have this logo in every article on some town in Novgorod Oblast :). My trip to Turkey was excellent, a lot of swimming, drinking, eating, sightseeing and stuff. And tanning, of course. KNewman 10:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi I'm going to write about the central districts, and maybe other districts in the kronstadt, vyborg, peterhof areas. But you can unlink links you think is unnecessary. /Fiss
Hi there. I like your recent participation here. We can edit Russian articles further to present some referenced (or, first of all, common knowledge) TRUTH there. I.e., you're already playing my game. Or, you, as an admin, can make decisions on some Russian editors that would stop me of describing a real Russia (contact me if you want that). A kind of diplomacy you know. Whatever you choose, I'm OK with. Best wishes, AlexPU 19:44, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Надо отнять и поделить :) -- Untifler 09:48, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Ezhiki, can you comment on the status of Povorino? (from my talk page):
Hi, why did you add excessive disamiguation in Template:Districts of Volgograd Oblast? For instance, is there really a need to disambiguate Bykovsky District if there aren't more than one? Now - I don't know if there indeed are several districts named Bykovsky, but at least nothing points there :) -- Punkmorten 16:09, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up this article! I was hoping someone familiar with Russian would take a look at it. Cheers. -- F a ng Aili talk 15:46, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thanks for the welcome message, but i think you may be the one who needs to review npov!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.161.211.139 ( talk • contribs).
Hi there, Ezhiki! I just thought that if I add 10 more people, I will have to add their birth and death dates. Their dates are (or will be) listed in the articles themselves, anyway. You are free to restore them, if you wish. However, you will have to add more dates for other people then in order for a disambig page to look nice :). KNewman 12:57, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I dislike infoboxes intensely, because they encumber the pages without adding anything of value. As most Russian city articles are stubs, I envisage the nightmare which the arrival of infoboxes may cause here. Image jams and template jams are guaranteed. People would start flooding the stubs with silly coats of arms. Actually, I can't see any point in infoboxes. They usually repeat the information given in the text and make the articles, especially stubs, look overcluttered and slovenly. We should improve and expand the articles, add the coordinates properly, before embarking upon this risky infobox affair. -- Ghirla -трёп- 13:35, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you please lock the article from edit wars and participate in discussion as well. --
Kuban Cossack
23:14, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
This is apparently the flag of Kaliningrad Oblast -- can you confirm this? FOTW doesn't mention anything, but then again, they haven't got any flag for Tambov yet, and AFAIK the flag in Tambov's article is correct... Thanks! — Nightst a llion (?) 23:03, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Well I feel that there is no more point to hold on so I made the proposal a policy, I put a note on Portal:Belarus and if, say in 24 hours I recieve no new proposals for re-entering lacinka into Belarusian titles I will begin moving the articles, and for this I will need your help as an admin who can fix redirects. OK? --
Kuban Cossack
14:49, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
File:Motherussia.jpg | Hello Ezhiki, and thank you for your support at my request for adminship, which ended with an awe-inspiring 86/1/2 result. I plan to do much with my shiny new tools - but I'll start slow and learn the ropes at first. Please deluge me with assignments and requests - I enjoy helping out. For Mother Russia!! - CrazyRussian talk/ contribs/ email 05:20, 13 June 2006 (UTC) |
In Administrative divisions of Russia in 1727-1728 is mentioned "Revel Governorate (Ревельская губерния) was considered subdivided into 1 province (Estland)" On the Dutch wikipedia we currently have a debate about the actual name of this governorate between 1719 and 1783 (at nl:Overleg:Gouvernement Estland). As far as I know (from this website) the name in Russian was Ревельская губерния between 1719 and 1783, then Ревельское наместничество until 1796 and afterwards Эстляндская губерния. However the Estonian wiki doesn't mention Revel Governorate at all ( et:Tallinna asehaldurkond). This german pdf-document about Livonia uses the word Estland for this region during this time (and not 'Reval'). Now I was wondering where you obtained the data which is mentioned in the article Administrative divisions of Russia in 1727-1728 (and the other division reform articles of this time referring tot this guberniya). Not that it would change the outcome of the debate, as it is about the Dutch name for this region in this particular time, but because I am curious if the Germans and the Russian state perhaps had a different name for this territory. -- Hardscarf 22:11, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Сохраняющаяся въ Государственномъ Архивѣ роспись губернiй и провинцiй 1727 года (Разр. XVI, д. 11) даетъ возможность подробно очертить областное дѣленiе, какъ оно установилось въ началѣ эпохи...
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::IV. Ревельская губернiя: составляетъ одну провинцiю, совпадаетъ съ Эстляндiей.
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I would welcome your comments on this page. -- Ghirla -трёп- 10:10, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Do you have some more info about this place ( Astapovo)?? It would be great if you can add something more to it. I've created the basic article... It's of special interest as Leo Tolstoy's death place.
:)
Pratheepps 10:56, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ezhiki,
Thanks for your explanation. My point is that the BGN/PCGN publications are not presented as titles (I see quotes nor italics). Instead, the article provides a listing of BGN/PCGN romanizations of a number of languages. That's why I'd prefer to refer to the languages using their common names. Please also not that Lappish is considered to be offensive. -- Benne ['bɛnə] ( talk) 12:36, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Why Igel Herrisonovich Izhakoff? Who is/was that guy? It's just my curiosity. It's your decision anyway :). KNewman 17:37, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
So, having already had some words with you on the matter, I thought I'd toss an idea to you. As you're aware, the names of 2nd- and 3rd-level jurisdictions don't necessarily indicate their administrative center, although they often do. Since part of the project I'm working on (which is what led me to comparing the Komi article to the Komi republic web site) involves me digging up this information, do you think it would be useful to incorporate that information? (Like so:)
It seems the best feasible way to provide that detail -- one which is sort of necessary for someone to get an idea of where the areas are in many cases. (The best way would be getting the articles for each district up, but that's going to be a herculean effort. In a perfect world, every oblast/krai/republic would have the same level and detail of coverage as every US state already does, and every raion would have the same level of detail as US counties. But I digress...) Anyway, since that information is your baby, let me know what you think. I'm perfectly okay with entering it, although I'm sure you'll wanna keep an eye on it and correct my lousy Russian "spelling". ;) JFMorse 06:57, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Ezhiki. I’d like to thank you for your time which you spent for reading and correcting my article. I very appreciate that you valued my work so much:) Lidiab 05:50, 29 June 2006 (UTC)lidiab
I noticed you removed the Category:Cities and towns in Russia. Fine by me, you'll probably know best. Problem is however, that the only category remaining is Category:Human spaceflight, and consequently, no geographical one. Isn't there some workaround, e.g. a Category:Restricted areas in Russia, which could then be put in the geography tree? Errabee 17:34, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your concern. Tobias was actually blocked for disruption (he moved a town page to "Bad (town)"), and for placing "this user is a deletionist" on other people's userpages. Additionally, he began a systematic campaign of disruption by way of open IPs as soon as he was blocked. So unfortunatly, there's a lot more going on than than just his interaction with you (which honestly, I hadn't noticed). -- InShaneee 20:43, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Привет,
вот статья, которую я расширил ( изменения). Нужно, чтобы проверили и подкорректировали, не знаю, где спросить. Посмотрел портал Россия - как я понял, там весьма мало смотрят обсуждения. -- Ъыь ( koo!) 17:48, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to bother you again. Could you please take a look at Olonets Raion. I got there from Administrative divisions of the Republic of Karelia via the redirect Olonetsky District, Republic of Karelia. Is this just plain incorrect, or does it describe a historically other region? Errabee 06:12, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Your have endorsed the summary by Alex Bakharev at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Irpen which misinforms the community. Alex Bakharev wrote about Russian architecture: "There is no discussion on the talk page, no suggestions on improving the article". In fact there was (and still is) a discussion on the talk page and solution has been proposed. (Please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Irpen#Comment_to_the_summary_by_Alex_Bakharev_and_others). I suggest you to withdraw your signature under the summary.-- AndriyK 08:51, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your note. I'd make the following points.
