Hi everyone:) Feel free to add comments about my edits and do whatever you like on the page. FeelSunny ( talk) 19:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Re: Portal:Current events/2008 October 26
In the quote/POV instance, I didn't realize the apostrophes meant a direct quote. Usually quotation marks are used unless quoting inside another quote. I apologize for that misunderstanding.
"News stories" refers to the sources, as that's what everyone clicks to learn more about the event. If it's in Russian, readers of the English Wikipedia who don't read that language won't understand it. While non-English sources are allowed for article fact verification where an English reliable source is unavailable, Current events is only a short blurb, the linked WP articles are often not updated, and thus its sources should be solely in English. If you find an English-language source, please replace it with that. Otherwise, I would support removing the item.
The "killing 8 civilians" has only been stated by the Syrian government. Everyone else who has stated that is quoting the Syrian government. Thus, just as if the American government stated something which has not been confirmed by independent sources, it should be attributed to its original source. How about this wording? This is the current first 2 sentences of the 2008 Abu Kamal raid article, minus the date. If you'd like, I can replace the current sources with the ones supporting those sentences.
“ | The 2008 Abu Kamal raid was an attack carried out by helicopter-borne CIA paramilitary officers and United States Special Operations Forces inside Syrian territory. The Syrian government states that it was an unprovoked "criminal and terrorist aggression" on its sovereignty that left eight civilians dead. | ” |
TransUtopian ( talk) 13:46, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
“ | United States Special Operations Forces, stationed in Iraq, launch a cross-border raid in Syria, attacking a civilian building under construction near Abu Kamal, Syria, reportedly killing 8 civilians. | ” |
FeelSunny, out of courtesy I would like to let you know that you (among others) were discussed here. Let me know if you would like further info, it quite self-explanatory though.-- intraining Jack In 20:15, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Soviet political repression: please keep in mind that your edit may be considered disruption of wikipedia. HOwever if you think you have points, please explain them in the article talk page in detail. Timurite ( talk) 16:12, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Whoa)) I have in fact discussed them on the talkpage, however I did not see a word from you on that matter. You should check this. AFAIK, you have just reverted all citation needed and other edits saying they are too liberal???? What you do actually amounts to vandalism FeelSunny ( talk) 12:16, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Your edit here reverted the addition of a name, not a deletion. -- Xeeron ( talk) 20:16, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
But where is the source, anyway? FeelSunny ( talk) 08:49, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Bet you didn't know... — Mariah-Yulia ( talk) 22:19, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
He's the cutest in the world Ukrainian nationalist then:)) FeelSunny ( talk) 11:02, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm kinda newbish to editing Wiki. Thank you. 68.167.1.235 ( talk) 21:13, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I cannot figure out how to make the locations clickable. For location I placed "South Ossetia...Roki Tunnel" but I want to make them clickable, blue not red, and cannot figure out how to do it. I have a B.A. in military history, not Wikipedia editing. Thank you! South Ossetia should lead to South Ossetia, Georgia Proper to Georgia, Abkhazia to Abkhazia, and Roki Tunnel to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roki_Tunnel. HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 05:57, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Done. Here is a good guide for working with links, and making them clickable. It makes life easier. Good luck with editing! FeelSunny ( talk) 07:06, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank You! HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 09:23, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
I believe that certain people on Wikipedia are misinterpreting the Google Rule. Where would I go to clarify what the Google the Rule is? HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 22:49, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Here is a link to WP policies. Naming of articles is explained on this page. Good luck! FeelSunny ( talk) 07:33, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
There is criciticism of the ISDP source, and a discussion on it, and some editors making edits without even borthering to discuss them first. Thank you. HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 22:12, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Well the Finns have committed a war crime by blocking a city, in order to prevent American food from coming in. Basically the Americans were willing and able to deliver food to Leningrad, but for the Finnish blockade, which could have saved over 600,000 Russians living in Leningrad. Finland is just as guilty as Nazi Germany for these deaths. However, they haven't had an equal amount of blame as Nazi Germany. Maybe, one day someone could write a book on that. However, until then, an article on Wikipedia would be too small on that. Perhaps adding a section about Finnish War Crimes in the World War II article on Civillian Casualties, or something like that. Let me see what you have on Finnish War Crimes thus far.