I've only posted this here, do with it as you will, and thanks for making the effort to resolve this issue. jimfbleak 15:21, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for wikifying my Russia-related articles. I am currently working on making pages about the Tver Oblast, especially the area around Kashin and Kalyazin. My ancestors are from that region and I want it to become more well-known. If you can help me out some more in the future, that would be great. -- GoOdCoNtEnT 17:08, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
When is it a good idea to add a 'See Also' section to a page? When is it not? What is your opinion on 'See Also' sections? -- GoOdCoNtEnT 00:30, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Courtesy notice - I prodded. - CrazyRussian talk/ email 03:21, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
WikiProject Central Asia has finally been created! If you're interested, please consider joining us. Aelfthrytha 21:50, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Привет. У меня возникло разногласие с одиним из участников, ты не мог бы помочь?
Предыстрия такова: я поправил в статье про Уму Турман, ставшей избранной, типографику: заменил дефисы на тире, знаки дюйма — на кавычки (“”) и компьютерный апостроф (') на типографский (’). Через некоторое время участник Downwards откатил мои правки по поводу апострофа. Я написал по поводу этого ему в обсуждение, но мы не очень друг друга поняли и мою последнюю реплику он просто проигнорировал.
Скажи пожалуйста, я в чём-то не прав? Спасибо. — fatal_exception ?! 09:12, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
When editing the Savyolovo article, Picapica did make a few good points. Would it be possible that you could rewrite his section to include them? Thanks. -- GoOdCoNtEnT 18:44, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello Ezhiki. I just wanted to ask you if you know there is great PD encyclopedia which we should use, at [16]. It's sad that my generation don't know Russian language so I can't help with translating. But do you know someone who can help? I know that User:Mircea on the Czech wiki translated more than 100 {!} articles on Russian lakes and lakes from former Soviet republics. -- Darwinek 16:13, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a bunch for giving me that warning!!! I'm starting to have enough of this template/userbox war. I copied the template over at my own subpage just in case. Thanks again,
Grafikm
(AutoGRAF)
21:19, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Ok. Sorry. A Russian friend of mine saw the article and suggested that I fix it. — Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 18:58, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Just started this article, and was wondering if you could check the facts and especially the Russian spelling. Thanks in advance! =) -- ran ( talk) 22:52, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello, it seems that in addition to revesal of names of Moscow rail terminals you have made, the Template:Moscow Rail Terminals needs to be reverted.... Goudzovski 16:57, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian instead of initiating a revert war. Circeus 13:19, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
While it may be obvious that Novosibirsk is the largest city in Siberia, it's never pointed out in the article and therefore isn't "redundant". Also, it isn't pointed out that the city is Siberia's capital, which I will also be adding to the article. Please, before you go around reverting information in articles think of an actual reason for doing it. I don't care that you're an administrator, this is a blatant misuse of power. There's no justifiable reason to go around getting rid of perfectly accurate information in articles.- User:LaFagotdeParis
Ezhiki, I see that you've come across Template:Kirovohrad Oblast one of many Ukrainian subdivision templates that I recently edited or created. Please realize that the transliteration used therein is now in place for all Oblast templates. Perhaps we should discuss this at Talk:Subdivisions of Ukraine before we spend time editing around each other. In short, I transliterated the raion names in a modified way because there does not seem to be a consistent standard on Wikipedia. My goal was to make the names easy to read in english. Please let us discuss this further at the talk page. Thank you!-- tufkaa 17:22, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Just a note to alert you. Chevaline has been the target of a vandal who's purpose seems to be to bully contributors to accept a version of nuclear history that omits any reference to the percieved threat from the Soviet Union, real or imagined. A specific reference to Krushchev and the threats made during the Suez Crisis are the latest target. These were referenced to external sources, but to back up those sources I provided additional references to the Nikita Krushchev page and the Suez Crisis page. He seems to have taken umbrage at this, and given his earlier behaviour these pages may well be his next target. I hope not, but my reading of him as a former elected officer of CND in the 1980's, is that he is still firmly in the category of a 'Friend of Leonid Breshnev'. They were a pain in the neck then, and apparently still are. No names, no finger pointing, but you'll know him if he appears here. Regards. Brian.Burnell 19:31, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Ezhiki, actually, could you please fix the Slavutych page that I messed up. Sorry for this. I planned to move Slavutych (city) back to Slavutych, mentioning the other meanings by {{otheruses}}. Slavutych (disambiguation) is already there. But I fail to realize that the move over redirect requires the redirect to refer to the moving page. Or, alternatively, put the dab back, I cannot do it either. Thanks, MapLover 05:10, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Looks nice, but why only Murmansk? where is all the rest??? :) -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 17:12, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi I am new to wikipedia, and the only article that I made my self so far is a small one on Eduard Pleske a russian finance minister during the early twentieth century.
I am currently doing some substantial research into Chernenko and I would like to expand that article, and maybe totally rewrite it. However I noticed that you deleted my edit about Chernenko's exceptional memory, I have plenty of sources but how do I cite them on wikipedia? Just add a reference section?
Also I would probably change the layout of the page as well since it doesnt currently have much room for personal life and foreign travel info on Chernenko.
Thank You—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Yev900 ( talk • contribs).
Hi Ezhiki,
Thanks for your support for the Vasilevsky FAC! However, since a huge style hunt is in progress by a maximum of ppl available, can you please take a few minutes to read the article and to correct/point out the problems you might encounter?
Thanks in advance, Graf.
Something weird is happening with this page. Please investigate. -- Ghirla -трёп- 06:27, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello Ezhiki! I am from Slovak wikipedia, you can find me there under nick Stibium. The reason why I write to your discussion here, is that I want to ask you what is the purpose of your registering on Slovak wikipedia. Is it adding interwikis? If it is, it would be good to write it on your user page. No offence meant with this comment, it's just some people register on Slovak wikipedia, they are not Slovaks and the do not contribute, only say they can't speak Slovak and that we should contact them on their national wikipedia, and I have no idea why, and I hoped that you would be the one enlightening me on this. (not that I am forbidding you that, I'm actually happy that new people register on our wikipedia, I just sometimes wonder why).
Regards, Stibium
Seventeen images of the "Hero of the Soviet Union" barnstar awards commented out for bandwidth reasons.—Ezhiki | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I, KPbIC, hereby award you this barnstar (one per each Ezhik) for your excellent template " Hero City". Keep it up! |
Hi, KPbIC! First of all, please accept my apologies that you found the template which I created offensive; although your reaction to it is somewhat puzzling to me. From what I remember of my past brief interactions with you, you seemed like a reasonable fellow; definitely not the type who'd start handing out buckets of sarcastic awards before even asking what's going on. Anyway, judging from the discussion on my talk page and above on this one, I think I owe an explanation.
Yesterday, at the Russian notice board, Ghirlandajo asked for community's opinion regarding whether or not a Hero Cities template would be a good idea. It seemed like a relatively useful template to have to me, and as I was the only one who responded, I went ahead and created one. The problem I encountered was that the Hero Cities, as you well know, are located in three different modern countries, and the only suitable title of sufficient commonality I could think about was "Hero Cities of the Soviet Union" (thanks for changing it to "former", by the way, it was an oversight on my part), with further subcategorization into Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. If the "Soviet Union" part irked you, I welcome any suggestions as to what title would be more acceptable.
When I started adding the template to the actual articles, the idea lost some of its appeal. Hero Cities are large cities with rich histories, and although I don't agree that their Hero City status is just a "minor point" as you put it above, having yet another template at the bottom kind of overloads the articles' footers, if only from the aesthetic point of view. Perhaps having just a category would have been sufficient, I don't know. In any case, if you still feel the template is a mistake, please put it on TfD, which, if I may remind you, was an option available to you all along.
Meanwhile, I hope you'll understand if I respectfully decline the award you've given me. To answer your other question, I do not have any further plans for creating similar templates—this one was a one-time deal that turned up unexpectedly. Rest assured, if I ever find myself looking into creating a template along similar lines, I will make sure to request your input before actually creating and implementing it.
Hopefully this closes this incident. Of course, should you have any questions or comments, you are welcome on my talk page. Best of luck to you in your edits.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 13:54, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello my friend. I just wanted to ask you if I am annoying you by creating such a high number of geo-stubs, that you always greatly expand. I would like to continue with this next week. Today I am going on vacation. - Darwinek 15:55, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I never presumed that Kola was officially recognized as a suburb of Murmansk. I'm not aware that there is an official definition of suburb, either, and I never claimed that there is. I regard "suburb" as an informal designation. If you think that "satellite" is a more appropriate term, please make necessary changes, although I believe that the current wording is just fine. -- Ghirla -трёп- 14:12, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Здравствуйте, хотелось-бы узнать, что делать если я создаю скажем статью Dmitriy Puchkov, но хочу чтобы на нее выходили в поиске и по dmitry puchkov, и по Dmitry Puchkow и еще там по какому-нибудь Puchkoff? Если я правильно понял для этого должно быть созданно соответсвующие количество статей с разными названиями и редиректами на главную статью? Или это можно сделать как-то иначе?
Спасибо. P.S. И еще отдельное спасибо за Вашу правку Pole Chudes.
Posse 21:19, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
#REDIRECT [[Dmitry Puchkov]]
Hi, Wallie! Could you please explain me the reasoning behind this edit of yours? I couldn't figure out what the connection between the village and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
These articles are now being vandalized by Nixer:
Russian Empire - Reverts without provides. Rejects official sources and does not specify the sources. Refuses to cooperate.
Naval ranks and insignia of the Russian Federation and Ranks of the People's Liberation Army - multi 3RR violation
Please, help to stop his attack and reverts.-- Oliversi 11:15, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Do you think some template like {{ Arabic}} should be created for Russian language ? - Darwinek 18:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
That's okay; other countries have the naming convention to use the comma even if the other places are not cities (see, for example, Wikipedia:WikiProject Swiss municipalities/Article title conventions), and I wasn't aware there were other standards. But if the Russian ones are already standardized there wouldn't be any reason to change them all.
And this is irrelevant, but I saw the last comment, and if Darwinek asks again you can tell him I'm a huge fan of the Arabic template and think there should be one for all non-Roman scripts. Rigadoun 20:11, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
What do you say to this? -- Ghirla -трёп- 14:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
I just saw you Ghirla's page, and dropped in to say hello. -- Bhadani 15:16, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the clarification as to the city/town status of this (and other towns in Russia). BillC 16:57, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Don't images take up the majority of the space though? -- GoOdCoNtEnT 20:34, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
I have uploaded a map of Kashinsky District to show the location of Kashin. However, the map is in Russian. Can you help me find a map in English? -- GoOdCoNtEnT 20:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
...do you know where can I complain about admin rights abuse? All these ArbCom pages are really a bureaucratic mess. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:41, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
As far as I know, there isn't a way to create a non-breaking space without using the tag. My point was that it doesn't seem necessary and clutters up the editing space. If there's a particular reason for putting it there, I didn't think of it. Dbinder ( talk) 01:46, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
maybe you like Category:Wikipedians who use userboxes for statistical reasons, I use the template now. I am not a big fan of user boxes, but if it helps in statistics it's good. So I will maybe deploy more in the future. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 11:29, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Bolshakovo your review welcome. interwiki ru? improve my english... Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:02, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
ISO 15924 v ISO 639-3 - Template talk:User cyr, Category talk:User cyr Tobias Conradi (Talk) 19:52, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thought it might be easier for you to look it up... can you check if Heixiazi/Bolshoy Ussuriyskiy is a part of Khabarovsky Krai or the Jewish Autonomous Oblast? Google Earth seems to suggest the JAO, but Google Earth really isn't the most authoritative source. Thanks in advance. -- ran ( talk) 16:49, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
I doubt you'll ever get to encounter this elsewhere, but you might want to add Administrative divisions of Tuva to the list of exceptions. "Sumon" here is correct, "summon" isn't. Cheers,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 21:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I was just wondering if you would accept if I would nominate you for adminship. Cheers. -
Darwinek
13:04, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome. Interesting project you got here. Seems like it could be useful. Heard a little bit of bad press a while back, but I hope that's all taken care of now. I look forward to spending some time fixing some little things. Cya. -- Ali'i 13:34, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Remember when I asked you to lock the article, well the dispute continued into an
RfC, since you had some involvement, maybe you can give an outside opinion on the matter.--
Kuban Cossack
00:48, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Ёжики, я тут работаю над статьёй о Википедии (аспирант типа), хотел бы вам пару вопросов задать вне ВП, например по емайлу, или как вам удобнее. Как можно было бы с вами связаться? Я yuri(at)sims(.)berkeley(.)edu. Qaramazov 07:03, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
There is an ISO 15924 conform userbox Template:User Cyrl now. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ëzhiki,
Thanks; as I've just noted at WP:CfD, I didn't realise I'd wandered into an area where the consensus is/was to use non-English terms. Apologies!
No need, but thanks for offer.
I would say that if non-English terms are to be used, then for the sake of consistency (and education) the correct non-English plurals should also be used. Hence I'll be requesting moves to Kraia of Russia and Oblasti of Russia respectively – unless these should be Kraya of Russia and Oblasty of Russia or something else...? (Also, subyekty or subyekti or something else...?) Thanks, David Kernow 13:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Не мог бы ты, как администратор, снять пометку db-empty со статьи Mithgol's Urine, пожалуйста? Пометку поставили, когда там было два предложения, с тех пор её уже расширили. -- Vlad Jaroslavleff 17:45, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ezhiki. Thanks for the tips regarding the "Autonomous Oblasts of the Soviet Union" template. I have corrected the mistakes. Tell me what you think. -- Clevelander 19:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Dorogoy Yozhik, nu razve mozhno tak vezhlivo obraschat'sya s trollyami i kormit' ih filet mignon'om? S glubokim uvazheniyem, - CrazyRussian talk/ email 13:00, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Et tu, Brute? Please, reconsider.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 13:49, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
It's from the official site of Moscow government: [17]
ТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНОЕ ДЕЛЕНИЕ ГОРОДА
Территориальными единицами города Москвы являются районы (123) и административные округа (10), имеющие наименования и границы, закрепленные правовыми актами города Москвы.