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talk) 07:17, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Also, I think some of your edits have been undone. HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 00:57, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Are you sure you reverted the right edits? ( [8] and [9]) Looks like you did the opposite of what you wanted to? Offliner ( talk) 00:02, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
You're right)) There seems to be some kind of software mistake or I just need to go to bed already. Thanks anyway! FeelSunny ( talk) 00:09, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
There is a vote up again at Talk:2008 South Ossetia war#Article name vote. Offliner ( talk) 22:10, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Please stop making subpages within my userspace to post incivil comments.-- Kober Talk 04:22, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
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What's your source on People's Front of Estonia being "nationalistic"? Διγουρεν Εμπρος! 16:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
The Anatomy of independence, p.326, and NYT article here. FeelSunny ( talk) 06:28, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
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Congratulations, from me, too. Do you realize, that South Ossetia war page just won't survive without your efforts? How come you didn't think about that before marrying? That was very irresponsible of you, indeed! A person with two academic degrees should have known better! =)) Мда... вот так вот лучшие люди и покидают нас... =)) Ну да это все неважно, главное чтобы у вас было СЧАСТЬЕ, ЛЮБОВЬ и СОГЛАСИЕ! Желаю всего этого вам! =) ETST ( talk) 15:28, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
I know that you don't have much time to edit, but what is your opinion of this: [10]? I think the discrimination claims seem to have some credibility. For example, Amnesty International also thinks the discrimination is a reality. But it's impossible to add material about this subject to History of Russians in Estonia, because it gets immediately removed by a certain group of users. They usually cite WP:UNDUE as the reason for the removal. Therefore, I'm thinking of creating Discrimination of Russians in Estonia. In a separate article the issue could be more thoroughly handled, and it would be more difficult for the group to remove well-sourced material. What do you think? Offliner ( talk) 23:58, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Education level \ Ethnic group | Estonians | Non-Estonians |
---|---|---|
Higher, % | 15 | 15 |
Specialised secondary, % | 20 | 23 |
Secondary, % | 34 | 37 |
Basic , % | 23 | 18 |
Primary, % | 8 | 7 |
Total, % | 100 | 100 |
Income level \ Ethnic group | Estonians | Non-Estonians | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Estonia | Tallinn | Estonia | Tallinn | ||
Higher (5,000+ Estonian Kroons), % | 16 | 25 | 11 | 15 | |
Middle (up to 5,000 EEK), % | 37 | 41 | 37 | 37 | |
Low (up to 2,500 EEK), % | 37 | 25 | 42 | 31 | |
No income, % | 10 | 10 | 10 | 17 |
There is also plenty of interesting data on Estonian economy in terms of ethnicity of workers in different areas, etc. ( talk) 10:36, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Offliner - ok, Estonia may well become a subarticle of a larger, mother-earticle. I will help with the work as much as I can.
HistoricWarrior007 - thanks for the congratulations!!:)
Overall, I do not beleive this has something to do with racism. I will explain why:
When we speak of racism in Russia or the US, we mean there are several righ-wing radical marginal groups, who beleive white race, and Christians, are better than the others. Both articles given are about non-official, oppressed, and small groups.
Concerning Estonia: racism is not the case. Actually, if you check the ethnic history, you will see that Estonians are (linguistically, ethnically) Finno-Ugric people, which places them much quite far from the racist ideal of the "White Nordic Race".
In Estonia minorities face oppression on another level: official, state-driven and on a larger scale:
This is not racism, more like a discrimination, just like gender discrimination, age discrimination, etc.
So, in my opinion, the name "Discrimination of ethnic minorities" is better itself, may be sourced better, and corresponds to the WP naming policies better. FeelSunny ( talk) 12:03, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
What kind of structure are you proposing? Offliner ( talk) 13:53, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Based on rights limited and not on sources. FeelSunny ( talk) 13:57, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Right to education is a fundamental right set out by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration requires the technical and professional education made generally available and higher education be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. According to the Declaration, parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [1]
Estonia is a signatory to the Declaration. The Constitution of Estonia guarantees that everyone has the right to education, and that parents have the final decision in choosing education for their children. It also guarantees everyone have the right to instruction in Estonian, and that educational institutions established for minorities shall choose their own language of instruction. [2]
From 2007, Estonian authorities started a program of Estonization of Russian-language high schools in the country, with the aim of 60% of the lessons in previously Russian-language schools to be taught solely in Estonian [3]. The reform caused protests of Russophone minorities, both teachers and school kids, but the then-rime Prime minister Indulis Emsis called the protests "the fruit of suspicion and fantasy" and denied any changes in the government's policy towards minority language education. [4] According to the Secretary of the Estonian Russian language teachers association, Andrey Krasnoglazov, there exists serious lack of teachers with good knowledge of Estonian, and result in deteriorating quality of education in minorities schools. [5]
At present time, according to Amnesty International, the members of the Russian-speaking minority find themselves de facto excluded from the educational system. [6] The amendment of the Law on Basic and Up-per Secondary Schools in April 2001 implies that from 2007 the Russophone minority is no longer guaranteed education in their mother tongue, Russian. The quality of education in the Russophone schools is not as good as in the Estonian schools due to the lack of qualified teachers and poor translations of Estonian terms and textbooks (OSI, 2001). [7]
Leonard Orban, European Commissioner for Multilingualism, noted in 2009 that while one third of the Estonian population are of ethnic non-Estonian origin, numbers of learning for all languages other than Estonian and English continue to fall [8].
Please do not put up wrong edit summaries. A very simple look at the edit diff show that this info is not sourced. All the edit did was put a link to some propaganda movie in the article. -- Xeeron ( talk) 18:58, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey FeelSunny. I noticed that you were very involved in editing the article and I was hoping to get your thoughts about your experience there. I am a doctoral student at Indiana University. I am conducting research on the writing and editing of high traffic current events articles on Wikipedia. I have noticed in the talk page archives at 2008 South Ossetia war that you have contributed to the editing or maintenance of the article. I was hoping you would agree to fill out a brief survey about your experience. This study aims to help expand our thinking about collaborative knowledge production. Believe me I share your likely disdain for surveys but your participation would be immensely helpful in making the study a success. A link to the survey is included below. An explanation of my project is included with the survey.
Link to the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=kLMxj8dkk_2bls7yCBmNV7bg_3d_3d
Thanks and best regards, Mike Lyons lyonspen | (talk) 22:31, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello FeelSunny!
I want to state one question to you: From August 19th until August 23rd the MAKS Airshow takes place again in Zhukovsky, near Moscow. Do you have the time to go there in order to take a lot of photos? Would be unique contribution for Wikimedia. I hope your response is positive. Greets, High Contrast ( talk) 18:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
The SO war talk page is not the right place to discuss this, but, please, do some basic research before saying nonsense about topics you don't know. Like, google "buying dollars". Or read the wiki page on currency exchange. Or a first year macro text book. Or any financial newspaper. I surely hope you knowledge about the articles you edit is better than this. -- Xeeron ( talk) 19:24, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
I like to respond on my talkpage, to keep it all in one place for the reader. I hope my response makes you feel sunny! HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 21:20, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
Наше имя - короткий удар штык-ножа, Что вгрызается в тело упруго... Бээмдэшки взревут на крутых виражах, Прорываясь сквозь слякоть и вьюгу.
Наше имя - "спецназ" - словно трассеров свист В южном небе над городом спящим. А восход над хребтом так обманчиво чист, Что не верится пулям свистящим.
Залит кровью поэтом воспетый Кавказ, В сердце ненависть врезалась жалом. Но дорогу ей грудью закроет спецназ - От беды нам бежать не пристало.
Здесь забыта любовь, и лишь кровная месть Распаляет безумием души. Президенты всё лгут, прочь отринута честь... Что им стоит присягу нарушить?!
Но последние силы собрав, мы идём - Трижды прокляты, преданы всеми... И в руках пулемёт захлебнётся огнём, Разрывая пространство и время.
Здесь без права на жизнь, без пощады война. С грязью смешана дружба народов... Но однажды - очнётся родная страна. Только мы не придём из похода.
1992.
There are times when everything seems hopeless. But if you keep on fighting, you will win. It was written in 1992. It was published after the 2008 South Ossetian War. Things change. Don't give up. HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 00:21, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
Did an actual mini-research on the response to the war. Initially there was a plan for a potential intervention in Georgia. However it quickly dissolved, as the US and UK were only able to rally Azerbaijan, Canada, Baltic States, Norway, Poland and Sweden to Georgia's defense, and with the US forces outstretched, it quickly became obvious that such a force was not enough to force another Crimean War against Russia. Australia, Austria, Israel, Ireland, Japan, Romania and Ukraine took mildly pro-Georgian positions, but would have stopped short of armed intervention. Meanwhile France was hard at work building a neutral coalition with Finland, Iceland, Benelux, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain, Serbia, Croatia, Moldova and The Vatican. China and Brazil also expressed neutrality. These nations wanted to use political pressure against Russia, but had no long term economics sanctions in mind. Meanwhile Germany, India, Greece and Turkey joined the neutral coalition, but hinted at supporting Russia's viewpoint. Meanwhile Belarus, Bosnia, Cuba, Italy, Iran, Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Venezuela joined Russia and were ready to fight, but this happened around the 10th, and the Russian Army destroyed Georgia's military infrastructure before any of these could intervene. NATO fell apart in the response, with members being all over the map. The EU primarily stood for neutrality, and made a tough negotiator, pulling off a successful bluff. Meanwhile the US and UK interests, for the first time, were largely ignored. From the look of things today, certain countries, such as Israel and Ukraine gravitated towards the neutral camp. The war also shattered Georgia's hopes of ever joining NATO, with France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece and Benelux countries presenting a strong veto-coalition. Saakashvili can try to last until 2013, but Obama isn't fond of losers. In Ukraine, this war damaged Yushenko's political party beyond repair, so after the next Ukrainian election, the relations between Ukraine and Russia will finally improve. Anyways, I just thought you might be interested. HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 08:07, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
I wish you all the best. Biophys ( talk) 01:47, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Well, there are many people that like to see patriotism in such a way: "if you like Russia, then die, old stalinist bastard"... Me, I feel in no way offended by the country and see absolutely no reason to not be grateful to it - at least for my free higher education, and my postrgraduate, and possibility to earn enough by working on a fair job. Can not see why I am a slave, or a stalinist, actually. FeelSunny ( talk) 12:57, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
“Initially there was a plan for a potential intervention in Georgia. However it quickly dissolved, as the US and UK were only able to rally Azerbaijan, Canada, Baltic States, Norway, Poland and Sweden to Georgia's defense.″ I wonder which might be HistoricWarrior's sources, because I can hardly imagine armed personnel of the neutral Sweden taking part in US-led military intervention, if that is what he really meant here -- Miacek and his crime-fighting dog (woof!) 07:26, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
This TP looks more like a forum to me:) FeelSunny ( talk) 19:08, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your work on reducing the images and trying to keep them balanced out in the 2008 South Ossetia War Article. Good job! Keep it up! Also, I am thinking about doing Colchicum's quote as part of Wikipedia's greatest hits; I mean the guy actually thought that an image by South Ossetia's Hack Crew is copyrighted. Now that was funny :D Apparently some people think hacking conversations go like this:
"Son, we gotta hack this computer here!"