About upravas. Uprava is the governing body in raion (e.g. Управа района Измайлово). So there should be bijection between them and raions. -- 87.251.146.100 14:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
It seems that К-Г has never been a raion. It was a territorial unit with a special status (TEOC, Территориальная единица с особым статусом), later territory with a spec. stat. (ТОС, Территория с особым статусом). See [23]. Territory described here mostly belongs to Тверской raion, except of a small "appendix" Знаменка-Крестовоздвиженский-Воздвиженка of Арбат raion (as these raions pictured in my Москва современная. Атлас города. ООО Атлас-принт, 2005). Document mentioned above has many amendments (you can find it on the same server). I think I'll create an account soon and then post it's name for you.-- 87.251.146.73 16:12, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Again me. See Закон о территориальном делении города Москвы (Закон № 13-47, от 05.07.95 95-31 and later editions) Постановление Правительства Москвы О РЕОРГАНИЗАЦИИ АДМИНИСТРАЦИИ ТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНОЙ ЕДИНИЦЫ С ОСОБЫМ СТАТУСОМ "КИТАЙ-ГОРОД" № 479-ПП, от 24.06.03) on the same site [24]. I think that current status of К-Г is the following. It is a territory defined in law (on ТЕОС К-Г, 1996). The Управление К-Г Префектуры ЦАО have some power on this territories. But this territory belongs to raions Арбат and Тверской.-- 87.251.146.122 17:11, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Привет! Случилась ерундовая проблема, но нужен систоп чтобы её решить. Я загрузил в своё время поверх файла указанного выше (нечаянно конечно), женщину просящую подаяние. Как её убрать оттуда и перенести в файл с другим именем? И чтобы оба этих файла не удаляли? А то я вроде загрузил первуб версию файла в [[Image:Luli children.jpg]], но их за что-то удалили :). Хотя точно такую же картинку в файле [[Image:Luli.jpg]] не трогали... Не поможешь? -- Wiki 20:25, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Кстати, нет ли человека, готового помочь с Tatar cuisine, которая просто переведена роботом с русского раздела? Тема-то уж больно вкусная. Все татарские названия я потом и сам поправлю, как они пишутся на английском, но вот собственно с кулинарным английским мне вовек не разобраться! -- Wiki 20:25, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Hey! Thanks a lot for your help and the new template! :) I have grown up in Komarovo and wanted to write about it for a long time. I will probably be adding some of my own pictures to the article a little later... Vlad b 21:23, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
shouldnt we make a link to Notability at our talk pages? To see how the article gets deleted and recreated? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 05:18, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi again Ëzhiki,
Thought you might wish to respond to
this query – apologies if this page already on your watchlist. Best wishes,
David Kernow
01:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for adding your thoughts here; I'm letting some time pass to give Tobias and anyone else the opportunity to respond as well.
Meanwhile, I have returned to the "chestnut" that is (administrative) subdivisions of Russia and read some of the material you commended to me. It's intriguing to note that – so far as I've seen – Russia is the only country on the English Wikipedia not to have some sort of system of English names for its (administrative) subdivisional terms. Furthermore, given the sentiments you reported, this surprises me – coupled with the levels indicated in the rest of the article plus the other Russian subdivision articles, it appears to provide such a system:
voyenny okrug (what level/s?) |
military district |
* The distinction between "province" (oblast) and "historical province" (провинция) can be made...?
I'm not thinking (or advocating) that every "N Oblast", "M Okrug" etc article is renamed, but that English equivalents along the lines of the above might be given at an overview level. What am I missing or have not understood...? Thanks, David 01:02, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
PS I note some of these translations are already in use in e.g. Federal subjects of Russia.
PPS I also note these (?second-level) transliterations given near the bottom of this page at statoids.com: natsional'nyy rayon; ostrov; pgt [sic!]; gorsovet; Natsional'naya Volost'.
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Munitsipalnyye would be a better transliteration for "муниципальные" (as per WP:RUS, as well as for consistency with other transliterations already used in the table). This is indeed "undefined plural" (I wish I knew the precise grammatical term); masculine singular is "муниципальный" (munitsipalny). "Obrazovaniya posyolki" is completely incorrect. "Munitsipalnyye obrazovaniya—posyolki" is literally translated as "municipal entities—settlements", and "obrazovaniya posyolki" literally means "entities settlements", which, of course, makes no sense at all (I understand that you don't speak Russian, so the mistake is perfectly understandable; plus, I should have replied sooner so you wouldn't have to play the exciting game of Cyrillic roulette :)). The singular form for "municipal settlements" is "муниципальное образование — посёлок" (munitsipalnoye obrazovaniye—posyolok). To answer the rest of your questions: "vnutri-" means "intra-" (lit. "inside"), but is usually omitted during translation (I've never seen "intracity districts" applied to Russian cities). Also the term "(vnutri)gorodskiye" is not officially applied to the administrative okrugs of Moscow and to the districts of St. Petersburg, although it can, of course, be used to describe what they are. I would suggest to remove this term from the federal cities' line of the table altogether. Same goes for the districts of Moscow (they are simply "rayony", not "vnutrigorodskiye rayony").— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 16:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
This is great! – and not a little work, so maybe it can find life beyond my (soon-to-be-archived) talk page...? I don't think I'll use all the variations (yes, I had no idea Russian had such a – probably very useful – variety of plural forms) but hope I've used and confirmed the appropriate ones in The Table. I'm planning to move The Table et al into the main encyclopedia sometime tomorrow, at which point I'll also take a copy of all the above for my own (talk-page archive) reference. Thank you for all your mentoring work! Best wishes, David Kernow 02:46, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Could you please support our request in here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages (Belarusian - Orthography Revision of 1959). Thank you! -- 82.209.xx.xx 09:31, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
need your help at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_August_26#Category:Writing_systems_categories
pschemp just set up something for deletion without talking. Category:User Cyrl-N is heavily populated. But proably all the people in this cat are not aware of the deletion. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 01:42, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Whew! -- tyomitch 14:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
C прошедшим и спасибо за приветствие. Sredni vashtar 17:42, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I've taken the plunge – thanks for your support even before I finished putting my trunks on! Chuckle, David 04:50, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
...Thank you for your commendation! Shiny, David 14:51, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Could you please comment? -- Ghirla -трёп- 12:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Conrad! Regarding this, could you, please, refer me to the appropriate page? I am having trouble locating the RFCU you mentioned. Thanks!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 12:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Could you suggest something to prevent such disruptions in the future? -- Ghirla -трёп- 12:55, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Ezhiki! Do you feel there is a need for a separate Yasnaya Polyana (disambiguation)? IMO, Yasnaya Polyana would be best served with a disclaimer link to Yasnaya Polyana, Kaliningrad Oblast at the top. Having a separate disambiguation page to list those two articles and the vague "Yasnaya Polyana, name of a number of other rural settlements in Russia" seems unncessary to me. What do you think? Olessi 16:34, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
OK but all of the Russian oblasts need a raion and city navigation box as is covered in Ukraine. Otherwise vast important info is not present. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 08:33, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Regarding CrazyRussian's edit to Krasnoye Selo, I think "krasnoye" means "red", beautiful is "krasivoye". Where is the truth? - Darwinek 17:35, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
/English/ Why have you unchanged my changes? In comments Administrative divisions of Moscow you wrote please do not mix up the terms of administrative and municipal divisions. The article is about administrative units, not about municipalities. I didn't do anything with municipalities (Kryukovo, Panfilovsky or/and etc.). I'd did 2 corretion:
1) I'd corrected City of Zelenograd to Zelenograd Administrative Okrug. ZelAO (ЗелАО) is one of ten Administrative Okrugs of Moscow (see ru:Административное деление Москвы). Zelenograd (city) is the majority of ZelAO, but it's not whole of them.