"But dad, we gotta copyright our image, that we are going to illegally put in!"
HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 20:34, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
For your info, see Talk:Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion#Unconstructive_edits_2009-08-31 PeterWD ( talk) 23:35, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello FeelSunny,
You asked me a question about poetry at the arbitration talk page. But that was wrong place. Would you like to talk with me about this here? Yes, I like Russian poetry. Biophys ( talk) 01:52, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Ukraine will hand Georgia 12 of there T-84 tanks in October (2009). Should this be mentioned in any of the 15.000 South Ossetia war articles? Wasn't sure myself cause I think it isn't the business of the Russian Government but then again there was controversy about Ukraine supposed to deliver military stuff during the war...
Thanks for complementing my editor-skills, but I barley speak 20 words of Ukrainian, let alone Russian... Thank god for Google translate... — Mariah-Yulia • Talk to me! 14:59, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Update: Ukraine's industrial policy minister on Friday the 13th November has denied the sale. — Mariah-Yulia • Talk to me! 19:14, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Yes, looks like it takes much time for a minister to acknowledge he's innocent and the opposition was wrong. BTW, Obama promised to acknowledge Armenian genocide of 1915, and he acknowledged a genocide. FeelSunny ( talk) 08:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
File:Navy.gif — Mariah-Yulia • Talk to me! 14:47, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
— Mariah-Yulia • Talk to me! 12:06, 17 May 2010 (UTC)]]
Hi, what do you know about the Zarskaya massacre? Personally, I don't know much, and I'm having trouble finding reliable sources. Someone suggested, that we should create the article Zarskaya massacre, and I think this is a great idea. We already have public domain pictures for the article: [11]. Would you like to gather some info and create the article? I would help you if I can. Offliner ( talk) 01:34, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
It's Jon Stewart with a parody of Glenn Beck. There's a pleasant surprise in the video:
http://www.freep.com/article/20091106/BLOG36/91106031/1320/Jon-Stewart-takes-on-Glenn-Beck
enjoy. HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 00:15, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
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As you suggested, I have taken a look at some of the articles you listed on Talk:2010 Moscow Metro bombings. Unfortunately, the main contributors on one article in particular (probably the highest profile article) September 11 attacks have established a consensus on the use of the words "terrorism" and "terrorist" in that article that I happen to disagree with. They seem unwilling to even discuss it further. Whatever the intention of these editors, I personally believe that it amounts to a de facto double standard, as you implied in our conversation.
I would like to re-iterate that I do not, in any way, condone or support violence against civilians, either by fringe extremist groups, states, or "freedom fighters". I do however strongly disagree with the use of these words, as I think they contribute nothing to discussion except a built-in bias toward (Western) state-sponsored violence, and they trigger an emotional response which makes it difficult or impossible to think objectively or to differentiate in a useful way between different groups. Revcasy ( talk) 13:46, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I would like to know your opinion concerning a proposal I made, which I think represents a decent compromise.-- The Devil's Advocate ( talk) 03:09, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
I couldn't resists not saying that this photo is just amazing! :) Thanks for adding it! Oleg Yunakov ( talk) 20:45, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
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Great find FeelSunny, and it adds to the article immensely. Y u no be Russavia ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) 10:15, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi! How are you doing? How is your career and marriage? I'm working on something interesting: User:Nanobear/Security threats against Russia. I believe such an article is needed in one form or another. What do you think? Do you have any ideas of what could be added? Feel free to edit the article if you can think of improvements. Nanobear ( talk) 07:54, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Please stop your
disruptive editing, such as
this edit.
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you did at
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Sincerely, Kiefer. Wolfowitz 22:34, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
With your reporting of GeorgianJorjadze at AN/I in mind, your own posts such as "Firstly, I must admit, I do not despise racists as much as some people do, just dislike them to a reasonable extent. In other case, I'd probably wouldn't bother to answer your message at all" don't do much to move along conversation either, especially as you post things like "Dear Dj777cool, a good old ad hominem is really a cruise control to compromise." It appears to be quite WP:POT. I suggest you strike that as a show of good faith, especially as you asked GeorgianJorjadze for an apology. If you feel someone is racist, it isn't something to bring up on article talk pages. CMD ( talk) 07:32, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi FeelSunny!
Given your interest, generosity, and scrupulous fairness, you may have valuable comments on a suggested shortening of the lede. Sincerely, Kiefer. Wolfowitz 11:20, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello! How are you going? I've been working on User:Nanobear/Security threats against Russia, added some more material, and I think it's already starting look like it's ready to post. The only thing left to do, since I was too lazy to use inline citations, is to insert the missing refs. Nanobear ( talk) 01:33, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thank you for everything you've done so far and take care — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.196.81.181 ( talk) 20:55, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi everyone:) Feel free to add comments about my edits and do whatever you like on the page. FeelSunny ( talk) 19:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Re: Portal:Current events/2008 October 26
In the quote/POV instance, I didn't realize the apostrophes meant a direct quote. Usually quotation marks are used unless quoting inside another quote. I apologize for that misunderstanding.