2) I'd inserted the widly used acronyms of Administrative Okrugs and their lat. transliterations. Is this information uninteresting or mistaken?
/Русский/ Почему вы отменили мои исправления? В комментариях вы написали ---. Я ничего не делал с муниципалитетами (Крюково, Панфиловский и/или другие). Я сделал две коррекции:
1. Исправил город ru:Зеленоград на ru:Зеленоградский административный округ. ЗелАО - это один из десяти округов Москвы (см. ru:Административное деление Москвы). Зеленоград же - большая часть ЗелАО, но не вся.
2. Ввёл широко употребляемые сокращения названий округов и их латинские транслитерации. Моя информация неинтересна или ошибочна?
-- Alex Spade 19:36, 14 September 2006 (UTC) See also (см. также) ru:Участник:Alex Spade
Why do you keep reverting the addition of human feaces to the disambig page on log? I think I should be there. I know wikipedia is not a dictonary, but the edit applies to a wikipedia article. It is not just a defination, but a redirect to a page that may be hard to find by someone who does not know the correct article name. Think outside the box 12:17, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
May I just comment here to tell you I am seriously fangirling your revert to Hedgehog? It gave me a good giggle. :) Mhari 03:14, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
Thank You for Your attention. However, I still wonder, why then Wikipedia uses the (right) name Peterhof and not "Petergof"..?
Please, read from here: "They may be names borrowed from Russian through another language, e.g., Petergof→Peterhof."
So, same with the German name Shlisselburg→Schlüsselburg.
Sincerely,
PKo, 25. September 2006, 17.06 (UTC)
It seems as though, once again, I am in desire of your native-speaker services; this time in the Russian grammar article. I'd like to refine the IPA but I don't know the stress to all the words. If a word has two stresses, don't be afraid to mark both of them. It doesn't look like it should take you more than a few minutes, but there's no rush. Thank you in advance. AEuSoes1 09:33, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I just wrote the Pyrohiv (Kiev) and created the Pirogov dab. Now, my question is what to do with Pirogovo.
There are several locations in RU with this name, along with the Pirogovo Reservoir near Moscow. How notable are they. Should Pirogovo be a redirect to a very notable Pyrohiv (Kiev)? Then Russian settlements should be added to Pirogovo (disambiguation) page. Another option is to have two separate disambiguations: Pirogov (disamgiguation) and Pirogovo being a disambiguation too. I am kust not sure how many Pirogovos are in Russia and whether any of them are particularly notable. -- Irpen 21:49, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
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I need your opinion about this. -- Ghirla -трёп- 16:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Grigori Rasputin: vandals tend to flock. Always check prev edit as well, not just hit rv button. Look even deeper in pages that attract vandals, as this one. `' mikka (t) 18:26, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I saw you tend to edit Russia-related articles. If you are familiar with Viktor Khristenko, a former Prime Minister of Russia, please do your best to expand the article or add references to uncited content. Thanks, DRK 21:51, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Something must be done to reduce the size of the article. Do you find nice the pictures with peasants? As if Russia is a country of peasants.-- РКП 18:32, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
I have a strong suspicion that this user is a seasoned troll. Right now he is contributing nothing, only making nuisance with frivolous tags and arbitrary splitting of articles. `' mikka (t) 19:53, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I did it manually. I don't know how to revert articles. I'd like to know how. -- jno 09:44, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Could you please comment on this? Thanks, Ghirla -трёп- 14:06, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, if the Russian town Schlüsselburg (Шлиссельбург) is in English "Shlisselburg", will then the 'new-old' name of Kaliningrad possibly be, not Königsberg (Кёнигсберг) but "Kyonigsberg"..?
Sincerely.
-- PKo 16:37, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
There is another transliteration dispute where your comments are welcome. See this, for instance. -- Ghirla -трёп- 06:44, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Please visit the Talk: Armenia and Talk: Armenians pages http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Armenia&action=edit§ion=3 http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Armenians&action=edit§ion=36 please voice your view on the current discussion, there is a small minority that are promoting and point of view that Armenia is geographically in Europe and Armenians are a European people. It is best to serve the factual truth and your support is desperately needed.
I am new on WikiProject Cities. I have added considerable content to the first city I am working on, which happens to be the city of my residence, Taichung City. Would you mind taking a few minutes to look it over and leave comments on how you think I can make it better to bring it up to WikiProject Cities standards in a section of the discussion page for the city’s article page that I have set up.
Thank you. Ludahai 03:53, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for copyedit of my ugly article, now you know why usually I don't write articles here :) Sorry for inconviniences and thank you for your help! MaxiMaxiMax 13:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ezhiki,
Thank you for pointing out my mistake. I was, however, referring to WP:MOSDAB. I have been reformatting disambiguation pages since January, at which time I read through the Manual of Style for disambiguation pages very thoroughly. I have not referred back to it very often since then. Apparently the guidelines have changed. Now having read the section "Examples of individual entries that should not be created", I agree with your assessment that the people named "Nikolay" or "Nikolai" should not be mixed with other entries. The entries should be moved to List of people named Nikolay.
If this change is made, the only entries left on Nikolay will be Nikolai, Alaska and Prince Nikolai of Denmark. I would suggest that Nikolai be switched from a redirect page to a short disambiguation page with these two entries and a "See also" section with a link to Nicholas and List of people named Nikolai. Nikolay could then be switched to a redirect page to List of people named Nikolay. Let me know what you think.
Neelix 15:04, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Ezhiki, Thanks for editing help on Kstovo. Uniformity is indeed important. I was wondering though why you thought it desirable to remove the link to the wikimapia.org page? Having the new "coordinates" link was very good of course -- it gives links to all kinds of maps -- but it does not (yet) gives one a Wikimapia link. Which, in my view, is rather unfortunate, as Wikimapia is a unique resource that allows the readers not only to view an annotatted map, but also to participated in a collaborative annotation process, much in the spirit of Wikipedia itself. Also, their UI is nicer (I think) than that on maps.google.com, even though of course the maps come from the same database.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vmenkov ( talk • contribs).
Добрый день!
Я тут промахнулся. прошу переименоловать Википедия:Interwiki Report/ruwiki обратно в User:MaxSem/ruwiki - я промахнулся с проектами... Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 16:04, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Blacksmith Institute - need your help in checking spell for russian places. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:13, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
By assuming that most copyright page have an anti right click lock and by also assuming that it does not have a copyright insignia on the bottom right, I assume it to have no copyright, but that is in my opinion, I interpret the Copright rules loosely, so if its no there then its not copyright. You of course maybe have stricter interpretation.
needed: Nahia into Nahiya. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:31, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Rich! I've just spotted this edit of yours, and I thought I'd ask for a favor.
Linking single years is a habit I acquired in the past two years, and which is very hard to get rid of. I often catch myself linking single years without even thinking that I really shouldn't be doing it. One example is the dates of the Censuses, such as those you corrected in the diff above.
There are currently mighty many references to the 1989 Soviet Census and to the 2002 Russian Census. All of them are constructed as follows:
Since you are obviously not making all the changes by hand, would you consider adding an algorithm replacing the formatting above with this:
I'll make an effort to switch, too; it's just that I really don't want to go back and change all existing formatting by hand.