"News stories" refers to the sources, as that's what everyone clicks to learn more about the event. If it's in Russian, readers of the English Wikipedia who don't read that language won't understand it. While non-English sources are allowed for article fact verification where an English reliable source is unavailable, Current events is only a short blurb, the linked WP articles are often not updated, and thus its sources should be solely in English. If you find an English-language source, please replace it with that. Otherwise, I would support removing the item.
The "killing 8 civilians" has only been stated by the Syrian government. Everyone else who has stated that is quoting the Syrian government. Thus, just as if the American government stated something which has not been confirmed by independent sources, it should be attributed to its original source. How about this wording? This is the current first 2 sentences of the 2008 Abu Kamal raid article, minus the date. If you'd like, I can replace the current sources with the ones supporting those sentences.
“ | The 2008 Abu Kamal raid was an attack carried out by helicopter-borne CIA paramilitary officers and United States Special Operations Forces inside Syrian territory. The Syrian government states that it was an unprovoked "criminal and terrorist aggression" on its sovereignty that left eight civilians dead. | ” |
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“ | United States Special Operations Forces, stationed in Iraq, launch a cross-border raid in Syria, attacking a civilian building under construction near Abu Kamal, Syria, reportedly killing 8 civilians. | ” |
FeelSunny, out of courtesy I would like to let you know that you (among others) were discussed here. Let me know if you would like further info, it quite self-explanatory though.-- intraining Jack In 20:15, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Soviet political repression: please keep in mind that your edit may be considered disruption of wikipedia. HOwever if you think you have points, please explain them in the article talk page in detail. Timurite ( talk) 16:12, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Whoa)) I have in fact discussed them on the talkpage, however I did not see a word from you on that matter. You should check this. AFAIK, you have just reverted all citation needed and other edits saying they are too liberal???? What you do actually amounts to vandalism FeelSunny ( talk) 12:16, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Your edit here reverted the addition of a name, not a deletion. -- Xeeron ( talk) 20:16, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
But where is the source, anyway? FeelSunny ( talk) 08:49, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Bet you didn't know... — Mariah-Yulia ( talk) 22:19, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
He's the cutest in the world Ukrainian nationalist then:)) FeelSunny ( talk) 11:02, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm kinda newbish to editing Wiki. Thank you. 68.167.1.235 ( talk) 21:13, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I cannot figure out how to make the locations clickable. For location I placed "South Ossetia...Roki Tunnel" but I want to make them clickable, blue not red, and cannot figure out how to do it. I have a B.A. in military history, not Wikipedia editing. Thank you! South Ossetia should lead to South Ossetia, Georgia Proper to Georgia, Abkhazia to Abkhazia, and Roki Tunnel to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roki_Tunnel. HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 05:57, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Done. Here is a good guide for working with links, and making them clickable. It makes life easier. Good luck with editing! FeelSunny ( talk) 07:06, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank You! HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 09:23, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
I believe that certain people on Wikipedia are misinterpreting the Google Rule. Where would I go to clarify what the Google the Rule is? HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 22:49, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Here is a link to WP policies. Naming of articles is explained on this page. Good luck! FeelSunny ( talk) 07:33, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
There is criciticism of the ISDP source, and a discussion on it, and some editors making edits without even borthering to discuss them first. Thank you. HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 22:12, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Well the Finns have committed a war crime by blocking a city, in order to prevent American food from coming in. Basically the Americans were willing and able to deliver food to Leningrad, but for the Finnish blockade, which could have saved over 600,000 Russians living in Leningrad. Finland is just as guilty as Nazi Germany for these deaths. However, they haven't had an equal amount of blame as Nazi Germany. Maybe, one day someone could write a book on that. However, until then, an article on Wikipedia would be too small on that. Perhaps adding a section about Finnish War Crimes in the World War II article on Civillian Casualties, or something like that. Let me see what you have on Finnish War Crimes thus far.
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Also, I think some of your edits have been undone. HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 00:57, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Are you sure you reverted the right edits? ( [8] and [9]) Looks like you did the opposite of what you wanted to? Offliner ( talk) 00:02, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
You're right)) There seems to be some kind of software mistake or I just need to go to bed already. Thanks anyway! FeelSunny ( talk) 00:09, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
There is a vote up again at Talk:2008 South Ossetia war#Article name vote. Offliner ( talk) 22:10, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
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What's your source on People's Front of Estonia being "nationalistic"? Διγουρεν Εμπρος! 16:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
The Anatomy of independence, p.326, and NYT article here. FeelSunny ( talk) 06:28, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
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Congratulations, from me, too. Do you realize, that South Ossetia war page just won't survive without your efforts? How come you didn't think about that before marrying? That was very irresponsible of you, indeed! A person with two academic degrees should have known better! =)) Мда... вот так вот лучшие люди и покидают нас... =)) Ну да это все неважно, главное чтобы у вас было СЧАСТЬЕ, ЛЮБОВЬ и СОГЛАСИЕ! Желаю всего этого вам! =) ETST ( talk) 15:28, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
I know that you don't have much time to edit, but what is your opinion of this: [10]? I think the discrimination claims seem to have some credibility. For example, Amnesty International also thinks the discrimination is a reality. But it's impossible to add material about this subject to History of Russians in Estonia, because it gets immediately removed by a certain group of users. They usually cite WP:UNDUE as the reason for the removal. Therefore, I'm thinking of creating Discrimination of Russians in Estonia. In a separate article the issue could be more thoroughly handled, and it would be more difficult for the group to remove well-sourced material. What do you think? Offliner ( talk) 23:58, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Education level \ Ethnic group | Estonians | Non-Estonians |
---|---|---|
Higher, % | 15 | 15 |
Specialised secondary, % | 20 | 23 |
Secondary, % | 34 | 37 |
Basic , % | 23 | 18 |
Primary, % | 8 | 7 |
Total, % | 100 | 100 |
Income level \ Ethnic group | Estonians | Non-Estonians | |||
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Estonia | Tallinn | Estonia | Tallinn | ||
Higher (5,000+ Estonian Kroons), % | 16 | 25 | 11 | 15 | |
Middle (up to 5,000 EEK), % | 37 | 41 | 37 | 37 | |
Low (up to 2,500 EEK), % | 37 | 25 | 42 | 31 | |
No income, % | 10 | 10 | 10 | 17 |
There is also plenty of interesting data on Estonian economy in terms of ethnicity of workers in different areas, etc. ( talk) 10:36, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Offliner - ok, Estonia may well become a subarticle of a larger, mother-earticle. I will help with the work as much as I can.
HistoricWarrior007 - thanks for the congratulations!!:)
Overall, I do not beleive this has something to do with racism. I will explain why:
When we speak of racism in Russia or the US, we mean there are several righ-wing radical marginal groups, who beleive white race, and Christians, are better than the others. Both articles given are about non-official, oppressed, and small groups.
Concerning Estonia: racism is not the case. Actually, if you check the ethnic history, you will see that Estonians are (linguistically, ethnically) Finno-Ugric people, which places them much quite far from the racist ideal of the "White Nordic Race".
In Estonia minorities face oppression on another level: official, state-driven and on a larger scale:
This is not racism, more like a discrimination, just like gender discrimination, age discrimination, etc.
So, in my opinion, the name "Discrimination of ethnic minorities" is better itself, may be sourced better, and corresponds to the WP naming policies better. FeelSunny ( talk) 12:03, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
What kind of structure are you proposing? Offliner ( talk) 13:53, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Based on rights limited and not on sources. FeelSunny ( talk) 13:57, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Right to education is a fundamental right set out by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration requires the technical and professional education made generally available and higher education be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. According to the Declaration, parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [1]
Estonia is a signatory to the Declaration. The Constitution of Estonia guarantees that everyone has the right to education, and that parents have the final decision in choosing education for their children. It also guarantees everyone have the right to instruction in Estonian, and that educational institutions established for minorities shall choose their own language of instruction. [2]
From 2007, Estonian authorities started a program of Estonization of Russian-language high schools in the country, with the aim of 60% of the lessons in previously Russian-language schools to be taught solely in Estonian [3]. The reform caused protests of Russophone minorities, both teachers and school kids, but the then-rime Prime minister Indulis Emsis called the protests "the fruit of suspicion and fantasy" and denied any changes in the government's policy towards minority language education. [4] According to the Secretary of the Estonian Russian language teachers association, Andrey Krasnoglazov, there exists serious lack of teachers with good knowledge of Estonian, and result in deteriorating quality of education in minorities schools. [5]
At present time, according to Amnesty International, the members of the Russian-speaking minority find themselves de facto excluded from the educational system. [6] The amendment of the Law on Basic and Up-per Secondary Schools in April 2001 implies that from 2007 the Russophone minority is no longer guaranteed education in their mother tongue, Russian. The quality of education in the Russophone schools is not as good as in the Estonian schools due to the lack of qualified teachers and poor translations of Estonian terms and textbooks (OSI, 2001). [7]
Leonard Orban, European Commissioner for Multilingualism, noted in 2009 that while one third of the Estonian population are of ethnic non-Estonian origin, numbers of learning for all languages other than Estonian and English continue to fall [8].
Please do not put up wrong edit summaries. A very simple look at the edit diff show that this info is not sourced. All the edit did was put a link to some propaganda movie in the article. -- Xeeron ( talk) 18:58, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey FeelSunny. I noticed that you were very involved in editing the article and I was hoping to get your thoughts about your experience there. I am a doctoral student at Indiana University. I am conducting research on the writing and editing of high traffic current events articles on Wikipedia. I have noticed in the talk page archives at 2008 South Ossetia war that you have contributed to the editing or maintenance of the article. I was hoping you would agree to fill out a brief survey about your experience. This study aims to help expand our thinking about collaborative knowledge production. Believe me I share your likely disdain for surveys but your participation would be immensely helpful in making the study a success. A link to the survey is included below. An explanation of my project is included with the survey.
Link to the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=kLMxj8dkk_2bls7yCBmNV7bg_3d_3d
Thanks and best regards, Mike Lyons lyonspen | (talk) 22:31, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello FeelSunny!