This, of course, is by no means urgent, but I'd appreciate if you could let me know if it could be done. Thanks!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 18:26, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
~:::Pleasure. Should all be done now. Rich Farmbrough, 21:29 22 October 2006 (GMT).
I can help you with the map(s) you requested. Only thing is the timeframe - what are you expecting (or when)? I am in class for the weekend, so I can probably get to this next week sometime. Rarelibra 22:50, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ezhiki - how does this map look?
I threw this together quickly tonight. Let me know if you have any changes/updates/etc. Rarelibra 04:15, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ezhiki - because it is my delay, I will guarantee this to be updated and to your liking no later than Friday (my time)... :) Rarelibra 22:18, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ëzhiki, thanks a lot for supporting me in my recent RfA. It succeeded, and I am very grateful to all of you. If you ever need help with anything, please don't hesitate to ask. Also, feel free point out any mistakes I make! Thanks again, — Khoi khoi 04:42, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
I'n very sorry that I expressed my problems in a bad way. I was trying to read articles on Siberia in general and came across that page and could not understand it. Sorry that I know so little about Siberia to express my confusion correctly. Mattisse (talk) 12:27, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
P.S. I would fix it myself if I had any idea how to do so. I would love to, but I would do more harm than good if I tried. Mattisse (talk) 12:27, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
With a few changes of status, most of the Soviet-era administrative and territorial divisions of the Russian Republic were retained in constituting the Russian Federation. In 1996 there were eighty-nine administrative territorial divisions: twenty-one republics, six territories (kraya ; sing., kray ), forty-nine oblasts (provinces), one autonomous oblast, and ten autonomous regions (okruga ; sing., okrug ). The cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg have separate status at the oblast level. Population size and location have been the determinants for a region's designation among those categories. The smallest political division is the rayon (pl., rayony ), a unit roughly equivalent to the county in the United States. Source: U.S. Library of Congress
Uvazhaemye ezhiki,
No objections on your reverts. I agree that it is more consistent for us to stick with OKATO. As the Wiki article on OKATO says, OKATO indeed is not set up for expressing the 4-level subordination (Oblast | City | City district | posyolok or selsovet): "Для незначительного количества объектов (объекты, подчиненные администрациям районов городов республиканского, краевого, областного подчинения) их кодирование осуществляется на 6, 7, 8 разрядах, однако исключается одна ступень подчиненности, а именно подчиненность администрации района, и указывается их подчиненность администрации города."
As to the terminology: the Nizhny Novgorod City Charter [26] indeed says:
"Статья 7. Административно-территориальное устройство города
1. ... Город состоит из
* Автозаводского, Канавинского, Ленинского, Московского, Нижегородского, Приокского, Советского, Сормовского районов; * Березовопойменского сельсовета, входящего в Московский район; * деревень Новая, Подновье, курортного поселка "Зеленый город", входящих в Нижегородский район; * деревень Бешенцево, Ближнеконстантиново, Луч, Ляхово, Мордвинцево, Ольгино, входящих в Приокский район; * деревни Кузнечиха, входящей в Советский район.
(formatting mine, words theirs). So if one just reads this, one has reasons to interpret this "входящего" not as being "under jurisdiction" but being "located within [the] territory" of Nizhegorodsky city district. However, OKATO obviously talks about the same concepts in terms of "подчиненные администрациям", i.e. settlements "under jurisdiction" of the district governments.
And finally, as to the facts on the ground (and thanks to Wikimapia I could check the borders of Zelyony Gorod, as given in the same charter), this "resort settlement" sits a long way off Nizhegorodsky District, smack dab in the middle of Kstovo District. Vmenkov 06:17, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
I have added you to my list of Wiki-friends. -- Ineffable3000 19:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
I speedied Actuate, though upon further research it probably doesn't qualify for speedy deletion, so I've restored it. — tregoweth ( talk) 21:20, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
If I tried to fix your "bunched up edits" on History of the administrative division of Russia? I could always revert it back if it didn't work. Mattisse (talk) 18:28, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ëzhiki!
I'm sure now that if I ever have the misfortune to be conscripted, I will try to join the air force, as I don't think I'll survive any minefields I meet! Thanks for confirming that everything else seems okay; I'm nearly ready to start believing in miracles...
As you may've guessed, I'd hoped "autonomous area" would be a globally-neutral term, but, of course, that's asking too much (!) so I'm now thinking of:
Dare I ask what you reckon...?...!
...and, more generally, Autonomies of X. I like the compact nature of "autonomies", but I wonder whether most folk reading it would know to what it referred...?
This is a lazy description I forgot to remove/improve before submission; I'll amend now. I've also just seen another...
Thanks for the alert,
David (
talk)
19:21, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
PS tasc seems to've gone quiet; I hope it's nothing more than a wikibreak.
As someone editing Geography articles, you may like Talk:Hyderabad,_India#Requested_move Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
On Federal subjects of Russia there is a problem with the image Image:Federal subjects of Russia (by number).png overlapping the info box. I would like to try and fix it, and I could always revert it back to the way you have it now if things don't work out. Thanks! Mattisse (talk) 00:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Not really; btw, are the any cities in Russia besides Moscow and Saint Petersburg (and possibly Kronstadt) with established English names different from transliteration? And one more question: what's the mysterious Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division as amended by #102-2006, Code 53? It could be used to make the list of cities and towns really exhaustive. Conscious 15:11, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
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Hello. My friend just sent me a short Russia-related PowerPoint presentation. I want to know if it is some kind of russophobic joke or a reality. Can I send you an e-mail? - Darwinek 18:04, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ëzhiki,
What do you make of this proposal (and my request there)...? Thanks, David Kernow ( talk) 21:47, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
As you're the king of all Year in Television pages, I thought I'd ask your opinion on this - someone's going round adding pricing games on the US version of The Price is Right to the year in television pages ( [28], [29], [30]).
Surely this isn't notable? I was going to remove them all, but thought I'd ask you first so I know I'm not wasting my time doing so. Billy H 22:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Ezhiki, I have a question to you regarding a reversion you made at 17:51 on 31 Oct in "Moscow".
1. 23:38, 1 November 2006 Alex Bakharev (Talk | contribs) m (Reverted edits by 166.113.0.122 (talk) to last version by SDC) 2. (cur) (last) 19:55, 1 November 2006 166.113.0.122 (Talk) (→Demographics) 3. (cur) (last) 19:55, 1 November 2006 166.113.0.122 (Talk) (→Demographics) 4. (cur) (last) 21:18, 31 October 2006 SDC (Talk | contribs) (clean up, Replaced: privately-owned → privately owned using AWB) 5. (cur) (last) 17:51, 31 October 2006 Ezhiki (Talk | contribs) m (rv to Anthony5429) 6. (cur) (last) 17:24, 31 October 2006 83.237.13.237 (Talk) (→General) 7. (cur) (last) 17:18, 31 October 2006 83.237.13.237 (Talk) (→General) 8. (cur) (last) 06:02, 31 October 2006 68.166.31.155 (Talk)
The question concerns edits that I made on 31 October 2006 68.166.31.155 and not those made afterwards by others.
The edits were motivated by offering respect to nations who were part of the early Rus state and who do not enjoy being generalized as Russians. I am sure we would agree that the idea of a single Russian people consisting of three brotherly nations of Belorussians, Russians and Ukrainians is undeniably controversial. I am sure that this debate can continue and that cutting and reverting can see its end in eternity, but I hope we can find a better solution.