I want to state one question to you: From August 19th until August 23rd the MAKS Airshow takes place again in Zhukovsky, near Moscow. Do you have the time to go there in order to take a lot of photos? Would be unique contribution for Wikimedia. I hope your response is positive. Greets, High Contrast ( talk) 18:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
The SO war talk page is not the right place to discuss this, but, please, do some basic research before saying nonsense about topics you don't know. Like, google "buying dollars". Or read the wiki page on currency exchange. Or a first year macro text book. Or any financial newspaper. I surely hope you knowledge about the articles you edit is better than this. -- Xeeron ( talk) 19:24, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
I like to respond on my talkpage, to keep it all in one place for the reader. I hope my response makes you feel sunny! HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 21:20, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
Наше имя - короткий удар штык-ножа, Что вгрызается в тело упруго... Бээмдэшки взревут на крутых виражах, Прорываясь сквозь слякоть и вьюгу.
Наше имя - "спецназ" - словно трассеров свист В южном небе над городом спящим. А восход над хребтом так обманчиво чист, Что не верится пулям свистящим.
Залит кровью поэтом воспетый Кавказ, В сердце ненависть врезалась жалом. Но дорогу ей грудью закроет спецназ - От беды нам бежать не пристало.
Здесь забыта любовь, и лишь кровная месть Распаляет безумием души. Президенты всё лгут, прочь отринута честь... Что им стоит присягу нарушить?!
Но последние силы собрав, мы идём - Трижды прокляты, преданы всеми... И в руках пулемёт захлебнётся огнём, Разрывая пространство и время.
Здесь без права на жизнь, без пощады война. С грязью смешана дружба народов... Но однажды - очнётся родная страна. Только мы не придём из похода.
1992.
There are times when everything seems hopeless. But if you keep on fighting, you will win. It was written in 1992. It was published after the 2008 South Ossetian War. Things change. Don't give up. HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 00:21, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
Did an actual mini-research on the response to the war. Initially there was a plan for a potential intervention in Georgia. However it quickly dissolved, as the US and UK were only able to rally Azerbaijan, Canada, Baltic States, Norway, Poland and Sweden to Georgia's defense, and with the US forces outstretched, it quickly became obvious that such a force was not enough to force another Crimean War against Russia. Australia, Austria, Israel, Ireland, Japan, Romania and Ukraine took mildly pro-Georgian positions, but would have stopped short of armed intervention. Meanwhile France was hard at work building a neutral coalition with Finland, Iceland, Benelux, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain, Serbia, Croatia, Moldova and The Vatican. China and Brazil also expressed neutrality. These nations wanted to use political pressure against Russia, but had no long term economics sanctions in mind. Meanwhile Germany, India, Greece and Turkey joined the neutral coalition, but hinted at supporting Russia's viewpoint. Meanwhile Belarus, Bosnia, Cuba, Italy, Iran, Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Venezuela joined Russia and were ready to fight, but this happened around the 10th, and the Russian Army destroyed Georgia's military infrastructure before any of these could intervene. NATO fell apart in the response, with members being all over the map. The EU primarily stood for neutrality, and made a tough negotiator, pulling off a successful bluff. Meanwhile the US and UK interests, for the first time, were largely ignored. From the look of things today, certain countries, such as Israel and Ukraine gravitated towards the neutral camp. The war also shattered Georgia's hopes of ever joining NATO, with France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece and Benelux countries presenting a strong veto-coalition. Saakashvili can try to last until 2013, but Obama isn't fond of losers. In Ukraine, this war damaged Yushenko's political party beyond repair, so after the next Ukrainian election, the relations between Ukraine and Russia will finally improve. Anyways, I just thought you might be interested. HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 08:07, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
I wish you all the best. Biophys ( talk) 01:47, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Well, there are many people that like to see patriotism in such a way: "if you like Russia, then die, old stalinist bastard"... Me, I feel in no way offended by the country and see absolutely no reason to not be grateful to it - at least for my free higher education, and my postrgraduate, and possibility to earn enough by working on a fair job. Can not see why I am a slave, or a stalinist, actually. FeelSunny ( talk) 12:57, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
“Initially there was a plan for a potential intervention in Georgia. However it quickly dissolved, as the US and UK were only able to rally Azerbaijan, Canada, Baltic States, Norway, Poland and Sweden to Georgia's defense.″ I wonder which might be HistoricWarrior's sources, because I can hardly imagine armed personnel of the neutral Sweden taking part in US-led military intervention, if that is what he really meant here -- Miacek and his crime-fighting dog (woof!) 07:26, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
This TP looks more like a forum to me:) FeelSunny ( talk) 19:08, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your work on reducing the images and trying to keep them balanced out in the 2008 South Ossetia War Article. Good job! Keep it up! Also, I am thinking about doing Colchicum's quote as part of Wikipedia's greatest hits; I mean the guy actually thought that an image by South Ossetia's Hack Crew is copyrighted. Now that was funny :D Apparently some people think hacking conversations go like this:
"Son, we gotta hack this computer here!"
"But dad, we gotta copyright our image, that we are going to illegally put in!"
HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 20:34, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
For your info, see Talk:Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion#Unconstructive_edits_2009-08-31 PeterWD ( talk) 23:35, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello FeelSunny,
You asked me a question about poetry at the arbitration talk page. But that was wrong place. Would you like to talk with me about this here? Yes, I like Russian poetry. Biophys ( talk) 01:52, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Ukraine will hand Georgia 12 of there T-84 tanks in October (2009). Should this be mentioned in any of the 15.000 South Ossetia war articles? Wasn't sure myself cause I think it isn't the business of the Russian Government but then again there was controversy about Ukraine supposed to deliver military stuff during the war...
Thanks for complementing my editor-skills, but I barley speak 20 words of Ukrainian, let alone Russian... Thank god for Google translate... — Mariah-Yulia • Talk to me! 14:59, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Update: Ukraine's industrial policy minister on Friday the 13th November has denied the sale. — Mariah-Yulia • Talk to me! 19:14, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Yes, looks like it takes much time for a minister to acknowledge he's innocent and the opposition was wrong. BTW, Obama promised to acknowledge Armenian genocide of 1915, and he acknowledged a genocide. FeelSunny ( talk) 08:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
File:Navy.gif — Mariah-Yulia • Talk to me! 14:47, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
— Mariah-Yulia • Talk to me! 12:06, 17 May 2010 (UTC)]]
Hi, what do you know about the Zarskaya massacre? Personally, I don't know much, and I'm having trouble finding reliable sources. Someone suggested, that we should create the article Zarskaya massacre, and I think this is a great idea. We already have public domain pictures for the article: [11]. Would you like to gather some info and create the article? I would help you if I can. Offliner ( talk) 01:34, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
It's Jon Stewart with a parody of Glenn Beck. There's a pleasant surprise in the video:
http://www.freep.com/article/20091106/BLOG36/91106031/1320/Jon-Stewart-takes-on-Glenn-Beck
enjoy. HistoricWarrior007 ( talk) 00:15, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
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As you suggested, I have taken a look at some of the articles you listed on Talk:2010 Moscow Metro bombings. Unfortunately, the main contributors on one article in particular (probably the highest profile article) September 11 attacks have established a consensus on the use of the words "terrorism" and "terrorist" in that article that I happen to disagree with. They seem unwilling to even discuss it further. Whatever the intention of these editors, I personally believe that it amounts to a de facto double standard, as you implied in our conversation.
I would like to re-iterate that I do not, in any way, condone or support violence against civilians, either by fringe extremist groups, states, or "freedom fighters". I do however strongly disagree with the use of these words, as I think they contribute nothing to discussion except a built-in bias toward (Western) state-sponsored violence, and they trigger an emotional response which makes it difficult or impossible to think objectively or to differentiate in a useful way between different groups. Revcasy ( talk) 13:46, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I would like to know your opinion concerning a proposal I made, which I think represents a decent compromise.-- The Devil's Advocate ( talk) 03:09, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
I couldn't resists not saying that this photo is just amazing! :) Thanks for adding it! Oleg Yunakov ( talk) 20:45, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Russophobia in Finland. Please, answer in talk page to public before mashing edits. Second World War times has been handed in articles East Karelian concentration camps and Soviet prisoners of war in Finland. If you trying to bring out some kind of thought of planned massacre, then please find suitable sources first. Peltimikko ( talk) 10:54, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
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Great find FeelSunny, and it adds to the article immensely. Y u no be Russavia ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) 10:15, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi! How are you doing? How is your career and marriage? I'm working on something interesting: User:Nanobear/Security threats against Russia. I believe such an article is needed in one form or another. What do you think? Do you have any ideas of what could be added? Feel free to edit the article if you can think of improvements. Nanobear ( talk) 07:54, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
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With your reporting of GeorgianJorjadze at AN/I in mind, your own posts such as "Firstly, I must admit, I do not despise racists as much as some people do, just dislike them to a reasonable extent. In other case, I'd probably wouldn't bother to answer your message at all" don't do much to move along conversation either, especially as you post things like "Dear Dj777cool, a good old ad hominem is really a cruise control to compromise." It appears to be quite WP:POT. I suggest you strike that as a show of good faith, especially as you asked GeorgianJorjadze for an apology. If you feel someone is racist, it isn't something to bring up on article talk pages. CMD ( talk) 07:32, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
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Given your interest, generosity, and scrupulous fairness, you may have valuable comments on a suggested shortening of the lede. Sincerely, Kiefer. Wolfowitz 11:20, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello! How are you going? I've been working on User:Nanobear/Security threats against Russia, added some more material, and I think it's already starting look like it's ready to post. The only thing left to do, since I was too lazy to use inline citations, is to insert the missing refs. Nanobear ( talk) 01:33, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thank you for everything you've done so far and take care — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.196.81.181 ( talk) 20:55, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
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I'm surprised that you reverted the Freedom House article again without discussion; I guess you didn't notice that I'd opened one on the article's talk page. Given your long interest in this page, you might consider adding it to your watchlist. Anyway, I'd still like to hear your thoughts there on why this fact needs to be emphasized more than any other in the article. Khazar2 ( talk) 18:19, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
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As the creator of Alcoholism in Russia, I disagree with your move. IMO, the emphasis of the article is on alcoholism, not alcohol consumption. Also, the fact that there isn't currently something like Alcoholism in the United States just means that somebody hasn't gotten around to it yet. See, for example, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, this New York Times article, etc. Clarityfiend ( talk) 22:49, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
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