The edition I tried to make substituting Russian for Rus' does not infringe on the rights of any people that were part of the *early* Rus period of our lands. You may notice that my substitutions of Russia for Rus' were only made to the early period section. That way, we leave room for people to decide for themselves if Rus and Russia are one and the same. In that sense, to stay true to the spirit of the Internet and the *public* encyclopeadia, is this not what our role is about?
I do not want to make the debate political; I hope you would support the idea of staying as objective as possible to all peoples involved in the history of the early Rus state in the context of Wiki, for the benefit of those who lived through the history and those who are reading about it now.
Respectfully, Andriy
p.s.: one typo in the syntax used for references is a very fair edit.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Geolog7 ( talk • contribs)
Ezhiki:
Why did you change the name of Krasnoi to "Krasny" in the battle article? I'm not sure that is the best thing to do, because throughout the west, this encounter is known as "Krasnoi".
For the perspective of writing style, using "Krasny" in the article when the title reads "Krasnoi" may be problematic.
Are you a Russian native?
Thanks.
Kenmore 21:38, 7 November 2006 (UTC)kenmore
Also, titles of subheadings of articles, in English at least, are written with the first letter of each word capitalized. Is there a reason why you reversed this? I'm not sure it is a good thing to do.
Kenmore 22:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)kenmore
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The Barnstar of Diligence | |
I, Darwinek, hereby award you this beautiful barnstar for your tireless work on the Russian administrative divisions and towns. Your hard work in this area helps keep it clear and consistent. Darwinek 14:34, 8 November 2006 (UTC) |
Btw. hope you've got my last e-mail. :) - Darwinek 14:34, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I am, apparently, a newbie at this kind of dispute resolution. I have no idea what to do, but ask you, since you have dealt with Mr Conradi before, to please see [31] and advise me what the correct procedure is. I have endeavoured to correct material errors in his edits, as well as to remove inappropriate references to myself, and he simply reverts every time. He is well over the three-reverts rule. I am probably also over the rule, but my reverts have in every case attempted to correct and improve the article, while his have simply been gainsaying. Please help. Thank you. -- Evertype· ✆ 13:35, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Ezhiki, I wonder if your questions were an abstraction or do you have a particular situation in mind? Tobias? Alex Bakharev 11:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Russia of Justice could use your assistance -- we require the Russian name of the party and a *CORRECT* translation of the name. I've seen about half a dozen possible translations: Fair Russia, Just Russia, Russia of Justice, Russia of Fairness, Balanced Russia, ... Thanks! — Nightst a llion (?) 20:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
I hereby confirm that this vote to support closure of sib-wiki was cast by me.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 21:06, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
I won't mind if you implement your proposal. -- Ghirla -трёп- 09:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Regarding my edits to "Administrative divisions of Chelyabinsk/Ivanovo Oblasts". I counted them sober and really get numbers 31/18. Do you count also the administrative centers? - Darwinek 23:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Your the earliest writer on the above place.
So I thought I might ask you to vist the publisher named above and see if you can tell be about the Russian name, term I have there regarding the pl ace as it was in 1917, especially under the Bolsheviks--who would routinely change place names, especially if they were in any way connoting a religious meaning--as in the case of Saint Petersburg becoming Petrograd.
Thanks, Ludvikus 16:58, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
For your convenience, here's my question:
v.
I require assistance regarding Russian history and Language about "THE TOWN OF SERGIEV." What was this place in 1917 called, etc. And is "Town" a correct translation from the Russian of the time? Yours truly, Ludvikus 17:06, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello Ezhiki. I noticed Russian Census website is down. Could you still get the population numbers? - Darwinek 23:23, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Ezhiki, thanks for your comment. My opinion is at User_talk:Vmenkov#Reservoirs. Vmenkov 19:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
I am sorry but I do not believe I have edited that article...I think I may have reverted vandalism since the same the name sounds familiar. I may have accidentally reverted by a mistake if I did. Sorry. Cheers!__ Seadog ♪ 22:16, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Okay I glad that was sorted out...I make mistakes like that a lot two. Once this IP address got really mad at me for giving him a last warning, it turns out that what happened was I was filtering my watchlist and accidently warned him instead! Oh and as for the confusion I am so sorry. What happened was I created a template wishing everyone a happy diwali but it was when I did not know how to subst templates! I am sorry for any confusion. Cheers!)__ Seadog ♪ 23:23, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the prompt response. I re-read Caucasus, and it's now my understanding that (purely geologically speaking) the North Caucasus are part of Europe, and the south are part of Asia. Is that correct? - TheMightyQuill 18:19, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Translated. I am not registered there so I hope nobody will revert me as a vandal :). - Darwinek 20:06, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
I think those marks must be deleted. The correct pronunciation is given in the article right after "Росси́йская Федера́ция". Some foreigner, seeing this sample of spelling, could think that there are diacritical marks in Russian. -- CodeMonk 18:14, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Can you please create disambig page based on ru:Бузулук (река). Thank you. - Darwinek 10:46, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Привет, я тут начинаю делать карты районов Татарстана, так что если появится желание у кого либо создать статьи про эти районы, то какрты доступны на: commons:Category:Maps of Tatarstan -- Üñţïf̣ļëŗ (see also: ә? Ә!) 12:29, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your kind words. I really appreciate them. Thank god drinking age in the Czech Republic is 18. Still in many pubs they are selling alcohol even to the kids. I am kind of exhausted now cause of all these parties. :) - Darwinek 15:43, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
You're not right!-- Element of the order №1361 23:18, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Please unlock this user user:Mr Lord for i want work to article Perry Rhodan and Atlan. fr:user:Mr Lord. Thx Mr Lord
Bonjour,
je souhaiterais que mon compte soit débloquer car je veux prolonger l'article anglais sur Perry Rhodan et Atlan. Merci 193.55.175.15 15:45, 5 December 2006 (UTC) alias user:Mr Lord
Why delete infobox? Is it an error or something? --Yuriy Lapitskiy 18:49, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Вот окакзывается что даже было. как я понимаю, на английском это не охвачено. И кажется уникальная в своём роде штука была... -- Üñţïf̣ļëŗ (see also: ә? Ә!) 20:43, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
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Всё-таки хочу внести ясность, что такое Идель-Урал. Такое название в последние годы применяли (по крайне мере в татароязычной литературе) по отношению к 6 республикам Поволжья. У тебя насколько я знаю есть заготовки с разными картами России, Приволжского округа. Можешь изготовить карту на которой бы выделены были эти 6 республик? И поместить её на Idel-Ural (но не на Idel-Ural State - там были совершенно другие границы). -- Üñţïf̣ļëŗ (see also: ә? Ә!) 14:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
зы. Я займусь картами, но наверное после сессии, в конце января-феврале. Сейчас просто не до этого :( -- Üñţïf̣ļëŗ (see also: ә? Ә!) 14:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Should Griboedov Canal be moved to Griboyedov Canal ? - Darwinek 09:18, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
See [32] and especially document [33]. I guess it's the most contemporary list of subdivisions. I tried to find something even more reliable, but failed. May be it will help you. MaxiMaxiMax 10:52, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
I have initiated a move request for an incorrectly named article. If you want to participate, go HERE and check it out. The name in wiki is "Lake Scutari", which is totally incorrect. The name is supposed to be "Lake Skadar". Check out the article I referenced. Rarelibra 16:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
On the subject the birth rate for Russian federal subjects, I got the birth rates for 2000-2004 from the link - http://www.demogr.mpg.de/databases/cdb/downloads/r_1_Demography.xls . For 2005 and 2006(Proposed/Estimate) I got from geo-positioning a bitmap image which was present in the 8th page of the powerpoint document Chernysh.ppt, which I got from the link www.hse.fi/NR/rdonlyres/E00C4A70-4EB5-4E42-89DA-7F10E6B6E7E3/0/Chernysh.ppt—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Anandks007 ( talk • contribs).
I assume you've read it yourself, but just in case you haven't: The next referendum has been set. http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11085109&PageNum=0 — Nightst a llion (?) 16:50, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ëzhiki,
Not so much continued confusion – with your help, I think that's now dissipated – but preoccupation elsewhere (mostly re countries and their templates). Once I've dug my way out of that quagmire, then it's back to the country subdivision quagmire – which I staggered into via subdivsional maps, that somehow distracted me from Nazi war victims, to which I was led because... <fade sound>...
Hope all well. Did you know that nobody escapes from here with their sanity? Chuckle,
David (
talk)
03:55, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, sorry for delays. I should have removed the wikibreak template... Anyway, first let's deal with the easy part and that's the suggestion on your list so I could vote "support" on the WP:FLC.
That's that. As for cite web, I insist on it just bacause it's an easy way to teach people to cite references in a professional manner. I am just tired of seeing references like this Lost of info on Russia from Wikipedia. What it basically needs is:
So the OKATO template could look like this (just remove caps and translate in English):
ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КОМИТЕТ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ ПО СТАТИСТИКЕ (1997-01-01).
"Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division". database name maintained by the Consulatnt if any. Консультант Плюс. Retrieved 2006-12-20. {{
cite web}}
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I know it looses the link to the Wikipedia article :( I cannot figure a way to include it. It does not include the amendments (which I believe are not needed any case). Dunna if that helps in any way. Renata 07:26, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
ZOINKS! Thanks for the correction. Hmmm... anyway, I am updating Adygea as I type... should be done in an hour or so. Rarelibra 16:25, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey - have you ever seen this article? Thought you might find it interesting. Rarelibra 20:55, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ezhiki! I just want to say Merry Christmas to you! Have a nice holiday time. If you don't observe this event then I hope you don't mind this greeting. :) - Darwinek 19:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
A chego eto Vam vdrug zahotelos nas vitesnit iz Evropi?Vi zhe ne polskiy/ruminskiy krestyanin, pravilno ;) Evropa, uvazhayemiy, eto ne tam, gde mnogo babla, ibo yego nigde ne bivayet mnogo, i dazhe ne tam, gde sobaki, prostite, ne srut na asfalt (ibo dazhe u nas na Zapade Germanii sobaki srut gde popalo ;)), Evropa - eto istoricheskaya i kulturnaya prinadlezhnost.Dazhe yesli bi mi bili buddistami i u nas bi vmesto barocco stoyali bi pagodi, mi vsio ravno bili bi chastyu Evropi, ibo mi - ethnicheskiye evropeytsi, slaviane.Nu a vse ostalniye narodi mi evropeizirovali, rasprostraniv na nih snachala nashu slaviano-germanskuyu kuturu, a zatem i kulturu Zapada.Ili Vi so mnoy ne soglasni;)?YA - NE NACIONALIST, I UZH TEM BOLEYE NE NACIST!Ya prosto govoriu vsio, kak yest.EVROPA - ETO MESTO RASSELENIYA EVROPEYCEV, poetomu granica Evropi vsio vremia i peredvigalas... (Naprimer, v 1951 godu ona "peremestilas" azh na Baykal.Posle etogo tak nazivayemoye Evropeyskoye Soobshestvo (Specialnaya kommissiya - togda Evropeyskiy Soyuz tolko-tolko zarozhdalsia) vipustilo specialnuyu rezoluciyu, v kotoroy ukazalo na to, chto granici Evropi ne mogut bit geograficheskimi, granici Evropi - eto granici rasprostraneniya evropeyskoy KULTURI.Rezoluciya, kstati, bila specialno vipushena dla Sovietskogo Soyuza).Teper pogovorim o Zapade i Vostoke (Evropi, yestestvenno).Kak Vi znayete, granici Imperii Karla Velikogo postoyanno rasshirialis.No s samogo nachala (do Karla) sushestvovalo nichtozhnoye po razmeram gosudarstvo Frankov, kotoroye postoyanno rasshirialos. Kak Vi znayete eto i bil zachatok kulturi tak nazivayemogo "Zapada".Tak vot snachala v nego ne vhodil dazhe Ruhrskiy Rayon, kotoriy segodnia raspolagayetsia nedaleko ot granici s Gollandiyey.Pro Bavariyu i Saksoniyu ya dazhe i ne zaikayus: na ih territorii bil les, v kotorom obitali germanskiye plemena... Chehia voshla tuda tolko v nachale 9 veka nashey eri (Posle 40 let sovietskoy izoliacii vospriyatiye Evropi izmenilos i u nih... U nas eto bezobraziye dlilos 60 let i za eto vremia evropeyskoye samosoznaniye u nas prakticheski ulituchilos...).I tak tak nazivayemiy "Zapad" vsio vremia rasshirialsia.V konce koncov on dostig Rossii.Teper mi yego chast.Uzhe kak 300 let.(Kstati, v techeniye 100 let posle priniatiya hristianstva, do raskola cerkvey (snachala, kak Vi znayete, oni raskololis na pravoslavnuyu i katolicheskuyu, a potom, cherez sto-dvesti let, na protestantskuyu, katolicheskuyu i pravoslavnuyu.Kstati, greki tozhe pravolslavniye, i rumini, i makedocni... I serbi.A bosniaki i albanci - musulmane.I ot etogo oni evropeycami bit ne perestayut) mi tozhe bili "Zapadom".Eto potom, posle raskola cerkvey, mi pogruzilis v izolaciyu... Eto k voprosu Zapad li mi, ili net.A Evropoy, kak Vi, nadeyus, ponimayete, mi bili vsegda ;).Kstati, Rossiya vnesla nemaliy vklad v obshuyu evropeyskuyu kulturu, hotia dla nas eto bilo sovsem ne obiazatelno, kak ya uzhe i govoril... Eto to, chto u nas seychas vsio govno, eto konechno zhe uzhasno, ya ne sporiu.Sostoyaniye nashey ekonomiki yavlayetsia tochnoy kopiyey sostoyniya ekonomiki Germanii v 20-ye godi.I sostoyaniye obshestva - odin k odnomu.I antisemitizm i gomofobiya i rassizm v obshem... Yesli hotite, mozhete poiskat v google material na temu "Veymarskaya Rossiya" - eto ochen interesno, poverte mne ;) Nu a yesli vozniknut voprosi, to pishite :) Kstati, islam tozhe stal evropeyskoy religiyey i chastyu tak nazivayemogo "Zapada" (sm. Bosniya, Makedoniya, Bolgariya, Turciya, Azerbaydzhan etc.) Uuu87 20:37, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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As far as I understood there is a trend in Commons to rename all categories like "Cities and villages in Xxxxx" to "Cities in Xxxxx". I personally appreciate this change, since it will make the system simpler, but I'm still not sure about name of such categories. May be you have any time to talk about it with people who want to make this change to not roll back this changes in future. Thanx in advance! MaxiMaxiMax 03:32, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look at this discussion and offer any insights you might have? Thanks in advance! Errabee 18:41, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
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Yes, I know... It has been siting at the back of my mind for a while now, just that it requires some digging and thinking, which I am not up to at the moment :) But since my procastination usually means that I will get back to you a month late or never, now is a good time. So.
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